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by donor20 6y ago
I'd love to see the specifics of these players. Facebook targeting is actually more effective in many cases then google (I don't even use facebook personally or have the app myself). A lot of the claims by folks fall apart when yo
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by donor20 6y ago
It was made a lot harder by their efforts around intentional breakage. You couldn't do import from past (ie, to get print "" working). You couldn't do u'' to get unicode compatible string handling between both
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by donor20 6y ago
You fail to understand that they purposely broke compatibility for no benefit. That is not improving the language - that is being stupid. In python 2 you could specify a unicode literal with u''. So a natural evolutionary option i
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by donor20 6y ago
Similar story here, 3.5 was first version that was even practical to really consider (they kept on making the compat story a bit better because they FINALLY listened to folks). I really wish you and others had more luck earlier, the transit
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by donor20 6y ago
That's not the way it worked. You couldn't migrate your code until your libraries had migrated. They didn't always want to migrate because their userbase was generally mostly on 2. This is what worries me - the lack of unders
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by donor20 6y ago
Take a read here. Py3 was supposed to better - but in a LOT of use cases this better turned out to be "miserably slower". So you were asked to do a lot of work to get your code to run slower. File handling in the new unicode world
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by donor20 6y ago
Web developers re-write their entire stack all the time. In a business with tons and tons (and tons) of little apps and services and command line tools etc, NO ONE wants to (or can) go through all this stuff to update it because someone dec
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by donor20 6y ago
Agreed completely. There were so many routes forward that didn't involve breaking everything but still would have allowed fewer unicode bugs (maybe). And they could have done a lot more to make the transition easier if they wanted to -
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by donor20 6y ago
Apple has made a decision not to target folks who want direct downloads. They are targeting a different (and very large and lucrative group). They've also managed to block direct download of built in / unremovable apps by carriers
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by donor20 6y ago
Exactly this. I pretty happily try out subscription apps on iOS (which I rarely to never do online). Why? It's darn easy to cancel. I get a reminder in advance even. This contrasts in my experience with nearly EVERY other auto-billing
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by donor20 6y ago
This article is pretty interesting. - Supposedly Amazon has operated things like AWS at a loss for long periods of time (I highly doubt this - AWS has never been cheap). "And it's through this mass adoption of Alexa devices that c
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by donor20 6y ago
Fair point - checking the local repair places to me - they all actually lead with apple repairs in terms of being able to give a price / in stock etc. LG I guess they need to order LG Tab 10.1 - they were not actually stocking parts
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by donor20 6y ago
Aliexpress is interesting. They actually have a pretty developed dispute model with a number of stages. Works "reasonably". Amazon though - the scam level / trash level is just ridiculous. The other thing - there are a TON of
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by donor20 6y ago
Sure - but apple has pushed forward and at least in my use cases airpods work really really well. The pairing speed / battery life / distance etc are all very nice. So apple has done something with airpods that the old bluetooth h
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by donor20 6y ago
Can you name a single one of these tablet makers that you can go into any town repair shop to get repaired?
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by donor20 6y ago
The more I hear other engineers discuss this type of thing on HN the more I realize how unique apple is. They look at their products as a whole. So in the apple model, hardware and software run together. Seeing this with my parents and when
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by donor20 6y ago
It's much easier to do battery replacements on apple products then almost any of their competitors. Seriously - you can go in and just pay them to do it. It's something like $99 for parts and labor all included for ipads. What oth
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by donor20 6y ago
Economies of scale normally mean to sell variants that people want (thicker / more modular / easier to repair) the price may be substantially higher. You've got to generate a full supply chain, from design, mfg, qualificati
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by donor20 6y ago
Every other marketing option also is arbitrary. A social influencer doesn't owe you a low price, they will charge what they can. Google will charge what it can for CPA etc.
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by donor20 6y ago
Let's be 100% clear, google "skewing" the bids to the high end - EVERY person selling ads tries to get as much as they can from the ads they sell. The DOJ is making this a crime now? They are going to lose in seconds. The web
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by donor20 6y ago
Huh? Something like 60% goes to website - it's in the agreement. If they are going to try and prove google charged $100 and paid $1 - good luck. Google makes enough money just on their 40%, and can change that % any time. Google could
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by donor20 6y ago
And the distributions can also do the SElinux stuff that I don't use day to day.
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by donor20 6y ago
Google has no competition in marketing? Are these serious statements? I can advertise on Instagram, pay social media influencers and the ways to market to folks are literally endless, from postcards, to delivery route saturation campaigns t
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by donor20 6y ago
But I can judge whether I'm wasting money with google ads vs using TV ads or billboards. Do NPR promise me my sponsorship will result in increased sales or that it's the "lowest" possible price? Maybe some people hearing
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by donor20 6y ago
Do billboard work? Does a fox ad work? Come on - the company spending the money has MORE visability into what their google ad spend buys them then in almost any other area. I don't even care if I overpay on a "bid" for a spot
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by donor20 6y ago
The article reveals the real concern - google has impacted "telecoms and media companies". These groups are VERY powerful. They don't want things like net neutrality, they want to hoover up broadband subsidies without actuall
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by donor20 6y ago
I think it also depends on CO2 charges if any. For example, right now we have a pretty serious externality with CO2 for coal and other sources, what are the costs that folks would assign to CO2 to clear to needed target? That could bring co
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by donor20 6y ago
Huh? People have been working on making things addictive / attention getting forever. Sugar? Caffeine? Video games? Back in the day plenty of drugs, including those sold by pharmacists. Either you have agency or you don't. I for o
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by donor20 6y ago
I'll be voting for this! This was one of the worst elements of prop 13. Lot's of game playing with LLC's as well to avoid reporting ownership changes that this addresses
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by donor20 6y ago
My point is simply there are guidelines around touchbar - despite your claims. Stop trying to claim that there is no guideline - as I have repeatedly pointed out - if you are using touchbar libs to fingerprint devices for ad networks - that

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