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>Sure, containerizing an application is /easier/ than working out the dependency trees and solving dependency conflicts between them. It is by no means fundamentally better approach. [...] The [distro] packaging system is tran
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>The founders can quit if they want, they can join the circus who fucking cares? The corporation is a distinct legal entity it can hire someone else. But again, it's not a "distinct legal entity" that's competing
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>legal for the Figma owners to sell the company to Adobe, create the new company, say Figma2.0 and create similar(better) product from scratch, Not possible for this type of acquisition. It was reported that this was a cash+stock dea
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>Any citations for this extremely novel legal theory? My point is that human emotions, passion, and endurance to withstand the stress of running a startup -- cannot be mandated by the FTC. That's not a legal theory that requires
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>And that Lina Khan should stay off this? Give me a break, this is exactly what she should be targeting if she is serious about antitrust. Adobe + Figma bundle destroys this market for anything not named Canva for at least 5-6 years.
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I used to buy hundreds of physical computer books but I've switched 100% to ebooks. I noticed that I finished the ebooks more often than physical ones and when I dissected my behavior, I realized that it was the heavy weight (e.g. 3 l
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>I'm talking just about a solution to the problem at hand: >Instead of storing files on servers controlled by a 3rd party company (and calling it "the cloud"), you store the files on servers that you control (and don&#
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>First, who signs these types of contracts without red lining that, and second, who's actually ever willingly complied with this? Companies buying software voluntarily accept license clauses about potential software audits -- beca
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>If you're a company, this is solvable by making the files live in a server the company controls. A company policy blessed shared folder on a file server still doesn't solve the "Single Source Of Truth" issue. That
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>It's amazing how many times Chareles Darwin's book is mistitled: "The origin of species" The correct title is "On the origin of species". Well, it seems understandable that the "On" disappeare
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>, but don't you need a mechanical (non electrical) system for parking breaks? To some of the replies... I think some clarification needed because the wording caused folks to think of something else such as electronically _contro
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>, but the deeper I am entrenched, the more I see why you choose SAP: Because there really is no alternative. The data model is so complex because it is growing iteratively since the 80s. Yes, the scope of ERP and SAP is so immense tha
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Brian Armstrong pivoted from "payments enabler for Bitcoin" (Bitbank) -- to -- "cryptocurrencies exchange" (Coinbase) : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26815403 In other words, he pivoted from an
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>The small providers typically don't have recourse if they approach a blocklist maintainer and ask to be taken off a list. [...] I pointed out that adopting blocklists just makes it harder to operate a mail server as a small provid
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>In other words, if everyone used the same software to send emails, then anti-spam systems will have to use other metrics to blacklist people. Right, and the "other metrics" is what spam heuristics already use now. In other
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You've actually asked that question before and the answer is still the same: you can't embed "trusted sender status" into source code for a mailserver or a software package. The invisible rules for rejecting email is a
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The sweet spot for having control over your email while simultaneously minimizing unforseen headaches is to simply own your domain name and point the MX record to whatever hosting provider you want instead of self-hosting a server at home.
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>Is there any meaningful difference between a heat pump and an air conditioner, other than the direction the heat is pumped in? In terms of basic science, they are the same principle so "air conditioner" is a type of "he
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>PS I never understood why they called it JavaScript since it has nothing to do with Java. Netscape's Javascript had something to with Sun's Java in the sense that both languages were deliberately positioned together in the
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>Taken in isolation, the optimal amount is clearly zero. But the very point of the article is to not take zero-fraud in isolation and instead, explain how non-zero-fraud is an unavoidable tradeoff when balancing 2 simultaneous goa
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>I know that the HN "founders" crowd is going to hate me for saying that, but I think that we should really stop glamorizing revenue. Understand your perspective but what's happening is that many programmers -- including
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>Do drugs or advances in nutrition and training play a significant role? It seems like nutrition is a minor factor compared to the intrinsic nature of the QB position itself . In other words, even if non-QB positions like running ba
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It's a combination of several things: (1) the quarterback position is the least demanding athletically on the whole body: Yes, QBs have strong arms but they don't need to have whole-body strength and speed like running backs and
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>I'm pretty sure the author is talking about "data" in the context of "databases", Yes I agree and the "data metrics" was the interpretation I was commenting on. Instead of straw-man, I actually ste
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>A simple answer to this is that good explanations are hard to vary. But the "hard to vary" explanations were built up from observing data of smashing particles. E.g. from your link: - Frank Wilczek describes hard-to-vary
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To the author... I'd suggest a rewrite of what you're trying to communicate because your usage of "good-argument-driven" is a textbook example of Begging The Question: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x2
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> and basically completely static content If one looks at the Wayback Machine's snapshot of this thread's blog post, the right sidebar of recent comments and links appear to be dynamically generated . https://web.
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>Why does it matter? The press does context-free puff-pieces all the time, Yes, I'm very aware of the meta-game around "puff pieces" which I've explained before: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?
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>It can be about “mundane” stories of “this young person did something” too. Yes of course but your well-meaning reply is missing the argument made by gp: for some topics, the readers don't have enough background knowledge to kn
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>search engines You can decompose a "search engine" into multiple big components and figure out what you want to look at first: (1) web crawler/spiders (2) database cache of web content -- aka building the "search i

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