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by bborud 5y ago
This post made me have another look at Flickr, where I have a pro account just for the sake of my old images not disappearing. It just isn't worth what I'm paying. I'm better off setting up my own static site.
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by bborud 5y ago
You can blame Marissa Mayer for a lot of things. But Flickr was doomed the second they were acquired by Yahoo!.
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by bborud 5y ago
It isn't uncommon for people to get confused about layering. In fact, it is particularly hard when you have a lot of people who have used something for a long time without actually understanding the design of it. I'm not a fan of
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by bborud 5y ago
Only, much of the time they don't actually seem to work. They remind me of those little fan-like gadgets people sell online that goes in your car air intake and supposedly gives you more horsepower. I've always been amazed that t
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by bborud 5y ago
I've stopped reading several online publications, and using several service providers because they either try to dark-pattern-bully me into consenting, or just can't seem to "remember" my choices. Every time I see one of
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by bborud 5y ago
Where the letter of the law is more important than the intent, there's always more wiggle room to screw over the consumer. But where intent and interpretation is given more weight, things tend to be less predictable for businesses. The
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by bborud 5y ago
So you are making the argument that one should apply different rules to different people depending on how much money they have. Well, no way that could go wrong. Interesting how you also make the tortured argument that privacy laws create
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by bborud 5y ago
You point out something extremely important here: the ability to share work with other people. Tool-use tends to promote or limit networked effects. If I'm the only one who can afford Mathematica in a given context where I collaborat
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by bborud 5y ago
Someone on the Internet is lying and misrepresenting themselves? Nooo! (The rest isn't a response to seanhunter's comment, but a comment on the discussion in general) If we take a step back from the discussion; I'd have to sa
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by bborud 5y ago
Well, let's for arguments sake consider the most important demographic in my mind: me :-). (That's what most people do anyway). Joking aside. I'd love to make Mathematica part of my toolbox, but the steep pricing makes me th
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by bborud 5y ago
I'd still like to see someone try to convince me. (I actually don't have a strong opinion for or against, but if there is something worth understanding I'd like to know)
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by bborud 5y ago
It would be more interesting to address why they chose a pricing model that guaranteed their products would never be a more mainstream consumer product and pretty much irrelevant for almost all enterprise contexts where a computational or a
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by bborud 5y ago
What amazes me about medicine is how incredibly much students have to cram into their heads in a short amount of time, and that they are capable of that. I don't think I could. What is even more amazing is that they still start almos
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by bborud 5y ago
In my experience, long build times mostly come from not caring about build times. Not from large codebases. A surprising number of developers don't think build times (including running all the tests) are important. They'll ju
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by bborud 5y ago
To a greater or lesser degree yes, but there are things you can do to safeguard your business. I don't think the biggest risk is really your hosting environment, but domain names. That's the one link in the chain that can really
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by bborud 5y ago
I don't know if this person is an extremist. Religious or otherwise. Nor do I know anything about the organization they represent. But both in labeling someone an extremist, and in claiming that said label is bigoted, both parties o
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by bborud 5y ago
So essentially Hanlon's Razor.
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by bborud 5y ago
This is the main reason why I am not interested in being an app developer. Your business is in the hands of someone who can cut you off and get away with not even giving you the time of day. Not worth the risk. (That being said: I'm n
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by bborud 5y ago
I'm afraid you are right, but it should be a priority that people with PhDs know how to write decent code. In several workplaces I've worked before the term "PhD-code" was an euphemism for "disorganized, buggy mess
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by bborud 5y ago
Years ago I did a lot of original research in a field that wasn't very well developed at the time. However, that research took place in the context of a startup, not academia. I was rewarded for producing solutions that worked - not
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by bborud 5y ago
Toyota seems to have lost their way. They've been late to the EV game, they wasted a lot of time touting hydrogen as a solution, and now they seem to be dead set on screwing over their relationship with the customer. Here in Norway the
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by bborud 5y ago
Why would you need to wait when there's already running code you can use? It isn't as if the world's developers are sitting on their hands waiting for IETF to mint a new RFC before implementing. And if nobody knows the requi
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by bborud 5y ago
Back up a bit, take a breath, read the HTTP 3 draft. Again, no need to reinvent the wheel. Let evolution take its course and piggyback on work that is already being done. "Everyone" wanting to build their own layer on top of a t
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by bborud 5y ago
Nothing in the blog posting suggests to me you can't use HTTP and Websockets for VR. The understanding of HTTP in the blog posting seems to be rooted in the early 2000s. I don't think the author has much experience in protocol de
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by bborud 5y ago
There is more money in treating customers even just slightly better.
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by bborud 5y ago
With Oracle you always read the fine print. I wouldn't risk touching this with your ten foot pole.
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by bborud 5y ago
TL;DR. Could you make that into a meme?
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by bborud 5y ago
You make one very important point: code that accumulates over many years. Not least in libraries you depend on (which make up a significant part of a lot of non-trivial code). This is is bad in every language as it often means you get cod
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by bborud 5y ago
The challenge with C++ is that unless you are writing something entirely from scratch with very few third party dependencies, it quickly gets ugly because you have to deal with legacy code that wasn't written in modern C++. I've
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by bborud 5y ago
I bet there's a social anthropology or psychology paper somewhere in there explaining how for some people this isn't obvious.

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