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>They have 50B cash on hand, I don't think the money would be the limiting factor if they wanted to do Just to provide some ballpark numbers... Supposedly, Microsoft spent $100 billion on Bing and the CEO Nadella said the most com
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by jasode 3y ago
>(NASA, Reuters, bloggers, authors, scholarly journals) still write and publish (including to social media), the viral content makers, a second tier of people who write about what the original author wrote about, I like original primar
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by jasode 3y ago
>The women that control clothing decisions are a small minority of all women. The apparel/garment industry is highly fragmented with a low barrier-of-entry. It's not as "top-down" as your sentence seems to be im
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by jasode 3y ago
>, but this is a big reason why I use C: I will have a hard time bloating my software. Your perspective is interesting because I'm old enough to remember when the C Language was considered bloat compared to just writing it in as
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by jasode 3y ago
>How did ticketmaster get so big to begin with to force / convince people of signing exclusivity clauses? By dangling more money. In the 1980s, Ticketmaster beat the competitors (e.g. Ticketron) by offering the venues a better fi
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by jasode 3y ago
>... it might make you feel good to pretend that this is really just a variant of storage systems on your local NVMe unit, and that therefore the APIs involved really ought to converge. [...] The author needs to ask themselves: in this
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by jasode 3y ago
>looks exactly like a regular k in the address bar. Because there's a quick 302 redirect from "ķeepass.info" to "keepass.info" : Chrome F12 Dev Tools network trace: https://imgur.com/a/vrx
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>A closer link at the link, however, shows that the site is not the genuine one. In fact, ķeepass[.]info —at least when it appears in the address bar—is just an encoded way of denoting xn--eepass-vbb[.]info, which it turns out, is pushi
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by jasode 3y ago
>Most homes are not $2mln showpieces that require a special touch, they are a commodity item. But buyers do not treat the much cheaper homes as undifferentiated commodity items (like paperclips and crude oil) because each house is s
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by jasode 3y ago
>Why are we so dependent on GitHub? Because a service like Github is an emergent property of a bunch of developers making similar decisions: 1) spend time & effort setting up a git on home server or Raspberry Pi -- or -- spend th
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>The person who wrote this thought they'd be clever by using the SI prefix "centi", not realizing that it means one one-hundredth (as in "centimeter"). The "centimillionaire" to describe wealth of $
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by jasode 3y ago
>Which is itself the poor man's groupby. SQL GROUP BY creates summarized horizontal rows . Instead, pivot tables are more analogous to crosstab queries which creates summarized vertical columns . It "pivots" data gr
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by jasode 3y ago
>So far, I'm happy with this simple solution: [...] constexpr const char toString[kSize] = { "Monday", "Tuesday", ... } * But you had to manually code that "toString[] = {"Monday&q
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by jasode 3y ago
>Spending huge sums of money. Or receiving huge sums of money. Which would you prefer? No, that's not the way too look at it. Apple spending billions to buy the Bing search engine would then let Apple collect 100% of the search
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by jasode 3y ago
>> If you buy a car >That's a particularly amusing example to pick considering that _dealers_ Fyi... The gp you replied to specifically wrote about manufacturer as the example and not dealers when he wrote: "If yo
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by jasode 3y ago
>That's great, but I don't know any Electron app that needs file system or task bar access. I first ran Zulip chat client in a Chrome web browser tab. But I often missed replying to new messages because I always forgot to ma
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by jasode 3y ago
>I've always wondered what kind of apps these are. The vast majority of web apps I use are all CRUD. This page has a list of examples: https://madewithwebassembly.com/ Many apps that are not CRUD need more effic
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by jasode 3y ago
>Why deceptively package the javascript as an app when you can just put it on a website? A desktop app based on Electron-Chromium runtime has more integration options with the operating system. E.g. file system access, taskbar/Do
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by jasode 3y ago
>, how do I know that the OTS solution would actually be much better? For example, [...] how would you have any guarantee that your third party solution would be able to support those? The business (employees in the accounting dept and
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>, the history of HOAs and restrictive covenants on deeds. Everyone acts as if it is for the betterment of the neighborhood, consistent looks upkeep of property and so forth. When you dig into this you'll find out it is about keepi
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by jasode 3y ago
>Nobody "needs" to watch a YouTube video. Maybe they want to watch one. Youtube's giant selection of people demonstrating every DIY repair topic (car repair, appliance repair, iPhone battery replace, etc) you can think o
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>nothing I have found compares to that development experience today. I would go so far as to say we've gone backwards in a big way. I did Visual Basic 3.0 through VB 6.0 corporate development for a few years back in the 1990s. Th
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>You can keep a physical password book. [...] If you keep it at home in a fairly safe location, But people are often away from home and want to log into websites and apps from their smartphone. A physical password book sitting at h
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>Meanwhile most of the world hasn't used checks in 20+ years. True, but the key word you used is "most" . E.g. My home insurance refunds an annual dividend back to me and their method to pay me is paper check . Not
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>I never understood why anyone would even want a banking app though; there is nothing int can do that a website can't. A mobile phone app can let users "deposit paper checks from home" without ever driving to the bank br
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>Visa and Mastercard both raising fees at the same time is extremely suspect. Competitors making similar price adjustments based on seeing each other's public statements and strategy is legal: https://en.wikipedia.or
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>Nebula sounds like a better fit. No, paying Nebula as an alternative to paying Youtube doesn't work for many viewers because most creators who create good content are not on Nebula . E.g. Many popular channels with worthwhi
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by jasode 3y ago
I assume this submission is trying to highlight the specific message (2023-01-24) : https://github.com/rui314/mold/issues/190#issuecomment-14028... Fyi... the author wrote a more expansive blog post about se
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by jasode 3y ago
>This repurposing of "edge" to mean "browser" continues to confuse me. I did Ctrl+F search for "edge" in this thread's article and all 23 instances of it seems to be talking about computing on an ed
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>, and you're done. It doesn't seem that simple. When I researched Nextcloud in the past, I avoided it because of warnings like the ones in this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25481465 Ctrl+F

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