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> The issue here is precisely that you cannot set up your own internet corner shop and ignore Apple, as that means you have no access to consumers who use Apple

I don't understand why businesses are entitled to have access to consumers who use Apple. If you don't want to pay to play on their platform, imagine a world where Apple doesn't exist, and position your business accordingly. Nothing is actually forcing you to deal with Apple except your own expectation that being on Apple's platform is valuable. Then why not pay for that privilege?
I have a consumer app that tried to go they Hey route (no signup, no reference to website, no IAPs), but was rejected immediately (2017), despite many other apps that do exactly that. I had to implement IAPs to have it approved.
I don't think it's OK to conflate the two issues.

Whether it's OK for Apple to keep those APIs private, that's a debate we can have, but it's not the same thing as the highway robbery they are doing with app developers.
> In autumn 1939, the Soviet Union, pursuing its strategic military and defensive goals, started the process of the incorporation of Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia. Their accession to the USSR was implemented on a contractual basis, with the consent of the elected authorities. This was in line with international and state law of that time.

Complete bullshit
I believe no one actually says "we don't want to pay", it's more like "we don't want to pay 30% of our income".

I could eventually live with a one-time 30% tax, but taking that much for a recurring payments? Calling it a highway robbery is totally on point.
He actually is a kind of cult personality in the tech world because he wrote Ruby on Rails (which itself was kind of contrarian to most other things in that space), and it's the foundation lots of web software startups are build on. There would be no Twitter or Github without him.
Many people who buy Apple products do so because of Apple’s privacy stance. Just because the government wants to violate its citizens’ privacy doesn’t mean its citizens want that.
You know that they are people who dismiss the theory of evolution and say something like: "God sprinkled the Earth with the dinosaur bones to test our faith"...
You can distribute Android software without Google, and you can distribute PC games without Valve. You have a choice.

You don't have a choice to distribute iPhone software.
What you might be trying to say is that TypeScript is not _strongly_ or _soundly_ typed. "Only statically typed at compile time" is a meaningless statement because "checks types at compile time" is the whole definition of static typing.
And you can't be racist if you have a black, asian, &c., partner, right? I grew up in Texas, I know how frequently racists will mark someone as, "one of the good ones."
I'm unsure if you think the cop followed protocol. If they did, I think the point I am trying to make is that the protocol is flawed if it involves "escalate a situation that is no longer violent". If the officer wasn't following protocol: perhaps it should include this case?
So they can test/ramp up infrastructure rather than open the service up to 8 billion potential customers, and not upset existing customer base.
it weighs 490gr and the gold is 87.7% pure, that results in cube of side 2.8cm

https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=490+*+0.877+grams+of+g...
While having one language on the front end and back end might seem like less of a burden, the cognitive context for both of them are very different.

Reasoning about the backend feels much easier in languages like C# and even python. Because the majority of the code in the backend is about data storage, retrieval, data modeling, rich and complex business logic, etc. While on the front end, the focus is usually on data binding, immutable structures, etc.

JS in react is fine and in my view, for the notion of same language everywhere, JS is a poor language.
This is exactly what I have found. I know a bunch of developers (myself included) that went from Macs to Microsoft's surface line. WSL2 has been an absolute game changer, there's something liberating about being able to launch distros of Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora etc all faster than the computer wakes up from sleep, it's literally as fast as opening the command line. Microsoft has been making big moves for developers over the past years through open source contributions, Apple literally does not care about them and this sentiment can be seen explicitly on their respective GitHub pages.
So there isn't an issue with minimum wage stagnating compared to inflation?
Why ASP.Net Core is the best choice to build enterprise web applications
Apple has over 50% marketshare in the U.S. in the mobile market, so by marketshare they have a case for a monopoly.

So for 150 million people Apple are the Gatekeepers, you have to pay the Troll it's fee or it won't let you past.

And people here are saying if you don't like Apple, don't make apps for iOS? Please try to do a business project in a market where you ignore 50% of the market and let me know how you fair out :)

Jason Freid of BaseCamp gave a good argument:
If you are handling the search, marketing and production of the app by yourself, why do you STILL need to pay the 30% tax? Imagine paying AWS 30% of your revenue just for hosting privileges :)

And don't forget that even IF you try to make the argument for hosting, they are hosting the app on Apple Store because Apple doesn't allow ANOTHER way of downloading an app. This is a really important fact.
Imagine if you used Windows and you couldn't download programs except over Windows Store. Just try to imagine Windows not allowing Steam to distribute over the web...
Not sure if you read it fully or not:

