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Motorola Atrix and others too.

AFAICT, there are two main reasons it hasn't caught on:

1. It doesn't follow the normal technology adoption curve. Most tech is adopted first by technically savvy individuals who know how to deal with the "quirks" of living on the bleeding edge. And then evangelize it to the normies.

But a docked phone is for the normals, only techies need the power of a standalone computer.

2: A monitor + keyboard + dock can be more expensive and less convenient than a chromebook.

But it's an obvious idea and eventually it will happen. Once Google and/or Apple takes it seriously and integrate it into the base operating system, it'll slowly spread.
My high school physics teacher offered one point of extra credit per n work units. I had a fairly beefy computer, for a high school kid, and since he never put a ceiling on the number of points offered, I ended up accumulating up enough extra credit to bump my grade up a whole letter.
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Let's cripple our project right from the beginning by including an ugly notch at the top, a "design feature" that tanked Essential, caused recent sales slip of new Nokia phones and forced even low-cost Chinese manufacturers to switch into drilling a circular hole in the display for placing camera in order to avoid its negative sales effects.
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Ask HN: Would you migrate from GitHub if it gets merged into Azure DevOps?
Would you migrate from GitHub if it gets merged / absorbed into Azure DevOps?

1. For your professional projects?

2. For your open source projects?

Related Q: Would you abandon VS Code if becomes primarily Azure Cloud focused?
They block certain results because of that, and there is no option to disable that. That's a big no to me. How do I know what results do they consider moral enough to show me?
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Anyone willing to pay.

Or with the technical chops to exfiltrate.

Banks and marketing organisations are a major customer. So are skip-tracers, collections agencies, and scammers (who can build impressive profiles of gullible marks based on purchasing / spending habits).
Because to some people (like me) the gov.uk website looks ugly and gives off a harsh "beware" vibe? Design is at least as much about achieving a certain emotional reaction as it is about legibility and clarity
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This is essentially how imgur got started, banned, then bloomed into popularity.
In popular terms "havelågebeskatning", formally the tax authorities actually refer to it as the "exitskat" (exit tax):

https://skat.dk/skat.aspx?oid=2176214
> Hardware is less exciting to me than the Software, and the Operating systems. Competition there would be nice

Thank you, I'm glad someone is saying it. Smartphone hardware matured several years ago, where even a $10 Walmart prepaid phone is good enough for everything except mobile gaming. It's long past time we had more than iOS and Android to choose from as a first class citizen. I realize there will likely never be a competitive third party OS on mobile (even a behemoth like Microsoft gave up just when their mobile OS was getting really, really good), but I'd settle for just the ability to buy an affordable device that can run whatever I want to put on it.

With this device, the PinePhone, and (holding my nose) the Librem 5, we now have enough choices on the hardware side to give the OS devs incentive to make their offerings polished enough to be daily drivers.
Indian being a nanny state is an understatement. The govt simply has (and always had) a high distrust of its citizens (emanating from the british raj). Things have improved somewhat but as recent as 2015-16 you had to get your documents attested from a pretty high ranking govt officer for simple stuff in life and then also bring in the originals. If it was an online form, you’d submit it then print it and then send it by post. It is not a hard task to imagine the govts attitude when things get complex and require nuance to fulfil.

On top of that the society in general has become cynical. The media is constantly negative. This just leads to a vicious cycle where the govt just becomes more distrustful of its citizens. I don’t know who came first - a cyncial govt or a cynical society. But right now its a catch-22 which frequently impedes progress in the country. Even for the situations where the society and govt manage to break this deadlock is not celebrated and acknowledged much. They are simply outgunned by the negative stuff and India being as large and diverse as it is, negativity is aplenty.

The current ruling party (for all its other faults) managed to improve this somewhat and at the same time managed to create another set of problems - chief of which is creating a state of you vs me (in every fucking conversation and discourse)

Indian state (or the society) simply can’t shake off being a nanny.
Something in the embed code prevents the "allow full screen" from working properly, so the video is tiny and scrunched up into the upper left hand corner. When I watched this on YouTube, with full screen enabled, I spotted the poor little fellow within about 5 seconds. This is using the latest chrome (v80.0.3987.132)

This worked, though:

<iframe id="player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" title="YouTube video player" width="854" height="480" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/T5mDQeDkca0" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe>
This basically looks like a cleaned up Qt API. (Which is a good thing, the basic design works really well for applications, it only gets annoying if you want "apps" and fully customized look and feel, animating everything)
Younger developers truly don’t understand the pain and suffering IE inflicted
> I am saying that people can be a bit lazy about their mind.

Blaming the victims will not solve the problem. This is systemic problem and only broad changes in the system can fix it.

