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cornfutes

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    Comment #37941065

    But the thing (n810) had WiMAX? I don’t think the problem was text/voice. The problem was that it had a resistive touch screen. Samsung already had touchscreen MP3 players that you…

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    Comment #37936505

    Looks great for a hobby project. Has anyone done the cost + risk assessment of building a for-profit product on top of this? Would love to know, as I am working on a web IDE with c…

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    Comment #37926646

    > why do people make businesses to sell them? Money to go do something else.

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    Comment #37914051

    I was just thinking yesterday that there needs to be a 3rd party tool that reintroduces the thumbs down button.

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    Comment #37775024

    Meanwhile, mortgage rates his 7%

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    Comment #37771888

    > Only stressed people want to relax. Otherwise, we want to do more. You must be American.

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    Comment #37771875

    I was just logging into the IRS website to check the status of my tax balance. You used to be able to login with IRS credentials, but now it's a hard requirement to use ID.me crede…

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    Comment #37748031

    This forum is an American forum. The startup accelerator behind it is American. Facebook, Google, Amazon, Apple, Microsoft, the world's largest software companies are American. The…

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    Comment #37717786

    How much of that originates from rich / developed countries?

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    Comment #37679153

    > Supporting networked systems and servers - Go has good built-in support for networking and servers, making it well-suited for building networked systems, web servers, and other s…

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    Comment #37669363

    > When a project proudly declares itself as "modern," it implies that it's up-to-date and built with the latest technologies. > Would anyone suggest replacing TeX with a "modern" a…

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    Comment #37585412

    The fact that the frameworks are converging on the same idea should suggest that it is necessary complexity in the framework for any sufficiently complex app.

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    Comment #37585340

    > I am assuming it's because the users who are making these frameworks now have not used or do not remember the times where "signals" were called observables And also a tendency to…

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    Comment #37585180

    > At first glance, this might seem like a step back — perhaps even un-Svelte-like. Isn't it better if let count is reactive by default Actually, it was Svelte who coined the term a…

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    Comment #37579876

    They had no problem keeping the Logan brothers on the platform despite their toxic behavior.

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    Comment #37509892

    Wow. I thought the above comment was hyperbole. But it’s quite literal

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    Comment #37496143

    “Winning is not enough, others must fail”. Quite ironic that the investor class sees it as a zero sum game.

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    Comment #37402666

    > A simple one liner built-in is very convenient. Then why do you need bloated web UI that's not performant as React, Vue, Angular, Svelte? You can also just add 1 line of css clas…

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    Comment #37401529

    What’s not accessible about CSS? This is already a low bar to pass. I remember adding CSS3 transitions a decade ago at my first internship. It feels like there is a lot of brigadin…

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    Comment #37358807

    So this is why the Oakland team is called the Raiders.

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    Comment #37337416

    Taiwanese take more pride in Tatung than they do in TSMC.

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    Comment #37337380

    How much of the corporate virtue signaling was in response to a jobseeker-oriented market? Now, with all the layoffs, employers have their pick of white collar workers.

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    Comment #37332395

    Google is still the king of points-of-interests and local businesses. Places that a tourist would actually care about. Mapbox would not even be within 1 or 2 order of magnitudes wh…

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    Comment #37331824

    > You can rent a goddamn Mercedes AMG for that kind of money. Or you can have a webpage that serves useful information to 100,000 people.