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by al_be_back 1y ago
Or for third I guess lol Jobs demoed a mac gui to Gates, and apparently Gates ran strait to his Microsoft office, where he too invented gui. Jobs was very upset for years.
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by al_be_back 1y ago
You're correct actually, I missed that. With Raspberry Pi they moved production to the UK (Wales) in 2012 - (Factory tour article in 2023 - https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2023/how-raspberry-pis-are... ). I
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by al_be_back 1y ago
> It was always to obviously to make battery life better I don't think it was about saving battery power. Jobs was smart in convincing people to focus on web stack for apps - Flash was king of rich app experiences, and java [inc app
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by al_be_back 1y ago
Huh - just made me wonder, why didn't Musk buy .X tld ? Far better than x.com Then again, what would've been the domain name, x.x ? oh boy.
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by al_be_back 1y ago
> So now we are calling booking.com a “monopoly” , No, you are. I suggested they're not exactly a small player, considering that DMA is trying to also appeal to local entrepreneurs/startups - and not stand for consumers too. Pe
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by al_be_back 1y ago
> In my liberal view it sounds awful for users and entrepreneurs alike curious to read what arguments you have against or in favor? From what I understand, in European countries (inc EU) both public and private sector rely predominantly
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by al_be_back 1y ago
Maybe I will take your comment seriously when Booking is a small player.
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by al_be_back 1y ago
Finally, a complete modular portable desktop, made in Europe, for about $350 usd (keyboard, mouse, camera, mic, display, power supply). I'm impressed. Although, a little late in the race to compete with US or Chinese PC makers. However
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by al_be_back 1y ago
Jobs was "inspired" by a visit at Xerox labs, they showed him a GUI built using Smalltalk (which they'd also invented). So naturally, he ran back to his office and invented GUI ;)
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by al_be_back 1y ago
makes no sense. how are you comparing yesterday with a "a few years ago" ?
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by al_be_back 1y ago
Gets worse for projects outsourced to 1+ Consultancy firms, where staff costs are prohibitively high, now you've got another layer of complexity to factor in (risks, costs). Consultancy A submit work, Consultancy B reviews/tests.
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by al_be_back 1y ago
the IE6 lawsuit was about web browser monopoly, not a complaint for poor tech.
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by al_be_back 1y ago
Excuse me, but I am a Tech Lead, not a people lead - now let me lead some technology, please! What in the actual ...
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by al_be_back 1y ago
locking people in sure achieves at least one thing, but then so does adding two zeros. Jobs locked staff in, at Google when you a book meeting room, the wifi and lights cuts off at the end - a kill-switch approach [1]. personally, I think t
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by al_be_back 1y ago
The verbosity of Java may certainly annoy/put off new devs a lot, but with advanced tooling and ai, that's not a biggie i think. Personally, i think a live-reloading feature would make java very popular again, and rapidly so. In
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by al_be_back 3y ago
by the time a major jurisdiction like the EU brought GDPR, regulatory compliance was already long-overdue (as usual, Govs plays catch-up with the business world), hence what followed was a rapid rise in "bureaucracy" (i guess). Fo
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by al_be_back 3y ago
useful for generating tedious HTML emails e.g. export Thread to Email.
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by al_be_back 3y ago
to me these innovations seem akin to Concept Cars in the Motor industry; there's some utility, until some executive takes it center-stage, and pisses-off most of the core users. the biggest value in these networks is real User-generate
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by al_be_back 3y ago
there was a craze for DNA analysis 10+ years ago, the idea being 'if we can analyze e-commerce transactions, why not the human DNA!' The UPS being mostly around Health than Ancestry. That's flopped in my view. Recent Gnome
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by al_be_back 3y ago
>> Google was so paranoid about "user data" you said you were ex-google, how come the privacy policy surprised you? privacy around user-data is big concern, especially for tech giants. Some companies are forced to leave ent
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by al_be_back 3y ago
good 'ol BBC was ahead of it's time - inspired a generation of hackers. Try get Netflix or Amazon to do that as a side hustle! [1] [1] a computer + a language + dev tools
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by al_be_back 3y ago
>> I'm starting the first volume you've told us about your friend (hello there friend), but not said anything about your background / the context in which you're "starting". So... It's generally aime
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by al_be_back 3y ago
it was very difficult to make money in the early days of internet (90s, 2000s), so ads* (via tracking) were a quick-and-easy way to make some money. then came social networking, and magnified that* through network-effects ... they got way
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by al_be_back 3y ago
>> at Google circa 2010 ... a business professor... sounds like Clayton Christensen
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by al_be_back 3y ago
Losing the CEO must not push significant number of your staff to throw hissy fits and jump ship - it doesn't instill confidence in investors, partners, and crucially customers. as this event turned into a farce, it's evident that
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by al_be_back 3y ago
for me, it's UTC everywhere by default, let clients convert UTC to local time. dbs/upstream systems do that already (these days). computing is predominantly distributed these days
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by al_be_back 3y ago
>> We remain committed to our partnership with OpenAI and have confidence in our product roadmap They've invested over $10bn in this affair, even for MS it's massive - a clearer, more reassuring message would've helped,
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by al_be_back 3y ago
Unless you go back to Bartering, Money can't expire, but currency can, such as when an Empire/Country/Political union collapses/arises, new currencies appear. A more recent case being the Euro currency - many EU countrie
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by al_be_back 3y ago
>> If that's true, why then did it take me 10 seconds yesterday to... Google vs cGPT it's neither here nor there in this case, after all Google research drives cGPT, their market focus differs. The OP is directly mapping Fra
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by al_be_back 3y ago
by your logic, ending your reply with "unnecessarily harsh" means your message was "unnecessarily harsh" if I didn't agree with some of the preceding sentences? such as your fictitious stats "95% of the messag

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