I think that it helps if you realize that

1) People does not have access to the education that they need. We need to fix this.

2) People has many many problems to solve. So, that is why it is difficult to get focus to solve them.

In isolation the problem seems simple enough. But, taking all the factors into account we cannot expect that everybody will solve the problem by themselves. And it does not seems very efficient either. To spend millions of person/hour on this is a waste when it can be solved in a better way.
> 10 out of top 10 are self-made in the US

Those seem to be outliers: "Of the over 60 percent [of the Forbes 400] remaining, all grew up in substantial privilege." https://inequality.org/research/selfmade-myth-hallucinating-...
Fair. I guess it depends on what you determine as a success. 37signals was probably somewhat successful as a dev shop, but obviously not nearly as successful as a project management software one.
Korea is a highly hierarchical, relationship-driven society on top of the extreme competition. It's increasingly a place where you need the perfect marks + the right family background + some starting money to get anywhere.

In practice, it's almost impossible to really climb in society and unfortunately this situation is describing more and more the US as well...
As many others below, I can also say I sympathise and often feel the same. As you said, everything feels super fragile and held together with only duct tape.

Why is it so?
I believe because everything started switching to web lately so it gained a lot of focus. Being open-source in nature it attracted a lot of new ideas and this is what lead us to the influx of new frameworks we have today.

It is a good thing because innovation->improvement, but also a bad thing because a huge mess and choice paralysis :D. I also feel overwhelmed with all the transpiler and compilation steps, pretty much gave up on understanding everything.

How to hate it less?
What @valand suggested below makes sense to me, by focusing less on the technology and its brokeness, but rather on the product, best practices and the end-goal. Also, even if the build system is a mess we can still write clean, high-quality and tested code which can be reused. This is what we did, propagated this culture through the team and that helped me hate things less. We were reading engineering books, having clean code dojos, best practice presentations etc. My takeaway from that was choose your victories when you can have them and enjoy them.

Another approach would be to join the madness by creating your own solution - which is what I also did. I know it is a https://xkcd.com/927/ case, but it was too fun and interesting so I couldn't help it :)

We basically built a DSL that compiles to the underlying stack of choice. If somebody wants to give it a look it is here: https://github.com/wasp-lang/wasp

Good luck and hope you find peace with whatever you choose!
Admittedly it’s been a while since I’ve been to a public pool, and only ever in the US, but there was never any such requirement. I mean even if they did ask “can you swim?” that doesn’t really mean much, it’s not like there’s an official certification process... and either way, doesn’t mean they can’t still drown, so the lesson is relevant anyway.
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Dialcom (Telecom Gold) in the UK was pretty close to 100% Almost survived the big storm of 87 - unfortunately the modems where on the UPS.

We built an entire new DC and had Tottenham Court Road dug up in case the Thames flooded.

In fact any big telecom will have down times for a switch (central office) measured in generations
Important step though: have a retro, many maybe and write a report explaining what was messed up and how you might mitigate in the future. It looks like it’s going to be a good one. If you can share a sanitised version publicly, that would hopefully make it all a little bit more worth it.

I think I speak for everyone here if I say that, if that report is public and interesting, everyone on this thread will be happy to get you a drink.
As an ex telco guy all I can say is "amateurs" :-)
Despite their popularity, swimming experts advise against using inflatable armbands. Although they can help a child to float, they can slip off and lead to drowning. Inflatable armbands do not prevent drowning, nor are they a life-saving device. Mistaking them for one can create a dangerous false sense of security. Additionally, inflatable armbands teach children to float in a vertical position, which is incorrect because swimming is usually done in a prone position. Children who wear armbands can become dependent on them, as well.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inflatable_armbands
A lot of people don't recommend children wear any armbands/floaties/waterwings: https://www.google.com/search?q=children+armbands+pool+dange...

In other words, if the small child supposedly needs armbands, they shouldn't be in the pool at all because the inflatables can easily slip off the arms.
Is there a relation between sad/depressed emotional state and buying behavior?
I was able to consistently identify the drowning child faster than the lifeguard fairly easily, but it did require a significant amount of concentration (I'm sure it helped that I knew that I was supposed to look for someone in trouble). I'm not sure if I could pay that much attention for a long period of time…
Which part is not true? I'll accept 'exaggeration', because pristine is probably not the best word, but it absolutely becomes harder to pass all of the criteria for a trial once you start getting deeper into treatment (e.g. 4+ cycles of chemo). This is particularly true for immunotherapy trials, but things like brain mets can disqualify someone from a huge swath of trials, regardless of how active they are.

