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by devsquid 11y ago
To be fair tho, it seemed like a decent revenue path to pursue. I can't see how it would bother users much. While revenue has increased this year that doesn't mean it will next year. I am all for Mozilla trying new ways to generat
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by devsquid 11y ago
That would make a great Sci-fi humorous short story.
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by devsquid 11y ago
Blame Aristotle.
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by devsquid 11y ago
The idealized "free trade" view you propose, always makes me think of the idealized "people owned" view of Communism. I think this view, of "free trade", is very popular among my crowd as well as popular among
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by devsquid 11y ago
I have ridden my share of Greyhound's man. They are always very long and if you have a bad driver they are quite scary. Where I went to college, flights were often canceled and cost around 300$ one way. Between cities in the US we do h
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by devsquid 11y ago
Aren't most sports car owners in love with their cars?? I'm sure Tesla's cars are nice luxury vehicles, maybe even "objectively"(lol...) nicer than other sports/luxury cars. I have no clue, never driven, touche
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by devsquid 11y ago
Lucky. "America", ie the US, is pretty huge and empty. When I was in college, my friends would often drive about 350 miles one way to go home for the weekend/holidays. Public transportation is so much shittier here than many
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by devsquid 11y ago
Are you a Tesla owner?
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by devsquid 11y ago
Lol you are quoting marketing material at me now... When Tesla becomes a affordable car seller then ok they will no longer be a company that specializes in selling very expensive cars to a wealthy niche. I looked up the price points, they a
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by devsquid 11y ago
I would say being an early adopter is apart of it, but I don't think early adopters are always concerned about being 'techno hip'. Definitely saying you were one of the first fuels it. lol. I mean just like the saying its a e
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by devsquid 11y ago
Ok Apple also sold expensive computers. The point remains, Apple was founded on selling computer and bringing the power of computers to middle class 'normal' people. Tesla was founded on selling cars to a wealthy niche market.
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by devsquid 11y ago
Computers were very expensive back then. I don't think Apple was an expensive computer at the time of its launch and part of what was so compelling about it was a personal computer not a work station. Tesla is an extremely expensive ca
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by devsquid 11y ago
How was that a strawman? Also I'm sorry I meant the Apple. To me they are the same computer. I understand historically they are not. I never said it wasn't expensive, even the Apple which MSRP ranged from 1,000$ to 2,000$ was stil
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by devsquid 11y ago
One would hope the rich receive less benefits. You don't owe it directly to the tax payers, you owe it to your country as a whole. Again money does not come from nothing(well sort of, but what it represents lol). To think money you ear
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by devsquid 11y ago
Yea I have been noticing people really trying to make the Apple and Tesla comparison lately. It just feels so forced. -edit random thought- Seems like a whole lot of wealthy tech writers/bloggers want to sell themselves on getting a Te
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by devsquid 11y ago
I did read the article. Tesla sells sport/luxury cars. They plan on expanding in the future to 30k+ cars, when it happens then they will be a company that sells mid~high end/sport/luxury cars. I am bias because I label Tesla
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by devsquid 11y ago
A mac("Apple") was significantly less expensive than a 'high-end' computer at the time. At least thats was the feeling, having talked to my parents about it before.
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by devsquid 11y ago
One would hope the rich receive less benefits. You don't owe it directly to the tax payers, you owe it to your country as a whole. Again money does not come from nothing(well sort of, but what it represents lol). To think money you ear
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by devsquid 11y ago
Apple was founded on bringing usable computers to the middle class. Tesla targets a high end niche market. My middle class parents, would never dream of buying a Tesla but they have purchased Mac computers for as long as I have known them.
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by devsquid 11y ago
Thats based on the false assumption that money comes from nothing and that we live in this perfect system where we deserve the money we earn and those that don't earn it don't deserve it. Mark, for example, was born, lived, grew u
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by devsquid 11y ago
Is the type system that different from Javascript? I remember looking at it back around 1.0 days and it seemed like basically the same as Javascript, which was one of the reasons I decided not to pursue implementing it in my work.
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by devsquid 11y ago
No I understand, which is why I think type inference is a much better solution than dynamic typing. I use Python and JS often and I am constantly looking up types of arguments for functions and what their return types is. JSDoc helps, but i
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by devsquid 11y ago
Man type inference is so nice.
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by devsquid 11y ago
You consider typing to be an over head? Do you really reuse variables within a scope to refer to different types? I feel like that would produce confusing to read and use code. IMO dynamic typing is hard to work with and slows things down.
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by devsquid 11y ago
Oh? I have found the GCN to be quite impressive. Their prices are very cheap and i've found their international offerings to be next to none. What issues have you had?
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by devsquid 11y ago
oh hmmmmm
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by devsquid 11y ago
They don't work well in most cases. You can point to some very specific niche markets where donations and pay per articles work. Just look at Patreon, its a great service and I use it to support a few things. But its not going to suppo
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by devsquid 11y ago
Their managed SQL service doesn't support Postgresql and POSTGIS, its the only thing stopping me from move over to GCN.
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by devsquid 11y ago
If not ads what do you want? Paywalls? Native content? Personally I want a robust and diverse web ecosystem, not just pay walls and people forced to alternative revenue sources.
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by devsquid 11y ago
wurd, I really like iPhones and iPads. But I find the OS hard to deal with. Twilight is a good example. Theres also an Audiobook app I love that could not be used on iOS. I don't want to be forced to use Safari or a rebranded Safari. T

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