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I've always found the relationship between Japan and the Yakuza to be fascinating. You have a country with an ostensibly lawful-good alignment, collectivists with a strong sense of social order and responsibility, where what would be minor drug crimes anywhere else carry hard prison time, and guns and knives are strictly regulated. Actors and politicians with Yakuza ties are scandalized by the media, yet the Yamaguchi-Gumi give out candy to kids for Halloween as if they were Boy Scouts, if the Boy Scouts had merit badges for child porn, human trafficking, money laundering and drugs.

And they're apparently all over the video game industry in Japan, the way the Mafia was all over construction and sanitation in New York during the 1970s. I just kind of assume they made Konami an offer they couldn't refuse when that company recently decided to leave non-mobile games and pivot into pachinko and slot machines.
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Agreed, but in anti-bus cities, start at 2, add some HOV, congestion pricing, slowly work up to 10. Before you know it, we have buses again, just not called buses. Just a thought.
What you are saying goes beyond software, should all books be in English? Should all content on the Internet be written in English?

In my opinion it would create a really sad mono-culture...
Each language carry part of its history and culture that can't be translated at all.

It would also prevent a big part of the population to access any content. Even if you apply it to software only, it means that a big part of the world wouldn't be able to use any of those.

Now, if the software that you need to use to be able to learn English are in English, that becomes even more of an issue...

Also, why English in particular? For a huge amount of the world population it requires to learn a new alphabet. It becomes a much more complex requirement.
> I think it's time Markdown should be supported natively by browsers.

I'd rather have AsciiDoc become the default lightweight documentation format. Markdown suffers from competing standards regarding extensibility beyond basic formating, whereas AsciiDoc is a quite direct translation of the solid standard Docbook.

Extending Markdown to anything more complex than bold, italic or headers requires deciding among a number of competing tools with different syntax and installing them as extensions. AsciiDoc has features as tables, references, images or metadata integrated in the standard, and it has been designed for extensibility, while Markdown was not.

There is an advantage of using Markdown over AsciiDoc, which is that it is currently supported by a larger variety of tools. But that advantage is somewhat negated by its different and slightly incompatible flavors.

https://asciidoctor.org/docs/asciidoc-vs-markdown/

https://www.ericholscher.com/blog/2016/mar/15/dont-use-markd...
Windows doesn't even have a standard driver-ABI anyway - if it did, we wouldn't have hardware losing driver support when switching the system to a different Windows version (XP/Vista/7/8+/10).
What's a good tool then?
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What's sad is the apps that do need to be removed (ie asking for way more permissions) never do, and the ones just trying to get into the ecosystem get punished for automated incompetence. The cutesy act of Google is really getting old. I rather just do progressive web apps as they become more common and not worry about their crappy app store.
It bothers me way more than it should that this line of code has become known as "10print". Like, 95% of BASIC oneliners out there start with "10 PRINT". It's like calling a McDonald's Super Size Big Tasty Meal With Diet Coke And A Side Salad a "Mac".

It should've been called 205.5+RND or something. Grmbl.
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This is an interesting idea, but I don’t see what’s different about it compared to ATerms:
https://github.com/cwi-swat/aterms
I feel like it doesn't apply to just software projects, but it's a phenomenon that affects life more generally.

It's so much easier to bring our focus on and talk about what we understand that we might just dismiss what's truly important but requires effortful thinking.

Universal shared experiences are easy to talk about. That includes topics like code formatting, verbosity vs magic, configuration vs convention, differences in the community cultures, scandals, tech interviews, industry gossip, macro trends and design opinions.
With all their efforts to block copyrighted stuff their engine has really gone downhill I swear, and this was years ago. I hardly ever find anything I'm looking for, that or we've hit a stage on the internet where people don't ask any questions on Stack Overflow and just google and monkey patch it all together.
Can't remember who it was but one of their competitors where clearly not understanding open source, they'd state it was Apache licensed and freely available *but according to them you had to sign an agreement and pay a fee to use it commercially".
Captcha factory are cheap.
You can find people solving 1000 recaptcha for $2.99, with API access.
> The more I learned about these things plus issues with other basic functions like wait() ot strcpy() or in general the lack of protections around C, the more I entertained the idea of looking for alternative operating systems.

Dig into the worlds of Burroughs B5500 (now Unisys ClearPath), IBM OS/360 (now IBM z), IBM OS/400 (now IBM i), and the now gone Mesa/Cedar, Oberon, Active Oberon, SPIN OS, Topaz OS, Mac OS/Lisa, Singularity, Midori, Inferno, ...
It's not the truth.

