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> I'm happy to see Apple doing this. Even if it's 50% press fluff, I think it'll make other companies in the industry think harder about their own practices because Apple commands such a great reputation.

Apple also operate at a scale most companies can't, which means that even without federal product exclusions Apple would still be in a better position to do this than most companies. Those companies in the industry can think all they want, but they're unlikely to get the same federal exclusion, and even less likely to be able to execute anything like this anywhere near as efficiently as Apple.

I really don't see how federal subsidies of any kind can be seen as benign when they explicitly target market giants.
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TL;DR: Philosophy needs to get with the show.
I don't live on a coral reef.
It improved with mono and it's great to see continuation with core by ms. I don't use it atm but I remember learning c# from their beta book before v1, it was better than java even at that time. I've used c# from objective-c macos app maybe 6 years ago, it was pleasure to write c#/objc interop with mono and see same codebase used on windows app working fine (even faster) on macos via mono. The state must look much nicer now whan 6y ago, if I see opportunity to write some c# code now, I won't have any personal reservations, I'll do it with pleasure.

ps. my personal favourite programming languae at the moment is by far Julia and I encourage anybody to have a peek at it - I've missed it somehow[1] [2]; followed by crystal

[1] https://youtu.be/DRKKAFYM9yo
[2] https://youtu.be/HAEgGFqbVkA
From the FAQ https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html

> Are reposts ok?

> If a story has had significant attention in the last year or so, we kill reposts as duplicates. If not, a small number of reposts is ok.

It is not clear what does "small" mean, but somewhere between 5 and 10 is too much. Specially if all the repost are in two weeks. Try something else, like writing a interesting blog post about a problem you have with the service, or better about how you solved it.
> …the state of the world for Smalltalk 80…

Please look at chapter 23,"Smalltalk-80 The Interactive Programming Environment" (system change set, change-management, conflict resolution).

> …only Smalltalk VM running on a given system…

I remember running side-by-side Smalltalk images on the same system (one with Windows UI look and one with Mac UI look -- so I could tell which was which) in 1994.

> …which got in the way of distribution, particularly if you wanted to run on different hardware.

Let's say you'd been developing on a Mac and wanted to show on a Windows machine: you simply installed the Windows VM on the Windows machine, and copied your image file (and change log) from the Mac to the Windows machine — done.

> …rarely clear where your classes ended, and the system ones began…

Prefixing class names was a common way to make it really clear which were your classes.
> GMO that don't produce viable seeds so I have to buy seeds from you every season.

This is literally DRM for plants, isn't it?
So they're ramping up the detection of people using their phones while waiting for the traffic light to turn green?

Doesn't really sound like this is actually about safety.

I doubt these cameras can capture the photo do a decent quality on that angle for anything but standing or very slow moving cars

But I guess we can hope it will stop some people, even if there will be a lot of people caught that weren't really endangering anyone
> Policies such as family separation and detention did not yet exist.

Um... what? ICE has been around since Bush. And Obama, IIRC< did some "detention reforms" while he was in office.

Look, ICE does more than just "separate families" they also fight human/sex trafficking and they also a bunch of other stuff. I get that you may disagree with the detention stuff, but what about their work in other areas?
https://www.pnas.org/content/112/11/3241.short

You're welcome!
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I'm honestly not sure. Other people will take up the up the contract, and the work will get done, but probably not quite as cheaply.
> detaining children indefinitely

See, when somebody throws something like this out, I can’t tell if they’re just uninformed or being intentionally misrepresentative. Family separation started under the Clinton administration when they found that large number of children were being assaulted in predominantly adult detention facilities, as well as finding that many of the migrant children were being accompanied by adults who were not their parents (that is, were being trafficked). I’m… not entirely sure what else you expect the border patrol to do other than, but I have to suspect it’s something like “don’t detain anybody, give them a court date and hope they show up for it” which was the policy until recently. They have a difficult job and a difficult mandate - trying to make them out to be the bad guys here just makes it harder, but isn’t going to help anybody.
Not to contradict you, but had we the Spanish flu today you'd get 300mm dead within a year, and about 2.5 Billion people hospitalized... that would far exceed any humanitarian crisis we can currently imagine.
I agree, Newsfeed is divisive and toxic. I feel like Facebook was too slow in de-emphasizing it from the core product. But Facebook has become a lot more than that for so many people. I've seen a lot of people that have been able to make a better living thanks to Facebook's network effects.