This all makes sense if you're looking at trials as a way to determine if a therapy works. If you're looking at them as a way to access experimental medicine, however, it is pretty disappointing.
To all parents out there, it takes 10 seconds for a toddler to drown. Once in the water, if they go under, they tend to get disoriented and don't know where is up or down.

When you are with your kids near a swimming pool or the sea, keep your eyes glued on them.

My rule is "never break line of sight" (I borrowed the term from Assassin's Creed where if you break line of sights from the guards chasing you for a few seconds, their aggro switches off).

Line of sight. When near water opt in for a nice podcast/audio book and keep your eyes on your kids. A lifeguard is scanning the scene but on a 50 kids, you are most likely to spot something like this faster/sooner. Also while looking at your kids, you automatically scan/cover an area of 10-15sqm.
In Safari on mobile you have the opposite problem - it’s too large for the display and there’s no way to make it smaller (or full screen).

I kind of assumed that was intentional, since the lifeguard can’t make it full screen or zoom in either. :)
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This is the 21st century low cost trading has been around for several decades now
Thanks for posting this. I've been bouncing startup ideas around for a long time, but I feel that this comment will help to reframe my thought process in a positive and productive way.
Incidentally, this story and practice are a partial refutation of the "if you're not paying for the product, you're the customer" trope. In the sense that very often when you are paying, you're still the product.

All the more so when payment data are detailed and reliable, as in the case of credit- and debit-card spending.

Effectively: if there are no practical limits on data gathering, aggregation, correlation, and sales, you are the product.

There are exceptions to this in both the free and non-free spaces. Much free software, for example, does not turn users into products. And there are cases of paid transactions (often using more anonymous mechanisms such as cash) in which privacy is preserved.

Those are becoming the exceptions however. And barring regulatory and legal changes, with both civil and criminal penalties having teeth, this will not change.
> People tend to be pretty accommodating when it comes to letting you give them money.

Not really. A huge amount of charity money supposedly going to the poor in other countries is actually used to bribe officials in those countries to allow the aid to be delivered. Any attempt to give healthcare to people in those countries would also be seen as foreign interference, and suffer the same problems.
Thanks for the feedback! Yup, I’m familiar with park.io. I haven’t added auction functionality yet, but that’s definitely in the backlog.
Oh, capitalism turned to authoritarianism often enough. And confiscates enougj as well, e.g. land for air raft production of coal mining in Germany. Not sure why the US is so scared about social agendas.
You cannot say that with certainty... I developed ADHD from trauma
I could spot a few - but was faster than the lifeguard only once. (Well, before they came into view, considering the time it took before they came into view I was probably slower).

It'd be a lot harder in real life, when you don't know if there's going to be a drowning kid.. being prepared is half the game.
Drowning Doesn’t Look Like Drowning [1] has gone round the internet a number of times over the last decade. Well worth reading if you spend time around water, and a good read in any case.

[1] https://mariovittone.com/2010/05/154/
I've just asked question in kindle subreddit about reader differences, no links/promoting/etc, next day my post was disappear. And it's common practice on reddit.

So yeah, fantastic micro culture!
The Bogleheads wiki should really be the first stop for financial questions. It's a fanatic resource and I found the answers/content to be higher quality than Reddit.
Hello highspeedmobile! I don't generally make plans one way or the other. However we do have https://github.com/SerenityOS/serenity/issues/1327 open about adding x86_64 support as of a few days ago. :)

I haven't looked at RedoxOS or Haiku enough to tell you how similar they are.
Or sometimes, the status symbol is to guilt you into making soup regularly, so your purchase seems like it was not a waste. (Weaponizing the sunk-cost fallacy, as it were.)
True. I just included my comment because I think the view of this has to be balanced. People should not just look of their bracket and dismiss the elderly.
>Apple would have built a docakble computer already, and I'm sure they have considered it but probably realized their OS will be the bottleneck.

I doubt the OS itself will be a bottleneck. All of Apple's devices from phones to computers pretty much run the same kernel. A lot more devices from supercomputers to toasters run Linux. I'd say the OS is already here.

I had high hopes for Apple's Marzipan toolkit, and time will tell if it becomes what i hope it will, but for now it mostly seems to be a way for iOS developers to bring dumbed down applications to the Mac.

And ultimately we'll all end up with a bunch of Electron apps doing almost what we want, only slower.
My reformulation is mostly out of ignorance, but since this is the internet, I will contend in a fit of pique that in modern software development, velocity (which is basically scope / time) is more interesting than the two factors individually, because so many of us live in a nightmare world where there are not finished projects, just continuous iterative release cycles.
Gates also got the IBM DOS contract because his mom was on a board of directors with someone who was also on the board of IBM.
I had no idea Firefox users are much less likely than others to use Google as search engine. Interesting. How much is much — do you have numbers for it?

