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> You made a bunch of normative statements about what people "need" to do, so I don't think it's out of bounds to make a normative comment about the reasonableness of your demands.

Did I? There is a single sentence with the word 'need' in it in my entire post. My last sentence expresses my hope for others' behaviour. That's two 'normative' statements that really express the same point - we are living in a consumerist culture. I don't think that's at all a controversial position, it is almost a cliche at this point.

I also haven't made a single demand upon anyone.

I'm not sure what motivates you to misrepresent my position in such crude fashion and I wish you'd refrain from replying to me in this manner in the future.

> it dramatically increases the capital requirements for starting a new business.

Help me understand - you think the approach of being responsible and saving for a rainy day, dramatically increases the capital requirements for starting a new business? How?

How does saving profits relate to upstart requirements? As far as I can tell - the two are unrelated.
I agree on your second point. Bad managers were the reason why I either quit or got fired (after stoping to care and just doing the minimum amount of work possible) because I could not see any change being made to the development methods used which relied heavily on people instead of software tools that could speed things up for me and minimize the amount of bugs that I was adding to the codebase.

Bad managers which are set in their ways from 10 years ago and unable to change are really bad for business.
A few years ago I went on a non-anglophone[1] YouTube kick; my anecdote is that the comments sections were generally less toxic.

[1] YouTube's filter bubble seems to lag a few days to a week on searches, so moving it around takes patience, but is possible.
> I worry for the future if more companies take this approach.

That future is here. All macOS desktop apps must be signed with an $99 developer certificate from Apple. All Windows apps must be signed with a $300-ish developer certificate otherwise Windows scare away 99% of users from running the installer. I can't comment for Linux but I see snapcraft.io is getting some pretty big usage numbers...

I really can't put what I want on my Android phone. I briefly read I need to 'unlock' my bootloader using some procedure which implies getting approval from Xiaomi and/or doing a factory reset of my phone which means losing everything. Seems designed to be as inconvenient as possible.
I don't blame them for preferring USD, but how long should you pray on the altar of a goddess that don't actually want to save you?
Good question. I'm using VSCode as an IDE for React now but I understand very well why some people use Webstorm.
Interesting that this rejection came out in the same week, maybe the same day, as the EU opened its anti-trust investigations into the company. Obviously there’s some smoke somewhere. I say this as someone who has exclusively used Apple for over one decade. I am very very bothered by this monopolistic evolution of the company.
I wonder how or if that will effect turnout if it becomes widely used.
Most of the things you listed are not a problem in C#. And you don't have to be tied deeply to Microsoft to use it these days — I develop stuff full-time on top of .NET Core under Linux (and host it on Linux).

>No need to learn groovy to configure Gradle to build your application

I rarely have to configure msbuild, mostly to do some relatively advanced stuff like auto-installing npm dependencies for an SPA.

>No need to learn javadoc

Just use

/** */

>No need to figure out how to statically link your code

You can build pseudo-statically linked executables by adding one line to .csproj (which builds a single executable file, but it's really a self-extracting archive), and real static linking is in the works. I have no need for it personally though.

>how to compile your code ahead of time

Same thing — AOT compilation is one configuration line away. You don't need it very much though, as the CLR is very performant these days and beats Go in most benchmarks:

https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/...

>No need to figure out how to tune your GC for low latency and low memory usage

I would argue CLR's GC is ahead of Go's GC at least for latency. Memory usage, not so much, but damn, look at the execution times above. It depends on your priorities I guess.

>Plus Go has value types

C# has had them since before Go was a thing. Unlike Java, it also has real structs, which you can configure the alignment of, and map a raw chunk of memory to them (which you received from a COM port, for example). This came in handy more often than I care to remember.

As for your forest/banana analogy, I'd argue it's never been as bad in .NET world as it's been in Java world. I have personally never found anything similar to the insane class hierarchies they have in Spring.
I consult and have encountered many people who build data intake pipelines using Lambda. The most common pattern is to have Lambdas feeding into a data lake somewhere, often Redshift.

It is a very common pattern for IoT applications also and well-suited for it. The workloads are often bursty and unpredictable.

But for many things, I believe it is still preferable to stick with a traditional web app or API. It is still early days for serverless and there is a lot of hype around it. As with most hyped things, people see it as a silver bullet and don't think through the tradeoffs they are making.
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I think this saga proves the rules are not clearly stated. The rules do not make clear at any point that “reader” apps (however Apple chooses it will define them today) and business focussed apps do not need to offer IAP. Apple didn’t even make that clear in their rejection. It took a statement from them to a blog to make it clear.
the first time kind of confused but then i keep going on https://imgur.com/gallery/3ETezat
Nah. There are some people who can fix any bug and build any system from scratch. You can’t manufacture those people.
"American electoral system" was properly qualified. "Ad-supported internet economy" was missing a qualifier.
FBI tracked down woman who allegedly set fire to cop cars at Philly protest
this is the stupidest fucking shit I have ever witnessed in my long life on this miserable earth
There's C. C11 technically has a form of generics, but it's only really useful for math functions. I think you're safe from ever having parameterized collection types in common use over there.

