handrous

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   by handrous 5y ago

   > But they advertise the iPad as a computer, and yet their software restrictions make it a portable TV. That's not at all true. It's not useful for some subset of what certain geeks want to use it for. It's very useful f
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   by handrous 5y ago

   Also, not being permitted to fingerprint users for tracking. The OS prevents certain methods of doing that, but can't prevent all the methods that Apple's banned. The review process and threat of the banhammer are necessary to
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   by handrous 5y ago

   > 5. The “right database for the job” syndrome I once saw something a little similar to this, except with one flavor of DB rather than several. A company you've likely heard of went hard for a certain Java graph database product, du
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   by handrous 5y ago

   I hate SMB, but the real problem, from my perspective, is that SMB is the only option if you want everything to be able to talk to your share. With NFS or SSHFS or anything else, you're cutting out a bunch client devices & soft