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For all practical purposes it won't make a difference. When you sign up for ISP service there will be a new small paragraph buried deep in the long 10000+ word contract text that says you consent to them selling your browsing data, which you have to sign to start the service, which nobody reads anyway.

This is a great point. I wonder if one day either it will force them apart again, or present problems of collusion...

I wish MIcrosoft would have worked off Firefox for the new Edge instead of Chrome. Just doesn't make sense why they would feed into a direct competitor. Bagging Edge off Firefox would have made it a real option for me as well as creating an opportunity now with all the ad blocking stuff going down...

Reading the documentation and looking at examples, I think you are being a bit harsh. This project looks to me like an interesting, intuitive and useful abstraction layer for organizing a project's DB queries.

I was watching the broadcast and the disappointment and sadness of seeing so many years of work abruptly disappear in an instant was palpable.

A valuable lesson in failure and finding motivation to keep going and try again, a valuable life and entrepreneurial skill.

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I love these kind of projects, really making stuff smaller and more accessible. I'm hoping that we can see something as simple as AppJar [ http://appjar.info/ ] to really boost the tinker/maker community, and especially beginners and younger students as AppJar does.

A great idea from a company trying and hopefully succeeding in not being a one trick pony, or stuck on their cash cow/core business. Their strategic thinking is top notch... From the article:

"It is interesting to think about how this might work strategically for Casper’s business. People don’t buy mattresses very often, and the challenge for a company like Casper is that it spends a lot of money acquiring a customer. Once it has sold them a mattress, the relationship would be over if not for follow-on products (hence pillows, bedding, etc). By launching additional products, Casper can invite its customers to build a lasting relationship and spend more money.

For Casper, it is imperative to extend the lifetime value (LTV) of its customers by continuing to expand its product line, but why the tech complexity? Perhaps to get people on a software platform? Casper’s Chief Product Officer Jeff Chapin realistically admits “There are some people who are never going to download the app and that’s fine.”

I wonder if this is a negotiation tactic to get special reduced rates, or if this is the beginning of a deeper experiment, in which grocers (who run on notoriously low margins) are trying to save 2% per almost every transaction.

Supposedly, millennials and later generations are very cash adverse, and these interchange fees are adding up to m(b?)illions for these huge companies...

FYI, not exactly the same, but Dialog is an excellent tool for creating ncurses based GUIs for shell scripts...

http://www.unixcl.com/2009/12/linux-dialog-utility-short-tut...

This quote from the article stands out to me:

"A Pro invests as much money, as many times, for as long as required for the situation to attain Clarity. This Clarity allows only two outcomes, Dead or Liquid. When a Pro declines the invitation to invest in a follow-on round, it means they’ve reached Clarity: In the eyes of the Pro who declines to invest, the company is Dead, their initial stake is worthless. Write it off and move on, no tears, no recriminations."

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I don't understand why these config systems can't be less 'programmy' (less technical).

All of these (Nix/Guix/NginX Lua, etc) config systems are all so complex with layers of interesting syntax and punctuation.

Why can't these use simpler (INI/YAML/TOML/CSON or even JSON) configuration schemes? It would reduce barrier to entry - simplify parsing and automation, and a whole lot of other things. Why do I need to learn yet another language just to configure and manage my system?

The only thing I miss in Firefox is the ability to Chromecast directly. It's useful.

I don't understand why Microsoft didn't partner with Firefox instead.

Strategically it would have been a super win - lots of good will value to gain, a way to keep themselves and others less reliant on Google, and perhaps even push/use Firefox as a poster child GitHub partner for further value. What gives?

What's interesting is that generally nobody cared about these ROMs for a decade or two, and now that there has been a resurgence of retro gaming consoles and apps, suddenly the IP enforcers have started to arrive. I'd bet that many of these ROMs would have been completely lost if not for the emulation scene. I have no evidence for this, but I would make a conjecture that the copyright holders are probably using at least a few ROM dumps that they found online for their own "new" products...

I would love to see a filter here, so I can pick and choose the attributes of a license that are important to me, and see which ones from the full list might be a good fit.

I'd love to see something like this for every language... similar to the to do app which has become the de facto standard to compare web frameworks..

Does Amazon release the source for these features? Would love to see these ported to other flavors of mySQL.

Right. HTML seems like a lot for a small app. I have had some success with AppJar. It might not be the fastest but its super intuitive and easy... http://appjar.info

They dont share data well. I cannot select "Edit with SnapSeed" and have it roll back into google photos without getting a second copy of my picture. Would love to see that kind of integration - but they dont even have that.

Google's photo strategy is so strange.

Photos is a great app and has universal appeal - powerful, intuitive editing, easy and smart search, free backup, etc.

Snapseed is also one of the best mobile photo editing tools around, certainly the best free one IMHO.

My guess is they used the Nik technology in these tools to make the editing and retouching functions work so well, and now they sold it with contingent that they can use it in perpetuity...

Here is the weird part -why wouldn't Google merge Snapseed editing with Photos? It would be a killer combination and dominate the consumer space, locking in users to the Goole platform. Isn't that ultimately what they want?.

I always assumed Snapseed and Photos would merge one day. Yet, it has never come, and instead Google is empowering others in the space with their tech.

Maybe they have "good enough" dominance in the area and don't care anymore? Maybe all they care about is tying users into the Drive platform and Photos is just another funnel that did good enough and can be ignored?

Can someone give me some use cases for this?

Does that mean that Google now has no more use for Gmail, and soon millions of people will be scrambling to cover yet another product sunset?

That would certainly cause an enormous loss of goodwill, but.... imagine this scenario:

Google has some slow growth quarters, they need to keep the numbers up for shareholders. They start to examine what they can squeeze. Gmail costs them X (hundreds?) millions per year, but doesn't gain much from it...

Certainly its unlikely, as it is also a SSO tool, etc. Still....

They are providing strong walls with carefully planned entry and exits to the "highway." The point is to only allow access to the road from predetermined, controlled points. Although its not 100% guaranteed to control access, it will mitigate many (if not most) of the unwanted traffic. As far as the actual entry and exit points that are sanctioned, those can still cause problems and still need to be monitored.

Same problem with CockroachDB 1.0. Limited views. No triggers.

Mass market support questions:

PHP Support? Does it support views and triggers like MySQL/PostgreSQL?

How do you remember everything you have saved? What do you use to upload and search them?

Corporate language is entertaining while we all pull out our hair.

"We are investigating increased error rates for Amazon S3" translates to "We are trying to figure out why our mission critical system for half the internet is completely down for most (including some of our biggest) customers."