Seems like every year the distinction between the two narrows. Wouldn't that mean that AMP's original purpose is soon obsolete once mobile devices (both CPU and network) are fast enough for the job.
Who the heck is forced to use Facebook? If you think it is the only place on the Internet, then I guess it should be broken up. But is anyone really that stupid?
If you really hate Facebook so much, start promoting alternatives like Diaspora. (a free distributed model social network). But what you'll find is that people don't want to sign up for Diaspora any more than they want to keep their Facebook account.
The fad behind the "social network" is fading away, as people are transforming how they use these services in their everyday lives. Maybe Facebook will learn to adapt to the new realities, but I really doubt it.
P.S. my favorite social network was Usenet and IRC.
My website's.git directories are open intentionally. Makes for convenient mirroring and viewing of archives without having to hope and pray wayback machine picked up my obscure website.
I'm not too worried. It's just data on the filesystem, it's not executing programs. And the data is not supposed to contain any secrets. If it ever does then I better rewrite my git history.
The simple answer is money. It's hard to inject advertisements and track browsers into an RSS feed. They really want you to point your browser at their site so that Google and others can track you and make a few pennies per view.
I've started doing the Patreon thing for a few Podcasts. I don't mind kicking over a few bucks a month for stuff I enjoy. Maybe I'm a hippie at heart, but voluntary payment feels better to me than the psychological warfare that modern internet capitalism has turned into.
And it reflects the baseness and egocentric behavior of nearly everyone when they go online. There is a switch that flips when people feel they are anonymous or can suffer limited social consequences for their behavior and they behave like borderline sociopaths in that situation.
This is the dawn of the information age. And a widely connected society is something very new for us. Unfortunately few have adjusted to the change well, and most people are in a social infancy. An infancy where they struggle to find acceptable behavior because they are unable to read social cues online. The Internet has become Lord of the Flies, and the Simon's of the world are few and far between.
Napster came out 16 years ago, the music industry is still here and still making money. You can only cry wolf so many times before people start ignoring you.
If a website doesn't support RSS, then I they don't make my daily reading list. It doesn't mean I don't use websites that lack RSS, but I don't use them every day.
Michigan taxed me for wages I made in California, even though I moved out of the wolverine state two years prior. This happens a lot and has little to do with the pulsing horror that is California's bureaucracy and more to do with how individuals files their taxes. You really have to dot your "i"'s and cross your "t"'s to keep the tax man off your back.
It's a very common trick for people in Bay Area to retire to Reno-Tahoe and cash out their stock to avoid a lot of taxes. The Franchise Tax Board is wise to this one and sometimes will try their best to extract everything they can before they leave. People make think that their money is theirs, but they earned it in California and probably owe taxes on it. That they can leave without paying taxes is more of a loop hole than a right, and you can expect many states to not be very nice about it.
I'd much rather it were explicitly dealt with in federal regulations so that we can deal with it fairly, like a 50/50 split between old and new state. Rather than states like California chasing people for decades on seemingly minor issues as sort of an intimidation policy against tax cheats (the FTB secretly views you as a tax cheat)
No spyware in AOSP. But when people say Android they are referring to about two dozen forks of it. And it's really tough to generalize about such a diverse set.
All I know is that Android dev tools are free, and I can post my shitty apps on the Plat Store. Unlike Apple that enforces arbitrary and ever changing standards and keeps taking my stuff down. Maybe if I were a professional company instead of a hobbyist the App store would be more manageable but for hobbyist hackers, Android is the easier platform to target.
It is clear that our commander-in-chief believes that vaccines causes autism. Despite any evidence. So I don't really worry too much about what some Russian bots are saying when we have real Americans spreading stupid theories.
I've dealt with the textbook industry after designing parts of eBook readers at two companies. Most of my interactions with the publishing industry was dealing with their market manipulation bullshit. A mathematics textbook for a junior college does not need to be updated every 2-4 years, but we go out of our way to make sure students have to buy new books instead of used.
Then there is the whole dirty business of TI graphing calculators manipulating the entire publishing market for K-12 textbooks. One of the eBook start-ups I worked for was hoping to repeat TI's business model of the mid-1980's to 2000's. Where a particular platform becomes the standard part of most public school systems and is directly supported by materials in the textbooks and teaching aids. (the start-up failed, because they managed to screw up the licensing contracts with a few key publishers and everyone had to start over)
... they're just executing a script.
That was not my experience as a student. And those of my friends who are now teachers spend a significant amount of time writing lesson plans. My guess is that textbooks are a tool and useful as a component of a curriculum, but not the complete education package.
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Seems like every year the distinction between the two narrows. Wouldn't that mean that AMP's original purpose is soon obsolete once mobile devices (both CPU and network) are fast enough for the job.
Just force us to use Google search for everything.
Also, I hope someone brings back AOL keywords. I love these walled gardens.
Who the heck is forced to use Facebook? If you think it is the only place on the Internet, then I guess it should be broken up. But is anyone really that stupid?
If you really hate Facebook so much, start promoting alternatives like Diaspora. (a free distributed model social network). But what you'll find is that people don't want to sign up for Diaspora any more than they want to keep their Facebook account.
