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aembleton

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www.xda-developers.com 1y ago

Janet Jackson song that used to mysteriously crash Windows XP PCs

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www.newyorker.com 3y ago

[2018] The Friendship That Made Google Huge

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inews.co.uk 3y ago

Chinese tracking device ‘found in UK Government car’

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android-developers.googleblog.com 4y ago

Decreasing service fees on subscriptions to 15%

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www.theverge.com 7y ago

Android: a 10-year visual history

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www.liberty-human-rights.org.uk 8y ago

Why it's not okay for police to quietly roll out on-the-spot fingerprint

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github.com 8y ago

JVM Serializers (2016)

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www.daley.cc 8y ago

How I owned the BBC with a simple misconfiguration due to human laziness

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news.ycombinator.com 8y ago

Google Places API returning a 502

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news.ycombinator.com 8y ago

Ask HN: Best way of recruiting developers?

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www.bbc.co.uk 8y ago

Why Sweden is close to becoming a cashless economy

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arstechnica.com 9y ago

Android and Chrome = Andromeda; merged OS reportedly coming to the Pixel 3

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blog.jetbrains.com 10y ago

First glimpse of Kotlin 1.1: Coroutines, Type aliases and more

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www.ft.com 10y ago

China’s robot revolution

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news.ycombinator.com 10y ago

Ask HN: What exception tracking service do you use?

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www.bbc.co.uk 10y ago

The internet – not an equaliser

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www.javaworld.com 10y ago

HTTP/2: A jump-start for Java developers

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Some of the older quality content uses language which is now considered inappropriate. Of course, it wouldn't be hard to replace those words and there are plenty of books that do, but we can't just use the older books as they were.

All the stupid bars nd cafes with rustic wood and old timey aesthetics for example.

Surely that's been a thing for decades. In the 70s, there were bars that harked back to the 1920s. Nostalgia is a hell of a drug

"everything" is open-source and developed in the bazaar style

A lot of stuff isn't. It may be open source, but the number of contributors is small and many large projects are cathedrals with people volunteering to lay some stones. The large projects often have core teams who organise and manage it, but then accept some contributions. It's closer to the organised Cathedral, than the chaotic Bazaar.

The moment you start working on something, someone else is already automating the exact thing you are doing now.

Good. If a machine can do my job then I can work on something more interesting. Perhaps a more interesting problem to fix is having the people working on something getting told about the automation.

I still use it. I use the Pulsar music player on Android which has an Audioscrobbler built in. I have my entire mp3/flac collection extra compressed into opus files, so that my 120GB of music is only taking up 43GB on my phone. When I'm listening in the car or on the train I really can't tell the drop in quality.

Now I feel something has been taken away and has no value.

Did you feel similar when Wikipedia was created or Google or when you first got access to the internet?

All of these tools have made digging into subjects and learning easier. I find the same with AI. I love it when a random thought pops into my head and I can explore it with an AI such as Gemini. Then ask it for the sources it used so that I can read further.

AI is just a tool, much like StackOverflow. It doesn't prevent creativity, it just makes it easier and more accessible.