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If it weren't for Bool as a name, that's just 0 for OK, non-zero for errors with 1 being general failure.

I would consider it beautiful.

If there's something that C++ actually lacks, that's the elegance, grace and beauty. The rest, it's all already there or will be there shortly :)

"Baith" ? That's a pretty niche word I'd say.

The principal difference is that things keep working if I stop paying. All other aspects are secondary.

And generally speaking there is a lot of options that are excellent for developers but complete shit for the users. That's obvious, but it's also off the point in the context of fairness.

Yeah, they do, but an actually fair to all sides model is that of one-time sales coupled with optional paid-for updates.

Then they aren't the target audience of this particular Rolex.

Yeah, sounds like you can't even screenshot it.

That c is opinionated. Either one likes it or explicitly doesn't. I doubt there's an in-between.

Skimmed it before asking. It's written for people who already know who the author is. Hence the question.

What is he notable for in the context of Mozilla?

the process of it's (sic) evolution deeply fascinating.

... as it is disappointing.

Not everything that can be done should be done.

This sort of anecdotal evidence tells more about you than Telegram ;)

Nice little detail - WhatsApp was a $1/year subscription before they sold to Zuckerberg ... with the exact subscription cost now conspicuously missing from the app's Wikipedia page.

Way outdated info, but back in mid '00s when I was interviewing with EA, the recruiter guy who happened to like me said - "be careful when entering gamedev domain, because it's very hard to exit it once in."

Not in a sense that it's so good so you don't want to leave, but that other companies are leery of hiring people with the gamedev experience.

Make what you will out of that remark.

Twice a year

The main issue with Gnutella was - IIRC - that it didn't scale. At least the initial version, not sure if there was a revised one.

Basically, if you open the log window and look at the peer messages, then beyond certain network size all you'd see was a flood of relayed search queries with duplicates that ground all other activity to the halt. And the whole thing just became unusable.

PS. Also, Gnutella was released almost to the day when some clause of the AOL's purchase contract of Nullsoft (stock option vesting?) has expired so the devs were ultimately free to do whatever the f they wanted. So released the file sharing app. That was a nice touch.

Not to forget the eMule.

AltaVista had so much noise that it was basically unusable... which exactly the issue Google solved and why it still exists and AV doesn't.

The WTF name really lies on the surface, there's no authoritative source of its origin.

I have a wtf.c from 10+ years ago when I was re-implementing Windows-style Unicode handling for some project. You keep running into various quirks, which accumulate and you inevitably arrive at your WTF moment. So WTF as name comes up naturally, no special wit required.

You can tell from the way they talk about the subject that they don't understand the momentousness of what they're proposing.

All proposals focus on ultra-wealthy individuals. This "momentousness" wouldn't really touch the absolute vast majority of the taxpayers.

But, yeah, I bet the targeted people are getting nervous.

cheaper price

lower price /psa

I always assumed that IKEA being a non-profit was a tax evasion maneuver first and foremost. Even Wikipedia says that the goal of their convoluted corporate setup is to enable a "non-taxable for-profit" entity.

I don’t think that's what Infomaniak is after. Not even in the same ballpark.

The most interesting section - How It Works - could really elaborate on details a bit more.

by reading the link

The link didn't inspire any confidence given the quote you provides.

Show some rigor.

25 deaths per million people per day

That's not the same age range as actively practicing researchers.

It was too random to be encrypted

That's a rather odd remark.

What was the goal then? Of those who demanded the change.

You are over-exaggerating.

As much of a snob that Jobs was it's nonsensical to say that he would've knowingly insisted on changes that locked users out from their devices. That's just nonsense. At the very least there would've been a prompt to change the password phrase or some such in upgrade. And if it did happen as an oversight, it would've been patched on the first report and some heads would've rolled.

He would've not let the abysmal slop like iOS 26 UI to ship ever.

Some things he didn't appear to care much about, the polished UX was his schtick.

It should be then a switch in the settings.