djnliung

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by djnliung 15y ago
YC can't replace the traditional corporation when the traditional corporation is the customer that buys their product.
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by djnliung 15y ago
YC has nothing to do with replacing the traditional corporation. To do that YC companies would have to have sustainable business models and actually make a profit. How many YC companies have ever made a real profit before being bought? How
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by djnliung 15y ago
Google is a web company, why would Google invest significant money and engineering effort into filtering out things that only harm competing platforms? Google's own platforms (Chrome + the web and Android) are immune to this adware. It woul
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by djnliung 15y ago
So is this where we are headed? In our blind rush to make everything run on the web and take as much control out of the hands of the users as possible we are turning web browsers into vastly bloated VNC clients? Excuse me if I throw up a li
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by djnliung 15y ago
I wasn't suggesting that all users require it, merely that a non-trivial number do; more for watching video with multichannel soundtracks than listening to music.
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by djnliung 15y ago
I'm not sure that really contradicts his point, that's a terribly limited API. Stereo only, no way to specify channel layout, 16bit only, no way to change the device buffer sizes, no way to tell if the device is in use, no way to tell the d
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by djnliung 15y ago
Google has PR people too: http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=yanw
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by djnliung 15y ago
Please refrain from making comments like this on HN, they are not welcome and the site owner does not want this kind of discussion on the site [1][2] [1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3105036 [2] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id
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by djnliung 15y ago
The point is that the "free flow of accurate information" is a fantasy and it seems that liars are rewarded by the market, increasingly so in markets with less regulation. If "simply" lying is all it takes to steal billions (and not be puni