y_molodtsov (u/y_molodtsov)

y_molodtsov commented on Making email more modern with JMAP fastmail.blog/2019/08/16/... · Posted by u/mfsch

dbg31415 · 6 years ago

So a few years back, everything was super fast on IMAP on my phone. But now it just crawls. On the Gmail App it's still pretty fast. So I just assumed it was slow because Google was being a dick and trying to get people to use their app instead of Apple Mail or Outlook. Is the protocol slow, or is Google throttling it?

y_molodtsov · 6 years ago

Gmail has its own sync engine.

y_molodtsov commented on Tumblr avc.com/2019/08/tumblr-2/... · Posted by u/rmason

laser · 7 years ago

If I bought Tumblr in a $3 million fire sale, I don't think I'd keep 200 employees on the payroll, but yes, it combined with the tax write-off and infrastructure costs it's reasonable for Yahoo to want to dump it as fast as possible—they could easily be losing $5M a month on it. I'm just shocked there aren't more opportunists in the market that would have bid the price up to at least something resembling reasonable. That being said, even an extremely well-executed turn-around could be 6 months until break-even, which would require potentially upfront $30 million in losses, in which context the sale price is insignificant, and so the question becomes who has web business expertise + $30 million in cash to burn and desire to confidently make a $15-20 million annual profit business a year or two out. Apparently, not many people/companies.

y_molodtsov · 7 years ago

He specifically said they’d continue to employ all of them.

y_molodtsov commented on Chrome hides www and https:// in the address bar again bleepingcomputer.com/news... · Posted by u/heyyyouu

_o-O-o_ · 7 years ago

What a slippery slope. I imagine a future when the entire URL itself has disappeared and we live in some sort of Google-controlled walled garden environment, like what they're trying to do with AMP[0]. Some sites only work with WWW prefixed as the APEX DNS record is misconfigured and points to nothing. I've even seen some sites point to `0.0.0.0' but had a CNAME record for WWW and I could then view the site.

[0] https://developers.google.com/amp/

y_molodtsov · 7 years ago

Then these websites are broken and needs to be fixed. In the end, the most of the people would probably search for it in the first place.

y_molodtsov commented on Chrome hides www and https:// in the address bar again bleepingcomputer.com/news... · Posted by u/heyyyouu

toast0 · 7 years ago

This behavior will train users to believe that the www in domains isn't important, when it actually serves a very important purpose.

You can't cname example.org, which makes it very hard to use a CDN to serve it unless the CDN provides anycast ips or you delegate DNS to the CDN.

If they're intent on making the address bar useless, they may as well go full hog, like Apple does in desktop Safari -- the address bar shows the domain only, until you click.

y_molodtsov · 7 years ago

But it’s definitely not important for an average user typing “facebook.com” into the address bar. Safari proved that.

y_molodtsov commented on Unshaky – Tries to address double key press issue on Apple's butterfly keyboard github.com/aahung/Unshaky... · Posted by u/tmlee

y_molodtsov · 7 years ago

Currently is saves my “A” and I get almost no double presses. It says it fixed almost 1500 of them in two months.

y_molodtsov commented on You’re Paying into a Broken System Whenever You Buy Something on iOS onezero.medium.com/youre-... · Posted by u/quark33

TheRealPomax · 7 years ago

Probably because part of the ios appeal is the insanely smooth interoperation between your mac laptop, your appple watch, and your iphone. If you already have a mac because, say, your work got you one (which in the tech industry is ludicrously common) then getting an iphone if you're shopping for a new device makes a whole lot of sense.

y_molodtsov · 7 years ago

And? Tons of apps on MacOS aren’t in the AppStore.

y_molodtsov commented on You’re Paying into a Broken System Whenever You Buy Something on iOS onezero.medium.com/youre-... · Posted by u/quark33

turbinerneiter · 7 years ago

Apple has a profit margin of 37%.

2017 the App store revenue was ~50 billion, which means Apple made 15 billions from fees.

Their net income was ~50 billion, too, which means 0 App store fees would reduce their profits by 30%.

Not sure if all numbers are correct, but I guess this should give us a ballpark feeling of what we are talking about.

y_molodtsov · 7 years ago

Putting together margins on their hardware and software products just can’t be right.

y_molodtsov commented on You’re Paying into a Broken System Whenever You Buy Something on iOS onezero.medium.com/youre-... · Posted by u/quark33

pathartl · 7 years ago

To me this just verifies that diversity is better than uniformity in these scenarios. That's fine if you don't trust PayPal because of your own experiences, but why should we be forced to use Apple Pay?

y_molodtsov · 7 years ago

Nobody forces you to use Apple Pay.

y_molodtsov commented on Adobe shambles – Why subscription software should be illegal eoshd.com/2019/07/adobe-s... · Posted by u/bricss

9HZZRfNlpR · 7 years ago

It's the same with poor countries. I don't play games now, but when I was young and lived in Eastern Europe, by some miracle my mother brought me PS1 with one free game included for Christmas. The non pirate games cost about 50 dollars at the time. My middle class mother Made 250 a month...

I got the machine modded and bought few pirated games... It was impossible for us to afford originals.

y_molodtsov · 7 years ago

That’s different, you’re just getting the same price as the entire world. Purchasing power is different, yes.

y_molodtsov commented on Adobe shambles – Why subscription software should be illegal eoshd.com/2019/07/adobe-s... · Posted by u/bricss

Silhouette · 7 years ago

They link the value provided by updates/maintenance to a tangible cost.

Unfortunately, they do not guarantee that the value added and the extra cost are proportionate, or even have the same sign.

y_molodtsov · 7 years ago

So you can stop the subscription then and not worry about a couple of thousands you’d pay as a single purchase cost.

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