notaboutdave

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by notaboutdave 9y ago
I mostly agree, but now they're building cities . How will we compete with companies that encompass our entire lives, digital and physical? Today we are stuck with Google search, tomorrow we will be trapped in off-white Google apartme
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by notaboutdave 9y ago
The problem never was that they can't be beaten. The problem is that they buy all the competition. Great if you're being bought, not so much if you're a part of society.
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How 5 Tech Giants Have Become More Like Governments Than Companies(wnyc.org)
1 points by notaboutdave 9y ago|0 comments
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by notaboutdave 9y ago
First of all, thanks for sharing your great work. The support for non-Gregorian output is interesting. Are there any plans to extend full support beyond Gregorian? For example, something like: dt.plus({months: 7, calendar: 'hebrew&
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by notaboutdave 9y ago
This is an excellent rewrite, but I'm hesitant to try it because Moment doesn't emphasize speed. I'm in need of a fast date and time library (close to realtime) and have reluctantly rolled my own until I find a better option.
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by notaboutdave 9y ago
This is pretty great. It looks like it automatically writes to the next logical empty cell. curl https://www.bitstamp.net/api/v2/ticker/btcusd \ | grep 'last": *"\d*\.\d*' -o | grep &#
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by notaboutdave 9y ago
User rossisred ported his "Funky Karts" game from C++ (targeting Android) to WASM. Direct link to the game: https://www.funkykarts.rocks/demo.html Blog post on porting the engine: http://www.rossis.re
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by notaboutdave 9y ago
That ~30 line component should be reduced to something resembling this: const PlanetView = ({planet}) => <div>{planet ? planet.stuff : 'Loading...'}</div>
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by notaboutdave 9y ago
I get what he's saying. The internet used to be peaceful grassy plains. Now it is loud bustling New York with bigger fish that are out to get you. This doesn't mean you can't disrupt everything, but now you have to outrun thi
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by notaboutdave 9y ago
Singing live with autotune is standard practice for most pop singers. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rczu_Qc7CkA
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by notaboutdave 9y ago
The Miyamoto approach of starting with a desired emotion and working backward toward a design is profound. This is radically different from most things I've read which involve cramming emotion into existing designs. This changes everyt
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by notaboutdave 9y ago
Waste of a read! Reasoning that going from many input nodes to few output nodes results in compression (or shedding of nonessential data) isn't a brilliant theory, it's common sense. The author even beats the dead horse of AI bein
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by notaboutdave 9y ago
In summary: > Businesses are upgrading their tech to stay in business which means higher job requirements. > Workers who don't make "the cut" with necessary analytical skills or higher education are suddenly finding the
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by notaboutdave 9y ago
NK seems like a living time capsule of that era.
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by notaboutdave 9y ago
Ever see that photo of Mark Zuckerberg surrounded by hundreds of people in VR headsets? The backstory of the original Matrix movie doesn't seem as far fetched anymore. http://www.businessinsider.com/mark-zuckerberg-virt
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by notaboutdave 9y ago
Just signed up. I've been wanting to log this kind of data, but it was never a strong enough desire to do it consistently over the long-term. Considering how many times I check email every day, this just might do the trick. Side note:
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by notaboutdave 9y ago
Some other useful points: 1. Transactions can be secured using public-key encryption. This way Bob can't spend Alice's coins (unless he has her key pair). 2. Wallets are typically a collection of public/private key pairs, whe
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Ask HN: Share one thing that profoundly increased your productivity
2 points by notaboutdave 9y ago|1 comments
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by notaboutdave 9y ago
As a developer or startup the last thing you want to do is tie yourself into absurdly proprietary platforms like this. Giants like Amazon, Facebook and Google are buying up all established competition, but now they want control of your stuf
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Ask HN: How is using React Native going for you?
4 points by notaboutdave 9y ago|1 comments
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by notaboutdave 9y ago
Easy workaround: Install Preact. No code changes required, at least not for me last year.