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by karmelapple 2y ago
And one more update: we switched in production, and the first 24 hours have been smooth.
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by karmelapple 2y ago
Update to this: we've switched over our staging database, and the call to do that couldn't have been. more productive or more pleasant. I got to talk to someone who was intelligent about Postgres, who answered various questions I
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by karmelapple 2y ago
They just shipped it, but it's still beta. So... I wouldn't consider that shipped yet.
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by karmelapple 2y ago
We do, although we're in the middle of moving our entire Heroku Postgres spend over to Crunchy Data [1]. We were getting close to one of the big jumps on the standard pricing of Heroku Postgres, and we would have had to basically doubl
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by karmelapple 2y ago
> There was a market for ... extensions, I think they were called? XCMDs and XFCNs - see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HyperTalk#Extending_HyperTalk
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by karmelapple 3y ago
Did anyone use the Red Talking Phonebook in the 1990s? It had a phone number you could dial and then you could enter codes to get different information such as movie times, jokes, the time of day, and so on. I liked trying random codes in i
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by karmelapple 3y ago
And I think that's a great idea, but I think there has been no sign the DoJ plans to do that.
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by karmelapple 3y ago
> iPhone has had 60% market share (or similar) for a long time now, so it's fair to consider that Apple has significant and durable market power in mobile phones. It has market power, but it's not significantly larger than its
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by karmelapple 3y ago
Totally agreed. And does Apple has a "dominant position" in text messaging? They have around 60% of total phone market share [1], but that seems like a far cry from, say, 80% or 90%, which is what I'd consider "dominant
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by karmelapple 3y ago
Cancer is rising in younger people. [1] The proliferation of plastic seems like a pretty clear correlation, although I'm sure causation won't be easy to prove. From [1]: > ... younger adults to be the only age group with an inc
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by karmelapple 3y ago
Mortal Pongbat for classic Mac OS was also great! https://www.macintoshrepository.org/5394-mortal-pongbat
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by karmelapple 3y ago
This was eye-opening to me in reading the thick booklet that came with the Complete BB Sessions: how editing was a big part of the output. But on re-listening, I could hear it immediately. And then I appreciated all the more what a good edi
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by karmelapple 3y ago
Strangely, I first heard BB, all thanks to Napster. I just thought that is what jazz sounded like when I was very young, since I hadn't heard much of it at all except what came on our local NPR radio station. It took me a few days on
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by karmelapple 3y ago
This is the right answer. Apple was nearly dead. Microsoft literally gave them a big investment to keep them alive [1] , in part to avoid monopoly-related issues [2]. Microsoft was doing everything in its power to kill the only other seriou
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by karmelapple 3y ago
I concur with the previous poster: they’ve really impressed me with the research they’ve done. It used to be fun but not revelatory… but stuff like this? Pretty wild!
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by karmelapple 3y ago
I think the "squirrel!" behavior has to do with getting revenue in the door. I'm not following extremely close, but it seems like Mozilla is chasing what can be turned into a product. Things that involve setting up a monthly
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by karmelapple 3y ago
Even if there isn't a contractual limit, I think this is a pretty easy logic problem for an engineer (such as myself): If a stock costs $10, and I spend $100 to buy 10 shares of that stock, I don't want to sell that stock if it&#x
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by karmelapple 3y ago
> But it wasn't just luck. Agreed that success such as yours is not only luck! But as a co-founder of a SaaS company that has survived over a decade, I would stress that luck* is also part of it. Many people work very hard at a star
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by karmelapple 3y ago
That's fantastic, I haven't heard of this group before! I wish there was a lot more effort spent here. This seems like a much better way to spend one's software development time and experience than, say, ad-tech... at least i
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by karmelapple 3y ago
I'd suggest because this is a new plane model, they simply don't let it fly, so there is no need to "beat the pilots about turning the 'melt engine' feature off until we can design and build out a fix for this"
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by karmelapple 3y ago
> The mindset … might be fine in a research setting A vast amount of software is written for research papers that would be useful to people other than the paper’s authors. A lot of software that is in common use by commercial teams start
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by karmelapple 3y ago
Short answer: there sure is a deep and well understood field of human factors that knows this in aviation. But there’s also a lot of customers who think it’s cooler/neater/better to have touchscreens.
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by karmelapple 3y ago
These are not all Netflix exclusives - I see "Breaking Bad: Season 5" on here, Minions: The Rise of Gru, etc.
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by karmelapple 3y ago
It’s $10. Is there anything you use less frequently than a search engine in your life that you pay $10/month for? Coffee, eating out, etc? And sure, I hope they lower the price, but for the hundreds of searches I do every month, not de
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by karmelapple 3y ago
Only bummer: the MFC-9320CW I have had for over a decade now is no longer officially supported by Brother on macOS. However, VueScan [1] - something I hadn't used since my Epson scanner in the mid 1990s - saved the day! They support sc
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by karmelapple 3y ago
We literally just ran into another issue with SPF: the SPF Lookup Limit [1] , which could cause receiver servers to bounce your email back with an "SPF PermError". If your SPF record causes receiving mail servers to lookup too man
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by karmelapple 3y ago
Disagreed on all of these being regressions. It sounds like it's your personal preference that you'd like these changed, but they're not objectively worse. - I prefer the swipe up gesture bringing up widgets. An option would
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by karmelapple 3y ago
Am I the only one who liked the timer changes in WatchOS 10?
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by karmelapple 3y ago
I'd suggest reading How to Do Nothing by Jenny Odell [1]. I think it addresses some of the concerns you have. 1. https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/42771901
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by karmelapple 3y ago
Was it Zapier? They did this to me and I was shocked and disappointed, especially since their entire business model is to become the plumbing between your different systems. Seems predatory.

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