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Many more enterprisey, open-source averse companies still seem to have a woeful lack of understanding of what open source actually is.

Just yesterday I heard someone saying a down side of open source is that you're relying on people's (contributor's) free time for any feature to get done. He somehow overlooked the fact that the largest and most popular open source projects tend to have full time paid contributors (often at Microsoft or Google), or in other cases have an active community with a far better delivery record than just about any enterprise software team.

The real story here seems to be that the support person had a poor grasp of English. The real outrage should be Adobe's lack of quality control on their support platforms.

And I don't hold it against the support person either. Whether they learned English as a second language or are just not particularly good at it, Adobe sets up their support centers and it's there responsibility to make sure that their (Adobe) customers receive clear and appropriate communications.

When it comes to PHEV and electrics there are sometimes other factors at play as well. Sometimes these vehicles are used as a source of carbon credits and sometimes they're used by a manufacturer to offset their less fuel efficient cars in order to comply with various fuel economy regulations.

I only click ads when the content jumps at the last second and suddenly it's an ad under my cursor, and other such fun mistakes.

This is somewhat concerning to me. While I'm all for blocking obtrusive and obnoxious ads, I'm not sure I want Google using it's position as a web giant and browser vendor to push these standards by default via Chrome.

An open web means I can host whatever (legal content) I want on my website and people are free to view it or not view it if they find it undesirable. Current ad blockers play well into this scheme because they protect the end user's right to view content in the way that they want.

This move by Google on the other hand is telling websites that they have to play by Google's content rules or have their website broken by default.

I'm not sure that's the web that I want to live in.

And if you're a smaller fish than Google or Uber you probably have less IP for him to steal anyway. Plus you have the benefit of hindsight to watch him more closely and keep evidence of any wrongdoing he might try.

I don't think Google can offer immunity since any criminal charges would be brought by the state.

Google could offer not to bring a civil suit against him, but it sounds like criminal charges are on the table and he's trying to avoid anything that might help that investigation.

On the experience front he'd be stuck with the Trump Paradox.

Either Trump's lack of experience will prove to be a huge negative and hurt Zuckerberg due to his similar lack of experience, OR Trump will somehow turn things around and be successful enough to be competitive in 2020 and Trump can claim he has more experience.

Chrome being faster and less bloated was their sales pitch. Keep in mind that Chrome came out as a counterpoint to IE and Firefox in what was then still a very desktop centered market. No one was talking about battery life back then. The solution to battery life on laptops was to create better power profiles, lower powered hardware, and shove in bigger batteries.

Chrome is still a huge improvement compared to the browsers it was competing against. Chrome changed the market and now the other browsers are competing in the world Chrome created. So while Chrome might fall behind in some areas now, it's naive to say that it's become what they made fun of.

If it's a friend there's probably some flexibility depending on the context of the friendship.

But if the "friend" feels the need to file a complaint rather than talk to the person about it then clearly the comment wasn't appropriate.

Well fortunately car accidents aren't contagious like Ebola. If Ebola had spread it easily could have killed far more people than car accidents, hence the panic and need to quickly address it.

> with the V6

Are lots of people actually driving V6 Camrys? When I look at normal sedans the V6 engine is always a significant cost increase and completely destroys the car's MPG

I'm pretty disappointed in the performance just from poking around a little.

There's a noticeable delay switch from Most Read to Most Sold and from Fiction to Nonfiction.

My Dev Tools are showing it takes ~500-700ms for that switch to occur.

I don't have links right now but Valve has published some numbers that seem to suggest the opposite- that their low price sales sell so many more copies of games that they bring in more revenue than when the game is at full price.

Also you can see how effective the model is for indie games. Take Stardew Valley for instance. A hugely successful indie game that's made the author a ton of money. And it still sells for less than Harvest Moon/Story of Seasons.

Are you saying that NoDak has generally available fiber internet at reasonable prices?

That's are rather bizarre reason to ban captive animals. Why ban them over a natural disaster rather than whether they can be adequately kept in captivity?

I've been a little skeptical of Tesla lately but I love how quickly The Boring Company has gone from a tweet that seemed more like a joke than a real plan, to a hole in the company parking lot, to now actually working on prototypes and real plans.