Go was already an oddball in not having generics when it came out, so I think it's unlikely that any new statically typed language will ever become popular. They're just too useful.
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> but in Rust I've turned 5 minute functions into 30 minute api design thought exercises.

This is very real. One reason I like Rust for serious projects that deserve this level of thinking time, but I'm wary to use it for simple 'toys'. Go was far easier to jump into but also far easier to push against its limits.

Some sort of compromise might seem better here but I like using the best language for the job. Rather than some all-encompassing developer experience or language use-cases.
I really think this is just a special case of the generally growing trend of censorship being wielded by Google, Twitter, Facebook, and others.

It doesn’t matter if the censorship platforms have fair rules. The rules, one day, will change. The one constant is that they can censor you at will.

It’s “their platform”, so even breaking their own rules, or applying them inconsistently, is legal and permissible.

We as a society must build tools that do not support centralized censorship control.

Imagine if cars came with gas cap DRM that only allowed fuel purchased from one vendor...
It’s an obvious point to make, and most people who hear and agree with a certain point will reuse it themselves later on.

Besides, knowing Russia’s m.o., they’re probably promoting both sides at once to sow division.
So What Is Deno – A New Contributor’s Perspective
Yup you are right, it is definitely every website with a cookie banner that's wrong. Can't possibly be the result of regulation which protects important things like privacy.

When the world disagrees with what you think should be happening the problem is not with the world but with your understanding of it.
This is common knowledge
Where’d you get this number? First time hearing about it.
To be fair, blocklists are not really lists of regexps. They contain some regexps indeed but the syntax is mostly custom and matching relies on both patterns found in URLs (This part could be partially expressed as RegExps) as well as a multitude of other things like constraints on domain of the frame, domain of the request, type of network request, etc.
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Your last point is a huge one too. I read something ages ago which stuck with me ever since - a scalpel is sharper than a bread knife, but that doesn't mean it's better. Sometimes you just need to cut bread.

A lot of companies chase highly skilled, creative, motivated developers and then stick them with routine, grindy jobs until they quit or lose the will to live. It doesn't matter how sharp your scalpel is if they're being wasted maintaining some enterprise CRUD app.
FFmpeg started out as frustrating for me but the more I use it the more I love it. The ability to split videos into smaller segments and applying different filters to each segment and finally combining the segments is just great.

I've been working on a web-based video editor for app features: https://glitter.now.sh/ and i've had tons of fun tweaking FFmpeg.

My only wish would be that the documentation would include video samples for the example commands (I'd love to help with this).
Interesting. Though when talking about how to solve combinatorial problems like that, a much more common approach seems to be to formulate them as an integer linear programming problem.

Integer linear programming is also in NP in general. (It has to be, since you can solve the TSP with integer linear programming.) But it's usually much easier to 'write' a linear programme than to reduce a combinatorial problem to a TSP.

Linear programming solvers are very advanced these days.

The other general workhorse I know of for these kinds of problems are SMT solvers. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satisfiability_modulo_theories)
> I feel obsessing over types is often just a form of procrastination

Can confirm, this happened to me in Java constantly. I once spent an hour writing a big utility class using generics, even though I needed it for only one type in the code. "What if I need it for something else? Copying the code and replacing the types is very inefficient!"

Turned out that Java, being Java, was unable to instantiate an empty array of a generic type, so the very elegant code in the utility class now meant having to handle a bunch of special null cases in the application. I actually left it in for a while, but thankfully changed my mind before merging it as I'm sure the team wouldn't have appreciated having to deal with even more null in unexpected places because I got attached to my shiny generic code.
>defeating the purpose of using rust in the first place

I don't think this is true; the whole point of Rust is that unsafe operations are explicit, not that you never do so.

