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by samcday 8y ago
> In many of these cases, laid-off employees had no idea what was coming. One developer at a major studio told me in February that he and his colleagues had been crunching — putting in long hours, including nights and weekends — for a vi
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> The more independently operating companies there are operating their own cables, the more room there is for free market to operate. > That being said, I do believe the notion of big corporations with pre-existing near monopolies on
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by samcday 8y ago
Thanks for the nostalgia hit folks. The Internet in the late 90's was truly awesome - Geocities, flaming text, marquees, Neopets and all.
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If you’re going to rip sick people off to pad your bottom line and reward your executives and shareholders, at least have the courage to be upfront about it. It’s weird to say this, but maybe the world needs more Martin Shkreli’s. That way
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Oh boy, can’t wait to see how this fractures the email landscape when Google inevitably abandons it 3-5 years from now. </snark>
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Contrived example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXV-yaFmQNk I'm right with you. I grew up on the cusp of the internet's explosive growth. I got online every chance I could get, but until I was in my mid-teens o
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> The voice is whatever the latest Android text-to-speech reader is. Mr. Wang said people can form a bond very easily with anything that talks with them. “Between a semi-lifelike thing and a tetrahedron with eyeballs, there’s no real dif
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by samcday 8y ago
Can some people who consider themselves knowledgeable in the "nature/nurture" debate, either side, weigh in here and educate me please? When I was 14 I liked listening to Linkin Park, writing cheesy QBasic code, and playing F
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I was worried my original comment might be misunderstood, that's why I qualified it as "... allows one to >> willingly << regress performance...". Looks like it still got misunderstood anyway ;)
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For a team that has been pushing the cutting edge of Javascript VM performance for many years, it must feel pretty weird to ship a feature that allows one to willingly regress performance so much!
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The article goes over a bunch of things, but IMO the most interesting paragraph is buried at the end: > "As chairman of the appropriations committee, I have more than a passing interest in what NASA does. And I have a little parochi
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Tangentially related - I've always thought it's dumb that I can't just plug my iPhone in to any PC and have it show up as a removable storage device. I'm sure people who know more than me will give me a list of great rea
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That's a shame :( FWIW I'm on 65.0.1 (64-bit) on Ubuntu 18.04.2 and have had no major issues. I use Firefox exclusively and use my browser heavily all day long.
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Keep using Firefox! Encourage everyone you know (without being too obnoxious of course) to switch. Help them switch if they’re receptive to the idea. Support them in staying with Firefox if they have extension requirements, workflow concern
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Comparing Lucene to Elasticsearch is very apples to oranges, in my opinion. It's like if MySQL did something people didn't like and the answer was "Discover InnoDB". Sure, Lucene might be all you need, if all you need is
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> The latest drone model, the $3500 DJI Mavic Enterprise, can record sounds and play them over a speaker - allowing a dog's bark, or other noises, to be loudly projected across a paddock. Ok so basically it's just an off-the-sh
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Yes, I got a little carried away, the subject matter gets me frothing at the mouth a little :) I'll avoid the (admittedly rare) fiercely political submissions to HN in future!
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Given the downvotes, I can only surmise that HN isn't really the place to discuss this sort of stuff, which is fair enough! Anyway, thanks for responding thoughtfully and calmly. :)
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That would certainly have made for a much more interesting article!
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Why should they be required to "address their past shortcomings"? Last I checked, when I visit the Windows website it doesn't say "Really stable now but we've had 1,123,432 critical security bugs in the past!".
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Oooh, I'm eagerly awaiting that film to screen in Berlin later this month! I loved Alex's TED talk. Just that little taste had my palms very, very sweaty.
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I dunno if I really follow your logic here. It would be nice if nobody cared about money and we all just worked hard to make everything awesome or whatever. But, we (sadly) don't live in that world. So in this world that we do live i
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I'm sitting on my couch, just idly watching live footage of some people doing stuff 200 miles above me. Above the place I will spend the entirety of my life. Watching them do complicated things that, if we're lucky and don't
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IIRC, Lian Li is the manufacturer of both the Ncase and the Dan A4. At the very least I know that the Dan A4 is using a lian pci riser.
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> The smallest Thelio, designated “thelio-r1”, stands 32 centimeters tall, 20 centimeters wide, and 28 centimeters deep, coming to only a total of 18 liters in volume, a good deal smaller than even the tiniest commercial full-GPU mITX fo
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If something like Starlink goes live, would it possibly be a way for citizens of a country that chooses to nope out of the global internet to stay online?
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> “We’ve spent the last two and a half years building an amazing team, launching our first unmanned service, working with incredible partners and creating technology to fundamentally improve our daily lives,” Nuro co-founder Dave Ferguso
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Yikes! Just a quick follow up to my original comment... After reading a lot of the replies I realized I have never actually given serious thought to what it would be like to have diabetes. Sure I shared my little anecdote, but I’m currentl
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> Once ingested, water dissolves a disk of sugar, using a spring to release a tiny needle made up almost entirely of freeze-dried insulin. The needle is injected into the stomach — which the patient can’t feel, owing to a lack of pain re
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If the idea was for Australia to lead by example on all the ways to NOT regulate an increasingly digital world, we're doing a bloody good job. I worked for Atlassian in Sydney. I know there's a pretty decent tech culture that is t

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