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by x0x0 2y ago
> [Apple] had a greater impact on user privacy than f-droid ever will. Sorry, that's nonsensical, unless you mean a negative impact. Apple's privacy is pretend only, as this article makes quite clear.
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by x0x0 2y ago
this is literally the entire point of golden handcuffs. But those are only as tight as he lets them be. He can choose to be happy with where he is, or make a change.
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by x0x0 2y ago
fyi, that's because (from experience) the last job req I publicly posted generated almost 450 responses, and (quite generously) over a third were simply not relevant. It was for a full-stack rails eng. Here, I'm not even includi
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by x0x0 2y ago
I think it's not properly appreciated that Apple fully endorses all of this. For two reasons: (1) the provision of the output of billions of dollars of developer time to their users for no up front cost (made back via ads) is super va
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by x0x0 2y ago
There is a separate article https://www.npr.org/2024/11/28/g-s1-36142/australia-social-m... linked in the post. It says: > amendments [...] bolster privacy protections. Platforms would not be allowe
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by x0x0 2y ago
Same. I use it to bootstrap my writing a react native app from pretty low familiarity with React. It's pretty good at writing screens in broad strokes. You will have to fill in some details. The exact details of correctly threading d
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by x0x0 2y ago
2 points: I've had people not know why I'm reaching out; I've also gotten references selected by the candidate that did not have good things to say. eg "X is difficult to work with." And most people aren't goo
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by x0x0 2y ago
Separately, it's hard to get upset about this when China absolutely does not allow similar foreign ownership of large apps in their country. Look at all the hoops, including domestic ownership requirements, required to sell saas or si
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by x0x0 2y ago
> The risks of drought and the resulting fire or hurricanes and floods is much higher than it has been in recorded history in these areas because of climate change I saw an article on npr [1] which basically agrees with the chart on th
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by x0x0 2y ago
straight off my android phone by disabling wifi then moving through my 2 sims
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by x0x0 2y ago
> RTT to nearest major metro DC should be up to 20ms (where I am it is less than half that) over a mobile network? My best rtt to azure or aws over tmobile or verizon is 113ms vs 13ms over my fiber conection.
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by x0x0 2y ago
> Having your app burn battery for half a second doing absolutely nothing is bad UX. Why are you assuming the app is either burning much battery or even doing more than waiting on current data from the server? For an app that I would
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by x0x0 2y ago
Definitely. I managed to get R2 with their cdn in front of it up and working in under an hour. The same experience with s3 fronted by cloudfront was 2 very long days. Due to my misunderstanding, yes, but aws provided (1) incomprehensible
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by x0x0 2y ago
Hard to say. I'd bet there was a decent chance the eng team stridently warned the execs about what would happen and got overruled. https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/09/it-was-the-wrong-dec... In part
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by x0x0 2y ago
> People out of a job because of you and you're gonna forgo your bonuses. Well, the board seems to have fired him too?
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by x0x0 2y ago
I'm all in on Hotwire, which is pretty similar. They're both fantastic expansions of what server-side rendering can do. They can't really do work as nice as what React can, but you can get perhaps 85% of React for 5-10% of t
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by x0x0 2y ago
is moonbit charging? I can't seem to find that on their site. Separately, it seems like not a terrible plan. Better than eg hoping that Google and Oracle continue to care about the languages and runtimes they own. Go seems reasonabl
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by x0x0 2y ago
> They just don’t have anything in the real budget categories Not sure what you define as budget categories, but apple sell the iphone se for $429 new on their site now. And you can get one through eg Tmobile for $250 or $50 + $10 a m
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by x0x0 2y ago
> Surely there must be a way to run a viable business which is 10-20% more expensive than its competition I think the bottom feeders have driven the cost of garbage down so far that it's no longer a 10-20% price premium to get tru
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by x0x0 2y ago
If only you could check your claims with the investment of 20 seconds and 2 clicks Here, now it's one click https://dogagingproject.org/our-team
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by x0x0 2y ago
I've worked on multiple sites like this over my career. Our pages were expensive to generate, so what scraping did is blew out all our caches by yanking cold pages/images into memory. Page caches, fragment caches, image caches, b
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by x0x0 2y ago
> IE outcompeted that by adding new features until they had enough share to strangle the competition. ie won because it wasn't an utter piece of shit. Netscape 3 crashed if you looked at it crosseyed, and ie3 was significantly more
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by x0x0 2y ago
Sorry, I'm dumb. The value here is engaging this NGO to attempt to figure out who is being targeted and why; go public with that; and that's better not coming from Apple?
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by x0x0 2y ago
I'm glad I'm not the only one who read: * I promised myself never again. Never again would I call a code-yellow. Code-yellows suck, drain team morale, and they leave a lingering distaste amongst all those involved. Yet, during my
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by x0x0 2y ago
In java's defense -- and I share your criticisms -- it offers some very nice things that no other language has. eg want to run code for 6 months at a go managing hundreds of gigs of data, tens of thousands of threads, at high load, wit
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by x0x0 2y ago
That's what I get for reading literally. sigh.
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by x0x0 2y ago
Yes. Most of what early vc practically pays for is salaries (and a lot of that is really just a passthrough to landlords because California is an incompetent state run by incompetent people.)
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by x0x0 2y ago
Done that with $25k saas. The one point where gp is wrong is you really can't sell $4k things; $10k min and $25k is better. eg a good to great salesperson closes 25% of deals, so you have the cost of 4 mqls per one close, and then the
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by x0x0 2y ago
> What information did the employee request that cost money to fulfil? Employees costs money, and so do attorneys. When people won't limit scope, that can require extensive manual review. You've spent 20+ posts misinforming ab
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by x0x0 2y ago
Yes. $30k in compliance costs from a pissed off ex-employee and malicious gdpr requests.

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