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It does sound like poor planning, given the known realities of the app store. But I've never understood why Apple feels entitled to a cut of in-app purchases. They aren't providing any added value and in some cases (like w/ Kindle) they seem to be begging for an anti-trust suit.
While we're mentioning bugs, there is a pretty large header misspelling on the site with "Progressive Web Aps" (should be Apps)...
You say that like "this luxury SUV is built on a bulletproof base with the gimmicks luxury car owners want" is somehow a bad thing.
I don't see why it matters who funds the lawsuit. While some people are worried about a world where rich people can carry out vendettas, I'm more worried about a situation where wealthy companies and individuals can screw anyone they want as long as they can outlast the victim in court.

I want the Nick Dentons of the world to lie awake at night worrying the people they've ruined might get access to enough money to mount a successful lawsuit.

Having said that, I'll also say the courts should be more willing to award fees to defendants when lawsuits are groundless or mostly so. But that needs to be a determination based on the circumstances of the case and not who funds it.
There is no point in this since there is a surrender option.
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So we should pay royalties for using Calculus? Do we need to pay royalties everytime we use certain equations?

Ridiculous.
You don't play baseball with random people. And if you do you see if someone is a moron and move along. You can't do this in lol.
A specific model being more expensive to repair is something I would want to know about.
Based on your intuition?
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I think a lot of people are using vim emulators that bring the modal concept and keybindings in other software. Maybe NeoVim will eventually change this once vim can be embedded in a decent GUI and have addons that don't slow the how thing down to a crawl.

P.S. I love vim but I love it enough to recognise flaws.
> So my answer to this question of legitimacy was that, "they just legitimize it themselves, with their rhetoric on 'terrors'".

That answer would work if NSA was created after 9/11 or as part of the PATRIOT act or whatever. What was the NSA doing before? And don't you think NSA would still be doing that? My point is that NSA doesn't need terrorism to legitimize their operations. The reasons NSA came in to existence in the first place is still relevant and enough to legitimize itself.
How awesome would vim key bindings for Libreoffice be though?
Weak. The evidence provided by this article that Apple is wooing developers is :

- Shorter review times. This is a genuine improvement. Can be seen here http://appreviewtimes.com/ios/annual-trend-graph

- App store ads. If you have an app marketing budget this does nothing besides shift who you spend it with. We'll see if the roi is better but you'll be competing with some heavy spenders for the limited inventory.

- The new subscriptions pay model with the 15% cut after one year. In my opinion Apple doesn't deserve any cut of the recurring money since they don't have to do anything to earn it.

- Some new marketing documentation.

woop dee do
"And how much of that money is eaten up by the "services" that a16z provides..."

As a rule of thumbs, VCs take 2% of the fund's totally funding every year as "management fee", to pay for salaries, office rentals, marketing etc.

Therefore a16z's management fee from this specific fund is about $30M a year ($1.5B * 0.02).

However, please note that this is just the management fee of ONE fund. A VC firm often raises additional funds before a previous one ends its cycle (that's why you see fund names such as a16z fund I, a16z fund II, etc). a16z therefore has additional annual management fee from the previous, unfinished fund as well. I would not be surprised if a16z has $50M management fee per year across its multiple funds.

Source: I used to work for a VC.
With things like WebRTC, I don't think there will be any way to prevent piracy in the future.
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I think Unity Cloud Build is another example. They say it supports iOS (I've personally never used it though).

https://unity3d.com/services/cloud-build
My guess is that it serves to quench the common player criticism of "omg, this game is so unbalanced, it's like the developers don't even play their own game!"

And, from what I remember, the LoL community generally really enjoys playing with Riot employees. Back when I used to play (several years ago now) I don't remember running into a single toxic Riot employee. Then again they didn't have very many employees then.
> But I've never understood why Apple feels entitled to a cut of in-app purchases.

You mean besides maintaining and securing the entire distribution network and ecosystem that makes such apps profitable in the first place?
"man magic" is my favorite.
Indeed this is how I have build all my projects for the last two years. Currently I am building a platform to easily deploy a graphql api called https://graph.cool
One reason is that without it, there'd be nearly no paid apps. Every app would be free with some minute amount of functionality (to pass the review process) and an in-app purchase to unlock the "pro" version, with Apple getting nothing.

Apple built a platform and wants to extract value from that platform. It seems perfectly reasonable to me.
What benefits?
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>regardless of when they happen

Should I even bother asking about the culture and work/life balance?
I can't see writing any more apps for a platform that's hurtling backward so rapidly.

