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by tanilama 8y ago
> I think programmers tend to underestimate the difficulties involved with becoming a good programmer because once you're good, you only see the even steeper learning curve ahead of you. But that is no definition of bubble. Bubble,
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by tanilama 8y ago
55%. So over 770 millions.
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by tanilama 8y ago
Why wouldnt American car manufacturers do the same? They don't have the technology?
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by tanilama 8y ago
My question as well. Could the gamers make a case and start a class action against the developers if they go too far?
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by tanilama 8y ago
> megacap open source company Isn't this by itself an oxymoron? Open source isn't shouldn't be one's marketing stunt to gain attention, if you want to charge your software make it proprietary and charge people for lic
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by tanilama 8y ago
So he smuggled 220kg of meth, while 50g is death penalty in China.
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by tanilama 8y ago
I don't know really. China is a huge. But a shrinking market for a genre that isn't big in the first place isn't a good sign while other mediums are blooming. It makes it harder to attract new blood and vitality into this sys
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by tanilama 8y ago
The problem with digital self-publishing in China is a unique one. I don't want to expand too much on this subject because it is pretty complicated, but in short, digital self-publishing is not merely a publishing channel, it has resha
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by tanilama 8y ago
Three body problem does suffer the problem of weak characterization. Liu's account of his characters are often robotic and functional, in a way that is pretty anti-climatic, since you hardly feel for those characters and their fate. Th
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by tanilama 8y ago
One simple fact is that when margin remains, and the price goes up, Apple's absolute revenue also goes up. They are charging more money from their user.
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by tanilama 8y ago
Chinese book market, or fiction market has now almost fully embraced digital self-publishing. Magazine are now almost dead, books are just physical copies of their online version. Sad but true, the one most important Chinese SF magazine, th
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by tanilama 8y ago
iPhone is getting pricer with no good reason besides greed. It is time to tell Tim Cook enough is enough
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by tanilama 8y ago
It is not exclusionary. By capitalist logic, a company grows because it makes profit from the market, if a company can't do that or lose its source of investment, it needs to shrink or disappear. What you describe is more like a politi
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by tanilama 8y ago
It is practically impossible for non-ethnic Chinese to obtain citizenship of PRC, and China doesn't acknowledge dual citizenship, so even offered, Musk would have no reason to accept that.
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by tanilama 8y ago
Which one can replace it? Either French or German will face obstacles.
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by tanilama 8y ago
Poor Europeans. The European's Great Firewall.
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by tanilama 8y ago
AWS prioritizes launch above EVERYTHING. It is their strategy, to have market tells them what to build. I think it works, and AWS has yet been brought down by this horizontal complexity. Quite an achievement, but might not be a satisfying e
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by tanilama 8y ago
Why is game development different?
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by tanilama 8y ago
How credible techcrunch should be considered a reliable journalism source here? This one smells pretty much like a money article
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by tanilama 8y ago
Amazon is really a frugal company, in a sense they want every penny they spend on you to evetually make it back to their pockets.
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by tanilama 8y ago
I sympathize part of your sentiment. I have been coding for like 10 years now. I feel it has become more .... routine? Coding itself starts becoming a tool for me, a modeling tool that realizes when I speak to it, like I know soundly winter
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by tanilama 8y ago
It is hilarious to me that people here still try to justify Apple's miscalculated pricing strategy. To much of the world outside of US, iPhone no longer offers the comparable value that lives up to its price tag. Not even being a statu
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by tanilama 8y ago
iPhone is 256GB version vs Huawei's 128GB version. Huawei P20 comes with only one storage tier which is 128GB. So I chooses the middle tier to represent iPhone.
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by tanilama 8y ago
That doesn't change the fact Apple chooses to have the customers pay for it to maintain its own margin. It is not wrong, but it does make it expensive.
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by tanilama 8y ago
See for yourself: Apple: https://detail.tmall.com/item.htm?spm=a220m.1000858.1000725.... Huawei: https://detail.tmall.com/item.htm?spm=a220m.1000858.1000725....
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by tanilama 8y ago
It is not how it is played out elsewhere in the world. First there is additional tax Apple is putting on upon the US retail price tag. Second, almost all foreign currency had deprecated against dollars in 2018. 2x might be dramatic, but 15
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by tanilama 8y ago
It is simply because of Huawei costs: 900 dollars, while Apple costs 1.5k dollars.
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by tanilama 8y ago
That is exactly what LinkedIn is doing, they are preventing bad actors from calling their API essentially blacklist them. They cant be blacklisted via IP since they are scattered across the internet, so they are banning them productively. S
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by tanilama 8y ago
> LinkedIn violates their own users' privacy in an effort to detect the usage of browser extensions. At the time of writing this, LinkedIn is scanning visitors for 38 different browser extensions. No it is defending against maliciou
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by tanilama 8y ago
Because SA is a powerful country. Netflix is small steaming company comparing to it. Their power aren't on par with each other. Besides, Saudi probably has very different values, I am pretty sure if they try to spread their version of

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