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thebrettdon China is angered by Apple's iPhone event mentioning Taiwan

You are not wrong, this is a complex issue. I just can't help but point out your username here :)

thebrettdon EPA is allowing asbestos back into manufacturing

This website is NSFW.

thebrettdon Cloud DB War: Autonomous Databases

If it doesn't do what he says or cost what he says it costs then how is that not BS? Did I miss the joke?

Kind of throwing the baby out with the bathwater here...IKEA might still be great for you as long as you avoid all the subcontracted installation services? Unless you don't know or care to turn a screwdriver, I guess! :)

thebrettdon S&P Cuts China’s Credit Rating, Citing Risk from Debt Growth

Is any of that 1.3 trillion in exported goods a value-add on top on goods imported from China?

thebrettdon Nest launches an outdoor security camera

3 shall be the number of the images, and the number of the images shall be three.

thebrettdon Ford disguised a man as a car seat to research self-driving

Are you denigrating my Teddy Ruxpin?

thebrettdon Boosted gets a new CEO as the company tries to grow beyond electric skateboards

I don't really get the snark here, exercise and fast travel arn't mutually exclusive. In fact, one might find more time to exercise by making it faster to get from point a to point b in general?

thebrettdon 83 percent of Bay Area renters plan to leave, says survey

It is not a realistic short-term solution, but maybe a good long term move? Your comment makes it sound like it isn't a reasonable investment at all because it won't return in the desired timeframe.

thebrettdon Ask HN: Women in tech, how do you find non-toxic work environments?

Sometimes I use an unlicensed Jetbrains product - it closes automatically after 30 minutes of action

thebrettdon Stanford Professor Loses Political Battle To Simplify Tax Filing Process

This is a good point. I think a real solution to the 'tax problem' requires both a) having the gubment send us an itemized invoice instead of making us file and b) having a transparent, simple to grok code so that we can validate the bill.

edit: this is obviously a huge huge problem to tackle, but dont we all feel a lot of energy around this during tax season? :)

thebrettdon Stanford Professor Loses Political Battle To Simplify Tax Filing Process

I love this idea in theory, and basically revisit it every year during tax season.

The tax/tax prep lobby is strong, and perhaps needfully so, as a whole bunch of people have their livelihoods wrapped up in it, but I often wonder if that whole industry is not actually a net negative for the economy.

edit: How do we help this idea take flight?

thebrettdon Ask HN: What kind of chatbot do you need?

Sounds like what you really need is engaging work in a nice environment. ;)

thebrettdon Meme Instructions Make Bombs, Not Glow Sticks

I had a hard time parsing this - couldn't tell if the Bomb part was false, or the glowstick part.

thebrettdon Uber losing $1B a year to compete in China

I thought he was lamenting the fact that Uber has to compete with an unprofitable organization buying their market share. In an article about how his very own company is losing 1B a year to exist in that market. If that isn't irony, I don't know what is.

thebrettdon BetaFEC

Maybe things would be better if people didn't have such a myopic and defeatist attitude?

thebrettdon Volkswagen's U.S. head: individuals engineered emissions cheating

Your car is still legal to drive. edit: Source is the apology letter I got from VW a couple days ago.

thebrettdon Why WhatsApp Only Needs 50 Engineers for Its 900M Users

Can you share where you work? :)

thebrettdon Stack Exchange Is Now Stack Overflow

http://sourcegraph.com/ is doing something similar.

thebrettdon Designing and Building Stockfighter, Our Programming Game

I find the emails verbose, and don't really care for the for the prose. That being said, at least in my head, when its public i'll say 'here goes'.

thebrettdon Monopoly Man – the same image uploaded to Imgur 3.2M times?

Is this your site?

Have you tried any https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steganalysis?

thebrettdon Show HN: Obfusc8r – Steganographic messaging for the web

https://github.com/thebrettd/f5-steganography

I would like to build a distributed file system out of this, on top of image hosting services like Flickr, but I probably never will.

Have fun.

thebrettdon Ask HN: What problem in your industry is a potential startup?

GigMasters? I used this to find a musician for my wedding.

thebrettdon Server-side browsing considered harmful [pdf]

Yes, I came to make this point, and to appeal to the masses for the accompanying lecture so that I might better understand some of the contents...anyone?

thebrettdon It all began with a strange email (2012)

Yep - this name jumped out at me because I heard it on the radio this morning (synchronicity!). He is now the Finance Minister of Greece, so he's got some bigger fish to fry than how much that virtual hat should cost.

PS Hook em.

thebrettdon YoAuth

Well, this certainly blows my yo-based Pomodoro Timer out of the water.

thebrettdon Show HN: A Pomodoro Timer built on the Yo API

pomodoryo@gmail.com

thebrettdon Show HN: A Pomodoro Timer built on the Yo API

I seriously do use it, but not for serious purposes ;)

thebrettdon Show HN: A Pomodoro Timer built on the Yo API

Sorry for the double post - I messed this up earlier.

It is very primitive, but the code can be found here: https://github.com/thebrettd/pomodoryo

It is running on Heroku and waiting for your Yos :)

thebrettdon Show HN: A Pomodoro Timer built on the Yo API

Maybe I misunderstood the SHowHN submission instructions - I thought I could share either the text or a link but not both