Draiken

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by Draiken 3y ago
> The armed forces of the United States, with some exceptions notable enough to be scandals, are carrying out our collective agenda. I'd need some very good evidence before believing this for any country, not only the US. The people
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by Draiken 3y ago
But that's merely because of market share. If the majority started using Linux, you'd see the same growth of the app ecosystem. But it's a chicken and the egg problem. Without more users, we don't have more apps/pol
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by Draiken 3y ago
Why not? It's a question of resources. If you put the equivalent money into open source instead, why would they not do it? I find these claims that only private entities can build quality completely unfounded. It's all about resou
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by Draiken 3y ago
They're already making the changes they want to, except they give themselves special treatment. All they have to do is give everyone the special treatment.
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by Draiken 3y ago
I must be missing something because that's simply not true in Android. I can individually grant/revoke tracking permissions for each app. I assumed the same would be true for iPhone. For me it makes no sense to make it only about
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by Draiken 3y ago
Realistically? They definitely expect it. They've been consistently anti-competitive for years and it's the kind of move that you know will eventually generate legal issues. For them it's just the cost of business. They'
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by Draiken 3y ago
Regardless of the size, it does that make it okay to hamper competition like they do. If this was such an insignificant niche, Apple Watch wouldn't even exist, would it?
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by Draiken 3y ago
Why? Because a user allowed them to track them when using one app, it doesn't mean should extend automatically that to every app they ever develop. This is clearly Apple apps being treated differently.
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by Draiken 3y ago
If their tight experience is so superior, why do they restrict competition? Wouldn't they win anyways? IMO it's clear that without abusing its position, we would actually have competition for all of the bundled services from Apple
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by Draiken 3y ago
I wrote a whole blog post on this because of the amount of harm caused by these types of systems. Interactors, interactions, pipelines or whatever other name, can very easily ruin a codebase in my experience. Already happened multiple times
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by Draiken 3y ago
Yeah, my main gripe is with the phrasing. It gives the impression that if you like composition over inheritance (which people mostly take as true without even thinking about it), you should use this. I feel like that's the kind of over
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by Draiken 3y ago
> If you prefer inheritance over composition That's not what this boils down to. These are procedures. OOP is generally about objects sending messages to each other. So this solution is all about executing procedural calls, which ha
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by Draiken 3y ago
It's simply easier to down vote than it is to have a conversation. Especially with strong arguments. The fact is: people want to believe hard work leads to success. It's a nice thought. Many people center their entire lives around
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by Draiken 3y ago
I don't know mate. Maybe you're right, but I still doubt it. Once you're a CEO with hundreds of thousands of very smart people under you, making the wrong decision is much, much harder. There's some skill to it, but so f
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by Draiken 3y ago
>There are other differentiators than just opportunity: environment, background, culture, childhood, experience, vision and maybe traits. That's what I mean when I say luck. It's a combination of millions of variables that even
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by Draiken 3y ago
Because only spying from American companies is allowed. /s In all seriousness though, it isn't. People are generally simply trying to fit in, so hating on anything China is viewed as good and everyone sticks to it. We know because
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by Draiken 3y ago
I don't understand why everyone assumes I'm talking down on him. I'm merely pointing out how irrelevant that quote is. > how many of those million-ish "smarter" people had any real interest in founding a graphics
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by Draiken 3y ago
What a load of crap. Being a hard worker is not causation for being rich. That's such a naive take. How many people working 3 jobs you know are billionaires? Even millionaires? Are those not hard working people? Yeah, citing crypto, wh
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by Draiken 3y ago
I'm not saying it's pure luck. I'm saying the only relevant part is luck. If you get billions of smart hard working people, you still only get a few hundred billionaires. The only differentiator is luck. You're one of th
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by Draiken 3y ago
No? The point is: he's no more qualified than anyone else. Whatever he's saying is simply not reproducible and most certainly not what made him a billionaire. Otherwise we could all just replicate whatever any billionaire does and
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by Draiken 3y ago
That's somewhat irrelevant IMO. There are hundreds of thousands of hard workers (probably millions) that are smarter than him that will never become billionaires. The difference is: he got lucky. This is the nature of survivorship bias
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by Draiken 3y ago
I can almost see an executive justifying bad practices as "providing pain and suffering for your growth". I understand the idea behind it, but it's survivorship bias in a pedestal. What about all the other kids that suffered
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by Draiken 3y ago
And that's thriving by what measure? No employment stability, no benefits, no health insurance, no vacations, at complete mercy of basically a single company. Yeah, thriving.
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by Draiken 3y ago
That'd be the dream. Unfortunately only the owners of all the AI production will enjoy that, while everyone else has to figure out a way to earn money and not starve by switching professions. Exactly zero of that unlocked time/val
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by Draiken 3y ago
Reputation costs are zero once people get desperate enough. When you're not sure if you'll be able to pay your rent or feed your family, you'll join any organization, regardless of reputation. It's not free but it can be
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by Draiken 3y ago
Yeah, I've been there too. But the problem is that avoiding those completely and then only resorting to rewrites, costs magnitudes more and it's just as buggy. Many times it introduces new issues. Doing small incremental improveme
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by Draiken 3y ago
Definitely agree. But it's not only about keeping things running though. People want to fix issues by rewriting everything because it's gonna look good on their resumé and it's "easier". You don't have to deal
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by Draiken 3y ago
As long as you add the "AI" keyword to the product/app/company and sell to people that don't understand how unreliable it is, you're good. Let me rephrase that: you can profit from it. Even if it's not goo
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by Draiken 3y ago
I could replace "Kubernetes" with GraphQL/React/Next in my world. All, of course, to migrate a perfectly functioning app (mostly CRUD) and doesn't need any of the tradeoffs given by GraphQL or an interactive fronten
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by Draiken 3y ago
You'd be surprised. I still see a lot of companies using something like Heroku or other custom solutions.

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