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Fortnite and Minecraft are huge ip though.

I don't think of the style as dated. If you think of Portal 2 as a continuation of the style on a tangent, it's just heading in it's own unique direction. Portal 2 still feels far …

I have the MI A2 (~$230). It's spec'd very similarly to the Pixel 3a and has stock Android. It's been available for almost a year now.

Do you have a portfolio site? I had a 5 year hiatus from dev work and got a high paying software job within a year of trying. 1. Read numerous hacker news comments for advice. 2. D…

I don't have experience with Dragon or Siri, but Google Assistant has been improving at a noticable pace and for me seems seems to recognize at least 90% correct.

I'd assume (hope) they mean to infer data and not invent it.

Was on pololee's team as well. We were all crushed because the team was only a few months old and were we just all getting to know each other well.

Wouldn't the loss of close integration between Google's ads business and services decrease their respective values though?

This couldn't be farther from the truth. More speed means more page views means more ads seen means more revenue. Walmart Amazon plus others have done studies showing faster load t…

Ya this kinda sumarizes the Crux of the problem pretty well. I'm getting a bit worn with seeing anti JavaScript what nots on HN. It's here to stay guys for better or worse (and wil…

That last tip is so clever! I'll have to remember that if I ever want to undergo such a project.

XFCE is a true productivity DE. Gives you a few simple basic apps, and does a damn good job of managing windows. I so wish I could use it at work..

Huge amounts of fragmentation in the dev community for one.. there were several major forks.

I appreciated the novelty as well, fast forward many years later and I'm doing a bunch of Googling figuring out how to disable the fancy animations on the work issued osx laptop.

Don't companies like stripe aim to make packaged solutions to problems like these?

Perhaps not but that point of view is a dramatic over simplification of the situation. I used nicotine as a cruch while dealing with mental health issues. Part of the time I was sm…

The building I work in downtown always has half a dozen smokers on the sidewalk. Wish they would reserve a balcony or something for them because as an ex smoker smelling it is espe…

This is completely true. I started smoking at 17 with menthols because they tasted good to me and were easier to inhale. Switched to regular after I got used to them.

Hesitant to reply because your comment seems borderline trolling to me. But as someone who quit smoking after a many years habbit Ive personally never done anything harder.

We're assuming that evolution has a higher chance of creating biotech that will solve problems than biotech we will be able to produce in the future using computational methods? I …

I've used this strategy consistently for things I don't like, works great! Don't understand why more people don't consider it.

Pretty impressive, don't know if I'd consider ssh a basic computer skills though.. the rest seems rather practical.

Me too.

Bitbucket I use gives you the option as a checkbox upon merging.