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This is because you hired developers on payroll and it would be a dumb strategic move to fire everyone once the product is "finished." You have to keep building things in order to justify having people on payroll (otherwise you're paying them to do nothing every day).

If you take VC funding you're in for another world of pain, which is that your company may be perfectly profitable but if it isn't growing at a rate your investors want you'll get kicked out and replaced by someone who will take "product growth" seriously. In other words, Postman needs more paying customers so it needs to become more of a "one size fits all" tool.

One might think that the solution is to simply work on another product after Postman was declared "done," but it seems like nobody seriously attempts this anymore because the SaaS model is so much more profitable.

Yes, it seems like it:

"We support two types of variables, one is Custom Variables which is defined by user and can be further divided into Environment Variables, File Variables and Request Variables, the other is System Variables which is a predefined set of variables out-of-box."

However, what I can't figure out is if it supports programmatic variable setting. I have an API where I need to retrieve a token from an endpoint before using it for every other endpoint, and I'm using Postman's test scripts to set that token as an environment variable before sending all the other requests so they can all use it. I don't see a way to replicate that with this extension.

Seriously, Tesla's autopilot rolls through stop signs because everyone does. How many people are going to get rear ended because every Tesla stops at a stop sign now? It feels like enforcing this behavior is more dangerous than letting it slide.

It's the same with following the speed limit on roads where everyone speeds. Nobody is going to like self driving cars if they're going 25 on a road where everyone goes 40, where the speed limit should clearly be adjusted. The accidents that occur from drivers not being able to stop for a slow car in time, drivers getting annoyed and attempting to overtake, or drivers causing road rage incidents will dwarf whatever crash rate you'd get by just letting the car go faster.

Iron Man's distant cousin, Business Intelligence Man

For the record, the Model 3 does have physical volume/playback controls on the steering wheel, but I do agree with the OP's greater point about not hiding important functionality behind context menus.

This is probably harsh to say, but if a $500/mo expense is what breaks the bank, you can't seriously claim to be operating commercially successful software. Even small businesses spend $XX,000 a month on labor and transaction fees and vendors and rent...etc. If the option is $500/mo for some other guy's work or $3,000/mo to hire a new developer to work on recreating the already existing system full-time, the choice is pretty clear.

What do you expect, it was $30...

It is up to them, but it's the CIO's job to advocate for his employees and convince them to do it. You hire a CIO to be able to advise you on decisions such as this. The CIO isn't expected to be down in the trenches resetting Active Directory accounts or applying group policies, of course.

This would still be an awesome solution today. I hope we do this eventually. But I don't believe Windows is the problem, it's the way the DoD is trying to manage it.

What's the point of all the roadmapped projects if all of them will have 1hr+ startup times? Is the enemy going to wait for squadron commanders to log into Outlook before firing artillery?

All of the strategic projects should get chopped until this one is addressed. What is the point of managing IT infrastructure if none of it works.

The defense budget is over $700 billion. They should just buy or build two million Chromebooks and be done with it. Any native apps can be converted to SaaSs that run on nationally managed DoD infrastructure and everyone can do their jobs without needing to deal with this security BS.

Yes, let's put the incompetent buffoons who thought installing McAfee on every government computer was a good idea in charge of their rolling own Linux distro. That sure would solve all of these problems.

> There are working examples of such

For whom do they work for? The author and maybe a small group of Internet hobbyists? When you have to support 3 billion daily active users like iOS or Windows does, that lightweight codebase isn't so lightweight anymore.

And sure, Prime Video isn't Windows, but it still has over 200 million international subscribers that it needs to handle. It's definitely not something you can write in an afternoon.

I have been developing iOS apps since 2014, and was active in the jailbreaking scene before then. I don't believe any one person understands the entirety of what is going on when they launch an app. Remember, iOS is based on macOS, which is based on NeXTSTEP, last released in 1995!

iOS has been plagued by a whole host of bugs from the 90s and below. Remember effective Power? (https://apple.stackexchange.com/a/189064/364414) A Unicode memory allocation bug, the code for which was probably written decades ago and intended to run on a CRT monitor. I find it hard to believe anyone at Apple had interacted with that code since the initial iPhone release. Probably nobody at Apple in 2015 knew it existed. It's so unfathomably complicated.

Management are going to be the first users to complain!!

