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by ayewo 3y ago
Steve Jobs is on record that Apple doesn’t care about being first (to market). They care about being the best. This is why secrecy is a huge part of their culture: it allows them to spend years doing R&D work on multiple prototypes unti
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by ayewo 3y ago
That’s very gracious of you. Thanks. How do HNers take advantage of your offer?
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Can you offer a weekly option?
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It definitely can work if the rest of the team is big on async, written comms. I guess I’ll take your answer as a no then :( EDIT: Thanks for being dutiful with a timely response to my question. That’s an absolute rarity in this monthly h
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by ayewo 3y ago
Open to GMT+1 applicants? There’s plenty of overlap with NYC time.
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You could also view attempts in other languages at https://github.com/1brc
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by ayewo 3y ago
I’m confused. Upthread [1] you said you were trying to activate your second Starlink dish but now you claim to have activated more than 100 Starlinks ? [1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39547910
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by ayewo 3y ago
No mention of how much you will be paying contributors for the different tasks in your blog post. You should include a note in the blog post or at least add it to Notion, beneath the time estimates.
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by ayewo 3y ago
Can you share the Thunderbolt drive you got?
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by ayewo 3y ago
I came back to check on your prediction and it turns out you were wrong :) Currently at 107 points and of course still on the front page (at #24).
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> Apart from the Big 3 ... Who are the big 3 in this context?
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by ayewo 3y ago
I also thought you didn’t answer the question but after re-reading it sounds like you first started living in the apartment by subleasing from another tenant. Then once another apartment became vacant, because you already lived there you we
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by ayewo 3y ago
> Good thing you can't learn it in 2 weeks (or 2 months for that matter) True story :) It seems Rust’s designers optimized for C/C++ devs over everyone else in order to give them a realistic chance at overthrowing C/C++
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by ayewo 3y ago
Well, I’ve heard of gitk too but gitk is not available by default on my default installation of macOS so there’s that.
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Have you seen this announcement by GitHub regarding Apple Silicon: https://github.blog/changelog/2024-01-30-github-actions-intr... ? Today, GitHub is excited to announce the launch of a new M1 macOS runner! This runne
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by ayewo 3y ago
Yes, but China is still a very important manufacturing partner they can’t (yet) afford to offend. At least until India, Vietnam etc are able to make the more complex devices at volumes comparable to what China is doing today.
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> I know Amazon monitors Hacker News PR closely, since they took down those ChatGPT generated listings within minutes of us posting them here. Like other engineers at Big Tech, Amazon Engineers also read HN and the post in question hap
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by ayewo 3y ago
This web page for comparing EC2 pricing using filtering https://instances.vantage.sh/?region=us-east-2 is open source https://github.com/vantage-sh/ec2instances.info
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Any photos of these slick vehicles you could point to?
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by ayewo 3y ago
> But, I'm 99% sure that I'll either open source the core block editor or the entire app in the future. Why withhold the remaining 1%? If you aren't so confident about your decision to open source, there's no need to
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by ayewo 3y ago
> I've always wanted to build a digital burial business like this, actually. I had a chuckle at that unlikely turn of phrase. Digital burial business is so apt that I’m stealing it, thanks
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Before you give up, give OrbStack a try: https://orbstack.dev/ It’s significantly faster than Docker and some users in the Discord community have been able to use it to run hand-built Linux x86 VMs on Apple Silicon. It’s a
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by ayewo 3y ago
5 years ago, the authors put an older edition of the book (5.4?) as a free download from GitHub: https://github.com/SystemsApproach/book/tree/format/publishe... Direct link to an older PDF: https:/
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by ayewo 3y ago
Patterns of Network Architecture by John Day is a pretty good too if you want to learn the why of how networks are the way they are today.
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Some startups pay Carta more than $10k a year. For instance, in a community I’m in, someone mentioned that they pay Carta $150k/yr. It comes down to how many of Carta’s various services startups find worth paying for.
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by ayewo 3y ago
That’s a lot. I had no idea that a well-oiled Excel-as-a-Service could be so lucrative.
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> But there's no demonstrated huge existing demand for an extremely high-end VR headset. It's unlikely that a product nobody asked for costing $3,500 is going to give the technology mass market appeal or kick off widespread ad
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My point was if the Vision Pro does in fact fail , it wouldn’t be because of its price tag. Apple already knows how to sell “overpriced” consumer hardware since they have a $5,000 Pro XDR monitor and $1,000 stand to go with that “overprice
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> This won't be successful, the $3500 price tag alone assures it. It will hopefully lead to something that's actually meant for end users, though. How can you be so sure about a company that makes a monitor stand that sells f
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by ayewo 3y ago
In 2007, Jeff Atwood made the quote that was popularly referred to as Atwood’s Law:[5] “Any application that can be written in JavaScript, will eventually be written in JavaScript.” From: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x

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