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by rrdharan 3y ago
Well he’s not a no name.
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by rrdharan 3y ago
s/promoted/laid off/ https://www.cnbc.com/2023/10/18/google-cuts-dozens-of-jobs-i...
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by rrdharan 3y ago
Security vulnerabilities (particularly in dependencies) make this desire practically unachievable for many pieces of software.
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by rrdharan 3y ago
He's also commenting on other threads in this post.
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by rrdharan 3y ago
Containers are a crappy abstraction and VMware fumbled the bag, is my takeaway from this comment…
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by rrdharan 3y ago
It still exists as an iOS feature called Shortcuts and plenty of folks use it for exactly the use cases requested in this post.
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by rrdharan 3y ago
I don’t know why you’re expressing such incredulity at the idea: https://www.inc.com/jeff-haden/even-though-lebron-james-make...
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by rrdharan 3y ago
> I’m sure there are legitimate crypto businesses. I’m increasingly sure there aren’t.
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by rrdharan 3y ago
… using web technologies (it’s an Electron app).
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by rrdharan 3y ago
https://source.android.com/docs/core/architecture/kernel/abi...
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by rrdharan 3y ago
Yep, this and the many other “why aren’t you always using SQLite” articles popping up here every month are classic submarine PR: http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html Which makes sense given they are a Y Combinator compa
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by rrdharan 3y ago
Coercion isn’t necessarily what you want. See discussion here (when STRICT was introduced): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28259104 It’s also only two years old which is forever in the web world and brand new by Datab
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by rrdharan 3y ago
Are you sure they didn't, after that article was published? "Google eventually fixed the problem a few months after this story was published" is not a story the NY Times is that interested in publishing, nor is "it turns
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by rrdharan 3y ago
I completely agree and am generally supportive of universal healthcare and the welfare state and suspect the Scandinavian model would be an improvement on the current US state of affairs. I’m just skeptical of the parent poster claim that a
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by rrdharan 3y ago
I think there’s an interesting statistical argument here. Google supports billions of accounts and clearly screws up a few of them (which are noteworthy events precisely because they are so rare). Okta’s total accounts under management are
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by rrdharan 3y ago
Is this about the US specifically? There are many countries with universal healthcare and a decent social safety net (Scandinavia comes to mind). Why haven’t we seen this explosion coming out of them?
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by rrdharan 3y ago
I’m sympathetic to content creators generally but I find it hard to sympathize with drop-shippers - it seems like such a silly, useless and unnecessary business. Perhaps there’s an analogy to High Frequency Trading though - they “provide li
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by rrdharan 3y ago
> companies like Google siphoned off billions of dollars from the media How exactly did they do that? You mean by being better distributors of advertisements?
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by rrdharan 3y ago
There should be some Godwin’s law equivalent here that states that all forms of this discussion will lead to Ken Thompson’s “Reflections on Trusting Trust” within some number of replies. I guess I’m being the change I wish to see..
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by rrdharan 3y ago
This is like arguing chip companies shouldn’t make chips that are faster and more power efficient just because the web sucks and Electron is a pig. Sure, we should just make chip innovation illegal and mandate Gemini instead of HTML/JS
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by rrdharan 3y ago
Agree with everything you said except possibly: > The risk that attackers will suddenly find the flaw after years because they were told "there's a flaw in cURL" seems low. I’m not so sure about that. Still understand why
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by rrdharan 3y ago
Could have been Google, Could have owned Google.. https://yourstory.com/2023/05/yahoos-billion-dollar-blunders... .
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by rrdharan 3y ago
I worked on Dropbox Paper and I find the last anecdote hard to believe. Every engineer and PM (there was only one) I knew on the team was aware of the origins of the Paper codebase and the connections to Wave, since it was a fork of Hackpad
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by rrdharan 3y ago
(Also covered in the book) They also assumed, not entirely incorrectly, that they would have a bigger moat outside the Western market due to cost factors and so they spent a huge amount of time and money on their international expansion. Ch
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by rrdharan 3y ago
> preserving the rights that we have with cash in the digital realm I think it goes quite a bit beyond that, or rather, the digital and physical realm are not mere 1:1 mirror images of each other. For example in the physical realm it is
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by rrdharan 3y ago
> some from people who operate outside of the law... also from people who lack access to good banking and payments infrastructure What do you suppose that ratio to be in terms of e.g. transaction volume? Personally I think it's >
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by rrdharan 3y ago
Encode to video is how Chrome Remote Desktop works. The SunRay ALP protocol and NoMachine are actually the two best I’ve ever seen but have pretty much fallen by the wayside in modern times sadly.
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by rrdharan 3y ago
Now you're the one being literal. Feel free to substitute "work anywhere" for "run anywhere" in my previous comment since we're referring to a bunch of design and branding and not literal code. I understand it&
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by rrdharan 3y ago
it’ll never stop being funny how people think their jokes still work when there are such glaring inaccuracies it detracts from the force and crux of the construction. It wasn’t just a joke, you were trying to make a point about how it’s pos
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by rrdharan 3y ago
> You could restore a BlackBerry from 2005 that you found at a pawn shop and it would probably have a Netflix app on it. No, you could not. There were never any versions of Netflix that ran directly on any BlackBerry OS, unless you count

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