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by braythwayt 6y ago
Very. However, nobody told the sun that, so it keeps heating up the seas, evaporating their water, and letting the resulting moisture drift until it gets pushed up into cold air by some land obstruction like a mountain range... "Pumpin
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by braythwayt 6y ago
Have you tried the current generation of iPad Pro? They claim a 9ms lag, and coupled with their technology for up-rezzing refresh rate and touch sensitivity when using the Pencil, it's quite a substantial improvement in experience. Tha
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by braythwayt 6y ago
The iPad Pro is not an e-Ink device, however since the OP was speaking of it being better than anything else out there _including other eink devices_, I wanted to confirm that "anything else" refers to devices like the current gen
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by braythwayt 6y ago
The original Apple Pencil and first generation of iPad Pro boasted of a 20ms lag. That was considered impressive, but perceptible if you look at your writing carefully. I found it fine for note-taking, but lots of people would still notice
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by braythwayt 6y ago
Just to confirm, when you say, "better than anything else out there," that includes the latest generation of iPad Pro with Apple Pencil 2, correct?
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Fitbit launches a $330 Apple Watch competitor(techcrunch.com)
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by braythwayt 6y ago
It’s interesting to compare Quora and Stack Overflow. They both are about questions and answers, and they both set out to use interaction design and aggressive curation to create a high-quality Q&A resource. But despite having similar g
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by braythwayt 6y ago
I’ve given up on reddit on mobile. From time to time I drop in on it using Safari on the desktop, but it’s not worth it to me to deal with their engagement-ification in their mobile app, or obvious crippleware of their mobile web experience
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by braythwayt 6y ago
I empathize with you. Certain products have network effects, and therefore, if you personally prefer product G to product A for whatever reason, the more people go with G instead of A, the more value you obtain. As a result, people often ha
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by braythwayt 6y ago
Speaking of FUD, come now. Me choosing to buy an Apple or recommend Apple to my family doesn't "make the entire society worse."
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by braythwayt 6y ago
You're right in theory, but possibly not in practice. Consider two vendors: A and G. A provides a full walled garden. G provides a walled garden, but lets you side-load whatever you like, you can ignore the apps in the garden. Everyo
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by braythwayt 6y ago
We used to joke about the fact that no matter what you do to educate users, if told that to see a video of funny dancing pigs[1] all they have to do is give the installer root privileges... Users will give the installer root privileges. His
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by braythwayt 6y ago
First, I embrace your choice to not go with a locked down, un-free device. That is entirely within the spirit of being a hacker. Second, I very much argue that if there was no app store, consumers would pay 30% less. The app store and ecosy
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by braythwayt 6y ago
If you are a parent, you decide for yourself. I question the validity of presuming this question has a correct answer for all parents under all circumstances.
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by braythwayt 6y ago
Not my sole reason, but since you asked, here I am. I give my children iPhones. I like having certain family controls over what they use, and further controls over what appears in the app store to begin with. I like having a single vendor f
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by braythwayt 6y ago
That's an absolutely killer observation! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ankh-Morpork
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by braythwayt 6y ago
Things can be very serious and funny at the same time. Come now, one of the authors is the President’s dog, and most of the other authors have names that are plays on words. And the entire article satirizes Didier Raoult’s ridiculous predic
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by braythwayt 6y ago
Fred Saberhagen made this a plot point in one of his Berserker stories. Going by my highly suspect memory... A damaged Berserker captures an atlas showing an occupied system nearby, and heads there with its last reserves of power to destroy
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by braythwayt 6y ago
I think you’re right about the distinction between wrongful and unfair dismissal, but if I understand Ontario common law correctly, even in cases where the dismissal during probation is not illegal, and even when you have it in writing that
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by braythwayt 6y ago
For many engineering candidates, we ask them to design the data schema for a calendar. I’m sure my employer and the question are not a secret. We have various follow-ons, like handling the wild number of ways meetings can be periodic, excep
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by braythwayt 6y ago
In Ontario, the letter of the law says you can be fired during probation for any or no reason (modulo human rights legislation), but in practice an employer can still be sued for wrongful dismissal if the employer terminates an employee wit
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by braythwayt 6y ago
We already have this extended trial period in tech, it’s called an internship, and responsible companies pay interns. Some internships come through university co-op programs, some through organizations that set this up for people following
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by braythwayt 6y ago
It’s complicated. Consider this situation: Alan assaults his partner Beth. He is reported by a neighbour, and Beth cooperates. But Alan is an abuser who knows all of the tricks for exerting mental, emotional, and physical control over Beth.
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by braythwayt 6y ago
Well let’s agree that there is a murderer, and that having committed murder, the murder needs to receive the sharp end of the justice stick. depending upon your Ideas around morality, that means one or more of punishment because “an eye for
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by braythwayt 6y ago
Coming from FORTRAN77, that is indeed quite a leap!
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by braythwayt 6y ago
I’m happy, healthy, loved, and have a full belly. Would you like a list of the self-help books that got me to my three commas?
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by braythwayt 6y ago
"This was all much easier in the blackberry days for them to control" And indeed, that was Blackberry's big sales pitch. BYOD creates many, many wonderful consequences, however it also has tradeoffs, and those tradeoffs are n
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by braythwayt 6y ago
"I'm sure plenty of HN commentators can make informed posts on this subject." So am I, that's why I come here. But again, when you're an "Amateur X," when you break from the "Professional X" cons
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by braythwayt 6y ago
Late reply, but I think this is important. I agree about credential-shaming, however, note my second paragraph, which was "failing that , did you..." I feel the same thing about programming. Do you have an education? Failing that,
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by braythwayt 6y ago
I love the “jumped the shark” metaphor, but in the interests of derailing the thread with pedantry, I think that’s the wrong metaphor. To me, jumping the shark is typified by the creators/stewards of a thing making more and more desper

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