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About 30 years ago we had the sitcom bubble. Tulip mania was in the 1630ies, about 400 years ago. There always have been attempts to exploit others for personal gain and people fol…

Or AI can be a threat: If AI can spit out good enough special purpose tools a lot of the SAP adaption business goes away. If AI then also assists in data migration the moat goes aw…

> I’m choosing not to encode > as >: neither HTML nor XML syntax requires it. TIL, I never questioned encoding >

This thread was about omnipresent flag presence in factories and such. And the way it's done in America is different from many other countries.

Also he dictatorship are (officially) pride of doing their work for the state as Americans work multiple jobs in fear of losing their paychecks, their health insurance.

> it was an awful version control system even compared to what else was available at the time (CVS and whatnot). For example, it didn't support the concept of "atomic commits". Nei…

The fish stinks from the head. And yes, some departments have some freedom and some good people. But it was in the timeframe where the "browser wars" gained momentum, where Microso…

> "... Why would there ever be 65,000 computers on this network?" This thinking can be seen in the allocation of network blocks. Mercedes Benz getting 53.0.0.0/8 is just a "we have…

> btw. Segmentation faults are your friends! Indeed. I can't count how often I told people that segmentation faults are among the best kind of errors. One has the complete state an…

One thing I wonder regarding browser market share is always: How is it collected? I assume Firefox users over proportionally use privacy extensions.Thus they overproportionally won…

You have a small amount of idiots everywhere. It requires just one to spam such a system.

Software availability isn't really the problem. For most software there was no change at all ("connect to that host" or "listen to any device" and operating system will handle deta…

I believe that the initial idea there was to refer to notable landmarks and these company signs are readable from a distance. But yes, they could serve well as ad space.

I am all for public code. But mind: the whole point of Pokemon go is to collect data. If they have to publish it as open data their business case goes away. This may be good and we…

There are so many companies these days doing recording for self driving cars and/or street view like applications. Also sites like Flickr collect huge sets of geo tagged photos, as…

It's quite obvious that data is what pays the game. A lot of data about the players )daily routine, commute to work/school, social circles to other players, etc. which allows to de…

> Apple has $145 billion in cash. This doesn't mean they want to throw it out of the window in a way which reduces their overall margin.

And if they lose the job they lose their insurance, thus their medication. This increases stakes to protest quite a lot, compared to European worker protection and social security.…

They are a hardware company at heart, the do software as software is needed. For building a competitive AI they'd have to hire the talent, which is expensive and then do a massive …

The issue with bank transfers today is that the SEPA system is robust and established, but got no web compatible API. But there are two projects (why one, if you can have two!?), o…

Well, it is signalling. It's signalling that there are competitors which are trustworthy enough for a government and it signals the overall trend one can observe how European gover…

auto_ptr is an exception. Not the rule. Regular expressions in C++ are an example "everybody" advises against using, but it's still there. vector will stay forever and so on.

Very few blogs require frequent updates. Even with user comments.

For distributing having more data centers seems like a prerequisit to me. One can argue about size etc, though.

I spend quite some time in the political field and practically each paper letter I saw (aside from professional mass letters) was on the weird side. So I'm not sure the theory hold…