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This is not an indie game that needs exposure and a platform from Apple, this is Netflix and I would argue they receive little to no value from Apple.
Any example of what kind of companies have absolutely no risk of "not be able to generate sufficient revenue to achieve and maintain profitability"?
I personally find Netflix is being a little bit of a hypocrite there. Netflix is actively using the play store to identify old and unidentified devices and roms to stop them from downloading the app.

Not judging them here, just saying.
Where did you get that impression?
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None were found based on Jepsen testing done.

We had done a separate testing for Badger before Jepsen, where we had identified and fixed a few issues related to crashes. You can read that blog post here:

https://blog.dgraph.io/post/alice/
Are there any consequences to prevent this from happening again? I am unfamiliar w/ German approaches to illegal police activities (even if barely illegal and retroactively determined), but I know in other countries the absence of any consequences allows these things to repeatedly happen.
Audible.com is a clear example of this. All purchases have to be made on their website. The app is just a player with the ability to browse and put content on your wish list but nothing more. It's a horrible user experience but a 30% price hike on content might make me think twice about impulse purchases
Not at all, they bungled low power bigly with the atom trainwreck and are so far behind ARM now that they have given up competing.
True, but all these assumptions are probabilistic. What are the chances of us being one of those uncontacted tribes. We have found thousands of other tribes, leaving only a handful hidden. The probability of a tribe to remain hidden is almost 0. And this probability decreases more and more with time.
Because instead of having 2 players that ask for 30% cut, having 6 that do the same is going to make Netflix any happier. There's no reason to think other similar platforms wouldn't charge the same. Look at GOG vs Steam, both charge 30% too, even tho GOG is much smaller market and for devs it means spending resources making the GOG version in addition to the Steam version, GOG still charges as much as Steam and doesn't see a reason to lower the cut.
I can't seem to find any, so apparently I'm misremembering.

So what were we referring to Linux and the different software running on it back then as? I was running Linux back in 1996, and I can't seem to remember any other way it was referred to.
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The alternative, on average, is not to hear anything about these old friends and never meet them, lose touch, and that's the end of it.

The alternatives are telephone, e-mail, actual mail, text messages, and other means that are not trying to track, tabulate, and sell you and your personal information to the highest bidder.

Amazingly, people managed to stay in touch for thousands of years before Facebook even existed. Even using computers!
Homeless shelters sometimes accept clothing, my homeless shelter actually runs a charity shop. Local charity shops are an option, but we don't know if they are run better.
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> It's one thing to not want to use Electron app, it's another to say no one should use them. It rubs me the wrong way. There are a lot of things I'd never use, but they don't rile me to that level.

The reason this trend riles me so much is that we now have companies like Slack, which easily have enough resources to do an efficient desktop app on any platform they choose, releasing utter garbage that, far from merely wasting memory, takes up ridiculous amounts of CPU time (and therefore battery time and energy) to do the simplest things (like render emoji, or even a blinking cursor). The aggregate waste of resources is mind boggling, and we've gone far past the point where Electron was solely used as a quick solution for very resource constrained companies or single devs.

> "Laziness and cost cutting" is just your label for trade-offs you don't agree with. That would apply to cross-platform Java/Swing apps or Gnome. The "technically literate" users don't have to worry about business considerations and engineering tradeoffs - the authors do. If memory usage is such a big deal, then the market will self-correct, I was told it's a meritocracy.

It certainly does apply to Swing apps, Qt, Gnome, etc. I've always considered all three of those frameworks ludicrously bloated, by the way, but Electron has far exceeded my worst nightmares in that regard.

I'm not sure who told you the market is a meritocracy or why you believe it, but I don't see much evidence for that view, personally.
It's half that after 1 year.
It tells you they didn't want any evidence for potential sexual harassment lawsuits resulting from drunken antics at company parties.
Is it more likely that drug dealers that are shady are more likely to be irresponsible in their safety practices because they’re focused on immediate profit?
Except you're not renting. They use the word sell, so you are buying. If you want to lease something to people, you need to call it leasing and have an explicit lease agreement. You can't sell something to someone and still keep control of it.
Any possibility of picking out the pattern of exponentiation activity from a long recording of the device working? ML?
For the non-technical majority they are a huge advantage. We're never going to have average users fully technically aware.

I well remember the state of Windows during Win 98 and XP where most had no idea what they were downloading, and it seemed every machine had malware, hidden pop ups and 37 IE toolbars. I was constantly asked to clean up friend's machines from the damage done by Kazaa and its associated garbage or some other drive-by crap.

If a restrictive app store is the cost of avoiding that and gaining some minimum enforced standards, safety and confidence to avoid crapware, I've actually come to think it a price well worth paying.

