Splines

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by Splines 9y ago
IMO Facebook video is a non-starter because of branding. Facebook is not a destination for video. Facebook is to video as youtube is to social networking.
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by Splines 9y ago
> Which implies that Uber needs to start off it's plans to build driverless cars from zero What does this mean in a practical sense? rm -rf /car? Can the Uber engineers who worked on this continue to do so, or are they &quo
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by Splines 9y ago
This is an interesting strategy. The "build a service for internal use, then make it a service" strategy worked for them with AWS and web stores, but it failed for Amazon Fresh (but they are trying to turn it around with Whole Fo
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by Splines 9y ago
I've seen useful usage of coroutines where you have a task you want to run synchronously on the main thread, but you want it to yield time without unwinding the whole stack. So you create another thread, have the main thread yield time
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by Splines 9y ago
That's interesting that they'd measure the parking lot experience. I wonder how they can change the parking lot experience to experiment with happiness levels. Route traffic differently through the different aisles? Provide shu
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by Splines 9y ago
The number of sites that tie their cart to that horse is pretty low. Most sites offer their own authentication or offer multiple ones besides FB.
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by Splines 9y ago
I'd like to think that at some point in time meeting minutes are going to be completely automated.
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by Splines 9y ago
"Focus on the customer and all else will follow" oops
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by Splines 9y ago
As long as there is even one single instance of bad advertising on the web I have zero qualms about running an ad blocker and noscript.
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by Splines 9y ago
I think in general this is why Snapchat is (was?) so popular - the ephemeral posts + "it's not my parent's facebook" was what a lot of young people want.
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by Splines 9y ago
I think it really depends on the type of game being played. If you're playing a game like Gone Home ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ak4wU8Gp2RQ ), where there really aren't many (if any) decisions to make, you ca
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by Splines 9y ago
> I am not sure, however, if it comes with the client editions of Windows. Microsoft Virtual PC still exists, too. It's in Windows 10 client editions too. Look under "Turn Windows features on or off". Windows Subsystem
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by Splines 9y ago
I'm pretty sure the Virtual PC product went on to become Hyper-V.
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by Splines 9y ago
Lazy answer: Cut it almost in half and leave it connected. Fold hinge around.
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by Splines 9y ago
> I mean does amazon allow you to return movies after watching them for 2 hours? I don't know what Amazon's return policy is, but most games are longer than 2 hours. Looking at https://howlongtobeat.com/stats_
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by Splines 9y ago
Google maps has ads, it's just not so in-your-face as Waze is. Search for stuff and depending on the topic the result list will have an item with a purple "Ad" tag on it (I searched for "tires" and got a hit for a
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by Splines 9y ago
Am I missing something? They do have a refund policy: http://store.steampowered.com/steam_refunds Although that policy is fairly recent - I wouldn't be surpised that this case predates the policy.
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by Splines 9y ago
There are windows laptops with ARM chips as well running full Windows: https://www.digitaltrends.com/laptop-reviews/hp-envy-x2-2017...
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by Splines 9y ago
I've often wondered what living on a earth-like planet as large as Jupiter would be like. People on the other side of this "planet" would be aliens to you.
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by Splines 9y ago
Teams is much better than SfB, and I think if your org pays for SfB it also has access to Teams.
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by Splines 9y ago
I've done the same thing, but I wonder how much I am really protecting myself. I need to whitelist sites that I use to get them to work (HN, for example), but that doesn't stop HN from attacking me. I suppose it raises the bar, b
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by Splines 9y ago
Sounds like something out of a futuristic movie with large class divides. Rich person sits in autonomous car that hits poor child, car stops and legalese starts being printed all over the car, rich person calmly gets out and into second ca
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by Splines 9y ago
Makes me wonder if that's Intel's PR plan (hence their spin on the story). Assuage the general consumer and mainstream media, point the finger at the OS vendors if necessary, and fix the bug in their next-gen chips. When this all
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by Splines 9y ago
> For some reason I can’t reply to ‘chrisper’ HN doesn't let you do this to new comments to avoid back-and-forth commenting that is typical in flamewars.
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by Splines 9y ago
Their e-readers are great. I have a Paperwhite and leave it in airplane mode and the ads stopped. I push content to it through Calibre.
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by Splines 9y ago
Agreed. I imagine most people wouldn't buy things through a voice interface literally sight unseen.
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by Splines 9y ago
> they might consider the post was ill-timed, or irrelevant/pedantic, or inappropriate for any other reason in that context. I find the current single dimensional score limiting because of this. Sometimes I want to see a funny co
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by Splines 9y ago
But wouldn't you want to know if your door is faulty, so you can either replace your door, delay your vacation until the new door arrives, or beef up your security system?
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by Splines 9y ago
IMO one of the problems with cloud storage in general is how complicated it is. There are so many moving parts and so many things that could go wrong that there are inevitably many states a file could be in and asking them to troubleshoot
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by Splines 9y ago
I wonder if you could build an app for Android to do this. Rick roll people on the go...

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