The $100k/BTC thesis - in my mind - was always supported by the idea that BTC would be used in the third world. Just talk to any Venmo user about installing a Bitcoin wallet to see that it's mostly a non-starter as a currency in the developed world. But the opportunities in Latin America and Africa (at least where Internet penetrates) are huge.
I will 100% support paying developers selling their software direct. What I will never support is another DRM scheme or online account with each new game, with requisite passwords, and credit cards, and auth factors, and spam, and scams, and...
Are YOU joking? MS sells software. They are giving you ads. And they don't even do that if unless you use the cheap ad-subsidized home version. That's not really related to privacy and demonstrates nothing about how MS operates.
Privacy is a problem with a few types of companies: advertisers who profit from your personal data, smash and grab service providers who develop minimal products which they support with ads, failing companies trying to trump up revenue by selling lists, and companies with incompetent security. Microsoft is none of these and has a decades long track record of keeping information private.
Yes, it's using web technologies, including hyperlinking, so yeah, that's web tech dude. And the UI is not native. You are stuck with whatever platform integration Chrome gives you. Want to use a Mac native drawer widget? Tough luck in Electron, because Electron is a web app running in a Chrome sandbox and there's no DOM/JS binding into that native functionality.
China knows it's the U.S. When it comes to funding Iran, the international system is draconian. No reasonable member of NATO would refuse such a request.
When it was first announced, I immediately wondered if it was related to the trade war. You don't hear about these types of prosecutions often, so it seemed like there had to be some greater political machination going on.
I worked at Best Buy where I would service ten machines or so a day: HP, Sony, Lenovo, Fujitsu, eMachines, and maybe a few more brands I don't recall. HP most definitely had a higher failure rate than average. Now, maybe HP users were more likely than Sony users to take the machine to Best Buy rather than dealing direct with the manufacturer, or maybe HP customers were more likely to purchase Best Buy protection plans. But it was a notable a significant difference.
This is from my public high school. Livonia, MI. Middle class neighborhood largely populated by Ford Motor Co employees. Salary schedule is on page 92. Note, base salaries get up to almost $90k, and that doesn't include additional premiums for running departments, etc. I recall discovering my AP calc teacher made six figures. I imagine this is more common than you think. Many teachers are barely qualified, and command miniscule salaries. Qualified, experienced teachers can make six figures by doing their job well and working a bit on their career advancement.
Funny. It's the native Mac apps that always seem to take up several GiBs of memory each. Run XCode plus a web browser and you're already past the available RAM on a Linux machine where I'm running half a dozen electron apps at a time.
You can do it that way. But you can also just ship the JS/HTML/CSS in a bundle and rely on the client to already have the required electron libraries installed.
You know, like every other piece of software in the world. Your feeble attempt to make this somehow new and weird and bad is pathetic.
You're a moron who doesn't know the first thing about what we're talking about. These apps don't require the Internet. The browser is just used as an HTML/CSS rendering engine with a JavaScript host for programming. The Internet or IPv4 or anything else network related is irrelevant.
Good point. That's why CLI tools like vi exist. You wouldn't even begin to think of putting a windowing environment on a memory constrained machine, would you? That would just be a waste of hardware.
Tons of developer tools like Git clients and IDEs and shit are written in these technologies. That tells me that we're seeing the leading edge of a new paradigm. Once the developers have worked through the platform integration and minor usability issues, the approach will start to take over wherever cross platform is a concern.
You can say the same thing about any GUI toolkit. Faster PCs leads to slow software. This is a universal truth and to fight against it is to ignore new technology.
No, it's the desktop app hipsters who are angry that webapps are what everyone wants to use. The Mac users are especially angry that users prefer webapps to the Holy Designed Human Interface Guidelines of St. Jobs.
Remember back when books were linear, but the the technical revolution of Choose Your Own Adventure overturned hundreds of years of the art form by giving the reader just what they had always wished for: editorial control over the art they consume.
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The $100k/BTC thesis - in my mind - was always supported by the idea that BTC would be used in the third world. Just talk to any Venmo user about installing a Bitcoin wallet to see that it's mostly a non-starter as a currency in the developed world. But the opportunities in Latin America and Africa (at least where Internet penetrates) are huge.
I will 100% support paying developers selling their software direct. What I will never support is another DRM scheme or online account with each new game, with requisite passwords, and credit cards, and auth factors, and spam, and scams, and...
