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For a lot of people who move in from strange places on earth to work at FB/Goog/tech company, making friends is very hard. Hanging out with co-workers has been the primary way for a lot of people I know to have a social life.

I'm a nerdy Asian guy who worked with a predominantly white company and it was very lonely there, because none of the white people want to "hang out with co-workers". However, moving to a larger company really helped me make friends and boost my self esteem. It may be corporatey, but I'm thankful my company atleast cares that much.


Thanks, I hadn't thought of it from that perspective :) I'm glad you found some friends.


For people thinking that this is awesome, the device has received considerable criticism as being total "bullshit".

PandoDaily ran several articles[1][2] about how the device claims to do the impossible - specifically, "caloric intake" and probably "stress level".

Personally, I do think the device is snake-oil and it's better to get a Basis or a Fitbit.

[1] http://pando.com/2014/03/31/as-more-experts-dispute-gobes-bu... [2] http://pando.com/2014/07/03/weird-after-admitting-to-pando-i...


Exactly. And those 314 people probably control the country anyway.


She was getting $6 million a year.


She wasn't.

> At our current size, payouts for a top artist like Taylor Swift (before she pulled her catalog) are on track to exceed $6 million a year, and that’s only growing – we expect that number to double again in a year.

https://news.spotify.com/us/2014/11/11/2-billion-and-countin...


Waze claims to do something like and it produces the most retardedly slow routes ever. I just hate it when someone uses Waze on my Lyft because I just know I'll take 10 minutes more.

I don't think it's as trivial because there are lots of things to consider. Some drivers are just SLOW and it will have nothing to do with traffic. Maybe all slow/terrible drivers use your app so all the route speed information is completely based on specific patterns set by your app.


That is odd in my experience. Perhaps it has to do with my locale.

I am in a major metropolis and I drive throughout the city, suburbs and adjacent cities regularly. I know the area and I have been driving for decades.

I have been using Waze for about a year now. The navigation routes it selects appear to be very good. They appear to be based on relevant factors too. I can only guess what variables they include in their calculation, such as weighted capacity, current traffic speed, etc. of the relevant route elements.

My experience with Waze is the opposite of yours.


I'm amused that the phrase "uses Waze on my Lyft" is apparently self explanatory to this target audience. Clearly I am getting old and out of touch.


It helps that the nouns are capitalized.


How much of this is a feedback loop?

Being perceived as more competent will open better opportunities and lead you to be happier leading your face to be brighter more often and vice versa.

This is interesting to me, because personally, I feel like on happy days, good things happen, and on sad days, people stay away and it becomes a vortex of pain.


I agree. This is such a misleading website. I don't even know what I'll get.


After you click "Continue with this design," you'll see a proof on the left.

You're getting the code as blocks--the hover text is just to show you how the code is being highlighted.


After seeing the proof, I was still confused what I would receive, and thought maybe the blocks were placeholders for the text that would appear in the final print. You should definitely make this more clear, because the phrasing on the site gives the impression you'll get the actual code.

Without a doubt you'll get lots of requests for refunds if this isn't adjusted.


Yep--thanks for the tip. I've added a bunch of warnings all around, and reached out to folks who ordered with a clarification :).


It was clear to me what I'd get. Awesome project.


Well that's kind of boring


Yeah I thought I was getting readable print. Instead I get some coloured lines on a shirt.

No thanks.


Sorry :(.


Is anyone familiar with the code that allows this vulnerability to be present and where I can find it(I believe this project is open source)? I understand the exploit is adding a nullbyte at the beginning of some javascript due to some bad handling in the parsing code. So I'm looking here: https://android.googlesource.com/platform/packages/apps/Brow...


I don't know the exact location, but it is probably somewhere in the webview tree, since it affects apps that embed webviews as well:

https://android.googlesource.com/platform/frameworks/base/+/...


Since it's both webview and browser itself, I'd suspect some kind of common denominator object at fault... like...https://android.googlesource.com/platform/frameworks/base/+/...

Especially with a method called "public static class IllegalCharacterValueSanitizer".


I'm annoyed by the mentality that the number of retweets and favorites is a gauge for the validity of a claim.

Well, just gotta pay 5 bucks and get a thousand bots to retweet you then.


I guess one can ask if a tweet is a good measure of public perception in the first place.


So. You mean you actually DON'T like to take what he said seriously.

His username is offensive, but you just also gave it credibility.


"I'd like to" means I would like to, presumably meaning "I would like to take your post seriously, but your offensive handle is preventing me"


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