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by asaph 8y ago
Really? Not even The Beatles? What about Picasso? Bach? Van Gogh? Gershwin? Miles Davis? All timeless. No reboot required.
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by asaph 8y ago
Some entertainment transcends time and just grows its audience perpetually. Think Star Wars, The Beatles, James Bond. Some things never go out of fashion.
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by asaph 8y ago
I'm not saying Fortnite's audience will shrink to zero. I predict it will shrink though, just like the above mentioned titles that are shells of their former glory. The growth can't last. Maybe I should have said FarmVille or
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by asaph 8y ago
Anecdotally this rings true. However, I could easily see Fortnite being a fad. A year from now, I wouldn't be surprised to see the bulk of Fortnite's audience having moved on to something else. Remember Candy Crush? Pokémon Go? Wo
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by asaph 8y ago
Is this considered a loophole in the system?
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by asaph 8y ago
The Dell story isn't over and comparison over a 5 year period probably isn't long enough to illuminate whether or not Michael Dell's investment beat the S&P-500. If Dell as a public company outperforms the S&P-500 goi
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by asaph 8y ago
> Dell announced it would become a public company again through a complex arrangement that involved buying back tracking shares for VMware, the software business that Dell owns an 80 percent chunk of. ... > ... Taking over an existing
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by asaph 8y ago
I guess you were unlucky in ear shape genetic lottery. The AirPods fit snugly and comfortably in my ears.
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by asaph 8y ago
Consider wireless charging.
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by asaph 8y ago
You still have the choice via an adapter.
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by asaph 8y ago
You still use a desktop? The portability of a laptop is something I couldn't do without.
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by asaph 8y ago
I switched to wireless headphones (AirPods) and don't miss the headphone jack at all. Good riddance to tangled wires.
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by asaph 8y ago
> You don't need to go to top 100. Two Bitcoin forks that are scams are in Top 10 right now. The 2 forks he's referring to are Bitcoin Cash and Bitcoin SV in case anyone was wondering.
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by asaph 8y ago
> On average, 80 percent of the cases he reviewed were denied. What does this mean? Is it 80% of "average" cases? Or is it simply 80% of all cases and the "On average" part of the sentence just sloppy writing?
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by asaph 8y ago
> Such a move would confuse the world’s routers, which would have to choose between rival claims to the same blocks of Internet addresses. I know! We can solve this with blockchain technology! > The overall network, unable to discern
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by asaph 8y ago
Or you can return your books on time and have it for free.
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by asaph 8y ago
Yet
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by asaph 8y ago
Amount claimed on expense report != amount paid to hotel.
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by asaph 8y ago
Thank you for letting me know that you can use multiple hashes in SRI. I didn't know you could do that.
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by asaph 8y ago
Without versioned assets, both the 3rd and 1st parties would need to make the update at the exact same time or else the enforced SRI would cause failures. This kind of tight coordination is impractical or even impossible. Versioned assets a
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by asaph 8y ago
If a 3rd party's script loaded from the 3rd party domain initiates any execution on its own (without being invoked by script on the 1st party's site), it won't have permissions to make calls to the 1st party's domain. Mo
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by asaph 8y ago
> ... but you can be assured that the network calls your page are making are hitting the correct 3rd parties ... The browser's sandbox security model already does this for us with the same origin policy. > ... and even inspect to
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by asaph 8y ago
It's because that can break the site due to the browser's sandbox permissions model. Scripts are only allowed to make ajax calls to their origin servers. Also, serving a 3rd party script from the 1st party's domain gives the
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by asaph 8y ago
> If you absolutely have to load someone else's code, check to see if it has been altered. Third party JavaScript code can be altered for legitimate reasons. e.g. adding new features, refactoring, security fixes, etc. In order to pr
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by asaph 8y ago
I believe GP is implying that they don't deserve to make money from a copyright-free asset.
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by asaph 8y ago
> I disable font smoothing on my machines. Why?
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by asaph 8y ago
> I've had quite a few headphones in a row whose jack ended up failing due to the way my phone is placed inside my pocket, and a repair was impossible ... Why don't you change the way you put it in your pocket?
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by asaph 8y ago
Though not a product per-se, Google Instant Search was a significant enough feature that I think it merits inclusion in the list. Previous HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14857120
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by asaph 8y ago
> In October 2018, Google announced that it was shutting down Google+ for consumers, citing low user engagement and a software error. I wouldn't characterize it as a "software error". It was a security vulnerability.[0] [0
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by asaph 8y ago
Yes. I really believe this. I still use email daily as do most (all?) people I know. It's a primary means of communication, especially when you need a digital "paper trail" of the communication. I remember email before Gmail.

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