hirsin

48 ms·

571.
by hirsin 10y ago
Much like this writeup, which is mostly a "what if/could be" based on the patent filing. Perhaps it should be retitled "how magic leap might work"
572.
by hirsin 10y ago
My take is that if the work other people are doing isn't interesting, you shouldn't be at the same meeting. If you can't learn from what they're saying, don't need to know it, and can't contribute, then you sho
573.
by hirsin 10y ago
I suspect that's the biggest reason - lawyers are easy to throw at problems, getting answers from them is hard, especially with settlements.
574.
by hirsin 10y ago
There must be a limit - otherwise video games like Grand Theft Auto could put photos of say, McDonalds, in their game and not break any laws. I'm not sure where I sit on whether that's right, but currently they shy away from it f
575.
by hirsin 10y ago
I've never purchased anything using my Echo, but find it invaluable as a home assistant for all the things it does besides shopping. Shopping via text interface, if we're still at the stage of "personalized to your tastes&quo
576.
by hirsin 10y ago
Indeed - it only takes two or three easy questions like that to become a pattern, at which point every question is code for "guess what you did wrong", which is toxic.
577.
by hirsin 10y ago
I think such rulings would be quite relevant to a private company with no military to speak of. While the Philippines or Japan can't quite tell China to shove off, they could certainly tell Microsoft or Google, and this ruling says tha
578.
by hirsin 10y ago
China's strategy of building their own islands seems to have been overruled as well, although I think the wrinkle of datacenter islands being in (previously?) international waters might be different enough. What happens if an underwate
579.
by hirsin 10y ago
Whenever we were adding HTTP error codes to part of the IE F12 tools, I translated many of the strings from the IETF spec to our formatting, dropping "to be" at every possible case (as a yinzer naturally might). My poor content pu
580.
by hirsin 10y ago
Also: "Elon Musk founded company [that's running out of money] offers to purchase Elon Musk founded company that has run out of money" I feel like not three months ago there were plenty of articles about Tesla having less tha
581.
by hirsin 10y ago
Perhaps a good test site for Planetary Resources, although it sounds like it may be too small. Can you call dibs on an asteroid?
582.
by hirsin 10y ago
Particularly since if you spoof the UA in F12 the site works perfectly fine as far as I can tell, although I haven't exercised the entire site. (Disclaimer - on latest public Win 10 build, 14361)
583.
by hirsin 10y ago
Do any large companies use your library? If so, they likely have requirements to make their sites accessible. It may be worth finding out if they've modified your library in any way to make it accessible (or simply easier to make the
584.
by hirsin 10y ago
It's personal computing, explained in the context of a VC pitch to people who have never heard of an OS, think the browser is their computer, and don't seem to comprehend software that gets installed. Look at the Evernote example
585.
by hirsin 10y ago
And S_OK in Windows also being 0. Seen that take down services with a misplaced parens... But to use it everywhere flies against the origin of it, which is current flowing vs not.
586.
by hirsin 10y ago
An interesting notion - it would be an interesting case to see if exporting rocket components to "not a country" would violate ITAR. That hasn't stopped Iran from getting launching satellites into orbit though, and misses tha
587.
by hirsin 10y ago
Who is the appropriate State Party if, e.g. SpaceX decides to start launching off of Of Course I Still Love You out in the ocean, in international waters? Do they go with the country where the launch platform is registered? Where the owing
588.
by hirsin 10y ago
> Will this open the market for new social media platforms? My gut reaction to this was "Can't be a bad thing, let all of the hatred currently vented on Twitter and let it go somewhere else". But this is how Stormfront es
589.
by hirsin 10y ago
And quite targeted native advertising at that - without being British and having no experience with the ISPs in the article, I actually can't tell who it's advertising for. Possibly Tata, in which case it's even more targeted
590.
by hirsin 10y ago
Huh, dental? Of all the lobbies, why them? I would have assumed the mining and oil companies would have been the ones downplaying it like they did with leaded gasoline.
591.
by hirsin 10y ago
SwiftKey (Android keyboard) does an amazing job of this. I routinely switch between French and English, and usually by the end of the first word in the other language my autocorrect and suggestions are both in the right language.
592.
by hirsin 10y ago
Even easier, you can also use Device Portal [1] in new Windows 10 builds to get a live feed of ETW providers from your device in a browser. Think logcat but with more structure to the events and providers (but without the buffers, sadly) 1.
593.
by hirsin 10y ago
It helps with reading comments on HN that discuss tiers of schools. Shared context and all, even if the tiers themselves are meaningless (see Big 3 CS companies etc).
594.
by hirsin 10y ago
Can't say I'm opposed to Chevron's idea here. I'm sure headlines like "Chevron CEO hits reef, spilling millions of crude and killing thousands of seals" might make them take safety a (tiny) bit more seriously.
595.
by hirsin 11y ago
> the devs working on some project and the people who care about that project. Those two aren't mutually exclusive. Toyota employees in the US probably still care about the cars they're working on. I can verify that the Finni
596.
by hirsin 11y ago
That's actually good precedent to bring up - has e.g. Google Maps or more infamously, Apple Maps, ever been held liable for bad directions? I believe it's still seen as the end user's responsibility to obey the laws, especial
597.
by hirsin 11y ago
More like the Colombian False Positives, where the government gave US funds to the army based on how many kills they got. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/%22False_positives%22_scanda...
598.
by hirsin 11y ago
Pittsburgher who moved to Seattle here - would agree. As bad as Seattle weather is, Pittsburgh hits both extremes (ice and heat) and isn't predictable.
599.
by hirsin 11y ago
It's an effective way of putting power in the hands of people impacted, for better or for worse. I've certainly reopened "by design" bugs in areas I don't own because I think the design it wrong. Done with tact (and
600.
by hirsin 11y ago
Agreed, bug can lack nuance. We have subtypes for our bugs in our tracker and try to use them liberally. Generally spec defect (as opposed to code defect) is only used when someone closes a bug "by design", at which point you say

More ›