curiousmindz

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by curiousmindz 5y ago
A thought-provoking idea is that all of these "beings" that we can't all see are inventions by people for various reasons, the general goal being to make ourselves feel better about the world we live in.
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by curiousmindz 5y ago
I think this is a concerning pattern when the core usage of the software gets more complex due to the new features. If you can take a developer using the old version that was lean and simple, give them the latest version full of extra featu
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by curiousmindz 5y ago
As long as an app is architectured around having a data layer with "typed" objects, the need for SQLite to support strict column types is not too important. However, it does make handling more "advanced" types less stand
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by curiousmindz 5y ago
Note that this issue is specifically about microsoft-edge:// links (used in some internal Windows features). Not http/https. I do wish they used a more generic/portable solution, but this is for Windows-specific features
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by curiousmindz 5y ago
Can you share the timestamp for that? (The whole video is an hour and a half long) I wonder the context of the prediction, since smartphones, tablets and consoles have always followed this trend. And even Intel with their integrated graphic
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by curiousmindz 5y ago
As with most complex questions, the answer is "it depends". I don't know what your startup will do, so I can only speak in abstracts: - Will you need to network a lot? If so, you should be close to the people you want to netw
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by curiousmindz 5y ago
A search "engine" inside PowerShell: You can type anything in the terminal, and it displays all the matching commands (with help snippets) in real-time. Then, if you type a command, it displays its help (snippets around the words
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by curiousmindz 5y ago
As an entrepreneur, I wish I knew that university is a great place to network and build business relationships. That aspect has vastly more value in the long term than anything you learn in courses.
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by curiousmindz 5y ago
Thanks for the info. > I think the mis-measures agree so much, it can't be a mistake. What do you mean? Edit: That they all independently measure and reach the same 14%? It might be that Korea invested a lot, early on, to have great
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by curiousmindz 5y ago
That seems odd. Does anyone know why? Also, France and Germany are around 50%...
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India has a 63% IPv6 adoption while the USA 44%, Canada 34%, UK 33%, Korea 14%(google.com)
3 points by curiousmindz 5y ago|6 comments
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by curiousmindz 5y ago
HTTP/1.1 also "works", yet we are moving to v2 (edit: more smoothly). Same for many other (low level) techs. But maybe IPv6 is so low level that it has a lot more inertia...
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by curiousmindz 5y ago
It boggles my mind that IPv6 has such a slow roll out (it's been a thing since the early 2000s = twenty years ago). I would have thought that all the major tech companies supported it years ago on all their infrastructures, websites an
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by curiousmindz 5y ago
I can't find how much revenue Apple is generating from iAd, but all hints point to a fairly small number. I'm guessing that Apple keeps it around to "help" small app developers who build free apps. And more importantly,
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by curiousmindz 5y ago
I think that Apple would only consider building their own search engine if they had the ability to generate (close to) these $15B per year in value. Since Apple wants to keep its privacy-friendly brand, these $15B would have to come from so
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by curiousmindz 5y ago
GitHub's announcement: https://github.blog/2021-07-27-github-developer-rights-fello... "GitHub’s Developer Defense Fund will enable independent legal support from the Stanford Juelsgaard Clinic to review and handl
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by curiousmindz 5y ago
Actually, people hold that against companies all the time, most notably pharmaceutical companies. The devil is in the details. People don't like when they feel like you are "milking" your cure "too much". And "
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by curiousmindz 5y ago
It has been debunked that this was never an official statement from Microsoft. Instead, it was made by an employee making an off-the-cuff comment without context.
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by curiousmindz 5y ago
This issue is way overblown here on HN. In day-to-day usage, I have rarely been annoyed by these "inconsistencies". The best example to illustrate this article is: Installing a driver with the Windows XP layer. That's probabl
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by curiousmindz 5y ago
It is pretty funny how things are described when lawyers get involved. Apple is trying to deflect all the edge cases that show the "stores within a store" they allowed.
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by curiousmindz 5y ago
In South Africa too. They even have two Azure Data Centers, there.
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by curiousmindz 6y ago
Interestingly, this type of perspective is only gained in hindsight. For example, I could see a future, say in 10 years, where we have a vastly better way to browse the web and then we will look back on today and think that Chrome(ium) was
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by curiousmindz 6y ago
Microsoft Flight Simulator is really a simulator, not just of flying, but also of the entire world. It would be amazing if they could turn Flight Simulator into a "game engine", so that other developers can build specific scenario
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by curiousmindz 6y ago
Sadly, it is not as simple as that: Imagine a society of squirrels and hamsters where squirrels have been oppressing hamsters for centuries. Then, one day, they decide to stop doing that and treat everyone the same. On average, a young squi
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by curiousmindz 6y ago
Another project is ShaderGen [0] which enables writing C# that can run on the GPU as well as on the CPU. And there is a practical example implementing raytracing [1]. [0] https://github.com/mellinoe/shadergen [1] http
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by curiousmindz 6y ago
An important reminder is to use the right tool for the job. SQLite is indeed amazing at what it does, and fits with many scenarios where it isn't often considered, but it isn't a silver bullet. If you have a scenario where you mus
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by curiousmindz 6y ago
I would suggest being a bit patient with them. I wish they were better prepared for this surge in popularity, but now that we are here, it will probably take weeks for them to iron out all the core issues to achieve proper scalability. If t
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by curiousmindz 6y ago
We rarely get to see an app have to grow suddenly like that. And with Signal being open source, it must be very educational to follow. Has anyone found a publication around what they had to do on the technical side (code)? Edit: Their serve
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by curiousmindz 6y ago
I am not sure if this qualifies, but I found the discussion between Scott Hanselman and Dr. David Kellermann on "Effective Remote Teaching with intention and creativity" fascinating: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v
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by curiousmindz 6y ago
Of course I like "pure black dark mode" because it feels best on my eyes. I have tried many themes to confirm that. We can discuss the blue light aspect in its own merit.

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