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dwrowe··on Streaming Video Will Soon Look Like the Bad Old Days of TV
“You wouldn’t download a car” arguments aside - what is the ethical boundary for “They’ve made enough money - I’m entitled to enjoy it for free” ?
dwrowe··on Stadia Founder's Edition
Is there any sort of survivability clause in that agreement? Genuinely asking - not directly familiar with it.
dwrowe··on Stadia Founder's Edition
Except Valve could issue a final update that disables the DRM Check, and the game is still playable locally, right? More likely than Stadia developing a local client to sync game content/licenses to.
dwrowe··on GM and Fiat Chrysler Unmasked as Tesla’s Source of Cash
Maybe, I haven't reviewed the numbers in detail - but the need for GM/others to purchase the credits at the rate they do, enables them to continue pushing the ICE autos - possibly increasing the overall market supply, which in turn is just as bad / worse? Something to watch, for sure.
dwrowe··on GM and Fiat Chrysler Unmasked as Tesla’s Source of Cash
I’d assume it’s an “offset” right? So not making things “better” - just not as “bad”
dwrowe··on Car Owners Should Control Data Collected by Cars
This. Also - I have doubts about how much data is collected, and by whom - who is paying for the bandwidth on a cellular network to send this data...somewhere?
dwrowe··on DigitalOcean launches its container service
AWS is much more structured to treat infrastructure like cattle rather than pets. DO blends the line a bit, but in spinning up a ‘droplet’ you’re leaning more on the ‘pet’ type of thinking. I’m super bullish on DO - they have the API to act like AWS (to a degree) but the UI to support small/individual teams.
dwrowe··on DigitalOcean launches its container service
Have you actually dealt with their support though? Your example of going from (seemingly) zero servers to 17 across 3 continents in 24 hours (indicating unforeseen absolutely incredible traction and growth) seems significantly less likely than getting a response from their support team increasing usage limits within the same timeframe.
dwrowe··on No one’s ready for GDPR
That perception is likely more true than many Americans would prefer to admit.
dwrowe··on No one’s ready for GDPR
Genuine question as it pertains to US-based companies. How can a foreign law have such seemingly deep impact on US-based companies, let alone, situations where the visitor is not paying for services? Maybe this gets into International Law, but even if I'm not _targeting_ European visitors, say they cross some threshold by percentage compared to US visitors - why must I abide by a foreign law?
dwrowe··on iOS 11 Safari will automatically strip AMP links from shared URLs
People here are users too. Unique culture, sure - but this audience counts.
dwrowe··on Idaho has made it easier for companies to enforce noncompete agreements
What is the issue with "at will"? That benefits both sides - unless I'm unique in the fact that I've never had a negative experience with it?
dwrowe··on Show HN: An easy way to convert time
Doesn't seem to like any Unix timestamps less than 10 characters long?
dwrowe··on Show HN: Share-this: Medium-like text sharing
Looks interesting! Getting some odd skipping around testing on mobile (iOS / Chrome), where holding on a word skips to the bottom of the page, to an unrelated selection.
dwrowe··on Casper, Mattress Maker, Raises $170M and Plans I.P.O
Nothing was misunderstood. They want lawsuits for reviews stopped - lawsuits for reviews by the offended party, with deep pockets, is effectivly censorship - they can control the message. The poster never implied they can or cannot be sued - just that they shouldn't. Opinion vs fact.
dwrowe··on Casper, Mattress Maker, Raises $170M and Plans I.P.O
They said you "shouldn't" be able to. Being able to sue for anything becomes effective censorship by those with the deepest pockets.
dwrowe··on ‘The Internet Is Broken’: Ev Williams Is Trying to Salvage It
I read the word "pivot" and later in the article, it mentions their raise and valuation. It doesn't read like the layoff was money related, rather pivot related.
dwrowe··on Mobile Website Speed Testing Tool
That's certainly true, but to his point - it's an 8ms call - is it worth the number of points Google knocks off?
dwrowe··on We might live in a computer program but it may not matter
I'm not understanding your point - which may be completely on me - but your example here - why would the "child" universe require more memory than the parent has available?
dwrowe··on We might live in a computer program but it may not matter
I've never understood this argument in the context of this discussion. Why would the constraints of the simulation apply to that which is running the simulation?
dwrowe··on Ask HN: How happy are you working as a programmer?
There are several aspects of life that are not fair. However, there are countless anecdotes of people psychologically sustaining to learn something new and improve their station in life.

I will say, I support opening opportunities to learn. Not everyone has a computer - help foster an environment that gets people access to one.

You cannot force someone to have the willpower to work on this, the _best_ you can do is offer opportunities.

dwrowe··on N|Solid – Enterprise Node
Why does 'Windows' support preclude an offering from being considered 'enterprise'?
dwrowe··on Taking the 'D' Out of CRUD with Soft Updates
Unless you wanted to have a count of versions, without having to execute a second query. Or have some future means of rollback - 'active' versioning system?
dwrowe··on Taking the 'D' Out of CRUD with Soft Updates
Why? They're modifying the main table, which isn't growing with each update. The changes are simply tracked in the history table.
dwrowe··on [dead]
It's times like these that keep me relatively more calm when my stuff goes down, even at the fraction of a percentage scale I'm running in comparison. I wish them luck in fixing things.
dwrowe··on Retain Scroll Position in Infinite Scroll
FYI - clicking through to the demo pages appear be NSFW.
dwrowe··on Judge sentences Bradley Manning to 35 years
You can love your country and despise the actions of its government. "America" is more than the government.
dwrowe··on Loyalty and Layoffs
You need to re-read the gp comment. Knowing what you're worth is different than what companies value your worth. A company may undervalue or overvalue your work - the responsibility is on you to determine if you're getting screwed or not - it isn't dependent on what others are getting.
dwrowe··on Ask HN: do you trust your "secure email" now?
His professional email was likely secure moreso than we'd ever see. However, directing agency resources to cover for an affair would be more blatant than someone discovering his GMail drafts folder. Being in charge of security and having excellent delegation / leadership - doesn't make one the technical expert.
dwrowe··on SQL Injection Galore
It is a small window, however, wouldn't it be better to filter the values into an easily identifiable 'clean' variable? The code is still using $_GET, and while it may have been filtered above me, I have no indication of that - versus - $foo->cleaned('var') - where I can reasonably assume it is clean.
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