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by ebbv 10y ago
Come on this is a terrible fluff piece. Give me a break. This is not news in any shape or form. This is "native advertising" or "sponsored journalism" or whatever other euphemism you want to use.
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by ebbv 10y ago
They can choose to count those in various ways. See the stories about Facebook exaggerating video engagement. Additionally Facebook has gladly allowed obviously fake and spammy accounts on the site for ages. Note also that nobody is claimin
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by ebbv 10y ago
> there is no reason other than a false sense of entitlement to whine about it So the rest of us shouldn't be aware of what Google is doing and base our choice of browser on that? I agree Google, Apple, etc. are absolutely entitled
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by ebbv 10y ago
This is not how you should use HN. This is not LinkedIn.
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by ebbv 10y ago
> Based on everything else we know about the world now, we can "just" simulate a brain. Right, we think we can. But we don't know. I would argue that as we get closer to doing it, it will become a fact that we can (or we w
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by ebbv 10y ago
That's approaching it from the wrong angle. That's like saying "What's the proof that unaided human flight is not possible?" (Edit: Note the unaided part. As without a plane or something. I guess I should have cho
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by ebbv 10y ago
How would you propose not doing this for any purchase of a specific product like a seat in a theater which must be held for the customer while they are making the purchase? Would you prefer they don't hold it for you and at the end of
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by ebbv 10y ago
I suspect the answer is similar to why a macaque can't play billiards even though it is physically capable of it. It's not like macaque monkeys don't "speak" to each other, they do make sounds that indicate certain
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by ebbv 10y ago
Monkeys make "unnecessary" sounds all the time. It's not like a group of monkeys just sits there silently and only makes absolutely necessary sounds. Plus as other commenters have pointed out, speech would let much more usefu
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by ebbv 10y ago
What a terrible post. It is no wonder ESR can claim to have never seen cases of discrimination with such a list of demands any victim must pass before even being heard. People do make false accusations. But you know what is a lot more commo
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by ebbv 10y ago
Google did not kill Flash. Chrome came bundled with Flash already installed. Apple made the biggest push to kill Flash and once support for HTML5 video was solid and widespread the main use case for Flash was gone. Java applets just always
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by ebbv 10y ago
But that latter thing is still something guitarists do. You might throw some new strings on and noodle around for a day with no particular purpose in mind. Likewise it's fine to write code with no bigger goal other than to play with a
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by ebbv 10y ago
I think instead of thinking about 1 hour three days a week, think about spending most of your weekends on the projects. You can get a lot done in 2 weekends. It is a fast pace but I think the idea is to not set yourself up for huge projects
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by ebbv 10y ago
> Don't write code just to write code, write code to solve a problem you are having. What if the problem I'm having is that I don't know Haskell? It's totally fine to code exercises that don't serve any useful pu
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by ebbv 10y ago
I'm not really interested in getting into some kind of Amiga vs PC fanboy debate. Those were tedious in 1990 let alone now. But Shadow of the Beast, while an impressive game for the time and for the Amiga is not on par with SMW technic
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by ebbv 10y ago
I had friends with Amigas and they had some great games but even the best of those couldn't compare with SMW or other top shelf SNES games.
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by ebbv 10y ago
> Anyway, in both 1990 and 1992 there were much better looking video games (richer backgrounds, etc.). Maybe in the arcade, certainly not at home in 1990 and 1991, SMW was one of the best looking games of the time. Look at the games in 1
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by ebbv 10y ago
Yep, but we started seeing images of it over here then. And I was lucky enough to have a friend who had a Super Famicom w/the Japanese edition. Even without being able to understand any of the tutorial blocks it was still amazing. (I k
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by ebbv 10y ago
I lived through Mario taking over the world and it's really no mystery; the main line Mario games have been universally really solid. The one black sheep, Super Mario Sunshine, is still a solid game it just was too big of a change from
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by ebbv 10y ago
How old were you in 1990? Because I was 12 and remember SMW's arrival very clearly. I had played video games enthusiastically for years. Super Mario World was not at all modest looking for its time. It was absolutely mind blowing. It w
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by ebbv 10y ago
For me this was just the start of a thought experiment. He didn't take the train past the first station. At first glance it seems like "Oh if only cybercrime were illegal then companies would have to step up their security pract
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by ebbv 10y ago
Shouldn't be too surprising they're going to try to pay as little as possible. You should charge what you think that you should charge, especially if you have reason to believe they can afford it.
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by ebbv 10y ago
This article is wrong about skee ball being "pure" unlike other carnival games that are skewed against the customer. It is just as easily and often manipulated by proprietors just like any other carnival game. The collars around t
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by ebbv 10y ago
It's true, if you are the type of person who often drives >200 miles a day EVs today are not as convenient as gas cars for those trips. But that is a very small percentage of people. If only those people bought gasoline cars in 2017
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by ebbv 10y ago
Win2k was a very different beast from 95/98/Me. I guess it depends how long you used Me for but my 95/98/Me machines regularly had to be reinstalled from scratch, usually about once every year or so. Whether my gaming ma
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by ebbv 10y ago
That's because Tesla's supercharger system is designed to work more like the refueling system people are familiar with and comfortable with; pull up, plug in, wait for it to finish and then drive away. One of the beauties of EVs i
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by ebbv 10y ago
It often wouldn't keep working. Win95/98/Me installs would regularly start throwing BSOD or just performing terribly and have to be reinstalled from scratch.
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by ebbv 10y ago
The thing to keep in mind when thinking about EVs is that while they may be slower to fill up at stations where you have to stand there like the Tesla super charger stations, this is a small minority of the charging most EV owners do. Most
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by ebbv 10y ago
Maintaining hardware compatibility with any PC hardware ever created is indeed nigh-impossible, so you'll note I didn't even mention that. I only talked about maintaining compatibility with applications written for their own opera
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by ebbv 10y ago
The question I'd ask myself is are there any features of 4 you really need right now? If not use 3, as it is more production ready. Using 4 right now you are potentially walking into a minefield. You might make it through ok but you mi

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