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by ctvo 4y ago
> I'm curious, what is it that drives every tech company to eventually publish a UI framework? I get the value of having an internal UI framework which allows anyone in an organisation to quickly throw something together which is at
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> People say that US taxes are kept complicated because the tax prep companies profit, or because Republican politicians benefit from frustration at taxes. But I think this is a bigger reason: a lot of people, myself included, when faced
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There are already very specialized trading platforms for the professional / semi-professional daytrader. For example, https://www.sierrachart.com . These platforms have all sorts of shortcuts and productivity workflows. Addi
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Because the people in charge are often in the majority group and when they're going down a list of names, their biases come into play.
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Or you know, you could put down your I'm offended hat for a second and read it as: "We ensured we didn't fire just blacks, browns, and pregnant women. Because sometimes that does happen -- where a downsize disproportionately
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by ctvo 4y ago
Or they launch entirely new products, in the same general space, with new pricing structures that aren't tied to their current offerings. They're Okta + 1Password + ... To clarify: I'm not sure I buy the above thesis, but VCs
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> Now let’s say that BitWarden stores 10 passwords to external services and I had access to those passwords through Bitwarden. Does someone then have to go in and manually change passwords to those 10 services every time someone leaves?
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by ctvo 4y ago
> Why are large businesses “sharing passwords” between users? What happens when one user leaves? Because not all products businesses use have fine grain authentication and authorization. For example, their registar for their domain names
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*10 billion back.
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Or you know, it's to get licensing rights for large, popular IPs to make more money.
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> Does Amazon really need to absorb even more? Doesn’t that stifle competition? The burden of proof is on you. How does this stifle competition? Why can't Amazon own EA? A gut "they'll be too big / successful / p
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> I'm curious if it will be as fast after implementing some must have features like sourcemaps, minification, and tree shaking? Can you explain why you think a transpilation step will prove to be a technical challenge here? The &quo
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> I wasn’t expecting a “well, actually, screw happiness and satisfaction” response but here we are. Starting a successful business, offering an exceptional service or product to customers, seeing your employees fulfilled and happy -- th
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The Windows only text editor is more popular than VSCode?
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The majority of my movements are moving around files and making minor edits that the vim plugin supports well. It saves me from reaching for the mouse in many case, and that's the entire goal for me.
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What’s his grift? Running off with 1.5 million USD? He probably makes half of that a year already, what a pay day.
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> I never understood the appeal, knowing I was there is, and should be, enough. The video captured that couple in front of you who were ridiculous, and that nudged you to remember talking about them afterwards with your friends. You wou
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by ctvo 4y ago
> What is your position? That tools primarily intended to break any law are inherently suspect and it's good to ban them? I think a tool's primary use is important. And that's nuanced, and subjective. Let's take guns
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> A way to ignore such laws can be a good thing. There are groups who think property rights are inane and tyrannical. One way to ignore those laws is breaking and entering. Is it only a good thing when it conveniently aligns with what yo
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I don't mean to represent that I think it's a fact, only that people are increasingly repeating it, which represents more negativity than I think Elon has received in the past. Interestingly though, it was Elon who said his family
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> But like I mentioned above if owning a profitable mine of some type was all it took to be an entrepreneur at Musk's level we would be drowning in them and he wouldn't be such a big deal in the first place. I don't have a
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by ctvo 4y ago
He can be popular due to Twitter and people can also not be deranged morons. Twitter is very popular with a few niche groups: Journalists and people in tech for example. The former is influenced by Elon's antics on Twitter and end up w
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by ctvo 4y ago
This is a simplistic view of IP theft. The Chinese are much more advanced. Steal from Roomba at the beginning. Surpassed Roomba? Steal something from BMW that's secret Lidar navigation work. Steal something from Samsung for circuit des
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> cheaper cost to do r&d. Is this a euphemism for outright IP theft?
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A sub-100 USD per month professional subscription is elitist? Have you worked in any other professional field? Finance, academia, medicine, law, etc. This is certainly not elitist nor overpriced for its value.
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The point is they shouldn’t need to test everything and someone self submitting an add on for review to be featured isn’t what triggers an additional device.
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Yes. How many random devices out there should they have laying around in case someone writes an extension that involves sending data to those devices? The Kindle accesses the internet through a WiFi network -- this would be required to test
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by ctvo 4y ago
You're right. That makes me very sad.
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SE has been an incredibly well ran company. - FREE - Permissive content license - Doesn't require me to log in to read an answer - Few / limited ads - Data available at archive.org - Still independently owned. Imagine AWS or Micro
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by ctvo 4y ago
Not sure where I said Google was first in this space?

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