twosheep's comments

twosheep | 1 year ago | on: FTC sues Adobe for hiding fees and inhibiting cancellations

"annual contract billed monthly" is a dark pattern - it's not monthly, it's annual, and deliberately confusing

twosheep | 3 years ago | on: US Army Publishing Directorate – Technical Manuals

I doubt you'd see anything exciting that's approved for public release

twosheep | 5 years ago | on: How does a gas pump know to shut itself off? (1981)

How often do people have gasoline fights?

twosheep | 6 years ago | on: On-Line Pizza Idea Is Clever but Only Half-Baked (1994)

Snow Crash is cited in the first line of the article

twosheep | 7 years ago | on: College bribery scandal: students sue elite schools in class action

Yeah Matt Levine made that point this week -- the damaged party in this case is the university, who had admission slots basically resold in a different market

twosheep | 8 years ago | on: Gaijin Engineer in Tokyo

It appears to be a reference to the part of the column discussing trouble crafting emails.

twosheep | 8 years ago | on: Theranos, CEO Holmes, and Former President Balwani Charged with Fraud

Here's the complaint: https://www.sec.gov/litigation/complaints/2018/comp-pr2018-4...

twosheep | 8 years ago | on: Amazon to Build Second HQ in North America

I'd imagine it would be along the same lines of what movies / studios get to shoot in certain cities -- relief from various tax types, priority in various permits, etc

twosheep | 8 years ago | on: Ask HN: What good alteratives are there to Google News?

Your archive seems to be a bit out of date

twosheep | 9 years ago | on: The Night Watch (2013) [pdf]

Link?

twosheep | 9 years ago | on: Incident management at Google – adventures in SRE-land

Maybe it's just me but I found the constant in-line plugs for the book to be distracting -- footnotes would have been better.

Interesting write-up though

twosheep | 9 years ago | on: Warren Buffett's Annual Letter to Berkshire Hathaway Shareholders [pdf]

I guess they itemize

twosheep | 9 years ago | on: An account of a serious medical emergency on a transoceanic flight

I'm not sure EWR counts as New York ;-)

twosheep | 10 years ago | on: How Facebook's Safety Check Works

Most of the trainings that I've gotten for active shooter-type events (gov't employee; they're frequent these days) advises you to silence your phone since the first thing that's gonna happen when the news shows up is everyone is gonna call you anyways.

twosheep | 11 years ago | on: Ask HN: Which book are you reading these days?

Just a coincidence! I bought the book a few weeks ago but didn't pick it up until I was finished with something else.

twosheep | 11 years ago | on: Ask HN: Which book are you reading these days?

I just read Andy Weir's The Martian in one day -- it was (obviously) fantastic. I highly recommend it.

twosheep | 11 years ago | on: Indian Supreme Court Judgement on Freedom of Speech [pdf]

Thanks sir/ma'am. Scribd is blocked at my job.

twosheep | 11 years ago | on: Extracting the SuperFish certificate

Is that racist? I thought ghetto just meant poor/inelegant, across all colors and nationalities.

twosheep | 11 years ago | on: Disneyland with the Death Penalty (1993)

Wow this is from the fourth issue of Wired.

twosheep | 11 years ago | on: The Dark Power of Fraternities

Ok I understand even less now -- the drunk kid that shoves a bottle rocket up his butt while partying with friends is at fault unless he is in a building owned by a fraternity due to the organizing principles of the fraternity? As the article notes, he wasn't a member of the fraternity, he was just on their property.