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by catach 8y ago
A large part of that seems to be due to the assumption that the competition is irredeemable and malicious rather than simply mistaken.
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by catach 8y ago
Human-based support at Google-scale is also insanely expensive.
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by catach 8y ago
r/RedditAlternatives is pretty good for exploring what's new.
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by catach 8y ago
> But it also frequently recommends books to me based on a book that I purchased, read, and left a one-star review for. That seems like a pretty obvious mistake. The reasoning might be that the bad-review signal means that you found the
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by catach 8y ago
Indeed, yet different languages seem to have different slopes.
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by catach 8y ago
> Disabling the new design still requires you to be signed in, though. old.reddit.com works fine when logged out, for me.
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by catach 8y ago
> Where are the docs lacking? One thing that gets me is that the Input/Output section of the official manual [0] has gone unwritten for quite a while, now. [1] [0] https://haxe.org/manual/std.html [1] https:&#
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by catach 8y ago
I interpret "dead" in this context as "very few people are using it, and usage is shrinking".
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by catach 8y ago
If you think that conditions in your group would be substantially better off if everyone in the group did a certain thing, you're likely to both do that thing and advocate that others in your group do that thing.
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by catach 8y ago
I'd expect that Github's scope/growth/ubiquity has mostly smoothed out that bump.
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by catach 8y ago
Could be trend, but TiddlyWiki isn't a data point for it, given that the project is over a decade old.
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by catach 8y ago
Customer satisfaction improvements cost money, which drives up prices, which loses customers. The highest customer satisfaction results tend to be associated with luxury brands. The wisdom of annoyances that increase profit-per-customer yet
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by catach 8y ago
For business "annoyance" is like a hidden debt that keeps accumulating until it reaches a threshold where they have to pay for the whole amount.
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by catach 8y ago
It was also quite nice for users, assuming the intentions of the makers were good. Ads and security exploits were the truly nasty bits.
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by catach 8y ago
> Both Firefox and Chromium have buried everything in hamburger obfuscation land as well. By default, sure. With Firefox it's trivial to permanently enable a traditional menu bar. Though that's not, I suppose, trivially-discove
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by catach 8y ago
To be fair, old Opera was (partially) ad-supported in the past. Not shady like this, though.
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by catach 8y ago
You're underestimating Nintendo [0] (and overestimating Metroid) [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best-selling_video_gam...
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by catach 8y ago
Video competition certainly exists already [0]. But I agree that copyright terms are trending in the wrong direction. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_video_hosting_services
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by catach 8y ago
That's a bit like saying that C++ isn't multi-platform because Visual Studio is Windows-only.
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by catach 8y ago
Single-big company control/backing is not sufficient (Dart) nor historically necessary (Python, Perl, Scala, Ruby, PHP, Lua, JS). I'd agree though that it's a huge marketing win.
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by catach 8y ago
The Gnome project started the process that resulted in the move to GitLab a bit over a year ago. [0] That's a long time for Free Software advocates to stay quiet about Microsoft secrets. [0] https://lwn.net/Articles&#x2
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by catach 8y ago
> Without open sourcing Windows and Office? One can be serious about an approach without total commitment, but total commitment is the path that removes the most doubt. From another angle: MS' current use of open source seems moti
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by catach 8y ago
Do you know what the outcome was for a team you resigned from?
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by catach 8y ago
I feel like it's pretty easy for proto-Pointy-Haired-Bosses to learn entirely wrong lessons from Dilbert strips, even if they get the joke.
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by catach 8y ago
> I read it as "an alternative to Git, which is also open source" As a native English speaker I'd say that's a perfectly reasonable interpretation. And I think most would have assumed that interpretation had it not b
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by catach 8y ago
Blackletter or bust.
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by catach 8y ago
> Reddit is 80% government, politics and news propaganda I don't think the list of top 50 subreddits [0] particularly supports that assertion. [0] http://redditmetrics.com/top
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by catach 8y ago
Tildes [0] may grow to align with much of what you're looking for here, maybe not. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17103093
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by catach 8y ago
> but I can also have my own perspective. That seems alien to me, the notion that access to an interpretation prevents you from forming your own.
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by catach 8y ago
The observation that there's a music player resource tax just makes me less inclined to combine it with the Electron tax.

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