Yhippa

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by Yhippa 8y ago
What got worse? In terms of reaction to the article by Amazon I'd think positive actions or inaction were more likely than negative actions.
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Facebook is shutting down its Moments app(cnet.com)
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Machine learning is rescuing old game textures in Zelda and Final Fantasy(venturebeat.com)
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University of Virginia announces $120m gift to fund new data science school(techcrunch.com)
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Polaroid. Walkman. Palm Pilot. iPhone?(wsj.com)
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by Yhippa 8y ago
Are there carriers that do _not_ sell your location data?
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by Yhippa 8y ago
I can live without Facebook. I can't live without Google.
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by Yhippa 8y ago
> As for mitigation, does anyone know if MVNO users are also subjected to their data being sold? As a Google Fi user I am very interested in this.
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by Yhippa 8y ago
In the late 90's and early 2000's Amazon was one of the few online retailers I actually trusted to buy things from. It sounds crazy now but the concept of ordering online was not nearly as consistent and as safe as it is now.
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by Yhippa 8y ago
In retrospect I wonder if the ribbon got flack because it was "different" and "weird". The best thing about it is that you don't have to guess at what buttons do which is a major problem I have with mobile, desktop
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by Yhippa 8y ago
> and when they are being under productive (not challenging their own self perceived limitations) I'm a fairly new manager and I'm working really hard on how to word something like this to my devs. Do you have any advice for t
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by Yhippa 8y ago
> Get to know your problem so well that fixing the problem by writing code is the last resort > This means having to problem-solve with business people and doctors, for example. > It might mean having to learn more skills: marketin
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by Yhippa 8y ago
Every year for Christmas my wife continues a small family tradition: every year we go there and buy stocking stuffers for our small family. It's definitely a different experience than going to a grocery store for sure. It's almos
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by Yhippa 8y ago
I'm glad you called out regulatory capture. The cynic in me wonders if Microsoft is so far behind in some AI aspects like this that they're taking this approach to slow down Amazon's and Google's forays into selling thi
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by Yhippa 8y ago
Curious...do you have a link to that?
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by Yhippa 8y ago
I perceive the tech community to be okay with this as long as Facebook keeps giving us excellent open source tools.
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by Yhippa 8y ago
People go to where they want to be.
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by Yhippa 8y ago
If they get your data from brokers they may be building comprehensive profiles about you without your explicit permission.
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by Yhippa 8y ago
I know this is not secure but being able to get texts without having my phone on has come in very handy.
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by Yhippa 8y ago
This reminds me of when Curiosity landed years ago. It was a really cool event and I remember watching it on my Xbox. I think there was a special app to use to watch the event at NASA live. It was one of the tensest things I'd ever s
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by Yhippa 8y ago
The Touch Bar is one of the most annoying things added to a laptop that I never asked for. To top it all off you have to pay for the privilege. My main complaints are that I'm accidentally hitting something on it which disrupts my wor
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by Yhippa 8y ago
> I'm one of those kids who grew up playing now "classic" games wanting to become a game developer themselves. This is why I got into development. I am so far away from that in the dev world nowadays. It is sad because i
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by Yhippa 8y ago
Twitter has changed so much since the beginning. It used to be a "smaller" community of people who posted content or brain-thoughts in good faith. Over time it's gotten so incredibly edgy and hostile in almost every type of
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by Yhippa 8y ago
I wonder what their accuracy rate is? I imagine there's a bias towards them looking good because people accept their suggestions ("nobody got fired for buying IBM") and it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.
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by Yhippa 8y ago
I need to start this tradition at work. Different teams have their own candy but not one has them for everyone.
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by Yhippa 8y ago
It seems to me that Steve was serving a ton of one-time customers and if he did that he would turn off the regulars that helped him get to where he was. You're right in that the technically correct solution would be to raise prices bu
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by Yhippa 8y ago
> For those not enjoying MBPs and their keyboards the Pixelbook's keyboard is pretty good. I really enjoy the Pixelbook's keyboard. It's definitely better than the MBP's and is sometimes more pleasing to use than my
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by Yhippa 8y ago
I was given one of the recent MBPs with touchbar for work at a client and from my consulting company. I really don't like the new MBPs and didn't like the prospect of carrying around two laptops so I used my personal Pixelbook fo
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by Yhippa 8y ago
I was going to blame Bootstrap for this but then found this on the site: https://expo.getbootstrap.com . Some really good examples of innovative design even using good old Bootstrap.
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by Yhippa 8y ago
This is clearly a DoD play. The federal government as a whole is thirsty for cloud services and having a services provider like Amazon literally at their doorstep is going to win them a lot of work. If they do bring good experts to govern

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