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flud | 4 years ago | on: Amazon copied products and rigged search results to promote its own brands

În Germany it might stand, but you are forgetting the American legal system is very much moneybased, so Amazon can just fight it in court an win, or at worst settle, which I have no doubt it's overall still a win

flud | 4 years ago | on: We set up an offshore company in a tax haven

Yup, that sounds like the perfect solution to the problem of companies not paying enough taxes

flud | 4 years ago | on: Tesla moving headquarters to Texas from California

It wouldn't, but it doesn't mean it won't

flud | 4 years ago | on: Windows 11 has started rolling out worldwide

Sounds hilarious, I need to see this, got a link to a video?

flud | 4 years ago | on: Windows 11 has started rolling out worldwide

How so? (I'm a mac user so a bit out of touch w windows world)

flud | 4 years ago | on: I ruin developers’ lives with my code reviews and I'm sorry

I concur. I'm not a coder but I do review things every 2 months as part of the release cycle, and whenever I see mistakes, especially silly mistakes, I don't feel smart at all, it doesn't even cross my mind.

I feel, in order: disappointment - because how could they make this stupid mistake, then anger - why the f do I have to waste time to correct stupid mistakes, then a bit hateful - we need to fire this person and hire someone competent, then sometimes a bit scared - what else has this person got wrong and I missed, then a mix of all of the above.

What would make me feel good, as far as reviews go, would be to say "hey, this person did this way better than I would have".

Can you tell I hate doing reviews?

flud | 5 years ago | on: Launch HN: Axiom (YC W21) – No-code browser automation a.k.a. RPA for everyone

Just curious: why do you ask? (I work for UIP)

flud | 5 years ago | on: ICQ New

Does Trillian support slack by any chance?

flud | 6 years ago | on: Show HN: Imagededup – Finding duplicate images made easy

Doesn't sound too bad. But can you elaborate on the last part, about retrieval requiring memory and not scaling to more than a couple of thousands images?

How much memory would you need for ~2000 images, how slow does it get, etc.

Thx

flud | 6 years ago | on: VAIO announces tiny laptop with tons of ports

As a MacBook pro user with just usbc, all I can say is "good move"

flud | 6 years ago | on: H.264 is magic (2016)

Got any links to that?

flud | 7 years ago | on: Magic Leap Review Part I

Well actually you can, it's called an LCD

flud | 7 years ago | on: SEC Sues Musk and Seeks Ban for His Tweets on Go-Private Deal

Source pls?

flud | 7 years ago | on: Scientists may have found proof of previous universes

Sorry for the IFLS link, the source is paywalled

flud | 7 years ago | on: Tesla meets self-imposed deadline for Model 3, rolls out 5000 cars in a week

"The value of Tesla is not the actual production of cars. It's the IP of their self-driving technology, and the IP for their fully automated production line. " I highly doubt that but if you have any link/proof pls share. Their value is in providing a product people are head over heels about. And their valuation is much like any other company, based on guestimates of success.

flud | 7 years ago | on: Is it possible to search GitHub for developers based on repos?

Yup, or you can go directly to Contributors (https://github.com/Hjertesvikt/peptide_PoC/graphs/contributo...).

But I'm looking for a way to cross-reference a few projects and see the contributors to both/all projects.

flud | 7 years ago | on: Hello, GitHub

În a word, YES. Profitability <> quality.

I would argue that the case here is quite the opposite.

Github is loved for a variety of reasons, small & large decisions that are influenced by how profit-oriented the company is. And how willing they are to annoy their users to squeeze some more "profit" and/or data out of them.

flud | 7 years ago | on: Microsoft and GitHub have held acquisition talks

Yup, all these came after Skype started sucking, most probably because of it.

flud | 7 years ago | on: Reality Driven Development: Fixing Project Management in Software

What's the plumbing part? And what scale are the projects, ballpark?

flud | 7 years ago | on: Reality Driven Development: Fixing Project Management in Software

That sounds pretty smart. How did these de-risking studies usually consist of?