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by josho 10y ago
In this thread why are the rental options like iTunes not being discussed? Those distribution channels have the convenience of streaming, and a deep catalog. Is it because everyone wants all the movies for $10/mth or less rather than $
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by josho 10y ago
Agreed, but this is also classic business strategy (think Sun Tzu's Art of War--Attack where your enemy is weak). Specifically, Google and Apple are competitors in the mobile space. Apple is creating a product differentiator by includi
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by josho 10y ago
Or take the iOS approach. The phone is either in a low power mode or not. The benefit is that the user doesn't need an additional setting for each potential web app to set the threshold for a low power mode, it's all done once at
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by josho 10y ago
I agree with your sentiment. However, I also appreciate the web maturing and giving developers similar API abilities as a native app. The API may not have a use for you, but surely across the global audience of web apps there will be more t
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by josho 10y ago
> only to be told to do it exactly the same way the old system did it. Early in my career this pissed me off too. As I matured I learned that there were often valid reasons to do it the same way. E.g. External systems accessed the DB dir
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by josho 10y ago
I've been using DNS to filter out the worst offenders. I don't mind most ads, so my list of domains is quite small. But, I've found it to be an effective tool. I agree, however, that anytime a site is broken that I'm lef
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by josho 10y ago
I see this coming from a much smaller perspective as well. If one would reflect back on the applications that they've built in their career I suspect a number of those applications are now available generally as packaged software with
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by josho 10y ago
I don't like change for the sake of change either, as that is just setting trends to help sell more product (e.g. the bi-annual iPhone case redesign). But, the OS changes you highlighted all have real benefits that move the focus from
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by josho 10y ago
Unfortunately the TPP is enshrining the US copyright approach in other countries.
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by josho 10y ago
These globals are thread local and method local, so these are safe from race conditions. Though, I too had to dig into it the first time I saw use of these special vars to gain confidence that I wasn't introducing a world of pain when
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by josho 10y ago
Rather, SpaceX is the very definition of what venture capital is supposed to invest in--A high risk / high reward enterprise.
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Ok, I'll bite. What makes you feel they are extorting consumers or price gouging?
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by josho 10y ago
I'm interested in the problem of how you would solve a distributed system that is moderated yet guards against bad actors. To answer your question I think these are one man shops because they get shut down before reaching the size that
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by josho 10y ago
I suspect robin hood would have had the support of the people that he helped, so donations is appropriate. I'd say where the analog breaks down is the media companies aren't exactly extorting the people, nor price gouging.
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by josho 10y ago
I find it interesting that a Polish man was charged by US laws, rather than under Polish law. I think he opened himself to US law by hosting the servers at one point in the US. Regardless, it is rather fascinating that his first visit to th
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by josho 10y ago
Recall Afghanistan/Iraq invasions when American patriotism was questioned if you challenged the merits of the war. Remember when the afghan freedom fighters were on our side (Cold War era fighting Russians), but became terrorists when
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by josho 10y ago
Ok. What if you were a high level employee that could force change and you still circumvented the systems in place to protect information systems. And while you went around the secure systems you left your server unpatched and open to compr
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by josho 10y ago
Not altogether different from tech. today. Ie. Year 1 nobody owns a light bulb, so sell an incredibly efficient bulb. Year 10 everybody owns bulbs so cheapen the product to increase sales. While today we have incredible free service to grow
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by josho 10y ago
> all the bloat and corruption of the taxi industry PLUS local municipalities getting their cut Isn't that simply capitalism? An analog: iPhones default to google for web searches because google paid Apple $1b to keep it the default
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by josho 10y ago
> digital prisons Did you just coin that? It appropriately captures what is going on, but without having the positive connotation that comes from a 'walled garden'. I love the phrase. As an example outside of messaging, I have
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by josho 10y ago
I agree. Our society tolerates white collar crime far more than we should. We've got a good handle on things like punishing criminals that rob someone at gunpoint. However, we struggle with seeing the CEO making short term loan to his
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by josho 10y ago
If you take calls at the gym then you are doing it wrong.
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by josho 10y ago
It strikes me as a software problem in the device, not a bluetooth limitation. For example, some devices that I have pair only to a single peer, while others have no problems switching between several, while another device is limited to two
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by josho 10y ago
At $3 a pop there isn't much margin to pay for marketing either. Leaving higher ARPU (free to pay) or viral customer acquisition. But yeh it's a tough market.
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by josho 10y ago
I've received legal advice to take care not to discover patents. Because if we knew of the existence of a patent then it could be shown that we were knowingly infringing on the patent. I wonder if trademark law has similar incentives t
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by josho 10y ago
What is unclear to me is where the kernel is encrypted? I assume the kernel is encrypted in the download bundle, and during the iOS update the device decrypts the binaries. So, this is simply an unencrypted kernel lib in the download bundle
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by josho 10y ago
This 9to5 article is a bad summary of the original. Follow this thread instead, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11953204
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by josho 10y ago
This makes me wonder how imports are handled. If I can buy a third party power supply from a US based order system (amazon), and this ps is dangerous (eg. those knock off Apple power supplies). How is this legal, presumably the device hasn&
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by josho 10y ago
What is the user experience for when a checksumming filesystem detects an error? If the fs detects a bit error does it flag the file as entirely unreadable? Move it to lost+found? Force me to restore the file from a backup? All these option
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by josho 10y ago
Yup that's all true. But when the next president of the largest economy either doesn't believe in climate change or wants to increase fracking then we clearly have a long way to go before change happens.

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