nicky0

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by nicky0 6y ago
Because every time I have to stop to write main instead of master, I become less racist?
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by nicky0 6y ago
I agree. Changing 'master' to 'main' is going to help a lot of people.
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by nicky0 6y ago
Hahaha, try it.
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No one is demanding equal amounts of criticism and praise. The argument in the article is that several valid and noteworthy criticisms of Obama are simply missing. It's hard to see it other than as a whitewash.
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by nicky0 6y ago
It's not really self hosting git. It's self hosting a web interface to git. I swear 90% of people who use git don't know you can just push/pull directly from another computer's git repos.
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by nicky0 6y ago
It may be a European concept but the concept of a nation state is a good one. When it works, it unites everyone as one group. Humans have a psycholical need for a group identity. Better to unite diverse individuals behind a flag, than to fo
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by nicky0 6y ago
Ah, good question. First instinct says 'success' should be statistically 50% each way. Right in the middle of the bell curve. But on second thought, being behind estimate half the time would be pretty sucky. So I'd like to br
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by nicky0 6y ago
By "worked well" I mean that x3 is the "about right" factor. As software engineers we tend to be optimisitic and so when I think "it'll take about a week", that's assuming no unforseen complications.
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by nicky0 6y ago
There's a simple method for software estimates that has worded well for me in practice. Imagine how long it should take if all goes smoothly, then multiply by pi.
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by nicky0 6y ago
Joke’s on them because all their cookies get deleted when I close the tab. And it’s not like I have a shortage of things to read.
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by nicky0 6y ago
But talking about category theory makes you sound smarter.
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I don't know, I'm just using common sense really. Look where money flows. First the money flows from from end user to Apple, and then from Apple to developer. The simplest way to model it is as a supply from dev to apple, plus a v
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by nicky0 6y ago
When you go into a grocery store, do you consider yourself the product and that the food producer has purchased access to you from the store?
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by nicky0 6y ago
Well, you can't sell peaches to Walmart customers without Walmart taking a cut either. But we don't say the peach growers are buying customers from Walmart, do we?
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Apology accepted.
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by nicky0 6y ago
That's a wrong view. Customer in app market is the buyer of the app. Both Apple and devs are suppliers who each take a split. (Devs supply app itself, Apple supplies infrastructure and supporting services.)
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by nicky0 6y ago
No, devs don't buy customers from apple. Customers buy apps, and Apple takes a commission. No money flows from Developer to Apple (apart from to 100$ annual fee if you want to be anal about it).
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by nicky0 6y ago
No, that's not right. The app is the product, the customer is the buyer of the app, and the split of revenue is 70/30 (or 85/15 for small devs). Saying that developers are "buying" users makes no sense. Devs are not
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by nicky0 6y ago
I agree democracy is messy, but the alternative you suggest is worse.
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Simply no alternative has gained sufficient network effect to displace it. The answer might be more in behavioural psychology than technical arguments. That said Bitcoin's conservative (small c) stable development process might weigh h
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by nicky0 6y ago
But the other side believes they are demonstrably right too, just as strongly as you do. The way to "win" is to argue against the opponent's viewpoint and persuade the general population of the strength of your argument. To d
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Essentually you are saying: "The other side is wrong, and my side is right." It's not really a nuanced point about the broader issue of speech.
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A decentralised, borderless, irreversible payments system, not tied to any state or government or bank, near-impossible for even the most powerful entities to censor or manipulate. There are some useful features in there.
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by nicky0 6y ago
OK but are they pivoting to ads? That would be relevant.
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by nicky0 6y ago
It's of interest.
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by nicky0 6y ago
I'm glad it's not hip, less competiton for us Mac developers! iOS developers are welcome to their overcrowded market.
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That's really not a lot of money if you are selling software as a business.
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by nicky0 6y ago
For me, it's simple. On balance, it's a great platform to develop for, and I make a good living from it doing work I enjoy. I also appreciate the community of Mac users that use my apps.
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by nicky0 6y ago
I think that sudden engaging the brakes is what caused the accidents.
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by nicky0 6y ago
Unfortunately you don't get upvotes for being thoughtful and sensitive. You're being a "both sideser", you see. Apparently, this is bad. Pick your tribe then agree and attack, hate and defend. These are the only options

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