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by skc 9y ago
You nailed it, actually. I don't actually find it too ironic that HN is missing the point that Facebook is a cultural phenomenon. The way people communicate has changed, culturally, and Facebook facilitates that. I have an account that
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by skc 9y ago
Every site I've put in there gets a failing grade. From Google to Apple to Slashdot etc. Wonder what the point is then.
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by skc 9y ago
It's completely unrecognizable. They've made incredible strides.
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by skc 9y ago
South Africa is pretty much the only country where this was ever going to be possible. Perhaps Rwanda as well. Uninterrupted power is a major challenge here on the continent.
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by skc 9y ago
Every time a topic like this comes up I always wonder what bizarro version of Windows I'm running because I've never experienced my personal machine rebooting at an inopportune moment, never seen ads, never seen it install softwar
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by skc 9y ago
The dashboard is still very slow. But all in all, the technical offering is pretty good and easy to be productive in.
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by skc 9y ago
I see them quite a bit now so they are definitely a smash hit, but I still find that all I ever see people actually do with them is wear them.
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by skc 9y ago
I've always thought the main reason NoSQL solutions became popular is that developers could finally get at and manipulate the data the way they wanted to. I've known some very, very prickly DBA's in my time who referred to th
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by skc 9y ago
I grew up running around barefoot as a kid in Zambia. We used to play football (soccer) anywhere with no shoes. Didn't matter how rocky the field was. The only time we wore shoes was to go to school. Occasionally you'd step on a t
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by skc 9y ago
The reason (and timing) for the somewhat snarky response is probably because Uber right now have a bit of a black mark against them PR wise.
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by skc 10y ago
I work at a large bank in my country. We have quite a few old gentlemen that work about four hours a day on insane hourly rates doing this sort of work. They seem to be living the life quite frankly, spending the rest of their day boating a
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by skc 10y ago
Why on earth would you include South Africa in your list? You can call the South African president whatever you like as many have and currently do with no repercussions as is your right.
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by skc 10y ago
Silly question, why can't Apple just buy the company outright.
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by skc 10y ago
A WPF app is just a .Net app. I can't recall the problem described ever having been an issue.
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by skc 10y ago
I'm embarrassed that I never looked into the difference between the two. I've always bought fresh milk on the assumption that it was healthier and purer than the long life stuff, especially because the long life milk tastes a tad
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by skc 10y ago
Such a pity that WPF was never ported to other platforms That's a UI framework that was done right in my opinion. Fast, incredibly flexible and sane. That it's been relegated to boring internal only enterprise app development is p
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by skc 10y ago
Safari on Windows was the obvious one. Lord what a mess.
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by skc 10y ago
I rarely see tablets in the wild anymore. Has anyone else had the same experience? Even at the office I no longer see execs walking around with them. Just a few years ago these things were everywhere out in public. I assume the remaining ho
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by skc 10y ago
It's only Nigeria actually.
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by skc 10y ago
>>I suspect the root of the problem is our system of education. The primary goal these days seems to be obedience and unquestioning believe in authority.<< You would think so. But my dad is a varsity Professor with a PhD, my mom
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by skc 10y ago
Somewhat ironic, as I was reading that article a huge AWS ad suddenly popped up on the site obscuring my view.
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by skc 10y ago
That's quite a blowout.
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by skc 10y ago
>>My guess is a lot of people probably do this to bump up their social status a bit. I had thought the Black Mirror episode titled "Nose Dive" was a bit silly at first, but as usual with that series, it 's turning out t
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by skc 10y ago
You would think NASA of all orgs would at least provide time-zone conversions for their news conference, or at the very least add a countdown timer to their site.
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by skc 10y ago
I honestly don't know of anyone that has read the story and ended up interpreting it as a time-travel story.
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by skc 10y ago
OT but I've been wondering about this. I work in South Africa and have done so for some really big corporates as well as small boutique companies. Without fail, every HR department has been the one department where you will find the ma
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by skc 10y ago
It's grown to become a very pleasant platform and ecosystem to dev in. It's fairly fuss free for the most part. Good job MS.
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by skc 10y ago
So are there any actual success stories that the NoSQL movement can point at because it's bizarre to me how NoSQL can still be all the rage when time after time all I read is post mortems detailing painful experience after painful expe
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by skc 10y ago
The cynic in me believes that Vizio are probably just a few years too early.
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by skc 10y ago
So it seems logical to me that someone could become very, very, very rich if they built a news platform that was effectively "fake news" free. Even if all the platform did was accept "news stories" and transparently veri

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