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by teacup50 11y ago
It's not in conflict; the "fantasyland" of 10M new apartments would house the entire existing population of all boroughs of NYC, and almost that of Tokyo. Meanwhile, those cities have high density (but nothing as ridiculous
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by teacup50 11y ago
You're missing the point if you're holding up HTML/CSS/JS as a counter-example. In the past, we had a more robust network software ecosystem in which high-level protocol semantics were standardized across vendors, ensuri
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by teacup50 11y ago
Yes, let's look at NYC and Tokyo: despite all that density, the problem of housing availability remains. If I recall correctly, only 9% of police officers that work in Manhattan live in Manhattan -- and Manhattan boasts an average dens
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by teacup50 11y ago
If this even worked in the short-term (and so far, no city that has tried this has been successful in making a meaningful dent in the problem), you'd just be delaying the inevitable, and once that inevitable hit, the affordability pr
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by teacup50 11y ago
Adding more housing doesn't solve density, reduce demand, or lower prices: https://pricetags.wordpress.com/2015/06/16/big-money-big-bui... Adding more housing tends to exacerbate all the problems they&#x
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by teacup50 11y ago
Business efficiency is not generally a controversial goal -- although what counts as 'waste' is. The only time people seem to argue against efficiency (generally via false dichotomy, see 'hardware is cheap, programmers are ex
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by teacup50 11y ago
Why does he holds up an engineering team of 250 engineers, all to maintain Etsy, as proving out his hypothesis? That's larger, by far, than engineering teams producing much larger, much more complex, much more involved pieces of soft
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by teacup50 11y ago
You don't seem to understand how the choice defines the relationship. Imperfect Analogy Time Imagine a deli that you go to every morning. It's the only one in the neighborhood, but they make great bagels, so you don't go ou
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by teacup50 11y ago
Half the reason I haven't updated is that JetBrains hasn't been polishing. I'd pay for that, happily, but bugs sit unfixed for years while JetBrains rolls out entirely new (and similarly buggy) IDEs.
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by teacup50 11y ago
As an owner of a company, business continuity-destroying dependencies on SaaS is the opposite of a big win.
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by teacup50 11y ago
This makes no sense whatsoever. All of the things you listed are services that run on servers that cost money to run . JetBrains' IDEs are downloadable software that we pay for and exists in perpetuity . I also have no idea w
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by teacup50 11y ago
Sorry, but they have changed their pricing model; the previous model provided a perpetual license with a year of updates, and the new model is simply rental, which access terminating once you stop paying. I don't rent my tools.
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by teacup50 11y ago
Where JetBrains went wrong is in spreading themselves too thin on too many development fronts, letting products like IntelliJ languish with few significant features added and far too many bugs unfixed, and then deciding the solution to a l
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by teacup50 11y ago
It doesn't take a conspiracy. Humans follow their incentives. Customers are incentivized to keep ponying up for a subscription, because the alternative is a costly transition to other tools. JetBrains, like any other business, is incen
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by teacup50 11y ago
This is a short-sighted view. JetBrains now controls pricing, and the relationship itself is coercive. This means that you have no control over pricing, and that JetBrains doesn't need to worry about whether you'll renew year-to-y
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by teacup50 11y ago
Only because it's a coercive model, and bad for the people supplying the cash flow.
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by teacup50 11y ago
I'm guessing you were born after the Berlin Wall came down, and missed all of the palpable Western demonstrations of just how fragile freedom is, and just how dangerous it would be to build a turn-key surveillance state. In my experien
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by teacup50 11y ago
What percentage of consumers do you think are capable of reading contract language accurately, assessing risk/value, judging things like how much bandwidth they use, doing what, and how that may increase or decrease? Likewise, how many
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by teacup50 11y ago
The party with more resources has the advantage -- information and power asymmetry falls in their favor. Of course consumers don't "do their due diligence", because they'd have to do so 1000s of times a day. This is a
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by teacup50 11y ago
Unlimited is an actual word with a fairly clear definition (unlike, say, 'natural'), and reasonable people assume that when someone says 'unlimited', what they mean is 'unlimited by anything other than natural const
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by teacup50 11y ago
And this is why we can't have nice things. I recommend that you tally up the revolutionary technologies produced over the last 30 years that allowed us to get to this point (including the web), and then consider how many of them could
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by teacup50 11y ago
The only way I can get features that are important to my daily work is to interpose system processes. So no, I don't welcome "SIP". There are better ways to solve that problem.
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by teacup50 11y ago
There are plenty of long-standing options other than Stripe if you don't go the "run the store yourself" route.
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by teacup50 11y ago
I don't understand why they're only releasing this through the App Store in the first place. - Giving 30% to Apple is no small thing - You lose the ability to maintain a direct relationship with your customers, provide upgrade pri
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by teacup50 11y ago
Every single release, Apple tightens the restrictions and grandfathers in the existing things people use. It's not "yet" -- it's now, with each release, and getting worse each time.
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by teacup50 11y ago
Which in of itself is pretty much an impossible goal, and in the meantime, it destroys a litany of use-cases that make computers useful to people.
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by teacup50 11y ago
> A smartphone is for checking the weather, reading, looking up places to eat ... I'd like to be able to use it for more. It is, after all, a computer.
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by teacup50 11y ago
They're still collecting the user data. And they're building a familiarity and user reliance on cloud "apps".
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by teacup50 11y ago
... and people wonder why we want a web bytecode so, so badly.
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by teacup50 11y ago
Is Spotify on iOS scriptable?

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