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lowmess | 9 years ago | on: GitHub lost $66M in nine months of 2016

don't they already attempt to do that though? i don't consider $7/month a large fee. (granted, they could probably get more subscribers at $3-5, but i'm assuming they landed on $7 for a reason)

lowmess | 9 years ago | on: Snapchat Passes Twitter in Daily Usage

Twitter = realtime news/sports, one-to-many jokes/announcements or whatever

Snapchat = catch up on friends & families days, one-to-one connection

It's OK that they each have their purpose, and I wish both services's stated goals would embrace that. And maybe I use those services different than other people, but I just think it's strange that two wildly different services are competing for the same eyeballs in the same verticals. Obviously the shareholders disagree with me.

lowmess | 10 years ago | on: Let's Encrypt: Active Incident, DNS errors causing service disruption

The good news is that part of Let's Encrypt's mission is to make it easier for all CA's to offer similar services through things like the ACME protocol. The ISRG's ultimate goal (right now) is for https to be the default, not the exception. I don't get the impression they care much which CA has the biggest piece of the pie.

lowmess | 10 years ago | on: Visual Studio Code 1.0

For me, it's a robust extension API, because then I can have any feature I want given enough time. Atom definitely has an edge there imo. Performance is also a plus (I have no complaints there with Atom). VSCode looks promising, though.

lowmess | 10 years ago | on: Atom text editor 1.7.0 released

Am I the only one who has no performance issues with Atom, except on insanely big files? I don't like my files to be 1000+ lines anyways (where possible) because it severely impacts readability/skimability.

ST3 might win me back when Package Control is integrated, but until then, Atom is more than fine. IntelliSense on VS Code looks really powerful, but it's personally a feature I do not enjoy.

lowmess | 10 years ago | on: Content is dead

I'm in the US beta, and it really is a great service. Could use more publications and the price point seems a little too high (lots more $0.49 articles than $0.19, in my experience). That said, it has proved to be popular in NL/GE and I trust that they will attract more US pubs & prices will lower as (or if) adoption grows.

lowmess | 10 years ago | on: Jeff Bezos’ letter to shareholders

It's more akin to a used car lot deciding to manufacture cars, and removing Ford & Chevys from their lot. I'm not saying it's right or wrong, but it is interesting that they only removed those two items and not Rokus and other streaming options.

lowmess | 10 years ago | on: Why I don’t use CSS preprocessors

Performance for Sass has not been an issue since libsass. Not once have I been able to switch to the browser faster than my Sass has compiled. Most of the time I even miss the browser-sync reload.
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