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masko | 6 years ago | on: Now Bigger Than eBay, Shopify Sets Its Sights on Amazon

I might be drinking the amazon koolaid but Shopify’s online service and physical product distribution can’t even come close to what amazon has developed. They’re not a real threat. Amazon is really at least 15 years ahead in distribution and operations. We’re using robotics to automate a ton of processes. Jeff Wilke revolutionized the fulfillment centers. Shopify’s platform mainly sells niche things at low throughputs. Amazon is about how can we sell more in the same amount of time so we can continue lowering prices to get more customers and keep selling more.

masko | 7 years ago | on: Is Anyone Listening to You on Alexa? A Global Team Reviews Audio

No surprise there

masko | 7 years ago | on: Linus Torvalds Says Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram Are 'A Disease'

Yeah it sucks haha.

masko | 7 years ago | on: MIT cuts ties with Chinese tech firms Huawei, ZTE

I get what you mean but it has more to do with who's running those companies.

Google, Microsoft, and Facebook are American companies. In all honesty I'd rather have an American company spy on American people, rather than a Chinese company doing so.

China is catching up with tech and their government is totalitarian. Privacy doesn't exist in China, and it could be scary to think what they would do with data gathered from spying on us. I don't want any involvement of theirs in American schools or companies.

masko | 7 years ago | on: Yann LeCun, Geoffrey Hinton and Yoshua Bengio win Turing Award

Yeah that might be a better name. Sometimes it's called a "computation graph", since that's exactly what it really is. A network of nodes computing weights and derivatives based off inputs and/or outputs.

masko | 7 years ago | on: How I'm still not using GUIs in 2019: A guide to the terminal

I agree.

I used to use git only on command line but after switching to a GUI I find I'm way more productive.

masko | 7 years ago | on: Windows 10: New study shows Home edition users are baffled by updates

Never have hours worth of work open? Why not? It's unsafe but I always save frequently, and have never lost progress. However, my issue is that the computer should behave THE WAY I WANT IT TO.

It shouldn't close everything I'm working on just to restart and perform an update.

My issue is that Windows constantly performs unintended actions. Wiping away my background services configurations, performing updates when I have work open and leave for 10 minutes, or run data telemetry services and spike my CPU usage.

If it weren't for the native office 365 suite and touchscreen support (I use a stylus) for my school work, I would have switched entirely to a Linux distro as a daily driver.