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I guess animated icons trump concerns about privacy and monitoring by a surveillance state [1]

1: https://www.theverge.com/2018/4/30/17302720/wechat-deleted-m...
Oops, yeah, STT.
Go fuck yourself, Apple. The only thing this is doing is driving devs off your platform.
My Dad left school at 15 to support his family (his dad was Blind) back in the 30s - he got a job as a lino-type operator on one of the wholly mechanical devices - if you ever get a chance to see how one works take a look - especially the type-sorter and the justification hardware
Well, at least in the Rust ecosystem there is https://github.com/gfx-rs/gfx which provides backends for Vulcan, Direct X 12, Metal and OpenGL. I'm not sure it's super relevant outside of the Rust ecosystem right now, but it's worth spreading the word around of such solutions.
Epic? As far as I can tell, Unreal Engine supports glTF import and does not support USDZ.

Which makes sense, because this is what glTF was designed for.

https://forums.unrealengine.com/development-discussion/conte...
Go-gitea/gitea: Gitea: Git with a cup of tea
RE> I believe Flex is either the second or third most successful project at Apache in terms of downloads.

How can that be given that Adobe is killing the flash runtime?
Belated note: my work colleague has recently released an Elixir based solution to supervise Chrome, see:

https://github.com/holsee/chroxy

https://slides.com/holsee/deck-5
I don’t understand your comment about Netflix using AWS. AFAIR, Netflix is a reference customer for AWS. Every re:invent is full of Netflix people. Care to elaborate?
As much as he was terrible for the country, I find it hard to believe Dick Cheney would have sources whacked.
Great, I can use your advice in my next interview, thanks!
Don't Let Your Development Environment Rot
I wouldn't take it for granted that he's telling the truth on that. He has been riding on My Lai credibility for so long, but some of his recent stuff such as his piece on how the OBL assassination went down is completely wack.
> The US basic literacy level is a high bar compared to what 95% of the planet actually tests at

Americans are well educated relative to the global population. That isn't what we're discussing. OP is explaining why large swaths of the population might prefer communicating with pictures over words. It isn't that they can't understand words. Just that parsing and constructing language to express complex thoughts isn't a common experience for many, for whatever reason. Emojis fill that gap.
They're all-in open source. They love it. That's why their former CEO said its cancer.

Everything said after that is just some cheap PR trick for chumps.

Quickly after they get back into an advantage position again they will abuse it same as before and you will live in an age of digital slavery.
You're right that this is ridiculous. It's time that we boycott Apple for their hostile policies!

Stop developing for Apple products. Stop buying Apple products. Tell everyone you know not to buy Apple products. If enough people protest, they will eventually be forced to change.
> Steam link is weird, but I thought I read somewhere that they would have had to pay Apple 30% of in-app sales.

Valve tried to explicitly disable purchases through app, but Apple still refused it even if it's would only do streaming.
inb4 Amazon starts shipping boxes of commits with Prime
I thought the Chicago thing, or some version of it, was widely accepted. I could be wrong, of course. Generally, I think you have it right: Hersh is a maddening mixture of hero reporter and someone who can be very reckless with the facts.
It’s not deprecated because it’s not even there to begin with — Windows 10 doesn’t ship OpenGL by default; GPU vendors provide their own implementations.

Which AFAIK they’re free to do on MacOS as well, they just don’t seem to bother since Apple was doing that work for them
> That's also why benevolent dictators are so popular for free software projects: it's efficient, and if the dictator becomes a tyrant someone will just fork.

Just like a blockchain that runs of coffee instead of electricity.
Η αποστολή Εθνικής Βραζιλίας για το Μουντιάλ 2018
I don't want information about how much I use my device. I want an "essentials mode" that will allow only phone, iMessage,email and gps for example.
Psychologist Says “Just Do It” as Research Shows You Will Regret It If You Don't
+1 I came here to comment the same. At least on HN.
1. If cable tv providers can get away with disintermediating TV viewers from TV stations I don’t see how Apple is any worse, especially since I can still buy third party apps, but I can’t either set up or tune into an indie TV station. Amazon is a far worse problem with respect to books (and without any demonstrable user benefit) so good luck waiting for regulation here.

