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by xigency 6y ago
I don't have any specific knowledge of the ARM sale but I've seen other mergers. Clearly, if a buyer is willing to pay a premium for shares, it's because they believe the company is worth that premium. If the shareholders wer
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by xigency 6y ago
> there is due process and recourse for whoever was impacted by this mistake. I wouldn't be so sure. When you're going up against the US government and the largest US corporation it's going to be an uphill battle.
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by xigency 6y ago
> I never liked Softbank owning it, but hey someone has to. I understand what you're saying and this seems to be the prevailing pattern but I really don't understand it. ARM could easily be a standalone company. For some reason
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by xigency 6y ago
I don’t think you have to go that deep. We can simply say they don’t care at all. If we’re hair picking students vs. teachers then it is likely political distinction.
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by xigency 6y ago
That sounds like some great excuses that don’t help any users at all. Since LibreOffice and all other major word processors do support RTL languages it does seem like OnlyOffce is inferior.
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Terrible excuse. Things are read much more than they are written. That’s like using short variable names rather than descriptive ones as they are easier to type. With current IDEs that isn’t even the case and I’m sure word processors could
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by xigency 6y ago
The Arduino Uno retails for around $30 and gives you a 16MHz CPU and 2KB of RAM so I don’t think specs and price are that related, especially when looking at different architectures.
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by xigency 6y ago
If you could solve climate change for less than that, I think it would be splendid. To put that number in context, which is just an order of magnitude, it's $5,000 for every person on Earth, about 1.5x the current US national debt, and
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by xigency 6y ago
If you consider the climate, about 100 times that.
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The original poster is a former Microsoft employee who worked on IE during its anticompetitive streak, so we should be doubly skeptical.
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> Why is this good? Because dev will go back to using browser apps to provide services and the browser itself is a nice sandbox to keep the riffraff out. Just so you know, a lot of us would like to develop our software as browser apps, b
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Ferðast á Villtum Leið: An Icelandic Saga(bluecalx.dev)
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by xigency 6y ago
As far as I can tell they canned most of the Firefox teams driving new features, so that’s how I read the situation.
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That’s one of many antipatterns in this situation we are in.
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I don't disagree, but that’s a failure of the other offerings to exceed the value proposition of Zoom.
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Kudos to you. My son’s Kindergarten is starting in one week and I hope he gets an experience like this.
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by xigency 6y ago
Yes, check AliExpress for ESP32 dev module for a board with pins. Look at LCSC for one with castellated edges. esp32.net has info about more form factors. At my work we have a design that uses the ESP32-WROOM-32 for the Bluetooth and CPU. I
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by xigency 6y ago
Can you explain why? Why would a fork need anything more than hosting and a mailing list?
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by xigency 6y ago
If that's the case I might as well stop using Firefox. I enjoyed it because of its performance and to a small degree to stave off Google. I'm also a big fan of developing new technology to innovate, like with Rust. But Firefox mak
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by xigency 6y ago
I disagree on a couple of points. The idea that it takes armies of people to develop a web browser or that the Firefox's technology would be less relevant because of the existence of alternatives like WebKit. WebKit had its beginnings
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by xigency 6y ago
Would you really pay half the sticker price of college to receive those social experiences only, without the academics and diploma? The majority of those experiences are self-organized and don’t cost the university anything. Even if that is
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by xigency 6y ago
Exactly. That is the premise I disagree with. The general sentiment here is that people have used college as an extremely expensive social club and believe that is its greatest value. I wouldn’t think of investing $100,000 of my current or
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by xigency 6y ago
1) College itself is not worth the cost of full tuition. College tuition costs have increased above the inflation rate for decades to become enormous. 2) Online education can be equal to in-person education and is worth the same cost as in-
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by xigency 6y ago
I think you would have a case if they had any chance of embracing and extending OSS in a real way. Linux and Windows are on different planes. Microsoft works in personal computing. Linux is the backbone of the web. I'd like to see Wind
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by xigency 6y ago
If you're interested in how some multithreaded game engines work, this was a really interesting talk: https://www.gdcvault.com/play/1022186/Parallelizing-the-Naug...
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by xigency 6y ago
Well, it is neat and it does look like Trello. And Trello is now part of Atlassian.
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That's all well and good, but being a foot soldier engineer in a big company, I don't have any influence in either how it is configured or how the work is being modeled. I just know that the page loads took multiple seconds and co
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by xigency 6y ago
At a company where people work on whatever they want, there’s probably a lot of reasons why projects might not be “finished.”
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I wouldn't evaluate the pros and cons of a technology based on decisions made by business executives. I would look at objective third-party comparisons of the encoding and decoding before deciding which is better: H.266 or AV1.
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I disagree pretty strongly with this. For me, the social elements of college were pretty distracting and unhelpful to learning/earning my degree. Secondly, with technologies like Zoom, Slack, and general learning management software, i

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