Torn

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by Torn 5y ago
Do you work in the field? And is the Uk a good place for startups in it? Thanks
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by Torn 5y ago
I'd love to think it's post-irony or meta-irony[1], but really I suspect it's legit and they are trying their best. Bless. Feels like an order of magnitude more risky as an investor than Fyre festival 1: https://ww
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by Torn 5y ago
FWIW they've said in their press releases they have been profitable since 2017
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by Torn 5y ago
This is incorrect: https://blog.aboutamazon.eu/discover-whats-behind-the-amazon... .
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by Torn 6y ago
A product that does threaded conversations. Yammer did this pretty well, shame it never really took off for businesses
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by Torn 6y ago
Chinese police are not known for a lax attitude to rule breaking when it comes to foreigners
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by Torn 6y ago
OP's app looks more like Canva ( https://www.canva.com , which Spark is also a copycat of), especially the icons in the left nav. The timeline view is super neat though.
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by Torn 6y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ad_hominem
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by Torn 6y ago
Corporate looting on the cusp of a recession. Classy
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by Torn 7y ago
I'm not sure modern game engines make good use of large numbers cores, because most consumers don't have that many. Intel chips are still competitive for single-threaded performance, from what i can tell https://www.pcw
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by Torn 7y ago
> it should be overall beneficial to the UK once trade agreements are in place after a number of years It probably won't. I don't know why leavers think the UK will be able to negotiate better trade deals than a bloc of 27 coun
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by Torn 7y ago
The politics of Brexit are also not very suitable for a HN on shorting the pound. By mentioning only the costs of remaining in the EU, not the ongoing benefits, you're being pretty disingenuous
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by Torn 7y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Participating_preferred_stock
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by Torn 7y ago
> His point is that the index funds don't own the stocks at all This is misleading, I think. Depends on the fund. Some seek to match the benchmark through a certain exposure to derivatives and synthetic things. Others hold the stock
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by Torn 8y ago
Full text: https://outline.com/nVDP65
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by Torn 8y ago
Short-term cost though, if whack's thinking is correct. Longer-term talent drains means execution risks sliding even further into mediocrity
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by Torn 8y ago
Relative links on reddit (e.g. to other posts, or subreddits) on their AMP pages are also completely broken. Such a frustrating experience for users.
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by Torn 8y ago
This is about equity, not about access to music & artists from those publishers
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by Torn 8y ago
I've previously worked for a company bought by Microsoft in the UK, and we (and all the MS employees I met) used Macs. The modern Microsoft goes to where the customers are. Yes, there was an old-guard that was very windows-centric, but
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by Torn 8y ago
Conversely, Amazon customer support is world-class. I've had multiple instances of things arriving DoA, or breaking some months later, and every time I've hopped on the text chat Amazon has just shipped me a new one without asking
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by Torn 8y ago
+1 for this - I star things to come back to and try out. I've started Vue for this reason, unlike React which I use in working hours
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by Torn 8y ago
No way would the makers of the device sell one to Apple - they probably have strict measures in place to only sell to police departments, with contracts in place to prevent re-selling. Apple would have to buy one on the grey market, which t
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by Torn 8y ago
I've been using MobX ( https://github.com/mobxjs/mobx ) in my day job for a year now in a very large client-side app, and hands-down prefer it to redux. Initially I was wondering why we didn't have a centralise
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by Torn 8y ago
I have a strong suspicion another example will be Magic Leap. Note: not as an intentionally-misleading or lying case, but just as another extremely well-funded startup whose launch is likely to fall short of the hype. $2.3bn in funding adds
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by Torn 8y ago
The fact they refuse to let people try it is such a red flag.
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by Torn 8y ago
Great response - I think what a lot of people miss in these pokemon code execution setups is that the inputs are being streamed to the console _really_ fast
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by Torn 8y ago
Software is 100% an employees market. Everyone wants coders, and can be hard to pin down good ones. I think software engineers either don't know what they are worth, or are uncomfortable negotiating comp.
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by Torn 9y ago
If you can MITM the connection, you can just do it server-side, which is far more insidious. This was done in the UK + Brazil a few years back -- some ISPs (including British Telecom) trialled it without even telling affected customers that
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by Torn 9y ago
Please do, and publish as a real extension - I'd definitely use it
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by Torn 9y ago
There we go. Easier to sell user data in non-EU jurisdictions

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