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kevhsuon Firefox lost 50M users since 2019

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/22/business/brave-brendan-ei...

I don't feel bad for this guy - He says and does things regularly that are hurtful to society with no signs of becoming a better person.

kevhsuon Questions to Ask Before Joining a Startup

it's a startup. your stock is not liquid.

kevhsuon Holloway Guide to Equity Compensation

Refuse to work for them because they aren't letting you do due diligence on the offer. What do they have to hide?

kevhsuon Facebook is launching a dating feature

Literally said "over time", nothing about deciding after a first date.

kevhsuon Twitch nabs exclusive streaming deal with Blizzard for e-sports events

Not surprising in light of the fact that mlg.tv has not been a serious competitor to twitch for ages.

kevhsuon Apple's Touch Bar Could Be a Flop

OTOH, you can now use a standard charger that is shared with increasingly many new devices. How many people are actually knocking laptops off tables because of the power cord?

kevhsuon Uber Investigating Sexual Harassment Claims by Ex-Employee

What corporate American companies don't have this problem?

kevhsuon No tipping means better business

Uber drivers are allowed to put up signs soliciting tips in some regions as they won a couple lawsuits.

I choose to tip drivers when they provide extra services or goods. If a driver gives me a bottle of water or lifts heavy luggage for me, I'll sometimes give him some money.

kevhsuon Sous-vide startup wants to take the tech-industry’s kitchen darling mainstream

Sous vide is usually at a lower temperature than boiling. I did some research and felt pretty safe about using ziploc bags with mine for meats up to 160 F. People have done testing on this stuff.

kevhsuon Gameroom

These rude 'average gamers' you speak of are the vocal minority in my experience... Most of us are normal people.

kevhsuon Is Running Good or Bad for Your Health?

see a physical therapist to figure out where you should increase strength in complementary muscle groups as well as fix flexibility issues. Also, making corrections to running form.

kevhsuon A Push to Make Harvard Free Also Questions the Role of Race in Admissions

I'm not sure how this would change the gap between top schools and super top schools. Most of the top students at A tier schools already applied and got rejected by S tier schools in the current environment. So the quality of students theoretically doesn't change. What am I missing in your logic here?

kevhsuon A Push to Make Harvard Free Also Questions the Role of Race in Admissions

I mean the preference for other races besides Asian when academic performance is held equal. Which I guess would fall under 'affirmative action.' The typical argument is that colleges want kids who are more 'well-rounded' and Asian kids are stereotyped to be less so.

kevhsuon A Push to Make Harvard Free Also Questions the Role of Race in Admissions

There's also an explicit racial component to college admissions that I think plenty of us suspect does actually exist in the form of quotas, higher average scores/academic performance. That part can go pretty easily.

kevhsuon The University of Illinois’ Startup Ecosystem

Well there's a world class university there...

kevhsuon What ‘Game of Thrones’ Does to Your Heart Rate

I haven't worked with the Apple Watch, but for the Microsoft Band, the SDK will return a confidence level for the heart rate. I think both devices usually display the number regardless of confidence level to the user, sometimes with a signification that it is still acquiring your heart rate.

kevhsuon Get Started with the Microsoft Band SDK Preview

Built in GPS. I don't want to bring my phone on runs with me. For me, it replaces a Garmin GPS watch.

kevhsuon Dell Previews 27-inch ‘5K’ UltraSharp Monitor: 5120x2880

16:10 is a standard ratio. 1680x1050, 1280x800, 1920x1200...

kevhsuon Good Poker Players Aren't Lucky

In the case of 'almost half' of 14.8 percent where the best hand folded, other people stayed in besides the winner and the best hand.

kevhsuon Our Love Affair With the Tablet Is Over

In bed, I often lay on my side with my tablet locked to portrait orientation but it is standing horizontally with respect to the bed. This way, I don't need to support it with my hands to read, only need to use my hands when I need to scroll or pick something new to read.

kevhsuon Take Buffett's Billion

If the chance of anyone winning is y and the prize is x, you can pay the insurer (x*y)+z dollars to pay out the x dollars in the event that someone wins. I'm sure z is probably tied to x in some way, but just know that z is the money that turns into the insurer's revenue in the long run.

You're basically paying the expected value(cost?) of the prize, plus a fee to the person who's insuring you. That way a billion dollar contest will not actually cost you a billion dollars, even in the event that someone wins.

kevhsuon Humble Indie Bundle X – Pay what you want and help charity

...and what exactly would be wrong with that? Worst case scenario the BTA price goes to $10 assuming you're buyer 1001 and everyone else bought the $10 pack. You still get a heck of a deal.

kevhsuon Full archives of Game Developer magazine

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4643438/how-to-search-con...

kevhsuon Fox News Touchscreens are Microsoft Perceptive Pixel Displays Running Windows 8

(16x)^2 + (9x)^2 = (55)^2

x ~= 2.996

1920/(16x) ~= 40.05 dpi

kevhsuon Nexus 5 to be first smartphone with MEMS camera

it's on AT&T's network. So it should be about the same.

kevhsuon The Death Of Nintendo Has Been Greatly Under-Exaggerated

oops typo :)

kevhsuon The Death Of Nintendo Has Been Greatly Under-Exaggerated

Completely agree

20% less than the Nintendo DS is a good sales figure considering the DS is #2 in terms of video game console sales, only selling 3 millions units less than the all time leader, the PS3. (http://www.vgchartz.com/analysis/platform_totals/)

kevhsuon Xbox One Revealed

but why would I pay for XBOX live on top of my Netflix/Hulu subscription fees when I can use those services for free on PS3/4 or WiiU?

kevhsuon MacBook Air supplies dwindle ahead of WWDC, Intel CPU refresh

The ASUS zenbooks were pretty damn good as far as I could tell. I've heard decent stuff about the Dell XPS ultrabooks.

Not exactly an ultrabook, but thinkpad x220/x230 was pretty amazing except for the low screen resolution. IPS screen, great keyboard, great performance aside from integrated graphics, space for an mSATA SSD as well as SATA HDD/SSD, battery slice to boost it to 20+ hours, removable battery, and great linux support.

kevhsuon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2013)

All of the jobs I looked at the description for have "Min Experience: Experienced." I just graduated in December; is Tumblr looking for new grad hires?