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async/await and promises are both just syntax on top of yield/generators. Most programming languages are just different syntax on top of the same core primitives.

> "My 5 year old would respond with a better comeback" "No. We is the arrogant, opinionated "power users" and tech-commenters that think that the know what is best for everyone els…

> "I have a problem with any kind of absolutes." What absolutes? > "I also have a problem with a self-appointed tech commenters deciding what is best for everyone else due to their…

There are hundreds of factors for each company and application. Sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn’t, but it’s rarely as simple as retail prices. Even the same number of "te…

> "iOS/iPad OS? Not hard." Using vague terms like "the platform" are not useful. What does an operating system like "iOS/iPad OS" have to do with the "iOS/iPad ecosystem" ? You're …

Nobody here is confused. We know what devices we bought, and we know what they do and don't support today. That's the point. Otherwise there wouldn't be a discussion in the first p…

Because the scale of these companies gives them immense power and control over people's devices and (digital) lives. The size of the corporation leads to a geometric increase of po…

I don’t care what other people do with their phone. Why do you care so much that I want to be able to do more with my iPhone?

What is “the platform” exactly?

Who said only? But scale is a quality on its own and should be taken into consideration.

If you don’t want the extra functionality then just don’t use it. You can use the iPhone without ever installing any 3rd party apps, but it would be silly to say nobody else can ju…

Trillion dollar mega corporations should give their users all the choice and flexibility they want, not the other way around.

Again, the point is that it should be available to the people who want to.

Had similar issues with the Google recaptcha where the question is satisfied by either all the square or none of them - both being considered a wrong answer: https://twitter.com/Ma…

That has nothing to do with Kafka, or Java as a language. Distributed big data processing systems need big data to actually be useful. Small data that fits on a single machine can …

> "are open source or open core or whatever companies really all that often a slam dunk?" No, they're often not. Many struggle to ever make a profit.

Cassandra (and ScyllaDB which is the same data model) allow for customizable consistency level on a per-query basis. You can send 1 write with only one node confirming while sendin…

Object storage is a higher-level abstraction than block-storage. FUSE and similar tech can do the job for basic requirements like read-only access by legacy applications but rarely…

Dropbox became popular because, from the perspective of 99% of users, it provides an incredibly simple and effective UX for syncing files across devices and locations. And better U…

Use Redis. It's an in-memory data structure server, first created to have the same data structures usable and accessible across processes and languages. Or plenty of other in-memor…

Customers expect privacy.

What is your definition of non-boring architecture? I'm curious as to what you consider the exciting architectures necessary for scaling to make sure we're talking about the same t…

It is a terrible term but in this case it's referring to the client application, not the database instance.