> When Node.js became popular, it was the first major framework to embrace a nonblocking programming model which made it very efficient for IO-heavy tasks. (We mentioned this in our write-up of Node.js in 2012.) Due to its single-threaded nature, Node.js was never a good choice for compute-heavy workloads, though, and now that capable nonblocking frameworks also exist on other platforms — some with elegant, modern APIs — performance is no longer a reason to choose Node.js.
It's their devices, they can add or remove features as they see fit imo. If they make enough choices that negatively impact user experience, there will be a vacuum for a better offering.
Mapillary is deeply connected to OpenStreetMap. Google steers clear of OSM-related things in order to protect its own maps offering. There is no way Google would have bought Mapillary out except maybe as an acquihire, and even then, did Mapillary employees have any unique skills that Google hadn’t already had in abundance after a decade of Street View development?
Here are counterarguments for counterbalancing your pessimistic view, do what you want with it: humans are not stupid, and god doesn't exist.
The high order bit is the inconsistent, capricious nature of the app review process. Hey attempted to participate in the established detente of "paid service, can't buy it here, wink wink" and Apple somehow decided this was the time to squeeze.

Clear, consistently enforced App Store rules, from a perspective of Apple desiring the best apps possible.
Microsoft lost money for each Xbox they sold for multiple generations of Xboxes.
> Where was the game publishers' outrage?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sega_v._Accolade

> Gaming console makers and game developers have way better relations

Let's set aside the unproven assumptions; so your logic is that if you're a nice platform monopolist, you can charge arbitrary platform access fees. But if you're a bunch of meanies, different laws shall apply to you. I'm sorry, I was under the misapprehension that you were making a serious point.

> Sony took an estimate loss of $240-$300 on every PS3

Now I know you're not being serious. Such behaviours are anti-competitive as it would be exceedingly difficult for a new market entrant to compete with such artificially low console prices. What you're saying is that the US Government should enact laws which favour dumping and loss-leader activity. Ridiculous.
Why would this magnetic approach be better than using EMF to transmit power?
The single number answer is going to be utterly dominated by the past 5 years, so it's not too difficult to answer.

If you wanted a time-series that shows how this number evolves over time, you would end up with a very interesting history of tech book. Something like Milton Friedman's "A Monetary History of the United States."

I would buy it / crowd fund it.

If all you really want to know is "number of cycles" you should probably research oscillator manufacturers.

If you're actually interested in the "volume of compute" you should start with 10K's for Intel and Xilinx, and fan out to their competitors. Use market capitalization over time as a filter for inclusion in your tally, as you can't research every manufacturer.
> The leaders of other sovereign countries have the right to decide what is best for their citizens... companies should not try to impose their moral values on others

Not op but I agree with this (within reason) having said that I don’t really think this is a moral export from Apple, more just a desire for control. I don’t think this desire is totally a bad thing (it can enable very good and consistent ux) but there is definitely a line they are walking.
Might reduce chances of prosecution if they’d have to reveal the compromised a particular VPN to convict.
Vladimir Putin forgets to add epic contribution of Soviet Russia in releasing Ukraine from milions of people https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holodomor. He also forgets to mention that Soviet Russia in total killed more people than Nazi Germany. Both of those countries were totalitarian regimes that aimed to slaughter anybody oposing them. It is a shame that Vladimir Putin aims to rewrite history and especially to show main victim of the war as collaborator. We will never forget 1st of September 1939, but for sure we will never forget 17th of September 1939 when Soviet Russia invaded Poland without even formally declaring act of war. Killing at will and raping anything that could be raped. Committing crimes beyound comprahention. No words of Vladimir Putin will change the truth.
The tendency to ascribe ancient artifacts to "ritual purposes" or religion always astounds me.

This is a calendar. It's proven to be a calendar. We know how it works as a calendar. It's a tool for predicting celestial events.

It doesn't need to be hand-wavingly described as "worn by a priest or diety of a sun-god religion". What evidence is there for that? Which sun-god?

Why is there never any proof or evidence required for saying an artifact has a religious purpose?

It's like saying "this object, that we know to be a screwdriver, must be an item of ritual significance to the god of Sunday Afternoon Home Maintenance, and used by their priests in their rituals"
A non-linearity that works much better than ReLUs
>Just because the government wants to violate its citizens’ privacy doesn’t mean its citizens want that.

If the majority of the citizens want that, then they can outvote their leaders. If the minority of the citizens want that, they either convince the majority to agree, or they keep quit.

I haven't bought the iPhone for the privacy stance. Apple is a part of PRISM. There is ZERO % chance that their privacy stance is more then a façade. While I try to protect my privacy from other private companies, I do not have that privacy requirement from the government as long as what they're doing is legal and collecting it to the extent permitted by the law. I will instead petition and support senators that would change the law to my liking. But if the majority disagrees, either I stop doing it, or I keep trying to change the law slowly by spreading awareness about why it's wrong.
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Practice interviewing with engineers from Google, Facebook
> like cars

Now some people never open the hood of their car. And for those who do, a lot of car manufacturers have just the answer -- they have a second hood under the first hood (it's plastic and only has holes for maybe the wiper fluid).

but apple is bolting the hood shut. and welding it.

