rickycook (u/rickycook)

rickycook commented on Slack Files EU Competition Complaint Against Microsoft slackhq.com/slack-files-e... · Posted by u/mattmarcus

Arathorn · 6 years ago

On one hand, the playbook of exploiting Office's dominance to push Teams is very very reminiscent of exploiting Windows' dominance to push IE.

On the other hand, Slack's walled garden is also effectively anti-competitive; trying to create a monopoly via vendor lock-in to the Slack product & ecosystem.

It feels like a better bet would be for both of them to adopt and support open interoperability standards, so users can avoid being locked into any single vendor, and have full sovereignty over their conversation data. (Disclaimer: as project lead for Matrix I may be biased :)

rickycook · 6 years ago

i _adore_ matrix! keep up the good work!

rickycook commented on The AirPods Pro “Rattlegate” annoying.technology/posts... · Posted by u/dewey

smcleod · 6 years ago

I didn’t reply to any comment that was talking about the price in the USA, state or suggest I was talking about how much they might cost in the USA and the article was not discussing anything USA specific.

> "Dollar (symbol: $) is the name of more than 20 currencies, including those of Australia, Brunei, Canada, Hong Kong, Jamaica, Liberia, Namibia, New Zealand, Singapore, Taiwan and the United States." - Wikipedia

When you talk about the price of pacemakers, penicillin or Wifi do you expect everyone to talk about them in AUD just because they were invented there?

Just because you (presumably) live the USA doesn’t mean the rest of the internet does.

rickycook · 6 years ago

best not talk about the price of medicine in USD; people might lose their lives

rickycook commented on How to Make Python Wait blog.miguelgrinberg.com/p... · Posted by u/jangid

pyjonista · 6 years ago

I often find myself overwhelmed thinking about concurrency/parallelism in Python: time.sleep, concurrent.futures, multiprocessing, threads, queues, asyncio, uvloop, tornado, twisted, events, coroutines, curio, trio, select, gevent, eventlet...

What is a good solution that the majority of us simple humans with limited time and resources should pursue? I want to write software that competes with similar solutions written in Go. Does that exist? Is there one solution that it's safe to adopt and generally recommended by the community? I used to think that asyncio was the solution to that but I was unable to fully understand its API. Please help!

rickycook · 6 years ago

i’d say that multiprocessing probably covers 90% of “do it in the background” tasks, and asyncio covers 90% of async networking tasks

futures, uvloop, tornado, twisted, coros, gevent, etc are kinda just all related to, or do similar to asyncio

threading is kinda not as useful as you might like in python because of the GIL (simplistically, assume that python can only do 1 thing at once regardless of having multiple threads available or not until you know why that’s not always the case)

rickycook commented on Is Death Reversible? scientificamerican.com/ar... · Posted by u/Bender

brobinson · 6 years ago

Reverse core dumps are possible, so I'm not sure this analogy is perfectly appropriate.

rickycook · 6 years ago

a core dump of the brain is pretty damn big... so that’s not really saying much; just that maybe we don’t have a man data to restore from

rickycook commented on Perfectly Cropped tyler.io/perfectly-croppe... · Posted by u/keehun

smcl · 6 years ago

Ha, yep I feel like an absolute idiot doing that in public. My genuinely favourite hidden/unintuitive feature is the force-touch on the on-screen keyboard to see a little cursor you can scroll around the text field you are using. I hate that it's so unintuitive, but it's incredibly useful

rickycook · 6 years ago

and i hate that they removed it in the latest generation! i know you can do the hold down on space instead, and i know that you can then tap with a second finger, but there’s so much more you could do much quicker with the force touch keyboard!

rickycook commented on US Constitution – A Git repo with history of edits github.com/JesseKPhillips... · Posted by u/styfle

gamblor956 · 6 years ago

In a legal document negotiated between parties you don't want to keep track of every version of the file, just the latest version of the offered terms and counteroffered terms.

Changes by you are highlighted in one color.

Changes by other parties are highlighted in other colors.

If you need a diff between versions Word can generate one for you in seconds.

So yes, this is exactly how we work. Because it was designed to fit our workflow.

rickycook · 6 years ago

i’d argue that it’s not “designed to fit our workflow” so much as designed around a subpar, but flexible tool that everyone was using. that don’t make it good; that just makes it ingrained

rickycook commented on Let's Encrypt makes certs for 30% of web domains leebutterman.com/2019/08/... · Posted by u/lsb

brianwawok · 7 years ago

Yup, but no incentive. They are literally making millions of dollars for a fraction of a penny in CPU time to sign a cert. Why offer the same thing for free? Try to sell it as more secure and trick lots of people...

rickycook · 7 years ago

who ever said free? they could make a paid service like LE with automated renewals etc that integrates better with enterprise software, or that does better audit logging, or any number of things. let’s encrypt is a great service, but there’s still plenty of money to be made off overzealous corporate security policies

rickycook commented on exFAT in the Linux kernel cloudblogs.microsoft.com/... · Posted by u/UkiahSmith

robocat · 7 years ago

Windows Home is to Microsoft, as Chrome is to Google.

Microsoft hasn't charged consumers for upgrades to Windows for years - and surely that is because they expect to profit from advertising.

The same can pretty much be said for Windows Pro and small businesses. Why is there no subscription to Windows? Why can't I pay to get 3 more years of security fixes for Windows 7 however an enterprise can?

rickycook · 7 years ago

advertising yes, but also why they are kind of lax on piracy: the real money is in corporate, so you have to keep people using your ecosystem at home so that’s what they want to use at work

rickycook commented on Show HN: Zero-Config Documentation Websites for Python timothycrosley.github.io/... · Posted by u/timothycrosley

rat9988 · 7 years ago

I feel bad for the author. To be labelled a nazi for using the counter-clockwise svatiska is undue.

Edit: Can I have any argument instead of simply downvoting me?

rickycook · 7 years ago

i don’t think people were labelling him a nazi; i think they had issue with their own projects, or their name being accidentally associated with nazis

rickycook commented on How Does Esperanto Sound? martinrue.com/how-does-es... · Posted by u/martinrue

nilkn · 7 years ago

It has as few as 63k speakers, native or otherwise. The language is barely spoken compared to languages of similar difficulty.

rickycook · 7 years ago

the very point of esperanto is that nothing is of “similar difficulty”, so even comparing to spanish is disingenuous