wayne

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Yes, you can now order DoorDash from the command line(techcrunch.com)
2 points by wayne 2mo ago|2 comments
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by wayne 5mo ago
Yet he did still launch Vision Pro.
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by wayne 6mo ago
If you search for them on LinkedIn, it's a small team of ~5 outside of Silicon Valley (Austin, Spain, Norway). I'm sure they're doing quite well but even if they were doing just ok it doesn't have to make billions for ev
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by wayne 7mo ago
I enjoyed this program a lot as a kid. It had a very strange interface I found inefficient but the documents you could create were animated and fun. Sounds like Microsoft had enough confidence in the interface after this to proceed with Bob
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Okay, So Apple's Using 3D Printing in the iPhone Air. But How?(ifixit.com)
2 points by wayne 10mo ago|0 comments
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Groundbreaking Tech Inside Meta's $800 AR Glasses but Don't Count on Fixing Them(ifixit.com)
3 points by wayne 11mo ago|0 comments
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by wayne 1y ago
It might be a fad, but the current trend in US public aviation is increasing premium cabins and premium revenue: https://simpleflying.com/why-us-carriers-doubling-down-premi... This is the reason Delta and United and doing
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by wayne 2y ago
I remember it was controversial and "the beginning of the end" when you no longer had to host at a 4-digit number and could, gasp, use a string for your URL: www.geocities.com/mywebpage instead of www.geocities.com/Athen
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by wayne 2y ago
Your story reminds me of when Microsoft acquired Hotmail in the '90s and they tried migrating from FreeBSD & Solaris onto Windows NT/IIS. Having the world's largest email service running on the Windows stack would have be
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by wayne 2y ago
We're well past 2016, but Stratechery had an opinion that Dropbox focused too much on infrastructure projects like this and would have had more success focused on improving product/market fit. "That's why I actually find
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by wayne 2y ago
Very different from the airline industry which still honors lifetime flight and lounge passes sold decades ago. https://www.cnbc.com/2018/04/20/mark-cuban-bought-an-america...
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by wayne 3y ago
The immediate catalyst was the EU, but this is likely what Apple wanted all along by launching ATT and running all its PR about privacy. Users pay instead of advertisers, and Apple gets its 30%.
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by wayne 3y ago
I interned on Encarta one summer shortly before the fall, and 11 years ago I wrote a Quora answer about why I think it failed, which amusingly still gets upvotes: https://qr.ae/pK2pGA
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by wayne 3y ago
The article touches a little on flight costs, but as someone who'd love to visit sometime and never has, it annoys me how flights to Guam work. Given its location most airlines don't fly direct from the mainland, so many flights t
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by wayne 3y ago
Berkshire's history pre-Warren isn't that noteworthy: Berkshire is known to be one of Warren Buffett's worst investments. The Berkshire textile company agreed to sell to Warren, but broke its word and raised its asking price
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by wayne 3y ago
Isn't Facebook API access what led directly to Cambridge Analytica?
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by wayne 3y ago
It's possible the sketchiness is caused by a restaurant's competitors (writing negative reviews, falsely flagging positive reviews, spamming) rather than Yelp proper.
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by wayne 3y ago
Facebook's North America revenue is around $50 a quarter per user ("ARPU"), which is ~$15/month. You'd have to charge quite a bit to clear that, given most users won't pay. (Plus 30% to pay for App Store fees.)
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by wayne 3y ago
Not sure if it's the case with Shopify, but at big companies I've seen agreements with regulatory bodies and court legal holds that require the company certify that it's retained every scrap of employee data so that it's
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by wayne 3y ago
You mean 4? The second kid's name was used for MaxDB, which is used in the SAP world. :) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Widenius
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by wayne 3y ago
I've often heard Lee Kuan Yew of Singapore cited as an example. As usual, there's a Wikipedia article listing some others: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benevolent_dictatorship
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by wayne 4y ago
Examples: (1) One reason SVB did well is it understood startups. If your startup just raised a large round and needed a small loan, you were more than good for the money, but most banks would scoff because your business didn't have a l
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by wayne 4y ago
While not trivial, the problem of remembering to free everything is slightly simpler when you don't have to worry about exceptions.
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by wayne 4y ago
I have computer-literate parents and grew up in the PC era, so as a child I typed my elementary school assignments in vi. Accidentally using :X, encrypting one of my school papers, and having to completely rewrite it, was one of the slightl
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by wayne 4y ago
I went as a kid and remember it as one of the most fun moments of my life. I remember being able to do whatever I wanted. I was binge-reading some weeks, playing with fun toys with other kids other weeks, or just laying outside on the grass
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Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway discloses $4.1B TSMC stake(reuters.com)
2 points by wayne 4y ago|0 comments
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by wayne 4y ago
Deployment becomes more annoying and the APIs aren't as intuitive, but all the Excel/Office VBA APIs are accessible via COM so you can use any language that works with COM (e.g. Python): https://support.microsoft.com&#x
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by wayne 4y ago
I had one of these in college and it's probably still in storage somewhere. I couldn't afford a full laptop to put Linux/BSD on, and this was an affordable device to try installing NetBSD onto. Though I succeeded with NetBSD,
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by wayne 4y ago
'Only Murders in the Building' starring Martin Short, Steve Martin, and Selena Gomez playing podcasters in a Hulu show is also amazing.
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by wayne 4y ago
Rents superficially look ridiculous, but unlike other cities where you feel like you're failing unless you eventually own your own big place, here I find it's almost a badge of honor to live in an interesting apartment that's

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