Kurtose · HackerTrans

3개월 전discuss

Not a hater, just an example from today’s HN front page: Ableton from Berlin. World class UX/UI leading the DAW market for 25 years and counting. Not “Top 100” enough for validation? Just ask Thomas Bangalter. He’s taken it around the world to get lucky.

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2년 전discuss

Helicopters over Berlin blaring Ride of the Valkyries. https://youtu.be/VE03Lqm3nbI

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4년 전discuss

Great writer & engineer. Worth a re-read every couple of years before heading back to your blub codebase.

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4년 전discuss

Philips had 412,000 employees in 1974. Huge in its heyday. Currently 78,000. Sadly mismanaged into irrelevance for decades.

Kurtose

4년 전discuss

The more relevant question is if US would agree to sell their TLDs in exchange for Liechtenstein paying for administration of _their_ governmental domains. Look up Liechtenstein GDP & wealth per capita.

Kurtose

4년 전discuss

Why does the Premier League have the best football players?

Ranking universities by operating revenue will result in a rather good approximation of the Times Higher Education World University Ranking.

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5년 전discuss

Anecdata from a _very_ frequent flyer: Naomi Campbell’s Airport Routine (2019). Makes sense to me.

https://youtu.be/b-U_jT9qWvs

Kurtose

5년 전discuss

Three hours well spent. Never a dull moment in the browser business. From downward—funargs and twinkies to browser wars and bitcoin.

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6년 전discuss

Stripe seems to have understood Sequoia's Black Swan memo well.

Kurtose

7년 전discuss

Spot-on.

Kurtose

7년 전discuss

S = k. log W

Kurtose

8년 전discuss

As a long distance ice skater I know that snow has a detrimental effect on ice growth due to its insulating effect.

Moreover the spring and summer of 2018 were warm [1] and sunny [2] in Europe. The comparison picture in the article of this tiny glacier after a cold [3] and cloudy [4] spring and summer of 2006 is not a solid basis for drawing conclusions.

[1] https://www.meteoschweiz.admin.ch/product/output/climate-dat...

[2] https://www.meteoschweiz.admin.ch/product/output/climate-dat...

[3] https://www.meteoschweiz.admin.ch/product/output/climate-dat...

[4] https://www.meteoschweiz.admin.ch/product/output/climate-dat...

Kurtose

8년 전discuss

Fun fact. Eric Schmidt was 45 when he was ‘the adult’ who joined Google’s board of directors as chairman in March 2001. Elon Musk is 47.

Kurtose

8년 전discuss

Pepys’ old house on Buckingham Street in London was my office for a couple of years. It was nice but he seems to have had more fun there. I did encounter fellow cyclist and similarly adulterous Boris Johnson on his bike around there before he became world famous bumbling Brexiteer and Foreign Secretary.

Kurtose

10년 전discuss

Human after all. http://www.ycombinator.com/humans.txt

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