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by mygo 8y ago
I remember back when Yahoo Answers was the go-to for crowd-sourced Q&A. Nobody was getting payed and most answers were absolutely terrible. Then Quora came out. Nobody was getting paid but suddenly experts were answering questions in th
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by mygo 8y ago
> the efforts are probably spent on core functionality over aesthetics. This is the fatal error. Humans are the ones using that tool. What you call aesthetics is functionality. We’re not talking about making it prettier we’re talking
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by mygo 8y ago
> The efforts in that direction are very active (although not as much as AI in general) but slightly different. You need sensors able to understand pressure and very subtle micro-controllers able to apply exactly the right kind of pressu
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by mygo 8y ago
the current state of artificial intelligence unless you mean putting more money into AI research, which they are still, the jury is still out on whether the laws of nature allow to build AIs that can do every job and totally replace human r
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by mygo 8y ago
ulysses became popular on their version-based pricing model. now they’re subscription and I think there’s a split between users who are okay with that and users who are looking / waiting for a replacement. I’m in the latter.
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by mygo 8y ago
I see what you did there ;). Anyways they can develop this technology given enough time. They do not have to be the first movers. A little R&D won’t starve their coffers.
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by mygo 8y ago
does your Toyota automatically unlock when you simply walk up and look at it? can it remote-start just by you hollering at it? Does it open the trunk just by you saying “open the trunk”? Or wait, you actually still even have a car key? What
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by mygo 8y ago
we don’t do revenge after car accidents. we’re a little more civil than that. we file an accident report with the police and then call the biggest personal injury attorney in town and sue for hundreds of thousands of dollars in damages.
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Oasis free plan will be discontinued October 14(sandstorm.io)
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by mygo 8y ago
Although the title is not inaccurate, we don’t have all the details yet. “Apple self-driving car rear ended” would be a more accurate report.. especially considering what comes to mind for the average person when someone mentions a self-dr
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by mygo 8y ago
it shared many exact characteristics of helvetica. if it didn’t have any hairy arms, then it would be helvetica.
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by mygo 8y ago
would you be disappointed if you had 95% clean energy in 2035?
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by mygo 8y ago
good on him. there’s not many things to fear in this world but the prospect of someone having you by the balls is definitely one of them. well, unless you’re into that
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by mygo 8y ago
this sounds like a non-sequitor. most people complaining about tabs can also configure their editor to make it work for them. Why must I have to? I like my tab bar to actually create real tabs because I actually have my editor show space &a
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by mygo 8y ago
Tabs 100%. Especially in cases with significant whitespace like Python. Personally, I don't get nor like the "just press the space bar 12 times when you want to indent to 3 levels“ argument. I routinely look at different code in t
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by mygo 8y ago
sounds like the plot to the next great american western film
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by mygo 8y ago
I mean... just because someone can call a video an MVP doesn’t mean it was an MVP. An MVP is a functioning product/service. It’s something that provides enough utility / functionality that the user can actually use. Unless dropbox
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by mygo 8y ago
it’s encrypted but they have the keys. you can access iCloud data via web, so they definitely have the capabilities to decrypt it before sending it to your browser.
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by mygo 8y ago
I believe it’s a controversial topic seeing regular discussion. It’s in vogue to discuss it. I mean, name a freshman psych lecture that doesn’t mention it. New information has surfaced, so people are going to have new material to add to the
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by mygo 8y ago
They didn’t have it in the UI. There is nothing inherently difficult about browsing reviews on a mobile device. Millions do it every time they’re about to download an app. There is no option to read reviews given to effectively 85% of their
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by mygo 8y ago
Maybe few people were using it because they made it hard / impossible to use? 70% of Netflix's viewing happens on TV. You couldn't even access user reviews on tv. 15% of Netflix's viewing happens on smart phones and tabl
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by mygo 8y ago
Reminds me of facebook and how they stopped showing me all of my friends' posts because they thought they knew what I wanted to see. I eventually left facebook.
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by mygo 8y ago
Let's be real. They didn't delete the user reviews. They just stopped showing the reviews to the user.
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by mygo 8y ago
what are you the hulk? I can’t twist a Ticonderoga
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by mygo 8y ago
recommend any other such films? I'm all over that small town lawless stuff
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by mygo 8y ago
I actually have set Bing as my default search on my phone ... and let me tell you Bing is not nearly as good as Google when it comes to bringing me the right search results first. But I got tired of Google asking me to “prove that I’m not a
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by mygo 8y ago
But on a journalistic note, isn’t it proper form for names to be above the fold? Maybe scientific journalism is different?
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by mygo 8y ago
anyone can call a mobile locksmith and ask them to help them get into their locked car stuck in the KFC parking lot with their keys inside. It’s usually up to the locksmith to obtain proof of ownership. otherwise they’re running the risk of
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by mygo 8y ago
—————————————————————— Are you satisfied? [yes] [no] ——————————————————————
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by mygo 8y ago
they’re just optimizing for the wrong metric. If the metric was “user satisfaction” they could target it day and night and nobody would be complaining.

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