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forgotAgainon Toaster: Pure CSS 3D Editor

I see it more as scratching an itch.

forgotAgainon SQLite in Go, with and Without Cgo

Is the trade off worth it? Is removing the pain of building with Cgo worth giving up the dependability and support of C based SQLite?

I don't see how but I'm curious to what others think.

forgotAgainon Salesforce completes acquisition of Slack

They could be but if network connection was a prime cause Microsoft would have highlighted that fact. Have they shown that is in fact the primary issue?

forgotAgainon Weather Service faces bandwidth shortage, proposes limiting key data

> They do, in fact, appear to have the money.

$5.4 billion is indeed a huge number but gives no information as to the availability of the $1.5 million. Without knowing what the cost is of what they must accomplish with the $5.4 billion no conclusions can be drawn.

forgotAgainon Weather Service faces bandwidth shortage, proposes limiting key data

I've had some experience dealing with the Weather Service when trying to develop a weather app using https://www.weather.gov/documentation/services-web-api#. It was a frustrating experience and my initial impulse was to vent about that. But I'm choosing not to do that mainly because it seemed at the time that every person that I dealt with at NWS was trying to do the best they could.

The situation that NWS is facing is basically that massive tax cuts coupled with growth in defense and social programs has left most other areas of the federal government hollowed out. The amount of money needed to fix the problem being discussed here is minimal but after decades of budget cuts across non-defense and non social-welfare programs there is simply little left to invest in improving services.

forgotAgainon Bill proposed in NYC would charge residents $3 for all packages ordered online

Over the years the problem hasn't been a shortage of revenue, its been runaway costs. Adding further revenue is just wasting more money. Cut the costs of an inefficient bureaucracy (the MTA) and bloated labor structure (the transit workers union) if you want to solve the problem.

forgotAgainon Salesforce Deal to Buy Slack Expected to Be Announced Tuesday After Market Close

It's also why I don't trust sales figures on individual products from companies with a portfolio. Sales tend to get credited to products that the company wants to show as gaining traction while really the favored product was an add-on to a bundle of established products that had their license renewed.

forgotAgainon Ask HN: What are solutions for developing itch scratch desktop program?

That looks very interesting. Thank you.

forgotAgainon An electric crate motor you can drop into your car

This highlights the commoditization of parts that will be part of EV market changes as well as the plug and play nature of EV assemblies. Massive changes to the current ways we build and maintain vehicles.

forgotAgainon The Trust Crisis

Thank you for the correction. I was referring to Jensen and Meckling https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=94043 but the basis was Friedman.

forgotAgainon The Trust Crisis

The idea of trusting any institution whose naked reason for existing is making money is absurd

How ironic that the idea that businesses only exists to make money for their owners came from the same institution as the article.

forgotAgainon A Glass Battery That Keeps Getting Better?

Original source has a question mark at the end of the title.

forgotAgainon Chrome extension manifest v3 proposal: comment from uBlock Origin author

The only thing saving Google from an antitrust decree is the lack of an antitrust enforcement will in the US government.

Google is taking advantage of it's monopoly position in browsers to help another business area: advertising.

forgotAgainon Books and lectures don't work

Consider the breath of human knowledge before and after the invention of the printing press.

forgotAgainon A Conspiracy to Kill IE6

Thank you.

forgotAgainon We Built a Facial Recognition Machine for $60

I think that they are trying to make the point that there are no laws regulating the use of facial recognition.

My experience is that most Americans think their privacy is protected; that deploying facial recognition software on them would be illegal. It's not. They're stating it so to overcome the public misconception.

forgotAgainon A tale of how Google tried to win against Mozilla

SSDD: Windows isn't done until Lotus doesn't work

forgotAgainon Google’s constant product shutdowns are damaging its brand

Given the push back against social media these days, Google could get a lot of good karma by resurrecting Reader.

forgotAgainon Cisco Fixes RV320/RV325 Vulnerability by Banning “curl” in User-Agent

I wish it was Curly. We could then make jokes with Moe and Larry.

forgotAgainon Procrastination Has Nothing to Do with Self-Control

So say you're a procrastinator. Do you?

a)read the article so you don't have to do xyz

b)not read the article because learning how to stop procrastinating feels like self sabotage

c)start the article but don't finish it because you have ADD from surfing the internet as a means of procrastinating

d)something else.

edit: e)skim the article and write an HN comment about it.

forgotAgainon The CEO of RevolutApp on Slack: “Why Aren’t You Working on Weekends?”

Given the attitude displayed in the message I think its more than likely that they will be screwed out of their stock.

forgotAgainon No Thank You, Mr. Pecker

From Reuters: "Inside the UAE’S Secret Hacking Team of American Mercenaries"

https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-spyi...

forgotAgainon Could Get Millions to Turn Factory into Condos, Is Not Selling

I've read that the sense of smell is the strongest sense for bringing back memories. When I read the title of the OP I could smell what the inside of the building was like from having spent many hours in similar environments.

Why preserve it? Because its better for our spirit to preserve some memories of the past rather than tearing them down for another handful of forgettable multi-million dollar condos.

forgotAgainon Office 365 global authentication outage

Ironic to read all the negativity here when on the day after the OP Microsoft will announce quarterly earnings which will undoubtedly be driven by continued "Enterprise buy in to Microsoft Cloud Solutions".

forgotAgainon Rise and Demise of RSS

RSS did not decline due to technical differences. By the time Google Reader was killed, RSS readers had advanced to the point where wide public usage was possible because the readers dealt with the incompatibility problems outlined in the article.

RSS declined because major tech companies convinced large media companies that they had a better future publishing to their walled gardens and not directly to the public.

The walled gardens only benefited the garden owners, not independent publishers. Now that that is recognized there is again a chance for independent publishers both big and small.

forgotAgainon The Endgame for LinkedIn Is Coming

Hmm,

Fall behind in search, spend billions on Bing.

Fall behind in mobile, spend billions on Nokia.

Fall behind in social media, spend billions on LinkedIn.

Hmm, so what was that definition of insanity again?

forgotAgainon AT&T says it’ll stop selling location data amid calls for federal investigation

PR trying to recover from the fake 5G fiasco.

forgotAgainon Chinese may take over Mombasa port: Ouko

The U.S. had nothing to do with this. The gratuitous swipe serves no useful purpose.

forgotAgainon Google transferred ownership of Duck.com to DuckDuckGo

I don't see it. Google needs an independent DuckDuckGo to show it does not have a monopoly on search.

forgotAgainon The Digital Gap Between Rich and Poor Kids Is Not What Was Expected

A child learns first from their parents. I feel sad for kids when I see parents involved with phones while walking a baby carriage or attending a soccer game. Parents show by their actions which is more important, people or tech.