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Comment · 7 years ago
Most probably are
Comment · 8 years ago
Waze is pretty cool, especially with alerting to the presence of nearby speedgunning cops, but the battery drain is too much for me to tolerate, not to mention the obnoxious "integration" with Spotify.
Comment · 8 years ago
Did you use any server or client game or rendering framework? eg. Phaser, pixi or the like. And when you say the simulation is running on the client, do you mean it is client authoritative and the server just acts as relay? What sort of actions do you send?
Comment · 8 years ago
One of the main benefits being reported here is the instant purchase, however with Amazon Prime Now (1-2 hour delivery of some items in metropolitan areas), this somewhat goes away. I recently used Amazon to buy new computer parts to upgrade my PC, and when they arrived and I started assembling it, I realized I had gotten the wrong RAM. So even at 9pm I was able to order 2 sticks of decent 8GB ddr4 ram and get it delivered that same night by 10pm and finish the build.

What I prefer about Amazon are the reviews and selection. Even when I'm in Best buy, I'm on my phone reading Amazon reviews for the products I'm considering and exploring alternatives.

Comment · 8 years ago
Any source for this?
Comment · 8 years ago
Maybe you also didn't notice you can scroll down on the slides to get more info on the headlining topic (I missed it at first).
Comment · 8 years ago
Got a pretty strange one:

> Question: When was Julius Caesar executed?

> Aristo is not sure about this one...

> Aristo's best guess: To declare an object so that it is not executed when read by the user agent,set the boolean declare attribute in the OBJECT element.

> Confidence: 2.58%

I guess it's not much of a history buff, but likes computers.

Comment · 8 years ago
> assuming they control equal stakes in GitHub

That seems like a pretty big assumption. And as mentioned in other comments, what about the employee stock pool? That must account for some chunk of it also.

Comment · 8 years ago
That sounds very intrusive. We should consider the privacy ramifications before tracking our users like that.
Comment · 8 years ago
Shhhh... Or my boss will hear you
Comment · 8 years ago
Good book about exactly this is Orwell's Animal Farm which is an allegory to the Russian revolution itself
Comment · 8 years ago
I see middle-school kids biking home from school in my suburb and when approaching the intersection (not a very busy one, mind you), they all dismount their bikes and walk across the street. I know that's what you're supposed to do, but c'mon, they're kids.. When I was that age my friends and I would race across the street without helmets flipping the bird to the crossing guard, so it's a bit unsettling to see them all obediently get off their bikes and single-file across the street, even when there are no crossing guards in sight.
Comment · 8 years ago
Soon we'll be bartering again, except this time for user data and other ultimately useless things.
Comment · 8 years ago
What about Tuesday?
Comment · 8 years ago
Just curious, why do you use a mechanical disk?

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