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by diminish 9y ago
To add - earlier WhatsApp and other messaging was seen by most adopters as a free SMS replacement.
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by diminish 9y ago
previous discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9617268
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Javascript after ES6. I don't think we'll see ES7 etc - so I name them ES6++.
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It's no wonder important players are rushing to market premium segment prestigious smartphones: Notably, Google’s Pixel 2, Samsung S8/Note8, Xiaomi. In 3Q 2017, iphone got 12.5% flat market share with negligible YoY growth and run
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I just watched him last weekend - he triggers the curious learner, without avoiding mistakes, and walking as a discoverer he teaches difficult concepts with fun. Hope he really launches some big online learning thing covering more areas.
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Very weird doing a lot of JS work after Ruby - I feel the same about Javascript, ES6, ES6++, or Typescript. All the code bases I inherit appear to be verbose, useless cruft just to overcome some limitation or to achieve some useless pattern
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Any virtual or physical general AI being can sooner or later build a copy itself, easily in the former. Asymov's laws and other type of built-in regulations in scifi are childish imaginations as the company or the nation doing it will
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by diminish 9y ago
Idea: Let's create a Thank you day for all creators and maintainers by opening one issue for whatever we use. Let's star them and like them. Or is it a bad idea for some reason?
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by diminish 9y ago
year-over-year 3% unit growth for iPhone units. So generally are we at the end of mobile absorption by humanity and mobile growth? From now on instead of market growth shall we see market share competition? Apple is lucky to sell more expen
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by diminish 9y ago
5.0.0? - such precision in versioning for a library or framework seems both too quick and too precise at the same time.
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Email, regular chat and other low-engagement channels have also the same advantage of being viral-free.
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Forgive my ignorance - I never read them b/c I'm not interested in main news but Could you point me where RT/Sputnik said "a candidate is planning to use FEMA to invade Texas" and "force all white people with g
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Afaik - most international US media interferes in many elections, anywhere in the world with strong opinions. Why is it wrong with the reverse? Germany's Spiegel, or UK's Guardian can also have opinions about US elections and
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by diminish 9y ago
How can I stop autoplaying video? What I want is to: - mute the sound - prevent autoplaying - prevent video download consume my internet quota.
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Basically I don't see any target value for bitcoins and there's no bubble since this is a once upon a life time opportunity. Basically since number of bitcoins will be limited - total value of all bitcoins must be a fraction to t
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I remember those times - does anyone know how many bitcoins one could make per computing time , every year since the beginning to see what opportunity is missed.
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I have reimplemented all Fortran code of my professor at CERN in C during several undergrad classes during my Physics major. Then I have quited physics and became a developer.
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Sorry, what I mean is that your comment is quite in the right place. "Orthogonal" isn't true.
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"orthogonal" in this case is too strong for GP comment on OP.
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Does "cultural exchange" include looting and pillage? It may seem hard to accept nationalistically for Scandinavians but most Vikings stuff in tombs are the result of not a production economy.
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We really need a phone for hackers no matter how small the market is. I hope that's Librem this time after Neo, Ubuntu, FirefoxOS.
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As someone once wrote: Most successful startup advice is tautology or survivorship bias.
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Turkey’s ‘voluptuous’ breakfast for one [video](bbc.com)
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And the Don't be evil mantra. We've ended up with a search engine which returns ads in 85% of clickable screen asset and soon may start to mix paid and organic search and we're ready for it.
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Actually most people assume they'll avoid being tracked or being spammed with ads after they pay for a subscription. They underestimate the desire for more revenues.
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On this visual you may see that very few babies are born on december 24, 25 and july 4th - US public holidays. What's confusing the visual are planned birth days.
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I tried to install the OS, assuming it's a debian-derived distro but couldn't download it yet. Checking the author's twitter, patreon, instagram says he released beta 1, and is trying to name the web browser. What's thi
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Is that a Linux distro?
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>> algebraic structure I talk about the most passionately is the monoid Can you ELI5 monoid? what problem does it solve which isn't easy in other languages without it? edit: thx everyone.
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How then in Sweden we have a startup boom?

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