chillfox

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991.
by chillfox 6y ago
Yes, SpaceX founded in 2002 and first reached orbit in 2008, so 6 years. Tesla founded in 2003 and first deliveries was 2012, so 9 years. Development of Star Citizen began in 2010 and it's still not even in beta.
992.
by chillfox 6y ago
I put $100 on it years ago, back when they were pushing the single player campaign. All I was hoping for was a spiritual successor to Freelancer, but I have long since given up hope of ever getting anything. These days I check in on the pro
993.
by chillfox 6y ago
Yep, if they had stuck the Google money in an index fund and only operated off a small drawdown then they wouldn't need to rely on commercial interests or donations today.
994.
by chillfox 6y ago
of those I would only consider Gleam new, the rest are well, either established, up and comers or in the case of Haskell "old". Elixir (2011), Clojure (2007), Rust (2010), Go (2009), Haskell (1990), Elm (2012), TypeScript (2012),
995.
by chillfox 6y ago
Sure, SPA is the correct technology for certain applications, but not for every damned website.
996.
by chillfox 6y ago
Got one of them as well and I don’t think I ever used the keyboard.
997.
by chillfox 6y ago
It’s better to cannibalize your own business than wait for someone else to do it.
998.
by chillfox 6y ago
No, Your are confusing billions and millions. 1 billion = 1,000,000,000 1 million = 1,000,000
999.
by chillfox 6y ago
Well, Murdoch always support the liberals/conservatives but if he doesn’t get what he wants then he starts enthusiastically encouraging a good stabbing/knifing (rolling the prime mister).
1000.
by chillfox 6y ago
Yes, you could consider it a tax (or rabbit) on large digital platforms to support commercial news corporations.
1001.
by chillfox 6y ago
There’s some language in there so that they only have to pay large news corporations that hire professional journalists.
1002.
by chillfox 6y ago
Yes they are, but it’s not entirely up to them. The other side is arguing that they are just a publisher. It remains to be seen where they end up.
1003.
by chillfox 6y ago
I think it was 1 or 2 years ago that one of the news sites were successfully sued for failing to remove hate speech in Facebook comments on a news story they shared. From memory, the judge basically said that if they can’t follow the law on
1004.
by chillfox 6y ago
One can scale quite a bit by just getting bigger servers.
1005.
by chillfox 6y ago
I think that time trade-off really comes down to your current skill set. Learning less new stuff is just faster for small projects.
1006.
by chillfox 6y ago
Crystal [1] is a pretty nice ruby like language with types and it is up there with Go/Rust for runtime performance. [1] https://crystal-lang.org/
1007.
by chillfox 6y ago
Don't forget their convoluted documentation for those APIs, or how their libraries are poorly maintained, and has even worse documentation somehow.
1008.
by chillfox 6y ago
If you stick to LTS releases and stay away from Oracle/Java then you are highly likely to never have OS updates break the application.
1009.
by chillfox 6y ago
Installing updates and stuff is easy to automate.
1010.
by chillfox 6y ago
You automate the updates. Also be very selective about installing plugins. If you are extra paranoid then you can put the login/admin/api behind a vpn.
1011.
by chillfox 6y ago
If you are a developer or sysadmin then they are easy, but for people at the service desk level or below they are challenging to impossible.
1012.
by chillfox 6y ago
or, just let the bots be. often it's easier to just use a website as api instead of using some broken xml nightmare that requires knowledge of the database tables. If the concern is rate limiting then just rate limit the website. And i
1013.
by chillfox 6y ago
There's no need for them to actually have any messages. With a highly public hack like this one can simply manufacture messages afterwards and claim they came from the hack. Most people would believe it.
1014.
by chillfox 6y ago
yes, but that generally doesn't stop someone from feeling annoyed. While I do like cheering for annoyed people to fork projects it's not always practical for a number of reason like: - The project is large and really requires mult
1015.
by chillfox 6y ago
"Now I can just grab a generated client in a language of my choice." Except when you can't because no client is available in your favorite language. Then it is a lot harder than a rest api would have been.
1016.
by chillfox 6y ago
Sure it does. If you work with people who don't automate then every time you finish a piece of automation you can slow down your pace a little and still be faster than the people doing stuff manually.
1017.
by chillfox 6y ago
Well, from the outside that "stop and think" part looks a lot like slacking off and going home on time.
1018.
by chillfox 6y ago
That feels like a lie considering I keep seeing articles about young people dying from covid.
1019.
by chillfox 6y ago
The payment processing overhead has nothing to do with rules and everything to do with Mastercard and Visa having decided to not compete on fees.
1020.
by chillfox 6y ago
It can easily be argued that a lot of these services are a net negative and it would have been better for everyone if they never got off the ground in the first place.

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