Hacker News: straight_talk_2

New comment by straight_talk_2 in "Ship crosses Northwest Passage, sails into history"

straight_talk_2 — Fri, 27 Sep 2013 20:08:20 +0000

Yeap, that's 12 miles from each side.

New comment by straight_talk_2 in "Crowdfunding for Typed Clojure and ClojureScript"

straight_talk_2 — Fri, 27 Sep 2013 20:04:35 +0000

So why didn't humankind go to the stars from the very beginning? Wasn't that it's purpose?

New comment by straight_talk_2 in "Crowdfunding for Typed Clojure and ClojureScript"

straight_talk_2 — Fri, 27 Sep 2013 20:03:34 +0000

F# type providers already do that, also static types from CSV files, REST services and many others.

New comment by straight_talk_2 in "Apple's A7 is Made By Samsung"

straight_talk_2 — Fri, 20 Sep 2013 21:54:03 +0000

Recommend Quora? Remind me to ignore your recommendations in the future.

As for Apple contributions, you should probably check out the lawsuits vs Samsung.

New comment by straight_talk_2 in "How airline reservations are used to target illegal searches"

straight_talk_2 — Fri, 20 Sep 2013 21:45:02 +0000

Travel to US? Oh man, you don't value your freedom and privacy enough.

New comment by straight_talk_2 in "Apple's A7 is Made By Samsung"

straight_talk_2 — Fri, 20 Sep 2013 21:42:27 +0000

Not true, contract component manufacturing made only 7% of Samsung profits last year. The value of the Samsung branded smartphones they ship out is by far their most important financial metric.

New comment by straight_talk_2 in "Apple's A7 is Made By Samsung"

straight_talk_2 — Fri, 20 Sep 2013 21:37:21 +0000

Samsung makes the best smartphones in the world ;-)

Also http://www.samsung.com/us/computer/pcs/NP940X3G-K01US

New comment by straight_talk_2 in "Intel: The year of the Linux desktop is here"

straight_talk_2 — Wed, 18 Sep 2013 21:22:13 +0000

MS and Intel have the same partnership as airlines and hotels. Each wants their partner to make as little profit as possible, as that leaves more client money for grabbing.

Intel has been among the top 5 Linux kernel contributors for many years.

New comment by straight_talk_2 in "Developers are the autoworkers of our generation"

straight_talk_2 — Mon, 02 Sep 2013 20:06:02 +0000

Many interesting arguments here.

I work at a software consulting firm, that charges $300+ per dev per hour. Excellent salaries, benefits, gaming consoles, free drinks and meals at the office, etc. Still the majority of the developers we're capable of hiring are incapable of understanding and applying concepts like monads, SOLID, low level async. Maybe the higher supply will only drive down the salaries of PHP&Co crowd.

New comment by straight_talk_2 in "Unity Game Engine to Get Official 2D Game Support and a Built-In Ad Solution"

straight_talk_2 — Sun, 01 Sep 2013 23:59:46 +0000

Interesting - there are hundreds of millions of iOS devices out there and their average user spends more money on apps than the Android counterpart.

Are we already at the point where Apple is irrelevant to the app vendors?

New comment by straight_talk_2 in "What did the tech CEO say to the worker he wanted to automate?"

straight_talk_2 — Sun, 01 Sep 2013 23:53:59 +0000

Hard to understand what you mean. It's not like the current resource managers are trying to maximize happiness, but just lack efficiency. Just the opposite - the majority of ambitions, rich, powerful people in the world are putting tremendous efforts into extracting as much resources from the poor as possible.

New comment by straight_talk_2 in "ReactOS: Rebuilding Microsoft Windows from the ground up, fully open-source"

straight_talk_2 — Sun, 01 Sep 2013 09:53:28 +0000

Most people won't be able to legally run XP VMs once the XP activation servers go down.

New comment by straight_talk_2 in "What is the cost to make Smartphone in USA? $4"

straight_talk_2 — Sat, 31 Aug 2013 21:23:27 +0000

>> misleading title

Not really - the article claims it costs $4 per device to move manufacturing to US, so that is the cost of a "Made in USA" label.

New comment by straight_talk_2 in "What is the cost to make Smartphone in USA? $4"

straight_talk_2 — Sat, 31 Aug 2013 21:16:34 +0000

It's still happening, in places like Alaska.

New comment by straight_talk_2 in "What is the cost to make Smartphone in USA? $4"

straight_talk_2 — Sat, 31 Aug 2013 21:15:04 +0000

I haven't read the linked article, but this doesn't sound right. Assembly is mostly a manual process, workers salary must be the biggest cost. Salaries in US are way more that 50% higher than in China.

New comment by straight_talk_2 in "The Bay Bridge is gradually disappearing from Google Maps"

straight_talk_2 — Sat, 31 Aug 2013 21:05:49 +0000

No, it's not required. Try the link in a private mode tab or different browser.

This is one of those evil tricks, if Microsoft or Google know somehow you have an account they'll try to force a sign in ever after.

New comment by straight_talk_2 in "How Poverty Taxes the Brain"

straight_talk_2 — Sat, 31 Aug 2013 18:41:48 +0000

You are completely wrong. Easier is better, most of the time. In a 21st century developed economy it's vastly more efficient to spend your time thinking how to improve your income than how to optimize small expenses. Same principle as the famous "Premature optimization is the root of all evil".

New comment by straight_talk_2 in "Ask HN: How Can I leave Syria now and get asylum in Europe (Germany)"

straight_talk_2 — Sat, 31 Aug 2013 11:56:19 +0000

Good politicians are experts at manipulating people to like them.

New comment by straight_talk_2 in "It's not the $7, but the principle"

straight_talk_2 — Sat, 31 Aug 2013 11:54:06 +0000

Very interesting. I remember back in the late 60s and 70s when credit card adoption raised in the US, charge back was a key selling feature. Customers refused to use cards that didn't offer it.

Makes me wonder how the world is going to change when BRIC economies get bigger than the current "developed" ones (if ever). Banks and other oligopolies may get away with far lower customer, privacy, heath, etc. protection.

New comment by straight_talk_2 in "Calling the NSA: "I accidentally deleted an e-mail, can you help me recover it?""

straight_talk_2 — Sat, 31 Aug 2013 11:41:42 +0000

Just fax them to a random number, NSA will get them :D