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by sovande 7y ago
> I would never voluntarily work with PayPal tech. Really, for your company's sake I hope what matters is not what you like, but that your company has a payment solution that does not stop working when Stripe freezes your account. Y
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by sovande 7y ago
No, this is infuriating, but we must not forget that they “built an ML engine to automatically optimize bla bla bla.” But really, pretense should be off. Stripe is nothing more than a PayPal clone. Even the refund policy is now perfectly cl
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by sovande 7y ago
Replacing his automated process with 2-3 manual steps and with a dependency on you. Yeah, he probably said whatever popped into his mind to make you go away.
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by sovande 7y ago
> So China could wipe out America’s military presence in Asia. What then? Do we assume that somehow the rest of America’s military back home and abroad doesn’t respond? Yes, consider the following scenario, Using some political pretence,
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by sovande 7y ago
Am I missing something? Isn't he just advocating VC feature branching?
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Neuralink’s plans for brain-reading ‘threads’ and a robot to insert them(theverge.com)
23 points by sovande 7y ago|2 comments
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by sovande 7y ago
10 years ago, this site was very popular http://www.wechoosethemoon.org I wish there was something similar but updated
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Ask HN: Today is 50 years since the moon-landing. Recommended sites?
6 points by sovande 7y ago|4 comments
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by sovande 7y ago
> I just don't want to bother with MAS, so it's much easier to automate all stuff. That might sound good to you, but not to your users. Please put it in a sandbox and on the MAS. There is no reason for a calculator to _not_ run
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by sovande 7y ago
> I almost never buy an app from the Mac App Store when it's also available directly. Unpopular opinion, but I always try to buy Apps from the Mac App Store. It is easy to purchase and with buyer protection. You can easily install t
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by sovande 7y ago
The app had a ranking of 50 in the productivity category June 8 and was out of the MAS US list June 11. Thats all for the last 365 days. So I guess not many is willing to pay. I salute the attempt fight the race to the bottom which the App
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by sovande 7y ago
It links directly to the Mac App Store which open MAS on my Mac. It's kind of rude. Their web-page does not contain any text describing the product, there is a simple video which could be linked instead. The product is at least 1 year
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by sovande 7y ago
> where the sun doesn't rise for a part of the year as well That would be the same place a few months from now. This is strange though, it's not like this guy is the first above the polar circle using a Mac. I suspect it must s
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by sovande 7y ago
> Caesar was not fighting to gain Who knows? I believe you are right that he was forced into action when the Senate pulled him back from Gaul [1] with the intention of bringing him to court. If he did not have a plan to set himself up as
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by sovande 7y ago
By crossing the Rubicon with his one legion, Caesar put himself on a path of no return and in open conflict with the Senate and Pompey who vastly outnumbered him military. There was no guarantee that he would succeed. Upon crossing he decla
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by sovande 7y ago
I don't disagree, once you have crossed the rubicon. When Julius Caesar _actually_ crossed the Rubicon, the risk was immense and there was no guarantee of a successful outcome. That's what I mean, going all in on a risky adventu
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by sovande 7y ago
One trait most successful founders have is not being overly analytical. This correlate with higher education as well, the higher, the more analytical. Creating a successful startup is basically a lottery and it almost does not matter what i
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by sovande 7y ago
> coup de grâce "Funny" that they have a french word and a french statement as the second and third example. But maybe not and it is intentionally, 'whois' says Registrant Country is FR. In any case, very cool and wor
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by sovande 7y ago
The second book introduce the "The Dark Forest Theory". By that alone it is worth reading. This take on the Fermi Paradox and how it is weaved into the plot is very well done. The second book is also interesting from a SF perspect
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Apple Registers 7 Unreleased Mac Notebooks in Eurasian Database(macrumors.com)
2 points by sovande 7y ago|0 comments
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by sovande 7y ago
Not the OP, but I'll chip in with my $.02. I really want to like Firefox, but everything UI feels wrong (on macOS). From tabs, where the close button is on the wrong side (right) and if you click the + button to open a new tab the curs
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by sovande 7y ago
A better metaphor is probably to look at an API as a design blueprint. For instance a blueprint of a house. Describing in detail all the components that goes into creating the house, plumbing, electricity, rooms etc. Clearly it is a lot of
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by sovande 7y ago
Sure, we need naive wish lists, but for open source to be more than a curios historical blip and not fall into a Venezuelan disaster, the least we can demand of FSF and OSI is to give us a proper open source license so those who want to _do
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by sovande 7y ago
"Descartes reasoned that since animals are not rational, they are not conscious, and since they are not conscious, they cannot even be aware of pain; their piteous howls during the horrible experiments he conducted on them were to him
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by sovande 7y ago
MongoDB used to use AGPL, but apparently that was not good enough. Not sure why?
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by sovande 7y ago
A geo-stationary satellite can stay in orbit for billions of years. I’m surprised this was not mentioned in the article at all.
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by sovande 8y ago
re2c is a hidden gem and it is used in libzdb to parse URL's https://bitbucket.org/tildeslash/libzdb/src/9402bd5757d1db34... and SQL Date strings https://bitbucket.org/tildeslash/lib
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Intel Expecting Apple to Transition to Custom ARM-Based Chips Starting in 2020(macrumors.com)
15 points by sovande 8y ago|11 comments
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by sovande 8y ago
The next step is to innovative _away_ the smartphone I think. Who wants to lug around a large smartphone anymore? Apple’s Watch series 4 with LTE feels like a great step in the right direction. I come to love it since I got it around Christ
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by sovande 8y ago
Apple's GameplayKit has several examples https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/Ge...

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