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flud··on Amazon copied products and rigged search results to promote its own brands
În Germany it might stand, but you are forgetting the American legal system is very much moneybased, so Amazon can just fight it in court an win, or at worst settle, which I have no doubt it's overall still a win
flud··on We set up an offshore company in a tax haven
Yup, that sounds like the perfect solution to the problem of companies not paying enough taxes
flud··on Tesla moving headquarters to Texas from California
It wouldn't, but it doesn't mean it won't
flud··on Windows 11 has started rolling out worldwide
Sounds hilarious, I need to see this, got a link to a video?
flud··on Windows 11 has started rolling out worldwide
How so? (I'm a mac user so a bit out of touch w windows world)
flud··on I ruin developers’ lives with my code reviews and I'm sorry
I concur. I'm not a coder but I do review things every 2 months as part of the release cycle, and whenever I see mistakes, especially silly mistakes, I don't feel smart at all, it doesn't even cross my mind.

I feel, in order: disappointment - because how could they make this stupid mistake, then anger - why the f do I have to waste time to correct stupid mistakes, then a bit hateful - we need to fire this person and hire someone competent, then sometimes a bit scared - what else has this person got wrong and I missed, then a mix of all of the above.

What would make me feel good, as far as reviews go, would be to say "hey, this person did this way better than I would have".

Can you tell I hate doing reviews?

flud··on Launch HN: Axiom (YC W21) – No-code browser automation a.k.a. RPA for everyone
Just curious: why do you ask? (I work for UIP)
flud··on ICQ New
Does Trillian support slack by any chance?
flud··on Show HN: Imagededup – Finding duplicate images made easy
Doesn't sound too bad. But can you elaborate on the last part, about retrieval requiring memory and not scaling to more than a couple of thousands images?

How much memory would you need for ~2000 images, how slow does it get, etc.

Thx

flud··on VAIO announces tiny laptop with tons of ports
As a MacBook pro user with just usbc, all I can say is "good move"
flud··on H.264 is magic (2016)
Got any links to that?
flud··on Magic Leap Review Part I
Well actually you can, it's called an LCD
flud··on SEC Sues Musk and Seeks Ban for His Tweets on Go-Private Deal
Source pls?
flud··on Scientists may have found proof of previous universes
Sorry for the IFLS link, the source is paywalled
flud··on Tesla meets self-imposed deadline for Model 3, rolls out 5000 cars in a week
"The value of Tesla is not the actual production of cars. It's the IP of their self-driving technology, and the IP for their fully automated production line. " I highly doubt that but if you have any link/proof pls share. Their value is in providing a product people are head over heels about. And their valuation is much like any other company, based on guestimates of success.
flud··on Is it possible to search GitHub for developers based on repos?
Yup, or you can go directly to Contributors (https://github.com/Hjertesvikt/peptide_PoC/graphs/contributo...).

But I'm looking for a way to cross-reference a few projects and see the contributors to both/all projects.

flud··on Hello, GitHub
În a word, YES. Profitability <> quality.

I would argue that the case here is quite the opposite.

Github is loved for a variety of reasons, small & large decisions that are influenced by how profit-oriented the company is. And how willing they are to annoy their users to squeeze some more "profit" and/or data out of them.

flud··on Microsoft and GitHub have held acquisition talks
Yup, all these came after Skype started sucking, most probably because of it.
flud··on Reality Driven Development: Fixing Project Management in Software
What's the plumbing part? And what scale are the projects, ballpark?
flud··on Reality Driven Development: Fixing Project Management in Software
That sounds pretty smart. How did these de-risking studies usually consist of?
flud··on Are interruptions worse for programmers than for other knowledge workers?
As someone who does both (artistic, design type stuff, and also coding), I can confirm that it doesn't work like that for coding. I do draw stuff, arrows, blocks, layers, whatever can help me, but everything pales in comparison to sitting get still, with your eyes closed, and holding all that abstract construction in your head. Especially since I can be imagining days/weeks/months of work in one go. Artists have a huge advantage here.

That's why personally I'm a big believer in functional visual/feedback based tools for programming, like touch designer, grasshopper. Strictly for code there's Light table, but it's pretty far off of real visual programming tools. These help a lot in offloading some of that brittle house of cards construction you have to store in your head.

flud··on Apparatus: A Hybrid Graphics Editor / Programming Environment [video]
I like the reusability of the parts, but other than that it looks like Grasshopper but for 2D instead of 3D. And code-based instead of patch-based.