Also, I looked at the first one, and it's only using unsafe on what are basically op code calls; I don't think it is realistic to complain about that.
Are you volunteering your site to be the test case?
I actually had never read that Rob Pike quote and it's really baffling to me. It's not about generics at all! It's hard not to read it as saying "generics are recommended to me by the same weirdos who like inheritance, and I don't like inheritance, so generics are BS too".
Back a year and a half ago when Tesla short sellers were thriving on twitter, it often happened that links to ZeroHedge started a negative newscycle regarding various rumors. I wonder if the operators of ZeroHedge are part of this short-sellers community.
I imagine the same is true for the use of guns. I’ve operated a middle/guard relay for little over a year now 24/7, and I keep doing it for that one person who genuinely need it.
That's not the easiest explanation, it's just more convenient for you. Burde of proof is on the accuser, you can't prove they fabricated or hallucinated and no one can prove their experience to you. If they learned new information with no prior visits to any one capable of diagnosing them then the easiest explanation is their experience was real, especially give that this phenomena has been observed in other historical cases. Fear of the unknown is also a bias we should be aware of.
calling something crackpot nonsense is unwarrantedly cruel, violates the site's guidelines, shows lack of empathy with people who might believe that and you should stop doing it. thank you

are you unacquainted with the concept of expressing your disagreement without pretending you're better than someone else? if you do that it'll make your point stronger, and should come across as less insecure , less compensating, and less triggered.

you can be right from your point of view and so can someone else, and that's okay. no need to try to trash someone else in the process is there?
Wait until you find 2.6 (not many changes before 3.2 allegedly) and 2.4 kernels in embedded systems.
GDP gives nominal values; PPP attempts to give a better estimate of actual goods and services available.
Yes, time-dependence and only numbers allows to use a lot of tricks that cannot be done with generic data.

For example, double delta compression, or Gorilla for floating point numbers. For more, take a look at our open source VictoriaMetrics database, which uses all of such tricks.
> That must have been the happiest days of your life!

We woke up and thought he had died. 10 minutes later everything was awesome.
Nobody is happy with AB 5.

Although it makes sense to classify workers as employees when you have a standing army of them (like food delivery), AB 5 eliminates a lot of consulting and occasional work opportunities in SF.

Britain is still dealing with a similar ruling around 2018 involving about 1 million workers.
20 minute power naps are a lifesaver for me. If I only got around <= 5-6 hours sleep the night before, getting a solid 20 minutes in in the afternoon is enough to make me feel alert and awake until my regular bedtime. Anything over 25 minutes and I feel groggy and lethargic until the next day. Do not go beyond 20-25 minutes in one nap.
Ask HN: Any great discoveries in mathematics last 20 years?
Hey, that’s perfectly reasonable. No, the problem we have as a society is we live in this kind of reality which is governed by this thing called physics, and as our understanding of physics progresses, our ability to abuse the shit out of it also progresses. Some things aren’t a matter of if, but when.

That PDF is a gold mine by the way.

> as far as watching bunkers being dug, I'm pretty sure LIDAR already gives a much cleaner signal

The proposed applications are probably nothing more than something to get the ball rolling but can already be done very effectively today. I hesitate to be overly skeptical because an atmospheric panopticon would probably have more applications than they would imagine or dare to propose themselves.
I’ve read [citation needed] that some people enjoy doing it because they want to give (back) to the community and because they would like to try having to deal with anything from spam complaints (e.g. Automatically) and legetimate complaints and requests. Maybe also because “somebody has to”. :)

For me, my middle relay is sufficient entertainment. It’s like a digital pet that doesn’t need much attention except an update/upgrade about once or twice a month.
This is awesome. Guess I know what I’m doing with my nephew this weekend.
My favorite saying about zerohedge: “They’ve predicted 8 of the last 3 downturns.”
Only economic morons would be surprised.
Tried it as well with similar experience. Concluded that it sort of works but I didn't feel my concentration was superior on it. Socially it's terrible. If you miss your scheduled 20 minute nap every four hours it's devastating.
Some work for theme creators now.
When you have monopolistic power it is.
Interesting, thanks for sharing. What - if any costs are involved for you?
You do realize that the lack of generics in go pushed a lot of go programmers towards rust, right? This feature of go is long overdue, and many people gave up on trying to get them implemented. The fact that they are now available has many programmers wondering if it is even worth switching back.

That is context for discussion, and yes, it is relevant. Directly relevant, in fact.
No, it is not a market for lemons. It is a market for silver bullets!

https://iang.org/papers/market_for_silver_bullets.html
Compare also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siesta
> I can't comment for Linux but I see snapcraft.io is getting some pretty big usage numbers.....

This is due to Ubuntu pushing it, but the community mostly hates it. Ubuntu drives m derivates like Mint actually completely rip it out.

> All macOS desktop apps must be signed with an $99 developer certificate from Apple

Can't you just uncheck an option in the settings?

> All Windows apps must be signed with a $300-ish developer certificate otherwise Windows scare away 99% of users

The significant difference to iOS is that you can tell your user what to do to get the app running anyway. No such (reasonably expectable) way on iOS.
This is good work by the team. For CSS beginners like me
it helped to start with a nice looking website. Thanks.

