I believe MS didn’t get nail on integrating IE into Windows - at least in the US - they got nailed on threatening to increase Windows prices for OEMs (which will ruin them in the competitive OEM market) that bundled Netscape, i.e. abusing their Windows monopoly to harm a competitor.
WhatsApp, Signal, Facebook Messenger are all free to download on iOS - heck it’s offered for download at Apple’s expense; since it’s from their App Store servers.
This whole green bubble equal shame thing is 100% on people.
The reason there are 2 different colors is so people can tell when they are using SMS because SMS are capped / cost money in most of the world - while iMessage messages are unlimited and free.
Nah. Microsoft still exist and is thriving. Altman is the new Bill Gates except he is better at retaining ~~cul~~ employees. Many at HN love him for those qualities.
YouTube isn’t just a video sharing site though. It’s a social media site. There is value in people participating by replying and Liking/Disliking.
Frankly, banning ad-blockers feels like treating the symptoms rather than the cause. There is something wrong with your platform if people hate your ads so much that if they can’t block them they would rather not visit your site at all.
Same. I only visit when someone links to a video or I absolutely have to to get information.
Used to visit YouTube’s front page as part of my daily routine, effectively using it as a social media site - which it definitely is; it’s just that the posts are all videos, the comment section is like every other but moderated by the video poster, and the front page is completely algorithm driven.
Either way it’s safe to the say the abstraction has failed and isn’t doing its job anymore if you have to know the implementation details.
To use your garbage collection example, regardless you consider it a leak or not, the result is the same, if you have to deep drive into the workings of the garbage collector and how it manages memory, the abstraction has failed to do its job: to free you from the burden of managing memory.
His point is that all nontrivial abstraction breakdown at some point / under certain circumstances.
If you see abstraction as allowing you to ignore the implementation details then having to know the implementation details to get stuff done can be seen as the abstraction failing and the implementation details that are supposed to be abstracted away are not and are leaking out of the abstraction.
Either way, whether you consider it a leak or not, the results are the same: the abstraction becomes less useful or even useless.
WhatsApp, Signal, Facebook Messenger are all free to download on iOS - heck it’s offered for download at Apple’s expense; since it’s from their App Store servers.