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Google bans apps that facilitate sale of marijuana(reuters.com)
195 points by Illniyar 7y ago|133 comments
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by Illniyar 7y ago
It more or less is, from a legal stand point, or atleast when referring to anti-trust laws. That doesn't mean that they are doing anti-competitive stuff and are viable for enforcement, being a monopoly in an open market is not illegal,
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by Illniyar 7y ago
> And it runs contrary to the experience of public libraries and bookstores, where print continues to thrive. Ha? What about all the stories of public libraries and bookstores closing down? These seems like a long article that avoids the
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by Illniyar 7y ago
"Starlink satellites are equipped with efficient ion thrusters powered by krypton that enable the satellites to orbit raise, maneuver in space, and deorbit at the end of their useful life. Starlink is the first krypton propelled spacec
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by Illniyar 7y ago
Because Numbers in javascripts are floats, and not allowing floats in numbers would be a serious backward compatibility issue. Also, I'm assuming there are performance issues with using bigints.
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by Illniyar 7y ago
There's more nuance to it though. Users eventually become contributors (at least some percentage are), they become and stay contributors when they feel heard and feel like they have the ability to influence development. That's wha
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by Illniyar 7y ago
No, but it's very likely that they'll make decisions that'll alienate the community and thereby cause it's ecosystem to lose more and more relevance. It has done that with other open source projects they stewarded.
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by Illniyar 7y ago
Swift has garnered little traction outside iOS development, while other languages are gaining traction inside iOS development (javascript mostly, but Kotlin is also trying to make headway into iOS development). I won't put survival rat
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by Illniyar 7y ago
Are you saying that there aren't garbage collected languages suitable for network development ("moving bits from place to place") with a substantial community except Go? I mean, Java and all the JVM based languages comes to m
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by Illniyar 7y ago
I think his fear of google's stewardship of the language is the fear of what it'll do to the community around it.
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by Illniyar 7y ago
Google are bad at building developer communities (or at the very least they don't care about it much). They build things for themselves and their way is the Ivory Tower way of running a community. The overlords decide and their word is
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I think an interesting way to address this impact, is to start adding more time to each task and address it as technical debt, which is both informative and actually true. For example after a few months of no refactoring, you start adding 1
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by Illniyar 7y ago
At what point in the past were our programs stable, robust and just worked? Perhaps it was before my time, but DOS and windows (3.11, 95) would crash, constantly. Blue screens of death, infinite loops that would just freeze my computer, mem
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by Illniyar 7y ago
That graph is quite misleading, it should be a percentage of total usage, if we wanted to show progress. Global energy consumption could have grown just as much, making progress zero. This graph shows things more accurately: https:/&
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by Illniyar 7y ago
The idea of using uris instead of keys is not a new one (as has been mentioned by other commenters). Every few years the idea gets a resurgence of people who say that REST apis should be HATEOS and that we are doing it wrong . It seems obv
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by Illniyar 7y ago
This seems interesting but is extremely long and protracted. I would like the convenience of having a summary.
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by Illniyar 7y ago
Flashed died out way before canvas. No one but design shops made their websites with it. It remained strong in games and ads and disappeared everywhere else. That is why apple could even survive not supporting it.
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by Illniyar 7y ago
This is the example flutter app for the web - https://www.nytimes.com/games/prototype/kenken#/ This is flash. You can't do anything in it that fills like the web - no copy paste, right clicking causes thi
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by Illniyar 7y ago
Well, mmm, good riddance? I suppose this will cause a lot of hardships to a lot of people who need to maintain JavaEE, but the fact that Java EE is no more is nothing but good. It is a nightmare case of overengineering.
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by Illniyar 7y ago
I get that government websites need to be accessible more then anything, and these constraints are obviously more important then the vague and subjective idea of beauty, but damn some of these components are really ugly: https://
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by Illniyar 7y ago
Just because it's true doesn't mean it isn't misleading. Consider if they had the same title but only analyzed projects with a single contributor or pet projects. By only including open source projects they've limited th
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Don’t Touch My Code Examining the Effects of Ownership on Software Quality(microsoft.com)
2 points by Illniyar 7y ago|1 comments
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by Illniyar 7y ago
They provide a lot of references in the article to other research that make similar claims from both proprietary and much larger open source projects. At the very least the "Hero model" seems to be as prevalent outside open source
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A very reasonable thing to do.
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by Illniyar 7y ago
I suppose if they do such a thing they'll have to charge each customer differently, which might lead to some kind of discrimination lawsuit?
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by Illniyar 7y ago
Apparently written by the same person who wrote Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs - Gerald Jay Sussman .
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by Illniyar 8y ago
So this is a package manager like yum or apt-get, not like npm. Seems reasonable, I guess, though the power of wasm is that it can be run without install, like a webpage. We'll see if this catches on.
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by Illniyar 8y ago
That's not exactly true, it depends on the architecture in use. For instance if using a Publish/Subscribe model, you could have had a service that listens to your email being connected, and since the only reason to connect your em
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by Illniyar 8y ago
"We can do better. Our freedom from unlawful public surveillance is worth fighting for." Is it though? the talk about privacy often ignores what lack of privacy could potentially mean. A fully covered surveillance state with prope
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by Illniyar 8y ago
After reading all of the comments here, this seems like a good thing. This fixes the main UI issues with how AMP is currently used in google search - mainly the url not properly showing where the content is. If secure exchange is treated th

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