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by harryf 6y ago
Gotta say Hackerdaily is impressive. Where you pre-load the article for some sites, is that RSS you're using or something else? Also any chance you'd share the source for this?
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by harryf 6y ago
> the initial population has been crowded out I'm going to dare say it but Hackernews is no longer really populated by hackers, or at least it's not bleeding edge when it comes to programming. One example... the number of posts
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by harryf 6y ago
I’m surprised they bother to make a response at all. The popularity of the the documentary must be making someone at FB a little nervous
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by harryf 6y ago
I know the full analysis isn't online but I have a problem with this part... > This was done out of an abundance of caution, after we received one (1) user report of being logged in as someone else. This _seems_ like a knee-jerk rea
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by harryf 6y ago
> Europe will continue to lose their talent to USA, as long as the pitiful salaries do not increase to an acceptable degree. I'm not sure that's true - that Europe is losing talent to the US. COVID-19 has the US on blacklists f
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by harryf 6y ago
> EU has done a lot to stifle the tech sector in the EU. Examples? The only thing you might argue is privacy laws and there we could be thankful to the EU for being the only trading block that's made some (perhaps futile) effort to
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by harryf 6y ago
The precedents have been set. China has been forcing tech giants to play by their rules for years. The US is on the edge of banning TikTok and WeChat unless they have US ownership. Facebook is embroiled in legal battles in Australia. And te
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by harryf 6y ago
> China is a legitimate security concern. The practices of the government has always been predatory around I.P and privacy. The same could be said of the US, perhaps with the exception of I.P. where there hasn’t been a real need to date.
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by harryf 6y ago
Yeah this could be titled “Ex-CEO of D-o-D incubated monopoly, that actively stifled innovation through products they later cancelled and anti-competitive search practices complains about lack of innovation” Not saying that’s the whole pict
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by harryf 6y ago
Launched a podcast recently ( https://thexyzpod.podbean.com/ ) and we were surprised to find most traffic by far coming from Spotify ( https://open.spotify.com/show/3j2oovdoty9hf0TI67ZYb1?si=D68k... ).
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by harryf 6y ago
If I remember right Corps Business talks about this https://www.amazon.com/Corps-Business-Management-Principles-... ...otherwise - being a bit of a history nerd - I’ve run into the idea many times in discussion of how milit
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by harryf 6y ago
10 is already too many. 8 is the limit before you get diseconomies of scale. This was already well described over 40 years ago in the mythical man month https://torchbox.com/blog/40-year-old-lessons-and-mythical-m... .
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by harryf 6y ago
If you know about Gerald Foos https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerald_Foos this shouldn’t be a surprise - here’s the New Yorker article https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/04/11/g
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by harryf 6y ago
This is a great picking apart of Apples justification but I think the issue that most irks everyone who’s not apologizing for Apple is where did this magic number 30% come from? Which market forces created it? Here on HN most of us probably
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by harryf 6y ago
I agree with all the points you raise. But... These have are all fundamental assumptions anyone working on the web makes and we’re established as fundamental at the point Google beat out its competitors, in the early 2000’s At that time Goo
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by harryf 6y ago
I'm well aware of NewsCorp, having grown up in the UK and seen them basically decide every election since perhaps Thatcher. Despite that, this particular point in the draft legislation in an interesting idea, at least to discuss. &quot
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by harryf 6y ago
> In another section the draft legislation requires Facebook / Google to notify the news organisation of changes to their page rank / feed algorithm, and also provide advice on how to mitigate the effects of those changes. Inte
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by harryf 6y ago
So we're getting closer to RayFish Footwear https://www.rayfish.com/ - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gVk_Vw1C7cs
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by harryf 6y ago
> A healthy news media sector is essential to a well-functioning democracy. This part at the end is interesting. If this fight goes down that rabbit hole, bearing in mind filter bubbles, Cambridge Analytica etc. it may lead to a discussi
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by harryf 6y ago
Would be nice if they took at look at the OSX build... doesn't seem to contain most of the example assets for the tutorials. Plus some kind of installer script would be even better.
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by harryf 6y ago
Did you read the specs? This model has 1 Mb of RAM!! Take my money I say
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by harryf 6y ago
Agreed. The name NoSQL succeeded because it was concise and attention grabbing but the main goal wasn’t about eliminating SQL. A big part was document oriented databases like CouchDB and MongoDB made more sense for a lot of web based use ca
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by harryf 6y ago
Taking Confluence as a popular corporate wiki, there’s no need to dump content so brutally. You could easily write an automated pruning script that does things like; - find pages that haven’t been updated in a while - messages the last edit
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by harryf 6y ago
Seems like an AI arms race just begun
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by harryf 6y ago
Since Yahoo! got out of the game, Bing is the only major search engine in the English speaking world providing an API for developers against their index. Yandex _might_ be another option (haven’t looked) or even Baidu. Of course there are u
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by harryf 6y ago
Looks great but trying the tour on my iPhone was troublesome - feels like it wasn’t really designed to be used on a phone. Which is a shame if true, because that’s where all the social media influencers etc live
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by harryf 6y ago
I’d be cautious increasing the price. It’s not an enterprise product and you’d be weakening your case as an After Effects alternative. In fact - if you can scale easily - you might be better off lowering the price and going for those that c
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by harryf 6y ago
As an occasional B2B SaaS buyer, the key point in getting your pricing right / wrong is knowing where the limits are for; a) I can just get this on my company credit card without needing approval b) OK for this price it's going to
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by harryf 6y ago
Mostly voice assistants are a joke to anyone outside those trying to prove they are an early adopter. My own experience, having given Siri and Googles alternatives are fair chance on my phone, went “Hey Siri/Google. Do this thing... O
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Yes and yes, so long as you link to more info. It’s an attention economy

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