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UserIsUnused··on French high court rules that Steam can’t ban users from reselling digital games
What do you mean by technical?
UserIsUnused··on French high court rules that Steam can’t ban users from reselling digital games
Steam would get ts cut on reselling, and it might give devs/pubs a share. Right now, customers are less and less for traditional single player games.
UserIsUnused··on Too Many Video Streaming Choices May Drive Users Back To Piracy
Market theory must accommodate things like piracy, just like google considers fines just some risk in their practices.
UserIsUnused··on The boring technology behind a one-person Internet company (2018)
I would go with spring boot. Sure rails is a faster start, but when it grows it becomes a mess. Spring boot gives you the fastest start in JVM-land, and if your product is successful and you need things to scale, or features are getting complex, you still have the spring framework in the insides that you can manage. Boot is almost just defaults.

But spring boot wouldn't exist, if rails didn't change the landscape of web development.

UserIsUnused··on MSVC's implementation of the C++ Standard Library
I think the intent was not stating a connection but just a old vs new pros and cons.
UserIsUnused··on Richard M. Stallman resigns
He doesn't understands power relations because he ignores them. He doesn't bend, which makes him a general outsider of society, but he expect other to act in the same manner, of not bending, because he doesn't understand social ties.

There are various few occasions that you see RMS bending. Like plane travels (which require IDs), that he just does when he needs to cross oceans. So to him, a person that dd something because of a power relation with an employer is just weird.

UserIsUnused··on Amazon Changed Search Algorithm in Ways That Boost Its Own Products
It depends if it operates as a store or as a market place, laws are different.
UserIsUnused··on E-books at local libraries: a fight between publishers and librarians
As usual, RMS is right about DRM.
UserIsUnused··on Don't build growth teams
And it works. Amazon is the leader. Are you sure it's despite its UX or did UX contributed?
UserIsUnused··on Don't build growth teams
Depends on how you frame it. There is 80 of difference when you think about "how many users say yes for each No"

So, what do you want to know, "yes for every 100" or "yes for every no" ? It matters.

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