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by nukeop 8y ago
This goes against Larry Wall's virtues of GREAT programmers: laziness, impatience, and hubris. Impatience stems from laziness and made me look at entire classes of problems in a different way than many of my peers. It is crucial to the
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by nukeop 8y ago
Macbooks of coffee.
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by nukeop 8y ago
French press also extracts and preserves all the oils present in coffee beans, whereas drip/chemex filters them out. As a sidenote, french press is also great for brewing tea, but keep your coffee and tea presses separated.
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by nukeop 8y ago
Chemex is just an expensive, proprietary coffee pot.
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by nukeop 8y ago
The future of housing is people paying ever more for ever smaller places to live, because bubbles just keep growing indefinitely and markets don't get disrupted. The tendency of employers to offer 100% home office work is a factor that
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by nukeop 8y ago
It's always amusing to see the hoops you have to jump through to customize your system on non-Linux machines, and even then you don't have half the expected flexibility. Both Windows and Mac laptops are probably great for people w
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by nukeop 8y ago
Until there's an emoji representing every imaginable demographic group engaged in every imaginable activity, the Unicode is not complete.
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by nukeop 8y ago
Who can afford to pay for more than 60% of the ride's cost?
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by nukeop 8y ago
Uber's strategy is to eliminate all possibility of competition before raising prices.
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by nukeop 8y ago
Ok, I won't argue with that. I don't see any way I could convince you of anything believably, since I'm just some stranger on the internet. Please just do me a favor and delete all the posts I've ever made from this acco
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by nukeop 8y ago
This is a totalitarian publisher's wet dream, to strongarm users to pay them or look at they ads whether they like it or not. If somebody's using adblockers, they're not going to be converted by your ads either way. If you in
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by nukeop 8y ago
Ok, and who cares really? Do you think you only have worth if you have many HN points?
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by nukeop 8y ago
This is yet another attempt by Google to leverage their browser market hegemony against other publishers. Who wants to bet that Youtube will have autoplay enabled by default in all cases, while other ad providers will have theirs disabled?
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by nukeop 8y ago
From the man who brought you "The Case for Non-Binary Genders" last year. No thanks.
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by nukeop 8y ago
Why would it be a problem that white males get funded? Besides, I'm willing to bet that they'll find out that the algorithm also picks white males, for objective reasons.
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by nukeop 8y ago
This is a basic protection that should have been passed a long time ago, don't try to frame it as "censorship", it was created to give you control over your own personal information.
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by nukeop 8y ago
This is the most dystopian article I have read in a very long time: >“They thought we could read their mind. This caused some discomfort and resistance in the beginning,” she said. >“After a while they got used to the device. It looke
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by nukeop 8y ago
Cool, then you probably don't care about EU customers anyway
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by nukeop 8y ago
Exactly, the GDPR regulations are completely reasonable and it's actually quite odd to see them being put into practice so late. The user data selling wild west had to be regulated at some point to curb predatory practices of Google, F
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by nukeop 8y ago
This is fantastic news, if a company can't behave responsibly with user data, it deserves to go bankrupt. It's like a restaurant saying it can't comply with health regulations. Absolutely unacceptable. If the business model i
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by nukeop 8y ago
At their size it's hard to estimate but it's definitely in the 90% range. I've seen estimates of 85-99% of revenue coming from advertising.
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by nukeop 8y ago
Google gets 97% of its income from selling ads and analytics, everything else they do or produce exists only to serve this goal and to strengthen their monopoly and entrench their position even further. A browser to dictate internet standar
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by nukeop 8y ago
It reveals the poster's affiliation, which is pretty important in assessing the usefulness of his post
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by nukeop 8y ago
This doesn't mean that Windows is better, it just means you have no other choice because you were forced to by a vendor who didn't provide a native Linux binary.
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by nukeop 8y ago
Is there any difference between the two services now? Or are they going to be merged under a single domain?
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by nukeop 8y ago
The less developers cater to Windows, the better. Remember that usually it's the other way around, Windows receives support from driver/software developers, and it's seen by most as a feature of Windows. At any rate, Windows
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Only the free version, there is another (Pro) version which has additional features and a closed source.
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by nukeop 8y ago
Another interesting fantasy console is LIKO-12, with a huge advantage of being free software: https://github.com/RamiLego4Game/LIKO-12
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by nukeop 8y ago
Material Design is one of the worst things that ever happened to the design of websites, not only Google's but everyone's, since now so many are trying to copy it. I have no idea why anyone would want to see it anywhere.
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by nukeop 8y ago
I don't see this being any more unethical or unnerving than keeping a liver a or a lung or a heart alive outside of a body. A brain is just another organ, it's not a mind. It is a vital organ, to be sure, but the article equates i

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