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What possible reason could Apple have to repatriate their cash hoard (even with a tax holiday?)

They don't manufacture anything in the us -- do they need those kinds of billions to hire more software developers in Cupertino -- that seems pretty unlikely to me. Do they need it to build more US apple stores (nope they've got that covered).

They are already paying a dividend with free cash flow from their US business ...

I can't imagine why they would ever want to "increase investment" in the us vs the many far more productive things they could conceivably do by spending that money outside the us ...
Pretty awesome to see all the hard work they did just to optimize battery usage.
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I honestly don't see how you can socialize things with essentially unrestricted free trade.
Well this brings back memories of sitting in their plane trying to become a milageplus member. After filling in the whole form, I find that I cannot submit because the app cannot use the airplanes wifi. I know my bad for assuming that if united let you browse their webpage for flight status that surely they would let their mobile app work over the wifi as well. Worse I assumed when I got home, I would submit the form and be done but no, the session timed out and all my data entry was lost.
That's probably necessary in public universities.

In my region, there are two institutions with leadership that let power and influence in these areas get to their heads. First, there's private RPI, where the president is basically looting the school for a decade, but the board does nothing. Then look at the sad tale of SUNY Poly, where its president did some pretty amazing things along with some... other things that would have been survivable in a private environment but a death sentence in the public sector.

Unless you're a political person with the ability to stay at "arms length" with campaign funds and PACs, you cannot work for government entities and be safely involved with any significant business activity that is potentially related to your public employment. Even if you're able to do so, any misstep, greedy mistake, illegal act, or other screw up will be exponentially more dangerous.

Linkage:

RPI: https://news.vice.com/article/americas-highest-paid-college-...

SUNY Poly: https://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/09/23/nyregion/physicist-in-...
Independent reviews need to be done. I can only assume bias with this post.
This is exactly it. This is the trade off for smaller size. You could do this approach with node.js as the backend.

There are no APIs like file APIs, those would be the first APIs to add for sure.
It's insanely hard to buy 51% of a public company on the public markets. It's almost never been done. What almost always happens is the buyer makes a tender offer at substantially above the current trading price, then pushes for a shareholder vote.

In the case of Apple, it's probably a bid of near $180 a share, or $900B. Then Tim Cook goes out to institutional investors who own big chunks of stock (maybe 1% at most) and lobbies them to vote against it.

No bidder is going to be able to buy 51% of Apple in the open market in any reasonable length of time, by the time they get near 50% the price is over $400 a share.

Look at Volkswagens chart from 2005 to 2008 when Porsche was buying shares for a takeover. It started at around 33 euros, and quickly went to 70 euros after a year, eventually hitting 200 euros when Porsche got to the 40% level, and briefly spiked over 1,000 euros just before Porsche quit and was forced to dump its shares.
I agree with that but...
There appears to be something different about it. It's different from the cleaning up of graves kind of respectful tradition. Not doing something or doing something not approved in a temple is seen as transgressive.

I know people who ordinarily one would consider agnostic, perhaps atheist, but have a kind of ingrained respect for various gods of different things.

Maybe there is something akin to the Easter bunny. Parents and kids know it does not exist, but they both keep up pretention in order to have a fun event (for both parents and children). But in this case it's individual/society.
Maybe they could start looking at low margin but high ecosystem value products again, like wireless routers, monitors (they say they are), etc.

Apple was great because they had a unified vision for computing and they did the entire tech stack "correctly". Time machines were never going to be more than a round off error on the balance sheet, but they did it because it was the correct thing to do. An apple laptop connected to an LG or Dell monitor looks and feels wrong, regardless of how technically impressive the monitor is, because LG and Dell don't have the design sensibilities that apple has.

I hope Apple rediscovers and recovers that lebensphilosophie.
To touch on what digitalzombie said however, Kay did not originally picture inheritance as being part of OOP.
It's funny how the first round of funding apparently more or less requires you to accept the second otherwise you're 'unethical'. That's just plainly wrong. Either you get to decide round-by-round what the best option for you and your company is or it should simply be one round.

To give a bit of seed capital, wait to see what flies (and thus is very much de-risked) and then to force an additional round requiring dilution and board members that may simply be luggage to haul around should be up to the present day shareholders. The University is playing a dirty game here.

A friend of mine was in a similar situation, first round of funding was peanuts, second round - after substantial input in time, funds and efforts of the founders - on much less good terms (and effectively still peanuts) including board members and so on.
No birthday bound. The keyspace reduction is based on the number of addresses with a balance.
This is exactly what it does, wraps WebView. I don't do much Windows desktop programming these days, never have for Linux. I assume there are similar built in webviews that can be used for them too.
Another occasion to promote: http://tachyons.io/

Also available for react-native: https://github.com/tachyons-css/react-native-style-tachyons

I could write a long explanation on why I think tachyons is the final destination of CSS-frameworks, but I save myself the time. Just try it.

