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by aristidb 14y ago
Yes. Kind of sad, because I think these "contracts" are an awesome idea, and I don't like them being artificially limited like that.
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by aristidb 14y ago
Having finally (almost) finished the article... It looks like in many places, dogma and internal turf wars are behind the decisions. Some things however seem quite reasonable, like having one comprehensive API available to both .NET and nat
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by aristidb 14y ago
Interesting article but kind of weird that it goes into such a level of technical detail while still attempting to explain basic concepts like garbage collection.
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by aristidb 14y ago
Mythbusters, I would love to try it myself, but then I don't consider the expense of buying a laptop with a touchscreen to be worth it just for this experiment. :)
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by aristidb 14y ago
So you don't buy into the argument that vertical touch screens are unergonomic and unpleasant to use over non-trivial amounts of time, because they require holding the hand up to the screen?
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by aristidb 14y ago
Wasn't Windows 2000 targeted to the high end of the market only, and Windows 98 SE still the mass-market choice?
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by aristidb 14y ago
To this day, a large fraction of companies has ignored Windows Vista and 7, and is still running Windows XP. The upgrade to Windows XP went smooth by comparison. I think one major reason why XP succeeded was that it actually made a lot of d
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by aristidb 14y ago
Some people say that Microsoft has changed, and is no longer the corporate "asshole" it used to be in the days of the war over the PC as a platform - which it has won. I'm not sure if that claim is very credible. The evidence seems to point
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by aristidb 14y ago
I would not surprised if _hundreds_ of people have "invented" a fully digital media-free audio player years or decades before Apple perfected it into a consumer device. This is a world of billions of people. Billions. The romantic idea of o
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by aristidb 14y ago
If they need to be five times more efficient, why is the plan to spend a lot of money on things that do not directly impact customer service, like giving away rides to poor people, and using self-produced Biodiesel?
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by aristidb 14y ago
Yet the idea that hypocrisy is a good reason to ignore a man's arguments wholesale is broken either way. But yes, Bezos cannot be assumed to be without self-interests. Nor can the (former) patent lawyers sitting on patent courts.
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by aristidb 14y ago
Does the actual data also reside on these instances?
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by aristidb 14y ago
And it does some things worse. Notably, a significantly worse display.
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by aristidb 14y ago
> I kind of resent paying for so much more than I need. I wonder if Dropbox might make more money if they charged $10/month for 20 GB, because 20 GB is not more than most people need. (It would be a worse deal, but if the main problem i
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by aristidb 14y ago
The amount of people who are willing to set up an AWS account, generate account keys, download an external tool like Arq, and set it up to use those keys... No, I don't think that's the biggest danger for Dropbox.
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by aristidb 14y ago
There is a case to be made that charging less than $10/month for a service is not good business. People like patio11 make it constantly. The reason is that people who pay low amounts are the most demanding in terms of support, and don't act
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by aristidb 14y ago
Don't some individual subreddits moderate fairly heavily? And the upvoting/downvoting also has the effect of hiding disliked speech.
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by aristidb 14y ago
Publicly, that is. In a private forum like Hacker News, exclusion of disgusting hateful speech is legitimate and even necessary for the survival of the community - or people would leave because the "trolls" have taken over.
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by aristidb 14y ago
We need more efficient ways to get tech news than via chains of rewordings, indeed.
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by aristidb 14y ago
There is no excuse for some of the security errors we have seen. Especially not government incompetence being equal or greater. It is true that startups should not concentrate on perfect security, as supplying something the buyers want shou
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by aristidb 14y ago
Last I heard (very recently) the NVidia closed source drivers are still the most practical option, because the AMD closed source drivers are fickle and the AMD open source drivers are incomplete. Wrong?
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by aristidb 14y ago
To expand on that, even long before 2010 it was really clear that Symbian as a technology could not compete with newer approaches like iOS and even Android and Nokia's own Meego/Maemo. Maybe Nokia could have changed that situation by actual
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by aristidb 14y ago
It is really hard to take seriously an article with section titles like "SYMBIAN WAS WINNING".
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by aristidb 14y ago
Except the desktop version of the browser still has Flash. It's only the Metro, pardon me, Windows 8-style UI version that has no Flash.
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by aristidb 14y ago
So I guess not really worth upgrading from the Kindle Keyboard with a lit cover. Too bad, the cover makes it quite heavy, but I also really like page turning buttons for lazy reading.
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by aristidb 14y ago
So please don't put a popup asking me to install your shiny app between me and the actual news.
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by aristidb 14y ago
And then there's the Chaos Monkey who randomly kills anything in sight.
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by aristidb 14y ago
Did you consider Reserved Instances?
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by aristidb 14y ago
It's probably a combination of credit cards being far less popular in Europe (there are numerous local alternatives for online payment), and many of these services not being available to European companies at all.
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by aristidb 14y ago
That's the ex-post return on equity, not the cost of equity. You could argue that the former is an approximation of the latter, but they are not necessarily the same. Anyways, it's not really relevant for a small Amazon Seller who may get a

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