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dimillian··on We posed as 100 Senators to run ads on Facebook. Facebook approved all of them
I hate the US system because more money = more exposure. This is broken at so many level. This is hell.
dimillian··on Portal from Facebook: Voice Enabled Hands-Free Video Calling
My real question is who need that? We all have smartphone or computers or tablets with video calling apps built in. What is market who need a device for video call only?
dimillian··on Netflix to let viewers pick how TV episodes and movies will end
Really? The only real contender to Netflix content is HBO. I have yet to find a new relevant TV shows to watch which is not from Netflix or HBO.
dimillian··on Who Were the Mamluks?
This is the answer I was looking for. Sometime they also form Egypt too.
dimillian··on America’s Student Debt Machine
It's very common in France for private school to advertise apprenticeship. Because it's a way for them to get more students, and more money, as the company pay the school + the student. It's hard, but not impossible for a student to find a company willing to sponsor them. In the end it can be a bit cheaper than a full time employee + you get a few state taxes cut if you have student/apprentice in your payroll.

For me, after college I was searching for that specific thing. That was my own requirement, I wanted to dev full time while getting a diploma as a "safeguard" and "to look good on my resume".

Actually school is more a side effect of me working. I continued school because it was possible to work same time, if not I guess I would have stopped after college diploma (BAC in France).

dimillian··on America’s Student Debt Machine
In France, I did apprenticeship (3 days works, 2 days school) as Software developer, meaning that I did not payed for school, I was actually payed to go to school. And it was full salary, I did that for 3 years. Got my bachelor, quite a lot of money and 3 years of experience. So I "began" my life with money, experience and diploma.

It was not prestigious school, nor prestigious diploma, I could have continued for a master, but IMO, I value experience far more than diploma, and where I worked/work also.

So my question is Americans? What's the deal. Same for France too, I guess our profession as developers allow that, I can understand that for some other fields you need prestigious schools and requirements to get hired for a good salary.

dimillian··on I’m Sorry I Criticized You, Apple. You Win
My father still use my square white Macbook, it stills work as good as day 1 with the factory battery. I wonder if my 2016 and 2018 MacBook Pro will get the same lifetime, if they does, it's still crazy hardware.
dimillian··on Apple releases software fix for MacBook Pro slowdown
My old MacBook Pro I had for more than 5 years is 90% of the time around 100C. Whenever I'm working or playing. It's still working good.
dimillian··on People Aren’t Dumb, the World Is Hard
So the crowd forbid to name Karl Marx here of what?
dimillian··on Coinbase Commerce: merchants can accept multiple digital currencies
Verification is not done by humans, and it's instant.
dimillian··on How Bitcoin Compares to History's Big Bubbles
You're all talking in the past tense like it's done. It's already recovering right now, the US market will wake up, and it'll be back on track. Every January is the same story for 4 years now. This thing will hit far far far up before really crashing down. Bonus if some coin can be adopted as a reliable Digital currency for buying and selling stuff.
dimillian··on Website Glitch Let Me Overstock My Coinbase
That where it got trickier. IMO, if a big brand start to accept BTC, like Walmart or such, my strategy would be to hire 1 or 2 traders to deal exclusively with the BTC/FIAT wallet of the company. The goal being to make the BTC/FIAT ratio interest grows. I think accepting cryptocurrencies will create a lot of job in trading/finance for companies totally unrelated to the business.
dimillian··on Meltdown and Spectre
How would one exploit a Google Cloud physical machine for example? One would still need to inject/patch a file to exploit processor right?
dimillian··on Coinbase Wants Wall Street to Resolve Its Bitcoin Trust Issues
I think most of you don't realise at what scale Coinbase work. You just have to watch the trade history on GDAX for a few seconds to understand the sheer volume of what is actually happening. The GDAX web socket is very very robust. It's very rarely down for me, and have not been down at all since they did whatever upgrade/maintenance they had to a few days ago.
dimillian··on Is Bitcoin a Bubble? Economists Say ‘Yes’
A bubble explosion would inevitably bankrupt the exchange platform first, then you. GDAX/Coinbase will never be able to create money out of thin air if everyone are selling and the BTC is dropping to $5. So even if you sell before everyone, even if you get your money on Coinbase virtually, they'll never honour the wire transfert.
dimillian··on IOTA Surges Past Ripple
I don't really care about all the fluff & stuff behind all those alt, I just bought it very low at very high quantity, and sold it when it was higher. I love cryptos, whatever the use for it. It's free money. While it last.
dimillian··on Reddit is ready for advertisers, but are advertisers ready for Reddit?
I'm a huge fan of Reddit, it's basically where I got my info about everything in my life. It's like an up to date, curated version of the mess that some news site are. Plus conversations is highly interesting most of the time. Of course, you have to follow the good one, and read what you want to read.
dimillian··on Bitcoin passes 10,000 USD
Not yet. Whatever that crap site is.
dimillian··on How Redux Works: A Counter-Example
Both :)
dimillian··on How Redux Works: A Counter-Example
We use it in our native mobile applications (iOS / Android) for over a year now. It make a lot of sense, improved the codebase maintainability and reduced the number of bugs.
dimillian··on How Redux Works: A Counter-Example
Switched our entire native app stack to a redux backend (Swift and Kotlin), never been happier. Sure there is more code in the end, but the decoupling and simplicity to use is just too good. Especially on iOS when you know how complex it is to maintain a controller hierarchy with a (now dead) dependency chain.
dimillian··on Show HN: iOS music player, like a virtual record collection
Did you used SceneKit, or UIKit dynamics, or is the physical effects are homemade/keyframe animations?

Very well done!

Edit: On a second thought I would see myself doing it as UICollectionView with a custom layout.

dimillian··on ReactOS 0.4.6 released
Can it run Doom?

Edit: Ok I'm impressed, apparently it can even run Doom III https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rluGgjcXtEY

dimillian··on Show HN: Make Medium Readable Again
I don't see how it can be useful. Here for example, I just have to scroll a little (little) bit and all the bar are gone. https://blog.mindorks.com/understanding-interpolators-in-and...

Am I on some sort of special version?

dimillian··on Apple Scales Back Its Ambitions for a Self-Driving Car
Good question: Is the iPhone a side effect of the iPod touch or the iPod touch a side effect of the iPhone?
dimillian··on Startups should not use React
Yeah because small startups will totally go after Facebook. Make sense. Wow.
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dimillian··on Disney acquires own streaming facilities, will pull Netflix content
I don't want to advance anything (don't have time to find the source), but I think Apple have something special built in Safari/Webkit for Netflix. That relate to decoding, quality and battery combustion while streaming.
dimillian··on Hacker News is more interested in Bitcoin when there's a bubble forming
I'm sorry what? Why would I trust my live saving account (which is already pretty volatile), into something much much more volatile? And I can spend whatever money I have on my bank account without anyone limiting or controlling it, and also without any hassles. I don't see the point for real. The only downside I can see for me is that I can't make 'quick' profit by playing with the trend/market.
dimillian··on Pokémon Go Fest attendees to get refunds as technical issues break the event
So you can add/update them without doing an .ipa/.apk update ? Seems really convenient, and a one time deal if it's cached.
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