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by euyyn 9y ago
> But the Google Campus is not a small town, and arguably one of the fundamental aspect of being a large city Have you been to Mountain View, and to the Google campus? :) It takes resolution to walk to the Googleplex, grab a bike, and ri
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by euyyn 9y ago
> Google just tosses these bikes out on the streets That's the thieves, not Google. Google tosses the bikes inside the campus only. > doesn't seem to care too much if you call them about a misplaced bike If you ever call the
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by euyyn 9y ago
> because if just one such technology provides an overwhelming advantage I don't think an autonomous Kalashnikov can overwhelm a squadron of drones, which aren't the most powerful thing in the US arsenal either. > There can
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by euyyn 9y ago
IIRC, except the old ones, they have a plaque in the basket indicating they're private property. And the campus isn't exactly in the middle of downtown either; it's not like on your walk to the grocery store you cross the Goo
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by euyyn 9y ago
They even send a van to pick them up if you call 650-253-5353 and tell them. It goes without saying that it costs the company money, even when they get recovered.
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by euyyn 9y ago
Ah, right, static fields in C++ can't be overridden. If they could, they could be implemented by stuffing them in the virtual table and the cost in space would be O(classes) instead of O(instances).
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by euyyn 9y ago
You realize all countries have poetry, right?
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by euyyn 9y ago
It wouldn't cost memory though, because you free up a slot in the virtual table. No?
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by euyyn 9y ago
I haven't tried, but I think you can tell it to send feedback to the engineers.
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by euyyn 9y ago
You're using one right now as a forum, to communicate your thoughts.
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by euyyn 9y ago
Is there even real competition, though? Doesn't the US already have the military power of the 6 following nations combined, or something like that?
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by euyyn 9y ago
Maybe the location of the Google Home hasn't been set, via the Home app? And so it doesn't know where it is.
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by euyyn 9y ago
I mean, it's not a desktop client, but from Android you can use either text or voice for input to Google / the Assistant. I bet from iOS too.
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by euyyn 9y ago
That's weird; the Assistant on the Pixel responds to that with "No, it's not cold in Mountain View right now. The temperature right now is 29." (and shows a weather forecast card).
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by euyyn 9y ago
Well, it's been a couple of years already since they announced at Google I/O that the Assistant was the future/evolution of Search.
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by euyyn 9y ago
It's the same locker Amazon already has in many supermarkets. I use those a lot; much more convenient than worrying about a package being left on my door, or dropped blindly inside my patio ruining a plant. What you mean is that this i
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by euyyn 9y ago
If you're talking of the need to use polyfills, and test in multiple versions of multiple browsers before pushing to production, I think it's incomparable to having to write multiple native apps. If you're talking about fonts
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by euyyn 9y ago
Ah OK, I see that point now. But Android's fragmentation isn't due to the users being unwilling to update, to keeps their apps working. It's because it used to cost a lot to OEMs and carriers to port their drivers etc to the
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by euyyn 9y ago
That can't be attributed to playing to the lowest common denominator.
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by euyyn 9y ago
Even if you personally dislike it, I think you can agree that it's one of the UX choices that made it storm over the alternatives at the time. Not all our individual tastes align with what's most popular, obviously.
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by euyyn 9y ago
Why try to dictate what developer tools are available to frequently-used, heavily interactive apps, vs the other types? > This is the thing – some publishers insist on using their stupid application when all I want to do is browse some c
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by euyyn 9y ago
Sure. Just pointing out that this isn't a "new algorithm that only looks obvious because of hindsight". There's an almost endless supply of problems, like this one, that benefit from automating the assessment task of hum
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by euyyn 9y ago
> A lot of the time That was the case in the 90s, and hasn't been the case since. "Some times, that are so rare that people point to it and comment on it on forums", yes.
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by euyyn 9y ago
You're not making sense to me. u/jondubois dislikes the walled garden, which is the inability to run apps that don't go through Apple's app store (with the corresponding review and fees). You respond to those two lines b
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by euyyn 9y ago
What feature of native apps do you wish web-GMail had?
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by euyyn 9y ago
Without specifics there's not much to discuss. E.g. Thunderbird apparently only introduced threaded conversations 7 years after GMail did.
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by euyyn 9y ago
Well yeah, it's "if they wanted". Apple has the same incentive to not turn Safari into a viable app platform that Microsoft had with IE in the 90's.
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by euyyn 9y ago
I think PC clients back then paginated too. They didn't group emails by thread either, and at least Outlook still doesn't by default.
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by euyyn 9y ago
Because some websites like forums, email clients, chats, calendars, stores, etc. are definitely applications, even though they're still websites and not native apps.
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by euyyn 9y ago
Web Bluetooth too.

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