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Waze now lets you send directions from your computer to your phone

growtofill — Wed, 09 Sep 2020 08:00:39 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theverge.com/2020/9/8/21427973/waze-send-directions-from-computer-web-browser-phone-ios-android-google

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24418530

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New comment by growtofill in "GitHub renews $200k contract with ICE"

growtofill — Wed, 09 Oct 2019 13:09:00 +0000

Neither the Institution of Civil Engineers :)

New comment by growtofill in "My Time at Snap"

growtofill — Sat, 05 Oct 2019 17:06:16 +0000

That was LA.

New comment by growtofill in "OLPC’s $100 laptop was going to change the world (2018)"

growtofill — Mon, 23 Sep 2019 11:57:37 +0000

> some potential buyers were dubious of anything that wasn’t Microsoft Windows. They wanted students to learn an interface they’d be using for the rest of their lives

Haven’t found a screenshot of Sugar OS in the article, but I assume it’s not that different conceptually? Still files, apps, windows?

New comment by growtofill in "How to do a code review"

growtofill — Sun, 08 Sep 2019 09:17:10 +0000

Any particular APIs you have in mind? I find App Engine’s ‘getting started’ examples quite sane while they are ‘hello world’.

New comment by growtofill in "JavaScript: The Modern Parts"

growtofill — Sat, 24 Aug 2019 07:59:00 +0000

Source on your claim? It was about 50% on last year’s State of JS: https://2018.stateofjs.com/javascript-flavors/overview/

New comment by growtofill in "Ask HN: What's the point of the TM and (R) symbols?"

growtofill — Thu, 15 Aug 2019 14:37:30 +0000

But that's about copyright, not trademarks.

New comment by growtofill in "Python Is Eating the World"

growtofill — Mon, 12 Aug 2019 12:21:18 +0000

Source on your claim? The best I was able to find is this:

> Go attempts to combine the development speed of working in a dynamic language like Python with the performance and safety of a compiled language like C or C++.

https://techcrunch.com/2009/11/10/google-go-language/

New comment by growtofill in "Big O Notation – Using not-boring math to measure code’s efficiency"

growtofill — Sat, 03 Aug 2019 09:58:34 +0000

What’s wrong with either of those?

New comment by growtofill in "Microsoft turns an obsession with detail into micron-optimized keyboards"

growtofill — Sat, 27 Jul 2019 07:19:06 +0000

Have you also tried non-qwerty layouts, e.g. Norman? They may help with RSI as well.

New comment by growtofill in "Microsoft turns an obsession with detail into micron-optimized keyboards"

growtofill — Sat, 27 Jul 2019 07:13:16 +0000

Thanks for the references! I see that all three of the above favor split-hand design alongside with vertical staggering.

New comment by growtofill in "Microsoft turns an obsession with detail into micron-optimized keyboards"

growtofill — Sat, 27 Jul 2019 06:03:26 +0000

There used to be notebooks with slightly curved keyboards, can’t recall the vendor (HP? Dell?). I really wish Microsoft (and Apple) would re-set this trend.

New comment by growtofill in "Microsoft turns an obsession with detail into micron-optimized keyboards"

growtofill — Sat, 27 Jul 2019 05:59:43 +0000

Is vertical staggered the same as ortholinear? Haven’t encountered the term before.

Agree that default physical layout + qwerty as status quo is disappointing, though.

New comment by growtofill in "African leaders launch landmark 55-nation trade zone"

growtofill — Mon, 08 Jul 2019 11:38:37 +0000

Given that decolonization ended more than 40 years ago, "the Europeans who have been plundering the continent for centuries" are either dead or retired. How is African countries reaching an agreement would be horrible to anyone, including them?

New comment by growtofill in "Tell HN: Social media strike proposed for July 4-5 by Wikipedia co-founder"

growtofill — Sun, 30 Jun 2019 06:38:23 +0000

Otherwise you are subjective to survivorship bias: if people were silently quitting social media the ones who remain wouldn’t be aware there’s anything wrong with those social media.

New comment by growtofill in "Tell HN: Social media strike proposed for July 4-5 by Wikipedia co-founder"

growtofill — Sun, 30 Jun 2019 06:14:45 +0000

That’s the point. Advertise the hazards of smoking in the places where people smoke.

New comment by growtofill in "NPM 6.9.1 is broken due to .git folder in published tarball"

growtofill — Fri, 28 Jun 2019 17:47:32 +0000

‘We’ being?

New comment by growtofill in "Amazon wins ‘.amazon’ domain name, aggravating South American region"

growtofill — Sun, 23 Jun 2019 19:00:05 +0000

Valid point, thank you. I wonder who would govern a truly international TLD then. UN? New body?

New comment by growtofill in "Amazon wins ‘.amazon’ domain name, aggravating South American region"

growtofill — Sun, 23 Jun 2019 13:18:49 +0000

What’s wrong with .com/.net/.org?

New comment by growtofill in "Giant squid caught on video for the second time"

growtofill — Sat, 22 Jun 2019 09:08:37 +0000

I wondered the same. From the article (conversion to metric mine):

> this one was only — “only” — about 10 feet (3 m) long: a juvenile, in a species that can grow to nearly 40 feet (12 m)