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If the stock starts tanking after an IPO, and the company is in upheaval, there might be blackout periods where you cannot sell your stock and can only watch as the price plummets.

Not yet, I'll give it a look.

No, but if it doesn't have software that works on my Mac either, that's one less reason to stay on the Mac. At this point I'm down to one remaining reason to stay on the Mac (Logic Pro) and I'd like to find a feasible alternative.

I have a 32-bit application I use regularly to interface with old hardware (which isn't on the list incidentally; I suspect there are many other niche applications like this).

The hardware vendor isn't going to re-write it. As such I have to...

1) Avoid MacOS upgrades forever, or 2) Let the hardware become nearly impossible to use (there are workarounds on the device itself, but it's really painful to use), or 3) Write a new application myself.

If my 6-year old MacBook can last until I find something competitive with Logic Pro on Linux, I won't be buying another Apple machine. There's nothing else I need it for.

And when they're caught lying, they should be criticized and penalized in the marketplace.

The founders are male, but the author of the post isn't one of the founders. I edited my previous comment to reflect the authorship.

If Apple was transparently a profit-at-all-costs operation you'd have a point, but if you look at their advertisements you'll see them invoking humanistic values constantly. They should, at the very least, be criticized for hypocrisy.

The AGPL is exactly the thing that MongoDB dropped because their software was being monetized by cloud providers without adequate benefit to themselves.

For the most part, I already know how to not step in shit on the sidewalk, but I don't know which way to jump when a scooter comes barreling through, or whether or not I can throw a scooter in the garbage if I find it in my yard. Dealing with new issues shouldn't be contingent on solving every prior issue.

The creators of this tool chose to create a company and try to actually make a living off of their idea. I don't see why this should count against them; in fact with the open-source tools of the 2000s now experiencing "license regret" over cloud services product-izing their software (e.g. MongoDB), it probably makes sense to stake out the commercial territory yourself before someone else does.

And the author isn't calling "dibs" at all; her company's product hit the market first, but she isn't claiming any right to that market.

How meaningful is the benchmark for handling idle connections? Handling more is better, of course, but if the server melts down when 0.1% of them have any activity, maybe maximizing idle connections isn't the right place to expend optimization effort?

If China has decided that its economic relationship with the US is contingent on American citizens (e.g. Morey, the NBA executive) not criticizing Chinese policy, then the economic relationship becomes impossible. Criticism cannot be stopped.

> I think if you look at evolution more closely you'll see that it is messy and is constantly creating dead-ends.

That's my point. The natural selection process for self-driving automobiles is just beginning, as they meet the challenge of the real world. I'm concerned that it is going to mirror the messiness that biological evolution involves.

Any human is the product of eons of natural selection honing our perception and reflexes. The process was unpleasant.

Even if the algorithms more-or-less know how to drive, the best algorithms will eventually be chosen by natural selection. I wouldn't want to be along for the ride during this process.

In the long term, it isn't even necessarily damage. Chinese manufacturing won't be cheap forever; wages are already too high there for them to continue sorting through and recycling the US's plastic. Rebooting US manufacturing earlier rather than later will make the transition to "expensive China" less of a jolt.