I think every every company I've worked at that had R&D had some kind of reward system for patents. Yes, most of the software patents were nonsense but those who have their names on it still did get paid.

Guessing those rewards are in the hundreds of dollars, probably a fraction of the engineer salary that went into the technical work.

Suunto, Polar and probably a lot of others were doing the same. Android was attractive because it would be a huge saving on software development costs, have maps out of the box and allow third-party apps.

At least Polar had a watch that would run in low-power mode by default and had a separate CPU that could run Android Watch when needed but that would drain the battery quickly. They had the sense to not make it the flagship model and it looks like the current models don't have anything like that.

> "Peeing yourself to stay warm".

Which in-house OS this was about? For Symbian, "burning platform" was at least honest.

Make it idiot at algorithms and I believe you.

> The vast majority of internet bandwidth is people streaming video. Shaving a few megs from a webpage load would be the tiniest drop in the bucket.

Is it really? I was surprised to see that surfing newspaper websites or Facebook produces more traffic per time than Netflix or Youtube. Of course there's a lot of embedded video in ads and it could maybe count as streaming video.

Cate to share that article, I find that hard to believe.

No article sorry, it's just what the bandwidth display on my home router shows. I could post some screenshots but I don't care for answering to everyone who tries to debunk them. Mobile version of Facebook is by the way much better optimized than the full webpage. I guess desktop browser users are a small minority.

Well Facebook has video on it. Highly unlikely that a static site is going to even approach watching a video.

Did you actually look?

Typical websites are not static and include a huge amount of JavaScript and other stuff from different ad networks, analysis tools, etc. It looks like most of it isn't cached. Video delivery on the other hand is incredibly well optimized because everyone knows it's data intensive.

It may surprise you how heavy Facebook is these days

How much did you get paid for this comment? And if not, why was it worth writing?

OP didn't say money is the only reason things are worth doing, he said that things can be worth doing solely for money. There's a big difference between the two.

To each their own.

This doesn't really make your point more coherent. Would you mind spelling it out?

CMake has fetch_content, and CPM is a package manager built on top of it. They are not great.

It's missing one important distinction: Below 0C: Freezing, probably slippery, not raining water. Above 0C: not freezing, probably not slippery, rain comes as water. They are as uncomfortable as you make them.

Don't you remember how hostile people were to ripgrep just because ag or find + xargs + grep existed? Or the same with meson because cmake exists and cmake because autotools exists? Or systemd or clang? It takes an unusualy stubborn person or strong corporate backing to actually create an alternative to an established open source project.

No, drunk people who do stupid shit or have passed out in public are just locked up for night and then let go unless they injured or killed someone.