tekklloneer

Early this on, the process of building physically accurate "fake humans" was not really possible.

Bear tests were probably more an early proof of viability than anything else. The bears survived, proving that humans wouldn't be completely annihilated.

Animal testing cruelty wasn't really being thought about heavily in post WWII military aerospace development. It's unfortunate but a historical footnote reminding us of the importance of proper testing.

As someone with long term health conditions, it hangs in the back of your mind. I'm fortunate enough not to have to call mine "chronic", and I may (probably will) be blessed by the results of research from over a decade...

But it haunts me in every relationship I have, even if it's irrational.

No, it's a bug. A home/consumer router isn't targeted at power users, and should not require the average user to understand what they're doing.

I also think it's unreasonable to expect people to patch bugs in consumer gear they've purchased.

Or, you're using snapchat, or instagram, or signal.

I disagree - I've used a $300 stock android phone for just over a year now, and I haven't really run into any "cruft" issues. But, poor android performance is a very valid problem with android.

Yes, $250K counts as rich. You can "get by" on combined income of $150K extremely easily. Maybe you don't buy a new bmw every year or live in an untrendy neighborhood. Oh, no.

Signature based anti-virus is a must have on any widely deployed platform that doesn't have default code-sign requirements. So, basically, Windows and FOSS Desktop.

But, it's become so drastically commoditized that there's no reason for the average user to have anything but the built-in MSE (on windows, at least).

It doesn't stop new attacks, but it does help raise the bar against malware.

I disagree. He's been transparent with his goals, and people (besides a loud but relatively small amount of hard dissenters) don't seem to object. And by that, I mean: they use facebook.

Sudoroom and noisebridge are still alive.

The fact of the matter is that for all of the innovation you hear about there, it's really just romanticizing the margin thinning of existing products. Nothing wrong with that, but it's easy to romanticize.

If someone was missing, then there wasn't enough people.

Part of the problem is this: who'd fork it? Who'd put in the effort? Sure, they alienated key members, but the people doing the bulk of the work were at the core, including Leah.

So, it's not so simple as forking and coming back when the dust has settled.

It's possible the FSF doesn't want them back without terms they find onerous, like full dissolution of the team and just handing over the brand.

I know a handful of people doing this right now, and they're pulling above average developer salaries. However, they're also traveling a ton and building kick-ass resumés as well.

There's a ton of them. Many of them are smaller players consisting of core developers providing feature additions for money, or support contracts, or selling an "enterprise" wrapper/hosted.

scala, mail servers come to mind quickly

The fact that you're able to spend time leisurely on sites like HN implicitly groups you into a higher income bracket. If you couldn't afford a personal computer, your comment might be a little less snarky when the library was your primary resource.

You could form a corp but legions of shareware developers since the beginning of time (80s) have used licenses that absolve them of responsibilities.

A few things: you'll need a communication and update mechanism, such as sparkle. Then, get your app gatekeeper signed.

tldr ill get in trouble if i use kite at work :(

Yeah, I'd love to try it. However, I'm at work and that's where I would be trying it - and I can't.

Aside from intellectual policy problems, in large codebases mistakes happen, including api keys being committed and pushed. You see it even in open source projects, and tools like gitrob[1] exist to exploit that.

You can see how both of those example issues are problematic, if even a snapshot of your codebase is being pushed off-site.

I think this is a crucially important feature for any large enterprise that has a codebase that is a significant effort of R&D resources.

Don't get me wrong, there are cloud services like github being used by medium to large shops, but the missing visibility into those decisions is that those choices are often regularly heavily vetted by security, legal, and engineering resources.

1 https://github.com/michenriksen/gitrob

I straight up cannot use Kite. The "code-to-cloud" functionality means that I cannot use it at work. I would love to use it, but it's a non-starter.

If using every product requires reading a dozen pages (at the very least), then how do you expect to use literally any mobile phone you can buy in a store?

Yeah, that's why I used consent. Consent is a messy topic that requires a best effort and careful deliberation. I definitely agree that EULAs like that are in a dangerous gray area.

Part of justice is enforcing a contract between two people who can and do consent. Would it not be an injustice if one person abused that system and hurt another?

Those tools weren't successful by Apple-sized metrics.

I get the desire for recurring revenue, but I really want to buy and try once; pledging easy cancellation near your call to action would really massage a lot of the complaints in here.

Not at all. Unless you tag it with a person you know vulnerable to seizures, and then on top of that, brag about it.

Most people are paying them money for a version of windows that works with the hardware they are buying. You won't be able to find an OEM selling win 7 on a ryzen box, for example.

If you buy a separate license, you should be aware of compatibility as well.

For something as core as chipset drivers, microsoft does heavy testing. They also do testing of combinations on various combinations of hardware.

"It should have worked" doesn't go far when an OEM is complaining that their users are having problems.

You really don't seem to remember or have been alive before a lot of these regulations were put into effect. Ever look at a food nutrition label? That one was fought tooth and nail.

Microsoft does extensive testing, not just on the "instruction set", but also the chipsets and surrounding ecosystems of the processor.

It's annoying, and probably well within their ability to, but also not inexpensive.

It's been excellent so far.