The fact that Google are so laissez faire about the Android app store, and let so much crap in, just further highlights the potential benefits that Google aren't fully providing.
It just looks fragile to me. I may be wrong.
Only on the internet does the notion of a "gatekeeper" leading to some authoritarian universe make sense.

In the real word, it isn't immoral to sell devices that don't run non-trusted binaries. If Tim Cook and Sundar Pichai could speak to every user and tell them "the reason our platform's default behavior is to not run non-trusted apps is because we don't want your device to get viruses or perform non-trusted functionality", and you told those users that it's "immoral for these companies to make those decisions for you", nine times out of ten those users would choose to have all developers go through Apple and Google instead.
And the people will collectively vote for representatives who hand smack downs to these companies.
If you're an advertising executive or a software developer and decide that you'd be happier living in the desert and making weird sculptures from scrap, that is very much an option. Living in a cabin in the woods or sailing around the world or establishing a commune for circus artists is a thing that you can do, and you don't need to be a millionaire to do it.
> But Smalltalk doesn't help making your programs simpler

Hmm..."OO may be a decent way of managing complexity..." was what the parent said, I responded to the "complex baseline" assertion. And your assertion that it doesn't help is empirically invalidated on many counts.

First, the folks at Xerox PARC managed to implement "Personal Computing (networked)" in around 20KLOC of Smalltalk, including the OS, windowing system, IDE, networking, e-mail, messaging etc. Second, look at the sheer amount of functionality in something like Squeak.

> at least not as much as a powerful FP language.

Citation needed? Caper Jones Function Point Metric puts Smalltalk's language level at 20, Haskell at 8.5 (larger=better)

http://www.cs.bsu.edu/homepages/dmz/cs697/langtbl.htm
> Just try running a business when you loose 30% strait off the top line.

What's your take on taxes?

Most business owners lose a lot more than 30% straight off the top from governments with no way to opt out (other than not to work at all which isn't really feasible in most countries if you want to enjoy your life).
That's very well written. As someone who has never been to BM I wonder if it also is suffering due to larger trend of increasing skepticism and hostility towards SV. Thoughts?
> soon

IIRC, at the time they talked about the delivery of the initial patches for Meltdown and Spectre, Intel's definition of "soon" was somewhere between "4 weeks" and "never"
Because morality does not revolve around the question "Will a megacorp lose some revenue?" There are many things companies and individuals could do that would make them money which they are nonetheless constrained from doing because those things are wrong.

Also, the idea that users understand these issues and are passing judgment on them when they buy an iPhone doesn't seem realistic for the majority of iPhone owners. If you walked around polling iPhone users about this issue anywhere besides Silicon Valley, the most common answer would probably be "What?" And that's ignoring the fact that someone might object to this but still buy an iPhone for unrelated reasons. So even if their dollars could act as moral validation, I don't think it's reasonable to say they do in practice.
Oh I wasn't clear. I was just using the word "try" because you did in your previous reply. I totally agree with you. I think I said that in my original comment. That is unassailable. You are correct.

With respect to doctors and motivation though, do you think that I should not ask them for success stories?
Is this born out of experience or is it from looking outside? Differences are fun to experience, hence why people go on vacations if they can. But enduring those differences when you've had a long day and just want a drink or coffee to relax, it isn't that fun. Living in Japan is more than adopting a new language. And even if you fit in with the culture, you'll never be one of them. I really don't think you'll get how hard that is until you experience it first hand, and being Japan, not fitting in isn't "cool" or "interesting," it's a dire place to be in.

I'm not white in America, so I know how that feels, but I'm not delusional: the times I've visited Japan I stick out like a sore thumb and it's the usual glares/distrust here x100. Seoul was a bit worse from than Tokyo from that perspective, but using it as a proxy because they have similar attitudes towards foreigners, the only time I actually felt visible was when I was with my former classmate who was Korean. The difference was night and day, the night before I was ignored to the face by a street vendor, the next day with her, a street vendor offered us free food after buying a delicious set of fried snacks.

If you want to experience an Asian metropolis, I recommend Singapore because diversity is something they sort of believe...and uphold by force. I fit in because I look malay or indo, but if you're white, you'll be a minority but not enough to feel out of place for the most part. Otherwise, go if you have an SO in Japan so you can be the token foreigner girlfriend/boyfriend or something. Don't go and live alone.
I think the number is too high, but a portion of proceeds to Google/Apple is certainly justified.

