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by __d 6y ago
I've had some experience with two groups of employers that care: the military and financial trading firms. The basic answer is simple, although it has many side-effects: your work computer is isolated from the Internet. In both cases,
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by __d 6y ago
Two points: Firstly, I think it's now pretty clear that Apple (and others) provide products that have numerous restrictions after their purchase. You don't own the device in a completely divorced context, but instead you have an
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by __d 6y ago
Android is Linux: are you excluding its UX from this assertion?
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by __d 6y ago
Some time ago, it was common in Unix sites to have an NFS filesystem mounted on all machines that contained locally-built binaries to augment those provided by the operating system. At this site, we used a bunch of different platforms: OSF
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by __d 6y ago
Maybe ask on the COFF mailing list?
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by __d 6y ago
IMO, all connectors have issues, some more, some less. USB-A has proven remarkably good, despite the "insert 3-times" problem, and it's now fairly large size. Lightning is ok -- I have found that cables lose their "snap
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by __d 6y ago
My partner's 12" MacBook has a (single) USB-C port, which has become increasingly loose over time. To the point where she has to listen for the distinctive sound it makes when charging when she plugs it in, and wiggle the connect
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by __d 6y ago
Interesting, perhaps. But don't take it as an accurate, independent, researched recounting of facts, because it's a long way from that.
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by __d 6y ago
Yes, you should quit: the question is not "if" but "how". Given the current situation, you might consider your runway carefully. In particular, counting on working through your notice period as a part of that runway isn
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by __d 6y ago
It depends how long since I last restarted the browser. Today, 87.
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by __d 6y ago
Do you know C++ well? Could you compare time to productivity for C++ and Rust?
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by __d 6y ago
I agree with everything you have said. But the implication that people should be called a "co-founder" just because they're important to the growth of the business makes no sense. You should absolitely hand out VP of X, CxO,
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by __d 6y ago
Easy. If you got stock when the company was formed, you're a co-founder. Anyone who joins after day 1 (and before day .. 180?) is an early employee.
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by __d 6y ago
In the early days of Internet, host naming was not yet standardized. The UK academic network used a least-to-most specific naming scheme (JANET NRS) (like, uk.tld.institution.machine) whereas the US adopted the most-to-least ordering (eg. m
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by __d 6y ago
I also adopted the yyyy-mm-dd format, some time in the 90's. I later moved from Australia (dd-mm-yyyy) to the US (mm-dd-yyyy) and continued to use yyyy-mm-dd during my time there. I believe yyyy-mm-dd is the usual format in Japan, but
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by __d 6y ago
Without commenting on the overall thesis, it's inaccurate to say that if Apple removes Fortnite from the AppStore that it is also removed from users phones. Anyone who has already purchased Fortnite via the AppStore can still use it on
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by __d 6y ago
I use my NAS. I have tried Google, Apple, Flickr, 500px, Amazon, Dropbox; they all have their pros and cons, but basically you end up with all the compromises of a cloud service. I use an app called PhotoSync on my iPhone to sync to my NAS
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by __d 6y ago
It is kinda as simple as it can be. Write the HTML first, doing the basic page content and layout using standard HTML5. Then add class attributes to identify the things you want to style in the same way. Use a single CSS file, and then add
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by __d 6y ago
Personally, I'd write plain, raw HTML/CSS for the static content, use Stripe for payments, GoAccess for analytics, and Digital Ocean for hosting. For messaging, Twilio (Sendgrid) would likely work? Check out indiehackers.com for a
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by __d 6y ago
Namecheap is the least worst in my experience
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by __d 6y ago
It depends. A CTO is responsible for ensuring that the company is able to deliver what’s needed, and if the current stack has issues, including ok-now-but-won’t-scale issues, then they should switch it out for one that positions the company
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by __d 6y ago
Yes, but no. I am no longer able or (more importantly) interested in working 18 hour days. Like you, I now have a family, a house, pets, etc. All of them get time that was previously available for coding (and partying). I can no longer fo
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by __d 6y ago
Objective-C was the language of NeXTSTEP, which was one of the most productive programming environments of its era (early 1990's). In companies where custom, in-house software development was required, NeXT, NeXTSTEP, and Objective-C d
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by __d 6y ago
I worked with a financial trading firm that was interested in evaluating a POWER system. They called IBM, who arranged a meeting our our offices. From memory, about 8 IBM people showed up. They didn't seem to actually know each other
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by __d 6y ago
I agree that the principle is interesting. The music/video industry asserts that you're not allowed to play/show some media item that you've bought. Amazon doesn't allow you to resell or bequeath Kindle books. Cat
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by __d 6y ago
That's the nature of our society. An argument can be made that it's morally wrong, but if you're going down that road, there's a lot of things should be morally more compelling than Apple's AppStore policies.
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by __d 6y ago
The vast majority of people purchasing an iPhone know the rules. If you don't like them, don't buy one. Buy a Librem5, or a PinePhone, or whatever. It's a free market, after all.
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by __d 6y ago
There's no law preventing anyone selling a smart phone without the limitations on your freedom you find objectionable. But similarly, there's no law requiring anyone to sell products that allow you to do whatever you want with the
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by __d 6y ago
On what grounds are you demanding that Apple sell the product that you want to buy? They sell products. Those products have well-known rules. If you don't like the rules, don't buy the product.
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by __d 6y ago
Because the only legal avenue to challenge Apple's policies is anti-trust law, and because Apple doesn't have a monopoly, it's hard to argue against them on anti-trust grounds.

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