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Diamonson Google+ broke our trust

Also that homepage is horrendous. The homepage doesn't tell me anything about why its relevant to me or how it can make my life better. It's selling me features instead of an experience.

"Host a pod"? What kind of illiterate donkey built this garbage. I could write a book about why this site is garbage as an alternative to Facebook.

Diamonson Google+ broke our trust

If that was accurate 95% of people would have stopped using Facebook when the NSA's wiretapping was uncovered. Last I checked Facebook hasn't missed a beat

Diamonson Apple releases Swift for iOS Dev

Have you tried using Objective C?

Diamonson Ask HN: Who wants to be hired?

Didn't really like the font on the resume, found it a bit boring and became uninterested very quickly

Diamonson Apple, Facebook, others defy authorities, notify users of secret data demands

1) It actually tells you why in the article and 2) She's asking why a particular question isn't answered in a FREQUENTLY ASKED questions section but is under the settings. That's kind of the point of an FAQ - to only answer frequently asked questions.

Diamonson If a Bubble Bursts in Palo Alto, Does It Make a Sound?

Loved this piece. Hits the nail right on the head.

Diamonson Drop Dropbox

TIL two things:

1. Everyone gets a clean slate the moment they change jobs and

2. Supporting your beliefs with a $1000 donation is the equivalent of going to war, supporting torture, and illegal wiretapping.

Get real.

Diamonson Ask HN: Graduating soon, where do I fit in?

My personal opinion as a 20 year old who dropped out...

Lie through your teeth. That job that requires Magento/Wordpress/NodeJS? As far as anyone's concerned, you've been playing with that toolset for the past year or so. They want to see samples? Sure thing. Whip something up by the next day and show it off as if you've always had it done.

I've gone from working for $2 an hour to making $40 per hour, and that number's going to just keep going up but I would be a lot farther behind now if I hadn't pretty much lied about everything.

I wouldn't have gotten the first few clients or businesses to hire me if they really knew that I was just a high school graduate with about 6 months of coding experience. If they'd known I don't actually know CakePHP / Wordpress / Ruby on Rails / Django, they would've never hired me. Instead I lied, instilled confidence, learned it overnight, and basically got paid to learn.

Note this only works if you have the technical ability to learn things quickly overnight.

Diamonson OkCupid urges users to abandon Firefox

America - everyone can have their own opinion unless it disagrees with the majority.

Diamonson Facebook

Aka bubble

Diamonson Why does Apple continue killing bitcoin apps?

PS: The only thing Bitcoin is relevant for is cheap publicity for your startup. Something as ugly and unintuitive as Bitcoin is not going to take off and become "the currency of the internet". Ever.

Diamonson Why does Apple continue killing bitcoin apps?

And this is why you're on Hacker News and not a billionaire, because you lack certain skills like understanding basic user experience and interaction.

Diamonson LinkedIn To Acquire Bright.com

Already tossed LinkedIn, never looked back. Two contacts over the last year isn't even close to worth it. Plus, all I've gotten is recruiters and invites from some guy I met on Craigslist years back.

Diamonson Why does Apple continue killing bitcoin apps?

You can install home screen apps freely.

Diamonson Why does Apple continue killing bitcoin apps?

This is like asking for a citation for what color the sky is. It's common knowledge and accepted fact. The Android store (Play store? Google store? Idk wtf it's even called anymore) is a complete joke and an embarrassment to app stores everywhere.

Even the design looks like it was whipped together by developers.

Diamonson Weilos (YC S13) Moves From Fitness Coaching To Weight-Loss Selfies

I can't wait for this bubble to pop.

Diamonson Apple Reports First Quarter Results

Anyone that thinks Linux is going to take over the consumer computer market anytime soon needs to go outside more often.

Diamonson Startups that have bootstrapped their way to profitability

What's the better description?

Diamonson Network Solutions Auto-Enroll: $1,850

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6937823

I've just stopped caring what people think anymore. It's become a 'the blind leading the blind' sort of thing.

Diamonson Global Accelerator Network

This site is plagued with the same problems a lot of other sites have today.

Lots of fancy visuals and moving parts but took me far too long to get what I needed.

Diamonson Admob refunded all my payments

Because people have this thing called a backbone. If you're fine with someone going into your account and pulling money at will, all the power to you, but most people will not tolerate that shit. You are a customer and they are a business, no feelings, no emotional bullshit, simple straight up facts.

Diamonson ClanBase is no more – we are sorry

"Since our sysadmin was not getting paid, he refused to perform this, essentially holding the site hostage for a while."

You don't pay the man and you expect him to do work for you, and then you blame him for holding the site hostage?

Sorry, what?

Diamonson Introducing Open Salaries at Buffer

It's honestly stuff like this that makes me feel like the only sane person around. Why would you do this? If the CEO is pushing for it, the employees will all smile and nod and go along with the crowd, but all this does is breed resentment. The idea of open salaries sounds good on paper, but it's simply idealistic.

You can sing the happiness song and do all the lets-be-friends dances but at the end of the day we're people competing for resources. This will have lasting effects to all current employees for sure.

Diamonson Foursquare Raises $35M More, Says It Has 45M Registered Users

I'm a 20 year old attending college in NYC. FourSquare is considered a running joke, like LinkedIn.

Diamonson Amazon takes away access to purchased Christmas movie during Christmas

You are incorrect on so many levels here.

Diamonson Ask HN: Any way to borrow a Macbook?

To submit the app don't I need a macbook ?

Diamonson Ask HN: Any way to borrow a Macbook?

I saw this. Unfortunately the $30 up front for the month is quite steep for me.

Diamonson Ripple is officially open-source

Open Source !== Free

Diamonson Google unveils prepaid debit card

Notice the part where they said that they want to use all this information to target consumers.

Visa / MasterCard / other cards keep track of your purchases but they don't exactly customize your experience based off of that.

Diamonson Google unveils prepaid debit card

Google is quickly crossing the line between comfortable and uncomfortable.