With grossly offensive (or just cravenly stupid) moves like deleting the headphone jack and making the iPhone nearly useless by removing battery capacity, Apple is calling consumers stupid and making its products incapable of running the applications that many of us write (or would like to).

Jony Ive is a pompous hack with no ideas for making better products. He has presided over a precipitous decline in Apple's quality, including everything from design to physical construction.

The UI regressions, the glued-together computers, the computers with no proper I/O or video output (only an outdated USB port, WTF), the idiotic crippling of phones to make them "thinner..." No self-respecting person should vote with his money for this sorry lineup of ever-more-useless junk from Apple.

When the vast majority of users don't think your product can withstand being used for its primary purpose... that product's design is a failure. That's why everyone buries his "thin, elegant" iPhone in a bulky, tacky rubber diaper. And a lot of people carry a diaper with a full load, meaning a battery to replace the one Apple left out.

I hate hypocrisy. So I can't support Apple's scams with applications.
I really feel that at this point the biggest issue is Apple's lack of openness.

My biggest issue with Android is the UI. For whatever reason it's fragmented between devices, and when I worked in an area that needed to support both iOS and Android devices, I preferred helping those with iOS because it was much, much easier to support them.

However, in terms of troubleshooting beyond a certain point I discovered that Android devices were by far superior. On an Android I can get access to log files, low level network features and a host of other goodies (like the filesystem!) much more easily. Heck, some of the devices we eventually ended up using had great emulators and remote access tools - something iOS devices just don't have.

The company I worked for had a custom mobile app-based solution. Like any solution it had bugs, but we fixed more bugs in the Android version in shorter timeframes than we did for iPhones - largely because we had more options for people in the field who experienced intermittent and hard to track down problems.

The fact I can't view logs on an iPhone app on my iPhone seems ridiculous. And not being able to setup network filtering ion the device, well I know why Apple doesn't want that but it's not for any good technical reason - it's only to "protect" their ecosystem.
I've had BMW 528i since 1997. Still going strong, but those damn window regulators break so often. I blame it on my mechanic replacing them with cheap Chinese parts. The car went 15 years with no window problems and all of the sudden I've had to replace each of the windows at least twice in the past 4 years (driver side 3 times)!
My summary: people look at new technology and proclaim that it will fail because there's no real need for it. (Examples: the microcomputer in the 1970s, a mobile phone with a camera derided in the Daily Show.)

This can lead to scoffing at any criticism of new technology, by pointing to examples of how the technology really took off. (''' "New technologies always look overly complex and underpowered at the outset," we'd say. "But they don't stay that way."''')

However, the author says "There's no Moore's law for the physical world". Many problems (eg, a Roomba jammed by a cat toy) aren't solved by more processing power.

Personally, I agree. I would have included older examples, like the HERO home robot from the 1980s, or the VR rush of the 1990s, including the Power Glove.
"Are you taking notes of a criminal conspiracy? What are you thinking?"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pBdGOrcUEg8
Couldn't the code just have a disclaimer saying something like this code uses private APIs and should not be used without express permission from Facebook? If code can be C&D'd for reasons other than copyright, I fear for our freedom.
I've been using the destructible.io for temp links. It was posted here not too long ago, useful and if anyone else tries to access it, it deletes itself https://destructible.io
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That doesn't negate what I said. Why did they even change such a great motto?
The App store has reached maturity and at this point, breaking through the noise is near to impossible if you don't have millions to begin with. There are those odd apps that like in the first couple of years, tear through to the top and are made over a month by an independent dev, but that is rare. The app store is no where close to as exciting as it was. Its basically become like the PC software market now, though with less liberty.
Not really, CS:GO is 5v5, while having one bad player is bad, it's not crippling to the point that "you are basically doomed".
Yes, I do... the single model 328i, if it is in fact the worst of the BMW models, should be above the average cost of the BMW models. According to the first table, it isn't. They made a mistake.
It creates administrative jobs that politicians can use to reward political allies.
I don't trust those numbers for the hybrids. I have a hybrid and replaced the hybrid battery pack. It was expensive. I'd expect a dealer quote for a replacement would run several thousand dollars. I'd also expect the average battery to be replaced at least once in those ten years. That cost would be most of the average upkeep cost

You have options for non-oem battery packs that are less expensive, but you are going to have problems finding an independent shop who will work on it. Dealers won't work with non-oem parts, and most shops won't want to work on the HV electrical system in your hybrid. I haven't found a local independent shop who will work on the hybrid systems. You can do some work yourself, the companies that sell non-oem battery packs will tell you that you can. But you should definitely be comfortable working with HV electrical systems if you want to do it yourself.

