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by px1999 9y ago
People will definitely turn to piracy if it becomes too difficult/fragmented to watch the content they want to watch. As a result, for these services to be successful, we'll probably see some renewed fighting against piracy and so
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by px1999 9y ago
I probably described it poorly, but both of those services are $/month for access to a full catalog that Netflix/Amazon manages and curates. That's not really a marketplace, which would have individual vendors selling their o
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by px1999 9y ago
I'm suggesting that if you add eg "Miramax" to your library by paying their subscription you gain access to their back catalogue. I may only want one or two movies from them, but thanks to the bundling I have access to way m
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by px1999 9y ago
I think your comments about the power are largely spot on - and bigger players can make a move for their own streaming services, but smaller ones will need to band together (not necessarily via an all-in-one subscription service like Netfli
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by px1999 9y ago
Long term, we'll probably wind up with a couple of major marketplaces that provide a UI that ties together content bundles that you've purchased from different distributors (who will actually serve up their catalogs). It's a
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by px1999 9y ago
Piracy shifted power towards consumers. If content creators were going to see any money, they needed to offer consumer-friendly services that were better than piracy. The orgs that did this (Steam, Spotify, Netflix) dominated their market
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by px1999 9y ago
Stories like there are why I won't consider Google as an infrastructure provider for our SaaS, regardless of the technicals around their services. Thank you to the original author/s for writing the post, it reinforces the warning
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by px1999 9y ago
As you probably expected from your phrasing/question, no. Ultimately there's often some frustration from both sides when hiring. Interviewers get a ton of under-qualified candidates and need a way to weed them out. A semi-techni
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by px1999 10y ago
Massive retaliation is an effective deterrence strategy, and probably one of the only options that a weak group like consumers have against an oligopoly like airlines. It's not even about punishing United, it's about showing other
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by px1999 10y ago
They're suggesting avoiding long-standing useful functionality because some people abuse it. There's no viable simple alternative to each of these methods, which is _why_ they're in common use. They provide a reliable way t
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by px1999 10y ago
If you have different stuff available, you might choose to only cache/microoptimise the pages served to 98% of your userbase, which would lead to this type of effect with no malicious intent.
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by px1999 10y ago
It was a reasonable email asking a reasonable question - and companies need to be called out on this sort of bullshit or it's not going to change. I hate renegotiating my own work conditions/package, but it's the conversatio
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by px1999 10y ago
But isn't that covered in the "willing to pay more for the service" bucket? I find tipping awkward to the point of being willing to pay more for alternatives that bundle an otherwise expected tip into the service's init
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by px1999 10y ago
Our migrations have unique datetime stamps. Stamps and migration names go into a table. We do have a hash of all of the contents of the table, but the schema "version" is just the list of migrations that have been run. We run ma
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by px1999 10y ago
Like print media, cinemas and taxi companies it seems like the record labels think they're special and somehow immune to the march of progress. If Hollywood bled Netflix dry, people would still stream/watch movies at home, but non
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by px1999 10y ago
I had to get historical bills from a terrible cellphone provider in Canada (Wind mobile, now Freedom mobile, now owned by Shaw communications) a little while back. Their customer support process was useless (they'll send historical bil
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by px1999 10y ago
I understand the idea of supporting ranges of libraries from a development perspective, but when you're running something in production, is "use any of these configurations" ever desirable? Presumably there's a reason th
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by px1999 10y ago
I've worked in government (thankfully not US federal) and when departments review their specific operations/policies, they rarely grind to a halt, it's business as usual while things get evaluated/decided and policies bu
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by px1999 10y ago
That's pretty likely. If people don't know how to use collaborative tools, they get frustrated and give up, so a successful product can't alienate its userbase. Skype teams is familiar enough for the email generation to use
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by px1999 10y ago
I understand pretty much everything in here (and have manually disabled most of the things this disables in the past), but the script serves as a useful checklist and shortcut. That's it's value.
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by px1999 10y ago
We're slowly rolling it out to individual product teams in our small (~50 people) ms-based dev organisation. Things are going reasonably well. We'd have picked slack over teams in a minute, though it has compliance issues making
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by px1999 10y ago
If the business was burning down because of code quality issues, I'd definitely navigate through whatever process the vendor throws my way to get access to their software. Same if I woke up one day and decided "we need to throw a
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by px1999 10y ago
A negotiable pricing structure hides the true value of the product behind needless bureaucracy and interaction. Not having a sticker price (even a "no one actually pays this much" sticker price, like MSFT's) makes fair compa
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by px1999 10y ago
SonarQube and Resharper have some similar coverage. I'd recommend both (at the same time or individually).
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by px1999 11y ago
One of the (IMO many) problems with using coloured coins for property ownership is that the real world is necessarily messy. Disputes happen frequently, houses are seized, not bought outight, people die and ownership needs to be switched, a
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by px1999 11y ago
I'm curious to see if many of those that did invest in non-exchange startups have seen much return to date. A lot of the ideas seem (at least to "regular" folks) to be a bit... strange... In the post they mentioned Dunvegan
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by px1999 11y ago
I guess I'm a "a pussy, 9-year old boy or afraid of little bit “strong” writing.", because as soon as I saw that sentence I lost all interest in finishing the post (though it was pretty linkbaitey in the bit I did read so I h
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by px1999 11y ago
The theory is that a DSL should be better than whatever generalised programming language you're using. SQL is a good example - ORMs tend to fuck up querying databases (ie pulling back unnecessary data) almost as much as they fix. SQL
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by px1999 11y ago
Vancouver's main problem with attracting top-level talent is pay. I live in Vancouver but don't really work much here anymore (mostly remote now) because of pay. The article focusses on the high cost of housing, though in practi
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by px1999 11y ago
This needs a Windows 10 (or applicable "other") option.

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