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by drawkbox 4y ago
> "So in the middle of the Cold War, the Soviet Union found itself trying to pit its land and resource advantage against the continental United States' more temperate climate. With space and the atom having been harnessed, why
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by drawkbox 4y ago
The video "Sorry, this content not available in your country" and the back button / close action "Leave site" edit confirm are nice touches to highlight the madness of the modern content experience.
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I have used Unity since 2007, Unity 2. This is by far the biggest blunder in their history. Did John Riccitiello get a visit late at night and capitulate? What happened? As a long time user, pusher and investor now, this concerns me deeply.
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by drawkbox 4y ago
Knowledge is only part of it. Experience, luck, network, iterative steps, product/market fit, timing + time invested, talent, focus/discipline and most of all financial margin for risk are all as important. The good news is if you
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by drawkbox 4y ago
> The code shows that the messages were secretly duplicated and sent to a “ghost” contact that was hidden from the users’ contact lists. Lots of "secure" messaging apps do this for intel and surveillance and not just the white
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> Is there a need to integrate with anything? I do like a more open/api platform and wish Apple was, but Spotify probably won't be for long. Tracking my plays takes more work with everything to closed. Apple misses some of the
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by drawkbox 4y ago
I like Apple Music because it integrates well with the Apple line. More importantly though it is one of the highest paying per stream to artists [1]. Streaming needs to be much more lucrative for artists and consumer choice helps that. It
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TypeScript and C# are both great languages from Anders Hejlsberg. The Danish know how to design a language, C# developer was Mads Torgersen. Microsoft employs them so they want it used more and people like it. Fun fact: Anders Hejlsberg als
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Game industry is notorious for binary blob game state. I worked at many and where possible converted to a keyed/JSON format that can encrypted if needed or keys and it led to more server based and portable profile/game states. The
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> What is bottom up vs top down process? More power/product decisions from the bottom or the developers/creatives/value creators than the top down project managers/finance/value extractors. Yes, making your own p
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Ultimately people like to have some ownership in direction of projects and products. Many times that is taken from you on larger teams. It is odd that HBS and value extractors (business/finance/project/marketing) have taken s
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by drawkbox 4y ago
I actually think this is a mistake. Lots of kids use it as a handheld gaming device. It is perfect for that. iPad Mini is also great for that but iPod is cheaper and can be replaced more regularly. When Apple came out with the iPod Touch i
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The recommendations seem to have gotten much better for me after they removed the dislike button.
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Long green > 1 year so it is long is when stocks have been green for a while or above where your exit / price point was set. I guess people here really dislike the idea of selling and profit taking gains regularly. [1] In no way am
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The geniuses are the ones that regularly take gains when stocks are green for so long, and regularly buy on deep "blood in the streets" reds. If you can successfully flip the colors, long green is sell, red is a sale, then you can
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by drawkbox 4y ago
Products are like creative works, they should be built with depth, deep dives and aim to be a fun experience and friend of the user. Bottom up processes can create great products with polish and love, they are value creation processes. Top
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by drawkbox 4y ago
Never sign a non-compete. Non-competes, the most anti-innovation, anti-skilled worker, anti-free market, anti-business and anti-American thing in working today. Non-competes are protectionism for larger businesses over small/medium bus
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by drawkbox 4y ago
"I am an alien and decided to blow up the planet" > "NTA. If you’re going to do something like that, you should probably do it now while we can still enjoy the beauty of the world." > "YTA. If I was an alien a
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by drawkbox 4y ago
Some use headless Chromium/Chrome like Puppeteer or other to mimic usage directly. At that point only pattern detection would work i.e. downloading too many files one person could consume or other fingerprinting.
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The flaw in that thinking is that it isn't the best people or ideas, it is the exclusive club that leads to opportunity, a curated fixed market. Exclusivity is rarely the reason why something is innovative, in many cases it prevents
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by drawkbox 5y ago
This is wild. Knowing the budget was a "license to steal". > The cost of developing the Commodore 64: No one knows. “I had no formal budget accountability,” said Winterble, “other than Jack [Tramiel] watching me. Jack said that
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by drawkbox 5y ago
Yeah potentially an MLM, religion or cult. The initial introduction has parallels to "flirty fishing" [1] and "love bombing" [2] which are known cult tactics. The extreme end of that is sexpionage but the early side of t
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by drawkbox 5y ago
Pair programming for integrations or maintenance might be ok, but for new projects that is like having multiple people write a novel. Not only will it be pulled in many directions, it may eliminate some great innovations. Usually one person
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Of course, I hope people aren't implementing time zone utils on their own unless absolutely necessary. Though, there are devs that work on those system tools. There are also cases where times need to sync and the changing can cause som
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Another faction would be the developers that have to deal with the time changing. Would just be easier to change at a personal level than changing time itself. Arizona doesn't do alot right but no DST is one big one they do. Times of w
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by drawkbox 5y ago
The only framework people need is standards at the browser level, javascript and the DOM (shadow dom now). Same with on the backend .NET/Java/Node, there is already a framework. Now for teams maybe you need to have a web framework
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The biggest crimes of web frameworks is they take you away into abstraction land away from the actual standards and they complexify simplicity, all of that under the guise of being more "standard" and more "simple". It
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> discrimination masquerading as "culture fit" is just as rampant in Silicon Valley as it is in the rest of the US. This includes racism, ageism, misogyny and classism This is why remote work is so important, the politics of th
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A major problem with search degradation is that lots of content is behind walled gardens now: apps, instant messaging/chat and video platforms that aren't as indexable like social video platforms, YouTube is pretty good about meta
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I never downvote, it focuses on the negativity and is a waste of life. Upvote only, it rewards the best opinions and analysis. The problem is, botnets and astroturfing use downvotes to manipulate conversations, perceived word of mouth and u

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