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by cwyers 9y ago
But how can MoviePass change the royalty structure?
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by cwyers 9y ago
Because one per day is completely unsustainable and they only need to last longer than MoviePass burns VC money and fails?
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by cwyers 9y ago
Leaving aside the politics, boy does the listed example suck. Relational databases are about relations. The trite little employee/department examples we've all seen before work because most people learning about databases immediat
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by cwyers 9y ago
That doesn't really change the point much, does it? Installing your own non-Windows OS on a machine is a very small part of the market. Providing security for the people who will never install a new OS on their machine (not even a new
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by cwyers 9y ago
Having more shipping ARM devices gets you closer to that, even if these devices have a locked bootloader. The more robust the ecosystem around ARM with UEFI gets, the more the parts become commodity and if there's enough demand, someon
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by cwyers 9y ago
Your ass-pull laptop theft rate of 1% is still roughly four times the use rate of Linux in the Steam Hardware Survey. Installing your own OS is not a common use case at all, either.
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by cwyers 9y ago
No. Basically, here's what happens: * Each game comes with a bunch of shaders, which are written in some low-level language and compiled to bytecode which is compiled for the specific graphics card on your machine at runtime by the dri
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by cwyers 9y ago
https://www.collegetransitions.com/blog/college-legacy/ > A study of thirty elite colleges, found that primary legacy students are an astonishing 45% more likely to get into a highly selective college or univer
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by cwyers 9y ago
And Netflix refused to do peering the way everyone else has done peering on the Internet because they wanted to pressure ISPs into installing and maintaining OpenConnect boxes on their own dime. Netflix has been an incredibly poor actor in
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by cwyers 9y ago
The times were three years ago.
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by cwyers 9y ago
I don't know, the Internet got on fine without those rules for a lot longer than we've had those rules, I feel like the gloom-and-doom over this is highly overstated.
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by cwyers 9y ago
> Bitfinex has an order book filled with something people want. A way to get access to that orderbook is to say "Bitfinex, I want some tether, how do you sell them to me if you can't accept a wire?" Bitfinex might say &quo
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by cwyers 9y ago
It costs $20 in parts to put a SoC in the docking setup and obviate the need for the phone, and thanks to the Cloud you can seamlessly transition files from device to device. This doesn't seem to solve a problem anyone has.
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by cwyers 9y ago
When was $10 for a SimCity-like game ever viable? Even if you say that you can live with reduced graphics fidelity and functionality, that's still a lot of work involved. I don't even think the original SimCity was $10 in 1980s do
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by cwyers 9y ago
And if it was worth it to do that for ten bucks, someone probably would have already. But mobile app consumers are incredibly price sensitive, and so you see the market dominated by crap and F2P, and sometimes even F2P crap.
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by cwyers 9y ago
> I was easily willing to spend $10 for such a game, because of the scarcity. Your willingness to pay $10 for a SimCity-style game probably explains the scarcity. If you and enough others were willing to pay $40-60, you'd find that
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by cwyers 9y ago
The headline is probably right, but we can't trust the government to regulate it either and markets seem to be broken so there really aren't good options here.
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by cwyers 9y ago
Microsoft dictates what a general purpose PC manufactured by others has to do to be compatible with Windows; vendors that don't care about being able to run Windows can refuse to abide with anything Microsoft says. (Apple doesn't
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by cwyers 9y ago
> So for non-security critical software, it is sometimes better not to update that often. This update fever is bad both for developers and users. What software is non-security critical anymore?
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by cwyers 9y ago
Microsoft seems to currently be investing a lot of effort in making developing .NET server apps on a competitor's platform more capable, so I think it's not as cut and dried as that. If you develop a "good enough" LSP se
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by cwyers 9y ago
Typing wasn't the hard part of using shells, either, and yet GUIs have displaced them for many classes of users. One of the very hard parts is "knowing what things you can type." GUIs solved that problem for UI much better th
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by cwyers 9y ago
Maybe the idea is that it's a DSL?
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by cwyers 9y ago
There's a thread about this on Yahoo!s own forums: https://forums.yahoo.net/t5/Yahoo-Finance-help/http-download... I am incredibly amused by the person who refers to himself as a customer of this. If you want
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by cwyers 9y ago
I see several comments here that accuse Percona of bias against Maria for commercial reasons. If you look at Percona's services: https://www.percona.com/services/support/support-tiers-mysql... They will happi
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by cwyers 9y ago
Applicants don't self-filter because they need a job. They like to eat, they like to wear clothes, they like to sleep indoors. They often have other people in their lives that also like to do those things and rely on the income of the
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by cwyers 9y ago
Applicants do not self-filter. If you've ever read resumes for a job listing that haven't been prescreened, you'll be blown away by how many people refuse to self-filter even for basic fitness for the job. Put out a job listi
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by cwyers 9y ago
I want to upvote this 30 more times.
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by cwyers 9y ago
Google servers and home users have very, very different privacy and security needs. The bottom line is that the biggest threat vector on most home machines is the user. Securing a PC against threats when the user installs a browser extensio
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by cwyers 9y ago
I love contrasting threads like this with the outraged threads over "why aren't companies contributing to open source products that they use?" It makes it very, very clear that there is a large segment of the free software co
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by cwyers 9y ago
What do you mean, FUD? Sony's own website pretty clearly lays out that online multiplayer is a feature reserved for PS+ subscribers. https://www.playstation.com/en-gb/get-help/help-library/play...

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