2. Again, you can use Chrome on a Mac. The App Store is not stopping anyone from using anything, it’s just facilitating certain cases. Microsoft installs its apps on your machine without asking you (and has an App Store). Don’t even get me started on Nintendo. Seriously, you’re complaining about the least worst (commercial) player in this space.

3. Clutching at straws here. No one cares.

4. You mean like OpenGL, and two other OpenGL things. Again, Microsoft DirectX is what?

5. Apple intentionally slows devices down to prevent random shutdowns from peak power draw when the battery has aged. This is a good thing, well implemented, but poorly explained. Apple has paid a PR penalty for its lack of transparency, and having them suffer regulatory punishment for this seems harsh.

Ok, I get it, you hate Apple. But unless you avoid all commercial vendors I don’t think you’re going to find someone that satisfies your peculiarly quixotic requirements.
Very nice! It's amazing to me how many developers just run headless wo any sort of service-layer. You're gonna have a bad time :(
Instead of looking for gov punishment, make people change their minds showing this evidence of why Apple is sucking big time.
Approximate yearly sales of desktop PCs worldwide (all kinds) are 200 million per year... I can't find 5 year refresh cycles on any HP, Dell, etc. desktops or laptops.

They tend to refresh in line with corporate cycles, i.e. 18 month to 3 years, from what I see.
Klauscfhq/tusk: Refined Evernote desktop app
>It really depends which country you're looking at. Usually Google Maps is better, but not always. China is a good example of a place where Apple Maps is far superior.

What you really mean is that Google is so artificially handicapped by the Chinese government that Apple Maps is actually decent in comparison. I do not envy that situation.
Boycott Apple... and then what? What's the viable alternative? Android? No, thank you. At least you have some leverage over Apple by the virtue of being the customer. The competitor's business model makes it much harder to influence, which is hostile to the customer and their privacy.

If you think Android is really open, think again. Without Google Play Services and Play Store you are basically hosed.
Los Angeles and San Diego aren't far behind. Prop 13 pretty much guarantees the whole state to be fucked for a long time. Since 60% of the state either has a mortgage or owns their home outright, good luck convincing them to vote to over turn it.

The New York, Canadian, Australian, and English housing markets are showing signs that Q/E asset price inflation is over. But with Prop 13, outside of a HUGE global depression, it's hard to imagine prices dropping to reality.

I recently finished Thomas Picketty's Capital in the 21st Century. Basically he says that the typical capital/income split is 700%, meaning assets are worth 7 times global output, meaning houses are usually worth 7 times median household income.

That's about the ratio you see everywhere in the world outside of the United States. Even in the priciest markets in the US like SF and LA, that rate hardly exceeds 300%. If anything, that book convinced me that unless we change our tax policies substantially, house prices are going to get MUCH MUCH worse.

I hope I'm wrong. But the book had 300 years of economic history to make me think the US post WW2 was under strange economic conditions that never existed anywhere else on the planet at any other time. Things aren't necessarily getting worse. They're just returning to normal ]=
Additionally, I don't think indie developers have loads of time on their hands to port their niche games over to a new technology. I can see Unity supporting Metal, but smaller platforms (jMonkeyEngine) will have a slower adoption rate, and in that time hopefully open-source middleware will come out to handle legacy APIs.
We know that the planet is warming, we know humans are responsible for the vast majority of that change, and we know what it will mean for the biosphere and the things that depend on that, i.e you and I. I'm not sure why you think we do not. There is 20km of air between the ground and space, you can breathe in the first 5km of that. We have been pumping billions of tons of C02 into that 5km for the last 200 years, what did you thing was going to happen, nothing ?

