rrdharan

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by rrdharan 6y ago
That’s sorted by revenue not cash on the balance sheet. Here’s a more salient list: https://www.cnbc.com/2019/11/07/microsoft-apple-and-alphabet...
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by rrdharan 6y ago
Previously discussed in 2018: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16185118
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by rrdharan 6y ago
You realize that revenue and profit are distinct? Uber has massive revenues as do many other capital intensive businesses. That doesn't make them profitable.
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by rrdharan 6y ago
When I was at VMware I was pretty excited about this; it made a lot of sense (and still does): https://www.zdnet.com/article/bea-runs-java-on-bare-virtual-...
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by rrdharan 6y ago
> maybe with client IP addresses https://www.whitecase.com/publications/alert/court-confirms-...
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by rrdharan 6y ago
> Besides. They. Dont. Pay. Taxes. In. The. Country. They. Claim. To. Be. Protecting. Besides being an incredibly annoying way to state your point (leave the hand-claps on Twitter, please), note that their very highly paid employees pay
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by rrdharan 6y ago
It seems concerning that they would be hanging onto traffic logs for that long. Seems like a massive PII / data breach liability.
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by rrdharan 6y ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/INT_13H
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by rrdharan 6y ago
Forever is a very long time (and therefore a very bold claim for any SaaS app to make). See also "lifetime passes".
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by rrdharan 6y ago
Every backend is someone else’s frontend.
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by rrdharan 6y ago
Google was also the one that invented the technique to prevent sending the URLs serverside. So the random potshot feels unwarranted.
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by rrdharan 6y ago
Except transaction costs are a thing (e.g. the closing costs for the purchase, and the commissions on the sale), and often eat up a lot of the gains.
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by rrdharan 6y ago
You're getting downvoted because one true statement - "PHP is banned for internal use" - does not imply the other - "they will not care". Google also bans PHP but has official PHP client libraries for all its APIs.
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by rrdharan 6y ago
Article about the designer of said gown includes a fun anecdote about the Chretiens as well: https://capitalcurrent.ca/richard-robinson-keeps-high-fashio...
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by rrdharan 6y ago
Thanks for exactly this example - nobody stated yet but the charitable / best faith interpretation I can see of the Gebru angle here really is exactly that there’s a Ken Thompson hack at play, or at least a high risk of vulnerability t
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by rrdharan 6y ago
In beta, but FYI you can grant calendar access: https://gsuiteupdates.googleblog.com/2019/11/use-google-assi...
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by rrdharan 6y ago
Are you thinking of Pidgin? It was only renamed once, so maybe you have something else in mind... https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pidgin_(software)
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by rrdharan 6y ago
Desktop Linux definitely did exist. I distinctly remember running Slackware with a pirated AccelX server in fall 1997 and messing around with Red Hat (first released in 1995) around that time. The lawsuit was filed in 1998 and arguments wer
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by rrdharan 6y ago
Won’t this just play out the same way it did in Germany and Spain?
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by rrdharan 6y ago
Sure. Note that 2% of $25B is $500M. Companies of all sizes (even FAAMNG) will act to protect that kind of existing revenue. And my point was that you can do all of the things you listed for less than $500M; probably for less than $250M. De
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by rrdharan 6y ago
If the money they need to spend is less than that 2%, why WOULDN'T they spend the money?
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by rrdharan 6y ago
Java with DCEVM or OSGi. This was originally a big OSGi selling point if I recall correctly though I’ve never seen it successfully implemented - though maybe in the Eclipse IDE? Anyway it’s a very well studied and covered topic in the Java
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by rrdharan 6y ago
OpenSSL fixed their licensing issues: https://wiki.openssl.org/index.php/OpenSSL_3.0#License_Chang...
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by rrdharan 6y ago
Who's "we all" here? The "wider software community"? There are certainly tens of millions of users of FaceTime; I'd wager more than the entire population of the "wider software community". I don'
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by rrdharan 6y ago
Meanwhile, https://airmessage.org/ seems to have existed for quite some time now...?
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by rrdharan 6y ago
This is all generally good advice, but I think there's huge potential complexity lurking here: > 4. Take care of the physical keys with proper storage and procedures. Do not store the keys together, have at least one in a really sec
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by rrdharan 6y ago
It’s not in VirnetX’s interests, certainly...
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by rrdharan 6y ago
I don't believe you get notifications for PWAs on iOS - nor can you use service workers..
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by rrdharan 6y ago
There are two X clipboards. They are implemented differently (as in "ownership" model of the content) and the implementation bleeds out everywhere. You can't remove or change this behavior because some people love it. EDIT: F
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by rrdharan 6y ago
Google Research is a thing. It’s even cited in the article as a positive example. https://research.google/

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