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Comment · 6 years ago
Comment · 6 years ago
Why don't you propose a protocol to solve the issues you have? If it solves a problem other users have it would get adopted I'm sure (except maybe GNOME).
I'm not a Wayland developer but it's what I observed in the issue tracker of my WM. A limitation is often overcome by a protocol and a basic implementation after. If you put the work in, the wlroots and KDE people are always very nice and will help you get started.
https://github.com/wayland-project/wayland-protocols/tree/ma...
https://github.com/wayland-project/wayland-protocols/tree/ma...
https://github.com/swaywm/wlr-protocols/tree/master/unstable
Comment · 7 years ago
Is most of the PHP ecosystem moving to static typing? Libraries, ORM, etc. When you're dealing with database objects, is everything a string?
Comment · 7 years ago
I guess that's my cue to leave front-end programming forever, and my current job (I'm not joking). I've been through too many cycles and it will never end. There's no way I'm staying for whatever crazy migration my company is going to go through again. And we have apps written in every single JS framework ever conceived. Time to learn COBOL.
Comment · 7 years ago
And when they raise the price to 20x or start doing something shady you can just move everything to a cheaper and more ethical competitor. Except that you can't.
Comment · 7 years ago
>The only real solution is to have educated users that care about their privacy and security.
I don't believe that will ever be possible. Winning with technology seems like the only way to do it. Google wants even IMAP.
Comment · 7 years ago
Very interesting. I wonder if there's a killer feature that would appear when you follow that line of thought. So even if adoption looks like 60~70% users and 30~40% enterprise, if you're indispensable to either of them, it would still prevent a take over because of the network effect. And the fact that you have an API that developers can trust would solidify the position even more.
If that feature ever surfaces I hope it doesn't involve blockchain or machine learning.
Comment · 7 years ago
Honest question.
What's stopping Matrix from being adopted by, say, Google or Facebook, and then pulling a XMPPEEE?
Imagine Matrix gets really popular, more even than Discord. So they offer their own "version" but add features like free 250GB on Google Drive or things like that. After they get everybody on board they do what they do best and cease control of it.
Comment · 8 years ago
This is coming right after the reCAPTCHA v3 announcement
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18331159
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Comment · 8 years ago
Maybe things are moving in another direction
https://www.pcgamer.com/vacnet-csgo/
https://www.pcgamesinsider.biz/news/67364/microsoft-is-tryin...
> https://blogs.gnome.org/uraeus/2019/06/24/on-the-road-to-fed...
> Once we are done with this we expect X.org to go into hard maintenance mode fairly quickly. The reality is that X.org is basically maintained by us and thus once we stop paying attention to it there is unlikely to be any major new releases coming out and there might even be some bitrot setting in over time. We will keep an eye on it as we will want to ensure X.org stays supportable until the end of the RHEL8 lifecycle at a minimum, but let this be a friendly notice for everyone who rely the work we do maintaining the Linux graphics stack, get onto Wayland, that is where the future is.
But we were talking about Wayland here. You're free of course to fantasize about hypothetical scenarios or propose features to software nobody wants to maintain.