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pringleson Screw live chat, I'm calling customer service

     "I work at a software company and am an engineer by profession
     so i know this is technically possible"

I hate it when people say this. Just because you also happen to work for a completely different company in the same industry, it doesn't give you any insight whatsoever into how things operate anywhere else.

pringleson Let's avoid designing like this

Maybe this guy should take his own advice...

http://i.imgur.com/ieNUA5Vl.png

pringleson The Chromebook Pixel

Better not tell the Pebble watch people then, they might get sued.

pringleson I am under surveillance by Canadian agents, my computer has been backdoored

> EFF maintains a list of attorneys, called the Cooperating Attorneys list, who have told us that they are passionate about the same things we're passionate about, and who have indicated that they have some of the same areas of expertise. If we can't help you, but feel that your case is something our cooperating attorneys may be able to assist with, we'll offer to refer you to one of them.

pringleson Host webpages on Google Drive

Sweet, now you can get your own URLs that are as ugly as Google+ ones.

pringleson Fitbit, why can’t I have my data?

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/fitbit-api/Intrad...

pringleson Editorial: "How piracy changed my life"

> If you go to a lawyer for legal advice and then refuse to pay him saying "I haven't deprived you of a tangible product so it's not really stealing" you are missing the point, it's still theft.

That is theft because you've robbed the lawyer of his opportunity cost. For the time he was spending giving you legal advice, he could have been giving it to someone else that would pay him.

A more apt analogy would be secretly listening in on a lawyer giving legal advice to a paying client. You haven't taken anything away from him or the paying client, and all you've done is "copied" what was being heard anyway.

pringleson Ask HN: Community of Car Buyers that Share the Price of their Purchase?

http://www.truecar.com/

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I received e-mail spam from someone advertising this link. Flagged.

pringleson Show HN: Ruby on Rails Bootstraping

Don't use this without defining a new cookie secret (which is normally generated randomly when you create a new project):

https://github.com/hugodias/railStrap/blob/master/config/ini...