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chkuendig

(2018)

Webassembly isn't THAT "new and shiny" anymore in 2024 :)

Wordtris ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wordtris ) was developed by Armen Sarkissian - the current president of Armenia
Re:WhatWG: Proposal – Update XPath to at least v2.0 on Tuesday October 13, 2020 @12:26PM (#24767072)
It ensures that they do it the same way
See https://github.com/PCSX2/pcsx2/issues/18 Looks like there's a working build again.
Re:The Intoxicating History of Gin on Wednesday December 04, 2019 @10:54AM (#21703219)
That's mostly because "Martini" is the prevalent brand of vermouth in central Europe. It's super confusing... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martini_%26_Rossi
Re:WeWork says will file to withdraw IPO on Monday September 30, 2019 @03:02PM (#21118593)
> What I don't understand is how do things get this far down the road before a good old fashioned sanity check happens?

Softbank was hoping Vision Fund II will be closed once this collapses so pumping it up to 47B made sense to juice the returns on Fund I.

Adam N. already took 700M of his chips off the table before the IPO as well, so he clearly expected the music to stop playing as well.

Anybody have some details on this? I always wondered how this is handled for Chinese going abroad or Foreigners traveling in China without sending the keys back and forth.

Or do Chinese iCloud accounts still use the Chinese servers even when abroad while the western ones get to go through the great firewall for western iCloud?

Guess what - this was caused by a third-party ad network: https://twitter.com/CamScanner/status/1166733219841986561/ph...
Re:Anthony Levandowski Charged with Theft of Trade Secrets on Tuesday August 27, 2019 @02:30PM (#20812964)
He's already off the Pronto.AI about page, his current startup where he was the CEO until this news: (mentioned towards the end of the NYT article)

https://pronto.ai/about/

https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:I7ifOu...

Re:Open Source Game Clones on Thursday June 06, 2019 @12:18PM (#20115984)
Would be great to have a platform-support filter (at least for Android/iOS/Windows/Mac/Linux)
Re:Google to Acquire Looker on Thursday June 06, 2019 @10:50AM (#20115077)
I would interpret this as a sign that Thomas Kurian is trying to "enterprisify" Google Cloud by acquiring companies with high-touch enterprise sales cultures. Which runs against Google's traditional stance but is also credited as one of the reason Google Cloud has struggled to sell into big companies so far.
Re:Speedrunning Windows 95 on Saturday March 09, 2019 @03:27PM (#19348282)
You can use classic starcraft / brood war keys as vouchers on battle.net if you want to verify and make sure you'll always have a digital copy available :)
Re:Firefox to Block All 3rd Party Trackers by Default on Friday February 22, 2019 @11:58AM (#19226850)
No, I meant across different properties of different publishers. I assume that's still only possible with browser fingerprinting, IPs etc.

So blocking third-party cookies is a good start to avoid tracking across different publishers (which is the big no-no for me, the fact that a single publisher knows what i read of his is not such a big issue and not that different to what has always been done by just crawling the ht_access logs...)

Re:Firefox to Block All 3rd Party Trackers by Default on Friday February 22, 2019 @11:55AM (#19226827)
I assume they'd only combine them on "soft factors" (browser fingerprints, IPs etc) then?

Since the unique IDs between the different platforms would differ for the same user (as there's no way to coordinate without 3rd party cookies)

Re:Firefox to Block All 3rd Party Trackers by Default on Friday February 22, 2019 @07:27AM (#19224739)
How can first-party cookies used to track users across multiple properties?
Re:Reflecting on My Failure to Build a Billion-Dollar Company on Thursday February 07, 2019 @02:27PM (#19107719)
> no real differentiating benefits other than size and brand recognition and maybe some vague “guarantee” to the customer.

- scale

- brand

- customer loyalty

that's a lot of differentiation. more then 99% of the businesses in the world and more than even many public companies.

(especially once you add the power gained from aggregating demand and supply which most of these companies have)

Re:Western Digital WD Black 3D NAND SSD Review on Friday April 06, 2018 @07:05PM (#16778261)
Never forget the IBM/Hitachi Deathstar

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