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by mdasen 2y ago
I think the downvotes are a bit harsh, but I think it's hard to say that Apple definitively made the right move (beyond getting Jobs back and him creating a direction beyond just computers). Many people said that NeXT was further along
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by mdasen 2y ago
Just doing a bit of back-of-the-envelope math: 40 years of Spotify assuming 4% annual increases would end up being around $13,700. However, if prices increase a little faster, the price goes up fast. 6% annual increases makes it over $22,00
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by mdasen 2y ago
I think that's simply hard to do. What is student success? Test scores? Teachers will teach to the test or even help students cheat on standardized tests if their pay is at stake. If the evaluation is known ahead of time, we'll ju
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by mdasen 2y ago
This kinda happened with Netlify recently ( https://www.reddit.com/r/webdev/comments/1b14bty/netlify_jus... , https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39520776 ). They got a bill over $100,000
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by mdasen 2y ago
Yes, YouTube might have better CDN solutions, but ISPs can't unfairly discriminate against Nebula. Nebula is a new player, but presumably they're using CDNs with good reach. The point isn't that Google can't build a bett
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by mdasen 2y ago
Yea, I think it often depends on where a company's stock has moved recently. IBM's offer is still below HashiCorp's 52-week high. That means there's probably a lot of current investors who likely wouldn't approve a
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by mdasen 2y ago
The thing I love about my parents getting Apple products is that they can just go to the Apple Store and have someone help them. An app wasn't launching on their phone, they went to the Apple Store, the person figured out that they had
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by mdasen 2y ago
I feel like this is a bit off. There have been things like Porsche phones, but those are so niche that I don't think they're really worth considering. They happened, but they haven't been a long-standing product. They were a
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by mdasen 2y ago
If you want to have it more often, it's sold at supermarkets year-round (usually in the ethnic/foreign food area)
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by mdasen 3y ago
This strikes at an issue we haven't really addressed enough in non-profits: how much community benefit do they need to offer? A non-profit simply means that there are no investors who can profit from the business. However, I think we h
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by mdasen 3y ago
> I think the core issue is how everything is entangled by design in oo langs. It's not an issue with object orientation. An issue is that languages of that era often relied on reflection for many use cases. People are actually work
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by mdasen 3y ago
At the moment, it seems like they're concentrating on using V8 isolates. In the article, there's a good diagram of why: an isolate is able to share so much between different applications. Even with NativeAOT, you're still lau
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by mdasen 3y ago
I don't think it's some diabolical anti-consumer ploy, but shipping is something that has economies of scale: one $100 order is cheaper to ship than four $25 orders. Let's say I sell shirts for $5 and offer free shipping with
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by mdasen 3y ago
When giving a company like Intel money, you could give that in exchange for part of the company or for the company to do something for you. For example, the US could give Intel $8B for about 4% of Intel (at today's market price). Howev
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by mdasen 3y ago
I'm skeptical too, but part I wouldn't necessarily write it off because a company like Boeing hasn't gone forward with it. Boeing won't even go forward with a redesign of the 737, preferring to go the cheaper route of co
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by mdasen 3y ago
As someone who has used JAX-RS (Java) and ASP.NET, APIs are basically created with these kinds of annotations right in the language. @GET public Character getCharacter(@PathParam("id") int id) { return db.getChar
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by mdasen 3y ago
As a curiosity, how do you feel about languages/frameworks where APIs can be pretty self-documenting? For example, Java/JAX-RS creates pretty self-documenting APIs: @Path("/people") public class PeopleApi
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by mdasen 3y ago
I definitely see your perspective here, but it also seems like something that isn't likely to be used. There's already good JS ways of detecting ad blockers that don't require nearly as much work. To take advantage of this, y
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by mdasen 3y ago
At this point you can get 24TB of RAM in an EC2 instance (along with 448 vCPUs, 100Gbps of network bandwidth and 38Gbps of EBS bandwidth). That won't scale forever, but Stack Overflow has been running on a single primary/standby s
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by mdasen 3y ago
Bluecurve was amazing. For me, nothing in the Linux world has equaled it since. It was so nice and polished with thoughtful colors and design. It was quite similar in colors to Mac OS 8 & 9 (the platinum gray, the purple-ish blue).
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by mdasen 3y ago
I certainly understand that sentiment, but a ton of people commute 30 miles daily (or more). Even if you live "near an airport", you probably live 15+ miles from an airport. Tottenham London to Heathrow is 24 miles by car. The Bri
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by mdasen 3y ago
I've been enjoying Budgie for this reason. It feels like a "normal" desktop experience with a taskbar at the bottom, something like a start-menu with the search functionality we're used to, and without anything really tr
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by mdasen 3y ago
What I love about Apple TV+ is that the stuff on it feels like it was made for more than just "do we think this will drive some metric." I'm not saying that you'll like any given program on Apple TV+, but when I open up
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by mdasen 3y ago
This strikes me as less likely to happen for a few reasons. First, there's anti-trust. Are regulators going to let Google own the smart-assistant on both smartphone platforms? There's already so many eyes on the Google/Apple
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by mdasen 3y ago
Land value taxes aren't about destroying natural land to extract value. The point of taxing the value of the land in urban areas is that a lot of the time places essentially squat on land that could be better used. A car wash building
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by mdasen 3y ago
Massachusetts created a program to provide middle-mile connectivity in the rural western part of the state and then towns hooked up the last mile. A lot of them already had municipal electric companies who did it or they partnered with a sm
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by mdasen 3y ago
Audio wouldn't be going via the DOM or JS, right? I know that Firefox has its own codec support and that Safari on Mac uses different AV stuff than other browsers. I don't think that AV stuff would be tested by Speedometer.
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by mdasen 3y ago
If you reside within the EEA, yes. However, given the "wink wink", the answer might be no. Meta is requiring that people reside within the EEA, not just are someone who is an EU citizen. They're requiring integrating services
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by mdasen 3y ago
> Freedom to root/jailbreak one's phone is not freedom to use a service, if they don't want rooted phones to use their RCS gateway I don't think they should be forced to allow it. The whole argument that Google has be
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by mdasen 3y ago
I think non-profits change the argument here a bit. With a for-profit company, what your company is doing is trying to make money. If you change that, investors have a right to sue. With a non-profit, what the company is doing is some publi

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