thejake0 | 7 years ago | on: European Commission fines Google €4.34B in Android antitrust case
Microsoft faced a very similar situation, but Windows was never open sourced.
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thejake0 | 7 years ago | on: Twitch streamers who spend years broadcasting to no one
Check out the Sleep With Me Podcast[1]. Same concept: Dull, meandering talking to lull you to sleep.
thejake0 | 7 years ago | on: The Rise of Edible Insect Farming
I wondering how switching to a diet of grass would work out for the average human...
thejake0 | 8 years ago | on: Mozilla announces an open gateway for the internet of things
No, it doesn’t prevent a proprietary system from being built, but it does provide the end users/customers a choice to support products that uses an open system.
thejake0 | 8 years ago | on: Ask HN: What non-work task have you automated?
For the curious: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dollar_cost_averaging
thejake0 | 9 years ago | on: HoloLens secret sauce: A 28nm customized 24-core DSP engine built by TSMC
The first real contender to the ESP8266 is set to release September 1st: the successor to the ESP8266, the ESP32 - now with dual Tensilica cores (and a bunch of other stuff).
thejake0 | 10 years ago | on: Atari co-founder: mobile games make me want to throw my phone
I agree. Most mobile games I've downloaded prioritize ads views/in app purchases over making a 'hardcore' game. There are a few exceptions, such as Vainglory, but the vast majority are the equivalent of the super ball vending machine at the grocery store.
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