GFischer

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by GFischer 8y ago
I really hope banks get disrupted from the bottom (as you're mentioning with N26), and yes, I've worked for a Fortune 500 financial group that was a huge mess (they had entire buildings of software developers, but their software w
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by GFischer 8y ago
Absolutely. I've heard it referred as 21th century COBOL :) ... it'll have the same problems in 30 years :)
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by GFischer 8y ago
I'm almost in my 40s and I was overjoyed when my company offered me the chance to travel for work. Not everyone can afford traveling (I agree that's not as much true in the U.S.). And staying in fancy hotels is cool. Once you have
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by GFischer 8y ago
Very interesting. I used to work on a huge Forte4GL program (think in the million lines of code range) and we thought about using traspilers (even had some quotes). But it was the same old bad code, traspiled. We looked for better solutions
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by GFischer 8y ago
Network effect is one for sure. I'm not a fan of the redesign (and submitted my thoughts several times), but the content is there, and it's a reasonable platform overall.
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by GFischer 8y ago
One pretty good barrier that Apple has built and defends well is the phone as a status symbol and object of desire. But, as a phone, I think low end disruptors are here, and I can't understand why people would pay 3 or 4 times as much
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by GFischer 8y ago
I also wonder. I play Hearthstone on my phone, and I plan on playing other resource-intensive (or poorly programmed) Unity games (Magic Arena when it goes out). I do know of people that play Fortnite, but they have to be in the minority...
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by GFischer 8y ago
Your body isn't made of glass - it won't explode Considering my father got a herniated disk from improperly lifting a heavy weight (and he can never lift heavy weights again), and several other people I know experienced severe i
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by GFischer 8y ago
Now. But they're in serious danger of being disrupted from the bottom. http://www.claytonchristensen.com/key-concepts/ Low-end disrupters (think steel minimills and discount retailers) come in at the bottom of th
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by GFischer 8y ago
Yeah, and none of those options work as well as the camera button in the old Nokias (I was a happy Nokia user as well, but they missed the boat with their software, even though their hardware was top notch)
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by GFischer 8y ago
Cool, I'll have to hunt for a Blackberry key2 then. Thanks for the tip!
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by GFischer 8y ago
Funnily enough, the second part of your post could serve as a one-line description for Iain Bank's "Culture" ...
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by GFischer 8y ago
Both Apple and Samsung are going to get their lunch eaten by Xiaomi, Huawei and the rest I guess, then. I'm eagerly awaiting the Pocophone F1 release here in Uruguay.
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by GFischer 8y ago
UI performance in Androids is decent these days. Privacy, well... no. Even within the Android ecosystem, it's very sad that innovation is stymied. The only ones that even try are LG and they always fall flat. There's a long list o
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by GFischer 8y ago
Time for disruption again, I guess... but it'll be very hard to beat Amazon/Ebay. I have an idea for some niches, it'll probably be implemented by the major players after it's been validated though.
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by GFischer 8y ago
Yes, but there's an upper bound on how much value he can destroy that way. There are other ways they can destroy more value, of course...
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by GFischer 8y ago
That question is not very useful... I've had phones that lasted weeks / months (the old Nokias), but they basically only did calling and maybe SMS. In the last decade, I've owned several phones that passed the 2 day mark. I c
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by GFischer 8y ago
Very interesting.
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by GFischer 8y ago
I don't believe that at all. Maybe the low hanging fruit in San Francisco has been taken, but the future is not evenly distributed... opportunities everywhere (read a headline about a Nigerian startup getting funded, that's the ki
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by GFischer 8y ago
Some services I'm looking at: Pingdom - https://www.pingdom.com/ Assertible - https://assertible.com/ Also Application Insights, but it was down during the outage. We can also roll out our own on AWS L
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by GFischer 8y ago
I've never even seen a Snap Spectacle up close, but these seem very stylish, a far cry from the old Google Glasses. Ok, photos on other sites show a still noticeable camera: https://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/
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Ask HN: Test uptime for your API / Service? Get notified of 3rd party downtime?
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by GFischer 8y ago
Yes, it is in San Antonio.
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by GFischer 8y ago
We're affected by this issue. And we had our alerts system in Azure as well, so we didn't get alerts about the outage (welp).
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by GFischer 8y ago
Ok, for infosec I'm not sure. For dev work, I'd ask the questions in the Joel test. Some questions do apply (I wouldn't expect a 100% YES answer, but hopefully most of them): Do you have two monitors (or more) Do you ge
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by GFischer 8y ago
There have been lots of discussions here on HN, personally I think that an employee-run company still needs leadership. And companies can be good for employees without needing to be employee-run. See for example Valve, there's been a l
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by GFischer 8y ago
The competition is fierce, here in Montevideo (Uruguay) it's unbelievable the amount of delivery startups for a population of less than 2 million... We have the local PedidosYa (sold to DeliveryHero), U.S. UberEats which is making a he
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by GFischer 8y ago
Yes, that's what they were discussing somewhere else in the thread. I think there are some FAA regulation issues preventing it. The workaround seems to be this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17880748 but it lose
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by GFischer 8y ago
I think they're non-existant because there's not enough demand. The travel group I work for caters for corporations and luxury travelers, and they'd stop selling economy in a heartbeat if they could (it's a money-loser f
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by GFischer 8y ago
Yes, business class is basically what pays for the trip. It's the business travelers that are subsidizing the economy ones, not the other way round. So it doesn't make sense to make economy more comfortable, actually the opposite.

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