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by signal11 6y ago
> They only need one place ( cough centralised cough ) where their customer can easily find them, have all the relevant information, ( Email, Tele, Opening Time etc ), and a small space for newest update. Google also offer this service,
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by signal11 6y ago
I realise this is a devil’s advocate type argument, but I doubt Facebook is the only channel for most small businesses, and even if it was, it’s their fault for relying on a single channel and taking no precautions. Not even a website? FW
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by signal11 6y ago
Precisely. There is a cost to integrating off the shelf software which people often forget. Less so in small startups, but in large enterprises this is non-trivial.
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by signal11 6y ago
I believe the correct answer is related to specificity, ie what is most important to what you’re communicating. To borrow some parentheses, (the big (bad wolf)) highlights the character of the wolf as being more important than it’s shape. H
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by signal11 6y ago
The thing with English grammar is that it's very malleable. And exception-ridden. In this particular case, the specificity of what you're describing is important as well. > absolutely have to be in this order: opinion-size-age-
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by signal11 6y ago
As far as I know, there's a minimum tenancy period of 24 hours, but after that it's like "standard" EC2 where you're billed per second.
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by signal11 6y ago
There are alternatives to GSuite -- for instance, Fastmail. Or even the old PObox.com service which has been around since the 90s and is really cheap (Fastmail have bought it now, I notice).
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by signal11 6y ago
Indian food delivery and ride-hailing companies like Zomato and Ola don’t appear to support it yet (and training their delivery folk), sadly. I wish they would though — it would make life much easier. Most delivery people I’ve spoken to are
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by signal11 6y ago
This is literally what pass(1) does. Although it's rather fun to write a bunch of shell scripts that provide equivalent functionality.
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by signal11 6y ago
> the vast majority of people don't have the discipline or skill to implement them effectively. I'd go so far as saying -- most people who think they have the discipline and skill, don't. Or rather, maybe they have it ma
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by signal11 6y ago
I didn't use a case for my iPhone 5, but it was very easy to grip. The 6 and later models, including the 11s and the SE 2020, have rounded edges that to me are really slippery and easy to drop. The 12 seems to be similar to the 5 (and
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by signal11 6y ago
They chose a different gun, I think. If you told me in 2000 that, 20 years on, Microsoft would be the world #2 in cloud (or utility computing, a concept Sun really tried to popularize in the 90s) computing and IBM would be an also-ran, I’
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by signal11 6y ago
Not sure about Linux (and I have no inside info, just public sources), but around 2013-2014, the tech press was full of reports that Microsoft was making billions [1] from Android, by charging OEMs $5-15 per unit for patents Android allege
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by signal11 6y ago
A reminder that increasingly intrusive ads are one part of the problem. The other, and potentially bigger, part is automatic content recognition (ACR), which has been covered on HN before: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?i
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by signal11 6y ago
Wow. From that page > India leads the world, in the list of Internet Shutdowns. In 2018, as reported by Access Now, out of 196 documented Internet Shutdowns globally, India accounted for 134 of them.[124] The reasons for the shutdowns ra
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by signal11 6y ago
Jetbrains were doing some work with a lightweight editor in IDEA to help with the “quick edits” use case. https://blog.jetbrains.com/idea/2020/01/intellij-idea-2020-1... https://blog.jetbrains.com&
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by signal11 6y ago
((Windows Subsystem) for Linux) is probably closest to WSL1’s intent. It was a Windows subsystem (the first new one in years), and its goal was to let you run Linux apps.
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by signal11 6y ago
With IDEA I can do Java, Web, SQL, Python, Rust.
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by signal11 6y ago
> If you want to work in an environment where caste matters and the caste hierarchy is observed, do not work for a western company. And if you want to practice caste discrimination at an Indian company — beware, caste based discriminatio
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by signal11 6y ago
Negative discrimination on the basis of caste is already banned in India (since 1948).
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by signal11 6y ago
Harvard and Oxbridge are world-class research universities, not just good undergraduate universities. For selective undergraduate universities, there’s a whole bunch of “elite” universities in Asia — eg the IITs in India, or Tsinghua &
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by signal11 6y ago
> we don't routinely talk to our computers That's perhaps because doing so in an office or cafe environment isn't great. Kids are using text-to-speech more while doing their homework. Word has been beefing up its transcrip
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by signal11 6y ago
The history of the JEDI contract is interesting[2018]. It was contested by Oracle and also by IBM, and was widely seen as a last-gasp attempt by two entrenched 'enterprise tech' vendors to remain relevant in the cloud marketplace.
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by signal11 6y ago
Clarence Court's eggs are pretty expensive compared to other brands -- obviously that's nothing to do with conditions but I can say all the ones I've bought so far have been really, consistently good quality. I'll be ve
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by signal11 6y ago
I’m looking forward to trying Sequoia PGP[1], a new OpenPGP implementation using Rust. Its opinionated high-level API and removal of MD5 and IDEA might just be the do-over OpenPGP needs. [1] https://sequoia-pgp.org/talks&#x2
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by signal11 6y ago
You may need a driver for the laptop's video card. The 'tearing' you describe is very characteristic of Microsoft's generic display drivers, perhaps for some reason the OS was unable to auto-install the driver? Or the gr
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by signal11 6y ago
> I've used a hard real time OS for a desktop for some years Was this a QNX variant? I'm wondering how you'd rate iOS, especiallly with the ProMotion displays on the iPad Pro. Do they come close in terms of responsiveness?
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by signal11 6y ago
No, IE11 (including Trident, JScript, etc) will remain supported as long as Windows 10 is supported, as it's a built-in Windows component. You're probably asking "Isn't IE on track to be phased out" because Microsof
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by signal11 6y ago
Yes, it's called "showrooming" and retailers hate it, not that there's much they can do to stop it. However, for bookshops, I personally believe there's value in having a well-curated collection of books available l
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by signal11 6y ago
More than that, we also have the problem that many users look online on Amazon first. For example, for online searches (in the UK), I try Amazon, Wordery, and Waterstones.com -- but usually Amazon first. If they don't have something or

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