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by soup10 6y ago
What an interesting new development, this generates tons of goodwill from smaller devs while sticking it to multimillion dollar companies that were pushing the hardest to get Apple to change their fee structure.
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by soup10 6y ago
That's not actually what happened, Google, much like any company wants to hire people that are "good team players" "will be loyal to the company", "don't cause trouble", and "show gratitude for t
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by soup10 6y ago
It's kind of like a modern day Bell Labs where they have so much excess profit from adtech that they can fund lots of "basic research" or the computer science equivalent of that.
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by soup10 6y ago
I think some judges would consider the power imbalance between employer and employee before legalizing invasions of privacy because the employee signed a disclaimer. Contracts that a weaker party is pressured or coerced into don't auto
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by soup10 6y ago
Good guy cloudflare giving programmers an early weekend.
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by soup10 6y ago
Because one of the principles of private equity is to load up a company with debt while growing the bottom line and then offloading it. When it works the banks profit, the company grows and everyone is happy, when it doesn't work they
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by soup10 6y ago
People are fine with making their own food. It has a big benefit in that you can make it exactly how you want. Restaurant food makes the most sense for things which are difficult to make or require expensive equipment or the most prep.
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by soup10 6y ago
When you ask for equity options they give you US Treasuries
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by soup10 6y ago
The bad precedent is to let him get away with a slap on the wrist because soon enough you'll have ceo's left and right pumping and dumping on twitter whenever it's convenient.
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by soup10 6y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Securities_fraud
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by soup10 6y ago
Nobody forced Musk to run a highly leveraged company that will collapse on itself when it runs out of cheap financing. At some point the music will stop.
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by soup10 7y ago
there is two narratives, which do you think is more likely: 1. Google is dogfooding it's own products to improve them and make them competitive and stop potential data/privacy/security leaks by using external software. 2. Goo
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by soup10 7y ago
This isn't about the merits of excel over sheets, it's about employees coming on the board and lying to promote their company. Google makes 1.61 million in revenue per employee. Honestly it's only going to get worse, because
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by soup10 7y ago
Office is business productivity software. You don't buy it for every employee, you negotiate a license for the number of seats in use. It has way more features than google docs and is standard everywhere. It's like saying you cou
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by soup10 7y ago
Can you guys stop astroturfing here. Nobody is dumb enough to believe that Google is saving money by not using office.
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by soup10 7y ago
Nintendo and Microsoft have their own custom engines and toolchains for AAA games. Unity gets used for casual titles where teams are smaller, roles are less specialized, and high performance rendering isn't as big of a priority. (Not
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by soup10 7y ago
Also its brilliant business because when cloud goes out fashion(as it does cyclically) they can sell the same software again 'redesigned' for standalone/local usage.
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by soup10 7y ago
Schizophrenia diagnoses are generally applied to individuals with a mix of behavioral problems and "abnormal or undesirable" thought patterns. It's a broad brush that isn't applied based on hard biological data like an
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by soup10 7y ago
why would an error checking branch ever be mispredicted. more to the point why would error checking or exceptions ever be in an optimized inner loop.
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by soup10 7y ago
This wasn't 'nonsense'... Google spent 12 billion on Motorola's mobile patent portfolio and Samsung lost half a billion in legal judgements. If they spent half that money innovating and improving mobile design instead
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by soup10 7y ago
Android copied iOS design screen for screen, gesture for gesture, form factor, hardware and app design. It was not a 'well shucks' type move, it was 'copy everything and undercut them to get mobile market share at all costs&
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by soup10 7y ago
Billions are being made collecting data and content for free and publishing it along with targeted advertisements. Web-scrapers can collect that aggregated data and redistribute it or create competing services. This is terrifying to certa
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by soup10 7y ago
image is probably separated into parts and layers with logic on how to scale and morph and trial and error to make it look nice
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by soup10 7y ago
If you've seen some of the high resolution videos of neural activity captures from even simple fish, the slightest motor movements activate hundreds of thousands of cells in a chaotic pattern. Neural circuitry is not neatly laid out l
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by soup10 7y ago
Just anecdotally I've dabbled with giving employees more equity and it hasn't particularly energized or made them more productive. I think it depends a lot on the person, wether they have that business mentality to be patient and
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by soup10 7y ago
it usually makes sense to start hacking and slashing towards shipping anyway since 95% games have a shelf life and aren't maintained and extended much beyond the original release. By the time the next game starts production there&#x27
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by soup10 7y ago
I never noticed that before, just went to the old version after seeing the default layout.
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by soup10 7y ago
2 posts per page isn't usable when most of the content needs to be skimmed through. https://i.imgur.com/9vweCAg.jpg
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by soup10 7y ago
I don't know what happened with mudge, but "welfare checks" where the person calling has ulterior motives for involving the cops in a situation are a common thing as well.
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by soup10 7y ago
>watching them get squeezed by big tech companies offering sky high comp fills me with glee. Enjoy your new life as a corporate drone! Note to the salty drones in the comments below: I started a business that was passively profitable for

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