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by cwyers 8y ago
That doesn't say it's new, or that it doesn't happen every winter.
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by cwyers 8y ago
No, they don't, apparently. According to the top post in the thread, they have $130 billion in cash on hand.
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by cwyers 8y ago
I have only been to one coworking space, so maybe it's not representative, but I would never go back there again. It costs more than buying enough coffee to get them to leave you alone at a Dunkin Donuts and somehow the chairs are wors
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by cwyers 8y ago
The "tech crowd" tends to implement what the business asks them to implement, like you said. In the case of security, fixing it is straightforward -- there's a large enough amount of fines for breaches where customer data was
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by cwyers 8y ago
How much leverage does he need to just get them off Amazon.com?
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by cwyers 8y ago
20x on a toy problem isn't bad, if some portion of the increased memory usage is fixed (in other words, doesn't scale up with the complexity of the app).
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by cwyers 8y ago
Right. The first rule of password security: if you have a large enough user base, the odds of a user writing down a password increase, and as passwords become sufficiently difficult to remember, the odds approach 100% at some point that _so
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by cwyers 8y ago
Remember, if Oracle wins, they are not pursuing a ruling that obviates the doctrine of fair use; all of those cover the case of implementing an API for compatibility. Oracle's argument about Android and its use of Java is that Android
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by cwyers 8y ago
Play time is a terrible measure for cost of creating a game. Yes, maybe the average playtime of old NES games was shorter, but the amount of artists involved was minimal and they didn't do it by having more content, they did it by stea
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by cwyers 8y ago
I would hope so! Why have a testing branch if you're not going to test things in it?
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by cwyers 8y ago
What value prop are you going to offer to get a consumer to pay $150 a year for Linux support? Enterprises will pay it because they have a value prop and because Windows seats aren't free. From a consumer's point of view, Windows
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by cwyers 8y ago
You'll never get end users to pay more per seat than an enterprise product. You just need to find a way to make the end user product sufficiently worse that enterprises won't care about the price difference, they'll just buy
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by cwyers 8y ago
The reasons don't really seem to address why Android has the issues it has -- device manufacturers don't upstream their code changes to the mainline Linux kernel, Linux doesn't have the same level of abstraction around hardwa
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by cwyers 8y ago
I was home-shopping recently, and every time I looked at a FSBO home and tried to figure out what the price should be, I got the overwhelming impression I had spent more time looking up comps for the home in question than the owner had. I r
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by cwyers 8y ago
You're not wrong about the incentives, but I think you miss a few things in practice: 1) If everyone else in the market is priced to move, and you aren't doing it, there is always going to be new housing stock that undercuts you.
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by cwyers 8y ago
Then you need to uninstall the app. No phone is going to guarantee you that it won't run.
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by cwyers 8y ago
It's not about UX, it's about how awful people are. Hacker News is an amazing place, and it's not because of the UX, which is certainly of a piece with the Old Internet. It's because there are people who put a lot of eff
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by cwyers 8y ago
It is also overrun by people who use it to share large binary files of copyrighted material, and spammers, and so on and so forth.
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by cwyers 8y ago
The walled gardens exist because the open Internet kind of sucks, really. E-mail is pretty much the last bastion of the old open Internet, and the amount of resources needed to just deal with malicious e-mails is huge. Mindbogglingly huge.
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by cwyers 8y ago
How would that even work? The games need to be published by somebody.
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by cwyers 8y ago
I doubt it. I'm sure Bungie had reasons for wanting to leave Activision, but Destiny was the project they pitched to Activision, not the other way around, and a lot of the problems I still have with Destiny after all the work they&#x27
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by cwyers 8y ago
The commercial offerings are far more used, which means there's more tools, there's more prebuilt assets you can buy, there's more documentation and StackOverflow answers. I would bet that either of Unity or Unreal have more
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by cwyers 8y ago
The issue, of course, is most of the people using Unity are using it because they don't have the ability (or time) to write the functionality Unity provides themselves.
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by cwyers 8y ago
This is only true if there are no significant externalities.
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by cwyers 8y ago
> If you encounter a bug in a piece of software, you should report it to the maintainers of that software. I mean, sure. But that's not really the whole of it here. Chromium has encountered multiple bugs in a piece of software, and
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by cwyers 8y ago
That is a "should" based on your feelings about Nvidia, not about what is the correct decision for users. They are falling back to software rendering when the GPU driver does not properly support the hardware acceleration. That&#x
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by cwyers 8y ago
> Chromium making decision about drivers which normally is the domain of the operative system Chromium isn't loading their own graphics drivers. They are deciding to fall back to software rendering if they determine that the card&#
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by cwyers 8y ago
But it's not well enough, people are filing bug reports with Chromium that are really bugs in noveau.
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by cwyers 8y ago
They aren't "interfering." They are falling back to software rendering when the GPU driver is incapable of supporting valid calls without crashing. If Windows or macOS started shipping buggy/crashing OpenGL drivers and n
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by cwyers 8y ago
This sort of thing predates GitHub. Microsoft had the PowerToys for Windows -- it was a Microsoft software product for Windows, but it didn't undergo the same level of vetting as something that was part of Windows, and if you broke som

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