The next bit of your post exemplifies exactly the king of thinking that brought us to this point in human history. And then you end with the silly strawmen, seriously ? Do you really think 3rd world countries are going to repeat the same mistakes, why will they build coal plants when they can have of the shelf solar plants for a fraction of the price ?
I'd love to get this kit and convert the G5 tower into a Hackintosh.
No they are not , they are both APIs. The fact they run on top of drivers is nothing impressive if anything they make a tiny fraction of the APIs Unreal depends on because it’s so much more than a 3D Engine. Unreal runs on top of Vulkan and could also replace both Vulkan and GPU drivers. API dependence is nothing special and hardly makes something so different. There is no limitation on how low level Unreal can go.
Is it just me, or does string theory seem like epicycles all over again: if you throw enough center-intersecting circles into the engine, it can emulate just about any observed movement of objects in the sky; a sort of "circular regression" in the same way that piling up polynomials gives us Polynomial Regression. String theory is like "dimensional regression". Regression is a powerful tool, but is NOT designed to directly "explain" phenomena, only emulate them.

Newton et. al. came along and gave us a much simpler model of gravity and the solar system such that we could toss out the messy nested circle models. (We still can't say that Newton's model is fully "right", but it's certainly simpler.)
As an owner of several Google org repos on GitHub, I can vouch that this is definitely true. Only open sourced code goes into GitHub. Private repos are only used for staging purposes thereof, i.e. getting a release of open source code ready prior to the world visibility bit being flipped.

We would definitely never store our proprietary code on systems run by anyone else, regardless of who runs/owns them.
For those interested in how far the project has come, here's the first version of Neofetch (previously called fetch.sh).

https://github.com/dylanaraps/neofetch/tree/90130a7e0763bffd...

Disclaimer: I'm the author of the project and have been working on this for around 3 years now. The project has grown from supporting only Arch Linux to supporting over 150 different Operating Systems and Distributions.
I see... I’ve been using llc’s without s corp for all my consulting and side projects for a while (easy to start and kill them off). It looks like S corp does add quite a bit of overhead though - although maybe it lowers taxes? Is that the reason?
I can kind of understand iOS, but it’s not like there’s a thriving graphical computing market worth locking in on the mac side. All major titles already use game engines. They’d just be locking out smaller developers who can’t invest in porting all their shaders: it’s not gonna be worth the effort.

Granted, this may also be true for OpenGL.
Well, for starters, you don't have to turn your head 90º to resolve some, but not all of them as an image, as you do with your provided examples. They're also much higher-resolution so it's easier to pull meaning from an unfamiliar one.
These entry points could be run by networked organizations like Sensorica (except more developed) and run on free software.
> why would anyone want to write Mac apps on a PC, when they'd need a Mac to test them anyway?

There are many reasons. I was going to list a few, but ehh. If you want to know you can probably ask Google or StackOverflow.
Let me put it another way: what’s the point of these newfangled moving pictures when we already have books?
There's also a security policy that affects IE11, accessing localStorage ends up giving an "Access is Denied" error...
I don't understand by what metric Netflix is included but Microsoft is excluded. It should really be FAAMG, or maybe FAMANG.
Apple did start spiraling after they fired Jobs. By the mid-'90s, Michael Dell famously said Apple should just shut down and give the shareholders their money back. What finally turned Apple around was Jobs coming back, and they wouldn't have even made it that far if Microsoft hadn't felt the need to put them on life support in order to stave off monopoly charges. So I'm not sure that's an example of it not being a crazy decision.
Sure, but regular quantum mechanics does the same thing. It's under-constrained and allows for too many possibilities. So you assume that the observations wrought by Newtonian physics must be valid and use that to constrain the theory down to something that can be useful.

The difference is that the string model doesn't (yet) have any observations which we could use to constrain it in an analogous manner. But in studying it, one would hope to find areas of the theory that indicate where those observations could be made.

