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by hackerbob 2y ago
If Google has to sell Chrome what stops another buyer from being even more profit maximizing then Google. What if a private equity firm like Silver Lake buys it? Some will say well the free market will do its thing and people will just swit
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by hackerbob 2y ago
This is indeed fast! Also seems to be no issue interrupting it while speaking. Is this using WebRTC echo cancellation to avoid microphone and speaker audio mix ups?
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by hackerbob 3y ago
My conclusion was that Sam slipped up somewhere and lost Ilya. Which maybe because of the reason you mentioned. Previously it seems like it was a 3 cofounders vs 3 non cofounders board split. Ilya switched teams after being upset by somethi
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by hackerbob 3y ago
I'm starting to wonder if it was a gang of four or if it was a gang of three and they used one of the cofounders (Ilya) to turn on his cofounders to get control of the company.
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by hackerbob 3y ago
My personal belief was after 2016 there was a Trump effect. Once everyone saw you could say WHAT!? and still become the president of the United States. I think that made a lot of people bolder in what they could think, say and do from busin
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by hackerbob 5y ago
Do they share HR offices too! https://www.cnbc.com/2022/03/02/google-tells-employees-to-re...
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by hackerbob 5y ago
Yeah I wonder why this is. Perhaps misplaced idealism of human nature and authority. The Judge, CEO, or the Journalist despite their lofty titles are human too and can be influenced by others. They also are not immune to their own personal
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Chrome will soon warn you when you might not want to trust an extension(theverge.com)
5 points by hackerbob 5y ago|1 comments
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by hackerbob 5y ago
calling yourself an "elitist" is definitely a word.
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by hackerbob 5y ago
Normally I wouldn't be in favor of OS imposed changes either, but in this case I think there is more good being done here by Microsoft than bad. I can barely tell the difference between your title edit and mine. Anyway I can't cha
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Microsoft makes Flash removal from Windows 10 mandatory(arstechnica.com)
3 points by hackerbob 5y ago|4 comments
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by hackerbob 6y ago
"proud of its ignorance" - This sums up so much.
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by hackerbob 6y ago
It shouldn't. Everyone's time should be respected. Clarity and conciseness in writing or in speech is a great way to show that.
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by hackerbob 6y ago
Exactly! The bet has been people aren't capable of coordinating in large numbers to take advantage of this so it's not really broken. Now that they are it's officially broken and will be reviewed.
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by hackerbob 6y ago
Why did the programmer leave the restaurant? He didn't like the table layout.
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by hackerbob 6y ago
Discord is also an Electron app and I see few complaints. Sometimes it just the case that some apps give the rest a bad name.
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by hackerbob 6y ago
If you only need the basic stuff , lookup application portables.
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by hackerbob 7y ago
Yes, this was one of the things I learned in Big Co after a few years. You end up realizing most work relationships (not all) are what I now call "proximity kindness". Think two people walking into an elevator together.
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by hackerbob 7y ago
We've been throw this game before: CoffeeScript Until TS becomes an official standard supported by ECMAScript out of the box. Were just going along with what feels or looks good and the javascript community has proven that can change f
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by hackerbob 8y ago
There's a double standard. Rich Chinese are buying industries and property around the world, but secretly (or perhaps not so secretly anymore) have a problem with Western entrepreneurs owning things in China.
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by hackerbob 8y ago
This point is so good, and so subtle, I'll try to expand on it. In tech teams the saying that "the best idea always win" is commonly believed. But the more experienced know that first and foremost groups are social and there
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by hackerbob 9y ago
medium/short length documentaries DW Documentary Also like watching movie character and screenplay breakdowns Nerdwriter1 and Lessons from the Screenplay
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by hackerbob 9y ago
It's not right, but we have a broken system that favors them over us. And I don't think it will be fix soon. Another problem we have is people getting falsely accused and sent to jail when they make mistakes in interrogations. It&
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by hackerbob 9y ago
Of course there are scenarios out of our control. In this one particularly the victim walked out of the house and then was shot after he slipped up on one of the commands. Not to blame the victim, but his mistake lead to their over reaction
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by hackerbob 9y ago
The way things are going if a SWAT team rolled up to my house ( I know this is going to sound silly). I'd call 911 and have them on speaker phone coaching me through it. Most people are not trained to handled these situations properly
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by hackerbob 9y ago
Paywall bypass bookmarklet https://jsfiddle.net/samx10/n6mxp8ag/
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JavaScript/CSS Multi File merging & minifying tool(chrome.google.com)
3 points by hackerbob 13y ago|0 comments
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Doug Engelbart was unable to find funding for his work(zdnet.com)
105 points by hackerbob 13y ago|18 comments
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WalmartLabs Acquires Tasty Labs(walmartlabs.blogspot.ca)
2 points by hackerbob 13y ago|0 comments
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by hackerbob 14y ago
I'm debating whether to learn Python or Ruby. And the initial post as well as this one has me leaning towards Ruby despite all the good things that have been said about Python. Are there non CS majors out there that picked up Python as a f

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