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sandipcon Amazon soars to more than 341K employees, adding 110K people in a single year

I think he/she meant that it was listed for a lower price on Walmart.com than in-store at Walmart, and that Walmart couldn't pricematch to Walmart.com...

sandipcon Apple Reports Record First Quarter Results

I see -- yes, I can see how the TB models would cause issues then...

sandipcon Apple Reports Record First Quarter Results

Do you touch-type on the function keys as well?

sandipcon 2016 Retina MacBook Pro Caveats

One of these should work fine http://www.monoprice.com/product?p_id=12908

sandipcon Apple’s new MacBook Pro kills off most of the ports you probably need

Here's an alternative... surprised Apple didn't introduce something similar today https://griffintechnology.com/us/breaksafe-magnetic-usb-c-po...

sandipcon Python 2.7 Retirement Countdown

Guido van Rossum (Python BDFL) himself works for Dropbox, so I'm not sure I believe that...

sandipcon Dropbox Versus The World

symlink your home directory into your dropbox folder?

sandipcon Inside the U.S. Antitrust Probe of Google

mobile phones and apps, > 50% of which run an operating system, browser, and app store made by Google?

sandipcon Apple might be running a web crawler written in Go

I agree. "Breaking news: Apple uses Google products"

sandipcon Show HN: Sublime Text Book

> Does this book cover Sublime Text 2 or 3?

> While you should be migrated to version 3 already, this book covers both versions 2 and 3 - when there are differences or new functionality in a later version I make a point of saying so and offer solutions to users still on version 2.

Yeah, I guess I just don't understand why I "should be migrated to version 3 already" when a non-dev build has yet to be released. Seems like a nice book otherwise.

sandipcon The tourist map of laptops

> a few hours of assembly/disassembly time

for replacing the RAM on a unibody aluminum MacBook Pro? it's one screwdriver (Phillips 00), maybe 10 screws to remove from the edges of the back cover, and the RAM modules are easily accessible without any additional tools. One of the easiest RAM upgrades I've ever done... maybe 10 minutes max.

(not that it matters anymore since the retina models aren't user-upgradeable)

sandipcon ITerm2 2.0

> PROMPT_COMMAND='printf "\033]0;remote_host\007"'

thanks for this, didn't know this was possible!

sandipcon Y Combinator Bets on Biotech

"some worry that Silicon Valley's penchant for technology and marketing might not be compatible with medical research”

I would say that a good portion of medical research IS technology and marketing, for better or worse.

sandipcon Why San Francisco Is Not New York

NextBus (or NextMuni, specifically) tracks buses and light rail by GPS... so what you're looking at isn't the actual bus schedule, but the estimated arrival time. Bus schedules are published on the Muni website and I doubt that mang of them are followed strictly.

sandipcon Why does Apple continue killing bitcoin apps?

"a mobile money processor" -- like iTunes/App Store?

sandipcon Quick tip for developers who use OS X

{ } [ ] are just above the return key...?

sandipcon Quick tip for developers who use OS X

to piggyback off of this... (not sure if this is in the thread already)

⌘ + ` to switch between different windows of current application

⌘ + SHIFT + ` to switch between different windows of current application (reverse order)

same for the general application switcher:

⌘ + TAB to switch between different windows of current application

⌘ + SHIFT + TAB to switch between different windows of current application (reverse order)

sandipcon Quick tip for developers who use OS X

Wow, so simple but so useful. Thanks!

sandipcon iPad Air Review

Anand mentions it in this article.

sandipcon Square Cash

Debit cards only. I'm sure the fees are significantly lower for debit vs. credit cards.

sandipcon The 2013 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

The prize for Schekman and Rothman has been a long time coming - well deserved! For anyone unfamiliar, worth reading their groundbreaking Cell papers from the early 1980s. (or look at any cell biology textbook!)

sandipcon 1Password 4 for Mac is here

it's a free update if you bought 1Password 3 from the Mac app store

sandipcon Nexus 5 to be first smartphone with MEMS camera

iFixit supposedly has the iPhone 5 (not 5S) rear camera listed for $40 here: http://www.ifixit.com/iPhone-Parts/iPhone-5-Rear-Camera/IF11...

I imagine there is a substantial software component cost associated with it too...

sandipcon Automatically Add Loading Bars to Your Website

Sincere question: what does this have to do with iOS 7?

sandipcon The iPhone 5s Review

Anand saw the small drop in the 5S and 5C when compared to the 5 and speculated that it was an iOS7 issue. Hopefully that's the case!

sandipcon The iPhone 5s Review

http://anandtech.com/show/7335/the-iphone-5s-review/9

with the exception of cellular talk time, the 5 and 5S are near the top...

sandipcon Cancer vaccine begins Phase I clinical trials

Phase I trials are also primarily concerned with safety, not efficacy

sandipcon Mac Pro

Reminds me of the Cube. But Thunderbolt and USB3 make this much, much more versatile...