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by tolmasky 7y ago
I do not believe Windows has more users than Linux, nor does iPhone. Android has more users than iPhone, and Linux has more users than Windows in the server space. Open source browsers are so successful they’ve now officially eliminated clo
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by tolmasky 7y ago
Sure, but the whole point is that the parties choosing to adopt "Source Available" licenses are doing so because they failed to predict how their users would use and profit from it, and in response, are wanting a new arrangement t
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by tolmasky 7y ago
> Exception is when you are selling the software itself, or the services that base on it. I think we're agreeing here: no one actually knows the boundaries of this. I'm simply not interested in being the guinea pig of where t
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by tolmasky 7y ago
This is also incredibly worrying for the original goal of open source which was individual user's rights. I think it will be very difficult to make a license that cleanly allows me a personal user to change/use/distribute the
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by tolmasky 7y ago
If you make your project open source, your goal should be maximizing people using it, not maximizing how much you profit from it. I know they may seem identical, but they aren't: Apple makes a lot of money by making software that has
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by tolmasky 7y ago
If the fundamental thesis is that "the market fails" or that "corporations are irresponsible", then at the very least it should be predictable that some of these regulations will have the real negative consequences (whic
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by tolmasky 7y ago
"Open source unless you make more money than us" is what it sounds like, and might actually be worse than closed source.
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by tolmasky 7y ago
Allow me to restate: "Look how long Servo, one of the few examples of a mostly-from scratch browser engine that we can look to and thus compare (although technically some components of Servo are borrowed from Gecko so even it is not fu
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by tolmasky 7y ago
> Chrome ads on the google.com landing page And the best way to fight this is with a browser that ships with the OS that takes you to Bing instead of Google. Either way, this seems orthogonal to the question at hand. Google will push Chr
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by tolmasky 7y ago
> Microsoft decides to use Blink instead of the browser engine they already had. The stated goal of the EdgeHTML rewrite was to "be fully compatible with the WebKit layout engine used by Safari, Chrome and other browsers. Microsoft
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by tolmasky 7y ago
If I get all the benefits of Chrome without weird Google ID stuff (and without having to download and/or build my own Chromium), then I'd use it. Might forget to switch the search engine to Google from Bing. Now they're makin
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by tolmasky 7y ago
The history of "Blink" has been Company X using it, then eventually forking, and winning: Apple decides to use KHTML instead of developing their own browser engine from scratch. This allows a very small team to focus on user exper
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by tolmasky 7y ago
What did you end up buying?
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by tolmasky 8y ago
The wireless charger is a better experience than putting a cable in your phone in my opinion, but the dock they used to include in the box is a far better than both. It was simple to put your phone in (as opposed to a cable that might fal
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by tolmasky 8y ago
Because customer needs rarely vary that greatly within one brand. The whole idea behind a general purpose computing device is that it is, well, general purpose, no? If you require minimum 4 "high level product concepts" (iPad,Mini
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by tolmasky 8y ago
I certainly agree that a larger company requires different decisions, but I think that they fail to even state their case correctly. Perhaps they have a reached a size where a hyper-simplified product line would be leaving an unacceptable
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by tolmasky 8y ago
Edit: inlining the comment here instead since this turned into a conversation These products just feel like “component pipeline optimization” instead of working backwards from customer needs. There should be 3 iPads, all with the same form
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by tolmasky 8y ago
These products just feel like “component pipeline optimization” instead of working backwards from customer needs. There should be 3 iPads, all with the same form factor, same connectors (can’t believe I even have to specify this): small med
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by tolmasky 8y ago
It is so weird that the iPad Air and iPad mini only support the old Apple Pencil. The iPad mini was my favorite incarnation of the iPad line when it came out, and I was considering getting one again, but I have no interest in needing two di
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by tolmasky 8y ago
I've grown to dislike operator overloading quite a bit, and thus developed a general skepticism with regard to operators in general, and I think this article actually reveals why partially. First off, I'm surprised this article
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by tolmasky 8y ago
If I understand correctly, they say this is only the case when you have less than 1000 flies: @pika/web's installation most closely matches the study's moderate, "50 file" bundling strategy. Jung's post f
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by tolmasky 8y ago
The name doesn't show up anywhere Also, there is too much focus on the least important of the two scenarios: wanting to increase the version number with no meaningful changes. The actually important scenario is the opposite: when t
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by tolmasky 8y ago
There's no difference between our two ideas except that I have put both "versions" together in one string (please correct me if I'm wrong here). The reason I've done this is because the second you make one version t
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by tolmasky 8y ago
Yes, precisely. You could have big flashy releases with "2" branding that as far as automatic updates are concerned are non-breaking and non-conceptual (new logo! we got acquired! better docs! whatever). You can also have importan
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by tolmasky 8y ago
Just to clarify, the real concern is the opposite of what you are showing, when the semver version advances faster than the "desired" version. So for example, something like Angular 1 (v2.5.6), because it contains a change that br
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by tolmasky 8y ago
The absolute most important thing they could do is add a fourth number, at the front, that is meaningless - the vanity number. vanity.major.minor.patch. There has been so much wasted time, and incorrect versioning, just because people have
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by tolmasky 8y ago
If you would like a solution that works in the browser, you can try our project, https://runkit.com . It gives you access to real node (every version), and already had every version of every package of npm pre-installed.
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by tolmasky 8y ago
Is there no way to try this without signing up? I even finally decided I'd sign up and then was greeted with a form that required a phone number.
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by tolmasky 8y ago
Yes. Sales plateaued a while ago (and I think even decreased?). Here’s some data: https://www.statista.com/statistics/269915/global-apple-ipad... Seoarately, I think many people cannot afford a device that starts
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by tolmasky 8y ago
It’s not attention to detail, it’s vision. There’s no purpose to these devices. Sometimes it seems like there’s too much attention to arbitrary details. For example, the thinness and speed of the iPad, but to what end? The original iPhone

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