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by j_s 9y ago
Microsoft used to only make money selling software licenses. This has changed with Azure cloud stuff, but the majority of their incentives still don't align with their developer/customers.
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Sara Chipps (Jewelbots) | Navigating the Hardware World with Software Experience https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1HKzQ00MZMs (Jun 2016)
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Learn to program using Android devices with RFO Basic(rfo-basic.com)
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Most Tor busts follow a similar pattern, watching both ends of the connection. There is a real need for a "tor delay" metadata-disruption-as-a-service, where random strangers invoke one another's web callbacks and report back
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Review: littleBits Gadgets and Gizmos electronics kits for STEM kids (2016)(hanselman.com)
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by j_s 9y ago
Looking forward to seeing other recommendations (perhaps more specific, and best with personal anecdata). · Ask HN: Know of any non-digital toys/games that teach, for 6-10 year olds? | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?
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On the cybersecurity bundle, my new hero dsacco posted[1]: So, I've read most of these. Here's a tour of what is definitely useful and what you should probably avoid. Anyone read enough of these to do the same for this bundle? I
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Stalking Your Friends with Facebook Messenger | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9609286 (May 2015, 185 comments) when you send a message from the Messenger app there is an option to send your location with it the m
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Related / triggered by: Microsoft gives up on Windows 10 Mobile | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15432720 (4 hours earlier, 361+ comments) In case either one gets separated from the other as the front page drifts
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The Security Behind the Birth of Zcash | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14782232 (Jul 2017, 49 comments)
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15428189 (yesterday) >foxhop: I was wondering if you would entertain the idea of switching out Disqus comments for Remarkbox, a service that I'm trying to launch [...] https:&#
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In case there's any confusion whether or not I agree with you, here's the very next thing I wrote: > It is perfectly reasonable on their part as a company selling dev tools to do this The Community edition licensing terms are,
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The main problem with Microsoft in the past is that they didn't make money except by selling more software licenses. Things have begun to change with the cloud stuff, but the mentality is still there in the dev tools and frameworks - i
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by j_s 9y ago
Thanks for straightening out my confusion!
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Tools like this have always been how Microsoft segments the highest-price "Ultimate" version of Visual Studio (or whatever MS marketing has renamed things this month). As best I can tell there is no mention in this article of how
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by j_s 9y ago
Add this to the list! Other ways to read Hacker News | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15310291 (Sep 2017, 181 comments) Includes mention of alternate websites, mobile apps, and a pair of CLIs: haxor-news and hn-cli. I
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Choosing a Remote Software Developer(worthwhile.com)
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There are sites that offer experts for hire in a mercenary-like fashion, but most suffer from the network effect requiring both sides of the transaction to exist in large enough numbers. Global competition being want it is, even fiverr can
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Many are willing to share advice, independently of the value that doing so provides. Usually the degree to which it is heeded quickly tempers the quantity (and perhaps quality) that is shared.
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In the longer term it makes sense to implement Craigslist-like email proxying and eBay-like (-ish) reviews on behalf of both parties involved in mentorship. ("I didn't learn anything" vs. "never answered an email in less
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by j_s 9y ago
> flagged by mods for some reason It is uncharitably disingenuous (at best) to imply there somehow remains any confusion as to why the post was flagged. A complaint about someone having to ask for an explanation might be legitimate. htt
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by j_s 9y ago
Hat tip to the evil growth marketing technique (source long lost, sorry) suggesting use of a default female "outline" avatar to strongly motivate account creation / gender reassignment (and perhaps even replacement with genui
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After actually reading the article, my first thought was how awesome of the open source movement to actively promote enabling opportunities to learn by reading code, and how sad that various licenses (and unfortunately even incompatibilitie
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You must be astroturfing (or whatever it's called - submarining, secretly shilling, etc.) for the Mill project[0]! ;) Every once in a blue moon someone from that group returns from "investing sweat equity into patents" (or ho
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Thanks for making time to share this opportunity for improvement. The transition to setting up an account is indeed already quite abrupt and your mention of auto-fill does indeed make the problem worse!
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YouTube automation seems like a relatively untapped (if niche) market.
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Thanks for the specific tip! Link for the lazy: http://gamebot.gg/ A Show HN would probably do well (with a bit of behind-the-scenes in the comment), as would in-depth blog posts if you're doing machine learning. I act
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>cbhl: This is tricky because there are lots of people who "ask questions" just to avoid admitting that they are a bigot. >>KekDemaga: I am confused on how this would work in practice. What kinds of questions do you pr
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> simple statistical problems that have known solutions Can you please share the key terms allowing further research of the known solutions?
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Metric Geometry and Gerrymandering Group – Tufts University(sites.tufts.edu)
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