anbop

7 ms·

1.
by anbop 6y ago
The problem is most heavy computer users set themselves up with a proper ergonomic setup, i.e. external keyboard. And by not building the touch bar into external keyboards, they killed the entire concept of the Touch Bar, because any "
2.
by anbop 6y ago
Never happened to me. If there are no letters after unit numbers, and the delivery person sees a delivery for unit 522B, they'll leave it at 522.
3.
by anbop 6y ago
One hack around address limits is to put in a unit number. 1 Park Avenue or whatever in Manhattan will have multiple units in it. And if you live in one of these units you can add a letter, like "Unit 522B" which will just get del
4.
by anbop 6y ago
Ordering groceries creates employment at a time when unemployment is higher than literally ever before.
5.
by anbop 6y ago
I mean for Amazon Prime you have to have a Prime susbcription to even play, so the $129/year fee is a good barrier to bots.
6.
by anbop 6y ago
Singapore is anything but a mono-cultural country and is only recently rich. Basically through extreme government competence they made themselves rich and yes, their society definitely has Chinese at the top but unlike the US, the society i
7.
by anbop 6y ago
I'm sure there are 16,000 people that would be thankful that you were 14,000 ventilators short instead of 30,000.
8.
by anbop 6y ago
The fine print has always been that it's 2 days from Amazon's ship date and not from your order date.
9.
by anbop 6y ago
For some reason I initially read this as "Prince Charles." And thought that I was totally ignorant of Prince Charles' programming exploits, as though he were a Lee Hsien Loong.
10.
by anbop 7y ago
Because it works. The earliest industrial base of the United States was created from textile production IP stolen from the United Kingdom, which eventually outcompeted British textiles. The American government has been captured by the Ameri
11.
by anbop 7y ago
No one said it does. But if you tell someone "fix whatever is causing the disks on this machine to fill up" they're going to be more motivated to do so, and more able to make the best decisions about how to do so, if they kno
12.
by anbop 7y ago
Adoptive parents are people who have gone through a lot of effort and expense to get their children, so they're far more likely to be heavily invested in their kids. It's also expensive so they're likely to have money. If the
13.
by anbop 7y ago
What's a seat rocker? Google is turning up household furniture.
14.
by anbop 7y ago
I can’t believe a drivers license scan is all that is needed for many companies. That means that losing my wallet on the street effectively means that someone can go get my entire digital history. Why not require the user to request this da
15.
by anbop 7y ago
When the iPhone 6S came out the iPhone 4S seemed like a dinosaur. Now even though the iPhone 10S is out the iPhone 6S works just fine. It happened in PCs and now it's happened in phones -- the annual increase in specs eventually passed
16.
by anbop 7y ago
oof, not comparable at all. The increased mechanical latency from a cello, compared to a violin, is an incredible source of tonal and musical complexity. First of all, the latency can be felt by the musician, so I don't lose control of
17.
by anbop 7y ago
The author's description of the various typefaces and their semicolons is just exquisite. What a fucking writer.
18.
by anbop 7y ago
The original purpose of the “hackable” button was to give a fun piece of experimentation kit that worked with AWS and encouraged people to try it out. I set up my AWS account just to use one.
19.
by anbop 7y ago
This is the first thing I’ve ever upvoted on Hacker News
20.
by anbop 7y ago
My guess is that this whole story arc was planned from Day 1. They knew they’d need to do this, and they’d get caught, so they just tried to tag as much stuff as they could before the shit hit the PR fan.
21.
by anbop 7y ago
It is not at all a given that machine learning systems need covert review of user data. The training data can come from paid users or explicitly opted in users. Do not normalize this behavior, it is not normal, OK, or required.
22.
by anbop 7y ago
Thinking for yourself is not an unalloyed good. It’s important to realize where you need to rely on expertise.
23.
by anbop 7y ago
And corporations would pay a lot to have extensions security reviewed if they had a business use case.
24.
by anbop 7y ago
I won’t even share it’s name, why would I open source it? Lol. It makes a decent amount of money and requires close to 0 engineering know how to build. So no, I will continue to let it make money quietly...
25.
by anbop 7y ago
Hong Kong is a cube and the US is a plane. Delivery costs are not comparable
26.
by anbop 7y ago
I don’t have a problem with it although I think it’s good that they changed it. If drivers complain “we’re not getting enough tip” and the company says “OK we guarantee your tips will be at least $5 on this order” that’s the behavior you ge
27.
by anbop 7y ago
Yeah, a young artist would be so much better served by getting even a used iPad. It will make her familiar with the tools that the pros use, and is massively better than its competitors. I hope she consults another person.
28.
by anbop 7y ago
Can someone explain to a complete n00b what you need these graph databases like Neo4J and Dgraph for? I've just built some small business SaaS always on MySQL.
29.
by anbop 7y ago
No because it’s too easy to clone.
30.
by anbop 7y ago
I have a SaaS business which exists ONLY because of advertising. It’s highly niche, really the only product that does what it does, and a few dozen people a day click through from Google Ads and find that I have a product to automate someth

More ›