blmarket's comments

On: iOS Kindle app now has a ‘get book’ button after changes to App Store rules

[blmarket]

Yeah, tariffs won't increase the price...

On: Smuggling arbitrary data through an emoji

[blmarket]

This and several other abuse cases forced my previous work to use code pointers to count 'characters' for user's nickname / status messages. No one wanted to download 9MB simply browsing other users.

[myflash13 → blmarket]

NoSQL? Sounds like it should’ve been caught by basic length checks on the database field where it was stored.

[ncr100 → blmarket]

That is awesome. Both the abuse and the fix.

On: Oracle justified its JavaScript trademark with Node.js–now it wants that ignored

[blmarket]

Oracle will fight like hell if there is a slightest chance to earn royalty from that trademark.

edit: Microsoft or other companies have no financial benefit on that fight. Even Deno itself has no financial benefit as well. This fight is for goodwill but not justifiable for financial terms (unless you can be the next owner of JavaScript trademark)

On: Master the Art of the Product Manager 'No'

[blmarket]

with "no", there might be additional reason why. But this office jargon allows you to just defer (indefinitely).