I would have loved if they kept the CSS classes same between different versions. I feel there are always some unnecessary renaming of classes with major version changes. I have close to zero knowledge on CSS, I might be missing the point. Two years feels a bit too quick for the release, I wish they slowdown and not release another major before 5 years.
>and lots of fundamentals are left unsaid, which makes it difficult to learn what the "proper" way to do something is

man afterboot
On the ethereum blockchain + anyone can replicate our pinset on IPFS by running the following:

> ipfs-cluster-follow pan-backup-cluster init http://ipfs.policeaccountabilitynow.org:8080/ipfs/QmWR7Ko9pg...

Full docs: https://policeaccountabilitynow.org/docs/ipfs-access/
For me, I tense all of my muscles for 5 seconds, then relax, close my eyes and let my mind go blank. I don't "try" to sleep, I just try to enjoy relaxing. 9/10 times, I'm waking up to the 21 minute alarm I set before I even notice I had fallen asleep. Every once in awhile, I don't fall asleep, and then I assume that my body didn't need it. Very rarely, my alarm goes off and I decide that I'm going to nap longer. In those cases, I lose the rest of my day, but it's usually because my body really needed it.
10/10. No Pant.
The URL given doesn’t seem to be working (404 error). The correct URL seems to be: https://www.theguardian.com/media/2020/jun/11/fawlty-towers-...

Update: The new URL states the episode is being reinstated: https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2020/jun/12/john-cleese-...
As someone viewing this sociological catastrophe from afar (Australia) and who is nominally "left" on most social issues, it's clear to me that the past three years represents the utter failure of the American Left to understand their own country. To use a computing analogy: while the left is buggy and flawed, the right are now hackers cynically exploiting those bugs rather than filing bug reports.

Society is complex and requires everyone to act with some goodwill in order for us to reason our way through challenges. But while both sides used to act like white-hat hackers ethically exposing flaws in their competitor's algorithms, the pattern is now much darker. The left is seeing flaws where they don't exist in the right, while the right is straight up exploiting the left's flaws without concern for overall system security.
The modern version is tags, but they lack good sorting/viewing for tags
No. We need government involved because Apple are using mafia methods to extract 15-30% revenue out of app developers who do not even want to use the App Store but are forced to do so if they want to cater to smartphone users. If Apple is sitting on 65% of the app revenue worldwide they must surely be viewed as a monopoly.
> Can't you just uncheck an option in the settings?

> The significant difference to iOS is that you can tell your user what to do to get the app running anyway. No such (reasonably expectable) way on iOS.

Even these aren't "reasonably expectable" for most users. Those hoops and warnings will scare away a lot of people that technically could have ran the app.
Swipe right all day long
And a variable fan depending on your speed? :P
You probability just never met one of the 10x-ers. To the outside, them enforcing a productive environment might look like diva behavior.

For example, I know someone who insists on having the exact same chair, screen, keyboard, mouse, and IDE at every job. I believe he's been called arrogant for that. But his explanation was that all of that is necessary to make past muscle memory translate. Like this, he can type fully blind at an impressive speed and navigate every project purely with shortcuts.

If thinking is not your bottleneck, then it makes a lot of sense to optimize for typing speed.
I think What we really need is a piece about a tree full of lemons trying to sell a bunch of secondhand cars that they don’t actually own. Possible suggestion for the lemons: the LinkedIn-based recruitment agencies.

Oh dear, I think I’ve stretched that analogy too far.
This has confused me for a long time: Isn't Apple deeply and illegally anti-competitive? How many lawsuits have there been and why did they not succeeded in opening them up? What can the EU do to fix it?
>You should try using a tiling window manager.

Or just a sane floating one like Fluxbox. Taskbar, systray, window merging by title, Zukitre themes to match the GTK ones and dead simple to setup, with no XML such as the "other one".
Isn't that one of the major problems with censorship[1]: that it's hard to apply these vague policies in a way that's consistent, useful, and ethical?

It all seems fine when the people making the decisions seem to be aligned with your values. But people in power are often not driven by lasting values so much as favorable media coverage[2]. When the media consensus on what's good and what's bad changes, they are going to turn, as well.

[1] I know it's not really "censorship" in the government sense, but that's not relevant to the point and I don't know a better word to use.

[2] Honestly, who wants bad media coverage? It just makes you feel bad and takes you down a few pegs in social status. If you're rich and powerful already, that's probably in your top five fears.
It would be interesting if a camera was on top of every tv, so that you have a 1-to-1 with every recipient.

That way, when you turn your head to the person on each tv, it would seem as if you were actually looking at them.
Well, if used correctly, it is practically secure, and otherwise it's not really a one-time pad.
Bootstrap 4 is not going to be EOL anytime soon according to mdo, so you are good for a few more years.