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No, there is nothing to 'get'. He was an fool.

Filmmakers dramatize and re-interpret events all the time.

There is no 'real-life story' other than a moron who went into the deep wilderness without even a map. And were he to have taken even basic precautions, would be alive and well.
that's too bad, they should build their own payment processor then, or use bitcoin.
Nonsense. The App Store is the Store. For god's sake, it's literally called a store. This couldn't be clearer.

You don't need to muddy the waters by making a ridiculous analogy that somehow equates a computer to a membership card (of all things!).

The computer is a computer. Full stop. There is a store on the computer. There should be other stores on the computer but they're not allowed because the people that make the computer are partaking in anti-competitive, anti-consumer shenanigans.
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If you’re familiar with python and django, then saleor might be a good option: https://saleor.io/
Some SPAs and other sites have useful right click actions that I want to preserve. Does this setting disable those?

(For the pasting, I agree with you. I can't think of a single reason I'd want a website to prevent me from pasting)
Veganism is an utopia. If the whole humanity would go vegan we would die out.
Also your body can not produce vitamin B12 and no plants can produce it either so the "you can get everything" part is factually wrong.
That isn't what I said and completely goes off the rails with and twists what is under discussion.

No one said to uncritically accept anything. In fact, the hidden assumption is usually to uncritically accept that anything the U.S. does is the best.

I simply implied that to attempt to stay ahead, one needs to not blatantly dismiss and discredit what others do, but this is unfortunately very common place in the U.S., whether it regards China or any other country.

I have visited China. Whether there's propaganda or not, it doesn't explain away the amount of nice roads, trains, subways, etc. and the efficiencies of these systems. Coming back to the U.S. felt like stepping back decades when it comes to transportation aside from a few things. China does not magically transport people via smoke and mirrors. They are actually doing it.

In my city, it's taken decades to build mere single digit miles worth of above ground train track, and it's still not done. Propaganda on either side does not magically explain away the disparity.
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Nobody wants to force people to download apps from untrustworthy sources or to ban app stores.
I want a simple GUI to manage the store & output a static site & manage hosting with terraform files/CDN for any cloud vendor. Lambdas for billing & SQLite/Redis for storage.
> I'm almost certain if it weren't Torvalds, it would be someone else who creates something like Git. He just had the need and skills to create it. Like Bill Gates he was just a competent person, at the right place and time.

I think it's fair to point out that Torvalds didn't come up with Git on his own - he was influenced by a good amount of prior art, not the least of which was Bitkeeper.

However, I think calling him a "competent person, at the right place and time" undersells him to a substantial degree.

1. He's a world class software developer.

2. He's a world class tech lead (There are certainly criticisms about his communication style, which I don't think are unfair. Here, I am judging him by the artifacts created under his leadership).

3. He was the write lock for an extremely large distributed team for more than a decade.

It is not surprising to me that the 2nd most famous distributed source control tool - Mercurial - was also initially created by a Linux kernel developer.
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> He ate poison berries because he was starving.

I think the parent poster is right - he died because he ate poison berries:

It might be said that Christopher McCandless did indeed starve to death in the Alaskan wild, but this only because he’d been poisoned, and the poison had rendered him too weak to move about, to hunt or forage, and, toward the end, “extremely weak,” “too weak to walk out,” and, having “much trouble just to stand up.” He wasn’t truly starving in the most technical sense of that condition. He’d simply become slowly paralyzed.

https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/how-chris-mccand...
I had the opposite experience pretty much. I've worked with researchers quite extensively, and they nearly universally have one massive weakness: they have a hard time committing to any kind of a product plan. They are great at throwing a bowl of spaghetti at the wall in creative ways, and at determining whether any of it stuck, but beyond that - caveat emptor, you better have a great technologist with product chops on board or you'll be stuck repeatedly throwing spaghetti until money runs out.
Are those private (corporate) or public Apple store downloadable apps?

Is the Apple approval process also a problem for private apps?
You do a grave disservice in misrepresenting the complaint.

Hey.com’s service doesn’t need in-app signup at all, but Apple’s policy obliges developers to not merely offer it, but to never offer, link, or even mention, any alternative.

This position is super hostile to both consumer choice (to such an extent that it’s practically a malicious use of market power to deceive consumers), and to any SaaS developer for which the mobile app is merely one of several convenient clients.

The sheer size of the cut demanded is merely the follow-up kick in the balls.

