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alienreborn··on New Google Pixel 3, Pixel Slate, and Home Hub
No, they still have small bezels both at top and bottom
alienreborn··on New Google Pixel 3, Pixel Slate, and Home Hub
Comes down to two reasons.. 1. Its costly to manufacture a screen that bends to avoid the bezel. 2. Apple has a patent for bended screen. So, competitors have to come up with a slightly different way to achieve this.

Folded screen of iphone https://i.imgur.com/Vg2n5Ji.jpg

alienreborn··on Making sense of the alleged Supermicro motherboard attack
Anyone else literally can't because they don't have supply chain advantage that China has.
alienreborn··on My wonderful world of iOS
Your web-app is the best habit tracker ever created and I used it for a while after I paid for it very early on. :) However, I left it because mobile app is not as smooth of an experience. Currently using habitify.me across my devices but will switch back once mobile app catches up with other apps.
alienreborn··on Ask HN: Best email client for a Mac?
FYI: Spark stores your credentials in their cloud unlike your typical email client which stores them locally.

https://www.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/5grsan/do_not_use_...

alienreborn··on Ask HN: Best alternative to Gmail?
FYI: They store your credentials on their servers. Its not like outlook/thunderbird where you credentials are stored locally.
alienreborn··on America’s Student Debt Machine
It wasn't meant to snarky. I would've been under debt too if I wasn't educated about this by my family/friends etc.
alienreborn··on America’s Student Debt Machine
Best thing I've ever done as far as college is concerned is

1. Saved up money by working before going to Masters.

2. Lived with 3 others in a two bedroom to save money.

3. Chosen less prestigious institution in a smaller town which is significantly cheaper than one of the bigger schools to which I got admit to.

Graduated with no debt.

alienreborn··on Netflix is the latest company to try bypassing Apple’s app store
Straight out of r/HailCorporate
alienreborn··on How America Uses Its Land
Whoa, America has lot of golf courses!
alienreborn··on Faust: Stream Processing for Python
Because if your topics' throughput is low (say <1000 per sec), all those tools might be overkill as most of them require a new cluster, significant setup and using new framework. This library might help quickly build consumers with little to no extra setup/infra.

Also, Robinhood using this in production says this performs reasonably well and battle tested to handle some operations behind a popular app such as theirs.

Definitely excited to try this out to see how this fares compared to Kafka Streams and Spark Structured streaming, both of which we use.

alienreborn··on Spotify hits 83M paying subscribers, more than double Apple Music’s 40M
No, It seems like Apple Music's initial focus is mostly on US customer base although its available in nearly double the number of countries(113) than Spotify(59). It recently crossed Spotify in no. of paying customers in US.

https://www.engadget.com/2018/07/06/apple-music-more-us-subs...

alienreborn··on Slack Is Buying HipChat from Atlassian
Every engineer I met dislikes Confluence. Engineers who write most of the documentation don't like using Confluence which lead to out dated, subpar and incomplete documentation.

In my org, I noticed this and created a github repo to push documentation in Markdown. I created initial version of docs and now every engineer in our team uses it because they know markdown, appreciate version controlled docs and can use whatever editor they want to. This repo is now filled with quality documentation for most of our stack and operations.

alienreborn··on Show HN: Localgov.fyi – Finding local gov services made easier
Would be great if you also add how to file a (noise, parking violation, bug etc) complaint in next update.

This looks like a great resource esp. for new transplants. Congrats on the launch.

alienreborn··on Why local US newspapers are sounding the alarm
> "Oh, to be a state or local official in America over the next 10 to 15 years, before somebody figures out the business model," says Simon, a former crime reporter for the Baltimore Sun. "To gambol freely across the wastelands of an American city, as a local politician! It's got to be one of the great dreams in the history of American corruption."

-- David Simon (Creator of The Wire) on the necessity of local newspapers which are quickly disappearing.

Source: https://www.theguardian.com/media/2009/mar/27/david-simon-wi...

alienreborn··on Ask HN: How to advertise your python package?
post in on /r/python and write a small comment about why created it etc.. Its generally a welcoming subreddit.
alienreborn··on Layoffs at Watson Health Reveal IBM’s Problem with AI
Whats EMR? (definitely not Elastic Map Reduce)
alienreborn··on Ask HN: Best Resource to learn web programming using Go?
https://gophercises.com
alienreborn··on Goals vs. Systems (2013)
Would love it.
alienreborn··on The Looming Battle Over AI Chips
Non paywall link: https://outline.com/FucjTm
alienreborn··on Instagram ranked worst social network for young people's mental health
Relevant movie that explores the psyche behind both `consumer` and `producer` on Instagram: Ingrid Goes West
alienreborn··on Vim Anywhere
I use this app on Mac for the exact key mentioned above Caps -> Ctrl/Esc

https://github.com/tekezo/Karabiner-Elements

alienreborn··on Show HN: TablePlus – A macOS client for relational databases
Thank you for this. If there is one area where there is a dearth of tools it's universal SQL workbenches. Only tool that's worth considering till now is Datagrip and now this looks promising.
alienreborn··on Ask HN: How do you document your knowhow, past projects and lessons?
Used to use Quiver (http://happenapps.com/) but now switched to Bear Notes (http://www.bear-writer.com/).

Both support Markdown and Syntax Highlighting. Quiver is lot more full featured programmer's notebook but I like Bear because its light and I prefer tag system.

alienreborn··on Ask HN: What are your favorite browser extensions/add-ons for Firefox or chrome?
Similar one I use: cVim https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/cvim/ihlenndgcmojh...
alienreborn··on Apple Watch Series 3
Verge[1] (5/10), WSJ[2] has pretty negative reviews esp reg. battery and LTE reception and Apple acknowledged that problem in their statement. This has to be one of the worst reviewed Apple products in a while. However Wired[3] has good things to say about it and NYT[4] found it alright.

1. https://www.theverge.com/2017/9/20/16334066/apple-watch-seri...

2. https://www.wsj.com/articles/apple-watch-series-3-review-unt...

3. https://www.wired.com/2017/09/review-apple-watch-series-3/

4. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/20/technology/personaltech/a...

alienreborn··on Apple Watch Series 3
Probably the classic syndrome of design being dictated by branding/marketing.
alienreborn··on Why Is Python Growing So Quickly?
because readability is one of the most, if not the most, important quality for mainstream programming language adoption.
alienreborn··on iPhone X
Don't know about Face ID. Microsoft Windows Hello solved it couple of yrs ago.
alienreborn··on Stop the Daily Standup Meeting
I actually like the way we do stand ups at my current job. All of us sit together, so we just stand up in place and state what we are working on and if we have any blockers that need to be taken offline with specific ppl. Whole thing will be done under 2mins.
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