baggage

I gather in the US it's different, they don't have all that baggage holding them back.

The downside is that they have to deal with a lot of old baggage as a result. Apple, on the other hand is almost the opposite.

The good news is, you don't have to deal with all this baggage in the new mode. The bad news is, you still have the legacy decoder sitting there taking up space.

My response was, “Everybody’s got baggage. You have to figure out if your baggage and her baggage make a matching set.”

> Power users were happy with all the features and all the options, but the extra baggage made it harder for less technical people to use the product. Poor design.

You know, like the ones that also have decent package management without PHP's baggage and limitations. edit: hell, calling PHP a "web platform" at all is insulting.

It got rid of the baggage of other languages and got to business. Backbone is definitely not that for JavaScript development.

Not because it doesn't want net neutrality, but because Title II is a big regulatory regime with a lot of baggage. You have to understand that none of this is taking place in a vacuum.

Copious amounts of baggage is the only thing left out, but I could pay 100€ to check piles and piles of bags, and now I spend slightly more than the Trenhotel and arrive five times faster. High speed trains make sense for semi-long distances.

It's a incredibly complicated monolith with a lot of historical baggage. Not kind to fresh eyes.

For various reasons, the new regime didn't have much baggage, and they wanted Korea to become a first-world nation. The story I've heard is that the government started by subsidizing concrete.

In the past, when these endeavors were carried out by nation states, all the baggage of bureaucracy was along for the ride. Fast forward to today, and you have individuals with the imagination and the means to dream big.

The safe seeks to confer the benefits of a convertible instrument without carrying with it the baggage of debt. It would thus be regarded under law as a "convertible security."

They don't carry the accumulated baggage of prior environments and old ways of doing things. They can more easily dump legacy cruft, embrace genuinely novel and interesting ways of doing things, etc.

"The only useful airport security measures since 9/11, were locking and reinforcing the cockpit doors, so terrorists can’t break in, positive baggage matching and teaching the passengers to fight back. The rest is security theater.”

But the cost structures of existing players aren't always dictated by the fundamentals, but also by their own organizational baggage and structure. Hence, SpaceX can compete effectively with DoD defense contractors hooked on hugely inefficient government contracts.

Shows how much baggage traditional media carries from the past and how convoluted a news organization can get once you start adding sales, advertising, and other departments that can be avoided now with the proper strategy.

With the decline of the PC, it's reasonable to believe that a future is coming in which x86 becomes primarily a server-side microprocessor -- and begins to shed much of the baggage from the misadventures of the 1980s and 1990s. All that said: there is a certain arrogance of youth here, and one hopes that when reality has sandblasted it away, the resulting humility will find its way to a formal computer science education and ultimately into professional software engineering; our discipline needs more people who have dared to write an OS from scratch, not fewer.