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by pfraze 5y ago
Used to be that Windows allowed programs to hook into each others’ event busses. (It might still, I’m not sure.) This might be why a few of my Highschool’s computers would interpret every 5th right click in minesweeper as a left click
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by pfraze 5y ago
My goodness, this was a good read. Whether I agreed with all the points or not, I found it well worth the time to read and think about
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by pfraze 5y ago
Jobs was chronically focused on producing products that were ahead of the market. As a consequence, the Macintosh and the NeXT were incredible, forward-looking, and overpriced for the market. I’m by no means happy or in agreement with his “
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by pfraze 5y ago
The “Steve Jobs” movie written by Soorkin does such a good job examining this question by having the two of them fight over the relative importance of their contributions. Since one of character-Woz’s strongest lines is “you can be decent a
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by pfraze 5y ago
The disabled hotlink images are the only reason I know imageshack exists. How’s that for marketing?
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by pfraze 5y ago
To be fair, the Imgur comments are actually pretty funny
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by pfraze 5y ago
Of course it is! The equivalence between art and comedy is the importance of context to its meaning and value
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by pfraze 5y ago
Generally good advice there- Some products have price sensitivity among buyers that stops them from maintaining margins when the environment is too high cost. If you can’t go upscale, you’re going to have to cut costs to the bone and/o
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by pfraze 5y ago
It’s the demonstration of malice that will make this suit fail. You have to show evidence that the alleged defamer knew their statements are false. You might even need to prove intent. Unless they dig up a Facebook email saying “We know thi
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by pfraze 5y ago
Of course, that’s all a variation of the long-running Encabulator joke https://youtu.be/RXJKdh1KZ0w
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by pfraze 5y ago
This is almost exactly the plot of Captain America: Winter Soldier, for what it’s worth, except they use massive floating weapons platforms instead of drones
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by pfraze 5y ago
Read the report and the article. Here’s a summary for anybody jumping to comments: Title matches the report. The report details a number of cases of women being treated by a specific doc who rushes treatment, fails to communicate, examines
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by pfraze 5y ago
They still don’t open source their secret sauce.
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Why did the web take over desktop and not mobile?(subconscious.substack.com)
266 points by pfraze 5y ago|300 comments
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by pfraze 5y ago
The points in this post are all legit, but I think it misses a couple things. The blockchains are all controlled by some kind of plutocracy (people with wealth) as the gist describes. However there is a relatively complex dynamic between
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by pfraze 5y ago
This resonates with me more than the other comments. I’ve done a lot of self-directed work, and I’ve worked at web dev shops. In the latter, the only complaint I ever had about Jira was that it was slow. My PMs were my favorite people; they
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by pfraze 5y ago
I'm a long-time Node user and gave Deno a pretty close look recently. There's a ton to like, but the ecosystem of nodejs modules is hard to overcome, and I spent a lot of time fighting with the subtle differences between them inst
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by pfraze 5y ago
As someone who lives in Austin and is an entrepreneur, I'm constantly wondering if it's enough of an industry town or not. There are a lot of positive signs, but we're starting from a huge deficit compared to SF
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by pfraze 5y ago
Disagree. Not only have Americans pointed out their disagreement with Chinese government for as long as I’m aware, one of our core foreign policy concepts was that doing commerce with China would push them to liberalize and adopt more Weste
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by pfraze 5y ago
One thing I know some schools offer is, IIRC, auditing classes. I did this at UT a few years ago. You basically pay a filing fee and then can attend classes without enrolling. No credits or degree possibility AFAIK, but you get to learn.
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by pfraze 5y ago
Mmm. I get the idea, but I think there’s a better way to describe this. Programmers are in such high demand that it’s the opposite of a dirty word. What’s being described feels more like mid- or late-career advice where you might want to sp
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by pfraze 5y ago
Going to put in some positivity compared to the other comments here— Good. The OS store should have to compete with other software stores. If their store is actually better for consumers, then they have no cause for concern.
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by pfraze 5y ago
The status game is their answer to discovery, because ultimately Clubhouse's biggest problem is content quality. I ticked all the interests boxes, perused through the suggested rooms, and never ever waltzed into a room that I found i
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by pfraze 5y ago
This folds into the general class of calls-to-inaction which they use to pass off systemic problems. "Why are millenials poor and expecting more? Perhaps they were raised wrong by TV. Let's not examine it further." I personal
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by pfraze 5y ago
I would build around a constrained high-level concept. Something like actors, perhaps. It would be assembly-like, command-oriented. I would then build a visualization environment which shows what the actors are doing, possibly step-by-step.
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by pfraze 5y ago
You can remove tombstones in a cleanup pass if you constrain behavior a bit. For instance, if there’s just a single server, after 5 minutes of no active connections you could clean out tombstones. After that, if a client connects with some
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by pfraze 5y ago
This is pretty clever. It's taking periodic screenshots of your screen and running OCR on it, then indexing the results. Other than feeling a little icky about an app watching my screen -- not to mention picking up literally everything
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by pfraze 5y ago
If you want a very thoughtful take on this topic, look up Lindsey Ellis’ “Mask Off” on YouTube.
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by pfraze 5y ago
The better market does always win in the market! Now, define "better."
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by pfraze 5y ago
SteamDeck is particularly interesting because of how much it is tackling that industry head-on. From the perspective of a mobile gaming console, the fact that it’s a PC is awesome. From the perspective of advancing gaming on Linux, it’s eve

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