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you're underselling it. yes, it's a 'chat app', but one that runs on a billion phones in every country on the planet

The internet in the 90s was legit. Yet the Dotcom bubble still happened. There are some actual, successful internet businesses that survived it (Amazon, Paypal, Yahoo, the usual suspects). However, mo…

Connections is absolutely brilliant. It's definitely one of my favorite TV shows, ever. Definitely worth checking out

But it's supposed to be the no cost-cutting, ultra premium version of the iPhone. It costs a thousand dollars. They could've used titanium

Except for the fact that Atom eats more memory than Visual Studio

Yeah, I need to save all my ram for Slack

Those goods are also cheaper than in most developing countries as well. As in, the pair of Levi's that cost you $40 in Amazon will run you much higher in developing countries. Sure, you can get c…

the thing is, you have to use a rock if you want it to run on the browser

children were thrown from cliffs in ancient Sparta for less

>I have rarely seen a level of delusion from a fan base than the one around NMS Just wait until star citizen crashes down hard

What if he doesn't want to run a company? He isn't a consultant, he's a programmer. Being good at programming doesn't make automatically good at running a company, which requires a…

Not exactly the same. A more accurate analogy would be if the CD was invented by some volunteers instead of Sony, and everyone used them but the volunteers never got paid for their contribution

>Creative work is going to mobile in a big way What does the author mean by 'creative work' here? Writing? Image edition? Video edition? Software development? None of those things are goi…

You realize that Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software was published in 1994 while Java 1.0 was published in 1996 right?

is it just me or now it runs faster in Firefox than in Chrome?

I think this has a lot to do with how OOP is taught. At uni, on the same semester we were introduced to C++ with classes, OOP, UML, and design patterns. This of course creates in the mind an associati…

What I wonder is who came up with naming the local machine the 'server' and the remote (who runs the software) the 'client'

and it only took 27 years!

So, you're agreeing with me? F1 got safer because the cars got safer, not because the drivers drive more safely (safety measures were pushed by drivers though)

Eat burgers I guess? We're seeing the death of the term cryptocurrency being used somewhat seriously. A new buzzword will have to be invented

tautologies?

I think there are a lot of parallels with motor racing here. It was extremely dangerous on its early days, and didn't get safer when drivers got more experienced. It got safer when the cars got s…

There is no such thing as "Human Power". Animals don't generate power, they just transform it from food via a roundabout process that produces lots of waste. There's just no way th…

Agree, Fallout is too slow for today's standards, the same way old movies are slow

I feel the best example of an 'adventure game of the modern era' is Broken Age (by Tim Schafer with Doublefine). It's a very modern take on the whole genre, and not a 'choose your …

wow imagine if john carmack hadn't played all those videogames

>After all WhatsApp users are already OK with Facebook collecting their metadata for advertising purposes They aren't either OK or not OK. The overwhelming majority of WhatsApp users simply do…

scrolling up also makes CPU usage spike on chrome (and by extension, on the electron app). This doesn't happen with Firefox

no it does not, because in that film all the slaves were specifically black

so we should just ban boxing as well? skiing is super bad for your knees I hear, should we ban that as well? motor racing? bricolage?