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by gerash 6y ago
I disagree with this way of assessing things. Most big tech companies have been investing to diversify their income sources. Whether those investments have had a massive return to take over their original cash cow is a separate concern. Goo
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by gerash 6y ago
I agree. If the outcome is a win for both Microsoft (or any other entity for that matter) and the rest of the ecosystem that's perfect. But they have shown that as a corporation they are comfortable playing nasty when it suits them.
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by gerash 6y ago
Lobbying is like the prisoner's dilemma. If you don't do it but your rival does then you'll end up with these extortion laws that hands Murdoch free money as we saw in Australia
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by gerash 6y ago
Some pretend Microsoft has turned into this benevolent corporation lately with their "Microsoft <heart> Linux" and adopting Android and Chrome. Well all those were done because they'd lost market share in servers, mobi
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by gerash 6y ago
From what I've heard the problem is still the same promo culture. When people see their peers getting promoted and earning more money by showing "leadership" and "launch"ing some new project vs. optimizing for end u
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by gerash 6y ago
Being good at math and physics for example doesn't make you good at HCI. I learned this by being forced to take an HCI course in grad school and learning how much I didn't know about the area. Another problem is again wrong incent
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by gerash 6y ago
I agree with your action. Letting more curious and fresh comments get buried under the more predictable and repetitive ones would be a disservice to the site visitors.
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by gerash 6y ago
This is the same as centralized app stores where the only difference is that here you do have an alternative.
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by gerash 6y ago
The problem I see mainly is people complain about something without providing a usable alternative. Most of the web tech are open source so it's just a matter of forking an existing tech and convincing others to use your thing instead.
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by gerash 6y ago
"Culturally relevant curricula and practices designed to increase access for students of color". Wait what? What is "of color"? Why are there a bunch of photos of sad black kids. This was as dumb as it can get.
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by gerash 6y ago
Disclaimer: I'm no historian. But my guess is it's often not a simple cause. This is a lot like how, say, tech companies evolve. For example is there a simple answer to why, say, HP isn't considered the most successful tech c
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by gerash 6y ago
Oh no, they must be really desperate to hire you.
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by gerash 6y ago
It would be a nice exercise but relying on it doesn't make sense to me. We had to write a text editor in our first semester of our CS undergrad program. I'm not going to use my own text editor in favor of say MS word or Google doc
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by gerash 6y ago
No, the way incognito works is as if you are using a throw away device. If the website measures what pages in the website you visited it doesn't make such incognito "mask" any more transparent. It'd be similar to the cct
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by gerash 6y ago
If you wear a mask to be anonymous when you enter a shop do you find it "galling" if the cctv still records your entrance or did you expect to become invisible suddenly?
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by gerash 6y ago
Next: Judge disturbed by the fact that Verizon still sees what number you called when you use a throw away phone. I don't get why on HN such clickbait articles get upvoted to the front page.
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‘Reply All’ Podcast Is Paused After Accusations of Toxic Culture(nytimes.com)
6 points by gerash 6y ago|3 comments
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by gerash 6y ago
Let's just swap entities in your sentence, shall we: "There's a major difference between someone actively choosing to go to a website vs a phone manufacturer choosing for you what you can and cannot run on your device."
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by gerash 6y ago
It is great to have alternatives to successful products and services that big companies provide. Esp. if the pitch is why this alternatives is better not why the incumbent is evil. But the amount of negative campaigning (remember Scroogled
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Microsoft and Europe's publishers call for Australian-style arbitration(blogs.microsoft.com)
2 points by gerash 6y ago|0 comments
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by gerash 6y ago
Trump was and is a clown. Brin, in that video, was expressing his personal feelings (that he doesn't like Trump) being a refugee himself. He was not expressing company policies. That was supposed to be an internal forum. From what I&#x
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by gerash 6y ago
I'm going to sound insensitive to some but this is too much soap opera
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by gerash 6y ago
What a pointless observation
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by gerash 6y ago
Maybe then update the speed limits? Definitely much easier than program cars to occasionally go past the speed limit.
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by gerash 6y ago
Switching phones OS is not a smooth experience where you click a button. Your app configs, purchased media, etc. won't transfer easily if at all.
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by gerash 6y ago
Is part of your reasoning also the fact that devs can't even mention in their apps that they have a website that users can buy their subscription from?
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by gerash 6y ago
I'd say typical HN
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by gerash 6y ago
The use cases they have shown are pretty bland and meh. What they have to do is get into health, fitness area. I saw an ad for a device that goes underneath the sole of your ski boots and measures how well you are skiing. That's where
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by gerash 6y ago
I'm sure you're the representative for the general public.
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by gerash 6y ago
I'd bet someone here would write some QAnon-level conspiracy theory on how this is bad news and here it is.

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