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you are now in the situation of whatever you can bargain for, you can get, whatever you can't bargain for, you don't get. Dealing with what you call a highly risk adverse person makes it hard to negotiate, because the most risk adverse action is bury the code and say goodbye (what they have proposed). It is likely you can change the action only by suggesting a less risky course of action.
I have been in a similar situation before, and tried to use Greed when only Fear was going to work. Many situations are like this. I now know more about sales now. I didn't get the source code (which I wrote and was useless to them) and it was probably for the best. If I didn't have the motivation to rewrite, i didn't have the motivation to start a company. Likewise, if you don't have the motivation to get new, fresh code written, you don't succeed either. There are many many ways to get code made, if you believe in this, find one. it will be the first of many trials.
Your credit score is maintained by a bunch of goons in a protection racket. 'Shame if anything would happen to that fine credit score, let me 'protect' it for you".
Unfortunately, there are few legal standards in this area. Any business can report that you have not paid something.
Write a letter to google's corporate address with all your evidence, enclose a literal paper check, keep a copy of everything. Point out in your cover letter that you are discharging your responsibilities especially regarding collections, and collections will be considered an illegal action. If it comes back and harms you, you have cause of action and documentation. Take whatever action is appropriate for harm (apparently arbitration can be really good for small cases like this, less hurdles, more getting the companies money).
And just don't get bent about it.
Foundation is transactional correct on a cluster, and supports range scans.
Spoken as a guy whose database did not support multi row transactions and was always told that.
Why not build your own install using the bittorrent libraries? The security model is more complicated, for one. If i was an architect and proposed that, i would have to understand the attack vectors and present why they are than the well known solution. And taking control of the software update channel is a massive risk.
Second, i have less control of the user experience. With http, i can pay for the right amount of bandwidth, or time on a cdn. If i implement bittorrent, i still have to have buy capacity, i just have a more complicated model for how much to buy.
Suggested updates can be spread over time - and need to be, for canary purposes. I think Android often pushes an app update over 4 or 5 days, by default? Steady state infra capacity, or even better, low priority which and be interrupted, is cheap.
Given the complexity and business risk (people can't download our software! Our binary got hijacked! Two code paths to test?) And the inexpensive nature of mirrors, and the competence of cdns, there are rarely causes where it would make sense.
The problem is not ads, it is not even capitalism, is the requirement of our western capitalism to require constant growth. Doing what Google did 5 years ago, with the profits of 5 of years ago, should have been fine - but the markets demand growth, so companies have to pull into unsustainable territory and that wrecks the company.
Boeing is a great modern example.
No one ever really expected much of reddit. It could just do its thing. But now, spun off, it will have to relentlessly seek growth, and the counter is ticking for its destruction.
The issue is brand and usability, and wordle has it. The method for social sharing is genius, i think. A great example of privacy by design (sharing is explicit and through an image not a share button going who knows where).
I transitioned from free gsuite to paid a few years ago. For my twelve (12) bucks a month, i get 2tb of storage, great mail services, all the docs i can write, etc.
When i compare to individual apps wanting $10 per month, this is probably my best monthly spend on my list. Fitness apps are the worst.
My main gripe is services that don't work with a paid account, like nest and home automation.
Any answers?
Being first is not arbitrary. It is hard to achieve, and valuable. It is a reason.
There were networking systems before TCP and alongside TCP, TCP was clearly superior for a large number of reasons.
Given that everyone on hacker news's livelihood stems from the awesome of TCP (not an over statement), I propose a bit more respect.
I wonder what the most likely reasons are. I might think a fracking based earthquake opening up an underground reservoir that feeds into a mine? But that is very speculative! I am assuming there are no chemical plants in the area.
You say compared to other scripting languages'. Let's list them.
Ruby: no numeric support Go: unnecessary typing, modest numeric support, shitty generics Bash: ha ha ha Scala, java, c, cpp: not a scripting language, complex Tcl, php: out of favor Rust: hadn't happened yet R: in memory bias, not as simple Other languages were obscure or owned by monoliths (kotlin, swift, c#)
Python also has multiple implementations, a minor thing, but not really. Pypy keeps cython on its toes.
C# really could be a contender. I am more productive in c# than any other language except python (although I think I will be more productive in rust)
Python is, almost unarguably, the easiest language to code in, right now, period. It has the greatest expressiveness and the simplest syntax. I use it for large scale open source art projects, and you can use it for ai.
Why are you asking?
The more likely goal is to continue spending money (or eyeball time / clicks ) on media.
Yes, for profit media screams stupid headlines... For profit. business insider' as important media? Really?
There is no reason to reasonably and rationally discuss an issue raised by an article which takes this position... And does not discuss timing of vaccines, Delta variant, population skew, or the goal of preventing hospital overload.
I love the graph where the author says 'sure, maybe fewer people died, but...' . Classic.
When 1500 Americans are dying every day of a preventable disease, it is absolutely reasonable to take feasibility of enforcement into account. And enforcement has to be done where the greatest risk of spreading occurs. People might not like getting carded at a restaurant, but there is a point where lots of people are dying and it makes sense, right? We card for alcohol, we card for driving, and those we do every day.
I would think someone who tested positive should be able to get a ca state qr code. It seems the science supports that. Having each validator check that the test is the right test, and the doctor and hospital exist, seems not feasible, but getting a state qr code - then using that at the point of enforcement - seems practical.
Esp32 is very common for led controls. Leds are usually plugged in. For those uses, tinypico buys me less than I hoped.
The benefit of the tinopico is build quality, physical size, more ram (4M instead of 1M if I remember), and battery life, and a three color led on the board instead of 1 color . For a small quantity home project where any of that matters, like a wearable, tinypico is good, if it is a plug in system where a centimeter doesn't matter, I chose espressif, who is the company who builds the chip and does the support (esp32.com) and open sources the dev environment.
In one project where we needed 100 controllers we ended up on esp8266. It was a few years ago ('19) when prices were a little higher. We bought them on AliExpress and had a high failure rate (50 pct?) And still did ok because they were 2 bucks each. After throwing away the doa ones, they were perfectly reliable. Project success, and 25 buck parts would have blown budget.