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by koluna 6y ago
Man, if there is one thing I hate about the tech industry is how everything becomes a subscription. A dollar here, two dollars elsewhere, and at the end of the day you own nothing and gave full control of your work to FAANG. Games, Adobe wi
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by koluna 6y ago
It absolutely is a monopoly. They control the distribution within an OS that a good chunk of the population uses. Phones are not commodity devices that one can build in a shack - they require significant effort and investment, and it’s not
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by koluna 6y ago
This is more than a year old.
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by koluna 6y ago
That’s rich coming from a company that tries to illegally set up surveillance over those it deems are “hacking” its platform.
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by koluna 6y ago
Happy New Year from San Jose! Really glad to be surrounded by all of you in this community!
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by koluna 6y ago
This is the most Silicon Valley response ever to the new law. Yeah, poor people are struggling with 3 jobs, but Uber is the problem. Maybe let’s address public transportation and the underlying reasons for 3 jobs instead of having a Silicon
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by koluna 6y ago
I really need to start digging into my IoT device APIs - wonder how many of them have something similar so I could run a kind of “home dashboard”
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by koluna 6y ago
How is that different from any other country, where you can’t open a bank account unless you are a citizen or a resident?
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by koluna 6y ago
But that’s a whole separate problem, no? That’s like saying “Accidental lottery winners complain they have to pay taxes, but hey, we need to make sure the tax code is good for everyone” - totally, but don’t paint the article like it’s some
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by koluna 6y ago
> But weather balloons get pass? Those are licensed and regulated. And I am pretty sure that if FAA sends you a notice to stop flying your weather balloon, you stop flying it. It’s not like this “pilot” didn’t know what he was doing - he
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by koluna 6y ago
> countless accidental [...] Linked article says a bit more than 3,000 around the world. So, 0.001%. Article content is clickbait. Basically, a very small part of the population complains about something that others work decades on.
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by koluna 6y ago
As someone who worked with Rawtherapee, it’s without exaggeration that I will say that the tool is _nowhere close_ to ready for serious photo editing. Frequent crashes, poor performance and inability to deal with large RAW files is a dealbr
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by koluna 6y ago
And? Why should we still be adapting the security and privacy model we had 20 years ago? To your analogy, 20 years ago this bit us all in the ass just as much because every EXE brought with it all sorts of toolbars and adware. I don’t want
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by koluna 6y ago
It is not. I can open someone’s blog without knowing what trackers they have. A site has inherently a different trust boundary than an executable, and it should stay that way.
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by koluna 6y ago
A video game installation is a conscious choice that I can make depending on whether I trust the vendor or not. Me visiting New York Times and getting 58 trackers scraping my device configuration and preferences is not a choice.
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by koluna 6y ago
I am honestly more surprised by the fact that we let these kinds of APIs creep into our browsers. What’s the scenario where a website needs to know how much RAM or what kind of video adapter I have? I get it for a game or a desktop app, but
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by koluna 6y ago
Cost, lack of debugging capabilities, terrible developer tools, cryptic documentation that misses some key scenarios, I can go on. Now, I get it, you’re at AWS so you would never openly and bluntly come out and say that what you -really- wa
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by koluna 6y ago
YMMV, of course. The problem with lock-in is that you start designing code that is for a given vendor, AWS in this case. Once you find that the vendor either is prohibitive cost or functionality-wise, you will have to spend your development
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by koluna 6y ago
Why would you want to put it in Lambda then when there are better options?
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by koluna 6y ago
All fine and dandy, until it is not. Lambda = massive vendor lock-in, which means once you start depending on it, it’ll be hard to rip it out of your system and replace with someone else. My startup used to heavily rely on Lambda and frankl
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by koluna 6y ago
Seems broken on Android, as a heads-up. This also seems to omit the fact that a lot of times people in devrel are at the intersection of many areas, so a pie chart doesn’t do it justice.
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by koluna 6y ago
I think Ponzi scheme might not be the right term here, and to be fair (thanks for reaching out) my goal is not to have you prove anything. I’ll address one thing - the Twitter audience course. There is no secret/hidden Twitter audience
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by koluna 6y ago
100% is - see a comment I made in this thread further down. From what I can tell, this is the guy that doesn’t seem to have any substance short of talking platitudes on Twitter about life philosophy, how he quit his cushy job, and how we al
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by koluna 6y ago
And yet, this is the same guy that peddles a “here’s how to become Twitter famous” course[0]. If you check the testimonials of those who have achieved success, it’s exactly as the article describes. Someone going from 100 to 150 followers g
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by koluna 6y ago
Thank you Dang!
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by koluna 6y ago
I am just going to assume that this is a troll comment due to the sheer ignorance of the statement made. But let’s assume it’s not. First of all, if someone with FrontPage can take your job away, you probably have bigger problems to solve i
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by koluna 6y ago
I am totally OK with not giving attention and a place in history to “giants” who consider basic human decency a stretch for their imagination.
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by koluna 6y ago
Yes! It’s about time we replace Uncle Bob and his whiny antics with someone more worthy of the spotlight and our attention. Kelsey gets my vote here.
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by koluna 6y ago
How is this a security risk for your therapist?
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by koluna 6y ago
Yet another reason why I prefer buying physical/DRM-free copies of things I want to use in the long run. There is not a single cloud software vendor I can trust to not screw me over in 5 years when they either force me to have an accou

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