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by bjarneh 6y ago
Most people would like to make enough money not to worry about ever needing to make money; but where does that leave this guy. He has no other interests for when he is finally "rich enough" to stop working? Interesting read noneth
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by bjarneh 6y ago
That example is certainly extreme; but these fake "competitors/adversaries" are normal i business. It is not unusual that one competitor becomes so large that it can basically buy up all of its rivals. But it never renames t
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by bjarneh 6y ago
> So the only thing we could do to compete was to make ourselves into multiple people, 10x if we could. An easy way to 10x ourselves was by not having a personal life and not taking care of ourselves. Sounds great
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by bjarneh 6y ago
> Everyone loves to talk about tech monopolies. No monopoly loves to talk about how it is a monopoly though, most claim to have fierce competitors. Monopolies usually pretend to be part of much larger markets; where they are just "a
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by bjarneh 6y ago
That sounds incredibly similar to all "large" cities in Norway.
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by bjarneh 6y ago
Not too many of those arguments have become invalid since the article was written. Still incredibly hard to make Hydrogen work economically. No real breakthrough in terms of how we store it, creating huge problems for any type of Hydrogen i
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by bjarneh 6y ago
The amount of time I've spent on my old .muttrc file is almost embarrassing...
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by bjarneh 6y ago
> But instead of going into their own newly-built submarine It really was an unbelievable move. I've heard from former Nokia employees that part of the reason for this nutty strategy, was internal division inside the company. The va
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by bjarneh 6y ago
Stephan Elop would be the ultimate villain :-)
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by bjarneh 6y ago
I can't believe I'm still bitter about the path Nokia took after all these years, but I am. We were so close to having a truly open + superb OS in our mainstream devices...
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by bjarneh 6y ago
> Imagine a world without apps As a long time Nokia N9/Meego user, that world is not hard to imagine.
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by bjarneh 6y ago
> These tools are great for letting someone build something they don't understand Exactly, how can the same concept re-appear in all sorts of forms in this industry? Another thing I though of was Mule, which I used a few years ago (
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by bjarneh 6y ago
> Is it just me or does this seem like a very bad idea? It's not just you. As you say this can only truly be used by people you understand regular expressions; and they would most likely prefer not to use this stuff. It seems the wh
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by bjarneh 6y ago
> I guess you are lucky it was "only" 9 hours, but yeah, it doesn't sound pleasant. We were in Caracas; so we were advised not to go into the city. It became a 9 hour stint at Burger King pretty much, which is enough. If y
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by bjarneh 6y ago
I've only been to those a couple of times but they make all the difference. The relaxed atmosphere, the ability to take a shower/nap/drink makes you almost want to hang out at the airport.
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by bjarneh 6y ago
Sometimes things have to get quite bad before enough incentive to fix them appears.
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by bjarneh 6y ago
That's a very bleak outlook. I hope you are wrong, but fear you are right.
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by bjarneh 6y ago
You're right; there are certainly worse things happening which deserves our full attention and reaction. But perhaps this type of "surveillance state", or the general loss of civil liberties is a key to eroding everything els
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by bjarneh 6y ago
Spooky reading. Almost strange how many times this sad prophecy about surveillance has been told without us reacting properly. Even now; when we are approaching some of the most pessimistic scenarios foretold, we don't seem to react.
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by bjarneh 6y ago
Same here, what a nightmare it is to take those long flights. I once waited 9 hours at an airport for a 12 hour flight; seldom been more exhausted than that. It wasn't even the last leg, so even more airports/waiting when we arriv
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by bjarneh 6y ago
> and I slept the whole 5 hours like it was 5 minutes That's an experience I've never had on a flight
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by bjarneh 6y ago
I don't think they drew that conclusion as it is probably difficult to say in which phase of the illness people get tested. Some have mild (or no) symptoms and probably go through their active 9-day period without getting tested at all
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by bjarneh 6y ago
:-) That does not help of course. To be honest it did have a website (he has written a lisp implementation which comes with the editor as well ABCL - [Armed Bear Common Lisp]). I'm pretty sure the build instructions don't work eit
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by bjarneh 6y ago
Sadly I think you are right; but it's scary that we've come to the point where seeking privacy in itself is suspicious behavior.
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by bjarneh 6y ago
> with a lot of quality and performance drawbacks. They were so significant that only one company managed to build a decent-looking app in Swing [Link to JetBrains]. Until I found the J-editor, I sort of agreed. I never understood why th
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by bjarneh 6y ago
> there is more than enough data to support that most people do build up immunity of several months at least. OK, some (needed) good news..
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by bjarneh 6y ago
> but as far as we know immunity to any of them is immunity to all of them. OK. The longevity of the immunity is also an issue perhaps; at least they have written articles about people becoming re-infected; so even the people who do beco
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by bjarneh 6y ago
> what would it even mean for somebody to be "90% immune" to a disease? Hasn't this virus already mutated to a bunch of different strands? Could it mean you're immune to 90% of the known variations of the virus?
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by bjarneh 6y ago
Hard not to think about that Simpsons episode when you read about stuff like this...
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by bjarneh 6y ago
Even dogs get to try out those VR glasses I've been hearing about since the mid 90s before me..

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