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541.
by mikl 7y ago
Engine failures are not rare, true, but engine failures pelting populated areas with hot shrapnel are not that common.
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by mikl 7y ago
2019 has been a true _annus horribilis_ for Boeing.
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by mikl 7y ago
If you use a cross-platform tool like Xamarin or Unity, the only step of the development process that requires macOS is the publishing-to-app-store - and debugging on actual iOS hardware, if need be. So it's not that bad, you can do
544.
by mikl 7y ago
The spy/malware problem on the App Store is tiny in comparison to what you see on almost any other platform. Even if something nasty slips through review, it's access to the iOS device is very limited and gated through permission
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by mikl 7y ago
But you can only sell your Xbox, PS4 or Switch game through Microsoft, Sony or Nintendo (correspondingly), and you have to agree to their terms and pay whatever cut they want to take of your sales price.
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by mikl 7y ago
> Posting article ranting against walled gardens on Medium The irony here is palpable ಠ_ಠ
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by mikl 7y ago
I can't imagine why people would want to entrust their e-mail to a company that's known for disrespecting people's privacy. cough Gmail cough
548.
by mikl 7y ago
The people might care, yes. But the people are also bound up in a chain of command and fiduciary responsibilities that can (and often will) render their caring moot. If you have the VCs or stockholders putting on the pressure to deliver mor
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by mikl 7y ago
I'm just addressing the headline. Saying "BigCorp doesn't care about you" is tautological. That aside, pointing out evil deeds of corporations and punishing them by taking our business elsewhere is exactly the soluti
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by mikl 7y ago
News flash: No corporation cares about you. Some might look good, but that is not because they care about you . It's because doing good things make their customers and employees happy, and thus keeps the money flowing.
551.
by mikl 7y ago
Assuming you're correct, there's plenty of useful stuff they could do with the extra money. Further development of Rust, revive Thunderbird, support web tech, come up with something that makes Google's AMP irrelevant. And of
552.
by mikl 7y ago
Given we've had about 100% inflation since then, it's actually not that crazy. A $250 RC car would have been extravagant, sure, I think my fanciest was about $100 back then, but not unthinkable.
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by mikl 7y ago
Branding is not the problem. The reason they lost most of their market share to Chrome was that they fell behind on technology. For years, Firefox was much slower than Chrome and that kind of complacency is remembered by consumers.
554.
by mikl 7y ago
Maybe that's because Mozilla is such a poorly run company. They let themselves be overtaken by Chrome because they were busy will all sorts of stupid side projects instead of concentrating on making a good browser. Still today, they&#x
555.
by mikl 7y ago
Today in stupid, pointless redesigns: Mozilla destroys one of the best icons out there, replaces the Firefox logo with a generic swirly likeness of it. Mozilla should fire their design department and shut down all the stupid side projects.
556.
by mikl 7y ago
Damn, a younger version of me would have loved this thing. The remote-controlled cars we had in the 90's were downright primitive in comparison.
557.
by mikl 7y ago
macOS already ships with zsh, and has done so for years, it’s just not the default shell. Unless you want to always have the very latest version of zsh, you don’t need to install it with homebrew.
558.
by mikl 7y ago
> Google Analytics Ah, wonderful. Google and whoever is developing the app snooping on what you do in your terminal. What could go wrong?
559.
by mikl 7y ago
What's so modern about it? Does it do anything that iTerm2 doesn't do just as well?
560.
by mikl 7y ago
And quadruples down on their shitty keyboard design. I guess they never heard of the sunk cost fallacy or the old adage about polishing turds.
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by mikl 7y ago
I really hope people do. Medium is awful and getting awfuller as time passes.
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by mikl 7y ago
The end of that headline is "but it's not really worth the effort and will likely not succeed". Sure, SQL is not the most elegant language. But it works. It does what we need it to. Millions of developers knows it, countless
563.
by mikl 7y ago
I wish they'd picked an original name. So confusing: https://github.com/search?q=evergreen
564.
by mikl 7y ago
Ditto here. Given how performance- and security intensive a terminal emulator is (who wants to add JavaScript injection to their list of server security worries?), writing one in Electron seems a bit nuts to me.
565.
by mikl 8y ago
I guess the self scanning stations we have in Europe are different, I've never had any of those problems here. The only minor annoyance here is if you're selected for a random check to verify that you've scanned everything. I
566.
by mikl 8y ago
I dunno, even the Migros at Zürich HB doesn't have that many people minding the self-checkouts that I remember. But yeah, there will probably be shops where self-checkout will never be feasible, like electronics stores or pharmacies.
567.
by mikl 8y ago
> We can be productive on our phones while we wait. Theoretically, sure. In practice, it's going to be pretty rare that anyone accomplishes anything of note during those couple of minutes. Especially since you can't just zone o
568.
by mikl 8y ago
> they also need about the same number of people as before because some one has to fight off the swindlers. Pretty sure that's not generally the case. In Migros (Swiss supermarket chain), where I shop, they have one or two people mo
569.
by mikl 8y ago
The customer does some of the work (scanning and handling the goods), and other parts are automated (payment, tallying, etc.). It's a bit like using an ATM instead of visiting the bank to withdraw cash, or pumping your own gas instead
570.
by mikl 8y ago
The customer does some of the work (scanning and handling the goods), and other parts are automated (payment, tallying, etc.). It's a bit like using an ATM instead of visiting the bank to withdraw cash, or pumping your own gas instead

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