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>What’s an example of the kind of advice that doesn’t work? For some people struggling with chronic lifelong procrastination, the oft-repeated advice from the author such as "Action leads to motivation, not the other way around.&
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>, pasting customer travel advice email heavily violates GDPR Not seeing how pasting text with no personal identity information would violate GDPR. E.g. someone sends an email saying "For your career prospects, I think you shou
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>And where the training data for your AI advice comes from? It seems like the unstated assumption in that question assumes that the world totally depends on the information from small independent blogs like this thread's article.
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> on a language without a standard library? Because the other languages & with bigger runtimes and more comprehensive standard libraries such as Java applets, Microsoft Silverlight, Macromedia Flash that were promoted for browser
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A previous discussion in March 2025 referencing a shorter video : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43332830
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>uncollected tax revenues for economically valuable activity. Taxes are on profits not revenue. The for-profit OpenAI LLC subsidiary created in 2019 would have been the entity that owes taxes but it has been losing money and never m
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>"Self-dealing [...] convert some government supported PhD thesis work [...] the public (including me) never gets full access to the results of the publicly-funded work [...] Your 2001 essay isn't a good parallel to OpenAI&#
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>, not because nothing else can work. There's a lot of herd mentality [...] There is herd mentality yes, but you have to consider that there have been a lot of startups founded by devs who rejected herd mentality and did try to
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>I could write a lengthy comment, however it appears it would be a waste of my time. It won't be a waste of time if you correct something I wrote that was factually incorrect. I won't debate it. >I even happened to be in
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>, we had plenty touch screen smartphones in Europe, between Nokia, Siemens-Ericson and PocketPC/Windows CE. Those were older TFT resistive touchscreens and not the newer capacitive touchscreens that could detect multi-finger
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>Everyone [...] gets performance based compensation in the form of increases in salary, bonus, and equity. There's no reason sales people couldn't be compensated in the same way. There is a reason and it's based on the
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>Sales people are special in getting large amounts of cash comp Not sure what you mean by "getting large amounts of cash comp" as if it was a given. Co-founder clarified their base pay is lower . If they don't sell, t
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>The real explanation for why sales people get paid so well is that some really good sales people sold the idea of a highly favorable 'industry standard' model for enterprise sales. Is there a notable company with enterprise
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>I wonder why not just make it an employee-owned cooperative at that point? I understand there are funding considerations, The ~75 employees probably don't have enough personal money to buy out the previous investors to convert it
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>The OP isn't talking about iPhone devs, OP's wording was somewhat confusing because they were talking about the later iPhone devs with, >", now they think devs need them" by comparing them to the 1997 Mac OS
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> Back then, they needed developers to turn the ship around, now they think devs need them. No, that's the opposite of what actually happened with the iPhone. Back in 2007, Apple actually saw evidence from the customer buying fre
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> I think what they're saying is that you have to "save as" in order to be allowed to edit. The issue is that roundtripping between Office 2007+ and Office 2003 is unreliable and will often result in corrupted files. Us
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>; however, I think big data files should be handled in a db rather than in a spreadsheet. And sqlite can query Excel files (with an extension) A lot of normal users of Excel are not users of database software like SQLite or MS Access.
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>Office 2003 still works absolutely fine It works fine if the user is ok with the features from 2003. E.g. Excel 2003 is limited to smaller spreadsheets of 65536 rows by 256 columns but Excel 2007+ can handle larger worksheets of 1048
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>a new world map that accurately portrays countries by size. Search for "equal-area" in the list of map projections: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_map_projections You can see that any transla
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>Oracle has a horrible reputation among devs. But I think they bypass devs for purchase decisions and straight up wine and dine and bamboozle the low information execs. That is only partially true. Oracle has a wide portfolio of a bun
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>This means we have enormous control over what is going on. The combined software meanwhile runs on databases and services which we also run ourselves. [...] A well known example is the Netflix streaming service, which consists of Netfl
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>you are tipping only person who brings the plate. You dining experience is affected more by other people A lot of restaurants have "tip sharing" , "tip out" , "tip pool" where the waitstaff share som
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>No bluetooth? Mildly annoying, but especially with the 3.5mm jack, I could live without it. For most people, it can be difficult to predict future scenarios for Bluetooth that's unrelated to wireless earphones. I always use w
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To be charitable to gp, they may be talking about "digital" instead of "analog" capture. E.g. something like HDMI capture hacks: https://www.google.com/search?q=hdmi+capture+hdcp+bypass The issue is th
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>Look at it's base price, then lookat their customers. It makes no sense to break it. You're not thinking the same way the motivated pirates think. Some pirates (especially in Eastern Europe, Asia, etc) rip new releases as f
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>If you're going to allow playback on devices in "adversarial" hands (streaming, home physical media playback), it's going to be incredibly difficult to restrict copying. Kaleidescape movie players[1][2] are an exa
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>“Joy” is not found in a day. People enjoy doing things they are good at. There's got to be more to it than your simplified breakdown. My first exposure to computer programming was fun and instantly addictive . There was no stru
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>, trying to beat your competition by buying them is incredibly illegal If you weren't aware, it's actually legal to buy a competitor. It just has to pass antitrust review. E.g. In 2006, the government approved Google acqui
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>I never worked at Google (or any other large corp for that matter), but this sounds like the exact opposite of an environment that spawned GMail. Friendly fyi... GMail was not a "20% project" which I mentioned previously:

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