The common quip “don’t like it? develop your own smartphone and app distribution platform then” is merely reinforcing just how much market power, and consequent distortion, Apple possess.
That's true, and it's probably for this very reason. That said, at a minimum it's very possible to have a somewhat usable website on iOS. If ever that stops being the case, hopefully consumers will finally stop buying iOS devices.
> By definition market failures can't be fixed by market dynamics.

That's why I put "market failure" in quotes. If you think anything fixable by users changing their preferences isn't a "market failure" by your definition, fine, then the Apple situation is not a market failure by your definition.

> That is why state does tons of interventions/regulations to make it work.

No, the government does tons of interventions/regulations to favor particular market players, under the guise of "fixing market failures". In almost all cases, these interventions/regulations actually make things worse overall, but of course they make things better for the particular market players that were favored.

> Vertical integration means there is no free market at the integration point to begin with

Throwing around buzzwords proves nothing. Apple created the iPhone and its app store. It can do whatever it wants with them because it owns them. It has the market share it has because users have freely chosen to use its products instead of those of its competitors. That's the essence of a free market. The fact that you don't like doesn't make it not a free market.
On this point:

> write passwords down in places that are easy to find (like post-it notes next to the screen)

Writing passwords on post-it notes is often used as a ridicule of non-tech-savvy folks behavior. I'd like to pose this question: If you're doing this not at an office, but at home, is this really so bad?

Say you run a web site on AWS and write your really long AWS password on a piece of paper at home. It would take a hacker finding out where you live and breaking into your house to find the piece of paper to access it. On the other hand, your ordinary neighborhood burglars typically care about cash and jewelry in your house, not post-it notes with passwords. It seems those two categories of intruders rarely overlap, unless you're a world famous target.
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5% would be a no-brainer for 99.99%
Sekigahara is excellent, and yeah, I am surprised there is not more of a GMT collection behind him. After having designed Sekigahara, it seems like most everything they publish would be up his alley.

Which reminds me, I need to go look at what GMT has in P500 now. It's been a few months...
I'd love to see an in-depth comparison of the contributions to technology from Jobs, Gates, and Torvalds.
Oil is used for heating in a lot of homes in the northeastern US. I believe it's essentially the same as diesel, but I think I recall reading that it's dyed because it's taxed differently and you're not supposed to use it in your vehicle.

Natural gas heat is popular, but not everywhere is connected.
There is a type of professor that's exactly like a VC. The guy who wrangles a team of postdocs writing grant applications, farms out the funding to students and postdocs for them to do the actual work, and then puts his name on the resulting papers.
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To offer a counterpoint - do you really need spoiler protection for a history book? I read MoD years ago (when it just got published) and enjoyed both it and Jimmy's works. I don't think reading this series of articles will detract from the enjoyment of the book.
If we can get to the point of EMULATING a whole-@$$ computer on the device, maybe, just maybe, that device was slightly capable of running a compiler a looooooooooooooooong time ago.
And if the 2nd, 3rd, 4th, etc person said to themselves “Oh look someone has already posted about this. No need to kick up a fuss about it so I’ll be on my way. The community managers or who ever run the forum may not flag the issue as quickly with the next level of tech support.

But if you get an inrush of customers all saying “yo, shits broke...” The fire alarms get trigger sooner, if it’s a bad update it can get pulled sooner to lessen the number of affected customers and start the whole recovery process sooner.

Sure a single high quality post from someone in the tech space who’s curiosity made them break out wireshark and give you a detailed bug report can do wonders. But such reports take time, you got to have someone actually decide it’s worth there time to investigate and report back.

Or you can hear the high numbers of low detail reports and pull the fire alarm cause shits on fire somewhere.
This is changing though. More and more people are becoming sufficiently savvy that if they find a password when they break in (and they're criminals to begin with), perhaps they can then try it with many common websites.
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Any app can be split into a free client and a paid subscription. This is exactly the same as any business can move all of its profits to be made in some tax haven.

Just like in the latter, there is selective enforcement of the rules, leaving the most prominent corporations to carry on as they please while nailing the SME to the wall.

Pretty sure it will come to a point where the ingress of paid content into an app will be taxed, regardless of where the payment was made, and that this policy will be introduced by both Apple and Google.
> A lack of reduction in observable demand doesn't imply an absence of cost.