I don't believe there's a simpler or more maintainable (read: "better") way of handling CSS.

I use it for fresh web, electron/desktop and react-native projects since about two years, and I don't think I'll ever have to use something else again.
This is called "oral history" - there is collection of transcripts from Ritchie and other Unix pioneers [1] and
another large collection at the Computer History Museum [2]

1. https://www.princeton.edu/~hos/Mahoney/unixhistory.htm

2. http://www.computerhistory.org/collections/oralhistories/
Part of it is practical, it is easier to virtualize other OS's on OSX than the other way around, but also don't underestimate the 'status symbol' of 'look, my employer spends money on me'.
You are absolutely right about the time sink aspect, although the User Control Panel is pretty useful in that it provides a view of only the threads you have subscribed to, which minimizes the "hmm, this thread looks interesting... ah crap it's 4 AM!" problem.
Charlie Munger had something to say about that.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ownc_LP3t08&feature=youtu.be...
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If they don't need it, they should return it to their shareholders.
Devs are a tiny population compared to general smartphone/gadget users. As someone who pays the Apple premium for a reliable laptop that runs a Unix with good desktop applications, I wish they would put more work into developer-focused products, but there's too little money in it for a company of Apple's size.

Back in the day, a company with a money-printing machine like the iPhone, e.g. Ma Bell with telephone service, would create a world-class R&D division inventing all sorts of stuff with no regard for short-term profit. Google X may have aspired to this at some point, but they seem to have backed off. Sadly, the modern company has eliminated this drag on quarterly profits.
Cutting corporate tax rates long term increases the incentive to invest. So the savings turns into capital investment, new jobs and higher productivity and wages.

Cutting one time brings back lots of capital to invest, lots of that will be paid to shareholders, who will spend some and reinvest some. With similar effects, for that year.
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No, 30-somethings had those too, and moutain dew and what-not. The differences is that people in their 30s might have already spent their 20s doing "death springs" and are sick of it.
> Something Awful certainly spawned a lot of things.

That's an understatement. By the time I started seeing tl;dr being used in its original meaning elsewhere on the internet, it had already long been a bannable offense on the SA boards.
> If you want something with more cereals, maybe dark bread you're basically fucked.

Pane di segale is common up north, pane di Coimo is just one of the several types of dark bread we have in Italy anywhere cold.
Fortunately academia is populated by self-less souls searching for absolute truths only.

I always wonder why the jealousy is so strong in those circles, it's not as if there is much at stake other than reputation and ego. I've seen quite a few examples of this in real life by now and it's much worse than industry in some ways.
Cython? http://cython.org

Yes, it supports C++ (even templates!): http://docs.cython.org/en/latest/src/userguide/wrapping_CPlu...
Or he didn't loose it and isn't motivated by money. Which seems also likely since he had the skills and decided not to cash in on the fame either.
Canada does the same thing: residents are taxed on their worldwide income while they reside in Canada regardless of their citizenship.
Shrinkwrap is basically a local server that hosts a folder of static html/css/js content that is served through an app that is just a full window WebView element.

You could use a similar trick of wrapping go code, but instead of assuming Chrome is installed, just host your front end using the native webview. Requires no other installation than your app that way.
"Mussolini himself said that fascism was basically a form of socialism"

Here's something else Mussolini said:

"Fascism, which was not afraid to call itself reactionary... does not hesitate to call itself illiberal and anti-liberal."

As Mussolini's professions of socialism, David Neiwert of Orcinus[1] said:

"Both Hitler and Mussolini pretended to have socialist aspirations as part of their propaganda efforts during their rise to power, largely as a way of encouraging working-class support. But they were unquestionably right wing politically by the time they obtained power, and in fact were viciously anti-left-wing as well."

"Those who repeat the "Nazis were socialists" claim are, in fact, falling for (and repeating) Nazi propaganda from the 1920s."

[1] - http://dneiwert.blogspot.com/2005/10/fascism-two-hoary-myths...
Making a series false statements without references.
This x1000, I've seen 15 year olds learn about semiconductor lithography because their interested about it.
The 'financialization' of our society has turned a lot of companies that you still associate with producing goods or services into de facto investment and speculation firms.
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It would surprise me if it's just cash, like literally just laying there. It's probably used to fund startups etc. You should probably be lucky that they are not liquidating it. If it's just laying there doing nothing though, I think that would be bad for the economy, making interests return negatives.
The argument here was about not needing the money in the US (but possibly investing it elsewhere on the planet), not not needing it in general.
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Stock buyback?
I've always looked at internet conversations as gentleman's agreements in politeness and respect. What I mean by this is that any given internet comment can be a hate filled flexbox of bile and swear words, but most aren't, because that would be a violation of the agreement. But once the agreement is broken (or one of the tiers of the agreement is broken) then no subsequent discussion is beholden to that level.

