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smoreilly··on I Am Retiring at 32. Should’ve Done It Years Ago
Gotta love when the front page of hacker news takes down a blog
smoreilly··on Ruin My Search History
This is beautiful.
smoreilly··on Apple cloud services outage
Unlikely but a few of their datacenters are down the street from one another so could be related. We'll know when/if they tell us the cause.
smoreilly··on Software Design Patterns Are Not Goals, They Are Tools
How can someone doing research on these patterns not have read the most basic/important piece of literature on the subject?
smoreilly··on Code Blocks: open-source, cross-platform, free C, C++ and Fortran IDE
Why is this news? Code Blocks has been around for ages. If they're talking about the latest release the title should be updated.
smoreilly··on Can't sign in to Google calendar on my Samsung refrigerator
#firstworldproblems
smoreilly··on Winklevoss Twins’ Bitcoin Exchange
Honestly when banks have crappy websites it makes me really feel like the engineers doing the backend work are terrible. I know this is a horrible bias but still if you can't spend the time to make a good website who says they didn't cut corners on security?
smoreilly··on The New York Times reaches 1M digital only subscribers
How is this impressive?
smoreilly··on Global coalition to Facebook: “Authentic names” are dangerous for your users
You guys should really understand the policy before ripping on it. There are tons of other ways to have your name verified. https://www.facebook.com/help/159096464162185
smoreilly··on Show HN: Cancel your Comcast in 5 minutes
If the sales rep was arguing for you not to use auto pay he is the worst sales rep of all time.
smoreilly··on Show HN: Cancel your Comcast in 5 minutes
This is perhaps the most glorious thing I've seen on here in a long time. I didn't find a Chinese visa all that difficult though so I'm surprised to see that on the list of next issues.
smoreilly··on Noteslate
I'm confused how this is so high right now. This really is not that innovative or interesting.