Not out of date, the author is probably planning on teaching how to program Windows via WinAPI. WSL2 and VSCode will probably be outside the scope of discussion when it comes to coding Windows apps from scratch
Yeah, except the bundling wasn't the problem. It was that Microsoft was using their size to build a giant moat around IE. If you wanted modern features, it was all on IE and behind their proprietary scripting languages (vbscript, jscript, mshtml, activex controls)
This was all part of the anti-competitive embrace, extend, extinguish strategy that was so common at Microsoft then. They would offer a tool that was "close" to a popular standard (javascript, html), then extend it with their own tooling (jscript, mshtml), and finally they would replace those with a proprietary toolchain (vbscript, activex controls)
That meant the entire market moved to IE and it ate up almost all the market share overnight, even though it was a dumpster fire of a browser compared to the competition
> Companies don't have violence and only have rules in a limited sense. E.g. a company can't lock you in a box for failing to give it some of your money
Companies certainly do "have violence" and certainly have locked people up in the past. The only thing keeping large corporations from doing this now is the state.
In the article, the author puts forth the problem with the Great Leap Forward: large central authority being disconnected from those starving workers. That's a problem large, centrally planned, corporations face.
> the author puts forth the problem with the Great Leap Forward: large central authority being disconnected from those starving workers. That's a problem large, centrally planned, corporations face.
This is not the whole truth. The problem with the Great Leap Forward was that the state enforced farming techniques, and even what farmers should work on instead of farming, and took food to bring to the centre. It's not just disconnection. Disconnection is far too vague a word to choose. To compare a company not listening to its workers with what the GLF did - it's hard to avoid thinking you picked the one vague word that could technically describe both of those scenarios, despite the vast gulf between them.
As I sort of said elsewhere - some companies are bad. That's fine, unless there's no competitor to move to. Then workers' situations are really bad, because they have to choose between retraining, moving, and staying, none of which is a great choice. But if you think that's bad, think how much worse it is that a state bureaucrat can lock you in jail, and your only option is to flee the country. Companies aren't perfect, but they limit the blast radius of the damage an incompetent or malicious employee can achieve.
> This isn’t illegal. Equivalent to a “No outside food and drink” sign or not letting randos sell things in your own storefront
In that case, someone else owns the storefront. I own my phone, not Apple.
If Apple would like to claim that I merely lease my phone, they need to update all their marketing so it isn't misleading. They should also be on the hook for repairs (without AppleCare), and all the other responsibilities that typically accompany a leased product.
> Equivalent to a “No outside food and drink” sign or not letting randos sell things in your own storefront
Your phone isn't Apple's storefront. Their storefront is. Prohibiting their customers from patronizing any other store is clearly anti-competitive.
> It’s not illegal just because you don’t agree with the philosophy of a closed ecosystem
It's not legal just because you agree with the philosophy of a closed ecosystem. "A closed ecosystem" is inherently anti-competitive and should be illegal.
> Equivalent to a “No outside food and drink” sign
Really?
When you buy food from the grocery store, the grocery store goes to your home and physically prevents you from also eating food from a different store at the same time, in your own home?
When people buy a phone, they own it. They are using it in their own home.
No, a grocery store does not force you to only eat food from them, in your own home.
They do not prevent you from mixing milk from their store with cookies from a different store.
Not sure I agree with not starting work on it right away so you don’t finish early but, I’ve learned that constantly delivering earlier than you say can make people not believe your estimates - ditto for always being late
Yeah, it's very hard to describe. Almost like you perceive the present moment and the past couple seconds at the same time. Time seems to pass by you very quickly but, then you look at the clock, and it's only been 5 minutes
That being said, I can't imagine having to hunt while on a lot of psychedelics
It's an insanely conservative tool