SwellJoe

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by SwellJoe 8y ago
I tried this once, but the terms are onerous, or they were when I tried it last. They expire frequently, they're huge (and I am on mobile broadband, which becomes very expensive if I run out of my data allotment in a month), they'
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by SwellJoe 8y ago
I'm not sure what more they could do. They're extremely pushy about it in Windows. It takes several steps to make it stop pushing Edge when you open any web links. I don't use Edge (or Chrome) because I don't trust the c
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by SwellJoe 8y ago
This is pretty disastrous for the world. I don't know how much it effects Mozilla, but it's terrible for people's privacy and a web that is at least a little independent of a small number of giant companies who have a history
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by SwellJoe 8y ago
That's gorgeous. Graphics, music, cutscenes, everything is awesome. I would have played the hell out of it in 1987 (might still do, if I get free time to futz around with VICE...I have a real C64, but my flash drive adapter got killed
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by SwellJoe 8y ago
Every large old piece of code is "bad engineering" to the next generation that looks at it. That doesn't mean throwing it away and throwing away all the users and starting over is a rational path forward. The new engineers
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by SwellJoe 8y ago
So, what part of Google's chat strategy fits your description of "downsize to declutter and simplify"? Google has had something like...seven(?) chat and chat-like projects, and each new iteration of "let's kill the
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by SwellJoe 8y ago
Meh, more like paid my mortgage and bought food. But, even if we frame it as funding a company on credit cards, it was a mistake, and one I would discourage others from making.
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by SwellJoe 8y ago
If it's backward compatible, why would they kill Hangouts, instead of just upgrading everyone automatically and calling it version 2? Google makes no damned sense. With all of the confusing product names, I can't figure out what t
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by SwellJoe 8y ago
Do you really think the team that made, say, Google Talk, were the ones who wanted to kill it and push everyone to a different product? I don't know who made either one, but I would be shocked if the decision maker that pulled the plug
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by SwellJoe 8y ago
Google is terrible at this. They have no credible replacement for Hangouts, do they? I used and loved the old Google Talk. Then they shuttered it and pushed everyone to Hangouts, which is...the same? Not better, not worse, just a very simil
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by SwellJoe 8y ago
I know so many folks deeply underwater because they "floated" on credit card debt during lean times. I've been there, even, when I started my first company I ended up racking up tens of thousands of dollars worth of credit ca
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by SwellJoe 8y ago
I don't really care about the guard rails. I grew up in Perl (pre-strictures and warnings), and BASIC was the first language I ever built something in, so I'm not too fussed about things always feeling a bit loose, and having to d
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by SwellJoe 8y ago
I explicitly said above that Go is an easy language to learn. But, I found Rust easier. And, yes, I'm finding Rust easier to learn than JavaScript. Without question. It is a much, much, smaller and more cohesive language. It has some
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by SwellJoe 8y ago
I just started learning Rust for a small project, and I found its "one clear path" model very appealing (I don't know if it is a formal goal, or if it's just a happy accident based on a smaller, more focused, community).
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by SwellJoe 8y ago
They mostly don't matter to users, because most forks fizzle out due to lack of interest, unless there's a really good reason for the fork. If the original maintainers aren't doing something weird like re-licensing under a mo
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by SwellJoe 8y ago
Of course they did. In an industry full of shady characters, LinkedIn is among the worst. They're proof that dark patterns and other nasty tactics are profitable, and also that if you make enough money, people in the valley will look p
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by SwellJoe 8y ago
I think the Firefox OS and phone was just a little too early. We're approaching the point where the web experience of an application is superior to almost every mobile app. There are exceptions, of course, but I foolishly bought an Ama
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by SwellJoe 8y ago
Doesn't matter (much). High capability attackers can, and do, place agents within major infrastructure companies to figure out stuff like this. If there is a backdoor, it is virtually guaranteed to be compromised by more than one actor
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by SwellJoe 8y ago
A system with a backdoor is a system exploitable by a high capability attacker, like most major state intelligence agencies.
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by SwellJoe 8y ago
"And let's not forget, the copyright crowd don't want to claim rights over just 1 specific number, but any number that happens to render (when run through a movie player) anything that resembles e.g. Star Wars. I don't t
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by SwellJoe 8y ago
I remember when I used to cringe that an application was built with Tcl/Tk because it would be very slow and need quite a bit more memory than a similar application written in C or C++. But, today, I suspect this editor is an order of
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by SwellJoe 8y ago
This is an absurd argument. Software (and written work) is not generated by random number generators...even though it theoretically could be. If you can randomly generate works that have market value (copyright is intended to encourage cr
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by SwellJoe 8y ago
Kinda like what's been happening for a few years now.
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by SwellJoe 8y ago
I'm not sure I buy that. The idea behind a public company is (in theory) much more democratic than a closely held company, and it used to be that public companies were viewed and regulated that way. But, when the vast majority of share
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by SwellJoe 8y ago
"Make most of your money from something other than advertising." But, that doesn't account for Amazon who have become (or were always?) evil in their own special ways.
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by SwellJoe 8y ago
Even before we knew how nasty facebook behaves behind closed doors, I would have found this creepy. Not that I'm surprised companies are doing it...the profit available to whichever company grabs the most data about people is huge, so
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by SwellJoe 8y ago
I find the "anything I don't like goes into spam" is among the biggest problems for classifying spam using rules shared across users, and has been forever. We support training the classifier in our products, via a couple of d
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by SwellJoe 8y ago
So, which language(s) have you designed that exhibit good choices?
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by SwellJoe 8y ago
Growing and delivering the seaweed is among the smallest problems to solve. The animal agriculture industry already involves growing and shipping billions of pounds of feed. This is just a different type of feed, and it is seemingly only ne
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by SwellJoe 8y ago
So, why would that be a negative outcome?

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