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Comment · 18 days ago
'Negative worker traits'? - please explain what you mean by this
Comment · 1 month ago
The big one is that almost all of those data sources are subject to a 15 minute delay...
Comment · 1 month ago
AWS and GCP CLIs have been in Python for a decade or more. Last I checked Python was not a compiled language
Comment · 1 month ago
UK (Quote from article):

Younger drinkers in England and Wales will be able to prove their age with a digital ID starting this week as new laws give pubs, off-licences, nightclubs and restaurants the right to use biometric scanning technology to check customers are over 18.

Customers will be able to download software that scans their faces into their own phone to generate a QR code proving their age based on a stored proof of age. Other tech under consideration as part of the government push to digitise age verification for alcohol sales include a device which scans the veins in a drinker’s finger to verify their age. That system has not yet been approved for use.

Comment · 2 months ago
Could call it... 'a Hamburglar'
Comment · 2 months ago
This is like an 'experiment' where you hold out an apple and drop it. Pretty obvious foregone conclusion. Did you do a control, e.g. release the same app on Homebrew with similar marketing? Release another app and market it? You have not explicitly stated what you were attempting to show- it seems to be your personal sentiment that MAS does your marketing for you without considering other possibilities.
Comment · 2 months ago
LOL
Comment · 2 months ago
OK so you built a small utility app in a crowded space- see:

https://setapp.com/lifestyle/best-color-picker https://alternativeto.net/software/instant-eyedropper/?platf... etc.

You released on May 18th only in the Mac app store with no other marketing and decided to withdraw on August 7th, i.e. less than 3 months later. What were you honestly expecting to happen? Did you really think that there was some pent-up unmet demand for your app? What compelling advantage(s) did it offer? Who did you think would be looking for it and how did you think they might evaluate options?

Comment · 2 months ago
You can also use homebrew on Linux - obviously not for casks
Comment · 5 months ago
I am not defending the current situation but I am not aware of any case where anyone in the UK has gone to jail for piracy. Invariably what actually happens in such cases is:

1. See headline 'movie pirate goes to prison' which implies a link between the activity and the event 2. Actually read article based on industry press release and learn that the defendant was actually convicted for counterfeiting because they were running a business selling set-top boxes with preinstalled unauthorised streaming software or running their own third party unauthorised streaming service with paid subscriptions or something.

Comment · 5 months ago
One benefit: People are no longer trying to pretend that Meta is some beneficent orgainsation
Comment · 6 months ago
By this logic you should factor that android was an acquisition, as were YouTube, doubleclick, deepmind and Waze
Comment · 6 months ago
LONDON, April 21 (Reuters) - Microsoft must face a mass lawsuit alleging it overcharged thousands of British businesses to use Windows Server software on cloud computing services provided by Amazon, Google and Alibaba, a London tribunal ruled on Tuesday.

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