Most people understand that it's counter-productive to impoverish one's self in the process of trying to help others.

It's for both sentimental and practical reasons that we give the greatest help to those closest to us - our spouse/partner, children, parents, siblings, close friends; if everyone were able to do that, then the world would function just fine.

And we know that if we spend our entire wealth and productive capacity trying to help people unknown to us, we'll soon be unable to help anyone at all and will quickly end up in need of welfare rather than being able offer it.

Effectively every employed person pays tax, and is comfortable knowing their taxes help others unknown to them.

Many people give to charity because they like knowing that some of their wealth helps others outside their immediate circle.

The assertion "you could have saved countless lives, yet you did not" is false and misanthropic.

I'm no objectivist or right-libertarian, and I'm fully supportive of benevolence, humanitarianism and welfare.

But in order for these systems to function optimally, we must begin by ensuring the needs of ourselves and those close to us are taken care of, so we can be net-contributors to welfare rather than net-recipients.

Because as soon as too many people become net-recipients, welfare systems collapse.
Shit, good point. Me no read good yesterday.
My maze generator at http://tromp.github.io/pearls.html#maze produces arbitrarily long proper mazes on the fly. After compiling and running, enter -1 as the requested height.
It was more than clear that the FOSS for all wasn't sustainable long term, hence why we are slowly getting back to the freeware days.

Google just used good marketing to convince MS-haters that they were different.
You have a choice, the choices are just worse.

I tried using DDG for a long time, but it's just _terrible_ for technical queries.
No reason it shouldn't. Unless you are panicked and you don't properly attach the line before you jump that is.
It has to align with your values, there is no point going to work on missile software if you are a pacifist at heart. The work needs to be meaningful.

There should be some element of mastery, you need to be challenged in your work but not completely out of your depth.

You also need a degree of autonomy, this is what makes most corporate life so miserable, they have so many rules you can't decide anything.

Money doesn't matter so much, most people adjust their lifestyle to their income and get used to it.
but even in this reply you describe the standoff very well yourself: after k8s replaces all amazon bloat to become the default AWS api, k8s has effectively commoditised AWS. i think that's precisely the point OP is also making.
It's probably a different discussion, but I think the actual problem is that in the US consumer protection seems to be an optional feature of certain payment methods, like credit cards, rather than universal legislation applying to all consumers and sellers. I think consumers should benefit from a reasonable set of protections and rules regardless of which payment method they use to complete a transaction.
Moreso after Project Treble, now Android Linux behaves a bit like a micro-kernel.
They (pornhub) do ask people about their age, depending on the country they're visiting from. For Russians they even tied confirmation process to one of local social networks (source in Russian): https://tjournal.ru/flood/46247-kak-rabotaet-proverka-vozras...
Yes! Thanks a lot !
There is definitely something missing from this story; app reviews including a screenshot are nothing new, nor is it infringement. And it would hurt their ecosystem to act like this, so, I seriously doubt this at face value.

A theory- the app itself had infringing material, and the person who reported/banned it found that material via the review.
How is it unusable for research purposes, it seems it can be compiled and run by anyone?
I wonder how much it will take for the safe systems programming and TIMI part though.
Microsoft is still at it, just from the other side, by merging Win32 and UWP containers.
> BTW - the concept is "valuation", not "evaluation" :)

Oooh... thanks. This is one of those cases where I suddenly realise that I've been using the wrong word for year :-|
Yes its amazing I work a lot on sites in the Drinks industry and the amount of effort technically and on the legal side to make sure the age gate works correctly is huge.

And this is a brand (cant say which one) that has well over a hundred brands and works in almost 200 countries.
ARM and the SoC Vendors don't like open sourcing their drivers. They prefer to just dump binary blobs and stop support after 2 years. The users couldn't care less because they buy a new phone anyway. (except me)
And the Government was complaining about giving a lot of millions to the EU in prejudice of making their health care system worse than it was.
Wasn't this voted on? There must be some existing program he is enrolling into. That didn't come from nothing, it would have been developed and voted on by elected representatives.
What are the guys at Google getting paid for other than building a system which can intelligently apply those exclusion filters?

My two word query should not have one of it's words excluded.

