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cornfutes commented on Nokia to axe up to 14,000 jobs to cut costs   bbc.co.uk/news/business-6... · Posted by u/vanilla-almond
RecycledEle · 2 years ago
A year before the first iPhone was released, I told Nokia they needed to take their N700 Internet Tablet, add voice calling and text messaging, and offer it in many screen sizes like 3", 4", 5", 6", and 7".

If they had followed my advice instead of laughing at me they would still be the largest cell phone maker on planet Earth.

cornfutes · 2 years ago
But the thing (n810) had WiMAX? I don’t think the problem was text/voice.

The problem was that it had a resistive touch screen. Samsung already had touchscreen MP3 players that you can install apps on, but it was the capacitive touch at that price point that gave Apple a good 3+ year head start on software. At the time, being able to dial phone numbers with IPhone was mind blowing versus a resistive touch

That’s what was revolutionary about IPhone. They didn’t invent capacitive but they brought it to the $1k range.

Nokia was developing their own OS and App Store, too, but it was the iPhone’s cohesive experience that made everything else fit together

cornfutes commented on Reflect – Multiplayer web app framework with game-style synchronization   rocicorp.dev/blog/ready-p... · Posted by u/aboodman
cornfutes · 2 years ago
Looks great for a hobby project.

Has anyone done the cost + risk assessment of building a for-profit product on top of this? Would love to know, as I am working on a web IDE with collaboration. There’s also the matter of obscuring client data from 3rd and even 1st party.

cornfutes commented on Don't work with assholes   danielrsim.com/dont-work-... · Posted by u/frans
mnky9800n · 2 years ago
this is sort of besides the point of the article, but why do people make businesses to sell them? as a scientist, i am not terribly interested in giving away the ideas that i have worked on for, typically, years. i become quite invested in them and continue to pursue them and evolve them until the funding runs out or new interests pop up that are worth replacing the old ones (typically this is an evolution as well). So to me, working hard for many years to build a company only to hand it to someone else seems like its not really a rewarding experience. I understand the part where people do this for money, but is there no personal investment? why would a business run the same without the person who did all the work doing it? i guess if the business is plumbing, and you have a list of clients who regularly call you to do plumbing, and then you don't want to do plumbing anymore because you are tired of it, you are really just selling the list of clients. and because your company has the brand recognition, you can say, well this guy is going to do your plumbing from now on but its still good old mnky9800n plumbing. still seems like a risky idea, but i guess if you are fully divested from the venture then what do you care? except for the likelihood that someone else will not care so much about mnky9800n plumbing as me.
cornfutes · 2 years ago
> why do people make businesses to sell them?

Money to go do something else.

cornfutes commented on Piped – An alternative privacy-friendly YouTube front end   github.com/TeamPiped/Pipe... · Posted by u/e2le
cornfutes · 2 years ago
I was just thinking yesterday that there needs to be a 3rd party tool that reintroduces the thumbs down button.
cornfutes commented on A drop in salaries and in the number of jobs available in the Bay Area   forbes.com/sites/jackkell... · Posted by u/pg_1234
01100011 · 2 years ago
I've been getting 1-2% raises for a couple years now. Granted I think I was a little overpaid for a while. RSU cliff just hit though so next year I'll be going from ~$250k of equity to maybe $80k. Base is $250k. Since I'm in such a high tax bracket I don't expect to feel it too much. I might use it as an excuse to switch companies but I'm not sure yet.
cornfutes · 2 years ago
Meanwhile, mortgage rates his 7%
cornfutes commented on Tech doesn’t make our lives easier. It makes them faster   brettscott.substack.com/p... · Posted by u/Gigamouse
w10-1 · 2 years ago
Only stressed people want to relax. Otherwise, we want to do more.

The changing-baseline effect is an artifact of a particular market competition. Housing prices went up as two-earner households increased faster than the housing supply. (i.e., women's entry into the workplace wasn't primarily a technological change) By contrast, secretary, illustrator and translator are hardly careers any more.

What technology (communications, computers, transportation) did was to make it possible for few people to effectively control many people and a lot of resources, without much of a tax for bureaucracy (coordination costs). Sometimes that's been good, sometimes not.

