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I’m working on a fun way to get better or simply practice time completely / Big-O notation. https://www.big-o.academy/practice/ I always enjoyed trying to figure out what the Big-O of a snippet of code is, so I thought maybe others would as well.

It’s still looking pretty rough around the edges.


2 of the 3 vaccines you mention were not fully developed in the US despite what you insinuate.

Johnson and Johnson was developed by Janssen which is based in the Netherlands and Belgium [1].

And as others have pointed out, Pfizer was developed by BioNTech in Germany [2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janssen_COVID-19_vaccine

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pfizer%E2%80%93BioNTech_COVID-...


Yeah we live in a globalized world, corporations are global entities and companies from other countries made meaningful contribution. They still were predominately developed, tested, manufactured and distributed by US companies... thats why BioNTech had less than a billion of revenue last year to Pfizer's 7.5B Operating Income. You wouldn't have it at this scale without the so-called 'trash' US healthcare system.


For Facebook and Apple, mobile (native) is definitely the most important.

Advertising accounts for 99.9% of Facebook revenue, with mobile advertising accounting for 94% [1]

Not sure for the other ones.

[1]https://www.businessofapps.com/data/facebook-statistics/


My organization has hundreds of private repos. It would be great to use this tool to explore those.


+1. This would be an incredibly useful tool when I have to search private company repos I'm unfamiliar with. Currently I use GitHub's 'search current repo' functionality but it's not great.



Interesting product, thanks!


Note the "personal" qualifier in the comment.


A related open source library for iOS. https://github.com/wetransfer/wescan


Btw: The Apple Notes application has this functionality built-in if you are just interested in scanning.


And in the files app, long tapping gives the option to scan a document, which works great. I’m trying to retain fewer pieces of paper and this is super convenient.


Wohooo! And: What is it with Apple and not documenting features?


WeTransfer has been the market leader for years now.

https://wetransfer.com/


Right but they don’t encrypt the files, do they? So they have a clear copy of it in their servers, correct?


Files are encrypted at rest, but no end to end encryption, you're right.


Ok that’s the same as Firefox send then. The server operators can’t decrypt the files without the key contained in the url, at which point the file is decrypted and transmitted over https.


WeTransfer.com offers a Pro subscription, and also serves ads on their wallpapers. They've been profitable for a long time now.

https://wetransfer.com/about


Young people living in the country side of France all get their driver’s license as soon as possible.


GDPR and Net neutrality are two different things. Net neutrality is very much a problem in Europe. It's not talked about as much as in the US unfortunately.

Also, GDPR applies to companies of all size - which can hurts small companies more than bigger ones.


Interesting how badly I was misunderstood.

My point was not that they would be about the same thing. My point is that GDPR is pretty clearly about the rights of the little guy. Lack of net neutrality is clearly about the rights of big businesses. Neither alone does not seem to do that much good or harm. But if those attitudes are permanent in the legislating systems, that will have an effect.

So do you believe companies like Google, Microsoft and Facebook are going hire the best people, make the best money and offer the best content? It could be. Or there could be something disruptive. Where is that disruptive going to happen?



That’s not “Office uses React”, it’s a “collection of robust components designed to make it quick and simple for you to create web experiences using the Office Design Language.”

Do you really see no difference between the two?


The React components are being used on production Office websites/webapps. Source: I'm a Microsoft employee working on this project.


http://www.reactnative.tools/ React Native at Microsoft


Very limited “use”; mostly just enabling external developers to interface using React to their existing tools (that are not using React). If the Armageddon should come, and Microsoft is to enter a legal patent dispute/battle, stopping this React “use” is a no-op for Microsoft.


Microsoft builds Skype on React Native. They use React in production on several websites including outlook.com. They are using it internally and not just for external devs.

Also see this HN thread from a year ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12108273


You'd be actually surprised how many teams inside Microsoft wrote their own smaller versions of OS libraries. It happened a lot less after Nadella era, but Ballmer era had a "we can't use anything not built here"


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