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by nikanj 3y ago
Elizabeth Holmes is playing this very strategy https://amp.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/may/09/elizab...
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by nikanj 3y ago
The developers absolutely wrecked backwards compatibility by shuffling classes between namespaces just a few years ago. I guess the new names are somehow better, but so many things broke because things needed renaming For Reasons
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Beijing Superconductor Levitation Video Author Admits Fraud, Takes It Down(tomshardware.com)
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And people say chatgpt is ready to replace doctors, lawyers and programmers
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by nikanj 3y ago
Because ”it works” trumps ”it’s ideologically sound” for most users. Zoom is a really great product, they’ve really worked hard on the basic ”join a meeting” user experience. At least a few years back they provided every meeting with a cust
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by nikanj 3y ago
Buried deep in the article: ”Is it really possible to combine all these tax credits and rebates at once? Not yet, but it could be soon.” This seems like a weird hit piece against EVs, trying to stir rage with all the different subsidies (th
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by nikanj 3y ago
Can I easily read this on an iPhone somehow? The download does not seem to start, I just get the ad page instead
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by nikanj 3y ago
It’s much, much easier to change account details when you can still access the old email. Get your own domain for $20/year and you never have to worry about losing access again. You can always redirect your domain to a new email provid
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by nikanj 3y ago
Enforcing the water bottle rule sells a lot of beverages at the airport, with a nice margin because the customers have no options
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Corporate lobbying = A very nice weekend getaway in a 5-star destination (+1 welcome of course), featuring a few key talks about the issues important to the sponsor and leaving ample free time to explore the luxuries offered by the travel d
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by nikanj 3y ago
Tell me you don't have a mortgage and kids without telling me
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by nikanj 3y ago
1) We take the cash reserves from large companies 2) Large companies either go bankrupt or leave the country 3) The economy is completely wrecked 4) Venezuela
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The latest progress report is Q1 / 2022. Does anyone know what the current status of the project is?
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OTA TV is for old people, so they're going to show what old people want to watch: Fox Newsian "democrats bad, kids lazy, black people criminals" drivel 24/7
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And that unsafe, complex C API communicates with an even sketchier system made of registers, IO ports and nasty hardware details. Providing a higher level API for a nastier backend has always been a core feature of operating systems and pro
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by nikanj 3y ago
Congratulations, you have successfully reached The One True Customer Service: HN front page. Expect your issue to be resolved promptly. The HN front page proudly serves customers from all megacorporations, including but not limited to the c
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by nikanj 3y ago
I enjoy the irony of complaining about people breaking the rules on a pirate movie tracker.
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Neither Edge nor Chrome support Windows 7, so it's not surprising a lot of Firefox users are on Windows 7 - because the other options are no longer available on Windows 7
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How dare a non-public early beta build be unfinished and rough around the edges
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They cost the normal amount when the government is buying them
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The people who truly hate code work in upper management. Coders are expensive, hard to hire, and tend to say no a lot. You can make so much money selling hoax ”zero code” solutions, as management is very happy to drop money into projects th
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by nikanj 3y ago
Just buy a pro/enterprise version, they support the GPOs to block updates
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Rewriting in hip-tech-du-jour is for startups with lots of funding and little of traction. Why would a massively successful company toss a stick in their own spokes by tearing the product to ground?
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We used to make fun of Java / Spring for names like this, but it turns out it was just being used for absolutely gigantic systems before other languages. (Yes I know your great uncle Bobert coded 644 million lines of Cobol for a massiv
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I always have a feeling they could get surprisingly far by having one person doing random searches, then tagging all the obvious spam to be deindexed. But Google is very adamant about never hiring a person to do a job well, if AI can be tra
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by nikanj 3y ago
No. Companies get around ssl issues by minting their own root CAs and configuring their workstations to trust them. China has no (technical) way of forcing you to trust their root CA
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If it’s over https, an outside observer has no way of knowing your stream started with a GET. Unless they’ve tapped ssl certificates, but that would be major news
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Part of it is overinflated org charts. Both Instagram and Whatsapp managed with an engineering team of a dozen or two people until acquisition. Typical SV startups have a dozen or two engineering teams, each with multiple people. I have no
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I’ve noticed that people tend to work about the same amount, some just do more hours. The 11-hours-per-day crowd spends much more time resting on Reddit / HN, because they haven’t rested enough at home. I’ve learned it’s better to put
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SF is big enough to have a steady supply of fresh out-of-towners

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