bruce511

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by bruce511 11mo ago
In all honesty I'm not sure I'd recommend you stay in development. You might want to explore possibilities in other fields. I say this not because I know you, but because much of what you describe is "pretty normal" for
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by bruce511 1y ago
Building a business based on sales to consumers is hard. Consumers are fickle, their life-time value is low and acquisition costs are high. Products also tend to have very short life cycles. Any hint of success is quickly cloned and iterate
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by bruce511 1y ago
Heirloom
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This is from more than a decade ago. Nice to here things are improving:)
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by bruce511 1y ago
I think this is certainly the root of the misunderstandings in this (and other) spaces. At the very-local level of course there are exceptions, but generally speaking US food is terrible compared to European food. The US optimizes for vol
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by bruce511 1y ago
In the beginning we sold a product for a one-time fee. Every couple of years we'd release a (paid for) upgrade. The market was young, new features were obvious. The company was funded by "new sales". Development, support, adm
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by bruce511 1y ago
I think (in general) the number of machines being bricked because of an update is about a rounding error from 0. The biggest brick event in recent times was Shockwave, not Windows. Personally I've never seen a bricked machine, not at h
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by bruce511 1y ago
If a business does not run at a profit, it folds, and all the people there lose out. Now, of course, the scale of the profit is worth discussing. The use of the profit is worth discussing. But in general terms some profit is necessary. Fo
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by bruce511 1y ago
I agree, people can learn and appreciate if given the chance. But they've more important things to do so changing OS is just a distraction. I know, techies love to love or hate the OS. Here there are endless threads waxing lyrical abou
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I applaud you for your principled stance. And of course this change in Chrome changes nothing wrt your ability to continue doing this. Equally your preference for HTTP should not stand in the way of a more secure default for the average per
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Plus, it's one of the easier protocols to implement. I implemented it myself, and it didn't take long. So you're absolutely not dependent on the client software, or indeed anyone else's client software.
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It's helpful to include the year in the article header because; Everything may have been true at the time of writing, but details may be obsolete. For example this article refers to Neo4j. Knowing the article is 4 years old helps me un
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by bruce511 1y ago
>> This would basically be a full-time job. How would I manage that? I think consultancy and freelancing is also a full time job. And a difficult job at that. When you're not on a gig you need to spend your time lining up the nex
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I urge you to consider how this will be financially supported before you begin. You imply you'll burn through your savings for a couple years, then worry about financial support. This is a huge red flag for me, and would strongly lead
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No doubt slapping tariffs on Canadian goods will reduce the flow of said goods. But that's a reduction, not a termination. US demand for those goods still exist. And it is US consumers that pay. The reduction is a result of lower consu
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by bruce511 1y ago
One can discuss base load and season shifting all day long. But ultimately fusion will fail for two simple reasons; time and money. If we started building a fusion commercial scale plant today (ie started by planning, permits, environmental
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by bruce511 1y ago
Ha. You call it "history". I call it "childhood". I did that years before getting to Uni :) Although, to be fair, while it was a helpful practice at coding, I'm not a game designer, so it was a game too terrible to
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by bruce511 1y ago
Putting the motor in the wheel does have some performance and space advantages. It is being done in some vehicles today. However it does have some limitations as well. For the "general case" it may not be ideal. Top of the list is
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Yes, indeed.
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Putting people on Mars US equally useless. Any colony on Mars would require enormous support from Earth. It would never be self-suffient. Mars would need water, air, energy, raw materials, fuel and everything else for (basically) ever. Ther
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by bruce511 1y ago
Sputnik was the first object to orbit the earth. It was the spark that lit the fire under the US space effort. It may not have been grand, but it was the first. Yuri Gagarin was the first human in space, first to orbit the earth. To minimiz
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by bruce511 1y ago
I would argue the opposite. Authoritarians promote mistrust in elections (regardless of whether they win or lose.) In the US for example, distrust is very high. Promoted by accusations of mail-ballot fraud, of illegals voting, by anything a
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by bruce511 1y ago
We looked hard at this question, but ultimately determined it was as prone to distrust as any other. Firstly, inspection of code is a very technical skill, so there's a certain amount of reliance on a tiny group here. That tiny group t
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by bruce511 1y ago
20 years ago I attended an international conference on electronic voting. There were various papers on the form of elections (not on specific products.) The huge takeaway for me was not the technology (or lack thereof). Ultimately all exist
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The problem with the "war on drugs" is that it treats "supply" as the problem. It's always been about blaming drug cartels, smugglers, distributors etc. Drug possession is the crime, drug use is the crime, drug supp
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by bruce511 1y ago
It is absolutely not easy to start a business that generates any revenue at all, much less a median salary. But, to be fair, the OP was for joint a startup, not a generic programming gig. Starting your own business is a massive amount of wo
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I omitted my usual explanation of this phrase. So sure, I'm not saying 100% of people voted for this. The "you" in this context is 2nd person plural; the collective "you". As you note, democracy is the will of the m
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That advice was born primarily _because_ of the bigint/serial problem. If the PK is UUIDv4 then exposing the PK is less significant. In some use cases it can be possible to exclude, or anonymize the PK, but in other cases a PK is nece
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Restaurants are for those who are cash rich, but time poor. The cheapest way to eat is to buy ingredients and cook it yourself. Restaurants buy ingredients, and cook, but also have to add costs like rent and labor. Thus as money supply cons
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by bruce511 1y ago
I'm going to vote you up, because at least your points make sense. The key problem with your argument unfortunately is this part. >> they don't call it "free software", they call it "open source" The prob

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