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by ximeng 6y ago
https://support.google.com/docs/thread/38272854?hl=en Curious why basic bugs with Google’s spreadsheet are not fixed (or acknowledged) for months. Feel like Google just don’t compete very hard on some of these pro
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by ximeng 6y ago
There is a problem on Linux with some software not being available or not being as well tested. Despite all the problems with Windows this means that sometimes having it is helpful.
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by ximeng 6y ago
These are interesting tools. Pitch detector didn't seem to work too well for me but no doubt my bad singing. You could probably just show both clefs with the relevant clef symbol at the beginning rather than making it an option. For th
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by ximeng 6y ago
Well 1mn usd of PR damage is not a big problem when you have 100bn usd plus annual revenue. But for an individual employee it’s a bad reputation hit.
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by ximeng 6y ago
Hopefully they also weigh in the fact that screwing developers over is terrible publicity. Assume 100k developers see this and are slightly less inclined to trust MS in future, this bad publicity could easily cost them 1mn USD plus. A good
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by ximeng 6y ago
Extract from guidelines: Please don't comment about the voting on comments. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading. Please don't post comments saying that HN is turning into Reddit. It's a semi-noob illusion, as
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by ximeng 6y ago
ℤ is just the integers, so say the integers or the ring of integers to emphasise the mathematical structure
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by ximeng 6y ago
https://gizmodo.com/the-four-eyed-night-vision-goggles-that-... in case anyone else is wondering about the four-lensed goggles.
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by ximeng 6y ago
You need somebody to decide what “improve civilisation” means, and nobody agrees on this.
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by ximeng 6y ago
Now for most people they have somebody who tells them what is useful to work on. This “purpose” is externally imposed and often people don’t really fully believe in the work they’re doing already. Better to have people educated and having t
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by ximeng 6y ago
Invest in more open platforms. Not a great short term solution, but not many alternatives.
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by ximeng 6y ago
Taosinese?
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by ximeng 6y ago
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2015/sep/23/1500-sa... 1500 dollar sandwich?
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by ximeng 6y ago
Thanks for the thoughtful response dang. Perhaps a blend is useful - it's good to have quick takes on articles, but the current voting structure incentivises quick takes over thoughtful responses. In many cases, writing a quick comment
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by ximeng 6y ago
Interesting the idea that the original plan was that your votes count for more if you vote for the right kind of stories. Would seem to create an echo chamber effect where what’s already popular stays popular and new stuff doesn’t.
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by ximeng 6y ago
I think it's worth the effort just to make sure you keep familiar with the process for upgrading (including making appropriate backups). It's pretty quick and easy to upgrade and makes sure you're on top of deployment for you
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by ximeng 6y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20264848 stage0 is a bootstrapping project aimed to make the link from machine code to high level languages more understandable.
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by ximeng 6y ago
[2012] http://capitan-mas-ideas.blogspot.com/2012/08/pangea-politic... with commentary on the shortcomings
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by ximeng 6y ago
I have more of a problem with iphone charging cables - the official ones disintegrate, and both official and non-official seem to have problems with the fourth pin getting corroded over time and the cable failing.
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by ximeng 6y ago
Are you working in the industry at the moment? The best way to learn is talk to people who are closer to the business side - product managers, sales people, finance, and so on. Also software touches on a lot of industries, so you might want
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by ximeng 6y ago
Maybe some kind of dictation / speech-to-text system would work better for you. Think we're at a stage that computers can replace his system, although the idea of tracking thoughts and dividing into subjects is somewhat timeless.
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by ximeng 6y ago
You could consider talking more about what you are interested in, what makes you happy, and less about the problems with your current situation. If you have even a little bit of energy that you can put towards something which you care about
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by ximeng 6y ago
Recent comment on this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22920237 "The effect likely isn't too big, or it would be harder to design experiments where it doesn't show up at all."
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by ximeng 6y ago
You also can't backup at all if there is too much data for your iphone. https://www.reddit.com/r/applehelp/comments/dsx6o9/whatsapp_... is an example of people looking for ways to make this work.
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by ximeng 6y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18948715 Also Excel not standing still. Google missing opportunities here. They have made improvements though - Google sheets can now work on Excel format files without changing the form
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by ximeng 6y ago
Story of Amazon vs eBay told by Steve Yegge here: https://medium.com/s/story/jeff-bezos-jack-ma-and-the-quest-...
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by ximeng 7y ago
One alternative at that point is to just ignore the fact that the deprecated feature is now removed and continue supporting it in your compiler. Maybe you hide standards compliance behind a flag. Annoying and more overhead, but saves your c
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by ximeng 7y ago
Why would a vendor be unhappy about that? They have a large library using this deprecated syntax? Or many customers? It seems like a relatively easy fix to existing code.
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by ximeng 7y ago
Five ball juggling robot: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9asDO_1A27U Three ball juggling / devil stick robot: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pKJEbs64Y2o Partner juggling: https://www.youtu
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by ximeng 7y ago
Not sure about the most serious issue, but by all appearances it is a very serious issue - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_impacts_of_climate_ch... suggests on the order of a few percentage of global GDP, which

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