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by imron 8y ago
> The market that they're aiming for is only a few launches a year' In 1958, the chairman of IBM stated 'I think there is a world market for about five computers'. He wasn't wrong, because back then computers wer
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by imron 8y ago
> It's likely that we would have ended up with something very similar to today's smartphones even if the iPhone had never existed. I'm not so sure. A picture says a thousand words: https://www.cultofmac.com&#x2F
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by imron 9y ago
It's out of date now, but back in the day Michael Abrash's 8-cycle per pixel texture mapper was considered a thing of magic: http://www.jagregory.com/abrash-black-book/#thats-nicebut-it...
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by imron 9y ago
> and not a lot/any real choice or nuance. Exactly! And people still get it wrong. It's a low-pass filter to weed out programmers who can't even do FizzBuzz, because despite their lack of coding prowess their résumé will
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by imron 9y ago
> which can be easily scaled by hiring more teachers and more teaching space Neither of which scale easily.
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by imron 9y ago
You'd like the short story 'Profession', by Isaac Asimov.
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by imron 9y ago
I agree, but that is not what was asked. adamnemecek was asking specifically about the life of Li Weibin, who didn't buy a partner. Instead his is the live of a hard laborer, living in cramped dormitories, and forever alone, with littl
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by imron 9y ago
Unfortunately, that's unlikely. I mean it might happen in urban well-developed areas, but if history is any indicator then for most parts of the country women will likely be worse off, and you'll see things like an increase in ki
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by imron 9y ago
It's not a rare case at all, especially among male migrant workers.
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by imron 9y ago
> It could also be argued that comment quality could be improved by allowing people to delete comments at any time Ok, but what's the argument? What specific incentive for good comments or disincentive for bad comments is there wit
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by imron 9y ago
> which under some circumstances they want to. Right, and the flipside is that not being able to delete comments makes people think a bit more carefully before posting, which improves the quality of the comments and the site.
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by imron 9y ago
Exactly. A house is more than an investment, it's a place to live. My sister and her family are living in their 3rd home in as many years because the owners of the places they are renting keep selling and don't renew their lease
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by imron 9y ago
> With native apps on Android Which is not the same as native apps on iOS where apps can't spam you without explicit opt-in.
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by imron 9y ago
Yes. That's so common I didn't even think it necessary to mention. I can't imagine anyone would manually press the spacebar N times to get the desired indentation level.
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by imron 9y ago
> Too bad most editors don't have good support for that. And this is why you use spaces for everything.
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by imron 9y ago
> Developers still request too much .. > it's gotten a bit better .. > It's a very small improvement, but it helps .. > These are all small steps Thereby illustrating the parent's point that developers will still
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by imron 9y ago
Macincloud also have pay by the hour solutions. I have an account with them to do testing on different versions of macOS than the one installed on my development machine, and it only costs a few dollars a year.
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by imron 9y ago
change -> disrupt
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by imron 9y ago
Sounds like peepee
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by imron 9y ago
> The difference is you leave your password everywhere you go. And you can't easily change them.
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by imron 9y ago
Indeed, especially when most computers and phones are literally covered in the target fingerprints.
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by imron 9y ago
> does this involve Robin and Rand Miller, the creator? Yes it does.
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by imron 9y ago
> Does anyone really believe this was done by a pro-US entity I blame the Russians /s
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by imron 9y ago
See: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2016/08/15...
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by imron 9y ago
You say 'just', but the reality is, SpaceX can do this because they are directly responsible for reducing said cost and launch constraints. That's no small feat.
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by imron 9y ago
So in their defense, they were just following orders?
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by imron 9y ago
I don't think that's a valid assumption :-)
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by imron 9y ago
Please share anonymous data with us that we can cross reference with our own data to de-anonymize!
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by imron 9y ago
Don't worry, Facebook keeps track of devices, so they'll still know it's really you.
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by imron 9y ago
> your future self will hate you if you skimp on comments. Likewise, your future self will hate you when comments fall out of sync with the code. If the code is readable you don't need much in the way of comments.

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