mnd999

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841.
by mnd999 5y ago
Inclusivity, people wanted emojis that looked liked them. If that makes them happy, then why not? Of course it can be abused, but then you could just as easily send racist words.
842.
by mnd999 6y ago
Seems like they’re just hiring the maintainer and maybe their copyrights. Given the number of contributors, not sure how useful one persons contributions are. Sounds like they want to connect it to their cloud services and improve the UI. T
843.
by mnd999 6y ago
I think security is a valid consideration as well. The average non-technical iPhone user would not be hard to hoodwink into installing a 3rd party App Store full of malware. Agree, revenue is probably the primary driver.
844.
by mnd999 6y ago
It's not clear to me from the article what remedy they're proposing. Seems like it could be any of: * Drop the 30% fee * Drop the 30% fee for apps the compete directly with Apple apps. * Allow users to install other app stores.
845.
by mnd999 6y ago
The platform is nothing without developers so they certainly owe something to third party developers in general. Let’s just assume for the sake of argument that this is a mistake and they didn’t do anything fraudulent. Why in that situation
846.
by mnd999 6y ago
Nokia had something pretty similar on Maemo / Meego IIRC. It’s still such a shame they never properly pushed it. Elop was a moron.
847.
by mnd999 6y ago
They said they used holding companies.
848.
by mnd999 6y ago
Everything involving a USB-C cable seems to have been a big mess since day 1. The argument for having the same connector for everything only works when you can plug in a cable and it just works. If I need special cables and capabilities for
849.
by mnd999 6y ago
Seems there's a lot of hate for Scala and Haskell regardless of the project? What is it with functional?
850.
by mnd999 6y ago
Being "better than ZFS" is not trivial. ZFS is an excellent and very stable file system with many features.
851.
by mnd999 6y ago
Probably the actual CCC are figuring out how this all works as we speak.
852.
by mnd999 6y ago
They have a legal department and you don’t though right, so if they chose to fight it you’ll probably decide it’s not worth it.
853.
by mnd999 6y ago
Earlier discussion - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26869877
854.
by mnd999 6y ago
I doubt the difference would even be measurable.
855.
by mnd999 6y ago
It's pretty common in the industry to have these type of IP clauses. I get the impression most people don't read their contract.
856.
by mnd999 6y ago
The third option is that you do something really cool that contractually they own. Be very careful with side projects under these types of contracts.
857.
by mnd999 6y ago
When I was an intern at IBM the contract basically said they owned everything you produce, whether you do it in the office or not. They seemed to take that quite seriously. I think it’s an IP thing, they view it as their IP the employee is
858.
by mnd999 6y ago
Graal is very clever, but that memory example is nonsense. I just tried the Find example they give and whether the graal version beats the java version is completely dependent on Xmx. Obviously I don't have their dataset, so it's
859.
by mnd999 6y ago
The virtual machine is (was?) the whole point. You can run the same binaries on your dev box or your server, whatever flavour of server that happens to be. Startup times are not an issue on servers as processes are typically long-lived anyw
860.
by mnd999 6y ago
If they make it illegal they can just kick down your front door, arrest you and take your computer and your encryption keys.
861.
by mnd999 6y ago
No need to wait for competition to come along before we try to do things better.
862.
by mnd999 6y ago
Yes, I've certainly done it. The slots are pretty stiff so you don't massively need the screws - I didn't put them in until I was sure everything was assembled and working correctly.
863.
by mnd999 6y ago
I got a Helios64. It's a little rough around the edges but it works. Also runs FreeBSD.
864.
by mnd999 6y ago
As someone who’s done the same (although I’m still using FreeBSD on my NAS) I missed decent documentation the most. I felt most at home on Arch because the wiki is pretty decent.
865.
by mnd999 6y ago
Completely, I don’t see rust as a replacement for Scala, Java, Go (and especially) Javascript which tend to be what I use at work. It’s certainly possible, but I don’t think it would add much.
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by mnd999 6y ago
I skimmed it, but I think what the author is getting at is that rust demands rigour. The kind of rigour required when failure is a problem and this tends to be the kind of code people get paid to write. I guess the reverse is also true, if
867.
by mnd999 6y ago
Fantastic, congratulations and big thanks to all that made this happen. I was outspokenly grumpy when the news came out that this wasn’t happening, now I’m so pleased it is.
868.
by mnd999 6y ago
Not to mention it seems to be total thefts, not per capita. We already know lots of people live in London.
869.
by mnd999 6y ago
FreeBSD has Bluetooth in netgraph last time I looked. It’s not compatible with much.
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by mnd999 6y ago
I think you’re part correct. I suspect they didn’t want to go public with the shitcoin until it was done.

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