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by nikitaga 6y ago
> With phones, this was the model from nearly the beginning, and everyone opts in, or chooses not to. If "it was bad from the start so that makes it ok" was a great argument, nothing would ever improve. A lot of industries were
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We need new laws because existing ones don't account for the existence and importance of computing platforms. But the problem is very obvious. A 30% cut for something that is completely free on other computing platforms is evidence of
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Yeah it tells me something about market dynamics. About network effects and natural monopolies and high barriers to entry created by those effects. It is very natural, economically, that only a couple producers would win this particular mar
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by nikitaga 6y ago
They could do outsourcing today, yesterday, and 10 years ago just as well. Nothing changed, structurally or technologically (covid is neither), for outsourcing to work better now than it used to be so far. There will always be companies who
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by nikitaga 6y ago
> Hacking would probably be a plus for a software enginer. They know how to debug systems. They also apparently have poor judgement and/or security practices, if they got themselves convicted under CFAA or similar. And possibly ques
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> I can only assume there's some fundamental implementation roadblock I'm missing. Current low level DOM API has something that fancy reactive data binding techniques will never have: ability to efficiently be used for an extre
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Stripe isn't a channel though. The third party in question needs to actually do some work to bring you traffic / leads, not just do the mechanics of processing the transaction.
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Elm has very different design goals than what I care for. I guess it's not purist FRP anymore but the elm architecture is definitely purist something. The problem in both cases is the purist part. It's way too much ideology and
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I see, you're most probably right, and this makes sense, thanks! But what does the author think of using observables then I wonder? I mean the streaming kind, like ReactiveX (but not ReactiveX specifically). They're first class re
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> The problems with observable boil down to the fact that the callback requires a lot of context to know what change should happen in response to the event. In this way, I think it is fundamentally in tension with the goals of reactive U
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You only need to give that $1M as a loan to the government of Quebec, it will be repaid to you in full in five years. So the real cost of Canadian citizenship is just the interest rate on that million that you will be missing out on (aka
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> ...but there's nothing to "fix", it works as intended If there were nothing to fix, they wouldn't be telling people not to start new projects with Moment. They actually do mention a few significant issues that they
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> just might be the content you engage with the most, and the algorithm blindly follows your whims and preference No, it's the content that other people engage with. Disregarding the whole "engagement is a good metric of how
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Is this really what a "done" software is? "Should not be used for new projects" is not "done" imo, it's more like "unfixable" and "obsolete". No prejudice at all against Moment.js or it
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by nikitaga 6y ago
I don't think they risked anything significant to build gmail. Nor was there any significant risk of gmail not succeeding due to hard technical problems. Compared to X projects like autonomous cars or power kites the original gmail was
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"X is what Google used to be." didn't strike me as a comment about the paperwork of corporate restructuring, but rather a comment on how Google isn't doing interesting things anymore. And I don't think anything chan
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X is still X and Google is still Google. Outside of X, Google was never known for crazy moonshots. Google was always an ad platform with a search engine.
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I personally don't know, but neither have Chrome or Firefox done anything to block hate speech websites, and they're allowed to exist just fine. Twitter actually hosts the trashpile, they're more responsible for it than some
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Which aircraft were actually designed with X-plane, and why? I've heard this several times but that never made sense to me. I wouldn't be surprised if their blade element theory approach is superior to whatever Microsoft is doing
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Ever heard of Photoshop, Illustrator, Sketch, Figma and other apps that the vast majority of people use over GPL alternatives? Outside of the tech bubble I mean, out in the real world. VLC is one of the few exceptions that prove the rule st
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by nikitaga 6y ago
Lack of good built-in RSS reader is puzzling. Could have been their way into offering paid web services as the cross platform browser is so perfectly positioned for this feature.
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I've never heard any person outside of tech forums complain about Firefox's default search engine being Google. Even those people who are privacy conscious who complain about google and facebook privacy all the time. Not once in s
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> So having Google as the default search engine is the right approach for privacy? That's not their entire approach to privacy. How would you have them exist? There aren't enough people willing to pay for a web browser in 2020.
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Because that's how competitive markets work? Lower costs for suppliers (developers) means lower equilibrium market prices. If some developer can "get away" with not lowering their prices in response to reduced costs, it means
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Rust is also a safer alternative to Javascript (and even Typescript for that matter).
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Ah, so they saved 14KB off their ~1MB javascripts by dropping old browsers. Must be a slow news day on HN I guess.
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> (gzipped size went from 16.6 KB down to 2.7 KB!!) A couple orders of magnitude are missing from these sizes if my browser dev console is any indication. What are they even talking about.
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My personal opinion: > You don't need to download any programs I don't mind downloading good programs that I will use repeatedly. > you would be able to access your databases from every browser That sounds more like a secu
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by nikitaga 6y ago
...why? Of all possible target audiences it would seem Linux users would be the least receptive to this kind of thing. Forgive my bluntness, but to me this looks like you're just testing forced adoption of 1password.com hosted SaaS on
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by nikitaga 6y ago
You know, what's not clear at all is that renewables will ever be cheaper than fossil fuels outside of a minority of markets. You're putting a lot of weight on that prediction but despite all the recent progress on costs, if that

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