EDIT: I'd also like to know whether this is a robust difference, in the sense that someone who has both Firefox and Chrome is more likely to search using Google when running Chrome than when running Firefox. Do you know?
The first one I got was #26 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PuAfTA2wf7o) and I find it quite hard to detect. Just next to the drowning child, there are a few others splashing around, which looks nearly identical. Could a machine make the distinction reliably?

Also interesting to note that there are many people really close by who do not notice the drowning, but spring into action to help once the lifeguard jumped.
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Can we please update the title with "2015" ?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9962185
Luckily, most of the settings are just one click away for the "old" configuration panel which has all the nice features.
That's a valid concern. Unfortunately, it looks like most of current design on the web tends to overdo emotional reactions to the detriment of legibility and clarity.
I wish I had known about r/vosfinances sooner. As an American I tried to approach my finances from that perspective and encountered lots of roadblocks. Something like ETrade didn’t exist. My bank wanted to handle my money for me and pushing too hard for me to hire their investment team. It was way less friction to open a investment account back int the US and wire money to it. No pushy up sell
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> This is one of the reasons exit tax has failed miserably around the world: it prevented good business people doing business in punitive countries in the first place.

You have to define the "good" in "good business people". If you are a global scale entrepreneur planning to start a business and looking for country with an educated workforce that has good infrastructure but you need to be able to take your gathered wealth when the business is mature (read you have an obscene amount of wealth) in order to find cheaper less educated workforce to keep up operations in order to generate more wealth for yourself. Then you are a "good" businessman only in the sense that you are good at maximizing your own pile of gold. Morally you are bankrupt. So what does a "punitive" country loose by not letting you reap the benefits of a "high taxes system" for your own personal gains?
Hi blattimwind! Yes, it is heavily inspired by (the excellent) Qt. I worked on the Qt team in the past, so the influence is unavoidable :)
Isn't it a bit early given that we've just entered the era of machine learning which could be a big help for the project?
European pools generally ask under children under 14 or so who go swimming unattended whether they have swimming diplomas.
If you complete your swimming diplomas, you get stickers for your swim shorts to show you have completed them.

Generally certain rides in water parks, like fast slides or streams will require you to have higher levels of swimming training to go on if you're under 14.
Hysteria around product experiments has had a big effect in education. As we all know, most online software companies conduct A/B tests to improve outcomes. IMO, education companies should do a/b testing in order to optimize student outcomes. It is unethical to not run tests. But, this can be described as "psychological manipulation" and "turning children into guinea pigs" -- and people freak. After all, there is not informed consent in A/B tests. Since educational software optimization does not actually lead to greater profit (the edu market is weird) the optimization work stops and no science is published. I find this disturbing.

https://gizmodo.com/pearson-embedded-a-social-psychological-...
People reading this on Hackers News will of course agree with his main point - Our computers can't 'Think' as such and when we talk about them as if they can, we're setting up for misunderstandings. But he seems to also be saying that we'll never get there because computers just run algorithms. Arguments like that always remind me of this bit from Iain Bank's 'A Few Notes On The Culture'

Certainly there are arguments against the possibility of [strong] Artificial Intelligence, but they tend to boil down to one of three assertions: one, that there is some vital field or other presently intangible influence exclusive to biological life - perhaps even carbon-based biological life - which may eventually fall within the remit of scientific understanding but which cannot be emulated in any other form (all of which is neither impossible nor likely); two, that self-awareness resides in a supernatural soul - presumably linked to a broad-based occult system involving gods or a god, reincarnation or whatever - and which one assumes can never be understood scientifically (equally improbable, though I do write as an atheist); and, three, that matter cannot become self-aware (or more precisely that it cannot support any informational formulation which might be said to be self-aware or taken together with its material substrate exhibit the signs of self-awareness). ...I leave all the more than nominally self-aware readers to spot the logical problem with that argument.
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In game communities I've managed there's always a strong desire from the people within the community to become a moderator for IMO the wrong incentives. (wrong being standing out and sometimes power)

I've tried to combat this but it seems very difficult. The thing that works best is to really hide the status and let people make their own ways of standing out.

I also very rarely gave moderator status to anyone who asked. It would mostly be people I see could be a good fit and also make sure there are no obligations to actually use power.
Some high-end products keep their price better though. You can probably sell that $3000 guitar or guitar amp for close to what you paid for it. Extreme example is a house; luckily you can move away and get most of your money (or more!) back. What I'm basically trying to say is that for some things it makes sense to also keep the resale value in mind.
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I think it matters if they have now higher likelihood to die (it looks like surviving flu is more likely than covid-19) and if they do so in large numbers overwhelming the healthcare system (so also other people have higher likelihood to die).