brianorca

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[–] brianorca 0 points 2 days ago

I'm saying it's happened before. AOL. Palm. Yahoo. Blackberry. A company with an effective monopoly gets complacent and fails to serve their users. They get replaced.

[–] brianorca -5 points 3 days ago (4 children)

But that's also a path for them to no longer be a monopoly, if the right competitor makes the right moves.

[–] brianorca 1 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

You can do that kind of imposed structure if it's an internal tool used by employees. But if the public is using it, it has better be able to parse whatever the consumer is saying. Somebody will say "I want a burger and a coke, but hold the mustard. And add some fries. No make it two of each." And it won't fit your predefined syntax.

[–] brianorca 2 points 5 days ago

Because bits are not expensive anymore, and if we used 64 bits, we might run out faster than the time needed to convert to a new standard. (After all, IPv4 is still around 26 years after IPv6 was drafted.) Also see the other notes about how networks get segmented in non-optimal ways. It's a good thing to not have to worry about address space when designing your network.

[–] brianorca 7 points 5 days ago (1 children)
[–] brianorca 3 points 5 days ago (3 children)

It's more than voice recognition, since it must also parse a wide variety of sentence structure into a discreet order, as well as answer questions.

[–] brianorca 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

That sounds more like they are excluding most corporate internal systems, (which would also happen to cover the systems run by government.)

[–] brianorca 1 points 1 week ago

Why is the spring backwards? The lever is supposed to hold it down, but had no pressure on it, since the trigger is removed.

[–] brianorca 0 points 1 week ago

If someone is paying you to write code, they have some say in the contract about how it is licensed. You could be upfront about only doing GPL, and they could be upfront about saying no. But if you try to do it after the fact, that's a violation of the contract.

[–] brianorca 2 points 1 week ago

True, having the right metric is important. But having no metric might be an overreaction to the crisis caused by bad metrics.

[–] brianorca 3 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Of course lots of Wells Fargo previous PR disasters resulted from having meaningful metrics from management that just happened to be anti-consumer side effects.

[–] brianorca 3 points 1 week ago

They don't want you if you're not watching ads or paying money. They don't want to give you bandwidth for free.

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