The point being, it is not so simple to just look at string theory and say you can a priory determine it is flawed or wrongly motivated. That same kind of reasoning would likely have prevented Planck & Einstein from starting quantum theory.
How is the cross api shader support?
"the freedom to run it, to study and change it, and to redistribute copies with or without changes" What if my "software" was just an exe that played all the Disney movies? Is free software against copyright laws?
Yeah, but most of that happens whether or not your product is acquired or not. Acquisition may, and often does, accelerate the process, but almost every application eventually suffers from loss of focus, feature bloat, and changes within the industry. Those that don't tend to stagnate completely and get replaced when someone re-invents the wheel from the ground up with a few improvements. I mean, forget that happening to GitHub, that will probably happen to git in 10 years or so.
Love the idea of a phone not making noise if its owner is a certain distance away!

It also stops eavesdroppers and prying eyes who go over and press the home button to get a glance at who's texting the lonely phone sitting on the counter.
That's kind of true for games, but he's totally right about CAD and other software. Big 3d applications Nuke, Houdini, Maya all use OpenGL. Before OSX, Mac versions either didn't exist or were kept up about as well as IE or Word was. Over the past 5-10 years they've been reliably released for OSX at the same time Windows and Linux versions were (they all originated on IRIX). They all have a lot of other development going on and I don't see any of these companies making and maintaining a Metal version.

I'm sure the Mac version of these tools aren't used by any studio with more than 5 people, but independent contractors, small studios, and individuals working at home really benefit (or else they wouldn't have bothered to port and maintain up until now).
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In other words, it's a saas app that allows container vessel operators to collaborate in real time with container ports about which containers get unloaded from the ship and where loaded containers will be placed. Think of it as a very complicated game of Tetris.

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That's certainly what I'm seeing from people. There are a ton of "it's fine because Nadella" comments out there. E.g.: https://twitter.com/kellabyte/status/1003660575690244096

If they are merely yielding to market forces, then that's not much of a comfort. Github was a leader in this, and Microsoft's customers have a strong bias toward followers and laggards.
The Race to Make a Great Fake Steak
Too bad it's on Github, Microsoft's new subsidiary.

Microsoft spread rumors that they would make OpenGL go through a compatibility layer. Everyone got scared and switched to Direct3D.

Now the Khronos group hosts their code in Github (now Microsoft). I hope they move their repos somewhere else.
19th-century homesteading happened before people expected minimal utilities to be connected to their property. Even if you give all that free space out there to people, what good is it without water or electricity?
Thanks for your kind words, we appreciate it! It has been a crazy day https://twitter.com/gitlab/status/1003779174631235585
Could a text message save thousands of fishermen's lives?
You can significantly lower your SE taxes due (Social Security and Medicare) by giving yourself a salary lower than your profit. This comes at a cost of additional overhead (payroll and an accountant to prep the tax form, which is not a DIY project for at least the first year). There’s a threshold of about $100k profit where this begins to make sense.
Google doesn't. Do Apple and Amazon?
Yup, if all you ever learn is one windowing function, the "greatest N per group" pattern with ROW_NUMBER() is easily the most common.
VSTS and GitHub
Their "for years and years" strategy though has not been working.
> their content

