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931.
by wyclif 4y ago
it’s not the kind of super-smooth demo that only a charismatic Steve Jobs-type personality can pull off And that's exactly why I like this demo so much more than even the original iPhone demo.
932.
by wyclif 4y ago
Sure it's a great idea and hiring culture would be so much better if it happened, but I think the parent is correct that companies want friction at that point. None of them want to make it easier for talent to jump ship and transfer.
933.
by wyclif 4y ago
There are technical and political reasons. Among the technical were that Atom was the first app built on the Electron framework. On the political side, I think a significant reason was the fact that Microsoft bought GitHub.
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Twitter to provide Elon Musk with raw daily tweet data(apnews.com)
2 points by wyclif 4y ago|0 comments
935.
by wyclif 4y ago
I had this exact same problem when making the switch from VS Code to VSCodium this past week. It would be nice if the same extensions matched.
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by wyclif 4y ago
And we can see this across all levels of society, from cryptocurrency to grade inflation to George Floyd to political corruption to school shootings. The loss of trust in institutions is particularly accelerated today, whereas people of the
937.
by wyclif 4y ago
I know loads of SWEs who dropped out of CS degrees outright or changed majors and graduated with a liberal arts degree (I myself am a SWE but a liberal arts grad; I never took a single CS course but worked as a sysadmin for the I/O dep
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How the Voyage of the Kon-Tiki Misled the World About Navigating the Pacific(smithsonianmag.com)
3 points by wyclif 4y ago|0 comments
939.
by wyclif 4y ago
You should be able to permanently set it to "Latest." I've been complaining about that forever, it seems.
940.
by wyclif 4y ago
Yep, the last Windows version I used was Win2K. It was my fave version of Windows by far. After that I switched to Linux on the desktop, warts and all.
941.
by wyclif 4y ago
Cover and book jacket art was better for all books, because what happened is that (especially in the US) instead of letting art directors have creative freedom, they started focus grouping it relentlessly. This, unsurprisingly, creates blan
942.
by wyclif 4y ago
The Black Keys talked about this on Joe Rogan's podcast. Pat Carney, the drummer, calls it "the guy with a degree from Pepperdine who wants to tweak the high hat."
943.
by wyclif 4y ago
I liked the movie, but Adams wasn't around to prevent the filmmakers from Americanising it, casting Ford Prefect and Trillian with American actors. If I remember correctly, Trillian is supposed to be Arabic in the book.
944.
by wyclif 4y ago
Nowhere was the claim made that an Oxford degree makes you intelligent or competent. And in this thread, we're not dealing with the way things should be, however you or I see things. It's simply acknowledging the way things are
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TikTok’s Work Culture: Anxiety, Secrecy and Relentless Pressure(wsj.com)
4 points by wyclif 4y ago|0 comments
946.
by wyclif 4y ago
It's not mythical, it's very real. Look at the constitution and educational credentials of UK cabinet ministers and Parliament. It's often Eton > Oxford U. In order of prestige, it's undeniably Oxford, Cambridge, and
947.
by wyclif 4y ago
For some reason Oxford is taken to be the pinnacle of UK Ivory Towers Because it's the most prestigious and the most-well connected (i.e. the most highly prized network) university in the UK.
948.
by wyclif 4y ago
Almost all of my remaining long-time friends are people I made friends with at university. I keep in touch with just one friend from high school. Everybody else either disappeared off the map or reinvented themselves and therefore didn&#x27
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Once Wall Street's Stars, Big Tech Falls Back to Earth(apnews.com)
2 points by wyclif 5y ago|0 comments
950.
by wyclif 5y ago
My real surname isn't a common one, so I went ahead and grabbed mysurname@gmail.com in March 2004 when Evan Williams sent me a Gmail invite. But my surname is English and one that is predominately found in the UK, Canada, Ireland, Sout
951.
by wyclif 5y ago
Nowhere did I advocate censorship. But I do think it should be illegal because this stunt could have started a wildfire if the plane had started burning.
952.
by wyclif 5y ago
This is what I was thinking. I didn't find the video here on HN. A few weeks ago my 11 year old son told me about it. Like a lot of kids his age, becoming a YouTuber is aspirational, and his reaction was "that is crazy" but i
953.
by wyclif 5y ago
Also pretty obvious that this guy is no outdoorsman. He complains about not being able to get signal so he can call 911, but then he walks down a ravine and then down a dry river bed. In that situation, you need to climb UP, not down, and g
954.
Someone managed to fit an entire Raspberry Pi inside the body of a cassette(yankodesign.com)
6 points by wyclif 5y ago|1 comments
955.
by wyclif 5y ago
I switched to Brave Search and browser recently. It's based on chromium/Blink and feels a lot snappier than Firefox/Gecko.
956.
by wyclif 5y ago
But that just proves my point: they didn't make a dent because none of them had the network effects and economies of scale that a proposed alternative created by Musk would have.
957.
by wyclif 5y ago
Loads of people said that about Twitter in 2006 when it was a "knock off." It's been proven wrong again and again. And Musk is the kind of guy who can create significantly large network effects and economies of scale.
958.
by wyclif 5y ago
In my view (and actually the view of a lot of people, given the responses in this thread), it has almost nothing to do with politeness and everything to do with avoiding being manipulated by wokeists.
959.
by wyclif 5y ago
You're right, but unfortunately I can't edit it now.
960.
by wyclif 5y ago
I knew I'd watched the first two videos at some point because when I opened this page, those first two links were the only ones greyed out. Good stuff.

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