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Re:Writing Documentation When You Aren't a Technical Writer – Part Two
on Friday September 21, 2018 @08:12PM (#18043663)
Does any one else find the site design frustrating? Constant top/bottom bars and a full window height of low-quality content before the article begins.
Re:Why I Did Not Go to Jail (2014)
on Thursday September 20, 2018 @11:37AM (#18033229)
Straightforward and discreet, maybe.
Re:Why I Did Not Go to Jail (2014)
on Wednesday September 19, 2018 @08:58PM (#18028898)
That is interesting, thank you.
Re:Isaac Asimov on The David Letterman Show (1980) [video]
on Sunday September 09, 2018 @02:53PM (#17947204)
The piano outro played in the last few seconds was the Close Encounters of the Third Kind note sequence[0].
Re:Intel can’t supply 14nm Xeons, HPE recommends AMD Epyc
on Friday September 07, 2018 @09:28PM (#17938871)
Very interesting, thank you.
Re:Intel can’t supply 14nm Xeons, HPE recommends AMD Epyc
on Friday September 07, 2018 @07:59PM (#17938553)
> They have a ton of insider information that nobody else does
Are you willing and able to elaborate?
Re:Sheryl Sandberg’s New Job Is to Fix Facebook’s Reputation and Her Own
on Friday September 07, 2018 @04:24AM (#17932696)
They may not directly sell user data, but their revenue derives from leasing targeted access to end-users filtered by insights drawn from said data.
Re:Whole Foods workers seek to unionize
on Friday September 07, 2018 @04:07AM (#17932630)
> ps. also you're not being very helpful with "No, that's not what he's saying" without telling me what he is saying.
> If anyone believes individual cashiers asking for maternity leave is a good way to get it, I've got a bridge you might also be interested in buying.
Sequoia is referring implicitly to the significant difference in power and efficacy of individual vs collective bargaining in the United States. Collective bargaining (e.g. unionization -> union negotiations) has long been a way for workers to effect more change in workplace conditions and compensation than they would otherwise be able to, alone.
Paid maternity leave is a luxury in the United States.
The bridge comment implies gullibility.
Re:The Developer Coefficient: a $300B opportunity for businesses
on Friday September 07, 2018 @03:56AM (#17932583)
Your last sentence was straightforward, correct? (No sarcasm in the 'bias' section.)
I ask because that fits with my reading of both the report and the rest of your comment, but a few replies seem to interpret it as cynical.
Re:Buzzfeed journalist denied China visa following coverage of Xinjian...
on Wednesday August 22, 2018 @04:38PM (#17821943)
Architect of China’s ‘Great Firewall’ Bumps Into It
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/07/world/asia/china-internet...
Re:Is the iconic Parisian bistro dying?
on Wednesday August 08, 2018 @05:54PM (#17719845)
Excellent comment, thank you for phrasing this so clearly.
Re:SpaceX lands Falcon 9 booster on Just Read the Instructions drone ship
on Wednesday July 25, 2018 @01:22PM (#17611016)
> the loss of meaning of a word spoken one too many times
Re:Are Kilian Jornet's Speed Records Too Good to Be True?
on Friday July 20, 2018 @04:15PM (#17578539)
> And how many mountain ultramarathons are on flat ground? None, I bet.
Seems like a safe bet.
Re:Farewell, Google Maps
on Thursday July 19, 2018 @06:27PM (#17570887)
> In the case of maps, there weren't many great alternatives for a long time, due to Google sucking all the oxygen/profit potential out of the field with their excellent free offerings.
There was a related discussion[0] on HN a few weeks ago that I found enlightening. Commentator ucaetano's phrasing of the strategy was "create a desert of profitability around you". The discussion of moats vs deserts found here [1] is also useful.
[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17047348 "Laws of Tech Economics: Commoditize Your Complement"
Re:Amazon, the Brand Buster
on Sunday June 24, 2018 @02:17PM (#17387640)
Amazon's brand registry enables a verified brand to take control of a listing page (edit photos/text/title).
That's pretty much it – no power to limit other sellers.
Re:Voronoi Airports: all 54,000+ of them rendered in WebGL
on Tuesday June 19, 2018 @02:59PM (#17349365)
"In mathematics, a Voronoi diagram is a partitioning of a plane into regions based on distance to points in a specific subset of the plane." [0]
Here, the points are airports. There was a related discussion yesterday about a similar project. [1]
Re:Do VCs really add value? Founders say sometimes
on Monday June 11, 2018 @02:46PM (#17287183)
> We're a nonsensical investment
for a standard VC, sure. Maybe there's a venture investment philosophy for non-unicorns. [0]
[0] https://sparktoro.com/blog/raised-a-very-unusual-round-of-fu...
Re:China’s SenseTime, the world’s highest-valued AI startup, closes $6...
on Friday June 01, 2018 @12:09AM (#17202503)
> What we've yet to see in history is a corporation that directly and openly challenges a state for sovereignty.
I think you're correct, but the East India Company came pretty close, didn't they?
Re:Pwned Passwords in Practice: Real World Examples of Blocking the Wo...
on Tuesday May 29, 2018 @02:43PM (#17181890)
> Rate limiting on a specific username will prevent brute forcing but exposes you to DOS.
Why?
Re:Bitcoin Gold Hit by Double Spend Attack, Exchanges Lose Millions
on Thursday May 24, 2018 @12:50AM (#17141177)
Re:Tesla's Simultaneous Brilliance and Incompetence Revealed in Teardo...
on Friday April 27, 2018 @08:16PM (#16945422)
"Why spend a short life in the real world of sadness and absurdity when you could live forever in paradise?"
Re:Why Can't Hollywood Make a Good Video Game Movie?
on Wednesday April 11, 2018 @04:03PM (#16814952)
> There needs to be some reason to do it. Some idea that the source material does that hasn't already been done to death in film.
Or some capability of the new format.
Pulling standalone creative works forward into modernity is interesting. Some of my favorite movies are adapted from plays written before film. The timeline is shorter with video games <> movies, but AAA games are already cinematic and VR is basically here (needs lower hardware cost).
How would your favorite composer have used a synthesizer?
Re:Ask HN: Why does P2P encrypted messaging still suck?
on Tuesday April 03, 2018 @08:07PM (#16750672)
"How has this affected open source efforts?"
can be read as either
Why is it possible for [situation] to affect open source efforts?
or
In what way(s) has [situation] affected open source efforts?
Re:Waze Carpool
on Thursday January 25, 2018 @11:34AM (#16232071)
Lyft started as an offshoot of Zimride[0], a long-distance ridesharing platform.
Re:The Amazon Flywheel (2016)
on Sunday December 31, 2017 @12:01AM (#16039436)
> But all of this was only part of the Amazon recipe for customer experience. The other half was lower prices, which, for a long time, Amazon mostly maintained through ruthless willpower. (An example: the “no-more-free-Ibuprofen” story.)
What is this ibuprofen story? Search results are just links to the article and product listings.
Ask HN: Where do you get your news?
Looking for a simple way to stay reasonably informed on current events. Fallback is the Economist, but would prefer something daily. Thoughts?
Re:Write tests. Not too many. Mostly integration
on Friday October 27, 2017 @01:38AM (#15565970)
"Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants."
-Michael Pollan