IIRC, it was discontinued around the time Adobe switched to a subscription model. Allowing end users to add new functionalities to their programs just didn't make business sense.
This cuts so deep. You just framed a loss I've experienced and haven't found a simple way to express. You defined the trend that destroyed the interesting internet I loved. Thanks.
Blaming one man for the rottened culture of an entire industry. The people who made the decision to withdraw money from SVB are supposed to be sophisticated. They're certainly well compensated. Yet they acted like bunch of illiterate peasants. The whole episode really demonstrated the disappearance of critical thinking from the American tech industry. This primitive monkey-see monkey-do mindset has come to dominate just about every aspect of it.
if it was your money at SVB on the line - with two or three commas - you would think differently.
Or to put it differently - if you were the person to manage money with couple commas, you would have done the same.
It is classic prisoner's dilemma. The more there are participants - the less likelihood that everyone will act in a coordinated manner for common benefit.
Two persons maybe can call each other and agree, but hundreds/thousands? unlikely
it is still prisoner's dilemma, because the fact that you talk is not binding. Anyone can agree on the phone and pull money immediately after call "just to be safe"
talking - means you can lock out everyone in one room and let them collude. This is not the case here, because the list of depositors at SVB is not public and it takes only a few people to start chain reaction of withdrawals
In what sense did they act like illiterate peasants? Trying to withdraw funds was the only rational act, as soon as the run started. What possible upside do you have for leaving all your money at risk?
Isn't that kinda like blaming the crowd when someone yells "fire!" in a crowded theater? I don't know how much influence Thiel had in this particular failure, but I don't think it's appropriate to completely absolve those that triggered the start of the bank run from blame.
Conradish is a tool designed for teachers of foreign languages. It lets you quickly take a online news article and add definitions of words with the help of Google Translate. A good way to help students build vocabulary, I think. The extension can be used in other educational situations too, where a teacher might want to add notes and perhaps questions to an article about a current event.
Something I created for my own use because many of my unit tests rely on external resources. I would get rate-limited all the time when I use watch. Or they would fail because I forget to provide an access token through an env variable. A clean way to bypass certain test would be helpful, I thought. Hope this is useful to other devs. Comments definitely welcomed.
Sort of off topic. I still remember this project we inherited from DLI ages ago. Folks there were having difficulty with storing UTF-8 strings in JavaScript. Whenever a character gets truncated (due to db length limit), Netscape would complain and die. Someone apparently discovered that you wouldn't get the error if the broken UTF-8 text was in a JavaScript comment. So every text string in the program was a function that parses its own source code for a comment. It was a hilarious hack.
As it's often said, the mission of journalists is to "comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable." Making people feel uncomfortable is of course a lousy way of staying competitive.
Given that Google and Facebook are natural monopolies, what newspapers are demanding seem fair to me. The law just levels the play field. The alternative--breaking up these Internet giants--isn't in the public's interest and probably won't work.
Because people value the convenience of Google's integrated services. Market fragmentation is unnatural in the software world. Generally, the winner takes all in a given category. If we break up Google, one part of it will end up vanquishing the other parts.
> People value the convenience of Google's integrated services
So, short-term convenience should prevent us from breaking up a monopoly? The long term benefits of having a competitive market far outweigh the inconvenience of having to use tools from separate companies, or buy ad space from separate markets.
> Market fragmentation is unnatural in the software world
Oh yeah, that's why we have one text editor, one operating system, one browser, one CMS, one type of forum software, one chat app, one web framework, etc. Right? Having a fragmented market with tens, if not hundreds of competing solutions would be weird.
I think ideology plays a larger role than profit. Many people in the American financial world are Randian extremists. They like various "sharing" services because they operate outside regulatory frameworks.
