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by vxNsr 5y ago
It added a lot more stability over win8 and removed a bunch of terrible UX. Additionally it added to a lot of the great ideas of windows 7. I can’t recall any off the top of my head, but I remember trying to do things in 7 and being surpris
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by vxNsr 5y ago
I know very few people who have paid for excel specifically. everyone pays for MS office, albeit because it includes excel, but in an workplace setting the main thing you're paying for is outlook/exchange the fact that word/e
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by vxNsr 5y ago
Excel is more than just a hammer it’s the fork that is in every single drawer of every single company/org in the world. It’s not about every problem looking like a nail, it’s that, nobody had to pay for this fork, somehow everyone has
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by vxNsr 5y ago
Oh man, it reads exactly like his podcast 50 things that made the modern economy. I was having flashbacks but couldn’t pinpoint why. Thanks for sharing.
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by vxNsr 5y ago
Best part is, that “feature” doesn’t exist in windows 11, they rolled that out knowing it would be gone in 6 months. Someone in marketing needed their win.
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by vxNsr 5y ago
Regarding 2, we’re rapidly approaching the expiration date on any relevant patents from the early 00s. I wonder what software will look like 10 years from now when all the great ideas can be commoditized…
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by vxNsr 5y ago
Windows 11 really is shaping up to be the vista version. Look forward to windows 12 which will have all the good features without the annoying ones. Microsoft really has a lock on the good-bad-good cadence.
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by vxNsr 5y ago
Vetoing sends a message and as others have said would at least force the media to talk about it.
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by vxNsr 5y ago
Because he could veto it.
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by vxNsr 5y ago
India disagrees with you but ok.
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by vxNsr 5y ago
If you don’t believe Tiktok is a national security threat you are hopelessly naive. MyFitnessPal, Strava, etc are threats to national security and they’re US based, but you think that Tiktok isn’t because someone you don’t like said it is?
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by vxNsr 5y ago
I've been seeing a big push for magnesium these last few weeks here on hn, any specific reason for that?
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by vxNsr 5y ago
> To fix this a deliberate decision has to be made to change the force structure to build more technicians and unfortunately people like that don't want to take the pay and lifestyle cut so we just can't fill out the ranks. T
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by vxNsr 5y ago
RCN: $44/m 1gbps/50mbps down/up Comcast: $70/m 1gbps/30mbps down/up Chicago Both are copper. RCN is slowly rolling out fiber but I think it’ll still be asymmetric.
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by vxNsr 5y ago
Every place I’ve worked at lets me carve out side gigs/projects as being personal and not subject to w/e stupid non-compete clause they’re making me sign.
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by vxNsr 5y ago
The fit for Bitcoin trades isn’t perfect, but I’ve seen fits like that used to disprove fraud. So I’m not sure that one graph really proves much. A while back I used benfords law on Chicago city salaries which are public… it wasn’t pretty.
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by vxNsr 5y ago
This is one place where I’m not so concerned for the devs. It’s a brave new world for them and they’ll figure it out. If it means that consumers keep a little more money in their pockets bec they didn’t need that stuff anyway, so be it.
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by vxNsr 5y ago
Put another way, the modal IQ on HN is likely higher than 100. So I have a hard time taking someone seriously when they claim they have an avg IQ and think getting into FAANG is easy. That just means they have no clue how much smarter they
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by vxNsr 5y ago
My understanding is that for any given age the average IQ is 100. Are you seriously suggesting that you would score 100 on an IQ test? I highly doubt that considering that your manager is so motivated to hire but simply can’t.
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by vxNsr 5y ago
One of the more “hn” comments I’ve seen lately. Assuming every person in the world is an ivy league graduate, with a high IQ, and A+ coding talent is a little bit out of touch with reality.
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by vxNsr 5y ago
> AWS has less market share than Microsoft. The Cloud is a pretty competitive space. According to gartner[0] AWS has over double Azure’s market share by revenue. What metric are you using for your stat? [0] https://www.gartn
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by vxNsr 5y ago
India’s been on a tear lately, first sci-hub, then Twitter now this… seems they’re growing up.
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by vxNsr 5y ago
Why do we have these culture war discussions here on hn? They all devolve into the same type of hyper partisanship that gets nowhere.
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by vxNsr 5y ago
if you want protection from a ransomware attack you absolutely want a cloud backup, or you need to setup a cloud-like backup solution, where the "local" server is somehow airgapped from your local network and uses a different set
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by vxNsr 5y ago
Yea, I actually thought that’s how they worked when I first got them, I remember seeing a demo where that was done, but it was probably either concept art or a different product.
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by vxNsr 5y ago
If it makes you feel any better they use their own custom notifications in windows as well and it suffers all the same issues (doesn’t respect dnd, gets covered by/covers native notifications, etc)
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by vxNsr 5y ago
Sounds like they paid you a masters program tuition… granted back then that probably wasn’t a lot, but they were paying more than just your teaching salary.
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by vxNsr 5y ago
Not a big fan of this, our home computers are all less than 2tb, at this point it looks like it’s cheaper to find someone else to do the backups who isn’t “unlimited”. The biggest selling point to me for backblaze was set it and forget it +
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by vxNsr 5y ago
Kinda, you can pay ($2/m) for extended version history, and that might keep the files for longer.
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by vxNsr 5y ago
Every default sub is toxic these days. Toxic in exactly the way tumblr was. Both due to moderators and the people who spend the most time there. I would venture to say any sub with >100k users is also pretty toxic.

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