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by nikanj 3y ago
Hey that’s how Windows 8 went as well. Some dweeb convinces upper management that tablets are the future and the UI should turn be optimized for touch, then the .1 update rolls back some of the changes after MS realizes corporations still d
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by nikanj 3y ago
New pop music could still be made by record labels with a massive portfolio of existing music. Basically the same way software patents work: you don’t have to worry about suing yourself, and MAD ensures you won’t get sued by any of the othe
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by nikanj 3y ago
The Google I/O announcements for year n: 1) New build system for Android, because https://xkcd.com/927/ 2) Security architectural changes that patch theoretical issues of the 7th dimension, and mess up all existin
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by nikanj 3y ago
Usually Google products get cancelled before they become useless piles of shit. Not sure how that's better
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by nikanj 3y ago
I think our written history would mention it getting so hot that tens of thousands died, temperature records or not. Before AC, +44C would slay
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by nikanj 3y ago
If anything, firing seven layers of managers and TPS-report-manglers might free the technical staff to actually make progress, instead of sitting in meetings all day
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by nikanj 3y ago
But now it's an empty husk with prettier visuals!
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by nikanj 3y ago
Mostly it’s hard to imagine how little money a million dollars is nowadays. $135 million is a small side bet or a few NFTs
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by nikanj 3y ago
And slashdot.com
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by nikanj 3y ago
This reminds me of the crazy schemes from the Freeman on the land-movement. ”The person committing the fraud was startup CEO Elizabeth Holmes, who is in no way connected to Liz Holmes, sweet mother of two” Trying to claim that your crimes w
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by nikanj 3y ago
Capital from wealthy individuals and private investment funds
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by nikanj 3y ago
The thing could run on a $99 Hetzner box just fine, but that looks terrible on your CV
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by nikanj 4y ago
If your product solves a real problem your prospective customers are having, minor rendering glitches don’t matter. If your potential users don’t really see the benefit of your app, no amount of pixel-perfect rendering is going to help.
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by nikanj 4y ago
The uploader has not made that video available in my country. I wonder if they’re worried about stricter libel laws
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by nikanj 4y ago
Why would you ever add the complexity of having to support two different formats then?
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by nikanj 4y ago
It was very briefly billed to be the FB killer.
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by nikanj 4y ago
They are plenty important, but they're not rich . iPhones are not the majority of the market by any stretch, but they do form a majority of the phones well-off people use. I know you and your coder friends use Android despite having p
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by nikanj 4y ago
The invite-only launch was a selling point. "It's a exclusive service, but if you score an invite, you might have a casual chat with a bunch of billionaires and SV bigwigs."
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by nikanj 4y ago
Because this idea is almost 20 years old, but adding "with BLOCKCHAIN" to the pitch deck gets you express entry into the unicorn club
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by nikanj 4y ago
I like how the install script alone for this tool is much longer than the bash-ism
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by nikanj 4y ago
1) When was the last time you fixed networking issues by turning on IPv6? 2) When was the last time you fixed networking issues by turning off IPv6? For me, the answer to 1) remains "never", the answer to 2) is currently "Lat
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by nikanj 4y ago
But the claim wasn't "some jobs have been eliminated", it was ”the entire field across all specialities (including legal and medical) just doesn't exist anymore as of ~this year (2023).”
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by nikanj 4y ago
Parent claimed that ”the entire field across all specialities (including legal and medical) just doesn't exist anymore as of ~this year (2023).”, and that's patently false - the field still definitely exists and plenty of people w
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by nikanj 4y ago
Hence the ”must monetize” part. The investors expect to wring at least 5x their money, and selling $49 lifelong licenses does not net you billions
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by nikanj 4y ago
I think that’s what they mean, but they are wrong. Ask any large legal firm in the UK if they’ve gotten rid of all transcriptionists, I’ll buy you a pint if they say yes
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by nikanj 4y ago
The legal offices employ humans, Bighand provides tools to enable said work. If there was no transcription happening, dictation tools would not be selling for tens of millions per year
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by nikanj 4y ago
I’m sorry your family member lost their job, that’s always rough. That being said, the field of transcription is nowhere near dead. Bighand does transcription and dictation solutions and their annual revenue is over 70 million.
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by nikanj 4y ago
After taking in ridiculous amounts of money, they must figure out what features are most crucial for users – so that those features can be monetized the hardest
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by nikanj 4y ago
Honestly Microsoft doesn’t help you even if you paid directly. You might get lucky and have some forum volunteer give you a hand, but Microsoft will absolutely under no circumstances fix your PC
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by nikanj 4y ago
Antimalware is the worst malware I’ve seen in my decades-long career in IT.

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