Today the driving feature of being busy stems from lacking pace control at work. Professionals used to be distinguished by owning their own standards and controlling the pace of work. Now even doctors and lawyers work in hierarchies with production processes. The only freedom today lies in being off the critical path (but still necessary), or using technology to go directly to consumers. Or just having resources.

cornfutes · 2 years ago
> Only stressed people want to relax. Otherwise, we want to do more.

You must be American.

cornfutes commented on Tech doesn’t make our lives easier. It makes them faster   brettscott.substack.com/p... · Posted by u/Gigamouse
jbandela1 · 2 years ago
What technology has brought is choice and options:

A woman can choose to decouple having sex with getting pregnant.

A person can choose to live hundreds of miles away from their family yet still visit them every weekend.

A person can choose to move to a new country, halfway around the world, and still have their parents be able to see and converse with the grandchildren every night.

I can choose to talk to a person who speaks another language and have a computer translate for us.

On a more serious note:

I can choose to have my tooth decay treated without experiencing horrific pain.

A compound fracture is not an automatic sentence of death or lifelong severe disability.

cornfutes · 2 years ago
I was just logging into the IRS website to check the status of my tax balance.

You used to be able to login with IRS credentials, but now it's a hard requirement to use ID.me credentials. So I created an account and had to verify my identity. The automated verification failed, so I waited 20 minutes on the phone to talk to one of the representatives. There was a checkbox to consent to having the meeting recorded. I opted out but the submit was disabled. Even before this, they took a 3d scan of my face. None of this seems like choice and options.

By the way, ID.me is a private company. They're even squatting on HackerNews: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13831921&

cornfutes commented on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (October 2023)    · Posted by u/whoishiring
cornfutes · 2 years ago
This forum is an American forum. The startup accelerator behind it is American. Facebook, Google, Amazon, Apple, Microsoft, the world's largest software companies are American. The next largest country for software would be China, which is probably more then the entire continent of Europe, but we're not communicating in Chinese right now are we? The majority of top computer science programs are based in the U.S., with 1 or 2 outliers from China, the UK, and maybe Singapore. Tech talent tend to aggregate around those tech hubs, and it should be obvious from context that it's not Houston, Scotland with a population of 6,000. Seattle is derived from a native American word, there should be no ambiguity that it's American. Do you expect people to specify that Los Angeles, San Francisco, and New York are in the United States every time?
cornfutes commented on Plastic bag found at the bottom of world’s deepest ocean trench   education.nationalgeograp... · Posted by u/elorant
1024core · 2 years ago
Philippines is the world's largest source of ocean trash. Even more than China.

The UN should start censuring countries which just throw their shit into the oceans.

cornfutes · 2 years ago
How much of that originates from rich / developed countries?
cornfutes commented on Rust vs Go: A Hands-On Comparison   shuttle.rs/blog/2023/09/2... · Posted by u/mre
danesparza · 2 years ago
"Being originally created to simplify building web services, Go has a number ..."

Um. No. Go was originally created at Google in 2007 by Robert Griesemer, Rob Pike, and Ken Thompson.

Some key reasons for its creation include:

Improving productivity of Google engineers - The creators felt existing languages like C++ took too long to compile and had other productivity issues. Go was designed to be simpler and faster to compile.

Supporting concurrency and multi-core machines - Go has built-in concurrency features like goroutines and channels to allow easy parallelism and concurrency on multi-core machines. This was becoming increasingly important with multi-core CPUs.

Improved code readability and maintainability - Go was designed with a clean, minimal syntax that avoided complex features like inheritance in favor of simplicity. This improved code readability and made programs easier to maintain. Better performance than interpreted languages - While Go is a compiled language like C++, it was designed to provide performance closer to those languages while maintaining some productivity benefits of interpreted languages like Python.

Supporting networked systems and servers - Go has good built-in support for networking and servers, making it well-suited for building networked systems, web servers, and other server tools.

References: https://go.dev/talks/2012/splash.article

cornfutes · 2 years ago
> Supporting networked systems and servers - Go has good built-in support for networking and servers, making it well-suited for building networked systems, web servers, and other server tools.

How is this not a web service?

u/cornfutes

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