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571.
by rch 7y ago
PDFs can be annoying on a small tablet or phone. It seems like I used to have more display options, but I tried to catch up on some reading on my last flight and I couldn't find an option to reflow the text.
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by rch 7y ago
It was a bad bet on netbooks that didn't fully anticipate the dominance of smartphones.
573.
by rch 7y ago
I've run into a few people working on this over the last five years or so, but they've been a bit cagey about discussing their use cases and customers. Any public applications outside of blockchain?
574.
by rch 7y ago
The market seems to reflect that age is a valuable attribute for entrepreneurs[1], and I'd be curious to know the average age of published authors, composers, mathematicians, and so on; particularity when it comes to works that society
575.
by rch 7y ago
> This was mostly me passing by and asking how things were going Hello Peter whaaaat's happening?
576.
by rch 7y ago
I think Faust looks like exemplary modern Python. https://github.com/robinhood/faust Also voted for Postgres, Redis, and NetBSD.
577.
by rch 7y ago
I think it's time for HN to replace the now useless 'web' link with one that lets me hide submissions from inaccessible domains.
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by rch 7y ago
I feel the same way. Until recently they seemed to be deprioritizing features I cared about in favor of e.g. Paper, which seems designed for some other type of user. So, when my company was choosing a provider I didn't really have any
579.
by rch 7y ago
I still see the old (superior) layout when I use an incognito window, so I guess the new version is being tested or rolled out gradually.
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by rch 7y ago
I use keybase and promote it around the office, but I've had trouble getting people to join me. Maybe if it had an edgy dark mode...
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Henry Kissinger Eric Schmidt and Daniel Huttenlocher on AI(theatlantic.com)
1 points by rch 7y ago|0 comments
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Coupling qubits to sound in a multimode cavity(phys.org)
2 points by rch 7y ago|0 comments
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by rch 7y ago
As a long time PostgreSQL user, I'd say that decoupling has been very useful for most of the last two decades, but it's quickly becoming irrelevant for reasons that should be obvious here.
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by rch 7y ago
In the example I'm thinking of the partner wasn't really bothered that the schedule slipped, but the ideal marketing window came and went before the product officially launched, which certainly affected sales. They were really exc
585.
by rch 7y ago
Because if they launch on the original schedule with Partner X they get Massive Benefit Y that could make or break the product. For example.
586.
by rch 7y ago
Including WhatsApp?
587.
by rch 7y ago
I don't believe those organizations typically share that information with other corporations. Sorry if I've let this aspect overshadow the more general point of foundation control -- I was just trying to avoid a potential loophole
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by rch 7y ago
Currently they mention that they collect "aggregated, non-personally identifying information ... about how our users, collectively, use GitHub", which is perfectly reasonable for a corporation providing services which many users c
589.
by rch 7y ago
When I saw the headline I wondered: what would it take to actually win me over? I'd say that spinning GH back out with foundation support, and strong privacy protections, would be a solid start.
590.
by rch 7y ago
I can only say that I've witnessed some of these situations first-hand, with tragic conclusions. But I'd in no way diminish the importance of addressing the most pressing needs discussed here.
591.
by rch 7y ago
You make a fair point about effective disaster resilience planning, but optimizing for the poor, elderly, mobility-limited, homeless, etc (while virtuous) would merely make that group less vulnerable than those otherwise capable populations
592.
by rch 7y ago
It's a tautology to state that "vulnerable populations would be hurt the worst" in any circumstance.
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Why Donations are Important(medium.com)
1 points by rch 7y ago|0 comments
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by rch 7y ago
Google Contributor is (was?) a good idea, and for a while I really enjoyed using it. It was nice to visit a page and see the "thanks for being a contributor" messages instead of visually aggressive ads. Of course it was canceled a
595.
by rch 7y ago
Ignoring the advertisers for a moment, it's obvious that companies have a legitimate interest in knowing what portion of their ad spend is reaching people who eventually become customers. If the tech evolves to the point where that met
596.
by rch 7y ago
I don't think this comment reflects the heterogeneity of the American urban and semi-urban landscape. There are places actually trying to understand how to progressively and responsibly manage infill development, along with issues like
597.
by rch 7y ago
An exhaustive list would get tedious pretty quickly, but I'm imagining that using this engine would be roughly equivalent to building around Rogue Wave IMSL libraries or Mapbox Atlas. It seems like using the SDK in your language of cho
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by rch 7y ago
I don't support right wing terrorism (the Klan in particular).
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by rch 7y ago
I'm surprised at the proportion of people who have never heard of the Weather Underground and the SDS.
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by rch 7y ago
Certain segments of the agriculture industry seem promising, since smaller scale operations could benefit from efficiencies in logistics and distribution that were traditionally drivers of consolidation.

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