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It's not revering a person but a friendship. Anybody reading their code would know what the article is talking about. C++ is not the ideal language to make the hard thing seem easy but they did.

This sort of glosses over that Jobs was pushed out of Apple for good reasons the first time around. His second coming was spectacular but Founder Mode Apple in the 90s would have crashed

I think Google did this to protect their users from snooping. If they have everybody's timeline on their servers, governments can request that information. And governments like to do that: https…

Saying that Google is dropping support for Flutter and Dart is a bit strong, I would say: https://x.com/MiSvTh/status/1785767966815985893 They reduced the team sizes in the …

I'm a big fan of Waymo, but this press release seems to be almost entirely content free. Is there a link somewhere that describes what is actually new in the 6th generation?

I try doing that. But they are definitely trying to be a daily publication if not hourly by now

If the marginal cost of delivering your product is close to zero, markets will tend to monopoly. A search/ads company that has 10% of the market share that Google does (and no one gets even to th…

Not sure how NATO enters into this, but as off last month or so Mark Rutte is the Secretary General of NATO. He is Dutch

Part of the problem is that tech products tend to be natural monopolies. If you split android off Google, it will probably just lose out against iOS in the West and some Chinese Android version elsewh…

You called it Work Experience is that why maybe?

Ah, but isn't it the other way around? If you are a young startup without market share (but well funded), you don't care about the extra margin. Uber was cheap before it killed the taxis.

So Turbo Pascal for the Commodore 64?

Definitely considered that. I'm a tad nomadic, but I guess I can just change the addresses.

I love reading books about the future written 10 years ago

To me it always seemed that reading a good, weekly news paper would help. The lack of real time news would make it focus on broader trends and I would not be distracted with the breaking news that is …

To be fair, it says "has a real shot at" and AlphaGo level. AlphaGo clearly beat humans on Go, so thinking that if you could replicate that, it would have a shot doesn't seem crazy to m…

The struggle of hacker against hacker is a what struggle?

Maybe? The source: https://www.bankrate.com/personal-finance/tipping-survey/ Says 66% have a negative view on tipping and 30% think it is out of control. The fact that 70% d…

Had the reverse. Went there late October and it was unseasonably cold. Soviet style hotels only switch on the heating novemeber 1st though

See also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40656125

Or the sophisticated. A diverse portfolio has lower volatility, which means you can leverage it more which then leads to higher expected returns

That doesn't strike me as financial advice; land is only more valuable than money if you care about a particular piece of land because of ties with it. Otherwise if you have money you can buy a p…

If you are American, it will be tricky, yeah. For Europeans it should be doable. I managed to get a 7 day transit visa that could be extended to 10

> you would not want to traverse these countries over land. You probably wouldn't. But people do and it seems fine. Turkey and Iran have actually decent train networks now, so you don't e…

That won't stop Apple from lambasting later