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Re:Chris Lattner to Lead SiFive Platform Engineering Team on Monday January 27, 2020 @12:13PM (#22161374)
FYI, more comments over on this post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22160226
Re:Google App Maker Shutting Down on Monday January 27, 2020 @11:52AM (#22161091)
Until it's also shuttered in 18 months, sheesh.
Re:Google App Maker Shutting Down on Monday January 27, 2020 @11:49AM (#22161060)
> Due to the specific source code used for App Maker, you can’t directly migrate your apps to another platform. We recommend that you explore these options

I couldn't help but recall the song, "There she goes again" [1], when I saw this. Google propose partial alternatives, but I wonder how long until those are also shuttered. Is it even worth migrating to another Google product? if you have to do the work yourself, migrate to a different (or open source) vendor.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=68MKLkNSMN4

Re:US feds, states could join forces on Google probes: report on Monday January 27, 2020 @11:11AM (#22160616)
Does anyone know if this typical or atypical for anti-competitive investigations?
Re:Aurora is finally ready to show the world what it’s been up to on Monday January 27, 2020 @09:13AM (#22159355)
Who are in the top 3 then? I thought Tesla was leading, but I haven’t been following closet
Re:Basketball Legend Kobe Bryant Dies in Helicopter Crash at 41 on Sunday January 26, 2020 @05:36PM (#22155323)
Typically, these posts get flagged by users because they realize that they violate HN's guidelines [0]. It's interesting, just off-topic. Not sure what the threshold is for getting flagged vs upvotes, but I suspect it takes far fewer flags that votes.

> If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Re:Preliminary analysis of 11 Novel Coronavirus genomes from the Wuhan... on Friday January 24, 2020 @04:57PM (#22142864)
Ah, ok. Thank you for pointing that out
Re:Preliminary analysis of 11 Novel Coronavirus genomes from the Wuhan... on Friday January 24, 2020 @04:20PM (#22142572)
Yes, it's completely and exceptionally awesome that we can just sign on the Internet and gain this genome sequence. But it's also important to weigh the value. As the article states:

> but there is insufficient epidemiological information for it to be useful here

Re:Three Chinese cities on lockdown, travel disrupted amid coronavirus... on Thursday January 23, 2020 @12:14PM (#22129383)
Wow. I thought lockdown was an editorialization of the event, but seems to be accurate. Quote from an NBC News correspondent there:

> Wuhan is now closed off. No flights or trains out, and no mass transit within. Before dawn, we saw public buses parked on streets.

> https://twitter.com/janisfrayer/status/1220176782999113728

Re:Lastpass Chrome Extension Was Accidentally Deleted on Wednesday January 22, 2020 @07:17PM (#22123527)
Is that an easy thing to do? Is it like the Tomcat web server where the undeploy button sat RIGHT NEXT TO the reload button? https://javatutorial.net/how-to-deploy-and-undeploy-applicat...

Lots of "whoops" happened a decade ago because of that design decision...

Re:Stop donating your customers' data to Google Analytics on Wednesday January 22, 2020 @01:46PM (#22120623)
> I'm currently building a free analytics service that's the fastest. Ever.

How do you intend to make money from this free service?

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