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by kbcool 6y ago
Cool, let's distract ourselves from an emergency like COVID-19 with an emergency warning system.
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by kbcool 7y ago
Having been well traveled in both places I found for the given population density of a particular city finding a toilet is harder in Europe than the USA but both are horrendous. Public toilets are a basic human right in Australia.
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by kbcool 7y ago
Hah so true. Having lived mainly in Europe and Australia I have never once managed to clog a toilet but without fail I seem to manage to clog almost every US hotel toilet. We're not talking about a few unlucky incidents but many. Just
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by kbcool 7y ago
When the dictatorship controls the military you can pretty safely say they're a military dictatorship.
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by kbcool 7y ago
The success of mobiles or the iphone themself had no impact on the death of Flash. Apple's blatant hatred for it and decision to publicly vilify it and discriminate against it did. There were plenty of phones that supported Flash, at l
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by kbcool 7y ago
You assume mainstream newspapers have editors, ones that actually edit, these days :)
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by kbcool 7y ago
No new tactics there. Australia has been doing that for a long time. Then when you are so frustrated with being stonewalled and come by boat (our version of crossing the desert from Mexico) and claim asylum you get locked up on an island f
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by kbcool 8y ago
Flogging the dead horse aren't we. It's a long departed business model. No one under the age of forty has ever bought a newspaper. Most people 40-65 stopped reading them a long time back. I'm surprised if many people over the
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by kbcool 8y ago
I would like to believe this article but: a) Having eaten supposed Thai food in the USA I can tell you it's not Thai! Most of it's Chinese based. b) You're talking about a government that couldn't organise its way out of
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by kbcool 8y ago
Not negative as such, just didn't hit the mark that their marketing material was promising. It's great for pull down refresh lists etc and I even had success doing dynamic insertion when an item in another view was updated (though
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by kbcool 8y ago
The simple answer is...because they're all geeks who just got lucky. They didn't need to work their backsides off to get to where they are. They just made a semi-decent product at the right time and money was thrown at them. There
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by kbcool 8y ago
Is Apollo ready for true client side caching these days? I tried it on an app earlier this year with the belief that it would allow me to skip redux and simply keep client state synchronised with the server but without having to load it eve
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by kbcool 8y ago
I wouldn't get too excited. This is just a shell app, a few screens, no remote data, only temporal state persistence and nothing really functions (eg no form validation, no payments etc). I assume it was used for some tutorial?! Not sa
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by kbcool 8y ago
Wow...about the same level of journalism/fact checking as expected these days....none. Let's compare the workforce of countries with an ageing population and rapidly dropping net population with countries like Australia that are a
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by kbcool 8y ago
Google rarely keep products like this going for very long. There are a couple of notable exceptions but the list of abandoned developer tools coming out of Google is far longer. Given you're doubling down you're taking a massive r
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by kbcool 8y ago
Most don;'t have the authority to make large CC payments either if you're talking big corps. SME to freelancer payment is much better with bank transfer. Way less skimmed off the top than CC.
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by kbcool 8y ago
TL;DR - GUI for building Bayesian classifiers?!
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by kbcool 8y ago
They're not. Any source since the 1980s will tell you pretty much every OECD nation has higher survival rates than the USA.
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by kbcool 8y ago
Europe these days, at least I'd be treated like a human being and not a cash cow. Survival rates in the USA were better in the 1960s but most of the OECD now has much lower mortality rates from a diagnosis of cancer than the USA. One e
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by kbcool 12y ago
I would say storage space is still the issue. Most phones still come with 8/16 gigs where as on PCs a terabyte or more is common.
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Nokia Ovi Store - Best and Worst of(greenerdesktop.com)
2 points by kbcool 17y ago|3 comments
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by kbcool 18y ago
I'm the author. I just found out about ycombinator by finding my site on it. So I didn't submit it. Glad to see it got so much interest. There were literally tens of thousands of people trying it out just a few hours ago.