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by darren_ 8y ago
i deleted my comments because i was addressing points in a story that this thread no longer links to
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by darren_ 8y ago
Hello hackernews, what's going on here? I commented on a businessinsider* story about this. It is now a times.co.uk story that a) I can't read in full and b) is not the story I originally commented on. I'm not particularly ha
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by darren_ 8y ago
See parent.
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by darren_ 8y ago
> If this is true of Google — which if you think about, has to be the case I don't necessarily disagree with this re: google but you're not making the strongest case here
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by darren_ 8y ago
Deleted, see parent.
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by darren_ 8y ago
Comment deleted as the URL linked changed after I wrote it.
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by darren_ 8y ago
> Thanks to games' inferiority complex and desire to look "more like movies", we temporarily ditched most of the things that made games unique in favor of a bunch of laughable full motion video. FMV is barely relevant to M
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by darren_ 8y ago
As a googler I agree that passing on a "4.0 on all the tech topics, a brilliant person indeed, but has no patience or interest in history, religious studdies, English etc etc." is indeed google dodging a bullet.
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by darren_ 8y ago
(googler on maps here) the maps backend team makes an explicit effort to keep old things going, I wouldn't be surprised if old gmaps on some really ancient phones still worked. Last I checked the pre-2012 Apple Maps (the one that used
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by darren_ 8y ago
Definitely the best looking and most comprehensive of the three sites on this theme I've seen. Using the term 'kill' is unnecessarily negative, IMO, especially when the site author seems to consider 'rebranding' som
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by darren_ 8y ago
A somethingawful YOSPOS person had a similar idea years ago and made https://didgoogleshutdown.com/ (unfortunately it hasn't updated in a while and said SA poster may not have had the best insight into google product l
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by darren_ 8y ago
> or aren't willing/able to pay for the TSA pre program Or are not eligible for any of the various 'pay more to be treated as a human' programs due to having the wrong citizenship (which is most citizenships).
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by darren_ 8y ago
Here’s the paper outlining the methodology https://ai.google/research/pubs/pub36240 (I imagine some specifics have changed in the past 8 years but I believe the basic concept is still pretty similar)
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by darren_ 8y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China_Airlines_Flight_611 22 years later!
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by darren_ 8y ago
There's at least three locations - the Aobadai one is the one pictured in that spoon-tamago link, it's pretty ramshackle and basically converted apartment space, but the other two look a bit more standard working-space. I'm p
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by darren_ 8y ago
There's been a loading indicator in gmail since at least the first whitespace-y redesign (2011? 2012?)
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by darren_ 8y ago
I barely remember the OS on my old V3 but at a guess I'd imagine actually accessing contacts was sufficiently laborious that just memorising numbers was more convenient?
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by darren_ 8y ago
Might be late / irrelevant but a while back amazon was failing to convert anything i emailed to my kindle and it turned out to be that i wasn't specifying a subject line in the mail. once i did that the very same files started wor
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by darren_ 8y ago
Interesting reading these in the light of excessively intrusive advertising on websites being one of HN's favourite dead horses to beat. I'm reading the smalltalk issue and the introductory editorial has a hyphenated word split ov
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by darren_ 8y ago
> In the book, Frankenstein's monster was the good guy -- he was clever, sensitive and persecuted for his humanity Er, no he wasn't (the good guy. he was clever etc). He wasn't a villain, per se, but he spends most of the
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by darren_ 8y ago
Possibly because 'too many sites that answer with an ipv6 address and then fail to work, and I have to wait for the system to fall back to ipv4' is a complaint from 2012 or so? rfc 6555 is hardly new. and i've seen an ipv6-su
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by darren_ 8y ago
As a new zealander this is my favourite map projection anyway https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peirce_quincuncial_projection#...
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by darren_ 8y ago
That would be terrible if it was true, which it isn't. Source: literally just tried it.
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by darren_ 8y ago
I do something reasonably similar all the time at Google for iOS interviews, few hundred lines of obj-c with some issues in them (actual issues, not typos)
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by darren_ 9y ago
> but Google makes somewhere in the realm of 99% of it's money on advertising almost 15% of google's revenue in q4 2017 was hardware/cloud/subscriptions. there's possibly a bump in hardware since it's q4, bu
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by darren_ 9y ago
It's also very frequently people being in 'walking' mode without realizing it
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by darren_ 9y ago
(I'm a dev on google maps iOS) We have never required sign-in for directions, you could always just tap the destination field and start typing. For a long long time that particular screen had no history whatsoever if you weren't s
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by darren_ 9y ago
I just type a long string of random crap into the password field on sign-up and recover it with my 2-factor protected gmail account every time i actually need to log-in. In practise for the services I use this is almost never. This techniqu
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by darren_ 9y ago
Living in Japan for many years and i've literally never heard of anything like this. And it's important to bear in mind that there's a notable tendency for non-Japanese-media to play up the perceived weirdness/wackiness
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by darren_ 9y ago
The iTunes store shows ads, and they can be demographically and geographically targeted. I don't know if they're ads or not but there's also location based app suggestions too. disclaimer: i'm a googler so glass house th

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