ascendantlogic

"The people we're regulating are really clever so we can't tell you what the rules are" Is a terrible way to handle things.

Mozilla is dead as a doornail. Google succeeded where Microsoft did not, they essentially control the entire web now.

These are very large corporations with very large profits to protect. It's awful to think about but not surprising in the least.

Bitcoin was originally meant to be used as a currency. Ethereum was meant to be the oil that powered the smart contract network. I guess the question is, what matters more: the intent by the creators or what the end users choose to do with it?

This is the crux of the endless argument. People speculate on currencies via Forex, are those securities? Is oil a security? People buy into oil, gold, etc hoping to sell later for a profit. Both the CFTC and SEC have claimed they have purview over crypto and there has been absolutely no clarity from lawmakers on it.

A lot of "legacy" companies had businesses that were doing very well but missed the boat one or more times as new things arrived. Microsoft is a good example. Windows and Office was absolutely, positively printing money. They whiffed on mobile so hard it was comical. Going back further in time, IBM got mauled in the PC business over time, even though mainframes and PCs were keeping the lights on for decades.

I disagree with the assertion that in 5 years these companies may be heavily disrupted but these darlings that preyed on the fact the incumbents were ossified, large and slow are now themselves ossified, large and slow. The cycle continues on.

In the particular case of Twitter they're being actively driven into the ground by a guy who seems determined to wake up each day and not go to bed until he's made some very poor decisions so who knows, maybe they will crash and burn quickly.

Literally yes. Outside of a few very basic common sense optimizations (avoid n+1 queries, use indexes liberally, maybe sprinkle some caching on heavily used endpoints) you should focus entirely on shipping features with the knowledge that your product and by extension your code almost certainly won't look anything like it does now in 18-24 months.

>But we're still talking like $170/month

Rounding error for most companies.

>The extra cost is a bit of Linux sys admin which can be fully automated

You are overweighting hard dollar costs and underweighting the value of engineering time. Maybe you're the worlds greatest devops/platform engineer/sysadmin and once you wire up everything in under 5 minutes it will never need maintenance ever again but for most everyone else speeding up image builds by using a service that someone else thinks about and does maintenance on is absolutely worth it for $170/mo.

How about "Architecture decisions based on the needs of our company, and by extension our software, not blog posts from Hacker News"

Security is not a binary thing. It's a spectrum and for most normal end-users having _any_ password manager is better than trying to keep all your passwords in your brain, which leads to password re-use and easy-to-guess passwords, etc. It's only after multiple episodes of what amounts to malicious incompetence that the cure becomes worse than the disease. I think we're collectively agreeing we've reached that point with LastPass.

I don't think we'll be EV only in the "near" future but this is definitely viewed through the lens of Toyota betting the wrong way on this and now being behind the 8 ball. The first gas powered cars had lots of problems too, and there wasn't 2 gas stations at every intersection like there is now. The infrastructure and range problems will be worked out, just like they have been in the past.

It's the literal definition

It's amazing to me he still has his army of supporters after all this.

Keep in mind you're arguing with engineering types about this. Over the course of my career I've come to find that a not-insignificant % of engineers value art and artistic contributions very little or not at all.

I've always operated on the principal that each test should be testing one logical concept. That usually translates into one concrete assertion in the test code itself, but if you need to assert multiple concrete conditions to test the logical concept it's not a bad thing. At the end of the day tests are just there to make you more confident in code changes and they are a tax you have to pay for that comfort. However you arrive at "I feel comfortable making changes", go with it.

Apple not giving you business discounts doesn't affect how critical it is to the US from economic and security standpoints.

Individually the lines are verbose but are usually readable. But once you start talking about hundreds or thousands of lines across tens or hundreds of files the sheer volume of the text is what starts leading to convolution. What pushes it over the edge then are the endless abstractions, misdirections and enterprise patterns that may or may not make sense to solve the problem at hand but generally are "best practice" or at least were when lots of legacy code was first laid down 10-20 years ago. It becomes a giant headache very quickly.

I wrote a lot of Java in the 2000's and the early 2010's. The verbosity of the language was always my #1 complaint. The amount of stuff I had to type vs the productivity of those lines was always out of whack. Maybe it's better now?

It's super easy to buy a gun online. The part that is not easy is getting around the step where it has to be shipped to someone or something (company) that has a federal firearms license, which then is supposed to perform the background check on you before handing over the weapon you paid for. But there's myriad websites that will happily take your credit card info and ship anything that's not NFA class 3 to the FFL of your choice.

who are these poor souls in the "Under $20" and "$20-$40" range?

I once attempted to implement HATEOAS many years ago after one of our senior devs got a bug up their ass about it. It was a disaster. Our clients weren't going to suddenly sprout new functionality to consume the discoverable endpoints if we changed the API, there were always going to be client-side changes to be made as well so it was an enormous exercise in futility. Ever since then HATEOAS has always felt to me like a way to design and implement APIs thought up in the ivory towers of academia, not by anyone on the ground, in the trenches at your everyday software company.

Prior to social media it was demonstrably harder for people with "extreme" (for all values of extreme) views to spread their message and find like-minded people. Not impossible, but definitely not nearly as easy as it is now. Social media platforms aren't the cause of misinformation, they're the cause of the rapid dissemination of it.

I don't think shutting them down will stop it but I think a lot of todays hyper-partisan inflammation of the citizenry is owed to these platforms and their encouragement of any and all "engagement" on their platforms in service of ad dollars. These companies know how harmful these products are but since they're profitable they ignore the findings. I would argue that Meta/Facebook is the Philip Morris of our generation.

I'm shocked I tell you. Shocked that they would collaborate with the growing police state and just enable dragnet surveillance.

Honestly this would be good for everyone if the primary platform for misinformation and long form arguments about politics with family members went away. All I really care about is seeing people's kids and pets and memes. Everything else is at best just a waste of time and at worst actively destroying democracy.

> Crypto got wiped out

Crypto is in another winter cycle. We've seen this before. The interest rate/inflation story had a part to play in that but this is a normal market cycle for this sector.

> now the tech and real estate bubbles are popping.

I don't think the real estate bubble has "popped", rather cooling off from the massively overheated valuations in 2021. I don't see a cratering of existing home values (yet).

> I fear we're looking at a combination of the dot com crash + 2008

Turn off the news that spends all its time trying to convince you the sky is falling 24/7.

Without the "ML". The goal is to resell the software, not recruit people below you to resell and recruit more people, etc.

Why is that a downside? Magsafe was one of the best things about the older, early-2010's Macbooks.

Ah yes, the "this time is different" crowd. Toss your prediction in with the rest.

https://99bitcoins.com/bitcoin-obituaries/

Sounds like another crypto winter, which we've seen multiple times at this point.

But they almost always are a lot lower during bear cycles.