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Apple does similar. However Apple is greatly responsible for HTML5 and browsers today, as well as the handheld gaming revolution on mobile. Webkit, Canvas, SVG, OpenGL ES + WebGL (through Khronos sponsorship) and more were open sourced or p
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Spotify and Apple Music seem to have killed off lots of music piracy, no need to, everything is on there. Music piracy is much easier than movie piracy due to size and availability, yet most people who used to pirate music are now on these
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True but in terms of development platforms for Microsoft, it is constant churn. When they have a monopoly or near monopoly like Microsoft does with the desktop and Windows, less need for churn to keep people on it but lack of competitors.
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I also wonder if that is the reason so many things online when learning new information are addicting. The brain probably loves the plasticity state and thrives for it. Almost like a dopamine hit. So we go to distractions like reddit and HN
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It isn't just stable APIs but part of that is consistency of signatures, methods and usage. APIs used to be cleaner and more atomic, today they seem like very leaky abstractions and breaking changes seem to be all the rage. Previously,
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There is also too much given to the importance of hitting the date over hitting the product/market polish, value and fit needed for success. People forget a project was late if it succeeds, they never forget a project on time that fai
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Yeah the goal is to extract the most cash/value/assets as possible, the delays benefit that for the value extractors. Leveraged buyouts are designed to slow bleed for this reason, bring down the cost both in growth prospects dimin
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I wonder if this is in addition to or was part of the McKinsey scandal where they targeted Saudi dissidents on Twitter for Saudi Arabia [1]. I wouldn't be surprised if getting people on the inside like this was part of it though just c
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Velocity is the exchange of dollars domestically between people and companies. From FRED: > The velocity of money is the frequency at which one unit of currency is used to purchase domestically- produced goods and services within a give
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There are upsides and downsides to being a reserve currency though that other nations might not want to take on, a non nation state currency that wants/needs to inflate might be a better bet. The US built up on the good side of being a
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> Everytime I see these threads I end up feeling inadequate. It is always good to see people with successes that granted them some amount of freedom. Though it looks daunting in a time/competition sense, it is one day at a time t
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J2EE reminds me of another blast from the past, a contract around the time for Java (Apache) Struts [1], boilerplate hell and not fun. Fun fact: Java (Apache) Struts 2 [2] is a vulnerability mess. It was used by Equifax on the breach: >
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I did see that you can't do laundry on Sunday in the article, strange. > Swiss society is built on the principle of local communities and public engagement. Swiss people have a high sense of ownership and like to decide on how the
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In 2001/2003, I led a small team at an agency that converted Kraftfoods and 50+ brands from 25+ ATG Dynamo web/app CMS servers + 20+ Oracle servers to .NET 1.0 CMS on 3 web servers, 3 app servers and 3 Microsoft SQL Servers. Even
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Amazon's focus has really been on faster shipping and same day, more on fulfillment. I am sure they will be working on product quality eventually, right now that is up to the user. They are also heavily pushing Alexa/Echo. They&#
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Good to know on the housing. I guess it just sucks everywhere in terms of availability, quality and space in a good market location. SV is just as bad or worse. There has to be a way to fix that, how nice would it be for hot markets to have
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The list seems like a dream, especially the healthcare part and the neutrality of the Swiss, not as extreme and divided. The housing, taxes and pay are icing on the cake. To top it off, Switzerland looks like a dreamland with all those amaz
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That and risk taking was muted because they were scared to take a big hit. Typical HBS MBA-itis not risking enough in R&D and new markets, too comfortable counting the money in the current market while the road heads towards a cliff. S
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The private equity leveraged buyout play by the cash and value extractors. Careful leaving too much cash or value creation lying around, the extractors will come seeking it, and take it if you aren't vigilant. Sears lost that battle lo
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We are currently working on a social game app and proptech for a startup, both in .NET Core. The game is Unity so C# on the app and .NET Core on the backend is nice to match up, common code. The client on the proptech is Microsoft focused s
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The web is straight up wack today. It has gone from anti-authoritarian to authoritarian and a permanent record.
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Flash was an amazing creative interactive development platform, it was a ton of fun. Creatives designers and developers could create some amazing projects with it because it is very approachable. Flash provided a place for people to create
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Keeping this information from the public, even if people freak out, is dangerous. It would be like car companies not telling you about a recall on your vehicle. The main reason they don't want it public is economic/competitive imp
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Anything measured improves. The more data and metrics, the better safety of drugs can be observed. It is always a good thing to get more insight and information to help harm reduction and safety. > Transparency advocates say clinical st
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This point was raised many times in the last rolling blackout gamed events in California nearly two decades ago. > S. David Freeman, who was appointed Chair of the California Power Authority in the midst of the crisis, made the followin
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> Do California’s Blackouts Make Sense? Doesn't make much sense until you understand the disaster capitalism angle. The disaster capitalists[1][2] are in charge again as they have been in this authoritarian administration and the la
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> "Software companies can be breathtakingly clueless when there's a layer of indirection between them and their users." Any product where the users or consumers of the service are not the target market is horrible and be
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Comedy is not dead. Comedy can change minds. Comedy is powerful and attacks the self-important and authoritarianism. Comedy can take on serious challenges in the best way. > John Cleese in On Creativity said: "the self-important al
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It is amazing to me that people that are supposedly "pro-business" and "pro-market" are against encryption. Mostly encryption protects privacy and business information. Corporate espionage is bigger than state espionage
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> People should learn to be more humble and reject the desire for authority. Authoritarianism is a horrible force in the world. But it does not mean that ego does not exist, even in fighting against authority. Ego tells you to fight. O

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