mojuba

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by mojuba 7y ago
Growth is always good for the poor, as it is good for entire poor nations. The problem with modern capitalism though is that the rich benefit from growth to a greater extent compared to the rest. The gap is only widening. Then there's
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by mojuba 7y ago
In addition to the already mentioned MS Office pieces: • Android programming. Tried it once, wasted many days trying to make sure the app works on all phone models ranging from $10 to $1000. There were some hardware-related parts that are p
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by mojuba 7y ago
This is exactly how I read reviews on Airbnb and Booking.com. "Great location, friendly staff" and nothing else almost definitely means a very shitty place at a nice location. Speaking of which, despite its horrible UI somehow I f
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by mojuba 7y ago
But that's my point: the reason it doesn't exist to date is the OS, not because nobody thought about it. I'm sure a lot of people did, some even tried to build a device. A more lightweight and efficient OS would make it more
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by mojuba 7y ago
Been thinking along the same lines. The reason dockable mobile computers still don't exist is more to do with software than hardware. I believe all mainstream OS's we have today, coming from the pre-mobile era are simply not suita
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by mojuba 7y ago
Even the UK keyboard can drive you nuts if you are an engineer and you are used to the US one. The Enter key has a different shape, the backtick and the backslash are placed differently.
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by mojuba 7y ago
Thanks! Wasn't intentional but probably inspired by LCARS somehow subconsciously ;)
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by mojuba 7y ago
Years ago I made an attempt at a UI that wouldn't even require repositioning the phone in your hand: the buttons are literally under your thumb (if you forgive my shameless self-plug): https://apps.apple.com/us/app
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by mojuba 7y ago
You build an abstraction layer, yes: knit.sock(.left) However, your next roadblock would be the framework itself: you throw new tasks at it that it can't handle, you start adding more states and conditionals, more lambdas and&
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by mojuba 7y ago
One other class of applications that don't really require garbage collection is HTTP request handlers if run as isolated processes. They are usually very short-lived - they can't even live longer than some maximum enforced by the
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Researchers tricked two Teslas into autonomously speeding up by 50 MPH(businessinsider.fr)
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by mojuba 7y ago
Human-centered capitalism is perfectly possible with some of the alternative forms of stock ownership and company governance. You can start and build a company that's employee-governed through elections, optionally also employee-owned
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by mojuba 7y ago
> the effect is that each candidate spends tons of money on it, fighting each other I've been following Brexit since 2016 and my impression from the materials/research available is that microtargeting via social networks is in
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by mojuba 7y ago
Bandcamp has an awfully out of date UI, no recommendation engine of any kind, overall ridiculously simplistic, plus their monetization model is closer to an indie label one. This is altoegther a different model and a different niche compare
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by mojuba 7y ago
Exactly, I love their recommendations based on my likes, love The Upload section. I wonder what algorithms they use. They are pretty good.
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by mojuba 7y ago
> This partially explains the success behind YouTube I thought the success of YouTube was largely due to their low bars for quality of content. Put simply, they allow all kinds of crap as long as it generates views. Vimeo's model is
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by mojuba 7y ago
So what does Billie Eilish think of SoundCloud?
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by mojuba 7y ago
I feel like I'm in the minority of those who love SoundCloud. It's one the very few places for indie music makers and DJs to showcase their work that otherwise may not necessarily be published via the official publishing channels.
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by mojuba 7y ago
There's a "sister" concept of this called steward-ownership, promoted by this German organization: https://purpose-economy.org/en/ They have a lot of interesting materials and case studies (Bosch, Zeiss
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by mojuba 7y ago
Totally agreed, and Spotlight does the same now on both macOS and iOS. I usually turn everything off in Spotlight except the file search, calculator and conversions. But overall it's still not nearly as bad as Windows'.
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by mojuba 7y ago
Exactly, it's just Bing without the image or video snippets in the middle. Other than that... it knows I am in Paris, however shows the current temperature in Fahrenheit. So no, bye-bye Lycos.
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by mojuba 7y ago
> Now, go to https://ad.doubleclick.net/abc - and It's funny that the doubleclick URL was removed by my adblocker and I didn't get what the original message was about. Now I can see it, thanks :)
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by mojuba 7y ago
Depends on what consequences your software can have in the real world. Most of software that you run on the laptop can glitch and crash all it wants as long as your users can tolerate that, but software for cars for example can have very re
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by mojuba 7y ago
Interesting, will definitely visit, however: Here is a challenge for you: try to find the location of the museum on their web site [1]. This is so, so common to museum/venue/restaurant web sites. Most of the time it takes you mult
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by mojuba 7y ago
Like I said borrowing for business is a bit different, so yes you can borrow to invest. However, a personal 30-year loan if you have nothing else but a mediocre salary may not be such a great idea. Essentially you will be tied to one place
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by mojuba 7y ago
- Avoid borrowing money, be it in the form of credit cards or even worse, mortgage. I know this is not something you want to hear if you are on a mortgage deal already. But borrowing can limit your freedom in ways that are not immediately o
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by mojuba 7y ago
> I am not exactly an Apple fanboy Can we stop using "Apple fanboy" as a derogatory term? You insult everyone - every single person - who likes the company. A lot of the times I'm tempted to say "those who don't
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by mojuba 7y ago
I've tried that. All things aside, in business if there's even one important person you deal with (your investor?) you will have to install at least one of the messengers they use. It's a question of the balance of power. And
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It does, but letting one known company gather it is better than letting 10 obscure ones, and I mean especially the analytics platforms I mentioned that most apps use today. We don't know exactly how they use the data, who would end up
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by mojuba 7y ago
> If you really want privacy, you should also return your cellphone and go back to using a flip phone. Or how about an iPhone with minimal or no 3rd party apps? Which is practically impossible unfortunately because in order operate in th

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