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There won't be any.

I'm old enough to remember this happening: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standardization_of_Office_Open...

Basically, Microsoft furiously bribed their way into formally standardizing the utterly broken MS Office formats, so EU and potentially other regulators couldn't mandate them to be "interoperable" with existing standards (e.g. OpenDocument, based on OpenOffice, which was on its normal way to become standardized with no fast tracking and no bribing). They even called it "Office Open" to foster confusion.

They can do whatever they want and get away with it because a big part of their business model is, much like Oracle and SAP, based on bribing government bodies across the world.

> Youve lost the OS, and the server realm. Lose the developers, and youre on your way to becoming the Xerox of the 21st century.

This is a very HN take. MS is terrible or at best "second tier" on everything they do including gaming, they also lost the mobile race, they're very likely going to lose the AI race, but they'll still hold hostage of the vast swathes of average white collar workers with Office, people that don't care at all about technology as long as they have Word and Excel.

There's a reason why writing .docx was one of the first proper skills that Claude got.

> know which projects are in desperate need of funding

keyword: desperate... until the metric becomes the target, and stops being a good metric.

Second this. There's no money in donations. Also the target demographics for donations is individuals, who rarely donate and are kind of desensitized to the whole thing at this stage (as everyone and their mother asks for donations).

Companies need to jump through legal and accounting loopholes to donate, they very much prefer a simple purchase, which is nice! But setting up actual purchases is a whole different ordeal with open source, now the question is why is the company paying for something that's free?

Source: my own 5-stars open source project with 500k+ active users that paid for 3 coffees in total over 10+ years. I still get like $2 sometimes after a long while.

Color me impressed. Even being very well versed in database design myself, this is just pragmatic and straight to the point, the way I'd have liked it back in the day.

I think the main problem of how 4NF and 5NF formal definitions were taught is that essentially common sense (which is mostly "sufficient" to understand 1NF-3NF) starts to slip away, and you start needing the mathematical background that Ed Codd (and others) had. And trying to avoid that is how those weird examples came up.

And that's how greed ends up destroying itself.

They can easily get away with soccer because everyone is glued to the match. Tennis? Eh. Golf? No way.

If you know Spain, you know this makes total sense:

- Half the country or more just doesn't work or do anything else when there's an important match anyway.

- There's a big intersection between "people that doesn't care about soccer" and "people that knows how to use a VPN"

- Matches are usually at night, past 7pm. It's well after the average citizen work hours.

- There's not really huge internet companies there that can lobby the other way around (e.g. infrastructure collapse because of the block).

So in short, the ruling is incredibly stupid because they're allowed to do so, save for the vocal minority, the vast majority of the population doesn't care: they're watching the match.

A little bit of both? I don't think they were thought leaders but they were often correct and also at the right point in time.

Also, power corrupts. That's a tale as old as time, I have found no evidence that somehow tech-bros are immune to it.

I'm still amazed that something as ubiquitous as "daemon mode" is still unreleased.

- Claude Chat: built like it's 1995, put business logic in the button click() handler. Switch to something else in in the UI and a long running process hard stops. Very Visual Basic shovelware.

- Claude Cowork: same but now we're smarter, if you change the current convo we don't stop the underlying long-running process. 21st century FTW!

- Claude Code: like chat, but in the CLI

- Claude Dispatch: an actual mobile client app, not the whole thing bundled together.

- Daemon mode: proper long-running background process, still unreleased.

> "We remain confident in our record of protecting teens online" Meta rep said on Wednesday.

I mean, if that's where your confidence comes from...

The same reason b/c FreeBSD is great, but eventually it's transitioned to Linux at scale: commodity personnel.

You wouldn't believe the amount of people that would list Github, but not git, as a skill.

Unfortunately this is probably just getting started. Con men always existed, but a full scale exploitation of this would make "Nigerian Prince" scams look like artisanal work.

Not bait at all

Wait, why do we need chat sheets for this like it's (gasp!) a programming language, tool or IDE?

it's almost like if the thing is not intelligent at all and just another abstraction on top of what we already had.

Even if I'm philosophically in agreement with you, I'm pretty sure insulting other people choices or insecurities has never been a great way to increase birth rates.

You're not alone and I'll even say this is evolutionary.

Men haven't evolved to be overly attached to babies or small kids like mothers did - that'd have been a weakness in the survival race. Men skills were completely different, usually related to being away from the kids most of the time.

Translate to modern day, that is men not really wanting to have kids (sometimes just going along with the wife's biological clock), and pretty much "feeling nothing" when the kids are born. There's a million documented examples of that.

However, once kids leave the "little puppy" phase and grow beyond the basic needs care that mothers provide, it's when the fathers start to really relate to them.

