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by chacham15 6y ago
This is a strawman argument. To see why, lets compare with Facebook. How much money does it cost to develop API servers to deal with apps which use Facebook sign in? How much money does it cost to run those API servers in a performant manne
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by chacham15 6y ago
For justice, outcomes matter. This is why there is a difference between "attempted murder" and actual murder. Yes, both are punished, but the actual outcome does matter. Therefore, the distinction between a flashbang and an incend
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by chacham15 6y ago
Google is also being sued by Epic (who is suing Apple for essentially the same thing): https://www.businessinsider.com/epic-games-sues-google-over-...
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by chacham15 6y ago
I completely understand the argument here, but the problem is that there is no other option. I think that there is a middle ground here if Apple allowed users or apps (i.e. a secondary app store) to install other apps without going through
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by chacham15 6y ago
To be fair, there isnt much content to this post other than an inflammatory remark ("he is almost moronically ignorant of basic economics") and some graphs which can be summarized by "tax rate is offset by growth rate".
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by chacham15 6y ago
To be fair, Pebble (a YC company) started on Kickstarter...so its probably a mixed bag.
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by chacham15 6y ago
Reproducible builds also tend to create isolation. I.e. if I compile one C file, change another, the compilation of the second one usually doesnt affect the first. This is useful when trying to debug code. E.g. I can add print statements to
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by chacham15 6y ago
The relevant excerpt seems to be here: Market Opportunity We believe our platform disrupts several large and well-established IT markets. The key markets that are addressed by our platform include VPN, internal and external firewalls, web s
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by chacham15 6y ago
The Google Cloud machine type m2-ultramem-4164 has 11,776 GB of memory. How does it accomplish that then?
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by chacham15 6y ago
> Apple is not a monopoly! They have a majority (not monopoly) on a very specific US-based market In the video "Competition is for Losers with Peter Thiel", Peter Thiel discusses this. The problem here is in how you define &quo
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by chacham15 6y ago
The main problems I've seen with cooperative threading (aka fibers) are threefold: 1. You need to decide how much stack space to allocate to a fiber beforehand. If you go over this limit, you will segfault. 2. Thread local storage does
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by chacham15 6y ago
> Since it happens every frame, you don't need state management to push updates around. Everything just grabs the latest value anyway. This is not true or at least only deceptively so. If you think about "global state" in
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by chacham15 6y ago
I think this is what you're looking for: https://min.io/
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by chacham15 7y ago
IMO the biggest difference between the two is self-hosting which makes sense for the price difference. Even setting that aside, SSO is a feature which is very meaningful to businesses and relatively meaningless to individuals. Because of th
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by chacham15 7y ago
> TOS are not contracts for sure Please be careful when you make legal claims, especially when they probably arent true. IANAL but AFAIK most TOS fall under whats called a shrink wrap contract: https://en.wikipedia.org/wi
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by chacham15 7y ago
I know that this is going to sound "flavor of the day," but seeing as how genetics is essentially a large data set of variables and we aren't certain about which of then are indicative of cancer, doesn't this seem to be
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by chacham15 7y ago
Its about maintenance. Things which are "undefined behavior" can actually have a defined behavior if the compiler provides it. By doing something undefined in the stl, the compiler authors are saying that the compiler will support
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by chacham15 7y ago
The author here seems to be missing the basic point of the phrase. Others have correctly noted that performance is a feature, but even with that taken for granted, it is not often apparent what the constraints of the full system are until t
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by chacham15 7y ago
I think you're missing the point here, the conversion function is trivially inlinable: char* sds_cstr(sds *str){ return &str[0]; //you could probably just cast too } The other posters solution is actu
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by chacham15 7y ago
What you do is something like the following: typedef struct sds_s { char data[0]; } sds; Which makes them essentially equivalent, but not from a type perspective. Then to handle conversions, you add explicit functions a
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Ask HN: What was the article about how optimizing for being right was bad?
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by chacham15 7y ago
The problem is that you want to be able to abandon work (e.g. due to new data coming in that invalidated the previous data). So, what you need is to go back to the last complete render and start applying your changes from there. If there we
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by chacham15 7y ago
React isnt the one mandating how its used. It can be used in the way that the GP is talking about, but you can also keep the data entirely separate. Redux et al do exactly that. The main thing that the GP is missing is that, like with video
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by chacham15 7y ago
I dont quite buy the "switch the app" argument as code signing easily fixes that. Intercepting at a higher level such as a keylogger or screenshotter would work, but then you'd apply the same argument: the terrorists would ju
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by chacham15 7y ago
Despite the length of this article, I see no plan for the obvious rebuttal of terrorists: if you make whatsapp or some other app not end to end encrypted, the terrorists will make their own app. Its not difficult to generate your own symmet
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by chacham15 7y ago
> Inheritance is a result of several insights: > 1. It's convenient to be able to sketch out a protocol which a set of objects will follow - without having to work out every damn detail about its implementation. > 2. Most of t
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by chacham15 7y ago
I dont think the study can be used to draw the conclusions that the article is trying to draw. The study presents new objects which are derived from skeletons for people to learn and identify. IMO people learn differently in short term vs l
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by chacham15 7y ago
Throw a signal like it would do if the process were out of memory completely and about to be killed? (for clarification, no snark intended, actual question)
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by chacham15 7y ago
Unexpected things are bound to happen. But, one thing that stuck out to me is that you dont seem to have a safe way to test changes (which would have prevented the second failure). Are there no other environments to test changes on? Is ther
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by chacham15 7y ago
Even statements like this can become ambiguous depending on the speaker. E.g. is the speaker speaking literally or metaphorically? Maybe the speaker feels like they walked a lot and so they chose a distance which represented a lot to them.

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