Waving your hands and throwing random numbers around doesn't imply a presence of cost.

> That is appeal to tradition.

It is no such thing. I'm just trying to figure out what your actual position is.

> monopolistic nature of tech combined with vertical integration is a large unsolved problem

Which makes it clearer what your position is: you think the problem with tech is "monopolistic nature combined with vertical integration".

I disagree. I think the problem with tech is that it is giving away valuable things for free, or selling them at or below cost, in order to capture users and sell their data and their eyeballs or corner markets. Apple is actually the least guilty of this of the major tech players; I'm far more worried about Google and Facebook and Amazon than I am about Apple. But at any rate, that problem is not a problem of monopoly and vertical integration. It's a problem of shortsightedness in general--putting short term gain and convenience over long term stability and trust.
I've long thought you should be able to use a hot key + insecure password to generate a strong time limited password. Insecure password could be just the website domain name for all it matters.

You can have the keyboard handle everything
I was wondering about that, because I always thought, that HN was pretty open about everything and there wouldn’t be a lot of moderation or any at all. What is this? Facebook or Reddit?
Well, all the people whose job it is to do their best to rescue people would get out of practice if the number of people to rescue dramatically dropped. They might even end up victim of budget cuts.

I mean, really, are you gonna volunteer for a suicide hotline and tell people "you asshole, if you kill yourself, think of all the work people will have to do!"
This case is really odd, but the GP is generally correct, even if using slightly incorrect terminology.
People think this is similar to the outsourcing trend of the past. No this is bigger than that. The big difference is that in the past there was a difference between outsourced vs working from the office employees. This time there will be no difference. All employees will be the same and employees will be employed based on merit to the company without any stigma.

Also, it's going to be a long time before we go back to normal so companies will need to adapt. Once things change to work from home first it will be hard to go back to an office only work environment.
Mixed, for private apps (especially if the organization controls the device) there exists ways to just install it so long as it conforms with a much less restrictive set of technical requirements.

Even this process is onerous compared to the Android world where you can email everyone an APK, submit it to one of several app stores/testing services, serve the APK over HTTPS, etc.

I'm really hoping for someone in the comments to say "you fool just use X" but I've been disappointed so far.
>Since 1992, only two people have died trying to reach the bus

He wasn't just speaking of the bus, he meant the whole state of Alaska
I'm a software developer myself. For me, its more like a disengagement from the whole thing.

Do you remember when android/ios were new and there were all new and fun games coming out like angry birds and such? Everyone was into it for a couple years.

Now, if you look at those same games (or even apps from the same era), every single thing about them is made to suck money out of you. It just does something to you, and I've noticed this in most people I know too, it just makes you sick.

Rather than constantly worrying about how not to be a sucker when searching for a new app, I now frequently decide that whatever it was that I wanted to do, I could do some other way or not do at all rather than be subjected to the constant victimization by aggressive monetization everywhere you look.

The hard truth that we, the tech industry, are currently not accepting, is that the value of a lot of the software out there, is actually zero or close to it. The industry has matured. Commoditization is imminent.

Software will be like auto, energy, medicine. Just another industry. Software developers will be like plumbers, advertisers, electricians - It'll be just another trade, but the past gold rush and the remaining few nuggets still out there will blind us all to this fact for the next decade at least.
I'm familiar with those docs. That method was a poor experience for my mobile users. SVG support on mobile is not that great. Sadly FF had the most issues so I'm stuck with my workaround for now.
These solutions don't solve reliability.

The biggest barrier to 2fa is the fear of loss of a factor.

I can reset a password with an email account, i can't reset a 2fa with an email account. As long as that will be the case adoption can not go forward.
They don't, but that's a non-compliance. The WebAuthn (WebAuthn is the standard way to support FIDO in a browser) specification explicitly tells Relying Parties (which is what AWS are here) that they need to allow users to enrol more than one key.

The whole API design incorporates this thinking. The API call to tell a browser "Hey I want to enrol a Security Key" navigator.credentials.create() takes an array as a parameter with IDs for keys you don't want to enrol because they enrolled already.

