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by rbrtl 6y ago
whatever man. you had a good go at me the other day. you're right I'm wrong, and HN is no longer the place for me
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by rbrtl 6y ago
Hahaha this is great. Reminds me of my first suspension from school when I used MS Word hyperlinks to get to all the drives "hidden" by the network admins. This included the homework mailbox drives, so naturally I found my least f
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by rbrtl 6y ago
As pointed out by the most voted top level comment it's a kernel issue.
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by rbrtl 6y ago
You did use the word serious enough to make it compelling. But the author’s biography doesn’t mean that his comment wasn’t flippant. He’s proved that an well-behaved, codesigned app can list file metadata about files in restricted directori
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by rbrtl 6y ago
This is amusing, but mostly because it’s the Netherlands. I love the country and the people but they don’t even have a level playing field for retail payments. The big stores accept most card networks (Visa is a little underrepresented even
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by rbrtl 6y ago
Sure. They just developed a new chip, with a new 5nm process, at to drop all the devs off a cliff and hang them out to dry. That will sell units. If they don't work the issues out they'll have to partially shelve the design and go
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by rbrtl 6y ago
I think Google may have lost some of the ferocity in their loyalists around May 2018, when they removed the "Do no evil" clause from their code of conduct. That was an easy hook on which to hang an uncritical defence.
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by rbrtl 6y ago
The vendor lock-in aspect of the super-vertical integration is definitely one of the more abundant points of complaint I see. I get that it's a controversial choice, and it goes hand in hand with their proprietary standard model, which
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by rbrtl 6y ago
It's a good question. I don't really have the data science chops to come up with the methodology. I was always a weak statistician... I'm not looking to prove that there is no bias, I'm devilishly interested in whether a
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by rbrtl 6y ago
One of my favourite Usenet posts is Linus' tirade at Tanenbaum over MINIX.
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by rbrtl 6y ago
I agree. My position is that is a company is big enough people will have an opinion, and if there's an opinion to be had there's probably an opposition in there somewhere. I like the "reverse PR" theory, kinda the "
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Ask HN: Apple Bias – Real or Imagined?
6 points by rbrtl 6y ago|17 comments
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by rbrtl 6y ago
Ah but he is different from those iconoclasts because his personal was also his business life and he drove them both into the ground at the same time. You’re right, I am absolutely refusing to be generous with him. He had all the generosity
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by rbrtl 6y ago
Reminds me of the vehicles in the Daniel Suarez books, Daemon and Freedom.
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by rbrtl 6y ago
Would you happen to know any data science? I took a course on R but I never got to use it, but this is actually starting to sound like an interesting project. There's a lot of data entry level work to do I guess. My data chops aren&#x2
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by rbrtl 6y ago
Very good. You got me. Here you go: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9583362 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25238542 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6420048 https:/&#x2
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by rbrtl 6y ago
How many times can I say: you were wrong; before you understand that I mean you misused the wrong word to make a bad point that isn’t true. Then you jumped down my throat about pointing out that you’re wrong, and deflected the criticism to
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by rbrtl 6y ago
Sure I’m privileged because I didn’t grow up dealing with genocide, but neither did most of the population born after 1950. I should not have generalised about the others he helped, that was wrong of me, but I stand by what I said about him
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by rbrtl 6y ago
No, I think it’s fucking brilliant that the US gave them the opportunity for a better life in a safer place. I’m furious that he spent 40 years taking that, his family, and his community, for granted and then claims to have just “moved on”
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by rbrtl 6y ago
Addicts who recover tend to admit that they are always in recovery, not that they’re healed. Though the religious framework and the 12 step program are very similar. Hopefully he keeps the faith if it works for him. Edit to add, look at the
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by rbrtl 6y ago
Maybe don't use big words you completely misunderstand in a discussion concerning a complex topic littered with political commentary and obvious bias. Particularly if you are only pointing out the obvious bias.
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by rbrtl 6y ago
> “you do have it easy” > “you’re very fortunate” So it’s lucky to be an entrepreneur in the US particularly if you immigrate. I think GP was more interested in having opportunities like: managing a franchise after going on a course s
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by rbrtl 6y ago
The more I read it, the more this strikes a chord. For one thing, they were saving every penny of the business’ money, washing disposable stirrers until the franchise reprimanded them. It mentions very little about money at home, and the “g
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by rbrtl 6y ago
And working his kids extremely hard, without even managing to feed them...
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by rbrtl 6y ago
He didn’t open the business, he managed it. And the man starved his children while forcing them into labour. Then he pissed away everything he had, and a lot of what he said he would give away to others. He’s not a hero, he’s a criminal.
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by rbrtl 6y ago
A cursory scan of the front page article concerning Amazon turns up a few standing in Amazon’s defence. I guess Apple isn’t the only tech giant with blindly loyal fans https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25240953 https:&#
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by rbrtl 6y ago
I was discussing this with my dad earlier today. Neither he nor I have a degree. He started a course in the 70s that he never finished, and I didn’t apply to university, for numerous reasons, but I was application age when fees were tripled
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by rbrtl 6y ago
Most power users maybe. Most consumer users don’t think about the fact they have to trust at all. And you can’t say you don’t want the security features and then say that it’s bad you have to turn them off if you don’t want them. The goalpo
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by rbrtl 6y ago
I have heard really good things about the keyboards for the iPads. I’m still using an iPad Air 2 with a Logitech Bluetooth keyboard which works wonders. There are code editing apps for iOS, but I don’t know what they're capable of thes
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by rbrtl 6y ago
Yeah that’s reactive, rather than reactionary. It’s a significant definition, particularly as reactionary tends to be used pejoratively to describe the proverbial “stick in the mud”. And my point was that the very fact that Apple is the one

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