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1. 361.▲
   by pgt 6y ago

   You know, that’s not a bad idea.
2. 362.▲
   by pgt 6y ago

   Australia's anti-encryption laws make me very wary of buying anything based there. The Singles Day ad on the landing page made me think it was a domain squatting ad page.
3. 363.▲
   by pgt 6y ago

   Don't underestimate the power of your choice at the frontier, even if it takes a while to reverberate through time. I used to think it didn't matter what tools I chose as a lone developer making consumer tech products and DSP audi
4. 364.▲
   by pgt 6y ago

   I am starting to see people switch around me, but it doesn't happen overnight. A surprisingly handful of non-tech people have asked me, "Hey, I see you use DuckDuckGo. Why not Google?" And then we have the conversation - it&#
5. 365.▲
   by pgt 6y ago

   Product -> Customers -> Revenue. Not the other way around. First product goes, then customers, then revenue. It takes time. I am short Google and have been trying to figure out how to short their stock from ZA without losing opportun
6. 366.▲
   by pgt 6y ago

   I don't believe that is true. Regulation prevents competitors from toppling badly-behaved incumbents. Big Co.'s must be allowed to fail. Don't hinder new contenders from rising to replace them.
7. 367.▲
   by pgt 6y ago

   You and I - we are the market. How do you know how many drops there are if you don't speak up? Relative to my community in South Africa, I have spent more money on Apple products than anyone I know. And here I am saying that if these p
8. 368.▲
   by pgt 6y ago

   Who is more important than the customer? You and I - we are the market.
9. 369.▲
   by pgt 6y ago

   Thanks, I will look into GrapheneOS. I wish there was a phone ecosystem I could invest in that ran Clojure near the metal. Some kind of Lisp machine would be awesome and make it more palatable to endure missing libraries and apps.
10. 370.▲
    by pgt 6y ago

    Yes, but framing it like that that won't rise to the top and get people to pay attention to all the other important things he has to say.
11. 371.▲
    by pgt 6y ago

    I switched to Fastmail two weeks ago. So far it’s great. $5/month is reasonable insurance against “getting cancelled” by Google.
12. 372.▲
    by pgt 6y ago

    Every year Stallman seems less crazy.
13. 373.▲
    by pgt 6y ago

    A compelling way to enact change at large corporates is to vocally communicate when and why you are forced back into a buying position as a customer. Apple VPs who are listening, especially Craig Federighi - here is an early warning for you
14. 374.▲
    by pgt 6y ago

    My policy is to never upgrade anything until everyone I know has upgraded to the next version and not downgraded after N weeks.
15. 375.▲
    by pgt 6y ago

    Stuff like this will push me off Apple no matter what the performance of the M1 chip is. Privacy trumps performance.
16. 376.▲
    by pgt 6y ago

    HN has a search bar? scrolls down Oh, wow! I always use hn.algolia.com.
17. 377.▲
    by pgt 6y ago

    Note that the M1 does not support eGPUs, in case you need it.
18. 378.▲
    by pgt 6y ago

    I didn't say that was the role of capital. What I said was it's a fallacy re: your statement, "SV's dirty secret is that it's an enormous dumping scheme: .... to gain a dominant position in the market... then jack u
19. 379.▲
    by pgt 6y ago

    This seems like a fallacy. VC subsidies benefit consumers until they run out of money or raise prices. As long as the market remains free, there will be new entrants. The problem is regulation that keeps competitors out. In some cases Big C
20. 380.▲
    by pgt 6y ago

    CORS is security theatre - like taking your shoes off at the airport. I've been blocked on a CORS issue for 2 weeks now. Please avoid if possible.
21. 381.▲
    by pgt 6y ago

    We need separation of cash & comms.
22. 382.▲
    by pgt 6y ago

    To understand Why Modes Are Wrong™, consider Bret Victor's Inventing on Principle: https://jamesclear.com/great-speeches/inventing-on-principle... An app is the Ultimate Mode, of course, and there is a contextual
23. 383.▲
    by pgt 6y ago

    The main appeal of Command-Line Interfaces is repeatability. GUIs are hard or impossible to script, but CLI commands can be followed, typed in or copy-pasta'd. The main appeal of RESTful interfaces is discoverability and semantic CRUD
24. 384.▲
    by pgt 6y ago

    What is your definition of 'niche'? https://killedbygoogle.com/
25. 385.▲
    by pgt 6y ago

    Smart man: avoid tail-risk. Google is a tail-risk!
26. 386.▲
    by pgt 6y ago

    By shame and disgust, I suspect you mean something along the lines of virtue-signalling, but I think it's much more simple than that, it's plain old economics: Long-term reliability and excellence. If you keep shutting down produc
27. 387.▲
    by pgt 6y ago

    I hate invoicing and accounting so much that I built my own invoicing and tax accounting systems (no kidding), because it was more fun than actually doing the invoicing or the accounting. Anyway, bbl I need to go do some accounting.
28. 388.▲
    by pgt 6y ago

    When signing up for a service, I always sign up with <name-of-service>@<my-domain.com>, which makes it easy to see who sold my email address and to filter/block by service.
29. 389.▲
    by pgt 6y ago

    The solution is to control your domain's DNS and to keep your own backups.
30. 390.▲
    by pgt 6y ago

    It made me do the same. It was discussed on HN earlier this week re: Google Cloud Print being sent to the Google graveyard.