adambyrtek

Recall is not always a replacement, for example recalled cars are often returned to the owner after a fix.

It seems like you're taking this too personally... The article was published in the US News section and covers research of an American historian, so it's not surprising that it focuses on Americans. Of course this is a world-wide issue, but definitely related to the modern culture of consumerism.

Another blog post from Monzo explains this in more details, see the Net Settlement section: https://monzo.com/blog/2016/01/20/how-do-bank-payments-work/

I wonder how does Kickstarter deal with credit card chargebacks? Their support site basically says "talk to us directly please"[1], but it's common for chargebacks to be awarded to customers regardless of arguments provided by a merchant. Would they just consider it the cost of doing business or try to recover the money from the backed project?

[1] https://www.kickstarter.com/disputes

I'm not sure what your expectations were, but a typical size of the option pool is 10-20% which gets diluted with each following investment round.

I inherited a property management system where previous developers used what3words for storing location of homes (since reverse geocoding based on address is not reliable in some countries we support).

However, after an internal review we realised that a lot of our UK properties have locations in Asia or the US... It turned out that typos in what3words often result in a valid location on the other side of the world. The most common mistakes we found were plural words instead of singular ones (e.g. "cats" not "cat") or the other way around.

Of course we could have improved the user interface or added some extra validations, but at this point we realised that what3words is more trouble than it's worth, and decided to migrate to storing lat/long directly. That allowed us to avoid a third-party dependency and simplify the code, since we had to cache lat/long anyway in order to plot properties on a map or calculate distances between them.

I guess you meant "uninformed" not "uniformed"?

Looks like Spotify tried to negotiate over a long period of time[1], but didn't have any leverage, so decided to go public instead.

[1] https://www.timetoplayfair.com/timeline/

I'm not sure where you are from, but it sounds really ignorant to put two completely different countries in the same bag. I don't even know why DOJ would need to be involved, but if that ever happens Poland is likely to comply as a member of NATO with vested interest in maintaining a good relationship with the US [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poland%E2%80%93United_States_r...

Measuring conversion, customer acquisition cost (CAC), and comparing that to their life-time value (LTV) is standard practice, so a business naive enough not to measure the performance of their campaigns is not going to last long.

Most modern terminals support true color now [1]. My current favourite is Alacritty because of the combination of speed (hardware acceleration), simplicity (no menus or dialogs), and configurability (including key bindings) with a simple plain-text file that can be kept in version control [2].

[1] https://gist.github.com/XVilka/8346728 [2] https://github.com/adambyrtek/dotfiles

I guess CDNs and services like S3 made it a non-issue.

You missed another important piece of the comment you quoted: "The videos were fixed cost licenses, not per view, so it didn't matter who watched it or for how long"

In other words this was about the marginal costs of delivering content to additional viewers, not fixed production costs.

The thing is that among "actual people with firsthand experience" the ones who blog are probably outliers as well, so the original principle still holds.

Getting a stable job at a big company to be able to support your family after taking a risk on a startup doesn't sound like a terrible outcome to be honest.

What exactly do you oppose? Founders are the original shareholders, so I guess you don't oppose them having control of their own company? Since they are in control, nobody forces them to raise investment and give away shares in exchange for money. In other words, it's their decision whether to introduce new shareholders (either private or public ones).

As you mentioned yourself, similar regulations exist in most other countries, so it's not something specific to the EU. In fact the EU opened up the airline market and contributed to the spectacular growth of low-cost carriers like Ryanair or easyJet that could easily operate across the whole region (and hire where labour costs are lower), which was not possible before.

Kickstarter goes into great lengths to communicate that it's not a store and there are risks involved: https://www.kickstarter.com/blog/kickstarter-is-not-a-store

> I also deal with this a lot, like many others, mostly centered around logging activity, saving information and todos

I used to preserve and organise all my digital life as well, but at some point I found it really liberating to just let things go. Storage might be cheap, but maintaining a comprehensive archive takes effort which could be better spent on future projects. In fact, I realised that treating historical data as ephemeral helps me achieve more and obsess less about perfection.

Of course this is just my personal opinion, different approaches work for different people.

These weren't posted yesterday, just the RSS feed for the blog had been throwing errors for a while, and seems like Maciej has fixed the bug recently.

Alternatively, they could have spent the original profit or lost it on another investment... In other words the end result was similar to a loan. I'm curious whether the claw-back included a risk-free interest rate.

Sunrise Calendar was so much better than anything else on mobile. Unfortunately it got acquired by Microsoft and sunsetted (no pun intended).

Not sure how this works elsewhere, but in the UK you can find public documents submitted by companies (including private ones) on the Companies House website and find out how many shares are outstanding (as well as some basic information about current shareholders).

I would argue that functional programming is just a tool as well... Programmers are paid for solving problems and code is just a means to that end.

> essentially sovereign and outside national law

This is definitely not true. Maybe you confused it with Isle of Man or Channel Islands, which are crown dependencies with certain autonomy, often accused to be British tax havens.

It's already too late to buy "before the market reacts". This is public information now, so it will be priced into the market price once the stock market opens.

One of these "other things" is buffering of slow HTTP requests. Application servers are usually not designed to deal with that and are meant to be run behind a proper load balancer/reverse proxy. This is usually very explicitly mentioned in their documentation, for example in https://bogomips.org/unicorn/PHILOSOPHY.html

Really good introduction to some of the more "modern" features: https://modern-sql.com/

They could theoretically do that, but this would only work once, so it's not a sustainable economic strategy.

Personally, I often use grep to filter results of a pipeline:

  some | commands | grep ERROR

In fact I do this so often that I have it aliased to g:

  alias g=grep

Maybe I could achieve the same with ack/ag/ripgrep, but I somehow mentally associate these tools with searching over a filesystem.