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by xenadu02 11y ago
There are also a ton of business uses like kiosks, point of sale, and field work. These users aren't going to be upgrading every year, but they are quite sticky.
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by xenadu02 11y ago
Yeah and Apple's Services business is also growing like crazy. Doesn't matter, the market apparently considers Apple to have zero stickiness.
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by xenadu02 11y ago
That applies to buying on margin or options with potentially unlimited downsides (among other things). The market can do what it likes; my AAPL shares are paid for. I don't know how long they'll have to buy back shares before the
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by xenadu02 11y ago
We may hit the scaling limit; within our lifetimes we'll either hit 1 atom transistors or as close to it as you can physically get. At that point there's nowhere to go. You can stack chips, make architectural improvements, etc but
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by xenadu02 11y ago
Except almost all of that money will be immediately spent by the recipients, greatly accelerating economic activity. It should provide quite a boon to local entities and the federal government through taxes. Not to mention the various busin
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by xenadu02 11y ago
Having been 330 lbs at one point and now being less than 220 you're both right and wrong at the same time. Your statement is the equivalent of saying its a heroin junkies own fault: Technically true but useless. It also has many parall
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by xenadu02 11y ago
This is also important to remember; most customer service organizations exemplify micro-management, with a whole layer of people who make it their job to prevent the reps from helping customers by gaming useless metrics. Having a flat custo
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by xenadu02 11y ago
The vast majority of services use email address to identify you so diversifying your email addresses helps a lot. I've known about every hack/info leak ahead of everyone else for that reason - I use a unique email for every servic
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by xenadu02 11y ago
No one who has children (and raised them without a nanny) would ever think this way. Kids are far too much work. $50k/yr wouldn't be enough
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by xenadu02 11y ago
Google doesn't much power in the relationship. They have announced several efforts to make OEMs and carriers provide a better update experience. So far it hasn't helped. The OEM's customer is the carrier because the carrier d
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by xenadu02 11y ago
I'm a more productive engineer now that I have small kids than I ever was before. I don't have time for bullshit. I don't build my own PCs, I buy Macs. I don't waste time building some over-architected nonsense on a side
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by xenadu02 11y ago
I think you underestimate inertia. Once encrypting JS is just a checkbox in your IDE, management and lazy developers will just check it.
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by xenadu02 11y ago
Slight derail but I find it interesting that the Swift team is tackling the fragile ABI problem with v3... Something C++ could have done at any time, enabling portable and interoperable C++ interfaces. (There's no reason clang importer
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by xenadu02 11y ago
Most languages/platforms adopted regular expressions from Perl. I rather suspect most will eventually adopt Perl 6 grammars and that may be its lasting impact.
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by xenadu02 11y ago
There are many reasons. Life re-uses structures, hormones, and proteins in different areas of the body for different functions. A mutation can make a structure more efficient in one area and have little effect in another... for now, but man
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by xenadu02 11y ago
If I make a mistake in Python, C#, Java, Swift, Go, Ruby, Javascript, Haskell, D, Rust, et al I don't leak arbitrary contents of memory, smash the stack, overrun a buffer, or otherwise provide huge gaping security holes that allow arbi
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by xenadu02 11y ago
Because we are talking about offsetting credits here. In most schemes the power company won't cut you a check, they just run your bill down to zero (assuming you overproduce for the entire year). By paying wholesale when you have exces
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by xenadu02 11y ago
Except when a startup founder fails at their job the company is usually shut down or the acquihire leaves them with a small payout. When a startup makes it big, many of the rank and file have large payouts as well. American CEOs get paid ob
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by xenadu02 11y ago
Strings and arrays begin with one pointer-sized word that indicates the size of the string/array, thus making all the various mutant versions of functions that work with them unnecessary. And eliminate the requirement to specify length
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by xenadu02 11y ago
Because the Rust type system is memory-safe by default. It aims to have similar performance characteristics as C, but support higher level abstractions without compromising safety. If you don't understand why that is critically needed,
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by xenadu02 11y ago
The law means what everyone says it means. A plain reading of the constitution (and without a doubt the founders intentions) prohibit civil forfeiture. Unfortunately the courts have rubber-stamped the ridiculous legal fiction that the gover
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by xenadu02 11y ago
Apple isn't stupid... the only way to protect yourself from the patent minefield in cellular/mobile is to make sure you are involved deeply in the standards process and creating your own cellular radios, etc. Then you too can have
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by xenadu02 11y ago
The idea that anyone bothers to read patents to find ideas to steal is laughable, at least in the fast-moving tech industry.
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by xenadu02 11y ago
Everyone stands on the shoulders of those who came before. Furthermore if you have a good idea the odds are extremely high that someone else has had the same idea. "Inventions" are almost never worth the name. Things generally fol
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by xenadu02 11y ago
They were trying to build the entire OS using a 100% memory-safe language. At one point they could elide process boundaries and protected memory (and the associated context switch overhead) because the loader could statically verify your pr
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by xenadu02 11y ago
Not in a huge recession (or depression). Even in the current environment capital is extremely cheap and plentiful. In a depression with deflation there is a strong incentive for capital to stop investing because the literal zero-risk rate o
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by xenadu02 11y ago
Full disclosure: I'm on the iOS team at PlanGrid. We're a YC-12, VC-backed company. We were profitable within a year of the seed round. We still have the bulk of our Series A in the bank but went ahead and raised a $40 million Ser
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by xenadu02 11y ago
There is no likely; their truck just ran fiber in front my house in sunset. $40/mo for gigabit.
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by xenadu02 11y ago
The response was a vacuous non-response that didn't address any of the technical points. If Qualcomm provided a detailed technical response I'd love to see it.
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by xenadu02 11y ago
Those of us on Apple platforms have been using modules for a while now. They help a ton because an imported module has a pre-baked interface, not a huge set of header files that get copied and pasted (from the compiler's point of view)

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