OR

If the typical user is asking conversational questions, the search models need a layer of NLP preprocessing, which should likewise be conditional.
This make generate of a lot of controversy and even deploy more wars.
This statement is ridiculous. If you state that since ASUS does a lot of its manufacturing in mainland China, then maybe I can get behind you. The original statement simply reveals your complete lack of geopolitical common sense.
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ART will run on top of Fuchsia, it is already being ported, you can check the merge commits.

As we always need to remember Linux fans, the fact that Android uses a Linux kernel is irrelevant to userspace.
Except it is snakeoil.
For how long?

Fuchsia is in its infancy now. A little prototype. with its stable API and other features, it smells like a "hardware-vendor friendly" (or vendor-first or oriented) platform.

It may replace Android, maybe Linux in Google's own data centers. Then, we'll have another platform like OpenSolaris. Open, but not.
The primary reason I like Linux is its transparency, openness, freedoms it provides and the resulting flexibility, and I'd hate to see these freedoms are eradicated with a so-called Open platform controlled by another mega-corporation called Google.
>And those people may not agree with you (the benevolent distributor of incentives)

I was under the impression that in a democracy there was no single BDFL.
Well, Freeman seems to be a nice guy, maybe he doesn't want to contribute more than necessary to bombing third-world countries.
Right, that's exactly the « it would be hard to compete against the alternative of using a small subset of {whatever} » case.
Is this for honeybees?? I hope its for native bees because why would you create a sanctuary for what is basically an agricultural animal like cow or sheep.
Sometimes, the only way to build something of a certain quality, is to remove all other stakeholders. Even if that means not having a business.

And sometimes, you really want to, just to prove yourself not all software has to be made out of layers of shit.
It's an incentive for improving machine translation, no?
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> It was more than clear that the FOSS for all wasn't sustainable long term, hence why we are slowly getting back to the freeware days.

Someone should tell RedHat. And Debian. And, y'know, Linux. I'm sure Linus will be devastated to hear that the last couple of decades have just been a fluke.
Oil companies in the UK are subject to:
Ring Fenced Corporation Tax
Supplementary Charge
Petroleum Revenue Tax.

They are much more heavily taxed than other companies.
I’ve lived in NYC for 20 years and take the subway 2-4 times a day, often with my little kids. I can’t remember ever really feeling unsafe.
Why are you bringing in Dagger 2, a non-platform separate dependency injection library here? :)

Do you think a proprietary Windows C++ compiler for an embedded platform will make your DI uses easier? :)
Maybe, on a smaller scale, we shall call OpenVPN, PuTTY, FileZilla, Zip and Tar users too.

They will be upset. We need to be prepared. /s
Language division prevents a big part of the population to access content even more.

Is everyone supposed to learn Chinese to be able to read interesting articles ? What about Korean ? What about Wolof ?

Sharing a common language bring a lot to mankind as a whole, and is more effective to create bridges between people than most other means. Local languages are of course welcome and should be kept around for culture, but I do think that refusing to use a common language is a loss.

As for why English, well it's a bit late to ask the question imho : English has been picked as a common language quite a few years ago. There was French in Europe before, latin before that, but now it's English. I'm not especially happy about it either, since I'm not a native speaker, but here we are, and it's kind of pointless to fight against it when a big and diverse part of the world population already speak English (diverse is important, having 2 billion of people speaking a language in only one country is not really helpful for a common language).
>Android should allow other "app stores", just like you can have different browsers, you should also be able to have different "app stores". Just like there is not just one "store" in the physical world. Then there could be niche stores that focus on some category, or quality.

IIRC there was some issue where they would disallow usage of their app store if you used any other app store on any of your devices, for which they got fined in the EU (eg. you can't sell a device with Google AppStore and a device with f-droid or something).
The sticky part of Lambda isn't the API, it's the services and events you integrate with. The code you provide is small, necessarily your surface-to-volume ratio is much higher.
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New APIs make sense but keeping the old ones for backwards compatibility does too.
agreed. Being an IC with less stress and getting similar compensation while enjoying the architectural work seems more lucrative
There isn't a single topic about Android where you wouldn't whine about this. I've been seeing you for years and you still refuse to understand that C++ is not and probably never will be a first-party language for OS APIs.

It's like whining that you cannot talk to macOS and iOS through C++ without using ObjC APIs or not talk to the browser from WASM without using JavaScript.
At this point you really should get over it and either move to another platform or get used to the fact that you talk to Android via Java APIs.
Nice work; I like how it can all be brought back to numbers. I wonder if a new keyboard input method could use those codes.

