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staticfish··on Linus Torvalds TED Talk 2016 (HD): The Mind Behind Linux
On how honest, in-touch and well adjusted they are. He can rub people the wrong way, but he's usually right. That man can speak
staticfish··on The murky history of moderation and how it’s shaping the future of free speech
it's amazing how dead on-the-nail the southpark team do serious, humour ridden topical commentary on serious social and political issues.

I think they'll go down as two of the greatest commentators of our generation.

staticfish··on Enveloupe: An API for snail mail
not if it's pinned at the web app level.
staticfish··on Google Cloud Datastore simplifies pricing, cuts cost for most use-cases
I'm struggling to find the percentage change for reads and writes.
staticfish··on Ballmer Says 'People Don't Want to Work' at Amazon
It's true. As an engineer working for a large company in Seattle, there's almost a disdain for the employees, which I admit is unfair.
staticfish··on Why do pub TVs have a pint glass in the corner?
Hah, now you're being funny.
staticfish··on “Today we moved into our new Facebook building”
Why should people that would like some quiet time (which is needed for all of us) have to come in at non-standard hours. That sucks.

I think the bigger issue is how we've all been duped into how the open-plan offices "work" from MBA dicks.

staticfish··on “Today we moved into our new Facebook building”
I'm pretty certain he means noise dampening, and you knew that.
staticfish··on My experience of interviewing for a job at Apple
I think he understands that, but is wondering why that is relevant for the topic at all.
staticfish··on My experience of interviewing for a job at Apple
What a nice, sane thing to write on HN. Reading this I got the exact same impression.
staticfish··on List of available 2 letter domain names
Just my opinion: I think it reads awkwardly.
staticfish··on Stetho: A new debugging platform for Android
That's a great explanation. Thank you. Doesn't it cause problems not being able to pause the execution of the programme?
staticfish··on Stetho: A new debugging platform for Android
Just an honest question: What's the benefit of using this over the adb bridge and debug bridge to debug code on-the-fly?
staticfish··on Atom: Editor window startup is slow
Space is expensive if you are using an SSD.
staticfish··on Work Habits at Apple
Agreed. That's a complete dick-move.
staticfish··on A first step toward more global email
Interesting.

Question: What do you guys think it'd take to get the other N% of email providers, clients, servers, and whatnot onboard?

Is this an ipV6-like situation?

staticfish··on Ask HN: Good countries for American expats
You can't get a proper sausage in the UK?

I'm going to pretend I didn't hear that....

staticfish··on [dead]
"Becoming".
staticfish··on Ask HN: Idea Sunday
Unfortunately, Google maps caching works as view-only. There's no offline navigation at all, I imagine that's all done serverside. Only the tiles (or now vectors) are downloaded.
staticfish··on SR-71 In-Flight Breakup
It's too early on a Saturday morning for RegEx jokes :-)
staticfish··on About the security content of iOS 7.0.6
I have always wondered why all languages don't enforce this?
staticfish··on Show HN: I built an HTML 5 Guitar Tuner
Personally I would hate clickable areas of a tab selector itself.
staticfish··on Don't Pickle Your Data
I thought pickle output was just JSON? Shows what I know.
staticfish··on Flappy Bird creator, Dong Nguyen, taking down game; "I can't take this anymore"
Money doesn't always dry tears, especially if he is going through a semi mental breakdown.
staticfish··on Nadella as Microsoft CEO: A slap in the face for Indian system
Is it me, or does this situation reek of "damned if you do, and damned if you don't"?
staticfish··on Mac Pro (late 2013) replica inside a real trashcan
I don't think anyone expects to get support for running a hackintosh, but my point was that apple don't do much to dissuade this behaviour
staticfish··on Mac Pro (late 2013) replica inside a real trashcan
I don't think that's quite true. There's a lot that's not generally compatible with a lot of ATX boards (special power management stuff, drivers), but in general they haven't done a whole lot to block it off.

I think they see it as a hobyist activity that does more to encourage sales than lose them.

staticfish··on April Fool Pranks in Sun Microsystems Over the Years
I was expecting the pranks to be better.
staticfish··on Intel's "cripple AMD" function (2009)
Couldn't that also potentially break some logic branch through the chip where the app is expected to be running on a GenuineIntel processor? I'm not well versed in this.
staticfish··on Google to Acquire Nest
I think there a lot of things to bash Google on, but the outcome of Motorola is not one of them. The G and X look like great phones and they were all pieces of shit before.
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