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I think there’s a good argument to be made it’s not a problem at all.
You don't see a problem with releasing unfinished work? When has that ever been acceptable in any discipline?
Of all the things we are bringing back from the past, why does communist propaganda have to be one of them? Why do people, smart people! keep making almost the exactly same mistakes? Modern socialists have clearly studied history, but how are they able to interpret it like this?
Consider as capitalism grows in complexity the grasp of the invisible hand grows weaker until it loses its grip.
Does the world really need a new iPhone every year when people can hardly afford rent?
Does making monopoly aspiring app for dog walking (Wag) to enrich a few sophomoric founders or defraud a few more gullible investors really constitute efficient rationing of scarce resources?
What if we are an the last stages of a faltering system?
"In 2019, the company released an entirely new version of its terminal for Windows 10, promising a better performance. However, user Casey Muratori was not convinced, claiming that the performance was still far from what could have been done without much effort. To prove his point, Casey developed in just a few days an open source prototype that performed 200 times better than Microsoft's new terminal [32]." "In the…
What blew my mind is not that incident, or that Microsoft devs refused[1] to fix it, but that about a year later they updated Notepad the same way and it visibly lags and stutters on a suuuuper high end gaming machine. Like. What. The. Fuck!? They literally never tested Notepad with large text files! It can take a minute to open a file that every other text editor on Windows opens instantly. It misaligns tabs and fou…
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What blew my mind is not that incident, or that Microsoft devs refused[1] to fix it, but that about a year later they updated Notepad the same way and it visibly lags and stutters on a suuuuper high end gaming machine. Like. What. The. Fuck!? They literally never tested Notepad with large text files! It can take a minute to open a file that every other text editor on Windows opens instantly. It misaligns tabs and fou…
Corporate legal departments have a really strong aversion to GPL.
"In 2019, the company released an entirely new version of its terminal for Windows 10, promising a better performance. However, user Casey Muratori was not convinced, claiming that the performance was still far from what could have been done without much effort. To prove his point, Casey developed in just a few days an open source prototype that performed 200 times better than Microsoft's new terminal [32]." "In the…
What is this in reference to? Running `npm init` just creates a package.json file
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Corporate legal departments have a really strong aversion to GPL.
I wonder if the author could release his code in public domain if he wants to fix the issue. Corporate stance on GPL is not exactly unknown after all.
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Do you have many examples of people who have lost significant power and stayed as rich as before? I'm sure there are some, but think it rather rare: usually, loss of power is accompanied by loss of money.
But if they have the money, how could they lose the power in the first place? If money=power it should be impossible. I would say it is the majority of cases that people who lose power retain their wealth. Violent ends to power is exceedingly rare comparatively.
I don't see why this should be true. If money=power, surely that has nothing to do with whether you can lose it or not? Generally, when you have something, you can lose it sometimes, no?
"In 2019, the company released an entirely new version of its terminal for Windows 10, promising a better performance. However, user Casey Muratori was not convinced, claiming that the performance was still far from what could have been done without much effort. To prove his point, Casey developed in just a few days an open source prototype that performed 200 times better than Microsoft's new terminal [32]." "In the…
I feel like the person writing this article has never worked in a professional environment: getting it right is hard, you always have pressure to meet a deadline (for obvious reasons), but if you don't have a deadline, you can also end up in analysis/development paralysis where you don't spend your time on important stuff. A lot of the projects that person is talking about ended up being pretty good a year after thei…
> A lot of the projects that person is talking about ended up being pretty good a year after their launch Right. His point was that these things are being released before they're fully baked. That's a problem, and one that is much more common now.