Some independent shops will work on hybrid systems, I found a mechanic with a great reputation that I'm really happy with. He was literally half the price of some of the dealer quotes. But he's in an entirely different state. Independent shops that specialize in hybrids are hard to find.

Plus there are other systems involved with the hybrid, like the transmission, that I would assume would usually be a dealer repair. So I'm assuming this list isn't including the costs to repair the hybrid systems. I think those will usually be dealer repairs.
I don't see it as any different from a shopping mall that takes a cut of a retailer's sales/profit as rent.
Don't you find the App Store review process somewhat arbitrary and opaque though? Have they really improved their processes in terms of responsiveness?
Uhh hosting your files and providing the bandwidth for potentially millions of downloads?
Rarely is any description 'needed', but in this case it is 'helpful'. The parent seems to be unaware that Safari has, over time, become inferior (relative to the other popular browsers) increasing the likelihood that the problem is with safari rather than with the site. Being unaware of the inferiority of safari, he didn't even try another browser. Simply knowing that its a safari bug may not be sufficient to maximize the efficiency of his problem solving strategy in the future, as he may brush this off as anomalous. Knowledge that others have found safari increasingly buggy and inferior makes it more likely the parent may adopt a better strategy, such as 'test with another browser first'
> In my opinion Apple doesn't deserve any cut of the recurring money since they have to do nothing to earn it.

Aside from host the infrastructure that delivers the apps. Are they doing this to make money? Of course. But saying they haven't earned it is flat out wrong.
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I'm curious what happens if we would design a parallel web, ruled by a benevolent dictator that really wants to help humanity, in the wide and deep sense(and we're lucky and it doesn't turn into a bloodbath) - how would that internet look like ? and is it even a possible goal for a niche of the population ?
> As a rule of thumbs, VCs take 2% of the fund's totally funding every year as "management fee", to pay for salaries, office rentals, marketing etc.

a16z spends much more than most VC firms on providing all kinds of services (such as recruiting) to their portfolio companies, and hires a ton of people for that purpose. It's not clear whether those expenses come out of the management fee or not.
No. It's a deal negotiated between twelve parties with different interests. The public/Congress get ample opportunity to review the completed deal and decide if it's worthwhile, just not access to the minute details of the negotiating process. That protects the treaty from being torpedoed by demagogues stirring up public outrage and drawing arbitrary red lines in order to gain unfair leverage over other parties. It also protects parties from public antagonism for making any concession, even if it's for a worthwhile return.

If everyone is willing to ratify a deal – that is, it's better than no deal at all – it's reasonable to take measures that make it possible for the deal to be reached in the first place.
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HoTS has also made several design choices that reduce the negative effect of poor play by a single individual - team-shared XP, lower complexity (no items), shorter games. LoL is much more 'snowball' prone and players have to live with the consequences for longer.
Is this accurate for the hybrids? I have a hybrid and I can't find a local independent shop who will work on the hybrid system. I'm wondering if those estimates include data from dealers.
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They always seem to have an example of being used on a small part of the page, but nobody actually tends to do this and there isn't much in the way of blog posts about it.
"Gravity light" will never be something more than a curious gadget.

If you lift a 20 kg weight by two meters, you gain a potential energy of 20 * 2 * 9.8 = 392J. Amazon seems to be selling "60W equivalent" LED lights which consume 8.5W. (I think that's about the realistic minimum for reading or cooking.)

Assuming 100% efficiency, you can power this LED light for 46 seconds.
I stopped shopping at CVS out of protest at this silliness.
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there's still an ARM core in every smartphone, whether Intel fabs it (they don't), or Samsung, or TSMC.

Intel gave up the ARM business. They have the best fabs in the world and could dominate the business... but not without cannibalizing the x86 business.

The problem is, Chromebooks running ARM are starting to be competitive with x86 ( http://www.wsj.com/articles/why-its-time-to-take-googles-pc-... ).

And now that ARM 64 is in widespread use, it can address lots of RAM, and servers could be on the horizon.

ARM devices are going to keep replacing x86 devices, ARM is going to keep moving up into higher-end devices, and the impact on Intel is going to worsen.

At some point Intel might throw in the towel and start supplying ARM chips, but at that point they will just be another (very good) fab, not an x86 monopolist.
Based on what he says and how he acts?
Great response, just a few small nitpicks:

Using water on a gasoline or oil fire is a bad idea (the fire spreads since gas and oil are lighter than water), so fighting vehicle fires for ICE vehicles where the fuel tank has ruptured is a non-trivial problem for firefighters. The "easy" vehicle fires are ones where just the engine compartment and maybe the interior are on fire, but the fuel lines and tank are still in tact. In some ways a battery fire is easier to put out since it won't spread the same way and responds well to water.