This isn't thanks to the efforts of Facebook, but a byproduct of their huge social graph. I don't like Facebook as a company but I recognize the value in this, especially for people in less developed countries.
Lazy initialization and caching of a resource literally every instance of a Lambda uses doesn't fit the definition of "state" in my opinion.
Renting works well for highly-paid professionals who aren't committed to living in the area for the long haul and have plenty of money left over after paying their landlord. That's a very niche subset of people who rent. The more common scenario is people spend 1/2 to 2/3 of their take-home pay on rent to avoid a hellish commute, living with roommates in a poorly-managed building where the owners drag their feet fixing anything. These people don't have money to "park" in things that return far more than a house.
Awesome! As long as you're monitoring it. Keep this going!
And the kicker: even if economy goes bonkers, by depleting the seas and causing the crisis you've put yourself in position where you're the one buying all these deeply discounted properties.
> It will not be considered a deceptive practice for a marketer to make an unqualified U.S. origin claim if, at the time it makes the claim, the marketer possesses and relies upon competent and reliable evidence that: (1) U.S. manufacturing costs constitute 75% of the total manufacturing costs for the product; and (2) the product was last substantially transformed in the United States.

https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/press-releases/1997/05/examp...

Note the key measure here is cost, and manufacturing costs includes indirect costs like land rent. An easy workaround here would be for Apple to use a shell company to own the land/plants and lease it at exorbitant rates (to hit the 75% threshold)
Be active on forums where discussions are being held on future developments that could have an impact on humanity or society. Your input and everyone's input is super important to keep potential developers mindful of different perspectives.
Back in the Android 2.0 days, a guy had a set of TI emulators which, when loaded with the ROM downloadable directly off of TI's website, perfectly replicated several well-known TI calculator models. Think the one I used got shut down, but there's a number of newer ones:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.Bisha.TI89...

I already owned a TI calculator at the time, it was just nice not to carry it around. TI probably would still make good money selling an official version.
Well yeah, of course dedicated pro hardware's gonna be better. Physical knobs and buttons are awesome. Most'd probably take those over a PC keyboard (the qwerty type, not like a midi keyboard), too, for real work in music, if not allowed both. I'm not claiming iOS devices do everything really well, but if you just want a portable all-in-one creation device for a wide variety of needs and don't care about programming very much there's a good chance a tablet's gonna serve you quite well.

I find the iPad great for drawing (with Pencil) and anywhere from pretty good to great for all kinds of other creative work, especially compared to a PC/laptop with either having only its out-of-the-box equipment (no big add-ons), which is to say it's excellent for hobbyists, small-timers or newbies to a whole bunch of creative fields. But of course I can also watch Netflix on it, and it's nearly useless for dev work except as a terminal device, so... that makes it consumption-focused while PCs are creation focused I guess? I mean I've been using PCs since the DOS days so I'm not some touchscreen native, but the assertion just doesn't make any sense to me, yet it keeps coming up in developer circles. I don't see them (primarily-touchscreen portables) in my life and the way I see them used by others as any more consumption-focused than PCs, really, they're just good at a bunch of stuff PCs aren't so great at, and bad at some stuff PCs are good at. I do not understand the source of that claim, a single bit, unless "consumption" is "anything that's not computer programming".
oo! Good to know it supports HTML elements. Might be worth adding this into the FAQ!
> This just means that ICE will hire a few people to maintain their build pipeline rather than outsourcing it to a third party

Assuming ICE made the most efficient decision in the first place, the new option will be less efficient, imposing a cost.

If the most efficient alternative is also unwilling to contract with ICE for the same reason, the cost is higher. Etc.

Of course, the goal in any refuse-to-participate campaign is to build to reach more essential rather than peripheral service providers, most particularly the people directly implementing (not setting) the opposed policy.
Interestingly the EU is working on building a verification service for pharmaceuticals but some countries are pushing back.
Except e.g. Uyghur boats. Those get summarily sunk. Hong Kong boats will be set on fire instead.

No, tech is not a universal equalizer by itself. Without an entire socioeconomic environment to support innovation, gains will be at best temporary. (On the flipside, we lately seem to be entertaining the idea of converting the US to an autocratic environment too, so we can certainly achieve leveling that way)
It's funny but I also don't get why this is on Hacker News.
The textbook racket is bigger in dollars and just as exploitative. Follett bought a company I worked for. One of their first actions was to shut down the business of making high quality, affordable alternative teaching content and tools, greatly inconveniencing the professors who had been bold enough to use the product.
Legend has it Picasso used to pay as much as he could using checks [1]

TLDR: not many of these were cashed, because people loved the idea of having his signature on a piece of paper and kept the checks.

So, effectively, every time he paid with a check, he essentially got products and services for free.

Now, if you take the dollar - essentially a fed IOU - and in theory ultimately redeemable against some sort of tangible piece of American property (real estate, infrastructure, intellectual property, etc ...), it is very tempting to draw a parallel, namely;

As long as the dollar is the world's currency reserve and people stockpile it, greenbacks are just like Picasso's checks: the IOU never gets exercised.

