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by Torwald 8y ago
> Many of that trick does not have a purpose anymore but many still have, and not only for terminal usage but also for speed and comfort. Only for comfort (and maybe ease of mind), not for speed. It was shown again and again that mousing
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by Torwald 8y ago
You could build another Google, why not?
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by Torwald 8y ago
Thanks. I remember having to use a third party util to do that on earlier Mac OS X machines, but with the newer Macs you can just switch config by standard system prefs.
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by Torwald 8y ago
> [Hooks, macros, advice - all the goodies to shoot yourself in the foot in that wonderful Lisp way!] You use a very common technique to make the joke, a "turn" so to speak. This makes the joke recursive because it involves Lis
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by Torwald 8y ago
Which was the last Apple model with the Ctrl-key at the correct location?
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by Torwald 8y ago
Remember mode could be cool for your use case. It may be integrated into Org by now (?)
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by Torwald 8y ago
That's true.
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by Torwald 8y ago
Why does this get downvoted? The parent did not violate any rules or code of conduct of HN. His question was on topic. HN is also an experiment of community building. As far as I am concerned, the downvotes for the parent are a sign that th
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by Torwald 8y ago
Maybe you should change your profession if the challenges of your current one make you sarcastic.
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by Torwald 8y ago
> Simply attempting to adhere to web standards is not sufficient. It is sufficient. The trick is to be good at marketing. What I mean by that is to niche your product properly and not to care about the rest. Gives you a much better overa
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by Torwald 8y ago
I don't test for browsers. I test for web standards.
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by Torwald 8y ago
Yes, but, how non-technical are people who rather write in Markdown than in WYSIWYG?
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by Torwald 8y ago
That's sad. What was the basis for asserting this moral superiority? (I mean the "argument", what was the thought process here?)
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by Torwald 8y ago
>>> Of course, exercising, eating organic food, and pushing children to use their spare time usefully are not inherently bad things. However, they become markers of bourgeois values when they are marshaled to assert one class’s mor
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DEFCON 17: Stealing Profits from Stock Spammers (2011)(youtube.com)
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To build a successful business, we let three prototypes compete(blog.albion.co)
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Curated collection of CSS snippets(30-seconds.github.io)
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Seattle startup Epik new host of Gab.com(geekwire.com)
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Writing an OS in Rust, Second Edition(os.phil-opp.com)
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Why You Don't Need to Vote(reason.com)
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by Torwald 8y ago
> The questions Google asks are disrespectful and unprofessional. Yep. This is not the only instance were Google shows a culture of lack of respect for the dignity of the individual.
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by Torwald 8y ago
> Is it so shocking that I don't want to subject myself to grueling demoralizing interviews to likely be rejected? Yes, it is. And this is a problem bigger than Google, this is simply one of the things that are going wrong on this p
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by Torwald 8y ago
Yes, he assessed the situation back then correctly. That was not hard to do. He said it himself in the interview "do the math" to indicate how this was a no brainer. What he didn't foresee was that the world would change in a
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“Gunpowder Moon”, the fight to control the Solar System (book review)(theverge.com)
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by Torwald 8y ago
Neither FB nor GOOG have become such monopolies in that type of business they were talking about. What Gates said hold true today. Think for example about a one person business like daringfireball.net, that was the type of business Gates wa
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by Torwald 8y ago
No, it didn't have to. The journos ask Gates why he enters into that field (with MSNBC) if he can't see a 4$ billion business in it. He then says: while we won't make those 4 billions (we are making with software), we believe
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by Torwald 8y ago
To change what for? I don't understand your question.
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by Torwald 8y ago
There are that many apps because we have so many people capable of building apps. This probably means it has become fairly easy to build an app. Let's say there are 70 million apps. Compared to 7 billion people, still not a lot of apps
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by Torwald 8y ago
Gates doubted verbatim that the whole industry would exceed 4$ billion in total, thus no single player could reach that point. > Apple Music, et al. license content and there are few companies that are able to do this. This creates a bar
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by Torwald 8y ago
At ~25-30 min they talk about "content club" as a business. The Wired guys propose this could be a +4$ billion biz. Gates laughs them off. Now, today we have the numbers: - As of May 2018, Apple Music had 50 million paying subscri

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