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by tl 5y ago
Definitions help: Start a company: You + enough business not to go under in X months = covering living expenses for one person or family = $50k / year starting negative of working up to profitable 10x = $500k / year, by the previo
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by tl 5y ago
We don't know yet. We live in a world where the web is seeing increased centralization on a variety of fronts with Google and Facebook among those leading the charge.
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by tl 5y ago
Your US section is mostly accurate (and mortifying for the "trust the government" argument) in terms of how it was mentioned, but I disagree the "Trump's vaccine" segment. The numbers of the rollout might fit that s
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by tl 5y ago
> and (very) slowly losing it's dominance Is it losing dominance? https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/09/php-maintains-an-eno...
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by tl 5y ago
> To add injury to insult they made OneDrive the default way to save files in Microsoft Office, but sometimes a problem with OneDrive would mean YOU COULDN'T SAVE YOUR WORK AT ALL. It's worse than that. The change to default On
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by tl 5y ago
I have previously. I'm currently not seriously involved in a competitive game. Actual serious gaming competitions (the kind with prize money) take place under circumstances where cheating is immediately obvious and gets you disqualifie
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by tl 5y ago
You misspelt corporations.
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by tl 5y ago
I like Adam Withan's free components (Tailwind), but his paid content is problematic. From the your link the left example is both clearer and more compact then the right version that is a supposed "improvement".
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by tl 5y ago
Just note, that link only works for you; if you have a developer account, you'll have to substitute the ten-digit number for one from your apps.
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by tl 5y ago
The arms race between game publishers and the small minority of gamers who actually cheat is harmful to everyone else. Stub the DRM APIs to usefully return nothing quickly rather than enabling voyeurs who think scanning and logging the cont
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by tl 5y ago
I'm a huge fan of the work Valve is doing, both in gaming hardware and Linux support, but I'm unconvinced helping game-oriented malware run on Linux is good period, let alone the "greatest thing to ever happen to Linux gaming
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by tl 5y ago
From Wikipedia: In 2011, Pai was then nominated for a Republican Party position on the Federal Communications Commission by President Barack Obama at the recommendation of Minority leader Mitch McConnell. Mitch is the real enemy of the US h
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by tl 5y ago
The Apple II enabled expansion and the creation of (for the time, amazing) software like VisiCalc. Starting with the original Macintosh, Apple has had a continuous tug-of-war over whether "creative freedom" is better than a "
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by tl 5y ago
The removal of immediate mode from OpenGL is one of many examples of modern OpenGL's stupidity, partially responsible for creating the mess we're in: https://www.jwz.org/blog/2012/06/i-have-ported-xs
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by tl 5y ago
CNBC's primary sources are one anecdote and an opinion piece from NBC. This is a garbage article in support of a narrative of a fight between labor and capital over remote work. And my anecdote suggests that it doesn't exist.
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by tl 5y ago
Robinhood implemented restrictions before any other platform though they were not the only ones to do so, held restrictions longer than any of their competitors, used restrictions (sell only) in a way that was unique to Robinhood and falsel
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by tl 5y ago
If you want to see GUI evolution and the current state of the art, you have to look at very specific video games. Namely, ones where modding is allowed and acting smarter or faster is a competitive advantage. From the article: > Despite
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by tl 5y ago
Literally opened thread to also post this. Summary (for OP or anyone else reading): assuming you bring a useful skillset and are likely to actually argue over $30/hr or $40/hr rates, you should charge more . Do not assume $50&#x2
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by tl 5y ago
Which you end up applying to random things like ruby because Emacs.app uses a ruby-based launcher and anything less than Full Disk Access breaks dired.
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by tl 5y ago
Not needing a VPN. rimshot In all seriousness, better security. You are leaking whatever payload is sent right after VPN drops. An early version of the application had a defect because it did not check response payloads on an endpoint (th
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by tl 5y ago
Let's Encrypt started in 2014 to address HTTP overuse. In 2011, I (in-house corp app dev) was still stuck with HTTP services (behind a firewall, accessible only via VPN). In 2014, public facing mobile apps using HTTP was prevalent enou
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by tl 5y ago
> Yes, that’s the difference. There used to be a gatekeeper to reaching your audience, but now there is none. A kid can take their 4K phone and make their own TV show with their friends and distribute it worldwide, or a company can get a
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by tl 5y ago
It depends on your level of reductionism; if you believe in Unix-style "everything is a file" then "everything is a document, including the applications that edit other documents" isn't a massive conceptual leap.
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by tl 5y ago
Ok, sure. Why can't we start with something that works with zero styling for one version of one OS on a [fixed resolution] non-touch screen in one language that can't be deeplinked into from other applications for [some people]
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by tl 5y ago
I played with both this and Basilisk II when it hit HN about 9 months ago. Basilis kII is harder to setup, mostly driven by fears of hosting Mac roms leading to incomplete instructions and shady download sites. And Mini vMac (like Basilisk
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by tl 5y ago
From your third link: System Integrity Protection needs to be (partially) disabled for yabai to inject a scripting addition into Dock.app for controlling windows with functions that require elevated privileges. This enables co
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by tl 6y ago
That decade had the right incentives for a good UI design to come together (Windows, Mac, Amiga, etc...). Windows 95 had, by far the largest marketing push (pointed out elsewhere, but Chicago had gen 1 iPhone hype levels) and install base (
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by tl 6y ago
Finding a job with higher pay or a better work environment makes the rest of that team (and possibly members of other teams) reconsider staying. Personal anecdata: one person leaving a team of 10-20 caused 3-5 other people to either leave
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by tl 6y ago
Not sure if this qualifies as editorialization, but "Letters from [2 California] House Democrats to [Internet and Smart TV Device] Providers" is a more accurate title.
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by tl 6y ago
It's 100% true, but only in broad strokes. My personal ladder is - paper - text files / spreadsheets - desktop apps / local db - SSR web apps / single database - SPA or mobile app / cloud storage The only thing that

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