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by harryf 8y ago
To me the greatest author of these types of books is Steve Jackson ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Jackson_(British_game_de... ) who worked on the Fighting Fantasy books and the amazing Sorcery series ( https:&#
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The other problem is the Netherlands are at risk of getting wiped out by rising sea levels. Your example of Italy is bad news - in effect countries that could produce their own are buying Dutch because it’s cheaper, presumably because econo
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To me the biggest issue with re-writes is it tends to be Engineering working in a vacuum without business input. What that tends leads to is “blind” 1-to-1 reimplementation of features without reflection on which features are _still_ bringi
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Side note: I once heard from the venture arm of a rather well known CRM that Patagonia gets upset when you embroider your logo on their jackets ( e.g. in this picture https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2018&
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Also Sunrise Calendar. Bought by Microsoft and shutdown.
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Because Lyft is going to be on every car makers purchase list like Daimler bought MyTaxi ( https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.techtimes.com/amp/articles/... )
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Is that still Bernie Seefeld ?
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It’s 1.0-ism. Engineers are apparently most positively rewarded at google for being part of the first public release of a product but there’s little reward for then sticking around for 1.1+ I’ve heard Google PMs complaining how their engine
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Exactly what I was trying to say. Thanks for taking time to think about it
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It may be a secondary effect. Most people know the feeling of having a “hot ear” from talking long on a cell phone when it’s against the ear. Frequent heating of cells can be inflammatory which in turn is recognized as a possible cause of c
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Google sets a pretty good standard over at https://myactivity.google.com/ IMO. But yeah the whole passive data collection e.g Wifi networks done the Street View cars, as one example, bears scrutiny. Likewise Android
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I guess Bezos sees this as a strategic play to leapfrog Facebook on knowing who everyone is.
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It's not easy to prevent cheating, especially in open world games. There's a pretty good high level read on this here - https://www.pcgamer.com/why-is-it-so-hard-to-stop-cheating-i... In essence you pretty much ha
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If I count the number of times recently I've read and heard people say "Well switch to Instagram or WhatsApp" in reaction to hearing about Facebook's privacy track record, then the answer to your question is No - the pub
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To my mind Google was able to "not evil" while they were the only big player in online ads. Then Facebook showed up and started threatening Googles revenue. They had to play catch up e.g Google Plus and a general race to the botto
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Parents would pay. I'm a parent and have already paid for services to help me manage my kids phone addiction
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It's what Paul Graham was saying back in 2010... http://www.paulgraham.com/addiction.html
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Unfortunately no public transport data in Switzerland in Apple Maps. Google Maps is hard to beat here
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> like honey stained with drops of bird shit. That is a very specific image that I've never encountered in real life. Is it something that only beekeepers get to witness or is there some bird that homes in on honey pots?
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Meanwhile this video has the guy Musk is accusing calling Musks submarine a PR stunt - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1TmjpIkVDrU - perhaps that's where he got under Musks skin?
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Most organisations structure power in hierarchies, meaning a small number of people at the top of the pyramid are responsible and supposed to be ultimately accountable for ALL decisions being made under that structure. This naturally leads
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Audible.com is a clear example of this. All purchases have to be made on their website. The app is just a player with the ability to browse and put content on your wish list but nothing more. It's a horrible user experience but a 30% p
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Not to be confused with https://freshjobs.ch which is a good place to find tech jobs in Switzerland
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Off topic but I like that his website puts the menu where your thumb on mobile can actually reach it
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Perhaps I'm over sensitive but the idea of touching a screen that random other people have touched isn't exactly appetizing
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Influencers get to eat free burgers
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Meanwhile Vern Unsworth, one of the other divers, comments on Elon Musks submarine... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1TmjpIkVDrU
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From reading around it _seems_ that caching in particular is left as a exercise for the developer, vs putting your REST API behind nginx for example when you need to scale out.
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> If you can plan and execute putting a person on the moon I think you vastly overestimate the quality of the software and systems that took men to the moon. Try reading https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.space.co
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> You cannot estimate what you don't know Exactly! It tried to express that and a strategy for handling unknowns here - https://medium.com/@hfuecks/what-donald-rumsfeld-can-teach-u... My theory is the reason wh

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