The fad behind the "social network" is fading away, as people are transforming how they use these services in their everyday lives. Maybe Facebook will learn to adapt to the new realities, but I really doubt it.
P.S. my favorite social network was Usenet and IRC.
obviously I would 'git gc'. Not my first rodeo.
My website's .git directories are open intentionally. Makes for convenient mirroring and viewing of archives without having to hope and pray wayback machine picked up my obscure website.
I'm not too worried. It's just data on the filesystem, it's not executing programs. And the data is not supposed to contain any secrets. If it ever does then I better rewrite my git history.
Tools are included free with a 99 USD per membership year fee...
Uber for degenerates. A monthly fee for drivers and riders, but you get the fee waived if you've been banned from Uber or have felony convictions.
If that was true, there shouldn't be anything left of it. Including backups.
Swarms of bots have filled the void left behind.
The simple answer is money. It's hard to inject advertisements and track browsers into an RSS feed. They really want you to point your browser at their site so that Google and others can track you and make a few pennies per view.
I've started doing the Patreon thing for a few Podcasts. I don't mind kicking over a few bucks a month for stuff I enjoy. Maybe I'm a hippie at heart, but voluntary payment feels better to me than the psychological warfare that modern internet capitalism has turned into.
Also long as musicians are still making less than record label conglomerates then all is right with the world. Or so my masters tell me.
And it reflects the baseness and egocentric behavior of nearly everyone when they go online. There is a switch that flips when people feel they are anonymous or can suffer limited social consequences for their behavior and they behave like borderline sociopaths in that situation.
This is the dawn of the information age. And a widely connected society is something very new for us. Unfortunately few have adjusted to the change well, and most people are in a social infancy. An infancy where they struggle to find acceptable behavior because they are unable to read social cues online. The Internet has become Lord of the Flies, and the Simon's of the world are few and far between.
Napster came out 16 years ago, the music industry is still here and still making money. You can only cry wolf so many times before people start ignoring you.
If a website doesn't support RSS, then I they don't make my daily reading list. It doesn't mean I don't use websites that lack RSS, but I don't use them every day.
Michigan taxed me for wages I made in California, even though I moved out of the wolverine state two years prior. This happens a lot and has little to do with the pulsing horror that is California's bureaucracy and more to do with how individuals files their taxes. You really have to dot your "i"'s and cross your "t"'s to keep the tax man off your back.
It's a very common trick for people in Bay Area to retire to Reno-Tahoe and cash out their stock to avoid a lot of taxes. The Franchise Tax Board is wise to this one and sometimes will try their best to extract everything they can before they leave. People make think that their money is theirs, but they earned it in California and probably owe taxes on it. That they can leave without paying taxes is more of a loop hole than a right, and you can expect many states to not be very nice about it.
I'd much rather it were explicitly dealt with in federal regulations so that we can deal with it fairly, like a 50/50 split between old and new state. Rather than states like California chasing people for decades on seemingly minor issues as sort of an intimidation policy against tax cheats (the FTB secretly views you as a tax cheat)
We live under capitalism, not only is sociopathic behavior not a crime, it's actively encourages.
Those managers can expect raises during their next performance review.
whoohoo someone is thinking of me!
No spyware in AOSP. But when people say Android they are referring to about two dozen forks of it. And it's really tough to generalize about such a diverse set.
All I know is that Android dev tools are free, and I can post my shitty apps on the Plat Store. Unlike Apple that enforces arbitrary and ever changing standards and keeps taking my stuff down. Maybe if I were a professional company instead of a hobbyist the App store would be more manageable but for hobbyist hackers, Android is the easier platform to target.
P.S. I don't think you're sorry at all.
TBH they are both pretty shitty platforms.
We should have 100% clean municipal water in Michigan. And 100% clean government in D.C.
And 100% Clean coal, except if it's not actually clean we have the dump the soot into the ventilation at Mar-a-Lago.
Stop having fun with our games. They are serious business and we can't have you playing with them!
And by waste I mean I'm getting paid to show up, as in I have a fucking job and being here is part of it.
Screaming is bad for your throat.
or Donald Trump ? He even states it more plainly than this.
It is clear that our commander-in-chief believes that vaccines causes autism. Despite any evidence. So I don't really worry too much about what some Russian bots are saying when we have real Americans spreading stupid theories.
I assumed Antarctica, as you can't get more south than that.
I've dealt with the textbook industry after designing parts of eBook readers at two companies. Most of my interactions with the publishing industry was dealing with their market manipulation bullshit. A mathematics textbook for a junior college does not need to be updated every 2-4 years, but we go out of our way to make sure students have to buy new books instead of used.
Then there is the whole dirty business of TI graphing calculators manipulating the entire publishing market for K-12 textbooks. One of the eBook start-ups I worked for was hoping to repeat TI's business model of the mid-1980's to 2000's. Where a particular platform becomes the standard part of most public school systems and is directly supported by materials in the textbooks and teaching aids. (the start-up failed, because they managed to screw up the licensing contracts with a few key publishers and everyone had to start over)
That was not my experience as a student. And those of my friends who are now teachers spend a significant amount of time writing lesson plans. My guess is that textbooks are a tool and useful as a component of a curriculum, but not the complete education package.