squokko

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by squokko 3y ago
OK, great. Go build an e-bike company, lobby for government investment in e-bikes, for bike lanes, whatever. Don't interfere with private companies spending their own money, improving road safety, and advancing the world forward just b
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by squokko 3y ago
If you don't want to sell your data, don't.
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by squokko 3y ago
Almost any app that's available on both iOS and Android will do more than 50% of its revenues from iOS even in markets that are 75% Android. Those "poshy" people are quick to click on in-app purchases.
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by squokko 3y ago
Well, if you want to run macOS, you have one choice, if you want to run Windows or Linux, you have 1000 choices. This will drive profit margins among the 1000 choices to roughly zero
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by squokko 3y ago
I don't know what you mean by this comment. Can you elaborate? Are you talking about the window border?
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by squokko 3y ago
The Mac Mini is a totally different market: it 1) runs macOS 2) has Apple Silicon 3) has no competitors for running macOS 4) is the cheapest entry point into iOS development which is a high paying job
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by squokko 3y ago
"Printers bad hurr durr" is like a face tattoo saying "I'm a moron." There are absolutely great printers available for $100-200 that will print without complaint from any device without any driver installation. You&
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by squokko 3y ago
Why should printing be cheaper in 2023 than 1997?
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by squokko 3y ago
I think Mastodon users must know that they are screaming into an empty void because they insist on continuously talking about Mastodon even though they know that nobody cares about it
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by squokko 3y ago
I would not believe anything I heard from IBM unless I also heard it from someone else
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by squokko 3y ago
bookmarked
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by squokko 3y ago
Henry, Namoo, Space Explorers
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by squokko 3y ago
> This is precisely the reason why narrative storytelling cannot work in VR Typical HN comment, asserting that something cannot exist that already widely exists
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by squokko 3y ago
I really like the author's advice to do the "real" thing instead of the "kid" thing. This is what kids in more primitive societies do... if the family is subsistence farmers, the kids are helping do economically pro
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by squokko 3y ago
Microsoft was also the tech company that did the 2nd fewest number of layoffs, after Apple. Can't have it both ways.
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by squokko 3y ago
I wish more of this Dynamicland stuff was made available. I'd be happy to set up a projector and camera on my ceiling if my kids could play with some of this stuff.
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by squokko 3y ago
There is only one reliable way to do market research, and that is to sell the product. Find a restaurant with an outdated website. Go into the restaurant and take a paper menu and create a website with the updated menu, make the website res
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by squokko 3y ago
"Instagram" and "WhatsApp" are their brands that have positive perception. "Facebook," "Meta," and "Mark Zuckerberg" have negative perception.
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by squokko 3y ago
> I can't tell what office you're talking about but your description doesn't make it seem like a place where people relax and enjoy if you could be easily fired. It could. Imagine anyone who couldn't run a 13 second 1
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by squokko 3y ago
Why do some rich guys hand out big tips everywhere they go? It makes them feel big and good, but it's also a good long term strategy to make people like you.
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by squokko 3y ago
This is an interesting concept with terrible execution as almost everyone will agree that most of the situations do not violate the rule.
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by squokko 3y ago
Especially since someone who eats microwave popcorn EVERY DAY is someone who clearly treats their body like a garbage can
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by squokko 3y ago
Not turning it off is one of the reasons it's lasted this long. One of the most common causes of electronics failure is thermal stressing from powering down and up.
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by squokko 3y ago
If it's any consolation, virtually every subreddit with more than 10,000 members is completely worthless
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by squokko 3y ago
People with the immediately previous generation are not usually the audience. This was only the case for iPhone between about 2011-2019.
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by squokko 3y ago
LOL! Maybe in Santa Clara
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by squokko 3y ago
Not even cold call. Cold pitch. Find restaurants with shite websites. Build them better ones. Walk in and show the QR code to the owner. Say you've built a better website for the restaurant. Have him scan it and see his restaurant much
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by squokko 3y ago
No place I worked at ever experimented at the pageload level. We experimented at the user level, so 1% of users would get the new UI. I suppose this is only possible at the millions of users scale which all of them had.
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by squokko 3y ago
A fully remote position will be filled by the qualified person willing to work for the lowest wages. You'll be competing with the hundreds of thousands of great developers in Spain, or the hundreds of great developers in Botswana, or p
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by squokko 3y ago
If OSM doesn't want this to happen then OSM can use different license terms.

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