scentedmeat | 7 years ago | on: Apple and Google Face Growing Revolt Over App Store ‘Tax’
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scentedmeat | 7 years ago | on: Making an emperor bed
I feel a bit like the Princess and the Pea, but those lines down the middles would bug me.
scentedmeat | 7 years ago | on: Stephen King: Can a Novelist Be Too Productive? (2015)
> It's all a matter of personal opinion
I'm all for "enjoy what you want" but to say that there is no objective difference in the writing of, say, Don DeLillo and Dan Brown, is ridiculous.
scentedmeat | 8 years ago | on: Disney acquires own streaming facilities, will pull Netflix content
This is basically new bundling for ESPN
scentedmeat | 8 years ago | on: Show HN: Spaced Repetition System for iOS
I really dislike the 'per month' monetization. I would rather be able to buy the decks that I'm interested in.
scentedmeat | 8 years ago | on: Show HN: Neural Japanese Transliteration
> In the digital environment, people mostly type Roman alphabet
Might be selection bias but I mostly notice people using the 10-key click one
scentedmeat | 9 years ago | on: Apple's Tim Cook: We really care about pro users
The monitor doesn't go anywhere. Just leave the dongle.
scentedmeat | 9 years ago | on: I started a one-man biz that's beating VC-backed startups
"artist pay $20 per year" ... "100,000+ artists"
scentedmeat | 9 years ago | on: Sous Vide startup Anova gets acquired by Electrolux
IIRC, the Anova cooking was originally one guy at the lab devices company that saw the Nomiku or Polyscience and said, "we can do that" and started basically doing this as a side business.
I hope he got a bonus at least.
scentedmeat | 9 years ago | on: Reddit bans Alt-Right Group
Well, they do have a reputation for deleting sub-reddits they don't like. It would be better, I think, just to come out and say, "we will delete sub-reddits we disagree with."
scentedmeat | 9 years ago | on: One in five of us may 'hear' flashes of light
I get that all the time too: Someone slams a door when I'm laying down, and it's like a flash going off in my face.
scentedmeat | 9 years ago | on: The hunt for dollars to build the $64B bullet train
While I agree that comparing China to California in terms of large scale engineering works is comparing apples to oranges (guess which is which). I disagree (kind of) on the following:
> There are also a lot of rather substantial engineering issues that have to be overcome in California
Japan is a mountainous, earthquake prone country, and they seem to have figured it out. The biggest problem geography-wise is probably all the NIMBY complaints. To be fair, they are really loud trains that would kill property values, and the complaints are valid. I think thats where a lot of those lawsuits are coming from.
scentedmeat | 9 years ago | on: How Apple Alienated Mac Loyalists
> The MacBook is fine – the new models are quite expensive, and...
True, for Macbooks, they are fine. For MacBook Pros however, they are disappointing. They really added nothing, and just took away. And then raised the price.
scentedmeat | 9 years ago | on: A Backdoor in Skype for Mac OS X
Well, let's just look at the source code and we can see when/where it got added.
scentedmeat | 9 years ago | on: Milking the iPhone
What I would prefer is cellular connectivity in an iPad. Throw it in the backpack to use when I want a screen, but use watch/wireless headphones while walking around, or talking on the phone.
scentedmeat | 9 years ago | on: Microsoft to Tie Executive Bonuses to Company Diversity Goals
As soon as you tie a persons bonus money to it, it isn't. You are no longer looking at the highest quality candidates, but the ones that match the minimal qualities. And since race/gender has no impact on performance (my asumption), this is a bad key.
But, as someone that can check the minority checkbox, woo!
scentedmeat | 9 years ago | on: Fewer than 3% of cars sold in the U.S. have manual transmissions
Well, it was banned in F1 over a decade ago
scentedmeat | 9 years ago | on: The fight over transparency in the meat industry
> livestock is livestock, pets is pets
I had a Korean friend that explained dog meat in basically the same way: pet dogs are pets, food dogs are food.
scentedmeat | 9 years ago | on: The Keyword – New central source for news and stories about Google
http://www.google.google doesn't even work yet
scentedmeat | 9 years ago | on: Amazon’s Ambition to Compete Directly with UPS and FedEx
USPS pays fairly well, I thought. Don't know much about working conditions though.
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