an_opabinia

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by an_opabinia 5y ago
> Just wanted to check in It sounds like you already know this is a firing email. The best thing is to reset your career. Graduate school is a very good way to do this. Get some wins, it will pep you up. > how can a company expect to
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by an_opabinia 5y ago
Are cellphone numbers a dystopia?
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The most toxic part of the Internet today is identity. Some of the IP address space should have worked like mobile phone numbers - paid for by subscribers and representing single identities. Even better, after the invention of RSA, the gove
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by an_opabinia 5y ago
> they just wanted to know that you understood the oscilloscopes and weren't bullshitting them. In the IT industry, I feel like absolutely, 100% everyone must know that 98% of computers a giant company buys should be MacBook Airs, a
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It’s 2021, why are dating app algorithms still so bad?(wired.co.uk)
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by an_opabinia 5y ago
> shareholders captured what previously funded pensions Hmm, but passive retiree investors, on whose behalf all those institutions like Blackrock are ultimately investing, have probably contributed enormously to a rise in asset values. S
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by an_opabinia 5y ago
Surveillance in schools is a symptom, not a cause. To keep it focused on technology though, schools are super interesting - physical security is routinely violated. The iPhone really needs a dual-password mode, or some similar strategy, to
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by an_opabinia 5y ago
> hangouts/games anyone can make Certainly not young children, who to the 50th percentile will lack the computer, as opposed to phone, needed to author a Roblox game, and to the 99th percentile, the developmental skills needed to pr
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by an_opabinia 5y ago
> Moving the character and collision detection This sort of thing is so domain specific and idiosyncratic, the right answer is "follow tradition."
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Bluestacks is a scam, they use your VM to gin up download counts for its customers, app developers.
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by an_opabinia 5y ago
> In China for example, iOS market share is actually constant around 20% or maybe slightly declining over the last decade So a user count comparable to 100%+ of the US phone user population?
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Someone in the character animation department might not even spend most of their day at the computer. They’re more like a combination actor and assistant director than a technical department guy.
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There are few categories of apps this targets. “Clubhouse for Android” category: avant- grade apps that launch first on Android or define android platform. Nonexistent. “Median phone user ecosystem:” The TikTok Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp
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by an_opabinia 5y ago
The irony is, I’ve never experienced DNS problems with invite only piracy sites with quality and quantity 100x the public ones. And doubly so, because I’m sure a lot of Sony employees use them.
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by an_opabinia 5y ago
By the time Russia disclosed the Sverdlovsk incident, the Soviet Union didn’t exist. It’s only bad from the perspective of a specific government elite in China, and no one else.
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by an_opabinia 5y ago
> Are we on the right track here? You probably mean on an intellectual level, not in terms of user adoption. The lack of specificity about who your audience is the toughest part, intellectually, about what you’re doing. First let’s assum
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by an_opabinia 5y ago
What if the exit scams happening today in China are 10x worse than South Africa’s, because it’s so much bigger, but we aren’t hearing about them? Never mind history.
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by an_opabinia 5y ago
If I’m your boss, sitting next to you and in full view of your screen, and I’m there for 8 hours working, will the average person work a real 8 hours?
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by an_opabinia 5y ago
When you’re spending money on a Pentagram branding, you’re spending money to be noticed by a rarefied New York corporate elite. You invite them to those launch cocktail parties, your consultants are dating people who work for them, the rewo
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by an_opabinia 5y ago
> who were in electronic have switched to software. No educated person in the late 90s could have anticipated how Foxconn would obviate "electronics."
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by an_opabinia 5y ago
You're getting it backwards. What if you go to work 7 days a week, and the numbers are still going down? Bumble is taking a week off because they're doing poorly. I have no opinions on whether the factors are in their control or n
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by an_opabinia 5y ago
> and every other Apple OS, is going to be so much more... [non-Apple users are] missing something Android hasn't really faced many obstacles in cloning things. Consumers in China, for example, still buy Android phones, despite iPh
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by an_opabinia 5y ago
I don’t need to be a federal reserve chairman to reason that Doge is a Ponzi scheme. The problem is that people want to participate in Ponzis, for the most part, it turns out.
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Not a single person I’ve met using git in the last decade has thrived using a UI for it.
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by an_opabinia 5y ago
> the ipad is really only useful because of its apps and power, while the OS itself feels like it actively hinders anything I really want to do with the device and in many ways feels mildly broken! It's weird for sure. The underlyin
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by an_opabinia 5y ago
This makes a lot more sense. What producers actually want is an enforceable monopoly on trade dress (the look and design of something), not authenticity or even scarcity. This is why the most successful art market is probably video game cos
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by an_opabinia 5y ago
Indeed, why really do you think cars have actually gotten so much cheaper? Since it's not inflation.
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> The high-end visual effects industry that we dominated is notoriously slow to adapt to change, and operates for the most part on razor-thin margins. There were billions flowing into film and episodic production every year, but there wa
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by an_opabinia 5y ago
Most of the money a retail trader is making comes from another retail trader. Is a poker table a bubble? Another way to interpret the price is, “the most recent payout at the poker table.”
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EventBus uses an annotation processor and reflection to reify a call. A ton of things look like this. Like that's also sort of what a REST API is. It makes a ton of sense for crossing boundaries from owning the code to not owning the c

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