ringaroll's comments

ringaroll | 7 years ago | on: Engineer refusing to file/disclose patents

This should be expected. You screwed the guy, you got screwed in return. Be happy that he has not yet left and offer him $300k - $400k as a bonus if that work is so important.

> IT has searched his OneDrive, laptop, etc., and we can't find a single shred of code/documentation on these ideas.

Ahahah. Is anyone surprised that a smart engineer knows what he is doing?

ringaroll | 7 years ago | on: Google Hardware makes cuts to laptop and tablet development, cancels products

Sounds like a good reason not to buy new hardware from Google. They discontinue products too fast.

ringaroll | 7 years ago | on: Spotify to Apple: Time to Play Fair

Well I want to make a startup but dont want to to get wrecked by Facebook or Google or Apple. I guess I'll wait until lawmakers break them. Or else they dont deserve innovation.

ringaroll | 7 years ago | on: Spotify to Apple: Time to Play Fair

I really hope Apple dies and burns. They have good PR but thats it. They lie and deceit developers just like Google. Bait and Switch. There should be government regulation of Apple, Facebook and Google. These corps are just too big and control our democracy.

Apple is starving innovation by deliberately not supporting many thing on the Safari iOS browser and prevents competition illegally by restricting 3rd party browser engines.

Taking a 30% rent on purchases is blatant theft. More people need to speak out. #AppleRentSeeker

Because Apple is unable to increase revenues, it's now trying to increase by using uncompetitive tactics and illegal restriction of competition.

ringaroll | 7 years ago | on: Boeing 737 Max pilots complained to feds for months about suspected safety flaw

Well guess I'm not flying on 737 Max anymore. Unsafe plane with a terrible record. Should be banned.

ringaroll | 7 years ago | on: YC's latest moonshot bet is a startup building a $380K “flying motorcycle”

Wow.

ringaroll | 7 years ago | on: Leaked Documents Show the U.S. Tracking Journalists Through a Secret Database

It is called normalizing the behavior. When the society accepts this as the new normal, no one will care.

ringaroll | 7 years ago | on: Firefox to add Tor Browser anti-fingerprinting technique called letterboxing

I can see where this is heading. LOL

ringaroll | 7 years ago | on: Firefox to add Tor Browser anti-fingerprinting technique called letterboxing

This will cause a permissions fatigue. Only the most sensitive things should have permission. The usage of these capabilities is large enough that it should not be behind a permission.

ringaroll | 7 years ago | on: A Climate Change Paper So Depressing It's Sending People to Therapy

Just my two cents: Climate change threats are being over-hyped by those people/companies who stand to benefit from "green" energy/society.

These orgs are spreading propaganda to high-school teens by telling them lies sprinkled with a bit of truth and causing them to protest because the teens on average cannot make a better judgment then people with decades of experience.

Nothing is going to happen. I for one wont hold my breath.

ringaroll | 7 years ago | on: Ghidra, NSA's reverse-engineering tool

Okay, they you be the first user and pay the R&D costs + the salaries + bug fixing future expenses. I hope you got a billion in your pocket.

ringaroll | 7 years ago | on: Gpu.js – GPU Accelerated JavaScript

Works fine in Chrome. Crashes Firefox.

ringaroll | 7 years ago | on: V100 Server On-Prem vs. AWS P3 Instance Cost Comparison

Nice.

ringaroll | 7 years ago | on: Why I Write CSS in JavaScript

Its different and it a poor lang. The only people advocating for css only are privacy freaks. They're often the least return producing customers, hence ignored.

ringaroll | 7 years ago | on: Why I Write CSS in JavaScript

CSS was a mistake. Adding new features will not fix it. It needs to be scraped and rethought from scratch. There needs to be a something completely new to replace it, and it must be a full programming language.

ringaroll | 7 years ago | on: Why I Write CSS in JavaScript

No regular JS only website/app required 500mb of data. Please stop exaggerating. It does not make your point valid.

ringaroll | 7 years ago | on: Why I Write CSS in JavaScript

They're economically irrelevant so they're ignored. Their demands tend to be edge cases.

NoScript users are like the customer that demands the most but pays least. After some rants of such customer, they're ignored.

ringaroll | 7 years ago | on: Minimum-wage worker needs 2.5 full-time jobs to afford a one-bedroom apartment

Why are people entitled to many things just because they are born?

ringaroll | 7 years ago | on: Airbus will stop building the A380 in 2021

As far as I know, Boeing was selling smaller planes at a loss or at very near a loss and subsidizing it with the 747's. Hence Airbus made the A380's. The A380 was not meant to profit, but to stop Boeing from subsidizing other smaller planes.

ringaroll | 7 years ago | on: Google and IBM still trying desperately to move cloud market share needle

Who even would use Google Cloud seriously? They have a shitty history of maintaining products after depreciation. No, 1 year is not enough. Once I've invested in your platform, minimum of 5-7 years guarantee is mandatory.

Too many horror stories to even think about moving there.

This is coming from an org which spends 10M/Yr on Azure/AWS.