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841.
by barnabee 5y ago
Sadly I agree. Business is about optimising for local maxima — making yourself money, whether or not it makes us all poorer. Profit and wealth are important motivators, but democratic society should balance this by looking after the global
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by barnabee 5y ago
I think you misunderstood the point. If it becomes possible for users to access the product without also driving ad revenue, they will soon discover that the service they offer to users is just as much a part of the core product you describ
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by barnabee 5y ago
> What if you want to make a change to the system that isn’t compatible with maintaining the old api? > How about if the old api can’t scale as the user base grows? Tough luck? What if Amtrak wanted to make trains twice as wide? What
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by barnabee 5y ago
I strongly believe platforms should be forced to allow interoperability and it should be illegal to prevent or frustrate access from other clients or services. The idea that someone hosting a product on the internet should be able to contro
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by barnabee 5y ago
I'm not dead set on it being made by a for-profit company but otherwise yeah, that's about right. Dream big, they say :)
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by barnabee 5y ago
This is fair, or at least, if they do make those choices ahead of time they should be well publicised and configurable, or it should be a specialised, single purpose browser. To that extent, I think if Brave is open and honest and says &quo
847.
by barnabee 5y ago
Reader mode proves that "exatly as sent" is the opposite of what I want. I would like browsers to reinterpret what is sent for me (and noone else, definitely not for the browser maker) and display something more readable and usefu
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by barnabee 5y ago
There are plenty of ways to avoid 1:1 mapping between keys and access to/control of things on decentralised networks and blockchains, so really these are not arguments against blockchain just against a specific way you can choose to ma
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by barnabee 5y ago
I have found DearPyGui [1] to be a really efficient way to knock up a quick GUI for a Python script/app. There's almost no boilerplate and I've found it scales reasonably well as things get more complex as it's easy to s
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by barnabee 5y ago
> Configuration adds complexity and is a huge source of confusion for users. Sometimes confusion is the appropriate state. Companies (or at least products) often have to choose between retaining the most users (or worse, customers) and c
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by barnabee 5y ago
Sometimes more than the content
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by barnabee 5y ago
Agree. We have literally got to the point of commisioning fonts so we don't have to worry about licensing (bonus: we will also be able to make them freely available, and hopefully fully open source too).
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by barnabee 5y ago
> Do you also call it a "privacy disaster" when your bank account requires your name and address so they can report interest payments to the government? Or when Robinhood/Schwab/Vanguard/Etc send the IRS a list o
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by barnabee 5y ago
In the UK the minimum wait is 8 weeks and there doesn't appear to be an issue with people failing to get 2nd doses.
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by barnabee 5y ago
Hopefully purely ad supported services cease to exist. I never understood why these companies don't offer paid options with no ads or tracking, at least in adddition to the ad supported "free" version.
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by barnabee 5y ago
It is pretty concerning that copyright exists
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by barnabee 5y ago
I see three things going on here: 1. The practical: It’s not that regulation is bad but that many existing regulations are bad. They make obviously useful things illegal or impractical, are often worded in such a way they are basically impo
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by barnabee 5y ago
On the other hand, here in the UK I know several people who no longer carry a wallet or cards at all because Apple Pay is so ubiquitously available. I don’t know anyone without a phone.
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by barnabee 5y ago
I’m not sure this article understands how VCs in general often operate. I’ve met many VCs who will invest in a team with barely an idea, or where they have a lot of scepticism about the idea, because they believe the team have a sufficien
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by barnabee 5y ago
Token issuance is analogous to a loan economically (it creates new money supply) and in terms of its ability to finance economic growth. Anyone can do it, which is a massive improvement on access to finance today (or, in some countries, wou
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by barnabee 5y ago
Android users all use Linux. The fact they don’t know is one way it might feel like if most people “use” bitcoin and other decentralised tech.
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by barnabee 5y ago
This seems like a very adversarial environment. If you hand out ownership/status/power/money based on unsubstantiated project estimates, I’m not sure you can ever expect very good or happy results. It’d be much better if all
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by barnabee 5y ago
The negative toll comes when timelines become deadlines or there’s too much pressure to hit them. Those are not good ways to manage or motivate a team. It is essential to create teams that are aware of and talk about the most optimistic tim
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by barnabee 5y ago
It makes sense to always communicate the best case, not the most likely expected case. If you allow worse-than-best-case to become the plan/expectation, you'll fill the time and often exceed it. As an engineer, this feels strange,
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by barnabee 5y ago
Regardless of the legal position, I would be very happy if every device I owned would attack, corrupt, disable, etc. any system or software that attempts to use the device or access its contents without my authorisation.
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by barnabee 5y ago
Lots of reasons a document might user my camera - to fill in a form, for example. Obviously there’s a blurry line between document and app, and for some use cases it makes sense to be more app-like. I’m very fine with this blurry line, and
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by barnabee 5y ago
Local storage is persistent when you add a page / app to the home screen (ie take the step to install and enable it as an “app”) and only gets cleared after a while when the site is browsed as a website in Safari. This, as a user and a
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by barnabee 5y ago
I do not want you, as a web developer to be able to target my device with an app when I visit your link. I don’t want to be forced to deny access to every service/feature on the device via pop-ups either. Until there’s a proper open st
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by barnabee 6y ago
Strongly disagree that use of FastAPI over Starlette is down to marketing. I regularly use FastAPI instead of Starlette on small work projects and personal projects. The first thing I did when pointed at FastAPI was follow their very promin
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by barnabee 6y ago
It should be an either/or for travel within cities. I live in London and own a car, which I never use to travel around the city or at rush hour, only to leave on trips or for occasional movement of bulky items. The congestion charge (£

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