(it's such a shame, really)
What you say makes sense, the problem is that in the (strange?) world we live in I have more trust in Apple than in my government regarding my data, both technically and from an incentive perspective.
If you don't like it, then don't buy their products, it's that simple.

Sovereign countries are sovereign of course. But that's a truism that's irrelevant in this discussion. Such countries can ban Apple products if they don't like it. Choose your own values and build your own products.

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> "Many eastern cultures do not value privacy as much as you guys do, and it's fine."

Actually it's not fine at all, in my opinion. I understand having different values, but we are talking about privacy and being born in the communism of Eastern Europe, I think privacy should be a basic inalienable human right.

I value companies that don't compromise on such values, as it shows not all of them are morally bankrupt.

And yes, I avoid products from Chinese companies for that reason and I'm always skeptical of US products too. Sorry, but I'll never buy stuff from companies like Huawei, not until I'll see a strong commitment to privacy, especially when the administration of the host country sees human rights as an existential threat and targets activists from other countries.
Yes, I read that part, including the test on the other ones found, but it still doesn't quite make sense to me - presumably there would have been the hat inside it (oddly) shaped the same way as this, and/or what exactly is a "cover" for a hat?
That’s why a broad basket is preferable to a monoculture of production.

Where I live is a perfect microcosm of this - in the summer, we get ample power from our solar array, but in the winter, when it can be dark and raining for weeks on end, it doesn’t come close - so I’m building out hydro and wind, as when it rains, a stream appears that we can harness, and the wind blows.

The same applies to renewables at grid scale - overdependence on a single source is absolutely risky, which is why most renewable energy efforts involve quite a bit of diversification.
Sure, but you can only visit one retailer. If there was store competition let Apple charge what they like...
Please keep in mind that Iraq did in fact have WMDs (chemical weapons are WMDs).

The lie was specifically about nuclear weapons and the stockpiles of uranium Iraq supposedly was hiding (they weren't.)

Saying they didn't have WMDs completely wipes out the history of Iraq using tons of chemical weapons against Iranians in the Iran Iraq war.
Wayland+Intel is working quite well in my mixed 4K+1080p setup. Qt apps are handling like a champion. Gtk seems okay too.

Obviously it's not so great with Xwayland, definite blurriness there. But to compare, the only workable X11 setup was one that ignored my 4K screen entirely and the whole thing was blurry.
The UK followed the worst path both technically and in terms of project management; a large part of the work (although it seems not the app itself?) was handed to cronies: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/may/04/vote-leave-ai-...

> not having permission from Apple to use a specific API in an app

The privacy question is real. While it is very awkward to have companies making public policy, sometimes it's the more secure outcome. See also the FBI's use of exploits to bypass iPhone security.

This is particularly awkward when "a means to determine who has been where and with whom" coincides with a time of large public demonstrations.
> [..] which means individual performance could be lower or higher than 27%, but this change will definitely reduce memory usage to some extent [..]

So that doesn't necessarily mean that memory usage will fall by 27%... I don't see how is it a fix then. Going from 8 GB of memory to 6 GB doesn't sound like a fix to me.

Is there a browser that doesn't take so much memory? I tried Firefox and Edge but they have the same memory consumption as Chrome. In fact Firefox's usage was a bit higher.
Jina and ES have different focus. Unlike the symbolic search engine, Jina aims more on the multi/cross-modality search backed by DNN. This blog post explains the difference between this two: https://hanxiao.io/2018/01/10/Build-Cross-Lingual-End-to-End...
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help me understand.
why such big fuss for such a small platform?
isn't google's android much much bigger?
if apple's app store is still the place to be due to profits made on the platform then apple is doing something right, no?
if they stopped would the app store still be the place for apps?

p.s. haven't installed an app in over a year. i have no interest in mobile apps whatsoever.
>> Yesterday, the UK announced it was abandoning its own COVID contract tracing app and moving to the Apple model because they couldn't figure out how to make iPhones wake up via bluetooth (because that's a private API only available to Apple). A major western government is facing huge public embarrassment in a public health crisis over what comes down to not having permission from Apple to use a specific API in an app.