Are YOU joking? MS sells software. They are giving you ads. And they don't even do that if unless you use the cheap ad-subsidized home version. That's not really related to privacy and demonstrates nothing about how MS operates.
Privacy is a problem with a few types of companies: advertisers who profit from your personal data, smash and grab service providers who develop minimal products which they support with ads, failing companies trying to trump up revenue by selling lists, and companies with incompetent security. Microsoft is none of these and has a decades long track record of keeping information private.
Yes, it's using web technologies, including hyperlinking, so yeah, that's web tech dude. And the UI is not native. You are stuck with whatever platform integration Chrome gives you. Want to use a Mac native drawer widget? Tough luck in Electron, because Electron is a web app running in a Chrome sandbox and there's no DOM/JS binding into that native functionality.
Caught up with what we're talking about now?
China knows it's the U.S. When it comes to funding Iran, the international system is draconian. No reasonable member of NATO would refuse such a request.
When it was first announced, I immediately wondered if it was related to the trade war. You don't hear about these types of prosecutions often, so it seemed like there had to be some greater political machination going on.
Really? 1500 people is a large office. I think they can manage.
Charter schools do an objectively worse job with the same money, so it sounds like you offered a counter-example to your own argument.
I worked at Best Buy where I would service ten machines or so a day: HP, Sony, Lenovo, Fujitsu, eMachines, and maybe a few more brands I don't recall. HP most definitely had a higher failure rate than average. Now, maybe HP users were more likely than Sony users to take the machine to Best Buy rather than dealing direct with the manufacturer, or maybe HP customers were more likely to purchase Best Buy protection plans. But it was a notable a significant difference.
Apple has already found a workaround on their new models, so, yeah, there are workarounds.
This is from my public high school. Livonia, MI. Middle class neighborhood largely populated by Ford Motor Co employees. Salary schedule is on page 92. Note, base salaries get up to almost $90k, and that doesn't include additional premiums for running departments, etc. I recall discovering my AP calc teacher made six figures. I imagine this is more common than you think. Many teachers are barely qualified, and command miniscule salaries. Qualified, experienced teachers can make six figures by doing their job well and working a bit on their career advancement.
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Funny. It's the native Mac apps that always seem to take up several GiBs of memory each. Run XCode plus a web browser and you're already past the available RAM on a Linux machine where I'm running half a dozen electron apps at a time.
Try again.
Also, IRC supports almost all those things if you're willing to stick with a single proprietary client and server like you do with Slack.
My god, if Slack dropped support for all those "features" it would be a much better app. Bring on IRC!
You can do it that way. But you can also just ship the JS/HTML/CSS in a bundle and rely on the client to already have the required electron libraries installed.
You know, like every other piece of software in the world. Your feeble attempt to make this somehow new and weird and bad is pathetic.
You're a moron who doesn't know the first thing about what we're talking about. These apps don't require the Internet. The browser is just used as an HTML/CSS rendering engine with a JavaScript host for programming. The Internet or IPv4 or anything else network related is irrelevant.
Good point. That's why CLI tools like vi exist. You wouldn't even begin to think of putting a windowing environment on a memory constrained machine, would you? That would just be a waste of hardware.
Tons of developer tools like Git clients and IDEs and shit are written in these technologies. That tells me that we're seeing the leading edge of a new paradigm. Once the developers have worked through the platform integration and minor usability issues, the approach will start to take over wherever cross platform is a concern.
What ISO, ANSI, or ECMA standardized language do you prefer for cross platform development?
You can say the same thing about any GUI toolkit. Faster PCs leads to slow software. This is a universal truth and to fight against it is to ignore new technology.
No, it's the desktop app hipsters who are angry that webapps are what everyone wants to use. The Mac users are especially angry that users prefer webapps to the Holy Designed Human Interface Guidelines of St. Jobs.
Remember back when books were linear, but the the technical revolution of Choose Your Own Adventure overturned hundreds of years of the art form by giving the reader just what they had always wished for: editorial control over the art they consume.
Props to Tom Cruise for his public service and to Xenu for inspiring such a man to fight for us all.
Is there an IPO associated with this? Cause it sounds like there's an IPO associated with this...
Gecko still has like 16% market share, so the dominance is not nearly so complete as IE/Trident back in the day.