And America can keep on issuing debt for ever ...

[1] https://www.fool.com/investing/small-cap/2004/12/08/picassos...
that's about APIs
> hiring/firing people based on their views on Immigration/Abortion/Religions Freedoms/etc

Honestly, that was my first thought - it’s entirely possible that the same people who pressured Chef in this case will start pressuring companies that hire anybody who, say, had worked with ICE in the past.
HP 48g FTW!

Seriously considered it's IR data sharing capabilities with other classmates... imagine beaming messages across the room!
I strongly disagree with that. Apple's marketing has always been honest. And talking about the honesty or transparency of the product marketing is kind of a surface level thing compared to what I'm really talking about, which is the kind of myths and narratives that these companies tell about themselves, as well as what others say about them.

I think there's something more fundamentally deceptive about how Google has carried themselves out to be for the past 20 years than there is with Apple. And I think you're actually seeing the result of that now with the turmoil that's been taking place for the past couple of years at Google.

https://www.wired.com/story/inside-google-three-years-misery...
It may be competition, but it certainly isn't fair competition. As you note, Facebook has much deeper pockets than even a well-funded startup. They can afford to build a clone of your product and give it away for free, without any expectation of even future revenue, specifically to drive you out of business. And they can bundle their clone with their already-popular apps, so people never even feel the need to check out your original product since they have a "good enough" version placed right at their doorstep.

This is the exact same playbook that Microsoft used to strangle many, many promising companies back in the '80s and '90s: Stac Electronics (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stac_Electronics), WordPerfect, Netscape, the list goes on and on. It's just impossible to successfully compete with someone who has an endless supply of money and can stand as a gatekeeper between you and your potential customers.
That was a lot of predispositions. I can say for sure I've never scaffolded anything in C#, I can write a fully functional web app using Notepad++, the different parts of the startup are not hard to memorize, and I can't imagine scaffolding being useful in a console application.

Yeah, it requires more lines to achieve the same thing in other languages, that isn't a pro or con.

And myself personally, I started with Basic, and have used C++, C, Python, Java, JS and C# throughout my career, but I'm also sure you can find many more Python/Go developers who only know Python/Go

It'a unfortunate you don't like the language and I hope Microsoft and the open-source developers continue to add more features so that one day you'll find the joy may developers have found in using C#
>In the bottom line, if you're consuming more than you're manufacturing, mostly likely you're in trouble.

Or you are a dominant entity on the world stage with the power to demand more physical goods than the physical goods that you produce.

Trade deficit rebalancing is an argument for the destruction of the supremacy of the dollar.
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There's nothing she can teach me about climate change over scientists.
And it seems pretty obvious to me that the rules now are (as much as they claim be pro-social justice), are only in the interests of property owners.

And it's not like rent control is the only way for there to be affordable housing. It's just a way that pretends to look out for lower income people, while actually benefiting entrenched property owners in a really perverse way.
"There are programs that even dictate which TI model is accepted."

At this point in 2019, with such cheap computation, the school calculator lines are being sold as much on what they don't do as what they do.

Around 1994 or 1995, I had an HP-48G calculator, a real scientific programmable calculator meant for engineers and scientists, where the rest of the class had the TI line of school calculators. The HP-48G could do most of the integration problems we had, symbolically. IIRC, there were a few high school integration problems it couldn't do, but it did a pretty good job. And it was a bottom-of-the-line, stuck on an embedded system computer algebra system even at the time. It only goes up from there.

You don't want the students to be rolling into the SATs with computer algebra systems that can solve all the problems on the exam. This is also why they can't, for instance, bring in an Android system running the TI in emulation; it's not about doing what the TI calculator can do, it's about not being able to reach Wolfram Alpha.

The model restrictions are about the test authors being sure they know what's up.

(On the plus side, if you want to teach students how to use computers well, leave them a loophole where they can bring in their android phones, install a linux app, run Sage[1] from within that, and figure out how to use it to solve their high school calculus problems. You will learn something students, one way or another!)

[1]: http://doc.sagemath.org/html/en/reference/calculus/sage/symb...
I know women who have said otherwise. In fact, one of them is my wife.
> It is statements like this that make me think you troll.

I honestly cannot fathom why you can't see what I'm trying to say. If it sounds like I'm repeating myself it is only because I keep trying to find a way to phrase it such that my reasoning can be understood.

> Self can be defined and a fluid construct. Here's an easy way to think of self. You recognize that you are not the chair you are sitting on. That the chair is different from you. My cat recognizes this kind of self.

