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by skc 9y ago
So that's Amazon, Facebook and Microsoft that failed with phones. I think it's safe to say we will never see a viable third option in mobile. Might as well start thinking of the next great paradigm shift but even there it's h
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by skc 9y ago
Finding out that we are living in a computer simulation would probably be interesting for a few hours before everyone eventually realizes it ultimately changes nothing about our lives.
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by skc 9y ago
They probably still have the latest Apple gear though.
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by skc 9y ago
Upgrade to the new iPhone. Problem solved.
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by skc 9y ago
I like SQL. I've never failed to do anything with it and find it very powerful. But while that aspect of the SQL experience I'm comfortable with, I'm still just a developer and not a DBA. I don't even _want_ to be a DBA.
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by skc 9y ago
Yes but reaching for your phone can be lethal at least in the US.
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by skc 9y ago
I'm wondering if it's easier or harder for cops to forcefully unlock your phone using faceID or touchID
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by skc 9y ago
Is it that hard to ignore your Facebook feed? I don't understand the people that find peace only after deleting the whole app from their phones. I've had a FB account since inception and it has loads of people in it. Yet I probabl
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by skc 9y ago
Bing search results are similar enough to Google's these days (for non technical searches) for this to not be a surprise
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by skc 9y ago
Small price to pay for keeping some semblance of a functional working environment at Google.
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by skc 9y ago
Every article I've read about this building in the past has gone to great pains to point out the artistry, elegance and taste that was applied in building it. I now find it highly amusing that at Apple, form over function won out yet a
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by skc 9y ago
I last used Delphi at varsity. I was the only student in my class that chose it for my assignments and final year projects. That period was the happiest time of my life as a programmer even though relatively speaking I didn't know much
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by skc 9y ago
I don't know why people that love Apple find it so hard to admit that ultimately Apple first and foremost care about money. (And that's ok!) That's _all_ that this issue is about at the end of the day.
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by skc 9y ago
I doubt this very, very much. It's a phone, not a body part.
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by skc 9y ago
SQL Server requires regular restarts? I find this hard to believe.
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by skc 9y ago
Well, really it ended up boiling down to how late they were to enter the market. By the time they had set a toe in, the app gap was already far too wide to make a difference. They could have built an OS that was light-years ahead of iOS and
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by skc 9y ago
Just use paint.net
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by skc 9y ago
If you've ever gone through the pain of trying to convince someone why some picture or video is an obvious fake then you know just how terrifying this technology is.
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by skc 9y ago
Very cool tech but the phone as viewport seems like a fairly large step backwards in my opinion.
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by skc 9y ago
So here's a question. Facebook seems to have a really bad rep here on HN. But I'm wondering how many people here that hate Facebook, run their own businesses or have apps that include some form of Facebook interaction whether it b
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by skc 9y ago
I'm reading Dennet's From Bacteria to Bach and Back right now. Highly recommended if you're interested in philosophical discussions about this sort of stuff. I'm finding it highly entertaining and deliciously provocative
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by skc 9y ago
I'm male and I find it so bizarre that men behave in this manner. But it happens so often that I wonder sometimes if I'm the one who is not normal. I love women. I am attracted to them constantly. But the thought of making sexual
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by skc 9y ago
But there is always a voice talking in our heads. It's just that we generally ascribe it to our own consciousness but when you really sit down and think about it, it's a bit creepy when you realise that you don't actually kno
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by skc 9y ago
I'm extremely fascinated by this topic. It's amazing how something as simple as a toilet, that we take for granted everyday, is such a monumentally difficult thing to re-engineer cheaply for the world's poor.
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by skc 9y ago
Not sure why you are being down voted. You speak the truth. Just peering into your average bower_components or node_modules folder is like staring into the abyss. Guess that's the gift and the curse of OSS based web dev. I think there
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by skc 9y ago
This is fantastic if only for the competition and innovation such an announcement will bring. I feel autonomous cars going mainstream could be more transformative than many realize.
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by skc 9y ago
I get that Apple has much more touch optimized software. But aren't they effectively building the same toaster/fridge they mocked just a few years ago? I was listening to a recent ATP podcast and they were going on about how nobod
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by skc 9y ago
Mildly amusing is how everyone else is wrong until Apple does it. If you're going to use these things with a keyboard and like it then why was Microsoft so roundly mocked for championing touch screen laptops in the first place?
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by skc 9y ago
They'll be bought by Google at some point I presume.
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by skc 9y ago
I was one of the lucky ones with Vista in that by the time I'd upgraded to it, it was pretty stable. Forgettable and boring yes, but plenty fast and stable on an old HP box that served as my workstation

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