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by reitoei 7y ago
Great... now Apple will buy them, steal their designers and engineers, and run the place into the ground
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by reitoei 8y ago
Oh I didn't think you were trying to trick me or anything. I read about Lavoiser and the guillotine when I was a child and it stuck with me. The Russian experiment with the reanimated dogs heads... I'll let you google that one you
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by reitoei 8y ago
I know what this is, and I'm not clicking it.
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by reitoei 8y ago
This is awesome, I've never seen these before. Thanks for sharing.
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by reitoei 8y ago
The book is superior in every way. The Omega Man is also a much better film adaptation than the Will Smith effort. Killer soundtrack too: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Omega_Man
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by reitoei 8y ago
Have you ever met any death metal fans? They're not exactly a burgeoning criminal fraternity :)
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by reitoei 8y ago
Who is going to know if you do or don't?
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by reitoei 8y ago
ITT: People losing their shit over 149 lines of basic JavaScript code.
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by reitoei 8y ago
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by reitoei 8y ago
Guys, it's 2018. Let's not have this conversation.
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by reitoei 10y ago
They're not even using React FFS!
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by reitoei 10y ago
Always look forward to this and Ruby Weekly. Thanks Peter!
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by reitoei 10y ago
That sounds cool.
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by reitoei 10y ago
> And my coworkers made racist jokes about Russia. Xenophobic jokes. Russia is not a race.
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by reitoei 10y ago
They can probably absorb more fraud.
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by reitoei 10y ago
They should be using an indemnified payment service. Maybe not cost effective enough for them.
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by reitoei 10y ago
Big difference between dropping a nuke on a remote atoll in the middle of the pacific to a dropping one on a densely populated city.
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by reitoei 10y ago
A dumb terminal would still need some kind of network stack (munchy munchy battery life). Maybe something like a kindle but with apps like WhatsApp, Twitter etc. optimized for e-ink displays. I saw a kind of interesting device recently with
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by reitoei 10y ago
> mobile devices are portable dumb terminals for the cloud Catchy headline, but you and I both know that modern phones are extremely powerful computing devices.
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by reitoei 10y ago
> For many people, Facebook is "the real world": it's how they get all their news This is such an enormous, fundamentally dreadful problem and nobody seems to care. Edit: Some people seem to care, but not enough.
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by reitoei 10y ago
Solution: Stop using Facebook
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by reitoei 10y ago
Thanks for the detailed answer. Went through a similar thing myself with a "hybrid" app. Nightmare.
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by reitoei 10y ago
Someone got in before me: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13061517 Agree with the sentiment, very easy to 'armchair quarterback' something like this.
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by reitoei 10y ago
> the platform does need too much edge-case-fixing which is usually overwhelming for small shops Do you mean that by simply choosing Android as a platform, you're automatically incurring a ton of technical debt?
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by reitoei 10y ago
Should have developed it to run on a $10 Chinese HDMI Android dongle and sold it as a plug-and-play "dashboard in a box" for $300 a pop.
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by reitoei 10y ago
Username checks out
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by reitoei 10y ago
> the intellectual climate here is pretty refreshing compared to Reddit, Twitter or FB This is what I was trying to say in my original comment. I guess I got a bit too hyperbolic :)
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by reitoei 10y ago
> This is nothing more than information arbitrage, and that the unit economics from advertisers hasn't quite caught up yet.It's what allowed Buzzfeed to exist in the first place Would you mind expanding on the Buzzfeed part a
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by reitoei 10y ago
I don't think it really does to be honest. That's just my personal experience with the site, we're obviously looking through different lenses. I can't agree or disagree with something I'm not aware of.
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by reitoei 10y ago
Is that fair though? Would you consider a something like a online bee-keeping community or a MUD an 'echo chamber'? I think the phrase gets bandied about a bit too easily nowadays. Alt-right forums have a specific agenda, the form

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