Also SpaceX is killing it. I'm not a Musk fanboy but IMO he's 2/3 right now in the companies he's working on and Tesla still has a decent shot of bringing that back to 3/3

> I'll bet you can't name any other large company that's made such a large commitment to personal work space.

Pixar (whose HQ was designed by none other than Steve Jobs)

https://www.buzzfeed.com/adambvary/inside-steve-jobs-mindblo...

It would absolutely require some level of Windows/OS support.

While you could definitely allow apps to run arbitrary ARM code on it, I also think it would be quite feasible for the hardware or the OS to expose a simpler API as well with basic functions like 'queue download' that would simply take a protocol, a URL, and a disk location.

I don't know that this is what they're doing, but what I've wanted for several years is a dual power mode computer.

In powered up mode it would operate like a normal x86_64 chip, full power and full speed. But in low power or standby mode it could switch to an ARM chip or core and maintain access to RAM and disks to let it run updates and downloads in the background.

For example, right now to update Windows or Steam games or other software, I have to leave my computer running at full power. Generally depending on what I'm doing I want to throttle or stop the downloads so it doesn't interfere with my normal use. But I also hate leaving my desktop on at full power and with the fans running just so it can do downloads and background tasks.

Or an ARM core could run a simple file server, letting me access files and information stored on my desktop without leaving it on all the time.

TL;DR: I wish I could have an ARM core in my desktop to run background tasks like downloads and other things Raspberry Pi-ish levels of performance.

How many people have died in Waymo cars?

If they can put out a stable mod API and reach feature parity (but not necessarily compatibility) the C++ version will quickly replace the Java IMO.

The biggest things holding back the game today are poor performance and lack of a mod API and the Windows 10 version already does great things for performance.

Banks operate in a predictable, fairly transparent framework. Inflation devalues your money but the process of inflation is well understood and the occurrence/details are public knowledge.

Cryptocurrencies values can fluctuate rapidly and there's a strong precedent for your money disappearing in an exchange or otherwise.

> pushed the envelope on moving the Industry forward

They absolutely have not. From the way they treat their employees, to the way they treat their competitors, to the way they treat their drivers, nearly everything Uber has done is a demonstration of the worst parts of the industry and an example of what not to do; things that we should hope will never happen in the industry.

I think there's a subtle difference. While dogmatic is often used when in context of religions it's not exclusively related to religion.

Google's definitions of religion:

>the belief in and worship of a superhuman controlling power, especially a personal God or gods.

>a particular system of faith and worship

>a pursuit or interest to which someone ascribes supreme importance

and of dogmatic:

>inclined to lay down principles as incontrovertibly true

I think the most precise use of religion is in connection with faith or a core belief system and lifestyle (which some open source advocates certainly fit), while strong positions in a particular topic or narrow scope, e.g. the GPL, tend to be better described as dogmatic.

Which, reading back to the parent comment and the scope of the thread, I guess either could be used fairly appropriately.

A better place of where I think dogmatic would be the preferred wording would be in reference to tabs vs. spaces or vim vs emacs.

Imperative programming is just functional programming where some (many) of the inputs and outputs are hidden :)

Somewhat off topic, but I've noticed people using the word 'religious' in arguments like this to mean more or less 'positions that one holds that are not based on logical reasoning but strong personal preference'.

Wouldn't dogmatic be the more appropriate word choice?

G Suite absolutely destroys Office 365 at the web experience. Gmail is far superior to Outlook online, and all of the Google Docs/drive online experience is extremely well integrated, fast, and intuitive compared to Office 365.

Microsoft wins hands down at the desktop experience though. If you have big or complicated documents and spreadsheets you can't beat Office.

For me personally, G Suite wins because by the time I need Word or Excel I'm going to reach for a full powered solution like Latex or Python.

Really though, having seen the vulnerabilities that have been found in many companies' websites, and their responses to them, I'm not so sure how trustworthy we can assume them to be.

I prefer to use Amazon or Paypal as payment options on those sites whenever possible

From my somewhat limited reading it seems that the only inherent performance hit in Erlang's implementation is that all its processes can be interrupted externally, I think the term is cooperative multitasking?

Otherwise I think the rest of Erlang's performance is because it's optimized for reliability and distribution rather than raw performance.