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by hizanberg 5y ago
XAML is why I’ll never write a Desktop App with .NET, who’s been unable to rid themselves from it. React, Vue, Svelte as well as Flutter & SwiftUI all implement different but vastly more productive reactive dev models. MAUI will not be
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by hizanberg 5y ago
That’s where the poor & questionable transparency comes in, they try to market it as independent but it was formed and funded by Microsoft with the Executive Director whose performing all the objectionable actions an MS employee who is
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by hizanberg 5y ago
RDS (PgSQL) is what keeping us on AWS, CF delivering a better alternative will trigger us into evaluating switching over.
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by hizanberg 5y ago
IRS thinks Green Card Holders who are non-citizens and non-residents owes them taxes on income on their country of residence and citizenship. They're effectively the only country that believes they're entitled to non-citizen and n
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by hizanberg 5y ago
It’s a play for dev mindshare where they get to control the platform and have access to devs using their software, they have no intentions of making money from it directly only to maximize its appeal & marketshare. It’s a cross-platfor
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by hizanberg 6y ago
That was just MS sending "Thoughts & Prayers" for the death of his multi-year efforts that they've cloned & looking to extinguish & claim originality credit for with their celebratory announcement. Not clear if th
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by hizanberg 6y ago
Can't think of a more wasted effort then trying to compete with maintaining a package manager in your spare time than a clone from the OS vendor who can out resource, outspend, out market, out evangelize, out reach you, etc. It would a
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by hizanberg 7y ago
Compared to what? What’s the best Desktop media player?
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by hizanberg 7y ago
It’s 100% deductible just like most other businesses expenses given you only pay taxes on net profits, if it weren’t tax deductible you would end up with a higher tax burden than what your business makes and therefore can pay. Paying family
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by hizanberg 7y ago
IMO it should have an option to stick with dictionary words, I spent a long time on puzzles that had 'zdnet' and 'vsnet' as words which were basically impossible to work out without trial & error since there are no e
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by hizanberg 7y ago
You make it sound like there's a tonne of FOSS community on-hand just waiting for the chance to step in and create a popular fork that will lead to fragmentation, when he's effectively been the sole maintainer since 2012 [1]. It&#
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by hizanberg 7y ago
Likely the best outcome for the project barring company sponsorship that pays him to continue working on it as OSS. He's been the sole maintainer on the project since 2012 [1] and has never been compensated for it, he says it will alwa
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by hizanberg 7y ago
Given AAPL is at an all-time high they would've made money if they held onto it and not sold at a loss. As most stock market indexes have a general upward trend, more people make money then lose. Though I still wouldn't recommend
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by hizanberg 7y ago
As always, it's because they performed much better than Wall St expected, who expected another operating loss. TSLA is particularly volatile because they run the risk (and many analysts believe) that they will run out of cash before th
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by hizanberg 7y ago
Normally I invest in companies who I believe are undervalued and have solid fundamentals/profitability and are well positioned for future growth. TSLA is one of my few "emotional investments" of companies I've invested i
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by hizanberg 7y ago
Sure, but it's not like he was actively defending his position until the point of his public persecution. They've been the only 2 comments that I'm aware of his thoughts on the subject. Granted they were very controversial th
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by hizanberg 7y ago
For context, please also link to what his current thoughts are, where he's since changed his mind after being convinced he was wrong. https://stallman.org/archives/2019-jul-oct.html#14_September...
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by hizanberg 7y ago
It's well-known he's since recanted his thoughts in those posts: https://stallman.org/archives/2019-jul-oct.html#14_September... Are people allowed to change their mind after having conversations that convinc
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by hizanberg 7y ago
There's also a perverse incentive in this age of outrage to incite public lynching and write posts to spark maximum hate where you're rewarded with reach, followers and self-reinforcing Internet points on social media and more cli
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by hizanberg 7y ago
Same, I’ve been using Rider whenever I can, VS only when I have to. Much better IDE overall.
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by hizanberg 7y ago
Snap’s not a bankrupt Startup without product, they’re still a 23.5B company with growing market share and features Facebook has been copying hand over fist, that would be arguably be worth a lot more if FB had to come up with their own fea
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by hizanberg 7y ago
> Thrusday I guess I'm not up to speed and haven't read everything he said, can you quote his exact words he said on Thrusday that led you to conclude he was "Defending the rape of trafficked children"? Stallman has j
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by hizanberg 7y ago
> There's nothing about being embeddable that's a limitation. An always-running in-memory server process is going to be a lot better at concurrency than multiple embeddable libraries trying to take locks out on the same file on
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by hizanberg 7y ago
Look at Google’s LevelDB and Facebook’s RocksDB.
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by hizanberg 7y ago
Obviously if it was embeddable it wouldn’t be as fast and be subject to the same design limitations as SQLite.
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by hizanberg 7y ago
It doesn't work in all cases but minoxidil and finasteride (aka Rogaine/Propecia) are the only FDA approved treatments for hair loss. As with most drugs both effectiveness and side-effects will vary.
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by hizanberg 7y ago
The scar is at the bottom (just above the ear) and would go either half way or all the way around and end at the same point on the other side. Yes Follicular unit extraction (FUE) is possible, it has less yield than strip harvesting but if
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by hizanberg 7y ago
It's very unlikely he would waste his limited donor area on facial hair, especially when he rarely grows a beard. MPB generally only affects the top of your head, not other areas. It's just as common for men who's hairy everw
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by hizanberg 7y ago
It was, you can see his scar when he has a close shave on the sides of his head [1]. [1] https://static.ffx.io/images/eed406d72af2384b0d58edd9903e55c...
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by hizanberg 7y ago
> you’ll need to take these drugs or your new hair will fall out. Not really true, male pattern baldness is generally caused by non-resistant DHT hair follicles which nearly always occurs at the top of the head. New transplanted hair is

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