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by mirkules 6y ago
So where are the savings? Certainly not passed down to the customer. Plus, Apple is not known for hardware cost-savings as being a primary factor in their key decisions.
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by mirkules 6y ago
I’m still on my 6s+ for the headphone jack. And I really see no reason to upgrade, anyway. But I would pay good money for a new iPhone with a headphone jack, if anyone at Apple is listening. Make it the pro super-duper model, with a $200 pr
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by mirkules 7y ago
When I initially set out to change mail providers, I considered both Fastmail and ProtonMail. Ultimately, my decision was based on the fact that ProtonMail is a Swiss company, a country whose privacy laws are stronger than Fastmail’s countr
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by mirkules 7y ago
Hah, this is a really cool feature. For about two years, I managed this with multiple Firefox profiles instead, but this is a nicer integration.
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by mirkules 7y ago
A new screen is about $200 and a battery about $70 or so. It’s not even about 25% of a new iPhone, and it gives you many more years of use.
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by mirkules 7y ago
The funny thing about your comment is that Slack was born out of a MMO game.
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by mirkules 7y ago
For me, the must haves are: 1. Headphone jack. Absolute MUST for any sort of music recording (lag, quality) and long distance running (battery life). 2. TouchID. My wife has FaceId and I hate it so much. Everything else I can live with or w
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by mirkules 7y ago
Just to add, I generally prefer shell scripts over Python because it is supported in all my use-cases out-of-the-box. However, I recently discovered the power of Python’s Fabric scripts, and holy cow... the ability to run functions on multi
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by mirkules 7y ago
Actually, it was not always part of the deal. Back when i signed up for the service, it was still in private beta. They had a cheesy little counter with how much space you were granted (1GB to start with). Terms of Sevice were an afterthoug
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by mirkules 7y ago
That’s interesting, but they have 133 badges. Which one did you use?
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by mirkules 7y ago
> There are email providers other than Google, and means of communication other than email. Encryption is also widely available for those motivated enough to use it. One more point I’m concerned about is that Google is changing the stand
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by mirkules 7y ago
I signed up with gmail back when it was by invite only, around 2003. So you’re absolutely right.
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by mirkules 7y ago
It is unethical, or at the very least, unsettling the way it is presented. I am actually in awe at how many folks - especially HN folks - are ok with this. Years ago, I looked at my Google dashboard. They knew when i filed for taxes, how mu
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by mirkules 7y ago
I was never an IRC user, mainly because I never really needed it. Everyone I wanted to talk to back in the day was on BBSes, later ICQ and later still AIM, and IRC just always seemed so desolate and took a lot of investigative work to find
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by mirkules 7y ago
This is exactly the functionality of forums, for example Stack Overflow (and many others before SO). I guess the only real advantage of Slack is that it's both real-time and persistent. That said, is that advantage really worth million
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by mirkules 7y ago
Once all the chat systems without persistence have disappeared, some new hip company will come along touting “no persistence” as a feature, maybe even a privacy feature. But seriously, I don’t understand why persistence is such a huge deal
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by mirkules 7y ago
Same here, full detection. Our customers are the theoretical targets of this method, and I can verify it is not effective.
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by mirkules 8y ago
Port it to Javascript, naturally. bash.js has a nice ring to it
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by mirkules 8y ago
I will never understand the “software-limited” versions of anything. Actually, that’s too soft. I hate software-limited things. The hardware is already built and delivered, and the company literally loses nothing by allowing their custome
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by mirkules 8y ago
What really rubbed me the wrong way is the Planet Money podcast about Netflix called “Hard work is irrelevant”. If how Netflix is portrayed in the podcast is true, the environment is really toxic and these allegations unsurpring. Here’s an
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by mirkules 8y ago
Personally, it slows me down considerably without intellisense, even when I know the entire codebase. If you have overloaded methods, for example, just remembering the order of the parameters is impossible without intellisense. This makes
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by mirkules 8y ago
Sometimes there may not be huge glaring problems, but rather so many little ones that it makes using the product insufferable. Death by a thousand cuts.
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by mirkules 8y ago
There was a PBS documentary almost two decades ago called Merchants of Cool, which discusses exactly the issue of celebrity status and how it is used to buy and sell “cool” to teenagers in order to influence their buyin decisions. What is s
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by mirkules 8y ago
I routinely now work with people who never experienced the world without the internet. When cars, airplanes, radio and TV were first invented (and commercialized), it must have been relatively easier for folks to imagine life before them. I
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by mirkules 8y ago
This does not surprise me. I once worked for a automotive vendor. “We” were designing a website which had a user registration portion (I put “we” in quotes because as I later discovered, all my work I’ve done up to that point was treated as
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by mirkules 8y ago
Even just defining what “internal communication” means is difficult. We definitely suffer from the what-if syndrome- “what if some day we want to expose this service to a client?” Our product is a collection of large systems used by many cu
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by mirkules 8y ago
gRPC and Envoy are exactly the things we are exploring now, although copy/paste would never fly in our org.
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by mirkules 8y ago
Heh, I like that “Spaghetti Microservices”. You are right. It should not happen. It is difficult to see these pitfalls when unwinding an unwieldy monolith, and, as an organization all you’ve ever done are unwieldy monoliths, that have a g
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by mirkules 8y ago
We’ve done exactly this - turned a team of 15 engineers from managing one giant monolith to two teams managing about 10 or so microservices (docker + kubernetes, OpenAPI + light4j framework). Even though we are in the early stages of redesi
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by mirkules 8y ago
> How do we start the movement back toward decentralized software daily life? The difference between now and “back then” is that service providers were not optimizing for eyeballs or subscribers or clicks. Chat software was created to ac

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