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by nikkwong 8y ago
Thank you so much!! That means so much.
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by nikkwong 8y ago
Thank you so much for the interesting insight. Got your email :) I am going to look into trying this since it seems to be one of the best options, and I don't know, it just seems like a culpable enough an explanation. Can you kindly ex
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by nikkwong 8y ago
Ah yeah, that's probably true. Thank you again so much.
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by nikkwong 8y ago
Thank you kindly for the idea, Qohen. I will give it a shot. I just wrote a rather nasty comment about Amazon on this thread but hopefully whoever reads it may understand the sentiment. :)
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by nikkwong 8y ago
Also to further your point into existential territory. I remember hearing Elizabeth Warren saying her plan was to break up BigTechCo's and thinking to myself about how ridiculous it is and how she's totally pointing her guns in th
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by nikkwong 8y ago
Thank you so much. Unicode alone can not allow me to truly express how much just having someone even listen to me means. Thank you.
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Ask HN: Amazon delisted me – what do I do?
495 points by nikkwong 8y ago|97 comments
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by nikkwong 8y ago
Incredible. I know Adam (the founder), and he is a super terrific nice guy. Good for them.
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by nikkwong 8y ago
This x100. Totally mirrors the sentiment in my sibling comment. Somewhere along the line they lost sight of creating an experience and each facebook product became focused on improving their metrics and notifications became the weapon of ch
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by nikkwong 8y ago
No kidding. With how smart they are and all the AI that goes on behind the scenes, I don't understand why I continue to get notifications when friend X 'adds to their story'. I have never once watched anyone's story. And
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by nikkwong 8y ago
Sleepyhead probably saved my life (literally) when I couldn't get any sleep doctors to take my condition seriously. I can't thank him enough for his contributions. The software is quite good, too, with a better UX than a lot of en
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by nikkwong 8y ago
Why would you need to run wasm in a serviceworker? I thought wasm was most practical as bytecode in a client for things like games and such.
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A competitor flagged my Instagram account and got it deleted. What do I do?
3 points by nikkwong 8y ago|0 comments
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by nikkwong 8y ago
Haha this is so interesting. Is this a phenomenology that has been studied or has been classified? I assume the wasp will continue infinitely, at least, until some other stimuli takes greater precedence, like getting tired for example. I do
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by nikkwong 8y ago
It surprises me that people could claim that the inverse would ever be true. As in, why would the default be to assume that animals are not conscious? Claiming that consciousness is unique to humans seems like quite a high-horse proposition
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by nikkwong 8y ago
It's a function of the propagation of technology. Everything is automated, and all code is not equal. If you're to figure out some way to steal money electronically from your bank, and there is no defensive code in place, how will
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by nikkwong 8y ago
SEEKING WORK - REMOTE (or Seattle) Hi, I do simultaneous dev+design. Please see my portfolio at https://www.beaver.digital
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by nikkwong 8y ago
Whenever I bring this up I get contested at the fact that Amazon has A/B tested the customer-facing e-commerce portion of their site down to the very pixel. If any page on the web has the incentive to go through massive amounts of A&#x
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by nikkwong 8y ago
What's the use in getting it checked? It's not like early cancer detection in which an early diagnosis might have some effect on the outcome of the disease. (?)
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by nikkwong 8y ago
Your little brother ruined my day. Because I can't stop playing. :p
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by nikkwong 8y ago
Ugh! Absolutely. The 30 year mortgage as a product was born out of the Great Depression. Back then, home ownership was the main path to wealth, but there was no liquidity in the housing market and bullet loans were reamortized every 5 years
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by nikkwong 8y ago
Maybe. This shutdown though seems extraordinarily petty. I can definitely see how agents could be especially upset that their livelihoods are being jeopardized based on Trump's temper tantrums.
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by nikkwong 8y ago
Agreed. Webpack's configuration is so daunting that, well, this is so obviously needed.
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What would you guess you could get the bundle size down to if you were to preload only the required assets? I think a lot of us are curious as to how load-time performant webassembly games like this could eventually become.
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by nikkwong 8y ago
Sure, but.. it does require downloading steam, which is a huge barrier to entry. As someone who's not a gamer, I've never downloaded Steam, which bars me from being exposed to all of it's content. That barrier also probably
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by nikkwong 8y ago
That's pretty interesting to hear. I've just ended a long week of frustration with fusion 360. Fusion 360 doesn't have a concept of 'replace entity' like in solidworks, so, when you want to change the shapes in your
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by nikkwong 8y ago
The career choice is not so surprising from the POV of my family. Several of my uncles went to MIT and ended up working at USPS in delivery as well. They were intelligent, motivated people; but, as immigrants, integrating into culture and c
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by nikkwong 8y ago
This looks cool and could be a much easier solution than the aforementioned laser/printing setup. Judging from the website though it doesn’t look like they have a product ready to go, is that true, and are there any alternatives? It wo
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by nikkwong 8y ago
The mind blowing fact is that they're advertising this metric as if it's a stat to be proud of. I think the average person browsing the internet would see this and instantly question the site's credibility. I would maybe un
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by nikkwong 8y ago
Not sure how I feel about this; for one, the Kurzweilian singularity which largely could be fueled by the advent of AGI is both exciting and yet also scary. The upside could forever change humanity as we know it; far increased longevity, th

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