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811.
by mojuba 10y ago
I suppose they are "sell outs" in a sense that Apple, Microsoft and Google are not.
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by mojuba 10y ago
Good point, but you probably didn't read the article. Here is something even more impressive than the title: Berlin’s startups collected €2.4 billion in venture capital last year, according to Ernst & Young. That’s more than the t
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by mojuba 11y ago
I don't think it's possible without user's permission, so no it's likely one of those public GeoIP databases which are usually a bit behind, inaccurate and incomplete.
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by mojuba 11y ago
Same here, it didn't detect some of the things it should have (theoretically?), e.g. AdBlock plug-in, Twitter & Co., and the EXIF data wasn't fully exposed. The geo location was wrong by some 70 miles, but that's a questi
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by mojuba 11y ago
I thought Apple wasn't quite for "average consumers" though. Again, I used to bring Apple as an example of good, minimum-BS, no exaggerations, well though out marketing. "Your iPhone is beautiful. Give it a complement.&q
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by mojuba 11y ago
Don't know, it used to be difficult to nitpick on Apple's marketing materials. They were always pretty good at that.
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by mojuba 11y ago
> The only camera you’ll ever need. Apple, you are usually good at slogans and titles, but this one... At least three flops in one sentence: "The only camera" - so no more Canons, Nikons and Leikas? "...you'll ever&
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by mojuba 11y ago
Joining a startup in what capacity? Peanut salary + options is exactly what's being discussed here. OK salary/no options is not as common in the startup world. But then once you find that you are not a "suit" anymore (se
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by mojuba 11y ago
Circumstances can put you "below" certain other people, some of whom would try to abuse their status. Our response to that can be anywhere from obeying to quitting and even suing. But this is life, we still live in a survivalist w
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by mojuba 11y ago
There is nothing preventing you from starting a company or becoming a "suit". This seems to be a prevailing view here on HN and it is actually sad. There are a thousand reasons "preventing you from starting a company":
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by mojuba 11y ago
Except some hosts told me that Booking.com is a rip off, plus it doesn't handle their accounting like Airbnb does. From the user's point of view, Booking.com is a horrible cluttered web site with 1990'ish approaches to design
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by mojuba 11y ago
How come Norton Commander wasn't even mentioned? Brilliant, simple, very practical two-panel file manager with a shell prompt. I still use its GNU clone, Midnight Commander, up until today.
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by mojuba 11y ago
> Thought experiment: what if "what comes next" is better than humanity? Better from whose perspective? :) The machines can potentially be more durable, and also scalable. We are fragile, we don't scale very well (though
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by mojuba 11y ago
I don't think ML can solve the "human" part, i.e. like I said drivers, bikers and pedestrians looking at each other knowing what to expect and silently agreeing on what to do next, all happening in an instant. This is a cruci
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by mojuba 11y ago
I will probably get downvoted for this, but: this is why I am skeptical about self-driving vehicles. Driving in general and adjusting to each country/locality, then to vehicle types is such a human thing that you'd need a thousand
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by mojuba 11y ago
It's a very good point. Moreover, an abusive administration will almost definitely take over soon, because the scope of data the current one has will attract all kinds of "evil forces", including (but probably not limited to)
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by mojuba 11y ago
I also find it strange to mention numbers without saying whether it's revenue generating, MVP or what.
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by mojuba 11y ago
It almost definitely is. I smell nationalism here.
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by mojuba 11y ago
It has become almost given that if you are not a (co)founder of a startup yet then something is wrong with you.
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by mojuba 11y ago
By "developed" countries you mean those deeply indebted societies driven by the fear of losing a job? Where software managers and founders push to the limits because they have the leverage? Of course you can talk to a therapist or
831.
by mojuba 11y ago
As a father of 3 I even wrote an article about ageism in this industry and especially the so called startup culture. Why are you downvoting me?
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by mojuba 11y ago
I was responding to this: > a better path toward that goal, in my opinion, is to encourage people to seek the help necessary to deal with stressors There is almost always a flip side to your personal stress: some dissonance, disharmony
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by mojuba 11y ago
Let's take an edge case: you are a slave in America, 18th century. Here, some antidepressants and some free psychotherapy time for you. Happier now?
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by mojuba 11y ago
Still it can work well for early stage startups and provided that they won't hire those who have children. They don't anyway (it's a discrimination, a big topic, but a different story here). Quit your job? Move on to the next
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by mojuba 11y ago
This is why one of the possible futures is houses where people live and work. Not uncommon in the SV even today, to my understanding. The only problem in that case is the boss :)
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by mojuba 11y ago
Apple has its own share of evil of course (user lock-in etc.), but for one thing, when their CEO says "we won't hand your data" he knows that some day there will be another Snowden and he, the CEO of Apple, better make sure w
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List of discontinued Google products, by year(en.wikipedia.org)
4 points by mojuba 11y ago|0 comments
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by mojuba 11y ago
But that's the point, the economy behind it is not obvious. It is more often a cultural thing when 20-somethings working on their startup don't want a daddy to hang around with them. Corporations with strictly formal hiring proced
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Ageism in the software industry: is it even rational?(medium.com)
5 points by mojuba 11y ago|3 comments
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by mojuba 11y ago
I'm curious, would C++ ever consider categories like in ObjC? I.e. class extensions that unlike inheritance don't change the type. It kind of gets close with the unified call: if you have a call f(x,y) then either x.f(y) is matche

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