anchpop

56 ms·

541.
by anchpop 7y ago
Many languages have types for infinite-precision rational numbers, for example Rational in Haskell.
542.
by anchpop 7y ago
> More prior art: pfrazee.hashbase.io has been working on this sort of thing in unwalled.garden, but was last seen going off into the weeds to focus on yak-shaving and schema-polishing. As far as I can tell right now the author is mostly
543.
by anchpop 7y ago
It's a service where you can hire an on-demand personal assistant for $30/hour, https://getmagic.com/ . I never saw the appeal.
544.
by anchpop 7y ago
What is getting built for specifically the 1% (or .1%, etc.)? The only service I can think of is Magic. Additionally, what markets are underserved? This is an area I'm interested in but don't know much about (except from my own an
545.
by anchpop 7y ago
Why would Google put itself under insane risk from anti-anticompetitve regulation and huge bad PR just to prevent a tiny minority of users from blocking google analytics?
546.
by anchpop 7y ago
I'm not sure, but my girlfriend clicks on ads on instagram and buys things directly from there on a regular basis. I think the people who go on HN might be in a little bit of a bubble about the efficacy of advertisements.
547.
by anchpop 7y ago
I would be interested how the performance of running a homomorphic circuit compares to running the same algorithm without encryption
548.
by anchpop 7y ago
Stellar also supports the creation of stablecoins [1], which tend to have a consistent price relative to some other asset (Often USD). The way stellar works is pretty smart, if I have some currency on the stellar network and you only accept
549.
by anchpop 7y ago
No, it stays in the user's wallet (set aside) until you sign up
550.
by anchpop 7y ago
I'd prefer if those people had some sort of income so they could do what they're doing full time. Do you have any sort of idea for how that would work or do you just dislike the current system without any prescription for a better
551.
by anchpop 7y ago
> But people don't need to realize anything for ads to die. All they need to realize is that they should all be using ad blockers and never ever turning it off again. That isn't true at all. What about when I play a youtube vid
552.
by anchpop 7y ago
Amusingly, blackblaze.com redirects to backblaze.com. I assume people have made that mistake before.
553.
by anchpop 7y ago
I see what you're saying, but "I'll laugh in your face and tell you to get the fuck out of mine" is usually a very poor way to respond to criticism in the workplace so you shouldn't necessarily aspire to it.
554.
by anchpop 7y ago
It also shows the favicons, which help people recognize what site they're looking at if they're familiar with them much more quickly than a url can.
555.
by anchpop 7y ago
I tried the same search in both and got the same results (links displayed in both). Maybe you just happened to get into a different A/B bucket when you opened incognito
556.
by anchpop 7y ago
But twitter and texting do teach it, and those are both very popular. Even reddit is mainstream now. People probably read more now than at any other point in history. I'm very skeptical that the average reading and writing ability has
557.
by anchpop 7y ago
> If they experience how terrible the Netflix UI is and refuse to fix it, they're guilty of either gross neglect or sabotage. Would ignorance of the quality of their product be any better? Although I find the web ui works pretty wel
558.
by anchpop 7y ago
I would hope not. They claim they're also banning issue ads
559.
by anchpop 7y ago
> Single male, able body, no kids What does being male have to do with it?
560.
by anchpop 7y ago
> There are plenty of websites which will let you grind away at FAANG interview questions. If you have a few weeks of time to waste on gaming this signal, you'll be coding self-balancing trees in your sleep. I'd like to practic
561.
by anchpop 7y ago
I googled and didn't see anything about this, is this true?
562.
by anchpop 7y ago
Oh, what if the donation link added you to a list of contributors to the website. Seems like that would be "digital content that may be consumed outside of the app itself" which might be a workaround. Google might ban it anyway of
563.
by anchpop 7y ago
Oh, I see, thanks
564.
by anchpop 7y ago
You can, but I don't think you're supposed to direct your users to put their credit card info in, that all needs to be handled somewhere outside the app (with a message like please sign in on our website). Which seems very blatant
565.
by anchpop 7y ago
It's the most widely used software distribution channel in the world. I'm sure most would prefer to distribute on F-Droid but open source developers want their apps to be successful too.
566.
by anchpop 7y ago
Would it be acceptable to Google if the only perk of buying an IAP was a little icon on the screen saying "contributor" or something? Do they ban all donation verbiage or just IAPs that do nothing?
567.
by anchpop 7y ago
I've been working with Dat, which I think is similar to IPFS and really enjoying it. Being able to modify your site after you publish it is hugely useful (previous versions are always accessible - edits are stored in an append only log
568.
by anchpop 7y ago
> Other rich people donate anonymously How do you know?
569.
by anchpop 7y ago
Sure, but but buses would be cheaper to run if they didn't need a driver. My university runs a bus that you have to call and it drives directly to you and picks you up, I could imagine something like that being more common (for public
570.
by anchpop 7y ago
> Or a camera in space. Or freefall

More ›