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by raz32dust 5y ago
When a company like Apple says that only their app store can run on iPhones, HN crowd usually sides with Apple, with the justification that "It is a free market. People can buy another phone if they don't like it." Why doesn&
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by raz32dust 5y ago
I am not an expert. My understanding - (1) The quantity of rocks that would be needed to explain such a gigantic gap in mass is bound to be observed - if they are dark, then at least we should be able to see them when they block light. You
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by raz32dust 6y ago
Don't all of human achievements also come from this inability? The curiosity to find what's out there, and to explore the environment? I think this quote needs a lot of context to be useful - it makes sense to balance seeking sti
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by raz32dust 6y ago
Yeah, makes sense. It would be hard to gain initial traction and the business model can be tricky. But the merchants also of course get value from the affiliates, so once it catches on with affiliates, they could demand merchants to use thi
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by raz32dust 6y ago
How is there no better way to track conversions in a standard way by a third party? This whole win relies on the fact that the affiliate manager let out the real policy. She could have just said that there were no conversions, and the autho
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by raz32dust 6y ago
Must have been around 1997. My dad was in his 40s then and had never programmed or learned coding, but is a tinkerer at heart and used to love to make small IC devices after his day job (which was not related to technology at all). He learn
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by raz32dust 6y ago
Not sure what you mean by "managed platform". Java being written in C doesn't mean you need to know C to run Java. You hardly deal with any native code at all unless you write your own JNI interface or do some obscure tuning,
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by raz32dust 6y ago
What baggage is specific to Java? You'd want some experts for the language your critical services are written in, regardless of it being java or C or Rust or whatever. Likewise, a java shop wouldn't want to use a critical service
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by raz32dust 6y ago
This is a very successful marketing gimmick. Mattress industry in the US is a scam. Yes, you should invest in a good mattress. But a good mattress doesn't need to cost $8000. Just get a simple, relatively firm mattress. Mine is a simpl
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by raz32dust 6y ago
What is not a political act these days? If youtube bans spam content, that involves some subjectiveness. Would you say banning spam is political? How about if Youtube's algorithms downrank this kind of content instead of outright ban?
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by raz32dust 6y ago
I think it's more like ~100k USD in Bangalore vs ~250k USD in the US if you include stocks. (Checking typical L4 Google salary in Mountain View vs India in levels.fyi) Companies do prefer to have most of the development done in the US
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by raz32dust 6y ago
Boring? I certainly disagree with that. Stable is also questionable. Prosperity - one should not take for granted. The world is much more connected today, and most of our prosperity and stability comes from people with varying interests fin
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by raz32dust 6y ago
Is it an old proverb? Never heard of any culture that considered human beings to be made of stars. It is fascinating because now we know that we literally are made of stars.
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by raz32dust 6y ago
Agreed, Some people are more generous by nature, some are not. For those who are not, one of the main reasons is that they are scared that giving away money now will put them at a disadvantaged position later. Putting donations in the terms
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by raz32dust 6y ago
I am not sure if you can easily give away that much money. If it were easy, people would already be doing it. Buying a nice home is a distant dream even for many software engineers in the bay area for example, and future education and healt
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by raz32dust 6y ago
I think thinking in terms of percentage of income doesn't work, because the lower your income, the lower a percentage you can afford to give away. I have found it better to think of it as a percentage of your non-essential expenses. e.
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by raz32dust 6y ago
Really? Epic should build their own OS? Even Microsoft was not able to compete with Android/iOS.
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by raz32dust 6y ago
You should give JavaFX a shot. It's not considered cool here, but does the job well IMO. I have built desktop apps that work seamlessly between MacOS, Windows and Linux using JavaFX with minimal pain. I was already quite familiar with
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by raz32dust 6y ago
Quoting from the article, "Apple attempts to justify these fees by arguing that the App Store is no different from a mall, where companies seeking to offer their products must pay rent to the owner of the mall (in this case, Apple). Th
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by raz32dust 6y ago
"Everything Apple is doing is helping make a better app store for me." - it is the benevolent dictator fallacy[1]. You cannot say dictatorship is good because one dictator seems to have done good things. In the same way, just beca
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by raz32dust 6y ago
It's probably just laziness. It is hard to draw good diagrams.
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by raz32dust 6y ago
It's not that anyone wants to buy books at a local bookstore, but that people don't want to be forced to buy things from just one place. The core issue here is that exclusivity further strengthens monopoly, and that, I think, is t
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by raz32dust 6y ago
Hate to be the naysayer, but last mile is going to be tricky. 10 mins from Palo Alto to SF sounds fantastic. But if it takes you 15 mins to get from home to the flight, and 15 mins from flight to wherever you need to be in SF, then the tota
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by raz32dust 6y ago
Only including ones I think HN audience might find interesting: - VSauce (Physics/Science) - 3Blue1Brown (Maths) - FermiLab (Physics) - PBS Spacetime (Physics) - Scooby1961 (Fitness) - AthleanX (Fitness) - Mentour Pilot (Airplanes&#x2F
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by raz32dust 6y ago
Of course bad reviews can hurt a restaurant. That's what reviews are for. I think the problem is two-fold: 1. The ranking algorithm is bad. A simple average is very naive, but many site use just that for ranking. There needs to be some
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by raz32dust 6y ago
Sure, doesn't change the argument much though.
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by raz32dust 6y ago
I would be really surprised if they did not have audit trails. What gives you the impression they did not? The suspicion is that the credentials were stolen via social engineering. I wonder if employees needed 2FA to log in to these tools.
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by raz32dust 6y ago
Companies typically don't pay for hours worked but fo the value that is delivered. It's common to see people work a lot more than 40 hrs a week as well without overtime, and this is legal as per most employment contracts. If you a
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by raz32dust 6y ago
What is the practical implication of that? "Strong opinions, weakly held" means (IIUC) make a decision, but be open to changing it if data points to it being wrong. It helps avoid the trap of looking for perfect data to make a per

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