c0achmcguirk
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Comment · 5 years ago
And dynamic--anything dynamic--was completely insanely cool.
Comment · 5 years ago
That's an awful lot of work to perform a double-spend. Whoopty doo.
Comment · 6 years ago
Huh? Where did you get that?
Comment · 6 years ago
Is this a precedent that Google or any company wants to have, though? Engineers with access to company-wide tools or extensions can put political or divisive content into them?
This is more than just a "poster in the cafe" because of the reach and invasiveness of the approach.
Disclaimer: I work for Google, speaking for myself only.
Comment · 7 years ago
Google does do that. Lot of misinformation in this thread.
Comment · 7 years ago
+1, untrue
Comment · 7 years ago
Not true. There is no pressure to use a "corp phone" as your main device. It's not even hinted.
Comment · 7 years ago
This person chose to have their free phone from the company as their personal phone too. This is completely optional at Google, a really nice perk, and it's made very clear that anything under your work profile will be wiped if you leave.
They will not wipe your personal phone or your personal profile on your phone. This is completely avoidable and shouldn't come as a surprise.
Comment · 7 years ago
I have no idea why this is on the front page of Hacker News but I'm not hating it.
I moved from Omaha to the Denver/Boulder area two years ago and besides the Henry Doorly Zoo, I miss Nebraska Furniture Mart the most.
NFM is a great place to buy pretty much anything you want to put in your house. Mrs. B really knew how to make a business work. The only weird thing is how antiquated their computer systems are, it's amazing they are so profitable with 70's era technology running the business.
Comment · 7 years ago
I've been using it for a year or so and it's brilliant. I love that I can screen calls in a meeting without anyone knowing.
Disclosure: I work for Google.
Comment · 7 years ago
I haven't done heavy work in Rails in four years. I miss all the bells and whistles.
Comment · 7 years ago
I remember the battle between Jamie Cansdale and Microsoft regarding Jamie's MVP status [1]. The TL;DR was that Jamie developed TestDriven.NET as an add-on to Visual Studio. He released it for the pay versions and the free version: Visual Studio Express. Microsoft wanted him to make it unavailable for Express and decided to kick him out of the MVP program because they didn't want nice features in the free version of Visual Studio. ;)
[1] https://www.infoq.com/news/2007/06/TestDriven-Express-Emails
Comment · 7 years ago
I've picked up a few gigs on Mechanical Turk. You pick up the tasks that are worth your time (that you are qualified for). If you don't like the microtask for the price offered move onto the next one.
If the entity offering the microtasks (gig) don't see enough interest in their tasks, they can raise the bid.
I think that's extremely fair. Let the market dictate the price per task. How do you know what the right price should be?
Comment · 8 years ago
> Mail Merge
I haven't needed that in over 15 years, but if you need this, install this add-on for free [1].
> footnotes
Insert > Footnote
> References
Tools > Research, Cite as Footnote
> Multi-column layouts
Format > Columns
> A mixture of portrait and landscape pages?
This is hard to do in Word too. If you really need this, make two Google docs (landscape, portrait, and then a Word Doc that integrates the two that you keep in Read-Only mode).
But really, why is this needed for serious uses and considered "seriously lacking?"
> Captions on tables
This could be done by just inserting text and formatting the way you want. I don't think you can generate a table of tables though. Do you have a list of commonly used "hobbled" features? None of these are something I've had a need to do for decades.
[1] - https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/mail-merge/lclhkda...
Comment · 9 years ago
Using a Lisp-like language is great for creating a new language because of the S-expressions that Lisp depends on.
S-expressions are very compact and are easy to parse. There was actually some support for using S-expressions over XML and JSON as a serialization language.[1]
Ron Rivest even proposed S-expressions as a standard.[2]
I still prefer JSON over them though. As the old joke goes, LISP stands for "Lots of Irritating Silly Parentheses."
1 - http://eli.thegreenplace.net/2012/03/04/some-thoughts-on-jso...