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Then if the team works hard (say, they're superhuman and can work 24 hours a day 7 days a week straight) and do what other teams do in 3 months in one, will they get the other two …

>hypothetical nuclear waste. Chernobyl isn't hypothetical. And neither is Fukushima. And those weren't as bad as they could have been. And we still don't know what to do with all t…

Can we remove undefined features? We can get rid of the GCC optimizations which rely on the premise of undefined behavior to break code to win a speed prize or something, but undef…

> it's that the field is young The opposite. When the field was in its infancy, one was able to keep whole stacks in his head. How complicated were CPUs in the 1960s? How many line…

The problem is that software engineering is hard. Immensely so. On a scale of engineering "hardness" (meaning, we can predict all side affects of action), software engineering is c…

Also, there's literally no way to clean it up in case of accident and you have to keep it out of harms way for thousands of years. Theoretically, we can put CO2 back in the bottle.…

> Cheap (and preferably clean) energy This is the difficulty. Right now, the only cheap and clean energy somewhat on the horizon is fusion, which is 50 years in the future for the …

His biggest (current) problem regarding SpaceX is that satellites aren't mass-produced. If it was, buying a spot on a Falcon or on a Delta would be simple: TCOFalcon = cost of laun…

My question is how would this affect the market? Apple will stay Apple. I don't think they'll go anywhere. The question is Google. If this happened in 2008, I don't think Android w…

More and more are self selecting into facebook because it's where everyone is. Everyone was on blogs ten years ago. Had Google kept up their product, people wouldn't need to leave.…

Theoretically, Google could let you "hide" certain posts if you're not logged in. The thing that killed blogs as they are is that they're too serious. When signing up you need a ti…

All it lacked was a built-in phpbb forum (FB groups)

>And a massive stampede of advertisers and small businesses blowing their whole marketing spend on said chicken That's what newspaper execs said in the 90s

Google killed its golden egg. Google lives off the open web. Two out of four of its main products depend on the open web: 1. Search - the less of an open web, the less is searchabl…

>as in, bring in designers That's the mistake. You bring in UX experts (who also happened to understand your primary users) Graphics design != UX

Yes, but you can have static typing and ease of use

And in Java, and in any language with operator overloading

> The point isn't to prevent people from customizing their use of the software. The point is to create a system where developers get paid and projects are financially sustainable, …

The problem is that it doesn't help. Commercial open source tends to be done for two reasons: 1. Common goal development. Several companies needs a UNIX. Rather than do all the dev…

Though those contributions aren't strategic. As of now, most of Android APIs are in AOSP. How many Apple APIs are?

> I personally was VERY excited for Windows 7 and it proved to be a very solid edition. VERY VERY excited for Ubuntu bash in Windows 10 in the preview edition. You can't compare th…

> Microsoft is selling services more. Maybe, but what I'm saying is that: Apple costs, is closed-source but (somewhat) cares about privacy. Google is free, (somewhat) open-source b…

They're not copying Google. They're taking the worst of both worlds. Windows isn't free. It just happens to come with the cost of your PC, but the PC manufacturer pays for it (and …

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What I also don't understand is why doesn't Debian package it? Is it not fully free or does it have licencing issues like Atom?