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timemcton ByteDance plans TikTok IPO to win U.S. deal as deadline looms

Vine launched in 2012. There probably wasn't a critical mass of mobile phone owners, specifically teens, at that time. The iPhone hit the market only five years earlier.

timemcton Apple Event: "view the AR experience"

So true! Preview is one of those apps that Just Works™. I recently opened a PDF on a Windows 10 computer and was slightly shocked that a _web browser_ opened up to present the PDF. Being able to easily and quickly annotate a screen shots and photos for documentation is a huge boon, too.

timemcton Patreon Raises $90M Series E at $1.2B Valuation

I sub to heaps of science infotainment channels and the YT algo hasn't ever recommended your channel. I think that anecdotally shows how broken the YT algo is. You just got one more YT sub and a potential new Patreon sub, too. Cheers!

timemcton Mac keyboard shortcuts

Shout out to Cheat Sheet. Hold down Command for a few extra seconds and an overlay pops up showing you all the keyboard shortcuts for whatever app is in focus. https://www.cheatsheetapp.com/CheatSheet/

timemcton Ask HN: Should a remote employee’s salary be tied to their physical location?

Nope. Cost of Living (CoL) will always out pace/pivot faster than HR could accommodate.

timemcton Spices Have Made, and Unmade, Empires

Actively. IIRC, they would sweeten wine with lead.

timemcton Playboy Interview: Steve Jobs (1985)

Arthur C Clarke did the same thing in 1974 [1]. The reprint of the Steve Jobs interview is a good read nevertheless.

[1] http://youtu.be/OIRZebE8O84

timemcton A Giant Asteroid of Gold Won’t Make Us Richer

Bringing down precious metals to Earth isn't the main point of developing space mining tech, e.g. mining a golden asteroid. The mined materials would be useful for bootstrapping other space based projects. With the right mining tech in place, it would be better to build anything that's going to be strictly used in space, well, in space. Earth's gravity well is much less of a cost factor if you don't have to send up manufactured items.

timemcton iOS 12, reviewed

You could probably use the full nuclear option by using recovery mode[1] to restore it.

[1] https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201263

timemcton God Save Austin

Reporting in from Asheville: the tech scene here is incredibly small. Most of the people I know here in town that are working in any sort of tech space are remote workers. Asheville is indeed a city that's seen a lot of growth over the past 15/20 years and is often talked about in the same way as Austin; I'll often hear someone say, "when I moved here in YYYY, is was so great; I miss the old Asheville." The city officials seems dead set on promoting tourism and not supporting a tech industry. I'm still here because I love this town and want to help promote the its tech scene.

timemcton FCC plan would give Internet providers power to choose the sites customers see

That would imply that we had a choice in what would be campaign issues. I'd like to think that we do, but my cynicism grows stronger everyday.

timemcton Amazon Is Winning the Battle for the Home Operating System

I haven't used a SmartThings hub, however their documentation [0] states that they're using Z-Wave, so if you go that route with Home Assistant, I'm willing to bet that it'll play nice with what you already have as far as sensors go.

[0] https://support.smartthings.com/hc/en-us/articles/204392790-...

timemcton Amazon Is Winning the Battle for the Home Operating System

I've found Home Assistant [0] to be a solid project that works swimmingly on a raspberry Pi 3. For sensors, the Aeotec (by Aeon Labs) Z-Wave sensors [1] have been reliable for me. The Z-Wave stick I use is from Z-Wave.Me [2] and seems good, too.

[0] https://home-assistant.io [1] https://aeotec.com [2] https://www.z-wave.me/index.php?id=28