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by cwyers 7y ago
Your experience is very different from mine. A cursory review of usage stats and other things indicates that my experience is probably far more typical.
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by cwyers 7y ago
I don't actually believe that, though. I think they're confusing the effects that rapid growth and their own cowardice in refusing to slow that growth by kicking bad actors off the platform had with the effects of adding a button
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Businesses aren't using Windows because schools use it (I think Chromebooks and iPads are more popular among schools now than Windows machines because children can trash a PC easily). They use it because of a long tail of software appl
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by cwyers 7y ago
You're talking about servers. I would bet credits to navy beans that most of the licenses are for workstations and laptops.
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by cwyers 7y ago
There was a push in Germany to migrate to Linux, and they eventually gave up on that, so yeah, there are some prior examples. https://www.techrepublic.com/article/end-of-an-open-source-e... https://www.there
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by cwyers 7y ago
I mean, they list a pretty compelling reason from their point of view: Microsoft changed their licensing terms from academic to business licenses, which are more expensive. I suspect they will discover over time that the fully loaded costs
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by cwyers 7y ago
Having been in the military, any civilian company is going to have a vastly different experience than the military. In the military, hierarchies are regimented (unsurprisingly, as regiment is a unit in the military). Corporate hierarchies a
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by cwyers 7y ago
They have edited the site (and added the free trial!) based on feedback here.
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by cwyers 7y ago
It costs $84 for an individual. I support their right to charge whatever they want for their product, but I had to click through about three pages to get to that info, so I though someone else here might want to know that up front.
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by cwyers 7y ago
You need to download Dev or Canary builds to use Edge Chromium (which I am typing this post on), it's not shipping as the stable Edge yet.
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by cwyers 7y ago
People have been installing pointless and bad tune-up apps for PCs for decades. People were installing RAM doublers for Windows 95 that just changed the size of the hard disk cache. All of those registry cleaners were awful. And I'm co
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by cwyers 7y ago
macOS has had malware detection since Snow Leopard: https://www.osnews.com/story/22059/snow-leopard-to-include-a...
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by cwyers 7y ago
Firefox distributes the source via an open source license, but if you want to distribute binaries, you can't use trademarks not covered by the source license without Mozilla's permission.
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by cwyers 7y ago
I'm seeing a lot of people say that airplane wifi is overpriced, and I'm kind of baffled. Yes, compared to terrestrial wifi it's expensive. But... you're in a fast moving object communicating with satellites (satellite l
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by cwyers 7y ago
If you can't trust the recipient, there's nothing you can do. The point isn't to protect yourself from an untrustworthy recipient, it's to protect yourself from inadvertent disclosure.
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by cwyers 7y ago
Fallback in crypto is wrong. Either succeed or fail. I don't need to sit there guessing how secure my secure messenger is.
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by cwyers 7y ago
I am not qualified to review how it implements forward security, for instance. But this shares a lot of the problems that GPG has. It relies on existing mail standards, so it leaks metadata all over the place, and security can easily be def
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by cwyers 7y ago
But you can swing a cat and hit eight k8s bundlers. Why is anyone going to want to use IBMs if they aren't already in the clutches of IBM or RH?
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by cwyers 7y ago
> But if the strategic logic is to “change everything” thereby “resetting the cloud landscape”, they’re really paying over $34 billion for OpenShift. Which is a vanilla container runtime. That is open source. That IBM already had at leas
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by cwyers 7y ago
I mean, building a panopticon to show me things I've already looked at may be effective but it seems like it's not the most worthwhile use of hundreds of PhDs for several decades? I also appreciate how Google continues to pay to s
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by cwyers 7y ago
Rust is 6.5% of Firefox's code: https://4e6.github.io/firefox-lang-stats/ They are working on a new Rust-based rendering engine, Servo, but it hasn't received nearly the level of work that a browser like Chro
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by cwyers 7y ago
Twitter has changed the front end like five times in the past five years and improved exactly zero of those times. They need to lay off 80% of their front end devs to keep them from just pointlessly churning the website.
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by cwyers 7y ago
The showcase project for Rust is a web browser (after all, Rust started out at Mozilla), which is certainly one of the larger undertakings one can start nowadays.
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by cwyers 7y ago
Is this just about how fast the CPU is, or is there some other reason the k8s experience is better now?
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by cwyers 7y ago
I think a lot of people have a mental model of MySQL that's stuck in the 4.x days. You can get most of these proposed benefits by "just" upgrading to the latest MySQL and making sure that you're running it in strict mode
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by cwyers 7y ago
MySQL now has window functions: https://mysqlserverteam.com/mysql-8-0-2-introducing-window-f... And MySQL has strict mode, which I believe is enabled by default on newer versions but available in any 5.x version: https:&#x
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by cwyers 7y ago
This is a fair response.
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by cwyers 7y ago
This strikes me as bike shedding. If you have a specific problem that you believe will be solved by the migration, do it. Otherwise, users will benefit more if you focus on changes based on their value, not what part of your tech stack look
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by cwyers 7y ago
You'll find that a lot of businesses use Word and Excel because they have a large, large body of institutional knowledge built up in those systems, and especially in Excel, a set of business-critical files that nothing else can open pr
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by cwyers 7y ago
Or, for an American developer, what are the odds that your 15-user sample will find usability problems having to do with your icons only making sense to someone in the US? There's more to localization than just translation. Or if you h

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