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Re:The Best iPhone on Thursday July 28, 2022 @07:49PM (#32271461)
I love the box design of iPhone 12/13 mini, otherwise would have gone for this!
Re:Meta is raising the price of the Quest 2 to 400 USD on Tuesday July 26, 2022 @03:24PM (#32242751)
They were throwing money at the problem, everything has to come down at the end lol
Re:Meta is raising the price of the Quest 2 to 400 USD on Tuesday July 26, 2022 @01:52PM (#32241464)
What, why? Running out of money or cost-cutting?
Re:Why is it so hard to give Google money? on Tuesday July 26, 2022 @01:23PM (#32241133)
It's because they don't know or even understand what customer or customer service is, they automated pretty much everything and made sure on humans are involved. This is to drive profits and grow in scale and cut people/cost.

They use to be the standard for great software products (like gmail), not anymore all their products now suck, full of bugs and barely useable (pretty much reminds me of microsoft 10 yrs ago)

After Eric schmidt in the reigns, they've become one of most profit minded and evil companies of all.

This company needs a reboot with good leadership!

Re:Notice of termination of Twitter merger agreement on Friday July 08, 2022 @08:44PM (#32030096)
for sure :-)
Re:Notice of termination of Twitter merger agreement on Friday July 08, 2022 @06:17PM (#32028236)
I like him for his entrepreneurship and big bold bets.

However related to Twitter, looking what's happening since his first tweet, this was the plan all along. Come up with an excuse to get out of the deal. Just he was trying to cash in all the marketing he can like always.

I don't think its going to work the way he thinks in this case, its atleast going to cost him $1b

Re:I fucking hate Jira on Monday June 20, 2022 @04:19PM (#31815330)
JIRA is the definition of building everything for everybody and let them customize it, it's got complex and to a point highly productive engineers don't want it anymore, it's a OVERKILL!
Re:If OpenSSL were a GUI on Friday June 10, 2022 @03:35PM (#31698495)
A great way to visualize the complexity of OpenSSL

Like others mentioned FFMPEG is even complex :-)

That's the driving force behind these connected cars. They'll make you pay for the car and collect all the data they could and make the money off it.

Compare it to google, they're valuable because of the data that's being stored about every individual, imagine the same thing for Tesla.

Data is currency

Re:WorldWideWeb.app on Friday June 03, 2022 @05:54PM (#31614171)
Good work, This will be a great tool for designers and non-dev's who don't know or don't like to start from command line!

Just add live push/reload, you're good to go!

Like other commenters, there are a million ways to run a web server nowadays npm, python, ruby, etc

That's awesome, finally they get it!

All credit goes to Tesla.

Buying a car with option to customize, same fair price everyone pays and ordering online without talking to anyone is the way to go!!!

finally!
Use of bots to flag and block content is getting from bad to worse.

We had a YouTube video that we manually recorded and uploaded. Some random guy no way related to it claimed copyright without any proof and YT immediate removed from listing.

The appeal process is so complicated and probably have to deal with another bot, it was not worth the process so we just ignored.

What i've learned is, if anybody want to blackmail or jealous of your channel, all they have to do is submit a request and your video will be out with an endless and almost impossible appeal process.

Re:YouTubeDrive: Store files as YouTube videos on Tuesday May 24, 2022 @03:08PM (#31496266)
BEWARE: Until they clamp down and delete the files, you lose your data.

Good technical experiment though!

Re:460M Indian Internet Users Are Now on IPv6 on Thursday May 19, 2022 @02:20PM (#31438219)
That's because most of the people got online via mobile phone. It only grew significantly faster due to Covid and Indian market flooded with cheap smartphones made locally as well as from China.
Re:I want an iPhone Mini-sized Android phone on Tuesday May 17, 2022 @01:46PM (#31414070)
When did you see they promote mini? It's always the PRO since high margin is only there.
Re:I want an iPhone Mini-sized Android phone on Tuesday May 17, 2022 @01:13PM (#31413649)
100% with box design!
Re:Japanese audio brand Onkyo files for bankruptcy on Sunday May 15, 2022 @03:37PM (#31390320)
What's astounding is, how they didn't adapt to new demands or pivot?

Got comfortable or outdate?

Re:Twitter CEO fires two top executives, freezes hiring on Thursday May 12, 2022 @04:39PM (#31359897)
And keeps himself? Didn't he hire or was responsible for hiring these two?
Re:Flutter 3 on Wednesday May 11, 2022 @07:42PM (#31347448)
Great initiative. Wondering why can't Google make this a priority and make it fast instead of focus on desktop and other device support.

Do they know that a ton of devs are not jumping in because of this one simple issue and sticking to other frameworks?

Re:Flutter 3 on Wednesday May 11, 2022 @04:44PM (#31345527)
I still can't find, in the docs, there is an open bug/feature request to NATIVELY copy/paste from web?

Do they support copy / paste on the web app without using a special widget?

Re:twitter/the-algorithm on Monday April 25, 2022 @06:02PM (#31161317)
Understood and several of us have dealt with large complex systems.

Open sourcing algorithm or code is not about everyone go and analyze the same, instead when controversy or issues arise it'll be readily available for independent experts to review it.

Although you make some points, looks like you never owned or built an environment. At one point we had around 11 data centers, and it was a freaking nightmare to build, run and maintain them. Nothing wrong with doing it, there is a hidden cost to it.

Leaving cost aside, once we migrated to AWS we could focus on our business more than the environment.

It is not your fault!
From Do No Evil to Do Evil, going forward will avoid any Google product in the name of FREE (you're the product), mine the data for years (and know everything about the user) and later start charging for it!

It is HOSTAGE and Evil!