an_opabinia

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by an_opabinia 6y ago
First off, the best deals in VC have no real data. Some big part of fund-making today (Vintage 2020) will happen at the seed and pre-seed stage with pro rata rights. So what good is all of Facebook's data about some app that may only e
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by an_opabinia 6y ago
Because execs will only be seeing demos after they’re loaded, and there’s no way some 55 year old is going to spend more than 5 minutes playing some Star Wars game and therefore trigger no world loading, games that do something special with
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by an_opabinia 6y ago
> Clearly, my actual weight loss (red) turned out to be slower than expected one based on our simple deficit math (blue). So this is where things get interesting... so we don’t get to fully resolve the mystery of the slower-than-expected
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by an_opabinia 6y ago
Dysfunctional organizations can still make boatloads of money, for a long time, longer than your functional organization can stay solvent. Besides, should some 25 year old Mark Zuckerberg out there - the guy who really is going to take some
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by an_opabinia 6y ago
> technical restrictions being alluded to is the advertisement and telemetry that is baked in. I'm pretty sure the complaint is about anti-piracy features. In that situation it's a picture perfect application of DMCA. Also it w
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by an_opabinia 6y ago
Well, you could argue that all of North Korea is functionally an open air prison. If you don’t get to live in a city because you lack the permit, is a rural Chinese citizen jailed in their home town? If you don’t get to do stuff like drive
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by an_opabinia 6y ago
> And the NHS has been in hot water for handing out sensitive patient data to tech firms before. Without the perspective of someone who works in the NHS with Palantir's software, it's impossible to say if the NHS and the public
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by an_opabinia 6y ago
> The virus is not selective of political beliefs I'm not really this much of a hack, so forgive me, because what you are saying is true in the most literal sense. But if you believe in capitalism, a political system, the virus will
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by an_opabinia 6y ago
While most people probably agree that the full open sourcing is the best for the consumer, eventually somebody needs to be paid to do the work. It's easy to say in hindsight where Android is massively successful, Google will someday al
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by an_opabinia 6y ago
It’s complicated. The drivers are probably riddled with security bugs. For the at-home consumer security through diversity and obscurity is sufficient, their adversary is not the government but malware authors. Malware authors can and do us
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by an_opabinia 6y ago
Use Wirecast instead. It works better. OBS just isn’t for macOS users. If you record video with it it’ll be corrupted. The performance is bad. It’s for people who stream to Twitch on a Windows computer. The real problem is that the macOS se
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by an_opabinia 6y ago
The day before they graduate, a Harvard college student will work on your research project or startup for $0/mo, if it’s interesting enough. The day after, Facebook is ready to pay them $10,000/mo+. They’re the same human being be
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by an_opabinia 6y ago
> It's hostile and a waste of time to do this when you're going to lose anyway. You only inconvenience the people who jailbreak their phones for completely unrelated reasons. I'm pretty sure jailbreaking is bad for develop
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by an_opabinia 6y ago
In my experience they monetize like 500% better than Android users. Not supporting iOS users is just baffling. They're rich people plain and simple. They can afford $800 iPhones or $1,800 phone + iPad combos, to people who need to buy
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by an_opabinia 6y ago
Unreal is for people who get games financed. The demos looks great and the execs don’t play games anyhow so what do they know. That’s why it’s all FPSes, it’s stuff non-game-playing adults can understand just by looking at it. They will fun
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by an_opabinia 6y ago
> Sure the SAT/ACT does favor students whose parents had enough money to afford private tutors Not really, most evidence points to private tutors as we know them having a very small impact on test scores. On a large study low-inco
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by an_opabinia 6y ago
> Blame those who have changed the rules of the game such that assuming the worst is the default. Ah, so blame lawyers, product managers, anyone who releases free as in beer software, the open source contributors making all that software
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by an_opabinia 6y ago
For narrow cases like Cloudflare load balancing traffic, it would be difficult to reverse lookup without other compromises. It always depends on who your adversary is. Chrome is a controlled, auto-updating application. Your Cloudflare traff
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by an_opabinia 6y ago
It’s intuitive that contact tracing APIs, as Google and Apple PMs have conceived them, somehow help you. Some health officials have an opinion on what kind of software would help them, saying something extremely well publicized by Apple and
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by an_opabinia 7y ago
> I worked at OkCupid 8 years ago... OkCupid's problem, and the problem at Match Group in general, is that you learned something about 100% of OkCupid users instead of 0.01% of randomly-sampled real world people, and maybe that some
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by an_opabinia 7y ago
As a Sonic subscriber, I can vouch that this is an accurate report, and that their business model is fundamentally to advertise a low price and charge a high one hoping you’ll like gigabit Ethernet enough to keep it. Another way of looking
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by an_opabinia 7y ago
This is an excellent point, and the much more fascinating corollaries: - a product designer/manager of something with 1,000,000 users won’t learn more about usability than a product designer/manager of something with 15 users. All
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by an_opabinia 7y ago
As a solo developer, you should only be doing the things you are really excited to do, not waging psychological warfare against yourself.
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by an_opabinia 8y ago
I have mixed feelings. On the one hand, C++ has created generations of Visual Studio GUI addicts. Imagine how much further software would have advanced by now if the average person (a Windows user on a crappy laptop) had good, free tools to