coldcode

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by coldcode 6y ago
Apple is dominant as a monopoly in what exactly? Their own store, their own hardware, their own OS, their own services? Every business Apple is in has large alternatives. They make money selling you things, not from ads. Everything Google a
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by coldcode 6y ago
So far I've not found SwiftUI usable for my work at my (large well known) employer. I like some of the concepts, but it's insufficient to actually use for our apps. Instead my team built a component system on top of UIKit that giv
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by coldcode 6y ago
The Egyptians built the pyramids without computers or modern construction equipment. Building the Great Pyramid of Giza today would be a massive project even with modern technology. Yet someone figured out not only how to build it, but orga
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by coldcode 6y ago
So wrapping the fruit in shrink wrap requiring you to sign a legal agreement to open it is next? Maybe if they suspect you ate without agreeing you have to provide a poo sample in a deposition? You can't go to a grocery store anymore w
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by coldcode 6y ago
Perhaps someone of a legal bent can explain what this means.
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by coldcode 6y ago
But by definition if you invest profits forever you never make any; maybe if you wait long enough you own the entire market and can charge whatever you like then. Is that really actionable though? One stumble and your stock is almost worthl
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by coldcode 6y ago
When I worked for travel company (still exists as a captive marketing brand of someone else not a real company) booking flights was very complex as the name the user gave had to match their identity presented to the TSA exactly or they were
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by coldcode 6y ago
When I search for programming topics (in my case, Swift related) I see lots of links from sites like xspdf.com and others that clearly just scraped stack overflow and other legit sites, crammed the content in a useless format that makes Goo
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by coldcode 6y ago
Facebook requires that you pay them enormous money but you do not matter to them at all otherwise, as there are always more suckers out there to replace you if you leave. Both Google and Facebook understand that support costs them money, so
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by coldcode 6y ago
Wow, my second CPU assembly language ever (after 6502). Amazing it's still relevant to anything. I also wrote code for a Z8000[0] in the 80's which is quite different.
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by coldcode 6y ago
I wonder if one could build a programming language with CRS. I mean, if you can use Brainfuck for all sorts of things, why not?
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by coldcode 6y ago
"This page was written by someone we got cheap and didn't check their work. Have a nice day!"
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by coldcode 6y ago
Orcas are terrifying to sea creatures, but oddly enough are not interested in humans.
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by coldcode 6y ago
For some reason this reminded me of the Russians trying to train dogs to take out tanks in WW2.
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by coldcode 6y ago
Unless the government forces them to save user identifying information, it's sort of pointless to ask for anything. But in France several bar owners were arrested for not complying with a law requiring they track every user if their fr
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by coldcode 6y ago
Not an acceptable practice under the Constitution of course it will require court cases to stop or narrow these. Geolocation searches (being in the wrong place/wrong time) are bad enough, but everyone searching for "X" could
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by coldcode 6y ago
What a supreme loss to physics.
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by coldcode 6y ago
We have both Slack and Teams. Almost everyone I know who has an option picks Slack.
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by coldcode 6y ago
345M pesos is too much to pay for someone building a system that uses columns in Excel to manage data (btw that's 16M dollars).
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by coldcode 6y ago
See the tracker feature of the latest Safari, it's hard to find any familiar site that isn't horrific. I know my employer's websites are atrocious with all the connections it makes, but of course I can't do squat about i
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by coldcode 6y ago
Government always are full of con people who take advantage of weak laws, strong lobbyists and lots of money being spread around. Regulators (or even tax agencies) are weakened by politicians who want to enrich themselves, and everyone hope
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by coldcode 6y ago
I've never worked in Erlang, but I did use Objective-C for a long time, and switched to Swift almost 5 years ago. Strong types makes it massively easier to ship high quality applications, while I could do so in the C variant it took a
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by coldcode 6y ago
Good public housing only works if the government (and the people) want it to. In this case no one cared about who would live there, and stuck them in a place people should not live. Likely someone made a large fortune and gave zero concerns
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by coldcode 6y ago
Lots of people are above the law, half the US Federal government at the moment is arguing they are. Also any entire government spying apparatus has always been above the law by definition. Being in the military and fighting a war can be def
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by coldcode 6y ago
A couple days ago I was sitting on my porch and heard an awful racket nearby, some crows were screaming and I didn't know why, until I saw the hawk sitting in the tallest tree around. They didn't let up for hours until it left.
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by coldcode 6y ago
Nothing remarkable in a company that makes lawnmowers. Facebook is a company that uses its power to change what people think because so many view it as a source of truth. Doing it for money, or doing it for power, is essentially the same th
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by coldcode 6y ago
Congress will not likely accept this law without major changes and the DoJ, unless we wind up tossing out the Constitution entirely (which could still happen sadly), cannot create law.
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by coldcode 6y ago
Nothing mysterious about it. Pull the plug, wait 24 hours...
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by coldcode 6y ago
Slavery is what it is, and it's good for business (in a 18th/19th century sort of way). If you can enslave people and force them to create wealth for you, you can spend the money on other things such as enslaving more people or co
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by coldcode 6y ago
Likely limitations from the city for development on that property. I worked at a place (not in California) that was limited to X number of people in their campus due to parking requirements; the city forced the company to offload employees

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