MarkMc

55 ms·

511.
by MarkMc 8y ago
>> Is that really worth a lot to their clients that they will pay a premium for it? > Yes, that's one of the major reasons people use WeWork instead of local office space rentals. Perhaps another reason is that WeWork charges
512.
by MarkMc 8y ago
> the "right" move for Google would be to fork AOSP, make new Android versions as closed as iOS I wonder whether Google's new operating system 'Fuschia' serves this purpose...
513.
by MarkMc 8y ago
Thanks :) Haha yes I weakened the AI somewhat compared to the original version created by RedBrogdon. It's not fun to be constantly thrashed by an opponent who takes 0.2 seconds per move! Despite my changes I still lose about 3 out of
514.
by MarkMc 8y ago
I'm the lead dev on just such a project: https://feather-apps.com/
515.
by MarkMc 8y ago
I wonder what the doctor thinks of publishing risk adjusted statistics. That is, publishing the difference between expected and actual outcome.
516.
by MarkMc 8y ago
The article's author David Gal claims that 'loss aversion' is a fallacy. But in the book Thinking Fast and Slow, Daniel Kahneman says that the following experiment demonstrates loss aversion. ----- People are randomly given o
517.
by MarkMc 8y ago
Well the test subject has the option to 'undo' the loss. So the loss can be seen as optional for the purposes of the experiment. Could we settle the argument by reading the definition of loss aversion to 10 people and asking each
518.
by MarkMc 8y ago
For me it works like this: Before reading this HN item, my understanding was that 'Loss aversion' was very likely to be correct - let's say 98%. After reading the headline and a few comments I lower the 'chance of correc
519.
by MarkMc 8y ago
Would you apply the same policy to countries with worse human-rights violations, like North Korea?
520.
by MarkMc 8y ago
While I generally agree with this analysis - Facebook's potential growth makes the P/E of 27 look pretty cheap - it ignores the serious decline in use among young people. In 2016 88% of online users in the US aged 18-29 used Faceb
521.
An iOS Developer’s Opinions of Flutter(harveynick.com)
2 points by MarkMc 8y ago|0 comments
522.
by MarkMc 8y ago
5000 patrons is good, but YouTube advertising is where the real money is because (a) these math-type of videos have no expiry date; (b) Google are getting better at monetising videos; (c) 3blue1brown is possibly the best videos on the topic
523.
by MarkMc 8y ago
I'm working on making Flutter apps run on macOS: https://feather-apps.com
524.
by MarkMc 8y ago
Isn't a 'capitalist country' one where the owners of capital compete in the marketplace to provide goods and services? Maybe Denmark and Sweden have high taxes and price controls on a small percentage of goods, but the degree
525.
by MarkMc 8y ago
As an Alphabet shareholder I'm quite happy with revenue heavily focused on advertising, since that is where I see the biggest growth opportunity. In fact I would like Alphabet to spin off their Waymo self-driving car company so I can
526.
by MarkMc 8y ago
26% revenue growth for such a large company is astounding. Google's growth machine seems to have lasted much longer than people expected.
527.
by MarkMc 8y ago
Many content creators also want (4) a way to maximize revenue for each ad displayed. That's certainly where YouTube shines
528.
by MarkMc 8y ago
Thanks for giving us a peek at the early development of Android. It's interesting that Andy was pushing open-source for altruistic reasons, but I'm tempted to think that it happened to also be the best business strategy - despite
529.
by MarkMc 8y ago
I'm not sure why you feel that life expectancy at age 20 is the same statistic as life expectancy at age 50, but to answer your question I chose age 20 because many people seem to think that the only major improvement has been in child
530.
by MarkMc 8y ago
> Human lifespan has increased since ancient times, but not by that much. This graph suggests that a 20-year-old in 1850 would on average expect to live another 40 years, while a 20-year-old in 2015 would expect to live another 60 year
531.
by MarkMc 8y ago
Why hasn't some cryptocurrency replaced the bolívar as the unit of currency for most private transactions in Venezuela? Given the Venezuelan government's poor economic management and tight restrictions on foreign exchange transact
532.
by MarkMc 8y ago
Yes the founders of America had great vision and developed a radically new kind of country. But I'm not convinced that they had great vision or positive impact with regard to slavery. Weren't they hypocrites to permit slavery wh
533.
by MarkMc 8y ago
I don't know what counts as bonafide linguistic facts but when I studied Indonesian I was struck by how much more regular and simpler it was than English. For example: umum = public, pengumuman = announcement adil = fair, pengadilan =
534.
by MarkMc 8y ago
An excellent book on this subject is "The Fall-Out: How a Guilty Liberal Lost His Innocence" by Andrew Anthony [1]. From the book: All but the most obsessively hard-line anti-communist grew up in post-war Europe accepting that t
535.
by MarkMc 8y ago
Sorry no - just Mac and Windows for now.
536.
Cross-platform development: Mobile Flutter Apps That Run on the Desktop(feather-apps.com)
9 points by MarkMc 8y ago|3 comments
537.
by MarkMc 8y ago
Heres what the UK ICO says: "The GDPR does not define what factors to take into account when deciding if your purpose is a legitimate interest. It could be as simple as it being legitimate to start up a new business activity, or to gro
538.
by MarkMc 8y ago
Isn't it illegal in the US to offer internships based on race or gender?
539.
by MarkMc 8y ago
Whoops sorry - I mistook the link for this one: https://github.com/flutter/engine/wiki/Custom-Flutter-Engine...
540.
by MarkMc 8y ago
Or this: https://github.com/google/flutter-desktop-embedding I'm also working on a similar project.

More ›