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by codeisawesome 6y ago
Maybe they sell the H/W at a loss (especially considering R&D + Marketing spend) - and the real strategy is to turn a profit on PSPlus, licensing and taking a cut out of game distribution. If that's the case... you or me build
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by codeisawesome 6y ago
I sometimes wish I could remember that a year is a short time. I’m often wracked by guilt about not progressing at sub-yearly “ticks” on some aspects.
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by codeisawesome 6y ago
Made me puke when Evernote introduced the "Context" feature, a disgusting data grab. It's a much worse option than just searching for whatever I want by myself, with the added anti-feature of losing all privacy to Evernote st
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by codeisawesome 6y ago
Allow me to submit that this obsession is... Kafka-esque? :D
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by codeisawesome 6y ago
> They aren't going to do it for nothing - certainly not if their neighbours are receiving the same compensation for idling and watching Netflix all day. UBI does not replace wages AFAIK. Perhaps people can choose to idle on Netflix
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by codeisawesome 6y ago
OT but it also means less burgers eaten overall, leading to a smaller burden on the healthcare system. Sounds like a win to me :)
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by codeisawesome 6y ago
What do you do with 64 GB on your personal machine to use it up completely? Just curious..
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by codeisawesome 6y ago
That made me shudder go all the people I know who won’t update their phones
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by codeisawesome 6y ago
Something that always bothered me: how do so many cars get sold? Aren’t these very durable objects that last years? I’m just having trouble wrapping my mind around the scale of demand for new cars.
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by codeisawesome 6y ago
Changing region didn’t work to get Apple News :(
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by codeisawesome 6y ago
I completely understand that that IT department sounds draconian and lazy.
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I want to read a book (or a few!) full of these dynamics of wealth - what it means to be paper wealthy, what leveraging that can do for your lifestyle, and why people live in fear of the margin call. Can I please ask you for any recommendat
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by codeisawesome 6y ago
As of now this is not actually open source - though that’s the default expectation of a repository being on GitHub. I don’t like the pattern of doing that because I feel GitHub will become a very slick SourceForge. One more experience like
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by codeisawesome 6y ago
That’s an amazing saying. I, too, once had a middle aged Japanese colleague for just a few weeks - he was a smart engineer and hard worker, and kind to all. But he went back to the “mothership office” soon after - I was sad, but it was nice
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by codeisawesome 6y ago
> The core Google products barely changed in the last 5 years Frontend development and UI updates are not the only way progress is made on the technical infrastructure in technology companies. How do we know that Google isn't battli
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by codeisawesome 6y ago
If IBM invested the money into actual research and product development - that would mean the money still enters the economy via the workers doing the research and development. I feel like this point isn't emphasised well enough in the
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by codeisawesome 6y ago
Oh wow! I think I could finally be tempted to get an X1..!
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by codeisawesome 6y ago
wow this is great! Now I want Apple to acquire them and provide this natively on the iPhone.
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by codeisawesome 6y ago
Love the analogy! Clarifies a lot.
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Would your opinion change if the EARN IT bill passes? You’d now have the App Store forced to ban apps that won’t share encryption keys with US Govt. if I understand it correctly. That complete lack of choice to side load apps with strong en
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by codeisawesome 6y ago
Literally any single person can aspire to be a Software Engineer at a major tech company by studying online, on their own, with resources that are either free or modestly expensive. I disagree that it is a broken process. I do not want the
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by codeisawesome 6y ago
Aren’t there many proprietary blobs starting at the SIM card level, which are black boxes that could contain malicious code? I can’t trust Android phones “completely” because I’m not sure just how much of it is truly open source - so iPhone
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by codeisawesome 6y ago
This is groundbreaking - and the very fact that it is possible, is mind-bending... I really liked the possibility that these 'machines' can be 'evolved' into agglomerating ocean microplastics into collectable balls!
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by codeisawesome 6y ago
> with the EU collapsing Are there real signs of the EU collapsing?
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by codeisawesome 6y ago
Except for the nasty first sentence you make debatable points... I’d get rid of the deplorable usage of the word “cesspit”.
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by codeisawesome 6y ago
If you guys make an “I put my code in orbit” badge (virtual and/or physical) I will wear it...! That’s another use case - vanity! I’m not being sarcastic, I’d love this.
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Ask HN: Interesting scaling challenges for HN itself during Covid?
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Home delivery systems have been shut down??
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by codeisawesome 6y ago
Where... can I donate to the COVID-19 vaccine efforts?!
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by codeisawesome 7y ago
That’s disingenuous - the article’s title makes it clear to be attempt to summarise coffee history.

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