So in this example, you broke the tier of "blunt criticism". Now that the tier is broken, all responses to your comment are not beholden to that implied agreement. And rightfully so, one of the comments bluntly tells you that you're the one with the issue. Then you said this was completely uncalled for even though a) you started being blunt and b) their response was less rude than yours.

So in summary. Don't dish it if you can't take it.
Elixir and Ruby are so different, they shouldn't even be allowed to be compared. If you don't think so, try and write some medium-sized code challenges in both and see how different the implementations come out (try more than 3 because sometimes you can express the same idea in both in a similar way).

"You gain a lot over Ruby and lose very little."

"...better in almost every way."

These are very shortsighted assertions. As engineers we should strive be a little more objective and at least mention pros and cons of both choices.

For example, is ease of deployment important to you and your project? How do these languages compare there? Try not to get blinded by the honeymoon phase with a language.
Exactly, and "sfogliatelle" is another typo right next to it.

Any article about italian food is doomed to attract hordes of Italians complaining about what is written aha

(STOP THE NO CANDITI BLASPHEMY)
And caret (^), although it is used in Microsoft's C++/CLI and C++/CX extensions.
Oh and regarding your signing requests to ensure other processes can't peak at the server content. I haven't gotten to this, was definitely on the plate, more proving out the approach still. Wrapping various apps and thinking through the issues.
Sure Apple once had unique design skills and attention to detail. The iPhone is a great example of that.

But mobile app design, and Apple's success gave many people/companies great expertise in design, And some do put the effort and attention to detail that is required.

So in today's world, is that enough ?

And if not, that might explain why Apple's watch wasn't meaningfully better than Android's - although it did made more money, probably, mostly because of brand and market position.
This is a good amount of knowledge that I use in my day-to-day job all wound up in one place. Most excellent -- takes people years to get good at and accustomed to designing systems and software for a hard real time, safety-critical environment. We measure/characterize certain aspects of our software's performance down to the nanosecond (and more commonly, to the microsecond) ... pretty sure that's not the norm in most disciplines :). FWIW, we use Ada, a restricted version of C, and a version of C++ that's so restricted that it's really more like our restricted version C than true C++. Industry trend seems to be away from Ada and toward C, at least for non-military aerospace. We use Java, C#, Python, etc. etc. etc. for our ground-based stuff -- restrictions are only on flight software.
Wrong - Jobs reacquired Apple with NeXT.
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Apple never "acquired" Jobs.

Jobs asked Apple to buy NeXT. When they did, he explicitly refused to return as an employee. He only changed his mind laster because they were such a mess and he had an emotional commitment to Apples success, because he founded them. And at the time, he only had one other major interest, Pixar, and it was mostly run by the Pixar folks, Jobs wasn't writing or directing movies or developing animation technology for them.

Purchasing Tesla is almost certainly a hostile takeover at an insane price tag. Elon Musk has no need of money or to sell the business, his highest priority is to be able to run it without being told what to do by anyone else. Elon Musk has no emotional connection to Apple, but has a huge one to SpaceX, which he is super actively involved in all strategic planning.

Tesla would be a terrible acquisition and there isn't enough money in the world to convince Elon to let Tim Cook be his boss, and to spend his time designing phones and computers instead of rockets and electric cars.

If Apple won the takeover bid, Elon would cash out his shares and pour the money into SpaceX and new businesses, and tell Apple to kiss his ass.
Why do people keep saying "the vendor"? It's hashicorp.
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What series of false statements?
That would be excessive, just learn to write properly, like most people do when communicating in your language aha ;)
You get that the only reason they do that is because of taxes ..., right?
Look back at your statements.
Apple made their money from the iPhone and the iPad. That's not progress?

Look at Y-Combinator. It's literally never been an easier time to not only fund a startup, but to get first class support and advice while doing so.
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Doesn't the writer call out hashicorp specifically by name in the article?

