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by rubber_duck 6y ago
They did a decent job with credit cards eventually. Developers leaving won't happen, Apple and Google will cut a deal with big guys (Netflix, Amazon) and ignore smaller players (even Epic in this case)
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by rubber_duck 6y ago
Really at this point Apple control over app store is anti-competitive (and Google over play store), having to rely on community outrage to get stuff like this turned is ridiculous. They should create legislation to control access to all app
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by rubber_duck 6y ago
Depends on the kind of business, arround here it's quite common (cash/debit vs CC)
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by rubber_duck 6y ago
Yes they can, it was ruled anti competitive a long time ago - this is why you can often find cash only discount. The only place CC won is that you usually can't surcharge the price, instead you must call it a discount for cash, etc.
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by rubber_duck 6y ago
"Just code up 6 these screens, we already have everything working in sketch - how long could it take" Then you realize the "6 screens" actually turn in to a 50 step state machine that shares state between screens and cha
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by rubber_duck 6y ago
It bugs me how this is an argument in "app store is not a monopoly". App stores (both Google and Apple) have a huge profit margin which is based on abusing it's position and they are milking the fact that creating competition
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by rubber_duck 6y ago
Nonsense, it's not like it's one criminal group behind this or like these people are building a sustainable business model. Pay and ignore approach doesn't work at all long term.
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by rubber_duck 6y ago
Setting up a XP VM shouldn't be that hard.
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by rubber_duck 6y ago
I'd say the only way this would be better than min/max solution is that you can't accidentally flip it when writing the code - but IMO both suck at expressing intent, clamp reads unambiguously.
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by rubber_duck 6y ago
He was talking about JVM specifically, part of the benefit of WASM is portability, CLR is getting better in this regard with .net core but that's a recent development (I don't see how phone VMs compare) CLR also has an object mode
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by rubber_duck 6y ago
JVM is turing complete so it can run any language, the point is efficiency
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by rubber_duck 6y ago
Like they say at worst WASM can make a mess of it's own data. The selling point of WASM outside of browser to me is native modules for other languages where you can whitelist the exposed APIs (and provide sandboxed versions) while havi
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by rubber_duck 6y ago
JVM is a different category of VM, it's memory model and bytecode don't fit languages such as C/C++/Rust at all ( AFAIK it doesn't even have unsigned integer operations).
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by rubber_duck 6y ago
What does reverse stock split have to do with it ? Buyback happens on the market and it removes stocks from circulation, if the demand is still there but buyback eliminated supply because people are holding on to the rest of the stock then
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by rubber_duck 6y ago
>price / share goes up, price / fraction of company stays the same That is obviously not true and he's pointing out why - if the market isn't very liquid, in this case not a lot of sales, price can jump nonlinearly.
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by rubber_duck 6y ago
I stopped reading since it's obviously just a rant but this seems like it's about preschool remote kindergarten - clickbaty title
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by rubber_duck 6y ago
He didn't say manufacturing output but jobs, a more relevant number for that argument would be total labor cost in the sector and it's change over time between two countries.
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by rubber_duck 6y ago
And very few will if this support cycle continues. Samsung will sell you a device they claim can replace your laptop [1] for >700$ and then add the external keyboard and that can go close to a 1000$ The next generation one can cost over
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by rubber_duck 6y ago
A step in the right direction but still a ridiculous situation for tablets now that they are pushing them into laptop replacement category, who would buy a laptop knowing that your >1000$ device is going to be impossible to update in 3-4
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by rubber_duck 6y ago
>Why should I tell the whole world? I can get useful insights from reviews so I also like to contribute back if I find something worth mentioning. Reading reviews without contributing them is a form of freeloading.
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by rubber_duck 6y ago
> Most (if not all) of the restrictions on the App Store exist to protect users from app developers who prioritize their own greed over the rights of privacy and safety that Apple promises the users of the App Store. If Apple was about u
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by rubber_duck 6y ago
A better use case for this engine would be Electron replacement. Much easier to get adoption if you can demonstrate performance benefits and electron apps are more performance sensitive than webpages in general (who really cares about Wikip
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by rubber_duck 6y ago
That's relatively irrelevant - Chrome was much faster at the most important sites - which are coincidentally mostly google owned - but still faster - GMail, Youtube, Google itself felt faster on Chrome back then. Then there's the
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by rubber_duck 6y ago
> Encoding and compression software What does that have to do with bandwidth ?
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by rubber_duck 6y ago
And 30-100 ping is usable as well - wonder what the packet loss rate is.
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by rubber_duck 6y ago
Pretty much, it was obvious it faied before he even got in to office.
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by rubber_duck 6y ago
That's my first reaction when thinking about this, but given their current approach to stuff like tracking and telemetry, and that they try to compete in the same space as Google and Apple I feel like Microsoft behaves like it wants to
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by rubber_duck 6y ago
Yes, I dislike and disagree with him but it's ridiculous how everything is automatically his fault and a wrong position just because Trump supported it.
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by rubber_duck 6y ago
> nobody would be able to do anything about it. Microsoft is using Blink for Edge and is upstreaming changes, I recently read about a power usage optimisation coming from Microsoft. I sort of agree with parent poster, if this was their p
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by rubber_duck 6y ago
WebThings ? There are OSS projects in this space and I don't see how they plan on capturing value for the organisation or provide value to the community by building yet another solution that currently has very weak integration with 3rd

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