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by mikl 4y ago
SaaS is nice, but you still have to worry about Redis drivers, local development set-ups, etc. And unless you can make do with AWS’ free tier, that Redis instance isn’t free.
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by mikl 4y ago
An argument as old and unresolvable as tabs vs. spaces. Delimiter-last is just more intuitive, it’s how we do it in natural language (I like bacon, butter, eggs, and cheese). There are some benefits to delimiter-first, but its just not wort
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by mikl 4y ago
€20'000 for a poem sounds like a pretty reasonable deal. Not sure why this guy thinks he deserves more. It’s not like it made a massive difference to the experience of playing Minecraft. I’ve finished the game several times, and I don’
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by mikl 4y ago
…and given this choice between continuing to work for free, or abandoning his life’s work, it’s not entirely unreasonable that he decided to go for the option of reneging on the perpetual license mistake, even if that is distasteful. For th
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by mikl 4y ago
Making updates is also an ongoing cost. For software as old and complex as mIRC probably a significant one.
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by mikl 4y ago
Strawman strawman strawman.
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by mikl 4y ago
MBAs and lawyers would have prevented the sale of perpetual licenses to begin with. Supporting software is a recurring expense, so selling lifetime support for a flat fee is a timebomb that will inevitably end up as perpetual a financial bu
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by mikl 4y ago
> "current assets" under English law is either cash or something that can be easily converted into cash Yeah, like owning stock in another company or some other security that can be sold for cash, but not without loss. > thi
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by mikl 4y ago
…and threatened legal action against anyone using the word “Markdown” in a way he did not approve of. Jeff Atwood goes out of his way to be courteous to Gruber in this post, but frankly, I think Gruber was being a jerk here, using his claim
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by mikl 4y ago
Don’t confuse assets with cash. That the company has something with a book value of £1.3M does not mean that they should be obliged to spend their rest of their lives maintaining mIRC for free.
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by mikl 4y ago
It’s not a blind spot. Its an acknowledgement of the fact that small time operations are often run by people without MBAs and without lawyers checking everything. Megacorps should be held to a higher standard, because they have the resour
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by mikl 4y ago
Given the ubiquity of Markdown, and how painful it is to build a completely compliant parser, I really hope Djot (or something like it) would take off. Shame that the creator of Markdown blocks any efforts to to fix or standardise the forma
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by mikl 4y ago
mIRC isn’t some sleazy megacorp trying to cheat customers to fund new gold toilet seats on their private jet fleets. It’s one person trying to make ends meet by selling his life’s work. Sure, him selling perpetual licenses was a mistake, bu
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by mikl 4y ago
The utility class shorthand is nice for simple things. But there’s definitely a “too much of a good thing” point, where the “shorthand” becomes so complex that you’re better off writing proper CSS instead, whether as inline styles or in a s
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by mikl 4y ago
If Mick Gordon was wrong, Bethesda wouldn’t just be lying about it on Twitter, they would sue him for defamation. So their failure to sue is ipso facto a confession that Mick Gordon is right.
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by mikl 4y ago
Yeah, web3 is just the crypto-currency crowd trying to hijack the web2.0 branding to make their crypto-whatever sound better.
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by mikl 4y ago
Yeah, doing it for myself is no problem. It’s more that I’d have to do it for my parents and siblings as well simultaneously, since we share a domain name for e-mail. It’s not impossible, it’s just a huge hassle to move everyone over to usi
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by mikl 4y ago
Yeah, Protonmail Bridge is my main source of buyer’s remorse wrt. Protonmail. I moved my family e-mail set-up to Protonmail, so I can’t just move away without having to migrate everyone else too. So now I’m just stuck with it. Weird sync is
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by mikl 4y ago
Open Source has existed for decades at this point, as has many long-running projects, so I think it’s hard to argue that its generally unsustainable. There are certainly problems, like with behind-the-scenes libraries like OpenSSL attractin
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by mikl 4y ago
Everyone would like to get paid for doing their hobby, whether it’s music, sports or yes, programming. But very few have such superlative talent that they can make it as musicians or athletes. Getting paid for programming is comparatively e
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by mikl 4y ago
> The struggle of open source sustainability is the millennium-old struggle of humanity to free itself from slavery, colonization, and exploitation. This kind of over-dramatisation is totally unwarranted. Unlike slavery, participating in
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by mikl 4y ago
If you want to use Vim keybindings for the whole experience (not just the text editor panes). VSCode has plugins for Vim-editing, but not a complete experience. Helix has similar, but different bindings. Zed is still in private beta mode, s
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by mikl 4y ago
Why? Because so many users just run the browser in full screen mode because they don’t how or simply can’t be bothered to manage windows, not because they actually want their screen filled edge to edge with text. So because long lines are h
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by mikl 4y ago
Privately owned companies just need modest returns. VCs tend to demand lavish returns.
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by mikl 4y ago
But how many of these will actually fend of a full-scale DDoS attack on your behalf without sending you a five- or six-digit bill for the trouble afterwards? Haven’t researched all the options, but there must be some reason that DDoS target
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by mikl 4y ago
IANAL, but pretty sure that DDoS attacks don’t count as “free speech” of some sort.
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by mikl 4y ago
No one’s saying they are. But Cloudflare enjoys a virtual monopoly on affordable and reliable DDoS protection, and that is a very unhealthy thing for the open Internet. If you operate an online business and your comptetitors can somehow con
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by mikl 4y ago
In public, sure, but a website is explicitly private property, so the megaphone-DDoS move would in this case be trespassing and harassment. And the slippery slope is a real problem, no matter how much people call it a fallacy. As we’ve seen
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by mikl 4y ago
DDoS’ing is quite different from just turning your back on someone. It’s more akin to following someone around with a megaphone and shouting over everything they say so no one can hear them. Sure, you might celebrate when that’s done to som
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by mikl 4y ago
Yeah, as much as one might be glad to see Stormfront, Kiwifarms and the like gone, the reality that without the protection of Cloudflare, pretty much any site without serious corporate backing can be taken off the Internet by anyone willin

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