The call for "Hey, prove you still have that second factor" navigator.credentials.get() needs among many things an array again, this time for IDs for keys that you'd accept, and one reason that's needed is that other keys needn't bother doing anything as they can't help.
Just to note that several issues you cite are handled can be handled by the payment processor like Stripe.
Ask HN: What's your experience with the Apple Appstore?
In a recent post related to the Hey app rejection from the Apple Appstore, John Gruber (Daring Fireball) writes:

"To say that “many developers do not want to speak out for fear of falling afoul of Apple” is an understatement. Almost none do. And one thing I’ve learned this week — mostly via private communication, because, again, they fear speaking out publicly — is that there are a lot of them"

and

"I think if Apple measured developer satisfaction scores on the App Store, the results would be jarring."

I would be interested in hearing these stories. Perhaps Apple needs to hear them too.

Source for article: https://daringfireball.net/linked/2020/06/19/swisher-app-store-hey
I get the sense from the tenor of Gruber’s description that this has been simmering for a long time, and that it’s about a lot more than the App Store’s revenue percentage.

Everything from search results to upgrade pricing to functional restrictions have long been frustrations, but the long-term combination of inflexibility, lack of transparency, and perhaps a sense of condescension, seems to have stewed to toxic effect.
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All very well for DHH the multi-millionaire to want to pay a fee for review and hosting.

But for anyone who doesn’t already have a pile of profits from prior ventures, having to pay for app review and hosting and downloads is going to simply make the process too risky for small independent developers.

The current system where you only pay if the store actually makes you money has a lot of benefits.

Seems this is completely self serving on DHH’s part.
I have competed in 3, 6, 12 and 24 hour events. Did a local three hour with my parents and kids, a six hour with three rookie friends, and then 12-24 hour events with my main teammate in these events. I've also done a "roving" 15 hour with my 7 year old son which is where you can choose which hours you spend on course (and eat/camp the rest of the time); for that, we spent some night and morning dark out for extra excitement.

The events are fixed, usually over a full moon weekend. In Australia, a local community group puts on hot food. It's great fun.

Funny story: After our first couple of events, my teammate and I realised the world championships were soon to be held in Australia and we needed one more event to qualify for the lottery. So we drove 14 hours each way interstate to compete in the Australasian Championships, then qualified and competed in the World Championships. We are not especially fit but competent navigators and we didn't embarrass ourselves at least.

It's a sport at which young, old, female, male all can be competitive. There was a six hour event near me where a trio of 15 year old female trail runners barely lost to two male professional marathon runners. And 50-60 year olds are very competitive as experience and resilience can play a significant part. There are classes and competitors in 70+ yo age groups.

If you're on Instagram, here's a story of my son and I competing in one: https://www.instagram.com/stories/highlights/178894600302153...

Of course, you don't need a formal sport to hike all night, but I find competing for points to be very motivating.
> "He just had the need and skills to create it"

Yeah, lucky Linus

/sarcasm

A bit undeserving, don't you think?
I think that what it ultimately comes down to is empathy. What determines how smooth and effective a line of communication is.

Why most people tend to feel 'exhausted' when communicating synchronously online is that it's usually not very synced at all (interruptions both online and off are constant). So makes empathy more difficult to cultivate.

Async communication does seem to have more of an advantage here, as it is by definition a more thoughtful style of correspondence (writing a tutorial for example). And ironically, is a more synced style of communication, when the information passed on is actually being consumed.

I touched on this, and the ways in which async communications can be made to be even more effective in a recent post on my blog: "Why Most Programming Tutorials Are So Hard To Understand – (And A Solution To This Problem)" - https://fromtoschool.com/why-most-programming-tutorials-are-....
It's not a foregone conclusion that gains from increased productivity go to the worker. Suppose someone builds an extremely advanced machine where all the worker needs to do is push a button, where in the past they needed ten years of training to do the same work with hand tools and the skills to do it were rarer, even if they produced less. The gains would rationally go to the person selling the machine. In fact this is what has happened and why Wintel etc sucked up a lot of the gains, creating so many of those rich people these kinds of articles complain about.

Also this whole statistical view of people is flawed. For the kinds of jobs where increased productivity should go to the worker, perhaps it did, and we call them rich now and move the goalpost to exclude them.

As for cultural changes, if you compare to other countries there are clear differences today. I think of government participation broadly as a "theraputic" institution. You contribute to something larger to make yourself feel good. This could mean building things or cleaning up trash etc. In the US however, for the last few generations this disproportionately means vote/protest for social progress agendas (in the eyes of the citizen), such as to impose "fairness" or lifestyle change. People's civic energy is basically channeled into just drama as the fight goes back and forth producing nothing.