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by writepub 7y ago
Apple needn't be the customer's savior - just look at platforms outside iOS, they exist and thrive without an install-overlord "looking out" for users. The biggest lie Apple has convinced the world of, is that Apple is r
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by writepub 8y ago
I hope you see that writing millions of lines of original source code on top of (Election, node, v8,..) and investing tens of engineers at millions per year in cost, to create VSCode is not equivalent to disabling telemetry and slapping a n
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by writepub 8y ago
This is a clear case of people exploiting and perpetrating FUD (fear, uncertainty and doubt), riding on Microsoft's historic reputation as not being trustworthy, and turning it to their private benefit. If you have trust issues with Mi
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by writepub 8y ago
That's mighty dissonant and hypocritical of them to use and benefit from Microsoft's work and investment, and claim that their telemetry is the part they don't trust.
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by writepub 8y ago
I derive immense value from MSFT's VSCode. I don't think the telemetry in VSCode is similar to cookie tracking by Facebook et al. Frankly, I do not understand the fiscal benefit the Microsoft from VSCode, but I'd like to cont
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by writepub 8y ago
Can someone please enumerate how this is different from Ubuntu 18.04 (from Canonical) on WSL? Other than distro differences, I see a LOT of marketing speak in the Github ReadMe, but I can't tell if they really offer any advantage over
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by writepub 8y ago
Not as much as I did, LOL.
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by writepub 8y ago
Like "yhoneycomb" is the exact kind of ID Hitler would choose.
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by writepub 8y ago
> anything Libertarian, (which is labeled "far-right" now) Not just HN. Almost all tech companies are HQ-ed (at least for policy making purposes) in and around San Francisco. And they ALL behave the same way - impose their worl
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by writepub 8y ago
Playbook of valley companies in 2019: - Systemically ban and censor conservative speech. Never-mind that 50% of the country and about 70% of the world adheres to the EXACT same, fairly reasonable opinions. - Launch a massive PR campaign (op
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by writepub 8y ago
> Ah, gotta love Nazis screaming "you have to tolerate my intolerance!". Wow! Just casually name-calling someone a Nazi, because of a difference of opinion is just so damn 2019. Here's a quick thought experiment for you -
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by writepub 8y ago
yes yes - this was completely apolitical. The conservative bent of the community banned was completely incidental, just like ALL other bans of conservative thought by San Francisco based companies. Firefox is just being an neutral arbiter -
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by writepub 8y ago
No - not getting enough bang for the buck at all. - Price for similar spec PCs is almost 0.5X. 10 years back, one could argue that Macs offered better build quality and reliability, but not in 2019! - Apple's slow creep into everything
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by writepub 8y ago
You've put significant effort in defining monoply classification or suggesting workarounds, instead of calling Apple out on unethical behavior. Maybe it's better for Apple's customers for Apple to show some empathy, and not u
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by writepub 8y ago
"Install another OS" is not an acceptable solution, it smacks of technophile arrogance. Try giving that advice to any senior owning a Mac, wondering why their favorite (unsigned) app doesn't launch after updating their Mac OS
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by writepub 8y ago
From October 2018 to April 2019, what exactly changed with Monzo? If you were to objectively take the 2X-ing of valuation, you'd assume their revenues and profits (if any) doubled in that time frame. Hard to believe doubling of real KP
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by writepub 8y ago
This is Apple moving one step closer to completely shutting down execution of apps that haven't been signed - a virtual app store so to speak. Because there's no longer a GUI option to allow unsigned apps by default. It was remove
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by writepub 8y ago
Illegal and unconstitutional. It's not up to the carries to dictate which phones work on their Network. That's the reason for standardization of network protocols Do you really want, hypothetically, a phone maker, say Apple, to ge
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by writepub 8y ago
The title is totally and completely inaccurate. Google is NOT blocking the author from creating a web browser. Google is apparently unable to license the DRM code/binary to the author. Just to set the record straight, the author's
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by writepub 8y ago
13MB [1] for a static site (vugu.org)? [1]: http://www.vugu.org/main.wasm
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by writepub 8y ago
There's a subset of LLVM-IR that IS platform independent. PNacl, and many others rely on this. The reason for wasm's victory is two found: 1. WASM is a stack based VM (LLVM IR is register based). Additionally, instructions chosen
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by writepub 8y ago
The backwards compatibility isn't a testament for POSIX's merit. Sure, please introduce better, safer paradigms whenever you set standards, but enabling legacy software to run immediately is a great value proposition. Also, goadin
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by writepub 8y ago
I would love for WASI/WasmTime to emphasize on: 1. Backwards compatibility with existing libc. (Maybe pick musl) 2. Platform agnostic wasm generation: the same wasm file should run in the browser (with emscripten polyfills) and across
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by writepub 8y ago
Will this be backwards compatible with existing libc?
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by writepub 8y ago
Why not? Remember Apple suing Samsung, other phone manufacturers instead of Google? For "pinch to zoom" type patents?
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by writepub 8y ago
How exactly is allowing customers to accept payments, and not paying them what they earned (if KYC fails) good?
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by writepub 8y ago
This is excellent marketing at best, and nothing to do with values. Lambda school is a YC portfolio company, and this program/post has gotten YC and LS oodles of positive press. The gender of this batch is designed to generate positive
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by writepub 8y ago
The advent of the internet was supposed to put instant access to information at everyone's fingertips, and be a net positive for facts and science. However, people have ignored the same technology's ability to instantly gratify re
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by writepub 8y ago
I'm not demeaning anyone. Sometimes, we can all look at the things we deify, including obscurity and complexity, and laugh a bit at ourselves. Tell me with a straight face that this article isn't quintessential fodder for the show
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by writepub 8y ago
Lucky indeed. Who hasn't dreamt of being a stenographer for Math lectures in grad school, using the hardest tools for the job, including the most obscure window manager known to Linux. I mean, if one don't kill a week getting bspm

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