> my content

So in other words, yes, proponents of "Free Software" do not, in fact, assert that that the concept of intellectual property should not exist.
They definitely aren’t usually buying them because of typical CPU/RAM specs or whatever, but I think things like battery life, trackpad, keyboard, display, general build quality are all still very relevant aspects of hardware that people pay attention to. The slow upgrade cycle is definitely hurting things and generally slowing everything down, but it’s not as terrible as it’s often made out to be. It’s been a few years since the 5K iMac launched and it’s still a great desktop. The Mac Pro was botched but at least they’re fixing it. We’ve only had 2 years of weak MacBook Pro releases, and it’s very possible that the next release later this year will address both major issues: a bad keyboard and no 32GB RAM option. The keyboard will matter more for most people, but the added RAM plus 2 more CPU cores and Vega graphics will be a big win for true pro users. I don’t think they’ve necessarily “coasted” on Macs just because the last couple years have been weak. It’s more accurate IMO to say they’ve just fucked up a couple times in the last 5 years — specifically with the Mac Pro and the butterfly keyboard devices.
Varies considerably by state. In Michigan business owners are not eligible for unemployment. They also don’t pay unemployment tax for themselves or family members.
I wouldn't take SiVal's comment as ground truth. I think it conflates rules for general employees with rules for his friend, and mixes it with a dash of unfounded hyperbole (criminal charges?).
I was a C++ developer now working on a Go project. I'm always suspicious of garbage collection, but people say it is an exaggerated claim. Glad to hear someone confirm this.
Our hope is that we can limit as much of the BS as possible while helping companies and investors focus on the parts that matter. Doing that should increase the rate at which YC cos get quality As done.
It can lower your tax liability significantly. Mr Money Mustache has an article that covers some potential benefits: https://www.mrmoneymustache.com/2016/02/10/should-you-do-you...
But you have to rewrite it for every major hardware vendor, or else you won't get the performance you want.

GL should always work for the simple case, but instead you need to rewrite to avoid bugs in its many layers. And once you have Vulkan/Metal, industry-specific wrappers are better than the impossible to debug procedural GL junk.
Wow, the Model 3 has 25% of the total EV sales. When combined with the S/X it's over 33% of the monthly sales.

For one car company to have such a large share of a car market monthly sales is pretty impressive. Plus that list includes hybrids.

If you only include full electric Tesla has 9220 / 13074 ~ 70% of the monthly sales.
And more relevantly to GitHub, they still use Azure and VS Code and Surface computers and XBoxes and keyboards and etc. etc. etc.

I don't expect Microsoft, as a company, "to go around snooping competitors' source code any more than they are going to go around snooping competitors' email" or Azure infrastructure or code editor or putting loggers in peripherals or any other tinfoil theories.

I _do_ expect some companies to reconsider their policies in light of the acquisition and decide that other options make more sense for them for numerous reasons, including but not limited to not wanting to hand (even more) money over to a competitor for a service they don't necessarily need Microsoft to provide to them, or if they suspect Microsoft will significantly change the existing ToU/ToS in ways those companies would rather not deal with.
Nope most of them use some sort of game Engine, unreal and Unity dominate.

MacOS gaming is not only not dead it’s flourishing rapidly. Take a trip to Steam shop. You will find a massive amount of games are made for MacOS and the numbers are growing rapidly since Apple lost interest into OpenGL. But then MacOS has reached a 10% of the desktop market making it much harder to ignore than in the past when it barely reached 3%. With iOS dominating mobile revenue , Appple is the undisputed king of gaming for over a decade now.
its so disappointing, with all the resources and talent at their disposal, that the pace and direction of macOS - to truly advance a desktop system - is so lack luster, "un-courageous", and as you put it boring.
Shenanigans of some sort in Chicago are widely accepted. That Kennedy conspired with Sam Giancarlo of the Chicago Outfit to fix the election in multiple states is not.
But it’s the same for all other cars. If you look at a base Audi or bmw, they are also pretty empty for their starting price
Not really. Google for USD file format - the entire first page is filled with links to incredibly helpful and detailed pages.
I'm unfamiliar with precedence parsing but what attracted me to (G)LR was its running time. What is the running time guarantee of a precedence parser for LR(k) and general (including potentially ambiguous) context-free grammars?
Sorry, mistake in the last snippet above, it should really be:

try:
import cElementTree as ElementTree
except ImportError:
import ElementTree

because otherwise, you have to know which import succeeded, because that changes the name by which you reference the module and the items in it.
Did you reply to the wrong comment? Because I don't think I am asserting anything like that.

Of course, Microsoft was famous for their dirty pool tactics in the past, so it's not irrational to worry that they'd return to them. E.g.: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_litigation#Private