Exploding 18650s tends to only happen with cheap, poorly manufactured variants. Most of the time if they short they will overheat, bulge, and sometimes catch on fire. Having enough of them actually explode to cause injury to vehicle occupants is probably about as likely as a fuel tank exploding in an ICE vehicle accident. Granted, there might be a higher fire risk for electric vehicles in severe collisions that damage the undercarriage area where the batteries are stored.
The time to review & release is definitely faster. I wonder if quality will suffer because of it. One time when I had a rejection, I asked for some more details and got a fairly automated response. So it does feel a bit inhuman unfortunately.
Software engineers are already on the NSA exploit-their-hardware-so-we-can-insert-backdoors list.
I play a lot of Dota and don't see feeding much. Maybe once or twice in the last year.

Though there's nothing that raises your blood pressure like being accused of feeding when you're already frustrated because you're having a bad game.
> I would expect the IRR is quite good as the follow up funds tend to be oversubscribed and are full of original LPs.

If the IRRs for the follow-on funds are counting portfolio companies that haven't exited (according to their latest valuation), then it might be quite deceptive. If those companies can't IPO or be acquired without a significant drop in the valuation, then the paper IRR won't hold up.
Don't put words in my mouth.

I think the majority of the treaty is terrible, spreading laws that prop up businesses based on copyright and patents, and on balance I think that no country should adopt it.

In this one particular case, it appears to remove artificial restrictions that prevent consumers from doing business with companies they otherwise want to do business with. I'm in favor of that, whether it's "you can't block a company from providing a service to a person in country X who wants that service just because they don't store data in country X" or "you can't block a company from providing a service to a person in country X who wants that service just because the company doesn't provide an identical service to a person in country Y". Either way, you're preventing two parties who want to work with each other from doing so.

(Also, keep in mind that many of the "must store data locally" laws have less to do with protecting that data and more to do with making it available for attempted seizure.)

If the people of a given country want to refuse to use a particular service because it stores their data elsewhere, or doesn't have a local presence, or shows them a different selection than people in other countries, or any of a thousand other reasons, they can already choose to do so. But there's a huge difference between choosing not to use a service and preventing anyone else from using it.

I don't directly care about the profits of companies, large or otherwise, except to the extent those profits mean they've built something people want. I do care when people can't use a service they want because their country doesn't think they should or wants to prop up another. And I care when a company owned, operated, and staffed within one country suddenly has to worry about another country's government, rather than just what their users want.
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Here is the beef that I have with Apple. Hands down the app store is rotten infrastructure to the core for app developers. In my experience, app discovery is so bad it shows everything but the app you were looking for unless the app you were looking for is in the top 10.

Most indy-apps are brutally left out in the cold. As a result, app downloads are stagnating.

[2014]http://qz.com/253618/most-smartphone-users-download-zero-app...
[2015]http://www.businessinsider.sg/how-many-apps-people-download-...

So it boggles the mind why going forward we should invest months into the development in an app where the only benefit the app store brings is payment (for a free app) and versioning.

Apple is in dire need for an app store disruption.
Land Rover showing up surprisingly (even suspiciously) low in this list. Almost makes me question the data entirely.
That's their content, not an ad, though.
does the book provide example applications that are monitored using the information provided or does it just go through the tools that can be used.
Actually OSX didn't enable it by default last time I checked. And the last windows machine I touched had about 300 exceptions to the default deny incoming rule -- that the user had not opened themselves. Ubuntu would need some kind of phone-os like permission system for default deny to be both secure and be grandma friendly.
FreeBSD. Got it.
But not OpenBSD, NetBSD, or Solaris.
Interesting how even with a relatively simple utility like tr, changes were made.
Mechanically it's far simpler than any conventional transmission.

Automatic transmissions are incredibly complex, filled with several planetary gearsets and many clutch packs.

A Toyota hybrid has exactly one planetary gearset, and some motors. That's all.
The public gets to influence the implementation or ratification of the final treaty, but they don't get to be a party to the entire negotiation process.
> Seeing how family members have been treated for having mental issues makes me afraid of getting an official treatment.

How were they treated? Seems surprising to me, given how prevalent mood disorders are.
>> In 5/10 benchmarks, the benchmark games claims Go has equal if not better performance than Rust. Am I supposed to believe…

Believe that those Rust programs gave those measurements, and those Go programs gave those measurements (when compiled and measured as described on the website in tedious detail).

It does matter how the programs are written!

Write better Rust implementations for those tasks and contribute them --

http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/play.html