Apparently some Automator scripts and a preinstalled command line utility named "xattr": https://apple.stackexchange.com/a/362783/364414

EDIT: According to one of the commenters xattr is now a binary instead of a Python script, so that's probably the real reason why they got rid of 2.7 now!

...right up until users complain that they can't access critical work information on their phone or tablet in the field, unless they use a shitty RDP app to move a cursor around their desktop at 3 frames per second.

I am leading a transition at work from Selenium to Cypress precisely because of our frustration with the WebDriver model. I don't consider myself an expert enough to know which approach is right, but could you elaborate on why Selenium chose to divert in V2 to what it is today?

> don't believe right-to-left languages or focus order inevitably leads to hundreds of thousands of lines of code or 50+ MB binaries

It does. It literally does. Try writing your own operating system, or font parser, or graphics engine. The work our shitty React apps sit on top of is unimaginably complex. It would take centuries for one single person to grasp what is going on in an iOS "Hello World" app.

It's not simple, at all. Especially not for a video streaming service! I mean, my God, just being able to understand the codecs and licensing issues would take you months, let alone writing decoders that run natively on every platform. Let alone dealing with monitors and color schemes and HDMI and Chromecast streaming and window resizing and bandwidth limits and buffering and....

It's not simple.

EDIT: For reference, vim, a Hacker News favorite and widely considered one of the most popular TUIs ever built, is currently sitting at about 1.2 million lines of code. All it does is edit text files. Imagine if it had to play video.

It seems like some militaries are toying around with the concept: https://www.businessinsider.com/video-royal-marines-board-sh...

The real question is does this apply to the warehouse workers as well?

The only reason Ukraine still has a government right now is because of NATO forces on the border. I think it would be foolish to believe Putin would have stopped at Crimea had it not been for that. I pray that we do not go to war with Russia over this, but I also know that the Ukrainian people are counting on us to defend their freedom. It is tough all around.

It's not that the Shuttle wasn't an absolutely astonishing display of engineering proficiency - it was - it's that if that money had gone into a Falcon-9 style rocket instead, we would all be much better off now in 2022.

> I highly doubt OP wants to move to Belarus, but yeah go ahead and pick the absolute poorest and least likely countries anyone would immigrate to

If we are comparing sub-territories then, why on earth would OP want to move to Mississippi? Or LA? Or NY? If OP moved to, say, New Hampshire or Vermont, not only would they make more money but they would have some of the highest qualify of live anywhere on the planet.

> If quality of life = being able to afford material goods then sure

New England states have similar labor / worker rights to the EU; Massachusetts has something close to universal healthcare (although not exactly, then again every country's version is different), CT has paid family and medical leave, New York has free community college, all of New England is LGBTIA+ friendly at the legislative level, etc.

> but I guess that's were Europeans see the world in a different way

I am Albanian and my family moved here when I was 6 months old. I am not defending America for nothing, I know what we left behind. You can claim that living in Germany, France, etc. is better but that is like saying buying a house in Beverly Hills is better than buying a house in Compton. Obviously rich countries are always going to be better to live in regardless of what treaties or unions they sign. The beauty of the United States is that you can get comparable quality of life results in certain areas while having military protection everywhere.

That's just moving goal posts. European people are still European even if they're not EU citizens. Compare New England averages to European Union averages if you want a fair assessment - you'll find that not only are New Englanders making more money, they also have equivalent or higher quality of life than many EU countries do.

I am an immigrant from Albania. American bombs ended the Kosovo genocide. I have reasons to be grateful for this military and I can be upset and disappointed in it at the same time.

I did not say America is wonderful. I don't know why you even quoted that word, when it did not appear in my post. I claimed American taxpayers protect Australia's sovereignty. Obviously your state can do better things with its budget when its defense is bankrolled by someone else. I do not care where you live, your quality of life would plummet if the prospect of being invaded by Russia or China was a real one, a prospect you are protected from through American military supremacy. See Ukraine.

Living in America is by definition a privileged position. Largest military in the world guarantees either the country survives anything or the world undergoes nuclear Armageddon (and even then the tax man is still coming to your door).

Calling the Space Shuttle "mostly reusable" is laughable. It cost 1.5 billion dollars per launch[1] whereas a reused Falcon 9 costs 50 million to launch.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_the_Space_Shuttle... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falcon_9

> exactly what have Google and Microsoft been up to?

Buying chips from Nvidia to power their data centers, for one.

WinFS was meant to be far more sophisticated than that. It's more like Salesforce for your file system.