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by fengb 2y ago
In retrospect, it makes a lot of sense. Genesis was huge in NA/Europe, but it was considered somewhat of a failure in Japan. Sega has always floundered with its home consoles — they released 3 competitors to the NES after all. Genesis
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by fengb 4y ago
2010: All this pump is fake. Sell! 2014: All this pump is fake. Sell! 2018: All this pump is fake. Sell! 2022: All this pump is fake. Sell! See, you can time the market.
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by fengb 4y ago
Mostly anecdotal opinion as a Chicagoan — Our tech scene has been largely driven by fintech and a few unicorns. And our unicorns tend to be much more bust than boom — Groupon being the highest profile one. Not sure if it's correlation
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by fengb 6y ago
How would GPL help? It doesn't stop hostile forks. Pretty sure the ask isn't the Zen source.
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Holy Language Wars, Batman(pixelherodev.github.io)
5 points by fengb 6y ago|0 comments
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by fengb 7y ago
Lifecycles map closer to how the underlying UI layer works, but not to developer expectations. I've lost countless hours to desynced implementations such as failing to account for componentDidUpdate when overriding componentDidMount or
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by fengb 7y ago
The Zig language doesn't need libc, but because it also includes a fully functional C compiler, it ships with musl source and glibc headers for better crossplatform support.
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by fengb 7y ago
WeWork would like a chat.
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by fengb 7y ago
There's a task to rename UB to illegal behavior: https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/2402 As well as some followups to see if Zig can detect all of these errors: * https://github.com/zi
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by fengb 7y ago
Is he seriously using Javascript as an example of non-OOP language?
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by fengb 7y ago
Li-ion cells provides 3.6V, which makes them incompatible with traditional alkaline or NiMH. I don't think we've invented a standard for Li-ion batteries yet.
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by fengb 7y ago
Most compilers for 8-bit and 16-bit CPUs, e.g. Z80 or 80286.
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by fengb 7y ago
A corollary to this is: the code should match the problem domain. If the business problem is complicated, trying to further simplify the code usually makes it awkwardly abstracted and extra brittle. The fix should not be _just_ cleaning up
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by fengb 7y ago
Zig has wasm as a built-in compile target — derived from LLVM 8 so Clang has the same functionality. The link to Dom/OpenGL is still a manual process but there’s some efforts generating the necessary JavaScript helpers.
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by fengb 7y ago
Much worse than that: their (pre-market) valuation is 44B and takeovers require shareholder agreement, usually at least 20% premium to the market — I'd wager the ask price would be a lot more but let's be conservative... 53B buys
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by fengb 7y ago
https://github.com/niw/HapticKey
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by fengb 8y ago
Funnily enough, the listed MSRP usually much higher than actual dealership price.
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by fengb 8y ago
Mole was just redefined as exactly 6.02214076e23 — the number of Si-28 atoms in a perfect 1 kg sphere. This was an intentionally check against the kibble balance measurement. More info from an older Veritasium video: https://www.
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by fengb 8y ago
tar actually makes sense with a little mnemonic: tar xzf $file - xtract - ze (actually gzip but fake-accent "the" is more memorable) - file
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by fengb 8y ago
There’s an OS reason: the only way to detect if there’s an incoming or ongoing phone cal is by having full phone permissions.
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by fengb 9y ago
Pretty strong refutation to his version: https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/apple-says-1-000-fraudu...
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by fengb 10y ago
Stay-at-home dads explains 2 million of this article's main statistic. So even if the remaining 5 million of the "needs work", the employment number is closer to 89%. Edit: there's a reason economists usually use "l
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by fengb 10y ago
Just concat using a semicolon instead of just a new line.
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by fengb 11y ago
Monthly cost is $21.67 under Next 24.
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by fengb 11y ago
If you pay off the entire amount, you keep the device. If you upgrade before the contract ends, you have the option of paying off the remaining amount and keeping it (or returning it). It's most likely a terrible idea to return the dev
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by fengb 11y ago
I'll never understand how Next disparagers get their numbers. The screenshot [1] clearly shows $21.67 per month for 30 months ($650.10). Next is effectively 0% installment loan for buying a new device with the (admittedly terrible) opt
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Apple Watch Screen Scratch Test by iPhonefixed(iphonefixed.co.uk)
1 points by fengb 11y ago|1 comments
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by fengb 12y ago
The homebuyer can simply buy a smaller home and extract the difference between paying mortgage and renting.
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Show HN: Bitvain – online Bitcoin vanity address generator(bitvain.com)
6 points by fengb 12y ago|0 comments
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by fengb 12y ago
How is Yahoo doing better? Mayer has definitely changed a lot, but I'd argue that much of it is for the worse. Her most prominent changes, stack ranking and acqui-hires, are pretty bad in general (inciting cutthroat competition and bur

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