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Re:Abandoned Motorola Headquarters (2020) on Friday August 13, 2021 @02:47PM (#28172767)
Screen capture, Nope. Drone footage, yes!
Re:Sublime Text 4 on Friday May 21, 2021 @05:56AM (#27232157)
Sublime sustained me for years, until I switched to VScode for complaince .. FML.

Go sublime!

Netflix deserves a mention:

https://netflixtechblog.com/

Imagine being the CEO of a company whose capital structure has IC related debt that amortizes over 10 years, having to report next quarter to shareholders, and your tenure is measured in quarters not years, if you cannot deliver on the topline.

How can you responds to requests to buy into a charging network when your response to market forces is existentially reptilian?

That is how IC inertia has allowed an innovator like Tesla to come into being.

Re:Delta Chat – decentralized chat via email on Sunday January 24, 2021 @06:49PM (#25897437)
Great endeavor! Trying to think how One would make the “...” (jill is typing) for Delta Chat considerig that it is all happening over SMTP.
Our giants came before us, swallowed the enormous complexity and presented us with simpler abstraction to build on.

When you move your work across environmental abstraction, these beneficial abstracts tend to show their cracks.

By keeping the production and the development environments similar, my team avoids deployment surprises and disasters. More importantly, we avoid the escalation calls that take you away from the family dinner table.

If you are gonna delpoy in a docker container, maybe develop in the docker container.

Been an iPhone prisoner/beaten-wife/lover since 2010. Whatsapp charged $1 per year for update. Happy to pay that in exchange for knowing that my familyand network information and more importantly info about my kids won’t be sold for pieces million times a minute on the digital ad auction markets.
Re:Facebook: Free as in Bullshit on Saturday December 19, 2020 @10:03AM (#25477780)
“Facebook’s argument is along the lines of arguing that the police shouldn’t crack down on burglaries because doing so might hurt pawn shops that have been thriving during a years-long crime spree.”

Excellent comparison to put the point across.

Re:Rocky Linux: A CentOS replacement by the CentOS founder on Wednesday December 16, 2020 @09:10PM (#25451541)
Requesting the name change to the more subtle “RoachDB”
Same boat fella. But, The MBPpro just handles to much of my day to day critical stuff. At work, we do not allow cutting stuff edge into production on first release. That old-fashioned advice has served us wisely for a decade and led to many stress free evenings after a day of release. Surprises are fun for birthdays, not so much for mission-critical deployments. Waiting until 3rd gen, then donate current workhorse to a school and snag the new Apple M3
Re:Why I Left IBM to Work on CockroachDB on Tuesday November 17, 2020 @08:14PM (#25132047)
Might I suggest we add a touch of subtlety and call it “RoachDB”. Still the that undying stoic of the much disliked critter, but without invoking the full image of a cockroach. Love the work you guys are doing <3
Re:DoorDash S-1 on Friday November 13, 2020 @01:14PM (#25085482)
Nobody showed them more love than I did. Just because it felt like such a fun way to get food while still supporting the gig-workers. Until, I started noticing the huge markup on sides/entrees that I recall costing way less on the restaurant menu.

Did prices go up? Nope, it was doordash.

A side of garlic sauteed edamame is $4.75 on the restaurant menu, but $7.85 on the delivery app. $7.85 isn’t too much for a good tasting side, but I am not a fan of being lied to about pricing. Felt like getting ripped off.

It obliterates my trust in today’s delivery apps and damages the value proposition.

One wonders: How much of the revenue is coming from markup in menu prices? What happens to this revenue when the average consumer grows wise to these markups?

Re: https://www.forbes.com/sites/suzannerowankelleher/2020/02/27...

Re:Dr. Whitmore on Pandemics on Friday April 24, 2020 @09:10PM (#22974682)
Pretty good historical account of pandemics based on facts, but might wanna make it more apparent that this coming from a fictional novel.
Re:The “mail is hard” myth on Sunday September 01, 2019 @10:35AM (#20852488)
Managed mail server clusters for years with an ISP. Agreed, too many things that can break and cause PITA.

However, ‘Hard’ is a subjective term. The deeper you are in a trade or the longer you have done it, the easier it comes to feel. I visited a family farm and found it very very hard to squeeze milk outta buffalo. My great uncle however has dealt with that buffalo that for years and didn’t sweat it one bit.

In a similar vein, do I really want to tend a buffalo in my backyard, when I can get the milk I need from a supermarket?

Thanks!!

Honestly, I cannot afford the ghostwriters.

Good ghostwriters demand upwards of $250 for 1000 words.

They have their place and could be useful of one is writing structured non-fiction. With fiction, voice is very important. And, the use of ghostwriters would compromise that IMHO

Edit: added gratitude:)

Glad to answer questions. Maybe, I should do an article on things I learned getting a book from concept to published with Kindle Direct.

SHOW HN: Wrote & published a SCI-FI thriller in 5 days. Need feedback please.

Don’t know what came over me. Just a regular hacker here. Have procrastinated to death before, but this time, I said, fcuk it. No, “I’ll write it one day”, just started writing.Anyhoo, Need to know if it is any good. Please be brutal.Premise: ————————Every animal stays and guards its territory. Except Humans. We have yearned to explore for centuries with sea faring ships. And, lately with...

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