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by akrymski 7y ago
There's a large range of approaches between a heavy framework like React and vanilla DOM manipulations. jQuery is one such popular solution, and I don't see why such helpers should be completely avoided. Another (full disclosure
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As the web matures around several core destinations, I find that Googling becomes increasingly less valuable. If you want to shop you go straight to Amazon. If you want advice you go to Reddit. Dev query? Stackoverflow. etc. The long t
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by akrymski 7y ago
> Transferwise for instance (which was praised here) apparently charges you 1.25% to _add_ money to your account (USD) That's if you're using a US debit card. They seem to charge a fixed fee of $5.34 to top up any amount of US
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US is a special place. Even Russia has better public transport. I don't think lack of public parking at a train station is a good enough reason to develop self-driving cars. It's easier to build a car park.
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There's no reason you can't have buses outside major cities - most EU countries do this fine. Self driving, self-recharging buses, that you can track and hail on-demand would be much more efficient than self driving cars. It means
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by akrymski 7y ago
Thank God! Self driving cars are not a solution to the world's problems. Better public transport is. Why can't we have self driving buses that replace trams? The level of AI needed for that is already there. As the population of
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Market-maker can handle $150B in daily trading volume(bloomberg.com)
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by akrymski 7y ago
Congrats on launch! This is really beautiful, but: - rewards aren't as high as AMEX - APY isn't as high as some savings accounts Who's the target customer here?
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by akrymski 7y ago
By far the main advantage that London's black cabs have is the use of dedicated bus lanes. This often has a huge effect in rush-hour and translates in substantial time savings vs uber.
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Wow I’d love to know what the e-commerce solution is for. And happy to build it for $1m.
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Actually, we were supposed to be living in skyscrapers. Oh wait, we are.
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Imagine if every Mac OS app had its own design system, styling and component implementation. That would be a nightmare for users. Yet this is exactly how web apps operate today. “Websites” is this general term that is hard to define these
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Thank god the browser provides the text input component otherwise every designer would have their own take on that too.
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Sure, the HTML standard needs to go - it was designed for hyperlinked documents, not software. Components should be provided by browser/OS vendors with a standard look and feel, the same way desktop software has been written for decade
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Something is broken with the web when every company across every industry feels the need to produce its own design system.
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That link doesn't work
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Cool. But you shouldn't need Leap for this these days, you can do hand tracking with ML: https://ai.googleblog.com/2019/08/on-device-real-time-hand-t...
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Satoshi is the issuer. Just because you can’t find the person who started a pyramid scheme doesn’t mean he doesn’t exist.
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How Feasible Is a Warp Drive?(universetoday.com)
3 points by akrymski 7y ago|0 comments
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That's all great IF you live in a new building that has ethernet throughout. I live in central London where there's fiber on my street and yet I can only get ADSL @ max 8MB/s. I'd happily pay some office next door to s
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by akrymski 7y ago
Because asphalt/concrete roads have only been around since 1920s. Biking on dirt or gravel isn’t fun, horses do better on such surfaces.
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by akrymski 7y ago
If only replacing Google would be as simple as building another search engine. It’s like trying to beat WhatsApp by launching another messaging app. Any kid could do that. The tech is not the hard part.
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by akrymski 7y ago
isn't that tableau.com ?
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by akrymski 8y ago
Is nobody else seriously worried about the safety of lab grown food in general? It took us decades to realise that cigarettes are in fact harmful. Medicine takes years to get approved. Who really understands the long term impact of fake m
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by akrymski 8y ago
Are you sure Argentina isn't part of SWIFT? That's insane if true. A quick google search suggests otherwise: https://www.theswiftcodes.com/argentina/
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by akrymski 8y ago
Finally, a simple alternative to C++! I've been dreaming about creating this for years, thank you for doing it! Few ideas I had: - Simple classes (no inheritance, only mixins) like in JavaScript - Always pass objects by reference as i
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by akrymski 8y ago
I actually think having different models (functional and imperative) just adds to confusion. I don't think immutability is all that useful personally, unless the language is purely functional to begin with. I'd keep it simple an
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How is this really different to Quora? What use cases do you see this being used for that are more applicable?
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> Will end-user applications ever be truly programmable? If so, how? This requires a clear separation of functions and data. Linux pipes are a glimpse of what's possible, and there's been some work in translating English to Ba
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by akrymski 8y ago
Seems to me that it simply buys 20 stocks plus the inverse S&P ETF (SH). Their strategy looks highly overfitted in terms of establishing the short position. It’s easy to beat the market in a bull market (just buy momentum stocks or use

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