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by hoodoof 9y ago
"Look, we were going to buy you for $500million but our thorough due diligence has turned over a rather nasty stone that you probably wished we didn't look under. You know what I mean don't you? YES - we found out your dirty
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by hoodoof 9y ago
A slippery slope.
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Fudge your age or fudge your company age? The headline is misleading.
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This may be the "computing industry sentence of the year", if they had an award for "sentence of the year", which I'm sure they don't. Whoever they are. while nil is assigned to t2, when t2 is passed to factor
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Its interesting that it took so long for Intel 32 bit operating systems to be developed. The Compaq 386 first came out in 1987. This is dated 1991.
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Seems to me the long standing "Java is slow" versus "that's an old wives tale, Java software can be as fast native" all converges right down to the evidence of Android - compared to iOS, it's slow. If Java was
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by hoodoof 9y ago
So is React Native a truly viable way to build a complete mobile application? Any downsides, weak areas, problems?
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by hoodoof 9y ago
It won't. Personal self interest, corporate self interest, arbitrary community group self interest, national self interest will never be able to put their self interest above that of the planet/civilization sufficiently to "f
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Tell HN: Can't believe the giant tech companies can't defend net neutrality
2 points by hoodoof 9y ago|1 comments
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by hoodoof 9y ago
Interesting that people feel the need to write posts justifying why they didn't implement in Kotlin. Says a great deal about Kotlin.
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by hoodoof 9y ago
Back in those days, Windows had an absolute lock on the industry for several reasons: 1: it was the incumbent 2: there were no hardware drivers for any other operating system 3: there was software for Microsoft operating systems, and no use
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Let's not discourage youthful exuberance.
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There's no right approach, unless specifically defined as such by some Python standard.
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I like it.
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Saw the headline and thought "must be Windows". I'm not a Windows hater, but one of my long standing gripes about Windows is that it just seems to have terrible multitasking compared to OSX. I'm sure there are reasons bu
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by hoodoof 9y ago
BMG is right of course. The Founding Fathers foresaw exactly this sort of situation and made sure the constitution was worded to exclude such pirates from diminishing the profits of BMG. Further, I'm pretty sure the constitution goes
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Are you dog fooding your own app?
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Any plans to weight more highly the advice of those who have previously given good advice?
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VR needs good software and the reality is that it is just not there yet. If it does not come by the end of this year there will be a problem. I think it will happen though for the one reason that Bethesda is delivering Doom, Fallout 4 and
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Ask HN: Did you succeed after struggling to build something people want?
15 points by hoodoof 9y ago|5 comments
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Poll: get rid of /shownew
2 points by hoodoof 9y ago|1 comments
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get rid of /shownew
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keep /shownew
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Presumably Trump will appoint for former Monsanto CEO to run the EPA?
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Show HN used to be one of the awesome things about HN - a real community showcase. It's not like that any more. As HackerHunt says, /shownew is just a place that awesome new stuff is hidden.
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by hoodoof 9y ago
There's a big problem in design which is that everything needs to change over time, just because change is good . So even when a design is perfect, it just has to be changed eventually because everything has to be reviewed and modifie
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Ask HN: Are the ideas from Jeff Bezos philanthropy tweet summarized?
1 points by hoodoof 9y ago|0 comments
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Perhaps a dumb question, but in this case, could the core game mechanic have been testable by external players/users with minimal development to see if it is fun or not? And a second question.... if it's too hard why not make it e
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by hoodoof 9y ago
Can I say that I had the inverse experience where an Uber driver drove off with something that I left in the trunk of the car. He went to considerable effort over multiple calls over a few days of coordinating and attempts for me to get it
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Ask HN: What purpose does the LinkedIn “connection” serve?
1 points by hoodoof 9y ago|0 comments

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