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by frik 10y ago
What are some of the more well known YC companies of the previous 3 years? Some posterchilds like Dropbox and AirBnB were a few more years ago. (from traditional IT category, not FinTech, etc)
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by frik 10y ago
My Google Home gave me an ad for the beauty and the beast today https://www.reddit.com/r/google/comments/5zq60f/my_google_ho... Video: https://twitter.com/brysonmeunier/status/8
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by frik 10y ago
What's next. Just a thumb up like on Facebook? Rating is a hard problem. No system works universally well. IMDb (Amazon property) for example uses 10 stars, Amazon uses five stars. Facebook use thumb up ("likes"). Games ratin
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by frik 10y ago
Have you even read the article? The headline already suggests "japanese style" even though it's just a common practice used for decades around the world. And the articles goes in great length mentioning a 600 horse power mach
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by frik 10y ago
Funny, wrong myth. It runs just as fine on Wii U. It runs on Switch in TV mode worse, the Wii U and Switch handheld run comparable good.
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by frik 10y ago
Copy cat from Europe invention. This snow blower were invented many decades ago. The original vehicles from the 1930s are still in use in winter in the Alps - on mountain roads and trains.
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by frik 10y ago
Symmetric internet access would be nice. Cloud backup quickly falls down to dreamland for every casual user who does something simple as tacking photos as hobby.
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by frik 10y ago
If it sound like a duck, it's a duck .. or something they say. Your comments further down complete the picture.
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by frik 10y ago
Microsoft, yes evil in present day, they never changed. "Microsoft Blocks Windows 7/8 Updates on AMD Ryzen and Intel Kaby Lake Systems": https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4012982/discusse
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by frik 10y ago
Now nVidia installs some tracking phone home shit, regardless of using advanced setting during setup and removing all unwanted "features". I had to remove to EXE files that were running, I found out about them with a Firewall and
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by frik 10y ago
Microsoft will finally be able to compile their C++ based Office. Now web browsers turned to Java WebStart again. It's a very dumb thing. Browsers will waste a lot of battery. Lot's of DRM and binary blobs. ASM.js was at least bas
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by frik 10y ago
Everytime a slightly critical news about Microsoft is on HN, it gets off HN frontpage rather quickly. Be it by flagging, be it by spamming with "Microsoft isn't that bad", "Windows 7 is already 8 years old" comments
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by frik 10y ago
Who else thinks that Asm.js was okay, but WebAssembly is evil and might destroy the current web landscape. It's like a trojan horse. Guess which companies are involved.
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by frik 10y ago
Nowadays, you use an APM (application performance monitoring) in dev, staging and production.
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by frik 10y ago
That's a very good point. Working from train often means spotty internet connection. So it's hard to instantly look up something in Google. A good offline documentation helps. For older languages and IDEs like C and C++ and Visual
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by frik 10y ago
If Apple has given up, then Microsoft has given up us well. Windows 10 is just as bad, it's worse. The majority of Windows users still use Win7, as Win8/10 has little benefits and makes things worse. Many (incl me) are sticking we
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by frik 10y ago
Uber might be the new Webvan https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Webvan
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by frik 10y ago
Mayer/Mair/Meier/Mayr is a short and common family name.
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by frik 10y ago
sounds like Ethereum: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethereum "Ethereum is an open-source, public, blockchain-based distributed computing platform featuring smart contract (scripting) functionality. It provides a
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by frik 10y ago
actually the imgur.com comments were very insightful one of several recommended videos about the topic, this one is quite funny even if it's very real: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wpzvaqypav8&feature=youtu.be..
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by frik 10y ago
it reminds me how lean common IRC clients are (written in C like mIRC). 15MB RAM and less than 1% CPU is enough for 2 networks and several channels (even with hundreds persons in a channel). Incidently it was also mIRC that showed that Inte
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by frik 10y ago
You can already feel the pain in CN. Almost everyone is using WeChat in tier 1 cities. WeChat is like WhatsApp/FB-Chat but with integrated Paypal-clone. It has also an integrated Didi app (Uber/taxi hailing). You feel the pain if
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by frik 10y ago
Lot's of infrastructure was built in 1950s/60s/70s. A reminder if we let rot our infrastructure, it's not good at all. (not implying it's the case with Oroville dam, haven't followed all news articles) Many con
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by frik 10y ago
I listed some fair constructive criticism of minor things that came to my mind trying it out to an overall great new game console. You seem to be trolling, got it.
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by frik 10y ago
There is another teardown on HN frontpage, but it pales in comparision to the professional iFixit teardown which shows everything in a lot more detail - but compare yourself: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13789072
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iFixit Nintendo Switch Teardow(ifixit.com)
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by frik 10y ago
The Nintendo Switch seems like a nice tablet form factor game console. I am a bit underwhelmed by their decision to compromise the usability of the right Joycon - moving the analog stick below the digital buttons is certainly bad for US&#x2
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by frik 10y ago
Baby/small child don't eat /shouldn't eat tomatoes.
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by frik 10y ago
Wow, pretty sad. Yahoo, Google and now Dmoz killed their "directory". I though that Dmoz was a community project, very sad that it's getting killed. It's still a very valuable source for web crawlers, as starting point.
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by frik 10y ago
It's pretty clear when you look up the companies that sponsors/is on board at W3C.

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