Ummmm...
1. Does the data suggest that is true?
2. If it were true, would it support the "unbundling" narrative given that it would be a case of something being part of another bundle?
FB marketplace is literally the only thing I fb for anymore. It's pretty much the only decent place to buy and sell furniture, lawn equipment, etc. I valiantly tried to stick with craigslist, but it's just become a wasteland of scams and spam where I live.
The fact that Craigslist hasn't done anything to cut down on spam, scams, and duplicate posts is maddening to me. Whenever I do a search I see dozens of phone repair advertisements and completely unrelated posts for cars and trucks. And those posts have the same title and thumbnail!
I simply do not understand why Craigslist refuses to improve in this regard. Look, I get why Craig doesn't want to change the design of his site, but how in the hell do they justify such crap not being removed?
It's trivial to make a fake facebook account, and I really doubt most people vet the seller to such lengths. Scams aren't always obvious. I could see how you could generate a fake account, get fake pictures of a fake apartment, and make a fake ad, and not get caught at all.
The "small codebase" claim hinges on the fact that you're not counting the lines of code in nginx, leveldb, and other external software that are glued together to make this system. Those systems may reflect the years of battle-hardening you seek.
So, it may be more reliable than you think by virtue of that selective counting of codebase lines.
They are also using a pure Go version of leveldb (github.com/syndtr/goleveldb) and not the more battle-hardened Google leveldb, RocksDB implementations, or even the dgraph-io Badger WiscKey-style approach.
Vs. a OnePlus 6 it has a smaller screen, worse camera, one fewer sim slot, lacks a headphone jack, half the RAM, a slower processor, no face recognition, and a smaller battery.
In what way is it superior? Just screen resolution?
I had the original one plus, and liked it. But they blew up their os deal and since then it hasn't been as compelling.
I want pure android without monitoring my behavior - I"m paying for the phone, damnit. I know it's an almost lost cause - that's one reason I like the ph-1.
With the one plus I was always worried about them copying my actions since they are not a pure android, and the danger of a company that is in china. There were some incorrect stories about them sending data to china, but there was at least a legitimate story about sending data there: https://www.tomsguide.com/us/oneplus-data-leak-fix,news-2596...
I'm not sure where the optimism comes from. I too have been surprised at how mediocre most conferencing software is, and concluded that it's probably harder than it seems.
What would great videoconferencing software look like, and what are the odds that this is it?
realtime protocols depend a lot on where are you and where are the participants, and even if you cover everything else you have random things that you have no influence on. like what route does your traffic go, how is the buffer set up on this route and so on.
i had to debug voip and outside of some simple things like not enough resources/bandwidth it can be really frustrating.
Thanks, I will investigate. Not clear though if I'll need to convert the cert though to AWS load balancer accepted format... that was the bulk of my earlier problem, especially handling the chain bundle. The AWS cert service, I assume, would eliminate the conversion problem for me. Thanks... I'll check it out
I think it's more like they're part of the "Android ecosystem" where you have a lot of choice around fundamental components, as compared to the iOS ecosystem.
I get your point that Android, broadly, is a competitor to Apple. But, I think he's not just highlighting that the world needs an Amazon alternative (it has several).
I think he's saying the world needs a more open ecosystem where they have the choice of best-of-breed components from different companies. And, in that world, you might be able to pick the world's best compute stack from one company, use Cloudflare as the world's best edge/networking stack, etc.
Biggest downside is the FireOS, Amazon store instead of Google Play, etc.
If you want to do basic web surfing stuff, this is a phenomenal deal. I doubt you'll find a better one.
If you want to experience all that modern Android tablets are capable of, these tablets will not provide that. In particular anything related to Google services (mail/apps) and Android apps that are delivered through the Google Play store but not delivered though the Amazon store. There are a lot of mainstream apps that don't bother to push their apps to Amazon's store.
As @deng mentioned above, the Amazon tablets have historically had locked bootloaders -- they won't load custom ROMs. The XDA guys seem to believe it's unlikely you'll ever be able to load Cyanogen on one of them.
> The XDA guys seem to believe it's unlikely you'll ever be able to load Cyanogen on one of them.
The first-generation Fire tablets definitely support Cyanogenmod, though it was a bit awkward to get around the bootloader lock at first. Are the newer ones not supported?
almost no Android phone allows custom os! understands this.
all Samsung phones can only be flashed because someone leaked a internal tool. and still, there must be a huge community effort to get the kernel and drives for each model.
now keep in mind that this huge community effort doesn't exist even for for-developers v phones, such was the case with the moto x dev edition. with phones like fire, it's practically non existent!
Android devices are not open by any means. they just have a lovely stubborn community.
> The ASP->PHP conversion was extremely low-hanging fruit (the conversion involved almost no logic).
This is where I'm curious that they didn't just start writing PHP from that point forward. It was already a cross-platform language. And, if I recall, had a lot of hype and was gaining traction fast I'm the late 90's and early 2000's.
Certainly hindsight is 20-20, but I remember a lot of folks betting big on PHP at the time.
PHP on Windows was comically bad at that time (~2000) - performance and bugs - which is especially bad for shared hosting environments. It wasn't until Microsoft's FastCGI for Windows 2003 and PHP 5.2 landed that we decided to roll it out on our shared platform. I speak from experience as an engineer/dev for a shared webhoster who was also on out of hours pager duty.
