jakequade (u/jakequade)

jakequade commented on Amazon Prime Video starts showing ads in January unless you pay $2.99/month xtra 9to5google.com/2023/12/26... · Posted by u/qainsights

dcgudeman · 2 years ago

What does the market cap of the company or the founders net worth have anything to do with the unit economics of operating a streaming business? Netflix, Hulu and others are all exploring charging more or introducing ads. Does that not factor into your analysis at all??

jakequade · 2 years ago

If the company is already huge and makes a tonne of profit, there's little/no need to double-dip on an accessory service that already makes a good case for pushing people into their main service (i.e prime video is free if you use amazon prime -> using amazon's main website/service).

It's not about the market cap specifically, it's stating that prime video doesn't need to operate at a profit in order to benefit amazon's core business.

jakequade commented on Rust Is the Future of JavaScript Infrastructure leerob.io/blog/rust... · Posted by u/leerob

davnicwil · 4 years ago

I really like how javascript tooling appears to have followed the make it work -> make it good -> make it fast pattern, which is pretty much always the correct way to build software.

It is reassuring that we have actually got the feature sets and interfaces correct, since we are now, at last, turning to making stuff really fast. If we had started with speed being the goal of tools, I'd wager they would have been nowhere near the standard they are today in those regards.

jakequade · 4 years ago

I like how you've followed the delusional -> delusional pattern.

jakequade commented on Facebook under fire over secret teen research bbc.co.uk/news/technology... · Posted by u/ColinWright

jetrink · 4 years ago

I wonder if this happened, would teenagers would be upset or relieved? There's a This American Life episode[1] in which several teenage girls explain the complex etiquette of Instagram. It sounds stressful, it sounds exhausting, it sounds like a full time job. Right now, anyone who opts out also excludes themselves from a major aspect of school social life.

1. https://www.thisamericanlife.org/573/transcript

jakequade · 4 years ago

They would be upset. 100%. Many of them just don't care about the inner workings of the app.

jakequade commented on Australia’s new mass surveillance mandate digitalrightswatch.org.au... · Posted by u/soylentbeige

Nursie · 4 years ago

The ban on alcohol in some communities is (AFAICT) welcomed by those communities, which have massive problems with it. There are laws in other states which allow people to declare their house a “dry place” which is then enforceable by law, to try to stop anyone from bringing alcohol into the house.

I can’t tell you whether any of these measures work, but they aren’t implemented for reasons of racist suppression, from what I can tell. Also no idea on the porn bans.

I’ve just moved to Australia, for the second time. The censorship you talk about is trivial and easily worked around (Video game didn’t get approved for sale? Order in from New Zealand or Hong Kong)

The populace isn’t so much OK with the policy as unaffected by it. These policies usually come from SA and are usually rooted in religion, which still seems to hold sway there.

The appeal of Aus to this Brit is that it has space, so much space, and sunshine. And it’s not as downright crazy as the USA (guns, employment rights, healthcare etc)

jakequade · 4 years ago

If you have punitive anti-drinking policy, and a racial group susceptible to that problem, it becomes a racist policy. There's alternatives that don't set people with problems back even further.

jakequade commented on Australia’s new mass surveillance mandate digitalrightswatch.org.au... · Posted by u/soylentbeige

fieryskiff11 · 4 years ago

yes >AN ACCOUNT TAKEOVER WARRANT enables the law enforcement agencies to take control of an account, and even lock the account holder out of it. This can be done covertly and without consent, so the individual wouldn’t necessarily know what is going on until or if they are ever charged. It includes removing two-factor authentication and using one account to gain access to others (directly contradicting cyber security best practices for staying safe and secure online).

jakequade · 4 years ago

You misread his question. He asked if the AFP could create a new account and masquerade as him (seeing as he doesn't have profiles now).

jakequade commented on Hello Yarn 2, Goodbye node_modules freddixx.medium.com/hello... · Posted by u/jonas21

drannex · 4 years ago

I may be the only one around who cares about this, but I _like_ node_modules. There are so many times where I am working on a project and either 1) I don't understand an API in a package so I quickly click into the module to learn more or 2) I find bugs, and can do a quickfix right there and then in the node_modules and test them out before submitting either a PR or work on a fork. I guess it would be possible(?) to go into the new .yarn folder but its just not the same.

Sure, node_modules is a behemoth and there is still a likely better way - but I _love_ having all of my packages on a per-project basis. I used to be a user of Yarn 1 and 2, and their debugging and installation system is insanely better than NPM's, but I quite like having everything in one place for every project.

jakequade · 4 years ago

> I guess it would be possible(?) to go into the new .yarn folder but its just not the same

Except it's exactly the same. CD into a folder.

jakequade commented on I created a $350M software company knowing nothing about software (2015) techcrunch.com/2015/12/26... · Posted by u/himoacs

jakequade · 4 years ago

> Knowing nothing about software.

A few lines in:

> I created a horse-racing simulation game in Applesoft BASIC in Manhattan Beach Middle School’s computer classroom and ran a small gambling operation.

... Ok.

jakequade commented on Signal on Android: Images sent to wrong contacts github.com/signalapp/Sign... · Posted by u/frankjr

hnarn · 4 years ago

Some details on how this assumption was made would be nice, but I think it's pretty obvious that any developer involved in a project can make a reasonable assumption of how rare a bug is depending on the technical details on what is required for the bug to happen. For example, if we say for the sake of argument that a hypothetical bug requires you to have more than ten contacts of the exact same name and these also need to share the same country and area code, one can make the assumption this use case is very rare without knowing the exact number of users that this applies to, just based on common sense regarding how the application is normally used.

edit: The linked github issue says:

> The TL;DR is that if someone had conversation trimming on, it could create a rare situation where a database ID was re-used in a way that could result in this behavior. It was very difficult to track down, with earlier phases involving getting additional logging into builds. Once we had some more information, it did in fact become our top priority, a fix was made, and we got it out as quickly and as safely as possible. The fix itself should make it so that database issues like the one that caused this bug can't happen again.

jakequade · 4 years ago

> it's pretty obvious that any developer involved in a project can make a reasonable assumption of how rare a bug is

... is it? The fact that a bug exists means there's a logic gap. You can try and patch it with theory, but that's just adding assumption to a scenario created from broken assumptions. Also, the job of telemetry in incident reporting isn't to be vague - its to add precision.

jakequade commented on On Comments in Code henrikwarne.com/2021/06/1... · Posted by u/nikbackm

jakequade · 4 years ago

> I didn’t need comments if I wrote self-documenting code.

More than any other approach to coding (x-based-development etc), this has come up most frequently for me personally, and it astounds me how many people have this mentality.

Comments are a way to break out of whatever terse syntax your given language requires and speak directly to the developer. A single comment can house so much more context and insight the best-formatted code could ever hope for. When the only downside is some holier-than-thou idea of "I shouldn't be doing this" (despite the fact you clearly need to), I'm surprised so many people fall for this terrible mentality.