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by awad 3y ago
My MagSafe MBP still accepts charge via USB-C. In fact I don't know that I've used MagSafe at all with it other than a handful of times borrowing someone else's charger.
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The new toll to drive into Manhattan won't change much by itself(vice.com)
37 points by awad 3y ago|87 comments
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by awad 3y ago
Mod chips for consoles and mod chips for cars don't seem too dissimilar
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by awad 3y ago
I continue to maintain that Excel is the single most important piece of software created in the history of humanity by sheer virtue of how much of the world runs on it, whether via intended use case or not.
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by awad 3y ago
I'm not so sure. To paint with a broad brush, Americans love fast cars and don't care too much for cycling. There's always been a large motorsport culture in the US. DTS was a big part of the F1 rise in the states, but it is
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by awad 3y ago
While "pixel" was originally the 1x1 way back in the day, it's a generic term now used by industry to refer to analytics, often in tracking of user behavior and conversion events.
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by awad 3y ago
Regardless of past behavior, there are many many locales that do in fact levy their rules on Uber who have made a business decision to comply, leading to localized experiences of the app and service that can change both between different ci
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by awad 3y ago
It's not just navigation, there are many local nuances like where in airports or large stadiums they're allowed to operate or not operate out of. Dealing with city and county ordinances at the scale of Uber takes some bit of human
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by awad 3y ago
This is the core of the issue. Many would-be competitors to Facebook over the years would lean on the technology aspect as if the average person would care. There's nothing wrong with a decentralized system if you can actually make it
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by awad 3y ago
Believe it's referring to this: https://www.wired.com/2010/03/netflix-cancels-contest/
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by awad 3y ago
You're touching on something I've always been fascinated about...the game being the collection and building of the library itself. I suppose it's not that different from any other hobby centered around collectibles and yet wi
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by awad 4y ago
I haven't seriously used Windows in a long time and vaguely remember some rumblings between Vista <> 7 <> 8 but have Microsoft ever really had a trust issue with respect to supporting their software? That's kind of the
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by awad 4y ago
I am not sure if HN was always like this or something changed over time, but there is clearly no winning here/there's always a critic.
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by awad 4y ago
They pull the money out of their customers bank accounts first before disbursing it via payroll, so that $300M figure is really customer funds.
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by awad 4y ago
How was the pay?
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by awad 4y ago
The growth and size of the AirPods business alone is staggering.
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by awad 4y ago
There are consultancies who provide these DD services certainly as a line of business, if not their entire business. Like any other professional services enterprise, a lot of it depends on your network and ability to generate new business,
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by awad 4y ago
And yet you still understood what they were saying. It's not that serious.
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by awad 4y ago
I think YouTube, which has a paid and ad-free version along with its Live TV offering, somehow manages to still be a sleeper hit within the larger Google portfolio and doesn't get talked about enough.
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by awad 4y ago
I'm not entirely sure what the first point has to do with the second - can you help me understand what Superhuman has to do with anything? It's just a gmail client at the end of the day, isn't it? My understanding is people w
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by awad 4y ago
CRMs work at scale by selling to executives who are not the end users but are in control of budget. They then have their sales managers enforce data fidelity amongst the sales team who, to keep their jobs, are incentivized to make sure data
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O Holy Crap(thefp.com)
2 points by awad 4y ago|0 comments
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by awad 4y ago
I'm not sure if it's because this is a particular engineering-learning crowd that is pro space or SpaceX or something else but the general lack of empathy toward a human being who has suffered is concerning when reading this threa
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by awad 4y ago
Stripe's own claim to fame and much success is making an exceptionally complex topic, like billing, seem simple. It never is. I would imagine most of their own customers have far simpler needs than they themselves do. FWIW, we're
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by awad 4y ago
I said the said thing at first but learned it's an online meme :)
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by awad 4y ago
Easier even still was the Dreamcast which had effectively no copy protection at all. Such a great console and such a sad ending for Sega.
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by awad 4y ago
You can search through the New York City zoning map here and would be hard pressed to find areas zoned exclusively for single family homes.... https://zola.planning.nyc.gov/
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by awad 4y ago
Interesting - do you have the names of any of those apps?
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by awad 4y ago
Happens plenty in B2B but, again, reputational risk is involved
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by awad 4y ago
As I understand it, Concorde was closer to coach in terms of seats and leg room than modern business (though with service that matched the price tag) so I can't imagine any issues here. If you could fly New York to London in less time

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