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by jnaina 3y ago
Had the privilege to meet him in Singapore some time ago. Elderly statesman for the telco industry vibe. Very smart and clearly a visionary.
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One of these had a twofer deal: A next generation OS with a visionary CEO attached.
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Having lived and worked in a number of Asian countries, Singapore remains as one of the countries with very low levels of corruption. I work for a FAANG in Singapore. The above statement about remote work and software work being not valued
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Singaporean here. Singapore has always be a free port. Anyone can setup a business and legally import items. There are no such thing as “government-party-appointed resellers”. Best to entirely disregard this anecdote.
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Used to travel to China on business quite often, including a holiday at one of their remote resort. The level of dislike of foreigners, especially for dark skin folks, is sadly quite rampant. For my own safety, I no longer accept business t
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Folks from South East Asian countries (I'm from Singapore) that were occupied by the Japanese army and witnessed extreme brutality, cruelty and inhumane atrocities generally rejoiced when the bombs were detonated on Hiroshima and Nagas
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“If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses.” - Henry Ford "What’s the user experience that they started with to walk back to VisionPro?" What if Apple is envisioning entirely new user experiences t
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by jnaina 4y ago
Yes, I have a paid subscription to ChatGPT plus ($20/mo). Worth every cent.
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The natural successor to the Sony Aibo?
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I remember writing to Jef Raskin and asking if will sell me one of his Canon Cats in the early 2000s. He wanted $10K for one, which I couldn't afford. Didn't realise until much later that he was probably raising funds for his medi
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by jnaina 5y ago
It's about choice. I'm a tech head and can easily root phones if I need to. But increasingly, the mobile phone is a key life tool and I'd rather that it works like a fully managed appliance. I'm willing to pay the Apple
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by jnaina 6y ago
Craig was my professor at UofO, teaching his Digital Arts class in 1986. Eternally thankful to him for allowing me access to a range of wonderful machines, including Dec, SGI and Sun, for graphics programming.
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by jnaina 6y ago
Providing another data point, lest everyone thinks Singaporeans are exploitative lot as a whole. Our live-in helper gets paid SGD$700 monthly. She has her own room and bathroom. We treat her like a part of the family. My children adore her,
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by jnaina 6y ago
The rampant racism in the Singapore public schools, the casual everyday racism and micro-aggressions that Singapore minorities face, local Chinese owned company’s using Mandarin as requirement to exclude minorities, lack of representation i
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by jnaina 6y ago
Yes, I had a "Happy Chip" modded Atari 810. The damn thing could copy almost anything you throw at it. In the early 80's as a teen,I used to copy protected original disks and modify the code to bypass the copy protection rou
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by jnaina 7y ago
Good.
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What eventually became Amiga was originally developed via Atari funding to become Atari's 16-bit offering. Jay Miner, who was the brains behind CTIA/GTIA/ANTIC, was the force behind the Amiga development team, which at time w
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by jnaina 7y ago
Here's the key difference between Oracle and AWS: - Oracle will schedule periodic audits on their customers and legally threaten them for inadvertent licensing oversights - AWS makes it a mandatory policy that all their sales folks per
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by jnaina 7y ago
Have dealt with a number of Malaysian Government groups, including MDEC, InvestKL and MaGIC, etc. The amount of incompetence, basic lack of follow through, and inefficiency are indeed breathtaking.
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by jnaina 7y ago
Hindsight is always 20/20.
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Steve Jobs was very careful about the “Osborne effect”. Even if they had plans for an App SDK as part of the future iPhone roadmap, he would have never divulged it, to prevent customers from deffering purchases
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by jnaina 7y ago
I use Apple Pay for almost all my purchases in Singapore, where almost ~80% of merchant terminals support it. Recently, Singapore's train system started allowing Apple Pay payments at the turnstiles. Using the Apple Watch at the turnst
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John, Paul, George and Ringo were mostly conceived in the early 40’s
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Almost 60% of the laptops are MacBook Pros it would seem
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by jnaina 8y ago
Dad bought an Atari 800 for me when I was 16. Became a master pirate, with a collection of over 1000+ games and programs. Modified my Atari 810 with a Happy Archiver chip to copy protected disks and then ‘free’ them by modifying the bad sec
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Yes, VLC (Very Low Cost) was one of the several codenames for what became the Apple Iic during it's development

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