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by nikitaga 6y ago
This section seems to be against repackaging websites, not web apps. People ship Cordova apps all the time.
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Are there more promising alternatives to open source funding than open core or charging for associated services like hosting, support, etc.?
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What a nice funky design. That front page has a soul, unlike almost everything else I see nowadays.
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by nikitaga 6y ago
Goodcover | REMOTE or SF | $110K – $160K | 0.25% – 1% | Full time | https://www.goodcover.com/ * Senior Full Stack Engineer (Scala) https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/Goodcover/630e2c83-8fb2-44c2-8ad8-d... * Sen
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> many applications just don't need it. Those that do can of course use libraries, but many (say, backend servers) don't really need to process Unicode strings I can't speak for actual Ocaml users, but I've personally
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Ocaml is rock solid as a foundation, yet the ecosystem appears to be very fragmented. For example, not only does Ocaml not support unicode strings natively, there are several competing libraries offering this functionality. This is just biz
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> What are the alternatives besides something oppressive like using military power to prevent other countries from taxing their citizens too little? Dropping the dogma of free trade and free flow of capital, and taxing any transactions i
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My eyes roll faster than context arrives. Deliberately appearing as a troll until the crucial context arrives to reverse the entire meaning is a shit narrative device when discussing serious issues. Save this stuff for stupid memes.
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They don't make billions of dollars from it like they do from app store.
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Getting cheaper doesn't mean requiring less CO2 emissions. GP's proposal would let the market decide what makes financial sense, given the constraints.
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Chrome OS being open source is not a threat to Google for several reasons: The usefulness of the browser is that it's a cross-platform platform. You can run the same web apps on Windows, Mac, Linux, even mobile devices. Turning the bro
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Collaboration all but requires being online (good offline collab is much harder to implement as you surely know), so that eliminates one of the main advantages of native apps. Collaboration is also much more useful when you're not limi
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> No down sides Figma is significantly more expensive than Sketch, e.g. for individuals: $144/year vs ($99 for first year + $79 for next years), and that's if you choose to upgrade Sketch every year, which you don't need t
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> My so-called "bubble" includes dozens of uniquely massive metros that represent hundreds of millions of people. This can also describe the entirety of hard-left twitter, which yes, definitely is a filter bubble and an echo ch
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Step 1: "if you don't support Black lives, unfriend me" (a sentiment you agree with, from your other comment in this thread) Step 2: "I almost never encounter people who think we should [...] not fight racism" You&#
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This has nothing to do with "freedom activists". Besides, "freedom activists" don't need to watch news clips or youtube? Or are they so short-sighted they think DRM will remain limited to entertainment services like
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Much good that "open source" will do you if you can't get a Widevine license from Google. https://blog.samuelmaddock.com/posts/google-widevine-blocked... And this bullshit even before "Pax Chromana&
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No offense, but to me personally that sounds like wishful thinking. I'd love to see Google broken up but I don't think it will come out of this particular lawsuit. Microsoft wasn't broken up. Google, when they recently faced
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Yet you haven't provided any explanation why Google's deals with Mozilla and Apple should be considered anti-competitive. Those deals are not how Google became ubiquitous, neither in search nor in advertising. Once again, do you
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Just what kind of conspiracy do you think exists between Google, Mozilla, and Apple? Those seem to be normal business relationships. Google being the highest bidder, i.e. paying "prices that can not be replicated by others" does n
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Having money to buy something that is for sale is not anti-competitive in itself, neither is selling stuff to a monopolist at market rates. You need to look at why Google's adtech is so obscenely profitable, why they are able to genera
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In other words, buying a default position in a browser or OS is not an anti-competitive practice. Many other things Google does are, but this isn't. This DOJ lawsuit is basically a gift to Google if you actually think through what it i
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Then the copycats can bypass your tweak patent by not implementing your tweak. In theory. But having a patent lets you sue your competitors in a very expensive way for them, even if they win by invalidating your patent as straightforwardly
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> It should be 10%? 20? 5%? What will be an acceptable %? Who decides that? What's the framework for deciding that? The framework is called competition. If Apple's IAP billing or the whole app store in general faced any competi
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Solution seems obvious, volume discounts in one shape or another. SaaS companies pricing is often geared towards startups that "can't afford" to control costs, i.e. developer time spent on minimizing cost has a higher monetar
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It doesn't seem that reduction in coffee consumption had anything to do with education, but with increased availability and marketing of carbonated sugared drinks. Also, in recent years total coffee consumption started to increase agai
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And I hate to be the bringer of discouraging news, but the reason car manufacturers are succeeding at selling us polluting gas guzzlers is that we want it. Every time we buy an SUV and pay for gas, we teach companies and their executives th
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There's no prohibition for remote work per se. The American company just needs to set up its legal presence in Canada since only Canadian companies can sponsor immigrants. That would still be a barrier to small companies so I expect th
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(not the GP) > government policy continues to insist that home prices can never depreciate Those policies are for old people cashing out, rich people buying investment properties, and even richer people who own real estate developers. Wh
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What about two way bindings would make a difference? In most libraries it's already very easy to update the DOM based on the model and also update the same model in response to the same DOM value changing. Maybe not in one line but sti

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