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by mehrdada 6y ago
Changing the goal posts? It was about usability of sync/search, now that's addressed, you've brought up the paranoid case of Apple registering an additional device (which only affects messages from on, forward, not the past,
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by mehrdada 6y ago
I don't know. I have driven all Teslas (except the Y) at length, and I think I prefer the simplicity of the 3 UI overall (wiper controls on cars need trial and error to figure out esp if you change the car you drive often). This seems
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by mehrdada 6y ago
This is not true. On the S wiper speed is adjustable at the steering wheel as well as enable/disable. On the 3 you can just activate it or sprinkle water but not adjust the wiper speed.
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by mehrdada 6y ago
Yes but only if people are convinced to make the call to consider interest rates to remain this low for a long time at once. If they gradually do it and the underlying businesses continue to generate the earnings and growth expected, the ou
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by mehrdada 6y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singular_they
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by mehrdada 6y ago
TL;DR: Interest rates don't just affect one side of thing. They are tied to all aspects of pricing. That's very simplistic one-sided view of interest rates. If interest rates stay low or go lower, the stock prices will keep skyroc
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by mehrdada 6y ago
Good news is iPhone 11, XR, and {XS, 11Pro} Max have great battery lives (XS not so much and I'd be vary of 11 Pro but don't know personally)
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by mehrdada 6y ago
It might very well be my misunderstanding, so I apologize, but doesn't RHEL get security updates that are unavailable to the "rest of us" for a bit?
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by mehrdada 6y ago
Could it be that OSS is simply not a sustainable business model for the long haul and it was simply successful in a period of history when vast money was made quickly by landgrab expansion of technology to consolidate/provide many basi
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by mehrdada 6y ago
Except battery life is energy/consumption. Androids have huge battery but a crappy power hungry CPU.
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by mehrdada 6y ago
Isn't that what RHEL is, in different words obviously.
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by mehrdada 6y ago
I did not infer that from the OP’s comment, but in any case, I don’t know the specifics of their arrangement or whether they had been a commercial customer or not. Last time I checked Nginx had been doing fine selling itself for half a bill
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by mehrdada 6y ago
Why does it blow your mind? Various obvious and sane reasons for this, including cost. I bet many of those companies you have in mind “buy” Windows and macOS, and if they are sufficiently big, most certainly buy Oracle or SAP for their corp
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by mehrdada 6y ago
It's not just a resource limit issue. It's more akin to designing the tax code. At the top, you have to design a performance review system that trickles down to 100k people who operate in different parts of your organization wit
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by mehrdada 6y ago
Yes, obviously there's hyperbole in that statement, but there's no denying the fundamental incentive structure is at heart of most of polish issues of this nature; that said, as I argue in my followup comments, I personally don&#x
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by mehrdada 6y ago
"Nothing works" is certainly not an accurate description of the reality (It's more like 80-90% works just great). As for who cares, your colleagues certainly do (there are limits on how much "potato and meat" you ca
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by mehrdada 6y ago
I don't think it is as simple as a singular person or a single room saying "I don't give a shit". It's a matter of prioritization. (In this particular case, even from a UX perspective alone, you could argue that inc
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by mehrdada 6y ago
LOL, you're assuming anyone gets promoted by fixing issues at Google. Wrong. You build some new shit and switch teams. Someone pitches a new project and builds from scratch. Rinse and repeat. This particular issue happens (at least tha
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by mehrdada 6y ago
Well, as a satisfied customer, I can tell you that the one time I got a new car and had my old one bought back under "goodwill repurchase" without too much trouble, net-net increased, not decreased, my satisfaction knowing that th
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by mehrdada 6y ago
Grepping "blah" over a sequence of zeros is definitely going to be faster than regular grepping.
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by mehrdada 6y ago
Dropbox feels more bearucratic internally than Google, a company two orders of magnitude its size. I feel like it is a perfect case of all the “VC-style” advice of “CEO job changes every 6 months and you should adapt” going haywire; mistak
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by mehrdada 6y ago
For the uninformed, IBM is mostly in the business of selling expensive old-school consultancy solutions by marketing snake oil and packaging open source in proprietary label. Need evidence? Watch this cringeworthy video, for example: https
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Google's Top Quantum Scientist Explains in Detail Why He Resigned(forbes.com)
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by mehrdada 6y ago
I agree with the pandemic part... Best deals on cars however is likely correlated negatively with natural inclination of sale of new cars. July I think, barring pandemic, in fact might be one of the more popular months to shop for a car fro
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by mehrdada 6y ago
Or you may fail at interviews because for you it’ll be conducted in English vs their native language. Not a hypothetical. At least an anecdote. Old colleague casually admitted to this despite company policy. Also note that most interviews a
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by mehrdada 6y ago
Green card has been green again for about a decade https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_card
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by mehrdada 6y ago
Sure, but still in Google/Facebook case there’s a centralized backend that does the day to day operations that you invoke from your laptop. In Dropbox case, it is just a local git repo that you push to server only when you want to land
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by mehrdada 6y ago
Yes, that’s what I said in the above comment. They have a git frontend as well. I’m sure someone at Google has made one-off front ends for other random stuff as well. Point is, the monorepo isn’t Mercurial nor git, whereas for Dropbox it is
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by mehrdada 6y ago
Huh? I don’t know about Facebook but Google for sure does not use Mercurial as monorepo backend (nor does it use Git). There are Git and Mercurial-alike clients to interface with the in-house backend which is a Perforce like thing. Neither
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by mehrdada 6y ago
Let’s unpack this somewhat misguided commentary: First, Apple is building a search engine, in a non traditional sense, by providing a first level of results directly via Safari suggestions and Spotlight/Siri on client devices. That lay

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