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by erik14th 10y ago
whatsapp thrived in part due to the fact that it works on a lot of devices and in a lot of cases supported devices no one else did before their competitors.
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by erik14th 10y ago
"why would the sale of iPhones with FaceTime and Messages not be an even greater threat than WhatsApp to telecom revenue?" There's no "would", whatsapp is a bigger threat. Simple math: number of whatsapp users >
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by erik14th 10y ago
When it comes to decisions this big, I always assume there's more than meets the eye. You're probably aware of the statement Brazilian telcos made on the intent of charging according to bandwidth usage and it's public reactio
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Aaron Swartz: The Book That Changed My Life(aaronsw.com)
3 points by erik14th 10y ago|0 comments
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by erik14th 11y ago
Is there an alternative to allow scripted destructive actions without the risk of deleting important stuff? Modern OS's will warn you if you try to delete stuff, but you can still ultimately do it anyway, I don't see it as somethi
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by erik14th 11y ago
My experience is the opposite, 12.04 used to crash(X) on me quite often. I did have some problems with 14.04 that would send a regular user go back to windows, but nothing I couldn't solve in a few minutes. I tried to use arch, but I e
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by erik14th 11y ago
I've been using it on nginx for about two months. Was pretty easy to setup and works on most browsers. Browsers that don't work are chrome and ie on windows XP and android 2.3.7 or older I guess.
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by erik14th 11y ago
https://www.highelobuilds.com/ A website to search for League Of Legends builds from challenger games. I had a lot of ideas, that's the one who made it because it's small enough so I can do it all by myself and I
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by erik14th 11y ago
Dude, don't hate yourself, and don't define yourself as a $LANG developer, if you want to learn new languages, do so. Learn the basics start a small project, try them out. If you really insist on limiting yourself to a single lang
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by erik14th 11y ago
Different times, different problems, apples, oranges. I agree with pg that lisp was probably the best tool he had available at the time for his specific problem, ViaWeb was a system that generated systems, sounds like a lispy problem. And i
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by erik14th 11y ago
Yes I see many of these advantages. I already use two different languages. One of my fears is that at some point I might want to query the data, but then I'd probably transform the data and create new "json views" for improve
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Ask HN: Is it stupid to store GB's of data without a DBMS/DS/etc?
2 points by erik14th 11y ago|7 comments
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by erik14th 11y ago
I think TLD is ok, but I like Go's namespacing even better. It uses repos, so you can use both private and public repos. And it's actually where the code "live".
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by erik14th 11y ago
How is that superior to copypasting from a stackoverflow answer? If it's a popular issue, lots of people had the same issue, many will be nice enough to add their edge cases and make the answer better, most will not. Same goes for cont
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by erik14th 11y ago
I believe trying to create a general search that's better than google is pretty much a lost battle. I think the next big thing in search will start as a niche thing. If you reduce your user domain you can have a better shot at producin
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by erik14th 11y ago
Dennou Coil is very interesting and I think it contains tech we could really see in the near future. Fractale has a different tone and would be a far future, but the questions it poses on AI can be interesting.
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by erik14th 11y ago
I'd say work closely with the authors on merchandising. I see comics as a pretty personal kinda thing, there's a valuable relationship between authors and readers.
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by erik14th 11y ago
Aren't old android browsers more of a problem nowadays?
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by erik14th 11y ago
A few years ago I wanted to buy a ubuntu laptop and while researching Thinkpads always came up as the best choice. So I guess your perspective may be a little skewed.
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by erik14th 11y ago
IMO the problem is about making people feel bad. Arrogance is the "I'm smart you're not" attitude. Sometimes you think you're helping and sometimes you're actually helping but you're still making people fe
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by erik14th 11y ago
I use windows, OS X and Ubuntu on a daily basis. And IMO Unity is the better DE. But I wouldn't say Ubuntu is the better overall UX. OS X has my least favorite DE. But I think it has the better overall experience. I've been usin
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by erik14th 11y ago
Wouldn't it be more reasonable to ask for communication services to start recording after someone is suspect instead of wiretapping everyone? Isn't that's how it works with phone calls?
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by erik14th 11y ago
I'd draw the line at the point where the user/consumer can't easily recognize advertisement as advertisement. For example, paying people to write blog posts or to friend your client on social media without making the "I&
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by erik14th 11y ago
I like the idea of one endpoint to get data from/to. But I fail to see how is that intrinsically related to URL's or SPA's. The title makes it sound like you wanna get rid of URL's sort of like safari. Which I think is
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by erik14th 11y ago
I think PHP is ok for simple stuff. Every other stack I know of needs you to install and configure lots of stuff. If you know how to program but is bad at sysops PHP might be the choice for you since you can just install one of the many La
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by erik14th 11y ago
I don't think you should choose the tool before you know the problem. Computer programming is a pretty vast domain. Lisp was probably a good tool for pg's startup. It was an ecommerce builder, most lisps are great at metaprogrammi
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by erik14th 11y ago
He's joking, his proposed "scope highlighting" still has syntax highlighting.
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by erik14th 11y ago
I think it misses the point entirely. Being able to define MS software as malware won't make users stop using it. Even if Windows was way worse than it is now people would still use it. Also I believe the two distros that have a shot a
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by erik14th 11y ago
Would add stackage[0] as first item if it was my list. [0] https://www.stackage.org/
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by erik14th 11y ago
Those you listed all look like the layout in the article.

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