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by betteringred 10y ago
150 million US Smartphone Users Are Downloading Apps, Data Shows At some point (already?) there will be so many smartphone users that even if only 50% of smartphone users download apps then smartphone apps will be bigger than almost anythin
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by betteringred 11y ago
> I don't trust private owners to take the required long-term view If there's anything we know about politicians up for re-election in two years or unable to run for another term it's that they take a long-term approach to
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by betteringred 11y ago
> What would prevent someone from, say, buying up all the water and then not selling any of it, or selling just a little to a handful of rich people? First, no one has enough money to buy up all of the water. Second, even if they did, it
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by betteringred 11y ago
> completely owning natural resources like lakes and forests They wouldn't completely own them, they'd have property rights in them. Depending on how the property rights are structured you could have many owners of say a lake o
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by betteringred 11y ago
I wasn't actually arguing for water privatization, but rather I was arguing against blaming the free market for the current situation, one where the government owns most bodies of water and allowed this pollution. I'm no expert on
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by betteringred 11y ago
You can believe whatever you want, but most systems of justice recognize things like proportionality and imminence. While a nearby coal power plant is likely to harm your health, it's unlikely to kill you, so killing someone over it wo
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by betteringred 11y ago
> mistrustful of arguments that the free market will sort things like this out. There's just no good mechanism to stop massive harm to common resources Most arguments that the free market can handle these problems start out with the
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by betteringred 11y ago
Have you ever met a team that wants to support two things instead of one? :) No one wants to support the old stuff, especially when no one's paying for it. If they make staying with the old too convenient, people won't convert to
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by betteringred 11y ago
I'm all for writing new apps in HTML, I think Atom and VSCode are awesome, but I'm not for rewriting huge legacy apps to be HTML apps for no good reason. The reasons given, that XUL requires maintenance that Mozilla engineers don&
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by betteringred 11y ago
They want to kill XUL for Firefox so they can be all fancy HTML. So they have to kill Thunderbird, a XUL app. In a few years the all new HTML Firefox will come out. My bet is that it will suck. It will lack a TON of features that the existi
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by betteringred 11y ago
> What am I missing? Context. If I'm in a bright room (office), and the last page I visited was black on white (the default/norm on the web), and the page I view after this one will be black on white (most likely), then viewing
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by betteringred 11y ago
Time for GitHub follow their own rules and change their name to something that's not offensive.
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by betteringred 12y ago
Does Google Inbox use J2ObjC? You seem to be alluding to that but not explicitly saying it.
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by betteringred 12y ago
Note this article was written last year and I'm guessing a lot of new stuff has been added since then.
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by betteringred 12y ago
I think it's interesting how he never explicitly says that he forked Gosling Emacs (I think that's what he did, but if not please correct me!). "Therefore, when I wrote my second implementation of Emacs, I followed the same k