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by toastking 8y ago
This is pretty smart given the nature of open source. It's a good safeguard for someone messing with code that runs like half of cloud deployments now.
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by toastking 8y ago
I really dug into APL style languages. I learned Mathematica which really opened my mind to new ways of programming. I also learned a lot about how web pages actually render. I highly recommend everyone checks out Chrome's Advanced Pai
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by toastking 8y ago
I always saw it as his way of teaching of grammars. But I think it is kind of bad that the grammar isn't actually creating a solvable system.
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by toastking 8y ago
I think one thing that seems to be missed here is none of the products they showed were that original. It's not like WeChat was some amazing new idea. It was chat. Their only real advantage is a captive market.
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by toastking 8y ago
You hit on something important which is there's a difference between being a programmer and being a programmer on a team. Working together on something creative like a codebase or a design is a whole different set of skills that's
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by toastking 8y ago
This seems really cool but I can't imagine using a task manager that doesn't also have a mobile app.
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by toastking 8y ago
Yeah one of the major points towards vim is pretty much every unix environment has vim installed.
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by toastking 9y ago
So is part of the idea of releasing the schematics that it might push VR headset makers to adopt a design similar to this?
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by toastking 9y ago
I really hope Snap's struggles as a public company don't effect other "Unicorns" going public. Judging from Spotify's weird IPO filing I think other companies are getting spooked.
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by toastking 9y ago
Keep in mind he started Palintir. He doesn't actually care about privacy.
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by toastking 9y ago
This maybe isn't a project management "best practice" but one of the things my team does that is great is that we insert JIRA ticket links into changelogs. We also put revision numbers as well, it makes it really easy to cros
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by toastking 9y ago
I think the difference is it's a little easier to control other forms of "screen time". That other stuff is pure entertainment and they don't have the addictive aspect of a feed.
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by toastking 9y ago
It's also been experimentally proven that people have issues discerning fake news online. Our news literacy is falling rapidly. https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/11/23/503129818...
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by toastking 9y ago
Or the tech reinvention of automats: https://www.eatsa.com/ .
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by toastking 9y ago
Yeah and they already have offices all over the world so it's a nonissue.
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by toastking 9y ago
Code as well, the other day I couldn't access code that was stored in Github because it was down. There was no mirror of it. The entire point of Git is that it's supposed to be decentralized and now we're even forgetting that
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by toastking 9y ago
Keep in mind the person who wrote this run's a DIY venue in Brooklyn so they're pretty torn up about this. Spotify is pretty terrible for struggling DIY artists who mainly rely on album/merch sales at shows.
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by toastking 9y ago
I'm not so sure. 8tracks tried that by collecting playlists from real people but it hasn't been able to stick. I think people like convenience and nothing is more convenient than a computer telling you what to do.
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by toastking 9y ago
This is also the way most technology goes. You used to be able to fix any part of a car. Now engines are sealed and hard to repair and cars have automatic transmissions. Consumer electronics takes this path as well. This is why voice assist
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by toastking 9y ago
To add to what others have said, VIM has a lot of features of modern editors. They have code folding, autocomplete, and more. Most of it's built in but there's a multitude of plugins for all this.
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by toastking 9y ago
Maybe they just assume that all discussions on HN lead to bitcoin given a sufficient time scale.
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by toastking 9y ago
I think fintech (like "edtech") is a little bit nebulous. I would say anything involving handling money is fintech. So stuff like Venmo or Robinhood. I would even go so far as to say certain data science companies are fintech in t
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by toastking 9y ago
This honestly seems like it's taking their reader's intelligence for granted. When people see content from the NYT's they know the point of view it's coming from. I get that the actions of Time's reporters reflects
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by toastking 9y ago
This has especially been an issue at the Times as of late. Their desire to be neutral on the coverage of the Google Memo led to them quoting misogynists word for word without any commentary.
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by toastking 9y ago
This is how I feel about the USB C dongles too. I forgot the a adapter at the office the other day and couldn't effectively work from home because of that. It's just a bad experience.
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by toastking 9y ago
Your point on price anchoring is great. They're really playing with human nature by saying something is worth X amount then offering it for "free".
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by toastking 9y ago
It could also be that branding is important and that by selling on their own website their viewed as more unique. Though that could also point to a flaw in the design of AliExpress that it doesn't allow for good branding on it's s
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by toastking 9y ago
Also startup accelerators usually work with businesses that already exist. It's actually a good analogy. If you already know a little bit about coding and computer science a bootcamp can really help. If you don't have the drive to
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by toastking 9y ago
What confuses is me is what kind of work needs to go in to updating android on different phones? If Android is compatible with the architecture of the phone shouldn't the software update from Google work?
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by toastking 9y ago
They also have great screen tech from their tv business. So if that's been transferred to their phone business it's gotta be great.

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