I would not take the government at its word here. Their entire contact tracing program has been a shambles. They contracted the work out to their friends, put the ex-CEO of one of the countries worst ISP's in charge and wasted months trying to hack together their own soution that was never going to work in the first place. If it was really an Apple issue they could go ahead and release their Android app.
Video game consoles are not comparable to smartphones, smartphones are an integral part of (Western) life, communication, co-ordination - a video game console is purely entertainment.
To be clear, I wasn't saying that one excused the other. I was only commenting on the congressperson's poor choice of words.
Apple to Require Game License for Non-Free Games on China’s App Store in July
This sounds very gatekeepy. The JVM and Golang have additional aides for writing thread-safe code because writing multi-threaded code is fucking hard. People at the top of our field working on browsers or VMs regularly fuck up the simple stuff. If it was easy we wouldn't have Erlang or Rust.
Not just you, it's the highest law in Europe:

ECHR Article 8 – Right to respect for private and family life

1. Everyone has the right to respect for his private and family life, his home and his correspondence.

2. There shall be no interference by a public authority with the exercise of this right except such as is in accordance with the law and is necessary in a democratic society in the interests of national security, public safety or the economic well-being of the country, for the prevention of disorder or crime, for the protection of health or morals, or for the protection of the rights and freedoms of others.

(yes, there is a lot of elasticity in that "except")
My Sympathies id start looking for a new Job

Ah like the place I worked at where some one spent 10 person years of effort to replace a perl system with the corporate standard Oracle one.

No value to the share holders but they ticked the boxes for probation managed a teem of eight or more and a budget of "1 million pounds"
Fairly telling that these corporations that are themselves tax dodging any way they can and then some on a global scale are so draconian against people trying to dodge their taxe regime.
Performance is the primary reason.

Backend performance is usually directly related to cloud resource costs.

Better have a compiled language, even if its within a VM, like C# or Java, rather than interpreted ones like JS or python.
A bloodbath awaits commercial property investors
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It's not all lack of critical thinking. It's also that it can be kind of fun to make out you and your friends are the ones who know the truth and the rest of the world are idiots. I mean many conspiracy theorists would be capable of researching the kind of stuff Armstrong uses in refutation but don't want to go there.
As a co creator of it. It’s very resilient. Running over 6000 handwritten modules with no issues at the moment. Other companies are applying it to 50,000 handwritten modules.

I’d say that it’s most helpful for those at scale. If you don’t actively need it. Definitely don’t use it haha
I believe in compromises.

https://xkcd.com/690/
If you think that developer licenses are even in the same order of magnitude as the value of 30% of in-app purchases I think your intuition is way off.
The JVM also does erasure of generics. Yes, it's not _all_ types but it too relies heavily on compile time typings.
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That may be true in practice, but it's not something you can create laws around. The US Government shouldn't be in the business of deciding which consumer electronics are integral to (Western) life. Particularly given that the vast majority of App Store profits are going to the makers of games.

If there are going to be mandated limits, they should apply to all companies which build hardware and charge platform access fees to software developers.
Stack: Svelte/Sapper, SCSS/BEM, Anime.js, Scroll-out

Under the hood: Directus (Headless API/CMS), Docker, Drone CI/CD
There is nothing that would indicate side loading alone would be sufficient for applications wishing to forgo the App Store. Fortnite on Android is an example of an application which started out being side loaded but eventually conceded that there were too many platform restrictions for that to be viable.
I have a Dell P2415Q and even though it's relatively old, the density is even higher than the monitors mentioned there.

It doesn't have the feeling of macbook's retina, but still is good enough.

Wouldn't these monitors feel that they have even less clarity that this dell one?
> "... this will not be the momentary stumble followed by a V-shaped recovery of administration and deal-sponsor lore. Investors will find this more like being in a wheelchair pushed down a very long flight of stairs."
Rich people are introspecting, poor people are about to revolt.
Yeah it's crazy since it happened "recently" - only in 2001. I'm guessing that if they were growing up in Georgia in 60-70s, they received very little to no education. Still, it's mind boggling that someone would find a randomly hot object in the woods and not think it's at least a little bit dangerous. There's nothing in normal life that behaves like this, it should ring that self preservation alarm bell.
Apple could profit from "market reality blindness" until now, meaning that not having an app on one of the Appstores is going against the basic expectations of consumers these days because it limits their own freedom (freedom to choose a platform). Nobody wants to be locked in. Apple is using this to their own advantage and tries to ignore this market reality.
Social justice warrior is an oxymoron. It's a way to call someone a hypocrite because those who are called SJW usually exhibit behavior that is exactly the opposite of what they claim to stand against. e.g. fight discrimination by using discrimination in a different context

https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/09/30/i-can-tolerate-anythin...
Yeah and there is a reason for that and it’s working well to be honest.

Gaming the system is never good option.
Phoenix liveview solves this and the overhead of Ex is much lower than the overhead of mainting separate codebases and APIs, in our experience.
For sure. If you genuienly want to convince someone of something, you must be willing to engage them in the details.

Trivilizing the disagreement is a defense mechanisim. If I am unwilling to engage with someone, I'll still be polite to them. If one is so sure they are misguided, trivilizing it will re-enforce their position. It's counter-productive; we all live in the same universe.

Text breaks this a bit, often it's clear to one of the participents that there will be no reply, and you are not really speaking to them. But IRL, in person, and especially in private, it really matters.