The standard way to describe Hanzi is IDC codes. Those are used in Unicode proposals, and in the Unihan database.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ideographic_Description_Charac...

I added IDC lookup to Pingtype's keyboard, which normally searches the radicals in a decomposition database. It's crude, but lets me input a traditional character when I can only recognise half of it.

https://pingtype.github.io
As an accountant, I can tell you that the accounting standards do require certain things to be recognised once they become more likely than not (e.g. provision for expected losses) but this is not extended to e.g. recognising customer relationships as an asset, mostly because these things are fuzzy and hard to measure and easy to game.

If the company buys another company then they can recognise the difference between the purchase price and the company's assets as a new asset vaguely named 'goodwill' which covers things like customer relationships and everything else the accounting standards otherwise miss, but this isn't allowed otherwise.
And not just the consumers, but it would seem the producers too.

By choice, I do not have a Play Store account and wherever possible install apps only from F-Droid. However, there are (rare) times where I want to install a free (as in beer) closed source app. However, the publisher only chooses to make the app available via the Play Store. I would really, really like a direct apk download. I appreciate this approach is not for every end user and some people are scared of the "warning" messages Android displays when installing apps directly. Nonetheless, it would be really nice to have the choice and I don't see it as so much extra effort on the publisher's side.
Thank you for that. Now that you've stated it so concisely, I can see how this is the thing that bothered me about the post. The author is implicitly trying to represent the C user base but doesn't seem to share that user base's concerns, priorities, or practices.
There are a fair few people in the world who would find a good video of Marshall Rosenberg life changing. His perspectives on how to use language are fundamentally superior to what people stumble into in everyday use.

His framework is remarkable because it sets up a non-confrontational approach that lets you speak the truth without hurting or upsetting people. Being able to do that on demand is ... really quite a stunning skill. Certainly more useful than any technical trick I've ever learned.
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Everyone keeps talking about vendor lock-in. In regards to RDS you can still export your database and move somewhere else. But we use it because we don’t want to manage the database, we don’t want to worry about availability zones and syncing the data and failing over for updates. I don’t want to setup k8s instead and configure it and maintain it. That stuff is boring for me.
This was only true for end-user desktops. For technical work and servers, Windows had a few built-in things and a ton of things which could, with significant work, be installed — nothing like a simple apt-get install for years, which is why so many places switched rather than paying people to spend hours clicking through installers and then troubleshooting why it failed.
Then perhaps you shouldn't be using an OS from 2020 ?
Demands for POSIX compatibility really seem like cargo culting these days, considering none of the popular platforms will have apps use only POSIX APIs. It's a crutch that holds back API design white still demanding that you use OS specific syscalls in pretty much every software out there.
Just find it interesting that someone would go to the trouble to create a single photo website that essentially says "No".

Is the anticipation of AirPower really that high?
At least under international GAAP, assets can only be capitalised if they are expected to deliver future economic benefits. This doesn't mean that they have to be sold directly - they can be internal benefits such as a building or a factory machine that makes it cheaper to produce goods.
I feel like there was a real step-change when dang introduced a policy of requiring comments to be more positive (and I think implying people hadn't read the article was banned at the same time)? If you look at old HN comment threads you'll see a lot more caustic replies to wrong/stupid comments, and while superficially cruel I really think that was what kept the quality ratio high.
Very nice and concise writeup. For me it is always hard to deliver the feedback to the point (the 40 words rule), because i'm afraid it'll simply go under in all the other information people take in during the day. That's why i tend to keep pressing the matter. Has anyone some relevant experience to share on that?
Great article! Thanks for highlighting this often neglected aspect of communication!
SoC vendors who write the device drivers in the end probably couldn't care less. Why should they opensource their drivers for a new OS?
This didn't work in my case.

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You laugh, but in Terrebonne Parish, Louisiana, this was very much a thing recently.

https://reason.com/blog/2017/09/08/sheriff-settles-over-blog...
The biggest problem with OpenSolaris was proprietary blobs required to build it. Do you know if Fuchsia has any of those?

If it doesn't, then just fork it.
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> If you want tax dollars to support a cause, then vote for it.

This is literally what people have voted for by having tax deductions for certain "good" things, like giving to charity, using some of your land for bees or whatever.

Just because it's agreed that something should be done in the aggregate, doesn't mean that it needs to be centrally managed by some state agency. You decide X is wanted, and then leave the implementation to distributed decision making.