I used to respect this vendor and recommend their tools to others. I am having to rethink this a lot. I am no longer happy to recommend Hashicorp products to others.
They are paying dividends by borrowing money, not from free cash flow. By repatriating they can repay the debt and pay shareholders a large one time dividend with some of the remainder.
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You are right, really if we want companies to bring money back we just need lower taxes. The games companies play to eek out an additional 5% and overcome taxes is massive. Better to have lower taxes here in the US while our dollar is still valued so high to offset and maybe they will have a reason to repatriate and continue investment here. We need more money moving in our country immediately, the velocity of money[1] and gdp to compensation [2] are horrid right now, worst in history.

Our dollar being too high in value is an advantage to wealthy and buying more abroad but harms workers here competitively no matter what they do. It also makes companies with money in other areas able to do more outside of the US, good but also bad.

Another thing that would help immensely is companies no longer being allowed to provide benefits, a legacy bug, just salary, enough to get their own services as those are private and companies should not be involved in that. Healthcare would need to be either single payer or private but solely individual and not tied to your employer which is a single point of failure, it may also fix medical pricing one day if more consumer focused.

Both lower taxes and companies not having to worry about providing benefits/healthcare would be immense competitive moves. Companies in Canada, UK, Mexico etc etc don't have to worry about providing healthcare benefits and it makes it easier to start a business, change jobs and in general allows more focus on business and products.

[1] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/M2V

[2] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=2Xa
This isn't the standard library though, and if it were then it wouldn't have been changed.
Hey, you have the same setup as I do! Yeah, I have that problem too. It's sluggish. It is truly remarkable how wasteful websites like these are.
Have it at work :)
Very happy to see they've stopped using Channel 9.
That is not true. The law obligates the bank to make you whole (subject to certain limits if you delay reporting until well after you knew of the theft).
A state prosecutor missing the statute of limitations seems like a crass professional misstep that should see them sanctioned.
The iPhone is popular partly because of the apps that developers created. You could make an argument that making better developer laptops might lead to better iPhone sales.
Yea, the money in the Cayman islands is "invested", it's earning interest only because it's being loaned out to other businesses.

But my point is rather than trap US capital in overseas bank accounts earning limited interest, it's far better to have it brought back to the US and invested directly in businesses (or returned to shareholders).
> “I don’t want to expand into poor countries like India and Spain.”

Spain is a poor country?
How do you explain the recent changes with ISPs being allowed to sell browsing histories?
I get that not anything can be paid for, but it's not a good situation.
We don't have to lower taxes. We just change the tax law to tax that money whether they bring it back to the US or not.
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> These tests are repeatable by other browsers or curious users, backed by methodology documents and open source code.

https://github.com/MicrosoftEdge/BrowserEfficiencyTest/

They have released their test methodology and code, so you can independently review to your hearts content.

Despite obviously wanting to be the market leader, they seem to be genuinely interested in helping everybody else up their game too. It's nice to see from such a large company
For http://penandpapersoftware.com/accomplish/ and the accompanying blog we entirely used GitHub Pages. Took me about 3 hours to fully make everything in that website from content to style, except the blog posts which were each an hour and were written entirely in markdown. And since we hand rolled all the content and style it was trivial to make it work great on both mobile and desktop. Try scrolling through the blog code snippets, silky smooth!
The article's classifications aren't even observed in other OECD countries: for example law and medicine are undergraduate degrees is most of Europe and Australia and people do fine (obviously doctors still need residency etc in order to become skilled). And those countries are doing fine -- better than the US in many ways.
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It's not nonsense. You have to determine what level of taxation is appropriate on investment, if you ignore secondary taxes you are ignoring the real cost to investors.

If you think 50% is a reasonable tax on investment, then fine. But don't pretend it doesn't exist.
Oh, ha, I glazed over that paragraph! But yeah, it was totally Hashicorp I was thinking about; this sort of reliability-thoroughly-optional thing shoots through a lot of their tools and keeps me pretty far away from any of the ones that might touch live environments. (Packer and Vagrant are fine.)
Is it still a chatbot when a human replies?
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The first tier is 3 days. Additionally, you need to spend money to be made whole, which you can of course sue for legal costs afterwards.

These are non-trivial steps and there are not many banks waiting out there to just give you your money back without some prodding
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You can demonstrate this very easily with your phone (all directions given assuming the phone is facing you, oriented vertically): rotating it cw/ccw will be stable (you're on the shortest axis, only the depth of your phone, probably a few mm), flipping it left-to-right will be stable (you're on the longest axis, the height of your phone, probably ~5"), but flipping it top-to-bottom will result in an uncontrollable spin, as that's the middle axis (the width of your phone , probably 2-3")
You're still entitled to vote as a nonresident citizen.
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Why would you buy Uber if you can get the same thing for 1/10th the price in Lyft? People actually like Lyft.
Perhaps the question should be taking more literally. How many burned out software developers end up committing suicide relative to averages?