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by siquick 4y ago
Even Spotify’s web app on mobile is severely limited..by themselves. You can’t even view your Library and one of the navigation items is Get App. https://open.spotify.com/
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> I think we’ve evolved from that to “being gaslit is the wallpaper for most conversations.” Seemingly any point will be contradicted by someone, no matter how untruthful or outright wrong to malicious the counterpoint. It’s as though pe
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UK but live in Australia (it’s not used here either as far as I know). I think the UK equivalent is probably Draw as in “this is the draw for the World Cup”. Bracket in the UK is something used to hold up shelving.
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I’ve been a football fan for nearly 40 years and have never heard the term Bracket related to the game - what does it mean?
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I've lived in Australia for 10 years. The country is one big vacuum pulling in aspects of culture from all over the world via internet, media, and immigration. That's to be expected for such a new country (Australia in the post co
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This is a pretty naive take on how hard it is to build a application that relies on any kind of network effect, activation, and retention, not to mention a complex ad platform that needs CS/Sales to even get it off the ground.
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Creating highly interactive web applications is far easier using React (and the surrounding ecosystem) than using plain Javascript.
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But they would still be restaurants without software.
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Can you add a PWA to the Mac App Store?
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Also a Hetzner convert. Their pricing is so cheap for VPS compared to AWS that I worry they’ll have to put up the prices at some point.
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Megalopolis: Coastal west Africa will shape the coming century(theguardian.com)
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You can book apartments and homes on Booking
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Glad I’m not alone. I really want to love this series of books but I’m never excited about reading it because i find it too hard to follow.
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> The waiting list for hospital treatment has hit a record high of seven million in England, latest figures show. England population: 56.5m Anyone else find it hard to believe that 1 in 8 people including children are waiting for hospita
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The North (including Liverpool upwards) has been dictated to by London and the south for hundreds of years, there’s a lot of people who wouldn’t mind an alternative to that.
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> The UK is a bit of a *hole, except for London Where have you been in the UK to have this opinion?
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You have to wonder what Mozilla are doing with $400m a year.
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I did a one month vinyl record shopping trip in Hiroshima, Kyoto, Osaka, and Tokyo a few years ago by train. Hiroshima was my favourite city. Considering what happened there, it had a really peaceful vibe and the city rebuild in the affecte
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However bad this is, it won't ever top the US pilot of Peep Show https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Yredc3ayOE
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I worked at one of the worlds biggest travel search companies. The guy who was in charge of PPC for our region reckoned that if they turned off Google search ads then the company would lose 70% of revenue. It’s probably even worse now that
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First page for “NSW corruption” https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-10-15/nsw-history-of-corrup... https://www.smh.com.au/politics/nsw/barilaro-petinos-and-unu... First page on “NSW buildin
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The last 2 summers here in Sydney have been pretty much a writeoff due to the rain. And then before the double La Niña we had the bush fires of 2019 where the city had some of the worst air quality anywhere of the world. The (general shoddi
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Sydney gets almost double the rain that Dublin gets. http://www.weather-guide.com/Weather-Comparison/Dublin-Sydne...
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Not to mention ability to generate its own energy from various renewable sources and with climate change, more ability to grow food in the lower regions.
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Nura is still going and are miles ahead of anything Apple are doing sound quality wise. I’ve got both the Nuraphones and the Nurabuds and listening to anything else in a similar price range is such a step down. You can also use Spatial on t
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If you haven’t tried already it’s worth looking at Bandcamp. There are a lot of new CDs (and tapes and vinyl) for sale on there from independent labels.
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You’d be hard pushed to find any production applications of any scale using either Svelte or Solid.
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> Add a Bandcamp album by entering https://2000black.bandcamp.com/album/lord-dego-2 Never ever did I expect to see Dego mentioned on HN. Kaidi and him are dons.
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> As the world’s police and adult I can’t tell if this is parody or not
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Funny to read some of the scathing replies in this thread. Andrew is pretty much one of the leading minds in growth over the last 10 years. It’s unlikely that you’d find anyone in the role that hasn’t studied his articles in depth.

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