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quasimodem

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    Comment #40610002

    You have taken the first step towards understanding Tom7.

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    Comment #40586078

    How about a client-side autocorrect so we don't have to suffer posts made in OP's second language?

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    Comment #34319027

    Thanks!! Of course there's much more to the story and most of it is awesome. I just use those points to drive home how hard indie dev is.

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    Comment #34302306

    I started my career in a traditional tech role and quickly grew to hate it. I used my savings to fund a 2-year sabbatical in which I wrote my own game engine using C++ and LUA (thi…

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    Comment #31801068

    >they don’t use the mic as many suspect I know they claim they don't, but do you have reliable information that confirms this? Like experience on an internal team at Google/Apple?

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    Comment #31801059

    Then should we really be building systems that complicated?

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    Comment #31801049

    My gut reaction is that it listens to me, either directly or via some app, but I know Google has refuted this fact. I suppose this is testable too, so I tend to fall on the confirm…

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    Comment #31801034

    I am confident it did not, that conversation was out of my mind as soon as it ended, which was why I was so surprised to see it dredged up again in my feed.

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    Comment #31801017

    That's a good theory. I'm not on any social networks, however I do email her, so perhaps Google associates me to her via my contacts list?

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    Comment #31800920

    I had a 5 minute conversation with my niece at the park about rotary phones and now my feed is full of rotary phone-related articles. This happens more times than I can remember.

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    Comment #26171112

    ...How exactly is this hacker news?

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    Comment #22274077

    If you believe that humans are too just products of evolution, then I'd say evolution gets credit for aerospace engineering too.

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    Comment #22041678

    Indeed they have declines!

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    Comment #21911911

    Yeesh, yes why does this article get so much traction when it's reposted so frequently? We get it. It ain't art unless it divides people.

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    Comment #21728648

    We could have never developed nuclear without the sun getting us started though...

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    Comment #20968863

    Oh dude congrats! That's a whole decade worth of wins right there. Keep it up!

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    Comment #17361473

    I thought this was Hacker News, not Hacker Sponsored Content?

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    Comment #17109807

    Everything has to do with math.

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    Comment #17098756

    Great article! Thanks for sharing. Really makes me wonder how guys like Abramovich get started. Did he used to work for the telecoms and knew how things worked? Or is he just one o…

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    Comment #17007930

    Oh I thought the 404 was the joke.

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    Comment #16937990

    I learned in Headlines 101 not to use "Infant", "Fall", and "Sharply" together in a headline. But what does college matter once you're in the real world?

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    Comment #16685831

    I mean, insofar as society can learn anything, I think if your entire last 10+ years of photos and love letters and baby pictures and the other trillion gigs of intimate shit peopl…

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    Comment #16681569

    I fantasize about Facebook just one day utterly disappearing. No warning, just quietly taken offline without explanation, all data deleted without a whisper. The world would absolu…

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    Comment #14907626

    I was confused that the huge photo at the top of the article is not of Walt Mossberg.