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by qppo 6y ago
This is one of those acquisitions that makes me think there's a tech bubble. Hope I'm wrong.
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by qppo 6y ago
> if you already use Office, why not Azure? My gut reasoning is that cloud infrastructure is not the same product as office productivity and the two use cases are not the same, the purchasing decisions aren't made by the same people
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by qppo 6y ago
Plus they managed to run the gamut of security failures including RCE on users home computers.
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by qppo 6y ago
It's probably because too many of us have written too many prototypes that turn into production software
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by qppo 6y ago
How do you deal with platform specific bugs? What about testing? About 50% of my MacOS usage is replicating bug reports from users. I don't know how I would do that without having one on my desk.
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by qppo 6y ago
Which CPUs were benched?
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by qppo 6y ago
I think HN just has more Apple customers who are ok with everything apple does. Except maybe the keyboards on MacBooks. A lot of negative comments come from people who don't or won't buy Apple products. Which is fine, because ther
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by qppo 6y ago
It also hasn't been put to a serious test yet since it's underpowered compared to mid range desktop CPUs I can put into a mini PC case. Benchmarks for things I care about like large compiles haven't really come out yet, so I&
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by qppo 6y ago
I don't need that much more space for storage (modern SSDs are teeny, and I don't need physical hard drives anymore for home computing). Cooling though. Give me a bigass heatsink and a fan.
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by qppo 6y ago
For me the issue is less performance and more correctness/completeness. Mathworks has teams of engineers working on their toolboxes, which helps a lot for users that need features and needs them to work correctly. It's been some t
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by qppo 6y ago
There's also a cottage industry predicated on unbundling and (for the most part) statically typing processes defined in excel spreadsheets.
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by qppo 6y ago
The US does recognize the strategic importance of semiconductor manufacturing and spends billions on it each year. Many devices for markets like aerospace and defense are only manufactured domestically. That said, the US has a defensive pac
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by qppo 6y ago
The margins on the App Store for iOS is enough of a reason to lock down the OS as far as they can. The difference is they can't practically lock it down to the point that app developers aren't impeded. But all that said, given the
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by qppo 6y ago
People aren't stupid, they know the shops exist and the risk associated with third party repair. It's not first party manufacturers or government's job to mitigate that risk or convince people its acceptable for the price - t
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by qppo 6y ago
Why do you need kernel extensions for realtime audio on Mac? If anything, CoreAudio is a dream to work with compared to the shitshow of APIs on Linux and Windows. Not to mention there are plenty of cross platform libraries for real time aud
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by qppo 6y ago
They can buy devices that are easier to repair. Shops can refuse to accept devices that they can't repair. Consumers aren't sheep, and I don't believe in legislation predicated on the assumption that they act like bovine. I&#
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by qppo 6y ago
I've worked in multiple startups/bootstrapped enterprises that started as consultancies to pay for the development of internal tools with the ultimate goal of licensing the tools. It doesn't always work but its the least bad
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by qppo 6y ago
Whenever I hear of right-to-repair I'm reminded of Farenheit 451 - one of often missed points that Bradbury made was that it was the willingness of the people in society to ditch books and information ; it was about populist mandate, n
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by qppo 6y ago
Stripe is the ultimate purveyor of proverbial shovels in the SaaS economy. To me the question is, why do they need more investor money? So much capital is flowing through their servers that it kind of shocks me they'd need to give up a
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by qppo 6y ago
I'm not sure who "the big players" are in your book but the largest software engineering organizations in the world are already using Rust. The post is about one of them committing their resources to the project itself. Cauti
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by qppo 6y ago
I think commitment to pivotal change is baked into their hardware teams' culture. A lot of the decisions made at Apple that we see in their products aren't decisions that could be made within other organizations. Either because th
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by qppo 6y ago
I don't really like the way cybernews [0] is pushing the malicious narrative. There's a fairly large gap from "there is a security exploit being used in the wild" to "this exploit was intentional." This seems m
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by qppo 6y ago
I think a Bonobos model for instruments and gear for the big retailers would be more sustainable. Quality control for musical instruments has gotten much better in the last decade (huge shoutout to World Musical Instruments in Korea) to the
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by qppo 6y ago
Their web retail is through Musician's Friend, the GC website is mostly a front end for their in store stock.
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by qppo 6y ago
If you're doing audio production you should never upgrade MacOS immediately. I get almost as many emails from developers telling me not to as I get notifications from Apple telling me to upgrade. This has been true for at least the las
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by qppo 6y ago
It's already the case in several places. The people most opposed to that legislation are the bar/waitstaff. Anecdotally, I know bartenders with take home pay close to engineers. They don't want tipping to go away.
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by qppo 6y ago
I don't think it's seldom mentioned - it's both common knowledge among people who pay attention to financial/economic news and repeated monthly (when the new jobs report comes out). They're usually reported side by
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by qppo 6y ago
It's not difficult to call that poverty at all. It's uncomfortable or upsetting, but not difficult.
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by qppo 6y ago
It is reality. What it reflects about reality may not be immediately obvious but that's true of most metrics. It's important to understand that the value of the unemployment rate is not the absolute number but its change over time
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by qppo 6y ago
The dual license strong copyleft/commercial seems to be validated for software infrastructure (not necessarily products). I've noticed it reduces support costs immensely, when your paying users are developers and they have unbridl

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