If your older kid is maybe 5-6 you're about to start that new phase. That's what happened to me, and I find (maybe not so extreme) examples of that on almost every guy I talk to.

Give it a second chance, maybe having kids is just not for you. But don't assume it's already the case, you may miss out whole new world.

I can't agree more. I live and breath by rule #5.

Getting competent at it, however, is no joke and takes time.

I agree with you. "Premature" is the keyword. Bloated software is the result of not having the intention to optimize it at all.

> at C level, it's just bazaar of drones throwing AI slop at each other.

I don't think it changed much from before LLMs. it's just that the slop is now automated.

I find "sloppypasta" extremely useful. Since I've been in charge of people and teams for years, it's a clear signal of who I should get rid of.

Nobody else to blame but themselves. Of course, Hollywood is full of narcissists so they'll blame everyone else, e.g. streaming, prices, etc. but the reality is of the last 10-15 years of mainstream US cinema is:

- Scripts that sound more like an HR meeting than a good story.

- Blockbuster superhero movies that are all the same movie.

- Lots of remakes that added modern CGI flare and destroyed the artistic value of the original.

- As consolidation of studios happens, way more "safe" stories that aim to not offend anyone. I think the only one able to get away with it right now is Tarantino.

Prices, streaming, theaters, etc. -- they're all accessory to the problem. People went to the movies for enjoyment, why would they go to endure them? There's no cultural collective experience anymore in the sense of going to see Lord of the Rings or Matrix with your friends for the first time.

Also this is happening throughout all media. Music and video games have the same kind of discussions.

What prevents the malicious piece of a package from just staying dormant for the cooldown period so nobody notices? What happens if everyone waits for a week to cool down, so the exact same problem happens, only a week later?

This may work in the case the maintainer becomes aware of the compromised account/credentials/package before the cooldown period, otherwise if it's about vendors and "other people", it's a roll of the dice. They may have longer cooldown periods than you.

Then we absolutely need an override for the cooldown period when we have to pull a zero-day patch the moment it's released.

The only reason cooldown periods haven't been exploited it's because they're not widely utilized. If they become mainstream it'll take a couple weeks to be rendered useless (yes this last part is 100% futurology)

Well, I 100%'d Dark Souls, so surprisingly (or not) I can understand a lot of it.

> Multiple applications sharing a database

This is a classic. I'd say that for every company, big or small, ends up taking the #1 spot on technical debt.

This is really easy to answer, with some perspective from the inside, but mostly from public information:

- Amazon has 3 main business lines ("orgs"): Ecommerce, AWS and devices.

- Ecommerce and AWS are (now) cash cows. Devices bleeds money. TV falls into the devices organization.

- Devices was a Bezos bet. Current Amazon couldn't care less honestly.

- The devices organization is (today, after layoffs and people leaving in droves) essentially full of incompetent people, where all the leftovers of the other two orgs end up.

- It's people that was hired to build structure with the sole purpose of some higher-up promotion. They never served any other purpose, neither they have any particularly sophisticated skill.

- That's the people that makes the TV app.

1. they don't understand their own job, why they're even there, let alone AI.

2. yes, if you're talking about basic reading skills at best.

3. correct. except "autopilot" doesn't even mean solving the basic problems they're supposed to solve as part of the role.

4. which is exactly what Amazon asked them to do.

> for the company to move forwards, they need a massive purge.

Absolutely. Starting at the C-suite, VP, and director levels (L8 and above).

Source: I was there.

Premise: there's people that will try to game and cheat on anything that's important, including democratic elections. No matter your voting method, those people will exist.

Solution: the basic unit (paper ballot in this case) can be understood by any adult with basic education, which means anyone can detect cheating, not just a technical wizard. The only skill you need is reading.

Give me a solution that follows the same principle and I'd consider it.

Nobody cares about results coming faster except journalists that have to fill 2-3 TV hours with nonsense until there's some numbers.

No engineer that's worth of the title would advocate for electronic voting -- unless they're in the business of selling electronic voting. See the Premise.

My bet is they couldn't get past the InstallShield wizard.

Same as 10 years ago, unrelated to how fast it can be copied.

> Big companies can copy your product in no time

Your advantage in this case, now or 10 years ago, is that this is simply not true.

If your business is "a flashlight app", yeah, eventually they'll copy it (as it happened). However they'll take an unusual long time to do that simple thing (as it also happened).

Why? Because everything at big companies is a political game, full of internal conflicts, multiple priorities, non-collaborative teams, self-interest, promotion games, and a bunch of other things not really related to build the thing in question. It very rarely has anything to do with how fast the code can be written.

If your business is good enough and becomes something more than "a piece of software", and solves a problem, becomes a brand, has great user feedback... that's not something you can "copy in no time".