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by ksk 8y ago
For simple apps that makes sense. But then you have apps that require kernel drivers. Or the app itself is a shared library. Or multiple users on the same system use the app, etc. >Turns out you don't need a package manager unless y
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by ksk 8y ago
You are claiming a false dichotomy. Specialization doesn't mean future-deprecation. Every single cross-platform app is written to an abstraction. There is no implicit assumption that all abstractions are good. Whenever I hear cross-pla
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by ksk 8y ago
I feel it is sometimes helpful to see the other point of view. Lets say I had an interesting technical problem to solve and some funds, why should I give it to you instead of somebody else? Also, as an aside, I've found that "inte
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by ksk 8y ago
Ah yes, the $200 "military spec" hammer. Well with the government, you'd still have a job if you waste taxpayer money, since the government keeps collecting revenue. With a private firm, I'd expect them to go out of busi
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by ksk 8y ago
Okay then they are a dishonest toxic employee. The way to solve that is by trying to weed out such people in your hiring, and do due diligence on their previous employment record. I fail to see how that changes my conclusion.
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by ksk 8y ago
Historically has anyone succeeded in holding such giant firms accountable to their own stated principles? At the moment, I like those principles more than I like Google.
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by ksk 8y ago
The usual way businesses deal with that sort of thing is by withholding milestone payments till the contractual obligations are fulfilled. Running such scams doesn't keep you in business for long. There is no one handed clap.
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by ksk 8y ago
Okay, lets assume that this is happening. I would hope that the person harming their own business by willfully engaging with an incompetent third party is the one at fault here.
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by ksk 8y ago
That sounds like a volume discount, which is actually encouraged under most capitalist models to capture consumer surplus. Its not exactly what happened. To put it simply, Microsoft used a complicated pricing model where the OEM paid a lump
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by ksk 8y ago
>They will generally aim to get contractual sign off from business-focused people that know little about IT. In that case any IT consultancy could fool those people. If a US consulting firm is chosen, how could anyone make the claim that
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by ksk 8y ago
How did they force them? With a gun or something? Google will threaten to cancel your Play Services license if you ship services (that have nothing to do with android) competing with them. Classic case of harming competition by product tyin
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by ksk 8y ago
Google ties their OS to their services. They prevent smartphone makers from installing apps or services competing with their own. They're using their influence in one market to harm competition in another market. That is illegal as it
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by ksk 8y ago
Everytime I hear this I fail to see how it makes any sense. Either (1) All the firms hiring them are idiots and are unable to judge competency and continue falling for the "scam" every year, year after year on every project, with
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by ksk 8y ago
Agree 100%. IMHO, a lot of it has to do with the programmer mentality of wanting to be "challenged" to solve problems one step away from their competency. If you're fresh out of school, implementing your own allocator might b
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by ksk 8y ago
Right, this same psychosis affects everyone, and nobody is exempt from the effect either. "Please rate our new iOS App" → no bonus for you "Please rate our new redesigned webpage" → no bonus for you "Please take a
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by ksk 8y ago
>You can install Linux on ARM architectures. No, you can maybe install and boot Linux on SOME arm devices. Furthermore, installation and booting does not guarantee full operation of all attached peripherals. Only those devices that have
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by ksk 8y ago
>from a company that has made the most successful movies ever and continuous to do so. They're doing something right. Instead of complaining, maybe, just maybe, we should consider whether we're the ones misjudging reality. That
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by ksk 8y ago
Robustness is orthogonal to versioning. They were funding opengl dev on osx, and decided to stop. You can insert your own reasoning but I believe the more reasonable assumption here is that they were not happy with the direction the spec wa
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by ksk 8y ago
All we know is that Apple was bankrolling a portion of OpenGL development on OSX and now they feel otherwise. OpenGL ARB is a committee and Apple has only one vote. Maybe they were not satisfied with the direction the spec was going. Its ce
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by ksk 8y ago
Okay, thats one explanation. The alternate explanation is that Apple supports mature and robust technologies because they want whats in their users' best interest. Neither OpenGL nor OpenCL in their current form are robust. Certainly,
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by ksk 8y ago
>because I can develop code on my Macbook pro, and run that on a computer with a discrete GPU on a different operating system, and have a fair amount of confidence that it would work. I'm not an OpenCL programmer by trade, but I hav
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by ksk 8y ago
Maybe there is no equivalent, but WebGL is not a mature technology. Webgl stuff still breaks or has performance bugs whenever some part of the OS/Browser/GPU Driver/GPU Hardware sandwich changes. You can run the conformance t
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by ksk 8y ago
GitHub was closed source, so its a good fit.
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by ksk 8y ago
>but I don't think I've ever met someone who accurately articulated real problems with Monsanto as opposed to hysteria and conspiracy theory, so this is probably the best move over all. True, I guess part of the reason is peopl
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by ksk 8y ago
That's because you don't appreciate hardware design. Its understandable that you might be confused because of the presence of x86 compatible hardware. There is no such thing as "ARM Laptop". All ARM devices choose their
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by ksk 8y ago
The owners of GitHub want their money back. Just keeping it afloat doesn't achieve that.
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by ksk 8y ago
I don't think hes comparing his courses to a Lamborghini. Hes just using an example of a product that people think is overvalued and yet nobody expects discounts on. >Frankly, whenever someone wants to shell out money for an online
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by ksk 8y ago
>What exactly did it get in the way of and what was made available by its removal? They should have sealed the entire phone by moving to wireless charging. Waterproof unibody design would have been an interesting innovation. But instead
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by ksk 8y ago
> The real losers of the hiring process are the companies that waste lots of money on inefficient hiring practices. In this case though, how is 'lots of money' wasted? It seems that Google hired good candidates despite some of
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by ksk 8y ago
>Specifically that the only manner in which lowering taxes is proven as a cause of economic growth is when economic growth is defined as growing individual bank accounts of an increasingly smaller proportion of the population? Economic g

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