At least Epic Games is practicing what they preach. UE4 is free to use, and here's their royalty breakdown:

> UE4 is free to use, with a 5% royalty on gross product revenue after the first $3,000 per game per calendar quarter from commercial products.
I don't think this is an accurate depiction of the problems with AGPL. I think the motivations are more accurately that companies like Google refuse to use AGPL'd software and businesses based on open-source/source-open software want to do business with Google et al. Of course, you wrote this FAQ entry, so maybe I'm wrong.
Very small and incomplete ones. It does sound like the Best store was slightly different in its model, more like an Ikea/Argos cross.
I was wondering how much of that 100gW is lost in Earth's atmosphere - my naive assumption would be quite a bit, but maybe not so much that it would make sense to try and get the laser into orbit (also orbiting gigawatt laser would make everyone nervous, I imagine...)
Surely you can understand why letting people do whatever the hell they want might

As a default no. But there should always be an option (with appropriate warnings) to do with your device what you want to do with it.

might not be the best thing when people's personal and financial data is on the line.

Even on a walled garden device people will open phishing mails and log in to phishing websites. There will always be attack vectors. Beyond a reasonable baseline in security (sandboxing between applications, etc.), the most important thing to do is to educate people on proper security practices.
They've been unsusceptible to some of the more recent side-channel attacks, but others have affected everything from Intel to AMD to ARM.

I haven't really ready anything on this most recent set of vulnerabilities and AMD.
is this by design or it just doesnt matter having bad code?
I had one experience reporting a security vulnerability to a bug bounty program and never want to do it again. I reported an issue to United Airlines that I could reset anybody's MileagePlus number by only guessing their Security Questions ("what is your favorite sport", etc), bypassing any email confirmation or anything like that. After 3 months of back and forth with their security team, they released an Android update that patched the issue. I was then told "It turns out this fix was pushed by the QA team and was actually unrelated to your Bug Bounty submission" and that my submission was ineligible.

Your mileage may vary, but the headache for me is not worth the payout
Nobody trusts facebook? Is that why half the world is on facebook readily giving them their private info?

Twitter is a hot mess? Is that why the president and most of the journalists are on twitter?

Who cares what snapchat is doing?

I don't get articles like this. What's the point?
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It's reasonable as a default choice. It's not reasonable as the only choice.
You immediately unlink the transactions with Monero.

You convert as much of your reward as you can into something more fungible like Ethereum or Bitcoin.

Typically this means having several unverified exchange accounts created where you deposit and trade under the unverified account threshold and withdraw. (This is typically 2 bitcoin worth, per account, per 24 hours... but there is always some new exchange with no withdrawal limits and the decentralized exchanges are pretty robust these days)

If that exchange doesn't offer Monero, or they have already blacklisted your Ethereum/Bitcoin addresses, then you Coinswitch or Shapeshift, or XMR.TO the rest.

Once in Monero nobody can blacklist any of your addresses. You can stay in Monero forever if you like, as it is good enough for reintegration into the normal economy. Or you can reintegrate slowly in other ways, such as back into Ethereum on new exchange accounts or countswitch/shapeshifting back onto that blockchain, simply because there are more things to buy.

And yes, it SHOULD go without saying that you should be doing this on Tails or Whonix, and having funded addresses that are unlinked from your identity to begin with. But everyone ever caught up in a legal action has done this part wrong so far.
You can give both hyperthreads in a physical core to the same tenant, no?

Scheduling different VMs to run on the same hyperthreaded core at once seems like it can't be good for either VM's performance, even if there were no security concerns. Hyperthreading is much more useful for running multiple threads of the same app, accessing similar instruction caches etc.

(There's also a question of safety within the VM, but a huge number of cloud users are running effectively one user within their VM.)
"is it justifiable" is an irrelevant question.

Apple charges 30% because they can. They can because software companies have demonstrated they are willing to pay that 30%.

Apple holds all the cards so they have pricing power.

Contrary to your claim, this doesn't increase the price by 30% because the price is not determined by the software company but by customers' willingness to pay.

Price of software on iPhones is impossibly low. That's because for every piece of software, there's a lot of competitors providing such software and ecosystem evolved toward incredibly low prices.

That's also why making make mobile software is a terrible business for most.
maybe. no guarantee AMD won't have the same issue.
Hyperthreading is fine on its own, but yes in combination with other CPU features it is effectively impossible to secure.

Turn it off or sell your Intel chips.
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Maybe this is what finally gets me to upgrade from my ~2012 i7-3770. Not because of performance improvements, but to avoid performance degradation from all these security patches...
> So what were we referring to Linux and the different software running on it back then as

Free Software. Sometimes with “free as in speech” to distinguish from the also common “free as in beer” no-cost but restrictively licensed (or, often at the time, with no express license) software.
Darn, this is really "think of the kids" all over.

You don't need to download spyware with virtually any mobile phone, pretty much everyone out there is doing already(recent ref: google maps)
Or maybe he wasn't sacrificing his natural humility to teach his daughter an important lesson on the toxicity of wealth, and he was just an asshole.

