I often find myself searching on HN, then Reddit (via google) and then good old sad google, in that order.
When Google arrived, it had the solution people were desperately waiting for. It was pretty much everything we wanted. And it even "wasn't evil!"
Now it feels like people at Google are just making sure they'll qualify for their annual bonus with total disregard to what happens to the company.
I forecast that in the next 1-3 years, we'll see another company steal the search market, just like Google it back in the day. But Google, don't worry, they'll "just be a search company".
* huge asterisk since I pay to use it and feel the need to disclose that upfront.
Kagi is a very strong and viable candidate IMHO. The search is actually useful and I’ve noticed on a few occasions that my search was “too focused” and yielded “no results found” and I had to rethink my query to better find what I was looking for. Google on the other hand would have spared no opportunity to spam my results with ads even if it couldn’t find what I was looking for. Anything to put more ads in my face.
Both actively pursue potential authors. I know this because I’ve been contacted by both. Made me realize I have neither the will nor the patience to write a book - being an author sounds great on paper (pun intended).
Manning seems fine to me. I've read a few books from them, from quite good to blah.
I've read one book from Packt that was quite good; they've also published literal plagiarism (which they withdrew after the original author, a friend, tweeted about it -- this wouldn't have come to my attention otherwise). Can't recall seeing another that interested me, flipping through the pages.
Apple reported 30bn net sales in Europe in the last quarter: the second biggest region after the US. Although some of that'll be driven by non iOS stuff, we know that's the main earnings driver.
In a future where Apple have withdrawn the app store, who in the EU is going to buy an iOS device?
Sorry, but the idea that they'd be able to justify pulling out to shareholders over this is pure fantasy.
Apple has shown with China that they're perfectly okay with localized rules in their systems. If you think they wouldn't make a few EU-only changes to preserve a whopping 7% of the revenue I don't know what to tell you. 7% is much more than you make it seem, and actually as someone else pointed out the real number is higher because without App Store the iPhones are worthless.
> A pika is a small, mountain-dwelling mammal native to Asia and North America. With short limbs, a very round body, an even coat of fur, and no external tail, they resemble their close relative, the rabbit, but with short, rounded ears. The large-eared pika of the Himalayas and nearby mountains lives at elevations of more than 6,000 m (20,000 ft).
This is a classic political statement. Perhaps 100% correct.
But notice how they didn't say "no audio is recorded in the room".