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The main insight is in Joe Armstrong's thesis. "Making reliable distributed systems in the presence of software errors" https://erlang.org/download/armstrong_thesis_2003.pdf (I think the original title w
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Still looks good for Apple. - 18.3% Drop in the holiday quarter for the sector, but 14.9% drop for Apple. - 11.3% YoY drop for the sector, only a 4.0% drop for Apple. I wouldn't be surprised if in the end Apple will have gained marke
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My personal take (having read the entire series including the tacked-on ending by the son) is: The first Dune is the result of research and thinking. Great care went into it. Every subsequent book is more and more of "oh, here's a
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> Why wouldn't they want to own a great OS full-stack? It's part of their bread & butter. It's not their bread and butter. Their bread and butter is web advertisement. 80-90% of all money they make comes from web adver
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> And we didn't even talk about their sweatshops in China which has always had persistent labor-abuse issues[0] Ah yes. Foxconn. The company that only produces products for Apple. And Amazon And Google And Sony And Google And Micros
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They didn't: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34543451 PWAs were never alive to begin with. If they were there would be amazing world-shattering and paradigm-changing PWAs on Android which holds 71% of worldwide ma
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This statement is a verifiable lie. 1. There's no such thing as PWA. There are a dozen or more standards, and everyone selects a different set of them to pretend they are oh so crucial. 2. Safari has supported the vast majority of stan
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I personally think that Slack was a huge improvement over IRC UX-wise. Especially for "normal" people: persistent chat across devices, search, inline previews of images, videos, urls etc. On the UI side however it looks like we&#x
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Slack had an "innovation" in the form of unusable threads that every other client is now sheepishly copying.
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It amuses me to no end that all these "innovative collaborative tools" are rigidly locked in to Slack's way of displaying information.
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Wow. Haven't seen one of you in a wild for while now.
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Is this the future OSS enthusiasts want?! * shakes fist *
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Could be they fixed it after this. Info on no prompt from the same person: https://twitter.com/denschub/status/1582730988118867968 --- start quote --- Chrome still allows web developers to enumerate attached MIDI
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It's not even close to being a form of general intelligence. It's an advanced language model trained on a large set of data. It gets confused for even the simplest of things, especially code. You can trick it into working more-or-
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> I'm just not sure why you mention 'anti-Apple' Said nothing about "anti-Apple". I'm just agreeing with the poster above saying that people being vehemently anti-Apple actually haven't learned anything
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Ah you mean unlike Google which pushed its browser through its dominant search, dominant mail, dominant video hosting etc. Which sabotaged Firefox. Which still conveniently "forgets" user choice of browsers in its apps and default
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> Apple is not in it for the web. Quite the opposite, more likely. As if the worlds largest web ad company is in it "for the web". They are in it as much for control as anyone else. > Also, I don't see how fighting a po
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> And for users who prefer keeping control. The moment Firefox implemented one of the many hardware APIs aggressively pushed and promoted by Google, they immediately discovered it was used for fingerprinting: https://twitter.c
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> The web is the only credibly neutral platform humanity has. If you get rid of the web then all software that humans interact with will be controlled by one of a small handful of giant corporations The following things have been pushed
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> the other stuff missing is what keeps the experience from being quite as polished as a native app. Features HN developers think are missing from the web to deliver an experience "as polished as a native app": notifications, p
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> When Apple has finished choking the web platform to death? What a bullshit statement that has no basis in reality. I wish high-visibility "thought leaders" would stop spewing this bullshit (but they won't) Safari is defi
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Please read "Breaking the Web Forward" https://www.quirksmode.org/blog/archives/2021/08/breaking_th... --- sart quote --- Back fifteen years ago IE held back the web because web developers had
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> Safari seems to rather build their own web then obey standards that both firefox and chrome are following wat. Firefox and Safari are more closely aligned on standards support than Chrome which pushes its own non-standards aggressively
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> web bluetooth as major headline features needed "web bluetooth" and many other hardware APIs are Chrome-only non-standards that OWA pretends are standards and core features for PWAs.
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> Because if they take down the #2 worst offender, that leaves #1 as the default option for consumers, and strengthens #1's position at #2's expense. And yet immediately: > ake down Apple and create more competition, and th
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Marvel released 4 movies and 3 series in 2022. Plus a second season of an existing one and a holiday special. There were four Star Wars series. That's too much content. Two movies a year that Marvel started with was perfect. It gave
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Both Spotify and Netflix depend on content that they don't, and can't, own. Netflix became a desert after WB, Disney and others decided they wanted their own streaming services and took their content with them. And since Disney ba
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> I don't really care if it's the record companies fault or whoever, and I blame 100% myself for getting into this situation in the first place. Interestingly that in a situation where it's 100% copyright holders who are a
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Maryl Streep: when I turned forty, I was offered three witches in one year https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VH87lb_gc5U
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> Ukraine received a bunch of international crypto donations last year, for example. That they can surely use, right, right? Because all that crypto can be easily used for buying stuff, right? right? In reality it looks like those donati

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