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by pkphilip 5y ago
It is $5000 for a product which doesn't even connect to "enterprise" databases. Good luck trying to make a living using that.
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by pkphilip 5y ago
This is precisely the type of attitude that keeps Inprise/Idera or whoever it is that owns Delphi from coming up with a reasonable price for the product which the market can afford. Refusing to listen to the end users has been Borland&
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by pkphilip 5y ago
Delphi was not abandoned because it was technically inferior. It was abandoned because Borland/Inprise started pushing Application Life Cycle products (don't get me started on that) and also pricing Delphi very high and the number
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by pkphilip 5y ago
That hasn't been my experience at all - except for the graphics card issue where there is really some work to be done before the specific driver for the card works. For everything else Linux is actually a lot easier to work with than W
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by pkphilip 5y ago
Yes, it does come down to personal taste and also programming style. Not everyone wants or needs functional programming.
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by pkphilip 5y ago
That is precisely my thought as well. Embarcadero/Inprise/Borland have priced themselves out of the market. Also, in this time and age not including database connectivity to "enterprise" databases such as MySQL, PostgreS
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by pkphilip 5y ago
Yes, I was confused at first!
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by pkphilip 5y ago
Sadly Lazarus and Delphi don't get the attention they deserve. Writing even a sophisticated app in either of these platforms is a pleasure.
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by pkphilip 5y ago
The mRNA vaccines have been out for about a year or so. What evidence is there to indicate that it is safe even in the medium term (>2yrs) let alone long term?
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by pkphilip 5y ago
The $50 phone is being brought into India by Reliance Jio. This company abused the law and its political connections to get into a monopoly position. Jio is not known to be a ethical company.
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by pkphilip 5y ago
I really, really hope this succeeds and I wish frame.work the absolute best. The world needs this.
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by pkphilip 5y ago
India's "compliance officer" demand is not for the corporation to look into customer issues. The compliance officer's role is to look into only censoring of content and does not AT ALL include looking into customer suppo
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by pkphilip 5y ago
Andreas, I love your videos. You have clearly managed to develop a very friendly community. I like how pleasant and accessible the community is! I am sure you guys will go very far and I look forward to using Serenity OS on a daily basis.
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by pkphilip 5y ago
Spotify should pay this guy to make their official native client or at least license the software from him.
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by pkphilip 5y ago
This may be because robotics companies don't want to stop at just laying bricks - they would prefer to 3D print the entire house. There has been huge advances in the space of 3D printed buildings in just the past couple of years with p
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by pkphilip 5y ago
I think it is possible that many people who start new companies are also passionate about making a difference in a specific field and that is what pushes them to go through the trouble of starting a company from scratch. The people who take
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by pkphilip 5y ago
There are already ways of converting human waste into protein. 100kgs of human waste can be converted into 40kgs of protein. https://www.forbes.com/sites/christinero/2019/07/06/from-fec...
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by pkphilip 5y ago
Freepascal is similar to C++ in that it requires the programmer to allocate and deallocate memory if you are using pointer objects.
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by pkphilip 5y ago
Viragen which was working on the anti-cancer Multiferon treatment which was showing a lot of promise? https://www.biospace.com/article/releases/viragen-inc-multif... They were forced to shutdown by short sellers:
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by pkphilip 5y ago
You completely miss the fact that the company whose shares are being depressed will suffer problems raising capital if their stock prices drop
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by pkphilip 5y ago
It is just amazing to watch people in the US defend the price gouging in healthcare in the US. The medicine prices are MUCH lower in other parts of the world - including in places where the cost of living is much higher than in the US such
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by pkphilip 5y ago
Correct. The price of Insulin has nothing to do with "funding research." It is simply price gouging - that's it.
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by pkphilip 5y ago
That would be true IF you are the one who gets the additional shares. But that is not how it always happens
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by pkphilip 5y ago
There is history of short sellers driving businesses to bankruptcy and so yes, they do damage.
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by pkphilip 5y ago
If a person is already holding stock, then clearly it is working against their interest to use their own own money to push the prices of the shares of the company down.
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by pkphilip 5y ago
There are existing ways of generating Hydrogen using coated Nickel electrodes
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by pkphilip 5y ago
The ground reality in Europe is nothing like in India - not by a long shot.
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by pkphilip 5y ago
This isn't about population control. This is yet another attempt to oppress Muslims. This state Uttar Pradesh is headed by an Hindu extremist priest who actively uses the arms of the government to persecute minorities. It is a common t
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by pkphilip 5y ago
I am not sure why any talk about Hydrogen triggers such a visceral reaction from people. There has been major advances in Hydrogen research as well - from production to storage. Both of have gotten much cheaper (consider UNSW's researc
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by pkphilip 5y ago
That depends entirely on the region you are targeting. There are parts of the world where the IOS users are around 3% (eg. India)

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