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by brianpan 9y ago
I'm not so sure that FB's place will be so fleeting. I think they will lose their place at the same rate that Microsoft lost theirs. They will still be around in 15 years later, just not quite as relevant.
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Jupiter is pulling on your body right now (a little bit). You would experience the same amount of pull from a cow standing half a meter away (since it is much closer, but much less massive).
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I think this might partially be related to the move towards streaming applications and microservices. You could create objects for everything you expect to receive/send and then when an API changes you lose the new fields, you get pars
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I think you're right. So my conclusion is....a fork on GitHub is no fork.
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In prehistoric times, the possibility of the wolves and bears biting you actually had a bigger impact on restfulness than the moon.
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Occam's razor suggests otherwise.
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When my traffic spikes to 5 hits in a day, it's nice to know where all those people are coming from besides just medium.com. What page exactly?
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For fans of maybe slightly less extreme detail, Tim Carmody and Jason Kottke have recently launched a new newsletter, "Noticing". https://kottke.org/18/01/noticing-a-new-weekly-newsletter-fr...
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Details, as they say...
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Google does not need to pull up ALL results fast. It only needs to return 10 results quickly. That's not relevant to the article, which says that the results are not available AT ALL. (Although as of my posting the two articles seem to
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The answer is imprecise, erroneous humans.
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I don't understand your argument. How do reviews drive revenues? If all fake reviews were taken down, wouldn't buy less stuff from Amazon.
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Instincts is not how laws work. You instincts might tell you what is just, but that's not necessarily what is committed to laws.
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Seven plus or minus two refers to working memory. When you encounter say a navigation menu with 10+ unstructured items, it becomes impossible to consider all the options at once.
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I was able to read this article without problems.
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I think the commenter meant the new CEO will not tolerate unethical behavior.
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We like to say flock of particles. Source: I am a smientist.
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Sure you can use ML and test subjects to maximize readability, but that's only one part of typography. Akin to Google beta testing shades of blue. http://www.zeldman.com/2009/03/20/41-shades-of-blue/
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It's amazing how blind to humanity we developers can be. If you take the human out of the batters box, you're no longer playing baseball. Baseball is a game. Played by humans for the sake of competition. If you build a robot that
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Typography can be understood mathematically to the extent that communication can be understood mathematically. You're never going to account for style, trends, or connotation. Same with baseball, by the way. Advanced analytics can comp
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Because the "center" of the G is not the optical center. Same reasons as everything else in the original article. Take a look at the image at the top of this page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typeface_anatom
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That's because you're still thinking about unlocking, then using your phone. What you're describing is the ease of the unlock step BEFORE using your phone. The big change for me with TouchID is that now, my first thought isn&
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Not just capitalization. Yahoo! Inc includes an exclamation point.
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Sonic uses AT&T's networks but provides their own service on those networks. The modem is not an AT&T modem and it's not the one in the article.
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There are two groups of people on HN: people that think everything is binary and people that think everything is a continuum. I'm somewhere in the middle.
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Am I taking crazy pills? Are we really wondering how Netflix is going to survive because EVERYONE has subscribed? Isn't that the problem everyone wishes they had? Also, sub/unsub is not new. Everyone did the same with HBO and they
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It's a double-blind study. The people conducting the study should not know who is in which group. They should be randomly administering either a probiotic or an identical looking placebo.
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In America, we are protected from free speech restrictions by the government . The First Amendment is Constitutional law. Google as a corporation is free to fire an employee based on his speech.
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It's a principle, not an unbreakable rule. The point is to take some time for the due diligence of understanding why. Fences (or laws or code) don't just appear out of nowhere. Someone spent time and energy to put it there. If you
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Obviously parking is not free. You can just look at the paid lots all around. Or look at the assessment of the headquarters purchase. You might as well "investigate" whether free work shuttles are actually free.

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