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by duckfruit 6y ago
Always love hearing from Boom. By far the most impressive YC startup I know of. In a sea of interchangeable SaaS and mobile app ventures, they are out there doing hard things and actually trying to make a reality the kind of future we all d
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by duckfruit 6y ago
Jaw-droppingly impressive to have gone from nothing to a custom ISA, C compiler toolchain and a whole freaking OS with userland apps in six months! My favorite detail was that having spent all this time on extra credit, they only managed to
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by duckfruit 6y ago
I sure hope you're trolling, because as an American running an AT&T 4G phone in the heart of Silicon Valley, 40 Mbps is about what I normally get on a good day. And I assure you I pay way more than $2/ month. In fact, AT&T
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by duckfruit 6y ago
I assure you this already considered offensive right now in the present!
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by duckfruit 6y ago
Unfortunately the ubiquitous cookie consent warnings reek of design-by-government-committe suffers greatly for it. In theory, what could possibly be wrong with explicitly warning users that they're being tracked with a hidden piece of
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by duckfruit 6y ago
Indeed. Someone with the fortitude and discipline to get really good at their tools can probably pick up whatever you throw at them. Its also a good sign that they might be into technology for its own sake, which also doesn't hurt.
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by duckfruit 6y ago
Speaking personally, I've been a professional developer for almost decade and even in my relatively short career I've seen a lot of technologies come and go. I was reluctantly roped into it by my first boss, an enthusiastic Vim ad
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by duckfruit 6y ago
This is really great work and exactly the kind of response I was hoping for - thank you. I wonder why tech like this is not being more widely used, for example on Amazon product pages. Especially with the well known reluctance as you mentio
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by duckfruit 6y ago
Agreed - Figma is a very good example. I stand corrected.
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by duckfruit 6y ago
This is brilliant, thank you!
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by duckfruit 6y ago
Thank you! I just checked them out, and I stand corrected. Really an excellent design tool and very responsive. I see now that for certain applications WASM is indeed the right tool for the job.
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by duckfruit 6y ago
I want to believe... I always thought WebAssembly had a lot of potential, however, in practice it doesn't seem to have turned out that way. I remember the first Unity demos appearing on these orange pages at least 4 or 5 years ago, and
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by duckfruit 6y ago
The unquestioning supplication at the alter of 'engagement' (a sterile marketing term if there ever was one) is what lead to where we are now in the first place. This is an affliction that pervades the entire consumer internet sec
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by duckfruit 6y ago
I miss JibJab. They're sort of still around, but they seem to have long since stopped making satirical flash animations they used to be famous for. Their Year in Review videos were hilarious and awesome back in the Bush & Obama era
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by duckfruit 7y ago
Not interested in a new role but I just want to say thank you for making such an awesome device! 'Flying' my skydio 2 has been just pure joy and wonder. For those unfamiliar with their product, it is a drone that uses some cool co
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by duckfruit 7y ago
This is inspiring. Echoes of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arsenal_of_Democracy
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by duckfruit 7y ago
Well, you're in luck! https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-09-23/the-japan...
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by duckfruit 7y ago
Looks like there has been some departures in their senior leadership in the wake of continuing fallout from the NYMag article, and this announcement might be an attempt to overshadow that https://twitter.com/KateClarkTweets&
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by duckfruit 7y ago
Sure, you are right that the goals are different. But good engineers respect the user. And that includes paying close and careful attention to client side performance. While you may not be directly paying for it, crappy performance there wi
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by duckfruit 7y ago
While I don't disagree at all with your assertion that a mixture of intelligence and commitment is highly desirable - and that these are indeed exactly what these interviews are designed to select for - I'd argue that is part of t
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by duckfruit 7y ago
One fairly decent argument against waiting until we have the technology is that it cuts against how we develop the necessary technology in the first place. We can't improve our propulsion/spacefaring tech without designing, buildi
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by duckfruit 7y ago
You are being sarcastic, but this is literally true. Sadly loads of people don't even believe the truth of global warming (as if science is subject to the whims of people's beliefs). What would these people find more compelling? A
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by duckfruit 7y ago
I don't think this comment deserves to be dismissed so readily. Although I shudder to think about the xenophobia that could potentially motivate thinking along these lines, it is very much a fact that plenty of people have such concern
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by duckfruit 7y ago
Amazing, well crafted piece of software. I wonder how they can afford to build and maintain it for free.
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by duckfruit 7y ago
This kind of critique is applicable to all sorts of specialized writing. The flipside is that an article of this caliber (And it is indeed a very useful and well written set of guidelines for the intended audience) is not truly relevant to
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by duckfruit 7y ago
Agree. Strange choice for a headline that comes across as quite western slanted. To whom would they pay rent exactly - long dead kings and princes? When the families have been living there continuously for 700 years, who's the landlord
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by duckfruit 7y ago
And not to mention potential government mandated spyware. I don't trust my (US) government much, and I trust the Chinese government even less.
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by duckfruit 7y ago
I can attempt to answer this. (Disclosure: Used to work at Walmart, though as an engineer not an ops person). Most of the stores are optimized for in store shopping. What this means in practice is that the actual back rooms where the produc
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by duckfruit 8y ago
I agree that my comment might have been a bit hyperbolic. I don't mean to imply that homeowners are one dimensional characters with a single motivation. But also I can't help but notice that most of the quality of life objections
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by duckfruit 8y ago
Of course people don't want their investment to decrease in value, that's why they have to invent bullshit arguments to bolster their case and discourage development. But it is important to call it what it is and not be distracted

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