Kurtose

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by Kurtose 5mo ago
Not a hater, just an example from today’s HN front page: Ableton from Berlin. World class UX/UI leading the DAW market for 25 years and counting. Not “Top 100” enough for validation? Just ask Thomas Bangalter. He’s taken it around the
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by Kurtose 2y ago
Helicopters over Berlin blaring Ride of the Valkyries. https://youtu.be/VE03Lqm3nbI
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by Kurtose 4y ago
Great writer & engineer. Worth a re-read every couple of years before heading back to your blub codebase.
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by Kurtose 4y ago
Philips had 412,000 employees in 1974. Huge in its heyday. Currently 78,000. Sadly mismanaged into irrelevance for decades.
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by Kurtose 4y ago
The more relevant question is if US would agree to sell their TLDs in exchange for Liechtenstein paying for administration of _their_ governmental domains. Look up Liechtenstein GDP & wealth per capita.
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by Kurtose 4y ago
Why does the Premier League have the best football players? Ranking universities by operating revenue will result in a rather good approximation of the Times Higher Education World University Ranking.
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by Kurtose 5y ago
Anecdata from a _very_ frequent flyer: Naomi Campbell’s Airport Routine (2019). Makes sense to me. https://youtu.be/b-U_jT9qWvs
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by Kurtose 6y ago
Three hours well spent. Never a dull moment in the browser business. From downward—funargs and twinkies to browser wars and bitcoin.
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by Kurtose 6y ago
Stripe seems to have understood Sequoia's Black Swan memo well.
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by Kurtose 7y ago
Why would Taiwan not have high tech factories? It has similar or higher level of development than - as a non-random example - France. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_Development_Index
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by Kurtose 7y ago
Spot-on.
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by Kurtose 7y ago
S = k. log W
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by Kurtose 8y ago
As a long distance ice skater I know that snow has a detrimental effect on ice growth due to its insulating effect. Moreover the spring and summer of 2018 were warm [1] and sunny [2] in Europe. The comparison picture in the article of this
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by Kurtose 8y ago
Fun fact. Eric Schmidt was 45 when he was ‘the adult’ who joined Google’s board of directors as chairman in March 2001. Elon Musk is 47.
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by Kurtose 8y ago
Pepys’ old house on Buckingham Street in London was my office for a couple of years. It was nice but he seems to have had more fun there. I did encounter fellow cyclist and similarly adulterous Boris Johnson on his bike around there before
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by Kurtose 10y ago
Human after all. http://www.ycombinator.com/humans.txt