But the super secret code names apple has been stowing away, will bring them glory! Glory and Fame! All shall bow to the might of snapchat and their secret code names for things that no one wants!

Given the state of the laws on Technology, we should see that come to pass where Anonymity is legally banned. While other smaller companies may be able to set up shop, or you can deploy your own VPN somehow without tracing it to yourself, any public for profits will have to comply with the law. So this is a neat tech implementation that may not end up mattering much in the near future.

J2ME suuuuccccked. Google did the right thing to it. Meego was a nice beautiful UI on a lake of shit beneath it tied to boat anchor hardware, as hard as it is to accept. From talking with devs that created it, it was a nightmare inside created by various mixing of older distros and coding paradigms.

Geezus Krust, slashdotters love C. Leave it for lilnux kernel and your device drivers, keep it out of phone development, you'll make everything worse.

Only a fool or an expert would write a c backend to an app. And there aren't many experts...

I think you underestimate how badly devs can make apps even with native tools.

A lot of artworks require good welds. The artistic welders at my school practiced building dr seuss looking bikes. They were pretty amazing, multiple chain drives, really tall or really long. Very impractical, but they rode them around campus anyways.

20 years ago I was getting applications from Harvard, Yale Physics PHD recipients for tenure track positions that started at $30 K a year in the middle of nowhere for a teaching, no research no phd program school. It was bad then, and worse now. Its not basket weaving, its all academic positions really. Universities have also discovered that PHDs are not necessary to teach some subjects leading to masters degrees teaching at many smaller schools instead.

Dude is out to fucking lunch. Its like laughing at an alcoholics joke about being an alcoholic. It would be funny if he wasn't baked 24/7.

The whole point of the Browser company was not to take over the browser world. It didn't get funded by people who looked at its goals and said "Yup that will be a useful addition to most people's workflows" No, they thought they could get enough uptake to get someone else to buy them or figure out something else to make money. You can not convince me that any anyone thought their previous effort was useful by any slice of the general public. Now they're pivoting to AI because, obviously they need to raise more money and thats an easy way to do that. No one thinks their new product will be successful either.

I really wanted to love it. I wrote a great application for it, that almost worked perfectly. There was a single bug I couldn't get past and eventually had to debug the Java code itself before I found the issue, and it was an easy fix! Thats pretty amazing that a hack like me could fix a programming language bug. But my boss wasn't so keen on running a solution on a hacked up tomcat server... Se la vie

Idk, the 2.7 to 3 conversion had quite a bit of nonsense.

Well, your describing the way the US housing market worked pre 2020. Much harder for even higher middle income people to afford houses in many places. But otherwise on point.

Dumb shit. Yes it fucking was the republicans that wanted a cheap labor source to fill out the meat packing plants in Iowa, Arkansas and harvest the produce no one else would. Yes its the republicans that want to cut any funding that would allow the poor to make themselves better. Yes its the republicans that are making abortion illegal that forces women into single motherhood against their will, keeping them and their children impoverished.

Republicans created this awful incentive for them to come and then abuse the fuck out of them. Democrats just want their terrible lives to be less terrible for everyone. God forbid we help people not live terrible lives.

Well, to be honest there are smart rich folk and dumb rich folk the difference is timing.

The smart ones started the company and funded it early, oversaw its growth and cached out on the hype they had built up. The dumb ones are the ones that purchased it from them.

I'm not rich, but I think I'm very naive as the OP here is. I see an idea and evaluate it based on its long term success. That does not matter if you are not investing in the long term and have some control over its short term fate. This is what I often miss, but honestly I can't get that control needed to invest in bad long term ideas. Anyone taking my money telling me they can do that for me, is going to prioritize their own needs before mine and try to leave me with the bag after the scam, er I mean investment, opportunity comes to meet with market relatize.