moolcool

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1. 721.▲
   by moolcool 9y ago

   I don't think I've had a single friend use a Facebook story ever
2. 722.▲
   by moolcool 10y ago

   You don't keep a 20gb Windows install in RAM all the time though. Bloat in explorer.exe is the issue here
3. 723.▲
   by moolcool 10y ago

   >"...the vapid, insipid, overadvertised crap that passes for knowledge today." "How to write a simple operating system with node.js, Angular, Bootstrap, Electron, and MongoDB"
4. 724.▲
   by moolcool 10y ago

   Google is an ad company which makes products to put ads on
5. 725.▲
   by moolcool 10y ago

   The Mac trackpad is better, but the Surface does have the best trackpad I've used on Windows. The touchscreen makes up for the difference though.
6. 726.▲
   by moolcool 10y ago

   Surface Pro 4. The new line of Macbooks is pretty disappointing, and the Surface line matches Apple's build quality at a comparable price.
7. 727.▲
   by moolcool 10y ago

   I see a lot of concern online about Python's performance, but at the same time I don't see a lot of people talking about things like Iron Python or Jython. Is there a reason these solutions aren't adopted more?
8. 728.▲
   by moolcool 10y ago

   The pet rock was also only on sale for about a year before being discontinued due to poor sales.
9. 729.▲
   by moolcool 10y ago

   >by February 1976 they were discounted due to lower sales
10. 730.▲
    by moolcool 10y ago

    >Everyone within the age range 18-30 in the US definitely spends more time on Snapchat than TV right now. Traditional TV, or Netflix/YouTube content?
11. 731.▲
    by moolcool 10y ago

    Snap is the last thing that would replace TV. Nobody sits down and spends a consecutive hour on Snapchat
12. 732.▲
    by moolcool 10y ago

    >Pokemon Go showed us the bleeding of digital to physical It also showed how quickly a popular phenomenon can loose cultural relevance. >when something exciting happens, which app do you open first? One that doesn't automatically
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    by moolcool 10y ago

    I see Facebook as the email of this generation. It's not exciting, it doesn't change a whole lot, and virtually everybody has it. I think we're just seeing a lot of novelty, flash in the pan apps coming and going while Facebo
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    by moolcool 10y ago

    I think this will be worse. Snapchat isn't nearly as culturally sticky as Twitter. Sites like Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook have a robust friend/follower system, and users have a huge backlog of things they contributed to the p
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    by moolcool 10y ago

    Remember the phone made by HTC and Facebook? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTC_First
16. 736.▲
    by moolcool 10y ago

    These cheap plastic glasses have the cultural staying power of the pet rock.
17. 737.▲
    by moolcool 10y ago

    Now all the resumes that say '15 years of .NET experience' aren't necessarily lies
18. 738.▲
    by moolcool 10y ago

    I don't think of HN like a product meant to make money though, more like a big ad for YC
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    by moolcool 10y ago

    Here's a video of him presenting these slides https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2_-VXz9E-w
20. 740.▲
    by moolcool 10y ago

    Oh please no
21. 741.▲
    by moolcool 10y ago

    >This is not just a rogue request from some crazy official, but part of a larger plan to subdue and scare off foreign tech companies and replace them with 'local' tech, controlled by the state. Do you think EU's heavy hand
22. 742.▲
    by moolcool 10y ago

    Does OSX? All the mobile operating systems certainly do, but nothing makes you use the OSX app store, and you have root access
23. 743.▲
    by moolcool 10y ago

    I find the time estimates quite useful. They're not 100% accurate, but they give a good idea of "If I keep doing whatever task I'm doing right now, I have X hours left".
24. 744.▲
    by moolcool 10y ago

    Uh huh...
25. 745.▲
    by moolcool 10y ago

    I believe the switching from charging a device and charging your laptop is done in software. The spec allows any USB C device to charge any other in either direction AFAIK.
26. 746.▲
    by moolcool 10y ago

    Just refresh the tab
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    by moolcool 10y ago

    I don't know if it exists for interviews, but there are definitely firms which offer facilities and services for test taking. I think it's quite common for certification and distance education
28. 748.▲
    by moolcool 10y ago

    It's 2016, the mantra now is "Compile thee times, run slowly in a handful of web browsers"
29. 749.▲
    by moolcool 10y ago

    My point is that all of these things are running slower than flash did on much older hardware. The technical sophistication of what the average user does with computers hasn't changed much in the past 10 years (for the most part), but
30. 750.▲
    by moolcool 10y ago

    This feels like history repeating itself. The Flash version still runs better for me than the WebAssembly version, and the Flash version worked well on people's systems 5 years ago! It seems like half of the things I see on HackerNews