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Re:The Burnout Machine on Thursday March 20, 2025 @08:32PM (#43430645)
The nature of free market is competition. And the nature of competition is to get more profit out of less people. It means longer hours, more focus, less complaint, less life. You think new technology is gonna save the poor workers coz it boosts productivity? Only temporarily until everyone has it. Then It's the same game all over again, pushing out new features, new compaigns, re-org, transformation around the clock.

Once one player in the market starts to work the longer hours, it's guaranteed to spread to every corner. Coz you need to up the game and catch up with the competition.

Endless grind.

Re:5G Is Likely to Put Weather Forecasting at Risk on Wednesday April 17, 2019 @01:51AM (#19680080)
Cell on my phone contributes like less than 10% of total battery consumption. The most goes to screen and cpu. So there's limited improvement for 5G in this. But for IoT devices in which comms use most of the battery, this could be significant. However, it's debatable whether spending on billions of dollars on a regional 5g network is an optimal solution for a more durable IoT infrastructure. In my understanding, there should be a more economical way to build an efficient IoT infrastructure since most of them don't need that much data speed.
Re:Oculus Rift S on Thursday March 21, 2019 @02:49AM (#19449702)
I guess Rift S has lower manufacturing cost because it can share some parts with upcoming Quest. The same tracking, the same controllers. And since they are already heading in that direction, personally I'm curious to know the possibility of combining Quest and Rift S, or PC and standalone VR. My guts tell me it's possible. I'm excited about the idea of two in one VR, with which I can watch a movie in bed before sleep, or show it to friends at their places', and plug in a PC to play a full blown action game. Two headsets and two sets of controllers are really too much for these purposes. I don't mind two libraries of games/apps though. Windows 10 and XBox One are already sharing content. It should be possible for VR too.
Re:Oculus Rift S on Thursday March 21, 2019 @02:22AM (#19449614)
I'm thinking Rift S has an awkward position. It's not a gen 2 for those who already jumped in for Rift. So no buying there. It doesn't lower the bars for those who hasn't jumped in as neither headsets or graphics cards are getting cheaper. Then where is the market share?

Maybe a trade-in program could work. For the rift owners they get the upgrade for a discount. Then for the newcomers, certified pre-owned Rifts for a low price.

I'm from the dev team of Payscrypt. I know our product is still pretty rough. We want to release early and listen to honest feedback. So here I am. Any thoughts are greatly appreciated.
Re:YC S15 Interview Invites Today on Friday April 10, 2015 @10:14PM (#9358134)
Please do share with us if you got any replies...
Re:YC S15 Interview Invites Today on Friday April 10, 2015 @10:03PM (#9358111)
Oh. This is just the longest day of the life you have lived so far. Lots of exciting stuff awaits, buddy.
Re:HN Cheaters: Catch me if you can on Tuesday April 07, 2015 @08:13AM (#9333371)
This can be easily identified since other readers won't agree on this field.
Re:HN Cheaters: Catch me if you can on Tuesday April 07, 2015 @07:01AM (#9333060)
So maybe we should propose a new field which is the approx. time to finish reading when submitting a story.
Re:HN Cheaters: Catch me if you can on Tuesday April 07, 2015 @06:52AM (#9333028)
It's a game. Cheating the system without being caught is win in YC's universe. But now, this is hunters' turn to take one step ahead of the game!
Re:Show HN: Tagging all GitHub repos on Friday April 03, 2015 @09:29AM (#9315716)
Just visited it. Looks ok.
Re:HeartForth: An Emoji-Based Stack Language on Monday February 16, 2015 @06:58AM (#9056458)
lol. This is awesome. Thank you!
Re:What are your favourite sci-fi books? on Monday February 16, 2015 @06:16AM (#9056326)
The Three-body Problem. It raises the bar of sci-fi literature in China.

http://www.amazon.com/The-Three-Body-Problem-Cixin-Liu/dp/07...

Re:Show HN: Apparel for entrepreneurs on Monday February 16, 2015 @05:28AM (#9056143)
People can be proud of a good spirit, quality, attitude and wear something about it to not only show off but also encourage other people. But this is different from bringing your work life into your social life by painting a job title on your tshirt.

IMO it's better to strip the 'Entrepreneurs' part and leave maybe "Let's make shit happen". At least it sounds more cheering to me.

Re:Megaupload programmer goes to prison for one year on Monday February 16, 2015 @04:53AM (#9056051)
They are not retarded. They are just money driven IMHO.

And I bet the story behind this is no worse than the plot of House of Cards.

Re:HeartForth: An Emoji-Based Stack Language on Monday February 16, 2015 @04:46AM (#9056034)
I wonder if there's a programming language that makes a program look like a poem or a regular article?
Re:Google Maps 2D Driving Simulator on Monday February 16, 2015 @03:54AM (#9055927)
It would be fun to add some multiplayer support via websocket just like Mozilla did with BrowserQuest. Maybe make it run on phones and take it with you when you actually drive.

Then we can simulate the traffic jam in Mountain View together!

Thank you. Now I know about Gamergate. Even if there is a corruption, justice needs to be done in a proper way. Otherwise it's not justice, but crime.
Re:0h n0 – A new game from the makers of 0h h1 on Friday February 13, 2015 @04:47AM (#9043601)
When playing this kind of game, you are not actually playing, but training your brain to be like a cpu which is dumber in logic but stronger in following a procedure.

And your fun is over when you figure out the procedure, coz all you have to left is to get the input from whatever on the screen, feed it to the procedure and output the result to the mouse until u win.

Re:Tinychart – simple, ready-to-go charts on Friday February 13, 2015 @03:22AM (#9043414)
Nice idea. A few possible improvements:

1. Import data from csv, excel etc, from file or textarea.

2. The chart should be resizable.

3. Color schemes would be nice to have.

Re:Show HN: Let's Chat, a self-hosted chat app for small teams on Friday February 13, 2015 @01:34AM (#9043190)
+1 for the demo. If there's a 1click2heroku script for this, it will be golden~
Re:Hacking your body for perfect sleep on Tuesday February 10, 2015 @12:36AM (#9025557)
To make a more generalized question:

How do we find out that such health products are genuine or can work as they advertised?

Did Matt become rich before or after he started wordpress.com? Does OSS always have to end up as an sass to make profit?

Bitcoin should be another topic coz it created a whole realm, one of a kind.

That's interesting. But if you already have a graphical browser which supports WebRTC, why do you still need the ascii? Or is there a terminal browser with WebRTC support?
Re:What is your current stack? on Tuesday February 10, 2015 @12:05AM (#9025479)
I've tried Meteor with a side project. I did manage to develop fast and the initial performance is ok. However I found the Meteor server runs slower n slower. I'm not sure why. I just assume it might have some traps or catches that I don't thoroughly understand.

Has anyone actually succeeded by building an opensource project? And How?

I've seen a lot of great open source projects. But most of them are from successful companies like Google/Facebook/Twitter/Dotcloud. And I've heard a lot about the open source business model, like doing commercial consultation and projects as the primary source of income. But I just don't know anyone who really made a fortune out of it. Am I seeing it in a wrong way or it's just not possible...

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Re:Boycott docker on Monday February 09, 2015 @05:57AM (#9020564)
As far as I know, running sshd in docker is totally possible and there's a tool called docker-enter which would make things even easier.

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