I have no personal experience with Wasmer or the people behind it. But with the things I read about them (e. g. https://mnt.io/2021/10/04/i-leave-wasmer/ crossed my path again a few days ago) would make me, to put it lightly, hesitate before building on it.
Readit NewsKolja commented on Wasmer – Run, Publish and Deploy any code, anywhere wasmer.io/... · Posted by u/gorenb
I remember that, in the beginning, there were some concerns:
- "I need to download a lot of data, I want discs!"
- "I will be forever bound to Valve. What if they go out of business?"
I think the first point got kind of obsolete, because broadband is readily available compared to 20 years ago. And the latter also lost importance, I guess? At least I don't read that any longer.
I remember having those concerns. And Steam performance did take a few months to solidify if I remember correctly, so not everything was unfounded. Before it, only MMOs had login screens separating gamers from gaming ;-)
Nowadays, the only problems I have with Steam stem from my credit card's security mechanisms.
The fact that they’re a private company helps a lot. There’s less incentive to extract money from customers in new ways that are lucrative in the short term but damaging in the long run.
I think their company structure also helps, where employees generally don’t work on things unless they actually want to. This means that you don’t end up with designers redesigning UIs that don’t actually need it, etc.
You are right, Valve being private removes a lot of the incentives to mess with Steam in ways I would consider negative.
I think it's pretty amazing that Valve managed to create something of this type (a store/launcher/software platform), targeted at an easily annoyed[citation needed] group of people (gamers), running for this long, that is mostly used by choice and not universally hated.
That's what happens if the buyer is also the user, I guess.
Why is the sourcing of nuclear fuel never talked about as a problem? France needs to maintain boots on the ground in Africa to protect their uranium mines. The German public, amongst others would be extremely against that level of direct imperialism.
Also, I can't find any mention of the French having problems cooling down their reactors last year due to drying out rivers.
Nuclear might have been an option fifty years ago, but now it's too late to start, and we should focus on storage and renewables instead, if you ask me.
[edit]: fixed a typo
> I see a lot of people celebrating Windows 95 as a high point, and it isn't really a surprise - that was one of the last times that Windows had to genuinely attempt to compete economically for their OS share.
That might also have been around the last time when people expected to pay for a new operating system. The other thing Apple has done is to lower the cost of OS upgrades to the point where selling the OS itself has become economically difficult. Apple simply offsets that with insane margins on the hardware, MS doesn't have that option.
I think you are off by at least a decade, MacOS X licenses cost low triple digits (cheaper if upgrading) well into the oughts.
Kolja commented on Guide to Java Virtual Threads blog.rockthejvm.com/ultim... · Posted by u/saikatsg
Sorry to ask a somewhat unrelated question: How did the author create those flow charts? That style is Just. So. Cool.
The style, and especially the splotchy background coloring, made Paper[1] (By WeTransfer it seems? When it was released they were called fiftythree.) my first guess.
[1]: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/paper-by-wetransfer/id50600381...
Kolja commented on What Figma plans to do inside Adobe theverge.com/23376442/fig... · Posted by u/jerryjerryjerry
What a non-interview.
I’m not expecting Adobe to kill Figma or raise the price overnight. I’m not angry about any of that, I’m angry that I’ve now built team workflows around a product that means I have to pay money to a company that doesn’t spend it on making products better and relies on vendor lock-in to propagate.
Could have asked if they think selling to Adobe has limited the potential of what Figma could accomplish. Could have asked about how users who supported them as a solution against Adobe might feel betrayed.
But you didn’t. Great journalism guys.
I've repeatedly heard the sentiment from interviewers that it's not worth the time asking questions you know you won't get an answer to. As a sibling noted, both of your questions can reasonably fall into that category.
Not disagreeing, just lamenting the sad state of journalism nowadays, at least as I perceive it.
This seems to be a weird micro-optimisation. While I agree with some of the goals (classless files, parameterless main exist in Kotlin and are nice to have), they should, in my opinion, not be implemented for the sole purpose of making `main` as minimal as possible.
I don't think you need to understand every single character of your very first program right from the beginning. A few of the concepts can be hand waved away to be explained in a later chapter without impeding the overall understanding of programs once you left the sub-twenty-lines beginner programs.