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by tgma 3y ago
> I doubt the mercenary motivation is as common as you suggest I did not mean to imply that most founders start companies to scam the investor base (who turns out to be sophisticated enough to deserve it even if so). It is just how the
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by tgma 3y ago
Looks like no one in the thread addressed the elephant in the room, so I’ll bite and say the crass unsayable: while you are fundraising a $1B dice roll, you likely have options to take money off the table personally, such that even in the f
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by tgma 3y ago
> Samsung is not a very smart company Have you used a recent Samsung device, especially foldables? Google, the OS provider is playing a total catch-up there, for example, and the implementation is pretty good and all first-party from Sam
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by tgma 3y ago
I think that reflects more on your sales strategy than CL in general. If there's negotiating expectations in a market (Middle East or Craigslist) you gotta start higher to arrive at the desired "halfway point" (think Ross pri
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by tgma 3y ago
Yours is not the average Chromebook. It probably cost you at least $450 is my guess.
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by tgma 3y ago
I have a friend who was quick to respond to Slack messages as he napped close to his phone most of the time while WFH, but in between the responses he did very little work. 100% true story. You make an interesting point. I think in the off
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by tgma 3y ago
You are assuming those activities are not work or benefit the company in some way. Most seemingly useless bullshit team bonding activities will benefit the company long term. [This is especially true for slow-moving large companies, e.g. F
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by tgma 3y ago
That is a sensible approach from the employee's perspective , but surely as an employer I know what my priority is in this transaction. And guess what, the employer is the one making the rules. The employee can choose not to play
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by tgma 3y ago
> What's the problem if they get the tasks required of them done? At least in Software Engineering, tasks are rarely that clear-cut and specific. Yes, as a remote employee you will have enough data to justify "I did what was e
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by tgma 3y ago
Remote "work" is fine (with pros and cons). The problem is lots of people don't "work" remotely. Also, inevitably remote/async work flips the priority such that employee would be much more responsive to interr
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by tgma 3y ago
All FAANGs have lawyers thinking about GPL, copyleft, AGPL, and have policies what to use by default for their own code, so you can be damn sure they are fully aware of FSF and what they are doing when they invest in LLVM and change the def
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by tgma 3y ago
As someone else posted in the thread earlier, FSF has professional staff that work on PR etc. Please note that it is a small non-profit and they cannot afford a big marketing department, partially because their ideals hinder growth to a hu
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by tgma 3y ago
Please elaborate in a couple examples how you think one could have done better if suggesting it is straw man. It feels like an effective logical conclusion of what the critiques usually say.
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by tgma 3y ago
FSF is not abysmal at advocacy. There was a fork in the road; the easy path was to jump in with the Open Source movement and abandon the core principles. Had RMS done that, he would have been the darling of Corporate Open Source by now, i
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by tgma 3y ago
> what does non-copyleft bring you compared to copyleft? This is not a statement of my values; simply providing plausible answers to that question. Usually non-copyleft free software is written in a variant of these scenarios: 1. Paid
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by tgma 3y ago
I don't think PR is the real issue. IMHO, the fundamental principle behind FSF philosophy is the license is primarily written to secure the long-term interest of the _user_, not the community of the authors. The reason authors were o
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by tgma 3y ago
Obviously denting the universe at such scale comes with upsides and downsides. Aside from the impact they've had product wise, it's important to highlight the contribution they have made by shaping the culture of Silicon Valley t
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by tgma 3y ago
This was not explicitly addressed in the post, but the big "Kafka antipattern" out there is building "microservice infrastructure" and using a stateful message broker between services where you should be using RPC/l
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by tgma 3y ago
It's not a question of possibilities. It's a question of trade-offs. It just does not sell (or at least hasn't.) Integrating everything often equates to less cost, less weight, less materials, less power use, less thickness,
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by tgma 3y ago
> Android isn't a malware riddled ecosystem and you can install 3rd party hardware and software Not sure if this is serious or sarcastic.
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by tgma 3y ago
Exactly. The whole "modular phone" and related phenomena are effectively nerd porn and against 50+ years of industry progress towards cheaper, better, denser integration.
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by tgma 3y ago
(Just to steel-man the counterargument) it is not as clear-cut to me that everyone is realistically able to make such choice (depending on the geo, quality control of the authorized centers). The repair process is opaque enough that you ar
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by tgma 3y ago
> somehow flickering like a CRT Backlight dimming can be implemented via PWM, which turns signal on and off at different frequencies to achieve the desired brightness setting from the backlight source. When it is poorly executed you tend
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by tgma 3y ago
Is there anything inherently wrong with 99% "owning" 1% nominally? Somehow 95/1 or 75/1 is systemically different or is it just extracting an emotional reaction to numbers folks have no accurate mental representation of
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by tgma 3y ago
> Owning is wasteful unless you have close to 100% utilisation Klaus Schwab "You will own nothing and be happy" dystopia. No thanks.
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by tgma 3y ago
A16 already contains the ability to output to a second display (via the Lightning connector) and now directly passes the same signal as USBC alternate mode (i.e. not wrapped within USB packet data) but USB 3.0 would require a different cont
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by tgma 3y ago
All sufficiently advanced programs are indistinguishable from malware by sufficiently dumb malware detectors.
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by tgma 3y ago
This. Plus, in the high end AI world you are going to need to build a big machine not just a single chip on a PCIe card. They basically have a monopoly on high end RDMA fabric via Mellanox.
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by tgma 3y ago
I've been a Clubhouse addict for quite a long time now (not proud of it; mostly waste of time). The update is absolute garbage and shows the product has failed and this is just hoping for a Hail Mary pivoting while balance of VC money
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by tgma 3y ago
That's kind of arbitrary though. Why if they wanted to price it at $2k if it were to be ad free? Would the consumer then prefer ads if offered with such choice? They are taking the risk of repelling their customer who paid $1k+ and sti

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