Which explanation is simpler?
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Of course its going to be a mass market phenomenon. Its going to be a mass market phenomenon for the same reason the smart phone was a phenomenon. It takes the internet which in the smartphone's case was something you had to go seek out at a desktop or computer and put it in your pocket. It took a dopamine hit and put it in your pocket.

AR is the same thing, it takes the dopamine hit and puts it on your face. Subsequently you get a lot more dopamine hits.
„Every day our team takes great strides to enhance our site’s security and we certainly anticipate that this recent data breach is the last,”

Yeah, granting public access to s3 buckets sounds like a great effort to enhance data security
Better to feel alive one week per year than zero, I guess. What is she the other 51 though?

We're only - conscience? - for so long. It's sad if anyone laments that they only ever truly feel alive for ~2% of that time. If you want to feel alive, you don't need a major vacation or escape to do so. Or, at least, I posit that you don't. Do you not feel alive hanging out in the neighborhood park (or wherever) with your friends? Or does that feeling only come from a designated vacation campground?
Reminds me of Syd Meads paintings, which are absolutely awesome, too. When I listen to music from Tycho, I often daydream about some alternate future in which this is all reality.
I still don't see how they were obfuscating anything. They stated very clearly that those parts of code had restrictions and the purpose of those restrictions were to enable them to profit from providing them as part of their offering. There was no subterfuge here. You're taking the extremely uncharitable view on the language because you don't like the message.
Thank you! This is the best acknowledgment of our work I've seen so far. A lot of blood, sweat, hairs, frustrations, and tears has gone into building Dgraph -- and this comment by you makes me feel proud of what we're building, and the community of people using it.
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That is a really cool idea, and would be great for people that don't have space to store a canoe or a big enough car to transport one.

The tough part physical-product startups run into a lot is the manufacturing. Building everything in-house can either be prohibitively expensive or time-consuming, and outsourcing the manufacturing to a foreign company to save costs also brings with it a ton of issues (communication, quality, IP protection, customs, etc). The startup capital requirements to successfully build and deliver a physical product to market are huge compared to many digital products. Plus the "lean" aspects of software dev don't exactly translate over to physical products (nobody wants to get "paddles coming in the V1.5 update!").
Both beautiful and super powerful tool, keep up the awesome work!
Some might say the $600-$1000 price tag paid by consumers should reasonably cover everything.
Sometimes I do, and the overtime pay definitely helps. There's a few reasons. We have a schedule to maintain. We have a certain number of jobs that need to be finished every day, if we can't finish everything we have to stay. Right now there's only me and two other people properly trained to do our jobs and each of us work in different sections. One of the jobs is manageable by one person, my job and the the other guy's job are two person jobs.

Right now me and one guy have a couple new guys helping us who don't really know what to do and can't really be left to do a lot unsupervised. Each of us also relies on the person before us completing our jobs on time. I'm right in the middle of the process, so if I don't finish everything I need to the people that come after me have to work even harder to finish everything on time.

If we're even a couple hours late for a job, customers complain, contractors cancel jobs and the boss is unhappy. I personally don't like burdening my coworkers more than I have to and honestly we do high quality work, I like knowing my work is well done.

We're a small place, we all work together to get things done. The boss puts in his time with everyone he's probably the last one to leave at night treats his employees well. Anything we need anytime to get our jobs done he'll get it for us right away, if we've ever got problems in life or other things he's understanding and tries to accommodate or help out as best he can, they've taught me so many things since i've started here and everybody was patient while I learned and at this point the shop relies on me to be there to do my job.

Oh and my boss is one of the few people I know I can honestly say is a hero. He rescued is family from genocide by the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia in the 70's when he was in his 20's, escaped to China then brought them all to Canada and started his business with nothing. So the way I see it, I can't really complain to much about having to work hard or long hours, i've never had to deal with watching my friends and family get lined up and executed with an axe to the skull.

And honestly, I just enjoy my job. I get to make things everyday, I program, I do physical work, operate and maintain giant machines, I get to be creative and i'm pretty much left to do whatever I want as long as i get my job done. Plus it's pretty cool to work making things from one of the earliest materials shaped by humans.
I own a roomba, and while I can’t say it’s great, it at least does something useful. The Alexa with wheels isn’t very compelling, because the mobility aspect doesn’t add anything. These robots don’t even have a tray to carry drinks on. From that perspective they’re less useful than a HeathKit HERO [0] or an OmniBot[1].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HERO_(robot)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omnibot
Independent of anything else, allowing the back button to take you back to a page that redirected you previously is bad UI. It is almost never the desired behavior.