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by iamaelephant 7y ago
Why would you think there's a rule that there must be anti Google content on HN? If you think an article needs addressing you can just go ahead and leave a comment, you don't need to preface it with "this needs addressing&quo
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Forge, a new way to build and run apps for the Atlassian cloud(atlassian.com)
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by iamaelephant 7y ago
Ah yes, private enterprise, that thing that always leads to neutrality and openness. That must be why the ISP market is USA is so robust.
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by iamaelephant 7y ago
Articles should declare up front if they are sales pieces. I got most of the way through this article without realizing Network Next was a product and I was reading a marketing piece. Not cool.
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Microsoft Teams is now available on Linux(techcommunity.microsoft.com)
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by iamaelephant 7y ago
> they may have lost what made them desire the house in the first place - a calm neighborhood, a sunny garden, a beautiful view, easy parking, a neighborhood populated by similarly wealthy individuals. Good. If you want these things, yo
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by iamaelephant 7y ago
> Also, did you know that unassisted GPS takes minutes to establish a lock even in most good cases; it is only because of the tower-provided assistance that GPS can resolve in less than a minute, ever. Then how does every GPS device with
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by iamaelephant 7y ago
> No. This is what many considered test induced damage. If the only reason why you create an interface is because a test requires it, you are damaging the integrity of your design. Writing testable code is not "damage". An inte
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by iamaelephant 7y ago
> Granted it isn't 10s of thousands of lines, but it isn't small either. I'm not trying to belittle what you do, but if your good base is in the 4 figures in size then it's not large (in fact yes, it is small). When p
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by iamaelephant 7y ago
Really stupid scrolling, thanks.
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> (My first thought when I heard about this Dark Energy thing was, "which part of Occam's Razor don't you get?") Well, you would know.
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by iamaelephant 7y ago
You could also look into drawing hand-drawn diagrams by hand.
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by iamaelephant 7y ago
That represents probably the overwhelming majority of Twitter usage. Your account will be fine.
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by iamaelephant 7y ago
So just to re-iterate, here are the products you need to purchase to simplify your life * A notebook * Some phone apps like Flow * Bulk toothpaste * Duplicates of utilities like USB cables * UNIQLO t-shirts * A Sonos speaker system * Ubiqui
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by iamaelephant 7y ago
Google is already doing this with Edge, too. Google Maps on Edge will give an error message, "Google Maps does not have permission to use your location," no matter how you have your permissions set. I'm very sure there will b
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by iamaelephant 7y ago
They didn't need a blockchain for the purposes of their scam. You just said it yourself: "with all that money". They were achieving their goals just fine without one.
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by iamaelephant 7y ago
Android, Chromebook, the Home series, Maps, Drive, Google Cloud, Docs/Sheets and many more. A lot has happened since Gmail.
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Fuck China
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by iamaelephant 7y ago
Hacker News never fails to amuse.
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by iamaelephant 7y ago
I mean yeah. If you play with tigers you get bit. Stop contributing the walled gardens, and definitely don't rely on them for your income. A harsh lesson learned.
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by iamaelephant 7y ago
> Same deal for sports. What difference does it make if green team beats yellow team this week? You know..... you know sports are real life right? Like, there is an actual competition happening, it's not pre-scripted. Sports fans li
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by iamaelephant 7y ago
This is very exciting for the 8 people still using SMS I suppose.
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by iamaelephant 7y ago
Imagine if there were other computer manufacturers.
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by iamaelephant 7y ago
So Brave is tracking all of the content I consume? That will be a hard pass from me, thanks.
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by iamaelephant 7y ago
Stopped reading this article at the second popover. Why are so many web authors so willing to compromise their writing with this nonsense?
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by iamaelephant 7y ago
Did they? I googled "buy magic leap" and all I can find are dev units ("Creator Edition"). That's not a consumer product. That's a pre-requisite for a consumer product. Magic Leap have never released a product
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by iamaelephant 7y ago
It's a one in a million chance. However there are now millions of Tesla/phone pairs on the market so one in a million translates to inevitability.
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by iamaelephant 7y ago
Bloomberg. Proceed with extreme caution.
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by iamaelephant 7y ago
As much as I love Raymond I have completely run out of time for people who buy unnecessary "smart" devices then complain about them. 6 years ago I would understand, but by now we all know this stuff is junk. Yes, all of it.
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by iamaelephant 7y ago
So let's say the company is 100,000 people, and 1% of births are still births, and 1% of employees will take the piss. And let's say 5% of employees have a baby in any given year (is this realistic? I honestly don't know, it

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