andrekandre

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1981.
by andrekandre 8y ago
what does the role of anti-trust and anti-competitive behavior from microsoft play in that narrative? maybe it’s more nuanced...
1982.
by andrekandre 8y ago
seems difficult as long as capital is raised in a top down manner, since its those who hold the leash are the ones who demand compound annual growth (which is the real root of the problem imo)
1983.
by andrekandre 8y ago
> I will trust market signals over journalists and experts any day. i think it’s a balance, market signals alone aren’t enough imo. it’s multitude of sources that are important, and then to correlate with data that indicates a trend in o
1984.
by andrekandre 8y ago
probably not, but from my anecdotal experience with upper managers (i don’t work at apple), every little bit counts towards “hitting the targets”...it seems unfortunately almost nowhere is immune to this pathological way of thinking...
1985.
by andrekandre 8y ago
i was thinking something like that, yes
1986.
by andrekandre 8y ago
this is just an honest question, and i’m genuinely curious, but why couldn’t Optional<T> be done as an immutable reference type... why does it need value types to be implemented first?
1987.
by andrekandre 8y ago
i’ve found that too much in lining, especially with a lot of inline closures can throw testability out the window, but the examples here are pretty good as each example is showing how to recompose each function for clarity and usefulness, n
1988.
by andrekandre 8y ago
i think it was meant in relation to unix, not in general overall
1989.
by andrekandre 8y ago
TINA (there is no alternative)
1990.
by andrekandre 8y ago
i think this would be the link, if anyone is interested: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EVm938gMWl0
1991.
by andrekandre 8y ago
> It's irrelevant, anyway, since rich people don't have any more votes than poor people. no, but they do have more money, which, thanks to citizens united equals more speech (money equals free speech) so, iow, they don’t need t
1992.
by andrekandre 8y ago
the “expression of idea” is precisely “how something is done” or am i missing something... idea: superhuman who flys around saving people expression: superman, alternative expression: ultraman both protected respectively by copyright (image
1993.
by andrekandre 8y ago
apples “tax” is for digital items sold for use in the app itself; for physical things or download codes for game consoles etc, then apples “tax” doesn’t apply (yet heh) technically it’s called “in-app purchase” [1] [1] https://de
1994.
by andrekandre 8y ago
soviet collapse was not so simple as just economic “overweightness” as much as gorbachevs “liberalizations” causing the whole thing to spin out of control: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dissolution_of_the_Soviet_Un...
1995.
by andrekandre 8y ago
what is up with all of these flutter articles on medium recently proclaiming that flutter is the second coming of app dev tools or something... almost like it was some kind of social media strategy... personally i find flutter interesting,
1996.
by andrekandre 8y ago
this is unfortunately my almost daily experience using slack...
1997.
by andrekandre 8y ago
i think the problem is, as intuitive as that sounds, people are good at finding scapegoats and blaming others instead of looking in the mirror, and issues as large as those are so abstract at some point idk... i don’t know what the answer i
1998.
by andrekandre 8y ago
there is such a thing as “fedicuary duty” [1] which could be sometimes interpreted as “maximize profits” i suppose... according to this ny times article [2] it states: `There is a common belief that corporate directors have a legal duty to
1999.
by andrekandre 8y ago
for any particular company, it (big payout for executives) only has to happen once, after that they (execs) can leave/retire/sellout take any particular company and multiply it by the size of the whole market and you see what we s
2000.
by andrekandre 8y ago
judging from where i work, that has already happened to a large degree, and i would guess elsewhere too... as alan kay would say "its all a pop culture" edit: spelling mistake