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The U.S. Chamber of Commerce is likely to file suit: https://www.uschamber.com/finance/antitrust/chamber-comments...

I do a similar thing [1]. One of the great advantages to formally namespaced IDs is including a systematic conversion into strong types in your code. It's harder to accidentally mi…

I don't see how it isn't based on time. They use GPS and atomic clocks to establish the time, establish an uncertainty window, and in Spanner's case will have transactions wait out…

Agree, and the timestamp comparisons you can make when the windows do not overlap are the basis of the ordering guarantees (across machines, even globally).

Could be an alias, I have a limited set of aliases for each type of system. But I keep a repository of hundreds of personal shell scripts and it fit better there.

> The main reason we can not use system clocks is that system clocks across servers are not guaranteed to be synchronized. Data center/cloud system clocks can be tightly synchroniz…

Since I'm bouncing between OSX and Linux a lot, I have a shell script with the same name on each that boils down to: if [ `uname` == "Darwin" ]; then pbcopy else xsel --clipboard f…

I want to make a FOSS reader that we can run on our own machines. It would poll on demand and be really good at archiving sites/posts. A combination of feed reader and scraping/arc…

The author is pointing out that someone who clicks an RSS/Atom link and gets a page of gibberish is not going to understand all that XML, and they will likely just go back to the s…

There are a lot of feeds now with titles and maybe a short paragraph of text, like the beginning of the article or a summary. There is a world of difference between sites maintaini…

Related: Reddit is creating an exemption to its unpopular new API pricing terms for makers of accessibility apps, which could come as a big relief for some developers worried about…

I don't have that mentality that this must be the case, for what it's worth. It's just what is most attractive to the end-users usually. And it's what many products do to attract t…