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by eduction 4y ago
Yellow pages were not 100% ads. They were where you got phone numbers and addresses for businesses, which was important pre internet. They did have tons of ads alongside the listings, but the unpaid listings were core to the offering. If yo
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Owning a company is safe? Not at all. It might not be called a “layoff” but you can sure fail at it. Also, you can maybe build something people want today but we can’t predict what the future will bring. It is comforting to think we have
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by eduction 4y ago
You are of course entirely correct. Unilaterally quitting or refusing an offer isn’t going to achieve much. I do think a strike could be effective here though. A company is in more of a bind when all / many of its workers refuse to wor
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by eduction 4y ago
People routinely go to the trouble of including dubious anecdotes to hammer home their points. It’s just an incredibly common pattern across journalism, public speaking, various forms of rhetoric. Politicians love this form of persuasion. I
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by eduction 4y ago
> Meaning, what's the loss if it's not true? The loss is the truth. And in this context the truth about our prosperity relative to another nation. If this anecdote is false then the effect is simply to tell ourselves something
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by eduction 4y ago
That’s an amazing scene but is it like from the directors cut or something? I’ve seen that movie at least three times and have no memory of it.
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by eduction 4y ago
One of the most nonsensical things I have read on here in a long time. Software is not like a tv show or a stand up comedy set or an album. It is not a cultural artifact. It is machinery. We don’t really get bored of a bread slicer. A schoo
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by eduction 4y ago
$100 is cheap to an American working as a software developer. That’s not most people, most Americans, or most software developers.
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In the early days of a field or subfield there is such an explosion of creativity, but this is followed by a series of consolidations and we tend to forget the “losers” of the initial competition and the beautiful paths they illuminated. Se
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by eduction 4y ago
It’s funny, I’m more sympathetic than ever to pirates, given how frequently creative works are disappeared or moved these days - pulled from streaming for political/social norms reasons (1984 style), “purchased” items removed from libr
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by eduction 4y ago
Fully agree. I think this was also key to the macOS/OS X comeback but with web apps instead of the electron/flutter type stacks we have now. All those little specialized win32 apps for, like, dentists and accountants and navigatio
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“Point-to-point” route model contributed to mass Southwest cancellations(nytimes.com)
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by eduction 4y ago
This seems a little unfair, maybe unintentionally on your part. If you’ve been reading his blog long enough (and I don’t know the value of “long enough” since I’ve been reading so long) it becomes clear he situates new proposals and tools i
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by eduction 4y ago
I knew and have an enduring fondness for PCMag founder David Bunnell, who also started PC World and MacWorld and ran/edited for many years Upside Magazine, the first mass audience publication at the intersection of business and tech. H
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by eduction 4y ago
But to stay on point, you were arguing against a $500 tool because "nobody" would learn it and there would be "no third-party ecosystem" - that's emphatically not true for the tools above, regardless of your persona
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by eduction 4y ago
Borland Pascal was $150 in 1983 and considered affordably priced. (Items like linkers used to be sold separately but were integrated into the Borland Pascal development environment, this was seen as a bargain.) Inflation adjusted that’s $45
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ad hominem adjective ad ho· mi· nem (ˈ)ad-ˈhä-mə-ˌnem -nəm 1 : appealing to feelings or prejudices rather than intellect an ad hominem argument 2 : marked by or being an attack on an opponent's character rather than by an answer to th
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by eduction 4y ago
This feels like Apple decided iPad needed a “killer app” and worked backwards from there to actually make the app. Notice the iPad is in the center of the picture at the top of the announcement, and Apple Pencil (iPad accessory) is called o
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by eduction 4y ago
It’s interesting to me that so many people are upset when a mundane piece of software is banned, but were relatively content when factually accurate statements and news articles were banned. I’m not a fan of this Twitter policy but I was al
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by eduction 4y ago
There is a really interesting and seemingly important conversation going on about how globalization will evolve. This touches everything from trade agreements and financial unions like the one Britain exited to restrictions on technology ex
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by eduction 4y ago
I’m glad HN rewrites headlines. It usually works out. But, wow, if there’s ever an example of how a pedantic, literalist engineer type can ruin a piece of good writing, this job on NYT’s headline is it. And I say that as a pedantic, literal
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Do you know off hand how much JavaScript your pages are including now versus when you were using ClojureScript/React? I ask because I know ClojureScript is built on Google Closure which has pretty advanced dead code elimination (and ty
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YC’s HN altered the submission in a way that erases the previously stated fact that this behavior is a violation of NYC law, which leaves the discussion unresponsive to the question and also risks the appearance of trying to hide the illega
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The more nights the company is asking you to travel away from home, the stronger the argument for the Ritz. You seem to think more nights makes it a weaker case. Travel is brutal, being away from home is brutal. The reason things like the R
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This is an enlightening answer. Part of my issue with “lightweight” is that is is vague. I see it used all the time. In this case, if people mean “way less configuration than Postgres,” and “does not need its own service and process(es) to
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It’s high quality software that is being pushed well past its intended use case. Maybe it will work out fine but rqlite is taking something designed as an on disk file format for one program and trying to use it as a network distributed con
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by eduction 4y ago
“Heavier” and “lightweight” are such abstract terms in software. If “heavier” just means more LoC — sure, there’s more complexity in more LoC but also more problems solved. There’s a reason people tend to use the latest Linux/macos&#x2
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by eduction 4y ago
I didn’t say it’s good that intelligence agencies hypothetically could spy on this data by having Apple push malicious software. What is absolutely good is that they have e2ee now, and the only way they could even hypothetically open a ba
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With Apple's current lack of encryption on iCloud backups, we are very aware of government access because those files end up as evidence in court cases after being obtained by police and prosecutors. If government were to compromise en
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Great example of the danger of talking about a solution before you’ve truly defined the problem. What problem is Fred trying to solve? The example he gives of writing he would sign is a blog post. The blog post is already authenticated beca

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