mr_toad

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1. 4171.▲
   by mr_toad 8y ago

   There’s totally something wrong with favouring local businesses owners at the expense of local consumers. The benefits accrue mostly to people with incomes far in excess of the average.
2. 4172.▲
   by mr_toad 8y ago

   More to the point, if Facebook isn’t selling anything to UK consumers, will it pay any tax?
3. 4173.▲
   by mr_toad 8y ago

   My guess is that people tend to favour the OS they ‘grew up’ with. Ubuntu made big inroads on the desktop in the early 2000’s, and now those people are running their own infrastructure.
4. 4174.▲
   by mr_toad 8y ago

   In addition to Analytics, Google can track you when websites use other APIs, like maps, fonts and charts.
5. 4175.▲
   by mr_toad 8y ago

   Point and click is fine for EDA, but it’s inherently manual. Repeating those manual steps gets boring very quickly, and is also error prone. You can try and have the GUI generate code, but automatically generated code is awful.
6. 4176.▲
   by mr_toad 8y ago

   They had a bailiff, so presumably they’d already been to court and got a court order. If you refuse entry to a bailiff they’ll just call the police and knock your door down.
7. 4177.▲
   by mr_toad 8y ago

   I’d take any notion of ‘supported’ versions of Linux with a grain of salt. It usually just means that those are the only versions that they’ve tested.
8. 4178.▲
   by mr_toad 8y ago

   Arguing that the license is invalid as a defense in court seems to be a risky legal strategy. ‘Your honour, my argument is that I was copying this copyrighted software, for profit, without any legal license to do so. Oh wait...’
9. 4179.▲
   by mr_toad 8y ago

   Google’s probably going to make about $130-140 billion, gross, in 2018. Twelve billion is a huge chunk of their profit margin. Given that the source on this is one guy at Goldman Sachs, I’d treat that number with some suspicion.
10. 4180.▲
    by mr_toad 8y ago

    Very little of the cost of an iPhone is to make up for lost advertising revenue. If you spread all the revenue of Facebook & Google over every android device it still wouldn’t come close to the difference in price. Apple could make much
11. 4181.▲
    by mr_toad 8y ago

    Netcraft ranked them as the second largest web-facing hosting provider a couple of years back, and they seem to be growing rapidly. https://news.netcraft.com/archives/2015/05/01/digitalocean-b... I suspe
12. 4182.▲
    by mr_toad 8y ago

    Superstition, gossip and rumours have been around since long before the internet. I’d also doubt that half of the people spreading these stories believe half of what they’re saying. Some people just like the attention.
13. 4183.▲
    by mr_toad 8y ago

    So just say will take too long and too much effort to evaluate. Or even more bluntly, that it doesn’t seem useful. How does calling it garbage help anyway, except perhaps to give yourself an adrenaline kick?
14. 4184.▲
    by mr_toad 8y ago

    Something that struck me yesterday as this started, is that Github isn’t really just a dvcs hosting solution, Github is a social network. It’s easy to change the remote origin of a git repository. It’s not hard to migrate a project to Gitl
15. 4185.▲
    by mr_toad 8y ago

    > Developers need laptops to run their development environment in. Not strictly true. I spent a bit of time using Cloud 9 and found it to be quite a useable experience. It’s certainly very handy to be able to access a dev environment f
16. 4186.▲
    by mr_toad 8y ago

    This makes about as much sense as a computer virus that destroyed the entire OS of a machine it infected. It would never be able to propagate.
17. 4187.▲
    by mr_toad 8y ago

    99% of the population can’t do 1 pull-up, let alone 10. Most of the people I go to the gym with would struggle with more than a few. Hell, even marines and rangers have lower fitness standards (3 and 6 dead hang chin ups respectively).
18. 4188.▲
    by mr_toad 8y ago

    Salt itself is inorganic.
19. 4189.▲
    by mr_toad 8y ago

    I’d like to see them banned for no other reason than because it’s annoying to have to peel them off and dispose of them all the time.
20. 4190.▲
    by mr_toad 8y ago

    > Instead, this is really about making it completely unpalatable for normal actors to not pay mongo in every single case. Or they might just release their entire stack, which is probably 90% open source stuff with 10% glue code anyway. T
21. 4191.▲
    by mr_toad 8y ago

    > Toiling away unpaid I’d hazard a guess that even the most prolific open source individual contributors use more open source software written by others than they contribute to. Nobody individually, could really ‘pull their weight’ with
22. 4192.▲
    by mr_toad 8y ago

    A term of art is a description not a prescription.
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    by mr_toad 8y ago

    > I made a website with Clojure (a Lisp) Seems like you’d be in good company ‘round here then. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viaweb
24. 4194.▲
    by mr_toad 8y ago

    One argument is that all the easy money is going into housing.
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    by mr_toad 8y ago

    > flood market with cheap devices To some extent that already happens with safety regulations, & imports/sales of these products are illegal. That doesn’t mean that you should just give up.
26. 4196.▲
    by mr_toad 8y ago

    Markdown gets used for user contributions some of the biggest sites on the web, like Wikipedia and Reddit. Are content editors really less technical capable than Reddit contributors?
27. 4197.▲
    by mr_toad 8y ago

    You could just port the C libraries that Python uses. You might want to check that you’re actually gaining any performance, the JIT compilations of JavaScript aren’t often slow.
28. 4198.▲
    by mr_toad 8y ago

    [‘1’,’2’,’3’,’4’,’5’,’6’,’7’,’8’,’9’,’10’].map(d => parseInt(d)); Returns [1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10]
29. 4199.▲
    by mr_toad 8y ago

    Hopefully without the Swiss cheese security.
30. 4200.▲
    by mr_toad 8y ago

    Survivor bias? You couldn’t excavate something that had already been washed away.