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by blacktriangle 5y ago
Please don't. He's doing great work with Brave and I'm enjoying watching Mozilla commit suicide.
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by blacktriangle 5y ago
How much of a facade would you have had to build to be useful to the point where you run into the same problem? It seems like it would be very very easy for implementation specific behavior to leak this way. At least with IndexedDB there&#x
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by blacktriangle 5y ago
They were opposed to having a web standard, which should be a generic standard, be implementation defined. Mozilla would have had to re-implement SQLite for WebSQL based on the principle that there should not be a standard with only a singl
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by blacktriangle 5y ago
Yep, it's not fear of climate change, its fear of giving up on Tinder.
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by blacktriangle 5y ago
Clearly crazy person throws out unsubstantiated complaints along with a bunch of complaining about non issues, and you think that's justification to put a company under scrutity? Ok commissar.
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by blacktriangle 5y ago
The problem with "startup" is that there are two separate issues mixed up in the same word. PG defined it as hypergrowth which is certainly one class of startup, but there's another one as well. The other aspect of startups i
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by blacktriangle 5y ago
Oh noes, he has ammo at his desk. Come to my state lady, pretty sure everybody but one of the people in my last office open carried.
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by blacktriangle 5y ago
But now you have to look at the expected value as well. A 10 million dollar company, lets say at a conservative 5x earnings multiple means 2mil annual profits. At 80% margin that's 2.5mil ARR. For a B2B SaaS product you should be able
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by blacktriangle 5y ago
FWIW I'm working on a tech startup far away from SF, so it's possible. However we're arguably not a startup since we're not really engineered for hypergrowth as much as slowly and methodically building a self-funded, pro
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by blacktriangle 5y ago
Same goes for Emacs, nobody points you to the Info system, which is absolutely amazing. Perhaps this is because both vimtutor and the Emacs tutor do refer to their respective help systems, but given the sad state of most help systems beginn
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by blacktriangle 5y ago
I knew an older, highly successful CXO type who had changed careers from developer into management and gone to a low-tier MBA school in the process who had a hilarious line: "I've worked with a ton of Harvard MBAs, I had to fire e
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by blacktriangle 5y ago
Urbanization could be a huge part of it. In my rural area, it's pretty standard that retired men universally convert into avid hunters. I'm learning that no matter the time of year there's always something tasty you're a
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by blacktriangle 5y ago
The timing is huge. There was a period time from the late 80s to I'd say Win98 when computers became affordable, they were useable by laypeople, but they still weren't easy yet. You still had to learn about some of the underlying
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by blacktriangle 5y ago
Or this is the inevitable end of leftist thinking every single time. Sounds good on paper, fairness and all that, but totally ignores reality and ends up requiring large amounts of violence to enforce its idea of equal outcomes for all, whe
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by blacktriangle 5y ago
The Facebook whistleblower is a clear government plant sent there to justify government take over of Facebook's popular opinion control apparatus. The Republicans want to shut down the faction that want Trump back and the Dems want to
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by blacktriangle 5y ago
it's a bigger issue for developers. The fact that I can do *nix style development, then run some script that wraps it up in a nice .app bundle and ship that off to users means that its popularity very much matters.
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by blacktriangle 5y ago
Take a small example. Is Figma replacing photoshop for designers? Is Google Office replacing MSOffice? If these were to fully replace their local counterparts, then they would also obsolete the whole concept of navigating a file system as w
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by blacktriangle 5y ago
Sadly one way to look at this might be similar to "the number of people who can drive an automatic transmission and change their own spark plugs is decreasing." Its true, but the underlying tech is changing too, so is it really a
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by blacktriangle 5y ago
I have a theory about the Japanese and their relationship to the PC, having lived there for a bit in the mid 90s. This comes down to three things: First, Japan had a mindblowing consumer electronics industry way before we did. There were sp
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by blacktriangle 5y ago
We have one in our app, I've been amazed how users have reported so many bugs, feature requests, and tiny issues through it. Chat widget was totally worth it.
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by blacktriangle 5y ago
I just read that as "fiat currency has failed."
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by blacktriangle 5y ago
And at this point you may as well be running Datomic. I remember the first time looking at Datomic the whole thing felt like it was coming out of left field. A few years later of data modeling conversations like this and you start to see Da
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by blacktriangle 5y ago
If only my pocket WhatsApp device had other ways to contact people, now I'll have to go get a new device. Seriously as transitions go, leaving WhatsApp and Messanger will be the smoothest most painless transition there ever was.
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by blacktriangle 5y ago
Sounds like a restatement of the open world / closed world debate.
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by blacktriangle 5y ago
There's a saying "to make an omelette you have to break a few eggs." It's a justification used by those who think they're bringing about some great positive change to justify the all the damage they caused. For exam
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by blacktriangle 5y ago
Maybe trivial was the wrong word, but your second paragraph is exactly why I reject the approach to splitting out all nullable values into their own relation. Yes from a data modeling theoretical perspective it works, but from a pragmatic p
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by blacktriangle 5y ago
Heck I wish he even had any understanding of the use of NULL in real-world databases. He spends books arguing, very compellingly I might add, against the use of NULL in SQL dbs, but when asked to come up with an altenrative to NULL, he&#x27
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by blacktriangle 5y ago
Not a part of the SQL standard, but would PostgreSQL enumerated types be what you're thinking of? https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/datatype-enum.html Although I guess the question is are you thinking s
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by blacktriangle 5y ago
Lets just all go back to calling them mentally ill.
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by blacktriangle 5y ago
Facebook is no stronger than Myspace, Friendster, Orkut, or any other social network. Everybody looks unassailable at first, but when social networks collapse, it happens overnight and you never see it coming.

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