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Nokia is changing its logo to move away from its mobile manufacturer image(qz.com)
1 points by cpeterso 4y ago|0 comments
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by cpeterso 4y ago
I hope the repossession function verifies there is no human or animal is in the car when it drives away! Though people could then keep a fake baby in the backseat to prevent their car from repossessing itself.
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Playtika suspends new game launches until marketing landscape improves(mobilegamer.biz)
1 points by cpeterso 4y ago|0 comments
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by cpeterso 4y ago
David Brin's "Uplift War" series about dolphins in spaceships would be cool, but perhaps hard to film: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Uplift_War Did you know that the Enterprise-D in ST:TNG canonicall
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Cookies Are Behind Us. Probabilistic Data Is Ahead(adexchanger.com)
3 points by cpeterso 4y ago|0 comments
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In latest round of Twitter cuts, some see hints of its next CEO(platformer.news)
15 points by cpeterso 4y ago|6 comments
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Video games for dogs aim to help aging canine brains(axios.com)
64 points by cpeterso 4y ago|54 comments
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by cpeterso 4y ago
Or Janet Jackson's song Rhythm Nation crashing some old laptop hard drives, due to the hard drives' resonant frequency. The manufacturer worked around the problem by adding a custom filter in the audio pipeline that detected and
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by cpeterso 4y ago
Plus VCs are typically risking other people's money, not their own.
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by cpeterso 4y ago
This sound a lot like Microsoft’s “Smart Tags” in IE6 that would linkify (non-href) text in non-Microsoft web pages to point to Microsoft-recommended websites or applications. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smart_tag_(
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by cpeterso 4y ago
TIL: The Lizardman’s Constant is 4%, supposedly how many poll takers will purposely choose a joke or bogus answer. 4% is how many of Americans believe lizardmen are running the Earth. https://slatestarcodex.com/2013/04&
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by cpeterso 4y ago
I knew someone who had accrued so many PTO days that he started using them to take every Friday off instead of losing his PTO. That reminds me that I should check my PTO balance.
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Levels.fyi scaled to millions of users with Google Sheets as a back end(levels.fyi)
4 points by cpeterso 4y ago|0 comments
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MongoDB queries don’t always return all matching documents (2016)(blog.meteor.com)
1 points by cpeterso 4y ago|0 comments
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by cpeterso 4y ago
> Google is struggling precisely _because_ there is "too much democracy" and not enough leadership. As an example, if Google had stronger product leadership, they would have one messaging/chat strategy instead of a dozen c
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by cpeterso 4y ago
And Apple AirPods, launched in 2016 and now a $20B business.
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Correlation between the use of swearwords and code quality in open source code? [pdf](cme.h-its.org)
101 points by cpeterso 4y ago|59 comments
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“Modernist Pizza” by Nathan Myhrvold(modernistcuisine.com)
3 points by cpeterso 4y ago|0 comments
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Trunk-Based Development: Game Changers(trunkbaseddevelopment.com)
111 points by cpeterso 4y ago|124 comments
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by cpeterso 4y ago
Probably because Sydney is an unusual, short, and gender-neutral name.
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AI-Generated 'Seinfeld' Show Banned on Twitch After Transphobic Standup Bit(vice.com)
11 points by cpeterso 4y ago|0 comments
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by cpeterso 4y ago
Edge removes or replaces more than 50 Chromium services with Microsoft alternatives: https://www.zdnet.com/article/how-is-microsofts-chromium-bas...
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Acrobat PDF rendering engine added to Microsoft Edge(blog.adobe.com)
59 points by cpeterso 4y ago|69 comments
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by cpeterso 4y ago
Yes. Here’s a 2017 Facebook post about using React Native in Marketplace: https://reactnative.dev/blog/2017/08/07/react-native-perform...
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by cpeterso 4y ago
Sounds like the project didn’t have a continuity plan for how it would continue to be developed or maintained after the grants ended, regardless of the implementation language. Rust is a hot language and there have been many big tech layoff
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by cpeterso 4y ago
“There are only two industries that refer to their customers as ‘users’, one is of course IT, the other is the illegal drugs trade.” — Edward Tufte
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by cpeterso 4y ago
Pull to refresh is currently only enabled in Firefox Nightly on Android. There are still some open bugs to be fixed related to pull to refresh gesture breaking some websites.
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by cpeterso 4y ago
The Godot IDE is itself developed in Godot, according to https://medium.com/swlh/what-makes-godot-engine-great-for-ad...
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by cpeterso 4y ago
FWIW, the name “Servo” is a reference to the robot Tom Servo on Mystery Science Theater 3000.
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by cpeterso 4y ago
Hyrum’s Law applies, even when you take into account Hyrum’s Law. :) A story about a Golang program that had assumed map iteration was uniformly random but it’s not, which caused a load balancer to assign work unevenly: https://d

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