Yes. But that is because this is how the human mind conceptualizes 'self' in this instance. It draws other lines when necessary to fulfill the purpose it was evolved for. My children are 'self' in many circumstances, or my community, or my nation. Sometimes, even ideals. If that isn't true, then why would a rational mind be willing to die for these things? These lines are arbitrary, and drawn by the mind to aid in fulfilling a purpose. As far as the universe itself is concerned, there is no difference between me and the chair (and in fact even humans would struggle to draw a perfect molecular outline where the chair ends and I begin).

> You DID see through the 10 year old's eyes though. It does not matter that recall isn't perfect, but you don't have the exact same experiences as the clone

Even if I don't remember the event at all? That doesn't make sense. In what sense did I experience an event I have no recollection of? It may as well have happened to a different person. Not to mention that the child is not sharing large swaths of my experience. The clone actually shares significantly more experience with me than the child, yet one is considered the same being and the other isn't. I keep saying this to point out the inherent inconsistency of the how this line is drawn, not because it is not useful but to show that it is not objectively real.

Here's a question for you: Should the digital copy be punished for crimes the physical one committed before the copy took place? After all, it does have the experience of committing that crime. It was, by your own reasoning, at the very instant of the copy, the same person that committed that crime. If it is now a different person, is it responsible for the actions of the physical being in the past?

Originally this whole discussion started because someone claimed that the upload (not copy, in this case) might not be the same as the person it perfectly mimics. That is, even though it is indistinguishable from the original, it is somehow not the same. This is the kind of strange conclusion that is drawn from having a naive conception that self is not a fluid construct but rather a rigid objective reality. This is the flawed thinking I'm seeking to remedy.
>You are right. Lot of people traveled in 20th century. But a lot more could have traveled if there was Internet in 20th century.

I seriously doubt it. The main obstacle was money. Billions travelled in the 20th century up to 2005 or so. There wasn't some surge in travel associated with GPS or mobile phone availability.

Rise was steady throughout the 20th century and associated with income raise (travel becoming less expensive). The main bumps are when e.g. developing economies boomed, flooding the market with more people to travel (e.g. the raise of the 1.4 billion strong Chinese travel market).

https://www.roccoresearch.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/UNW...

Rarely anyone who didn't travel didn't travel because they thought "travel is too complicated, I need a constant electronic map with me", anymore that they said on in their own country.

If anything, it's today's people who can't travel without mobile/GPS, not the much more resilient people in the 20th century. In other words, it's an acquired clutch, not something people felt really lacking that prevented them from traveling abroad.
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Break the bubble, talk to more C# devs from different kinds of businesses.
Then they should've spent all that money placing a big order, and not sitting and eating through them for 5 years
> because spending can't go down, right?

Why not? Or was that tongue-in-cheek?
> At what point do places like Dell become just licensing operations?

I don’t know, but I expect that there’s a roomful of well-paid asshole MBA’s at Dell working on that “problem” right now.

Everything outsourced and a few product mangers picking stuff out of a catalog— That’s ultimately what the supply chain leads to as corporations grow.
I'm not GP, but I picked up a cheap one this week [1]. It's pretty great so far. Used it during a D&D game to track ammo/spells/etc without filling up my campaign notebook, then took it to work and used it to take detailed notes during a phone call, then I just transferred the actually important stuff to my paper notes.

I know at least one brand has a phone app that is supposed to be able to process photos of their tablet for saving. Haven't looked into that yet.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07C7BH2K5/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b...
>He is not forcing his views on you, don't like him don't read what he writes.

His job is (was) convincing others that he is right. He's trying to influence people's thoughts and actions. I think a critique of how he goes about that is warranted. Of course we can look the other way, but obviously that doesn't work to the benefit of his goals.
more like attempt to collect personal info, do they know what GDPR means?
Probably A:

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

Along with some B of:

a) right to work state
b) central proximity w/r/t roadways
c) long standing historical relations to UT/semiconductor industry/IBM/Motorola/Power

(as noted elswhere in thread: this isn't a new factory but a continued one)
damn bro
Not sure who downvoted or why, but one could point out that in French it's only the kind you smoke.
> Name me one piece of a commercial airliner that you are allowed to source from China. I'll wait

Boeing have opened a plant there which seems to do interiors now, and it moving into other areas in the future.

Rudder parts are made at a separate facility in a different. These are for the 787 and 737. The link claims there are 9,000 Boeing’s flying with Chinese made parts.

http://europe.chinadaily.com.cn/business/2016-09/10/content_...

https://www.google.co.nz/amp/s/mobile.reuters.com/article/am...

https://www.google.co.nz/amp/s/qz.com/1497137/boeings-china-...
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