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Do you work in the field? And is the Uk a good place for startups in it? Thanks

I'd love to think it's post-irony or meta-irony[1], but really I suspect it's legit and they are trying their best. Bless. Feels like an order of magnitude more risky as an investor than Fyre festival

1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nsuSveDAlpI

FWIW they've said in their press releases they have been profitable since 2017

This is incorrect: https://blog.aboutamazon.eu/discover-whats-behind-the-amazon....

A product that does threaded conversations. Yammer did this pretty well, shame it never really took off for businesses

Chinese police are not known for a lax attitude to rule breaking when it comes to foreigners

OP's app looks more like Canva (https://www.canva.com, which Spark is also a copycat of), especially the icons in the left nav. The timeline view is super neat though.

Corporate looting on the cusp of a recession. Classy

I'm not sure modern game engines make good use of large numbers cores, because most consumers don't have that many.

Intel chips are still competitive for single-threaded performance, from what i can tell https://www.pcworld.com/article/3453946/amd-threadripper-397...

> it should be overall beneficial to the UK once trade agreements are in place after a number of years

It probably won't. I don't know why leavers think the UK will be able to negotiate better trade deals than a bloc of 27 countries.

The politics of Brexit are also not very suitable for a HN on shorting the pound. By mentioning only the costs of remaining in the EU, not the ongoing benefits, you're being pretty disingenuous

> His point is that the index funds don't own the stocks at all

This is misleading, I think. Depends on the fund. Some seek to match the benchmark through a certain exposure to derivatives and synthetic things. Others hold the stocks in proportion.

The vanguard funds I'm invested in don't have much synthetics - they own the stocks

Full text: https://outline.com/nVDP65

Short-term cost though, if whack's thinking is correct. Longer-term talent drains means execution risks sliding even further into mediocrity

Relative links on reddit (e.g. to other posts, or subreddits) on their AMP pages are also completely broken.

Such a frustrating experience for users.

This is about equity, not about access to music & artists from those publishers

I've previously worked for a company bought by Microsoft in the UK, and we (and all the MS employees I met) used Macs. The modern Microsoft goes to where the customers are. Yes, there was an old-guard that was very windows-centric, but all the new people and energy weren't dogmatic

Conversely, Amazon customer support is world-class. I've had multiple instances of things arriving DoA, or breaking some months later, and every time I've hopped on the text chat Amazon has just shipped me a new one without asking for the old one back

+1 for this - I star things to come back to and try out. I've started Vue for this reason, unlike React which I use in working hours

No way would the makers of the device sell one to Apple - they probably have strict measures in place to only sell to police departments, with contracts in place to prevent re-selling.

Apple would have to buy one on the grey market, which they may be unprepared to do

I've been using MobX (https://github.com/mobxjs/mobx) in my day job for a year now in a very large client-side app, and hands-down prefer it to redux.

Initially I was wondering why we didn't have a centralised store, but once free from that mindset it allows you to keep observable data locally to where it's needed. Much nicer for encapsulation and separation of concerns.

Far less boilerplate too, as MobX does some very smart usage & dirty checking for you.

mobx-react also provides an @observer class annotation, which ends up working pretty magically - things re-render when they need to.

If anyone's interested, here are some tutorials from the author: https://egghead.io/courses/manage-complex-state-in-react-app...

I have a strong suspicion another example will be Magic Leap. Note: not as an intentionally-misleading or lying case, but just as another extremely well-funded startup whose launch is likely to fall short of the hype.

$2.3bn in funding adds an immense pressure for it to be successful and perceived as revolutionary.

The fact they refuse to let people try it is such a red flag.

Great response - I think what a lot of people miss in these pokemon code execution setups is that the inputs are being streamed to the console _really_ fast

Software is 100% an employees market. Everyone wants coders, and can be hard to pin down good ones. I think software engineers either don't know what they are worth, or are uncomfortable negotiating comp.

If you can MITM the connection, you can just do it server-side, which is far more insidious. This was done in the UK + Brazil a few years back -- some ISPs (including British Telecom) trialled it without even telling affected customers that they were being snooped on!

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/news/8438461/BT-and-P...

https://phonecallsuk.co.uk/bt-webwise.html

Please do, and publish as a real extension - I'd definitely use it

There we go. Easier to sell user data in non-EU jurisdictions