mankash666

What's this bull-shittery supposed to evoke? Sympathy for your lack of understand of copyright law, or your bull-shit entitlement to CBS' content, or just how disconnected you are from content economics?

Ever run a content business? I bet no. Ever run any business? I guess not - fundamental rules of economics relies on a quid-pro-quo transaction that you seem to not understand.

Or, since geniuses like you have cracked the media market - you should start your own channel - where content is free of copyright and there's zero need for return on investment. Apply to YC while you're at it

Yes indeed. There era of entitlement is upon us - "unless CBS gives away all their free content without tracking and monetizing me, I'll illegally pirate their content - because in 2018 I'm entitled to CBS content without frills"

Please - go file a GDPR complaint

Another user CBS won't miss, I guess

Here's the thing: most users don't really care. The evidence is in the author's own disapproval of the slack app - about it just being a wrapper around a website disguised as an app. Guess what, slack desktop has a LOT of traction, and paying customers!

If an app is sufficiently good on Marzipan, then the users will steer it towards becoming better if they care.

Curious why the oldest application of the blockchain - money - isn't in your list. Actually, I find it mysterious that Revolut and PayPal are more popular when Bitcoin and ethereum are freely accessible

What?! Zuck dropped a cool $21B on the app - I believe he's entitled to expect a return on investment without being bullied, using a public business model everyone knew about. Facebook isn't a non profit, and zuck is actually accountable to investors

None.

None come with $0/annum, spam filtering, deep search, state of the art 2FA, large amounts of storage, large collection of plugins, cross OS native clients, ....

I'm assuming here that the changes are GDPR compliant (given the large army of lawyers working for Google).

If they are, all this brouhaha is from the technophile echo chamber of opinions. The average joe gives a rat's ass for this, as evident from all the non-noise coming out of the regular world. Techonopiles have made an art of outrage - typing on their $3000 laptop or $1300 iPhones built by slave-grinded employees toiling 16 hour days in China - NO HN COMMENTING ALLOWED AT WORK FOR THEM, BTW

Please go use FF & pretend to have privacy online or be better humans. Mozilla - the world leader in disappearing money [1]. Does it really take $225M to build & maintain the quantum browser? And why $135M for 'marketing'?

Mozilla 2016 revenues: $520M

Mozila 2016 R&D: $225M

Mozilla marketing: $135M

Remaining $160M - ???

[1] https://assets.mozilla.net/annualreport/2016/2016_Mozilla_Au...

Can ProPuboica/MarkUp investigate how Apple never comes under the scanner of anti trust regulators either in the US or EU, while Google, Microsoft get fingered for far less. For instance, Android, which is open source, has been fined by the EU, while EU app developers have consistently complained against Apple's app store authorization and related policies onto deaf ears.

The only technicality protecting Apple from massive anti trust regulations with regards to the store is that the iPhone actually isn't a monopoly in cell phone unit shipments.

However, many economists have noted that app revenues (not advertising) is highly skewed towards Apple's platform. When will a $100B app market stop being treated as a feature of physical phone unit shipments, worthy of its own independent regulation?

Cavium is actively competing with Intel, offering ARM for the server space. You can rent cavium CPUs from http://Packet.Net for a lot cheaper than Intel

Qualcomm's server unit demise has more to do with management than tech - Cavium built it's processors with fewer dollars than Qualcomm.

Yes yes - bullying peer reviewed work from being published is totally not censorship.

It'd be nice if Apple's iOS JavaScript core reached parity with W3C features supported on other platforms and browsers. Notable emissions are RTC data channel, WebGl2, WebAudio, iffy PWA support ...

All that speed won't allow a developer to circumvent the app store for features pedestrian in other browsers and platforms

Apple, as always, is so full of shit when it comes to privacy.

"Don't buy Android phones if you don't want big brother type surveillance from Google, buy Apple for China-esque social scoring surveillance. Oh, and we have no use for this score expect fraud prevention, trust us"

Trial by social media apparently overrules the opinion of the actual justice system. The courts acquitted the author of the essay, but the editor paid the price for publishing it. Not only has the messenger been shot, the credibility of an old media house has decreased. Ironically, the news is published on NYT - an org that had the guts to ignore social media lynch mobs while hiring Sarah Jeong. The editor of the New York Review of Books is much less visible and controversial - pity that this happened. Must've been an easy target for a trigger happy boss.

The big question is "what impact does it have on the bottom line"?

If the react native app is sufficient for it's intended audience, then learning dart/flutter, or 2 native platforms is academic at best, as it's unlikely to sway revenues.

Maybe certain use cases can never be handled in react native, but for most, it's sufficient to not impact revenues.

At the end of the day, the user doesn't care about your programming stack, only results, and react native has been deployed at scale by large corps to demonstrate viability for most, if not all cases

A few demo pages would help visualize the end result, before signing up.

Depends - it's defined as "offering nothing challenging". Creating content for others to read online has become as essential as being able to write with pen on paper. So in a sense, a CMS that isn't challenging for the average Joe is indeed better off being 'vapid'

Someone please explain this: Revenues in 2017: ~$21M, loss: $7.5M

But, market cap: $27B

Why?

We need to stop treating Facebook or any digital infrastructure as culpable when it's users are the ones responsible.

As far as Facebook's concerned, it's an advertiser picking a demographic. I bet they don't know what the ad is about!

What next? Hold AT&T culpable for providing internet to these advertisers?

What happens after Rice? Is everyone graduating equal, or do we need to apply the "privileged children" label to some?

What is your recommendation to companies that go to Rice for hiring? Hire the best - whatever their objective definition of best is (which I presume doesn't have a privilege filter)?

Ah, so you routinely do not hire the best candidate for a job at your company? Mind you, "Best" doesn't necessarily mean code-ninja, just the overall best-fit (behavioral, experience, academic, ...) - you know what we all call "merit".

Or are you saying your definition of "best" includes familial fiances of the applicant? Why doesn't https://www.headlightlabs.com/ include applicant's finances as a parameter?

Financial aid very much looks and quacks like scholarship, with a different label attached.

No - this isn't equal opportunity, it's equal outcome. The outcome mandated is college admission.

True equal opportunity would grant aid on a merit system. Unless your argument is that familial wealth impacts merit, which I'd like to see evidence of, it's the fairer way to administer aid.

Why is financial aid tied to family income? Why isn't it granted in order of merit?

Under the current system, if the most meritorious student's family makes over $130K, he/she is saddled with debt, regardless of how good he/she is.

Indeed they can. "Is the iPhone XS the world's greatest phone of the year, or all time?"

"No science involved, but Apple engineers and I agree that the iPhone XS camera is the best"

I bet fanboys print out DXOMark as cleaning paper for their iPhone lenses - "best lens cleanser for the iPhone is DXOMARK ratings of other phones being better"

Why should we consider this fawning opinion piece by a world renowned Apple fanboy, a review?

iPhone cameras haven't been the best on smartphones for years now, let alone among all camera devices.

No problem with that - it's a legitimate marketing channel, which in this day and age of digital proliferation, cannot be ignored. No one forced anyone else to read it, but people are obviously searching in a similar fashion and these answers are getting read.

This is why I don't trust CNet's reviews of Apple's products. They'll convince the customer that "you're holding it wrong" for bones from Apple!