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In agreement. Musical creations and musical creators won’t obey you, Spotify. You obey them.
Not all artists look at it from a purely business perspective. Spotify has the power to support artists, to build any feature they want, using data that no distribution platfo of the past has ever had, but instead they're narrowing the path to success; and justifying it with their own profit motive.
When you buy a Tesla you know you can’t go to a gas station. Is it the governments responsibility to keep you from buying a device that didn’t meet your needs?
Emails Reveal Why Steve Jobs and Phil Schiller Blocked In-App Kindle Purchases
Using negative numbers (like 4.-1) would be worse, because of version string parsers using '-' as a delimiter.
That’s kind of a pessimistic take, but you raise a good point.

Maintaining a close relationship can be difficult when faced with many hardships. It’s not unusual for a couple to divorce if a child dies or a partner has an addiction problem (for example).

So is it the close relationship that brings happiness, or does the fact you’ve maintained a close relationship reflect a life with fewer hardships and that’s what’s driving the happiness?

This isn’t a blanket statement by any means, many relationships are strengthened by hardships.
> Any government interference in the market will lead to distortions and malinvestments, not "increased competition" --

This brand of laissez-faire sentimentalism is very predictable, but it is neither here nor there.

> unless you believe that giving unfair advantages to Apple competitors is acceptable by any standards, and that this would lead to a more efficient market.

Given that Apple's control of its platform comes with forcing of 30% fees on its competitors (such as ProtonMail, the OP), it would be less giving advantages to other competitors, than refusing unfair advantages that Apple itself has exploited and enjoyed under the current state of affairs.

> Apple made its brand and has a loyal customer base due to the quality of the products it delivers, therefore it's providing what the market wants.

Then it should rest its laurels on the quality of its products and not on restrictive anti-competitive behavior levied upon its competitors. After all the App Store would be nothing without 3rd party developers, and the world in which Steve Jobs had chosen to never open up the platform to such developers would be a much barer one indeed.
There actually is. For example - on the last annual Berkshire shareholders meeting Buffett was talking about how easy it was for them to unload billions worth of airlines, 100% of their holding.

On a typical single day $4B worth of NVIDA stock is traded.
I went back and read the original interview and I still don't know what he was actually trying to say. He stressed that artists need continuous engagement with their community and the old business model didn't work anymore. But I really can't tell if he was trying to say staggered, small releases, and do away with the big promos for albums, or if he really was saying "stop being lazy and churn out more product." He could easily claim the former for PR reasons, but the language he uses in the interview is incredibly ambiguous I honestly just have no idea what he's talking about. The sensationalist reporting obviously wants to play up the controversy, acting like the least favorable interpretation is unambiguously the correct one, but that's precisely why the public no longer trusts news media.
What happens when an app you use leaves the App Store? Now you’re stuck between purchasing it with a third party payment processor or not using the app. When every app must be on the App Store, this isn’t an issue.
a•verse /əˈvɜrs/ (adj.): Having a strong feeling of opposition to; unwilling: Not averse to spending the night here.

a•verse (ə vûrs′), (adj.): Having a strong feeling of opposition, antipathy, repugnance, etc.; opposed: He is not averse to having a drink now and then.

source: https://www.wordreference.com/definition/averse
Semantic sorting has existed for a long time. GNU coreutils have been able to do a "version sort" for years (eg, "ls -v" or "sort -V"), using the Debian rules which also happen to be a superset of semver. "4.0~alpha.1" sorts before "4.0".
This works against them in many ways. They're also more likely to say "that wouldn't work", and to be otherwise biased by their prior experience.
One of the issues this piece gets to is so big it is easy to miss. Kids, essentially, are getting walked through the accumulated written knowledge of humanity (well, large chunks thereof since the whole written knowledge is rather large).

And on the one hand it is good to do that before they are 25 because their brain will still be developing and it is a great time to be pushing in new knowledge. On the other hand the school system is so large and slow the good students probably don't have a lot of real-world grounding to figure out what they are interested in or what the education is useful for and it is much easier for a more mature student to enjoy an education and think critically.

Also; this article doesn't mention debt. That is linked to these people taking high-paid, low risk jobs. I had a friend who went to Harvard and the costs sounded crippling.
The tech behind it is super exciting too! I think this is what MS was promising with Xbox One having cloud support. This to me is a great demo for the tech.
> I don't deserve any blame if someone broke down my front door to do it.

I mean, you could have gotten a more sturdy door... drawing the boundary between someone opening an unlocked door and breaking down the door is hard; so I'd agree with "even less blame", but if we believe you are ever at blame here, there isn't anything magical about the lock that shifts you from having blame to being blameless.
I have nothing against them, but...
Well, that is an awesome read, thanks!
Your comment just sparked an weird thought for me. We're all familiar with the adage that if a product is free, you're not the customer you're the product. In this Twitter breach, Twitter's customers were not harmed. However, the product was harmed.
California has high income tax rates partly because of Prop 13 limits on property tax rates.
Is this an artifact of under-priced dollar debasement? The Fed is now actively purchasing bonds for FANG companies, these companies could in principal simply buy back their own stock with this money at 0% interest.

This sounds an awful lot like the the situation where the imperial palace was worth more than California.

https://amaral.northwestern.edu/blog/how-much-was-japanese-i...
If you don’t put your product in Walmart is your product guaranteed to be a failure?

Have you ever heard of anybody releasing a wildly successful app and it not being in the Apple app store?

Are you aware that there are many many many more stores like Walmart than there are stores like the Apple app store?
Actually, spirals found in nature are indications of the presence of 2 perpendicular force vectors: one in the direction of the spiral path, and one pointing towards the center of the spiral. See centripedal force (1).

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centripetal_force
It may be a surprise to you but criminals are usually stupid. If they were smart you wouldn't realize they are there at all. Think about it: this idiot had access at a level that nation states secret services can only dream of and went for $100K in lousy bitcoins.
> the open web is a utopia?

It's pretty great afaict.

> One of the greatest abusers of the open web is Facebook who tracks users on almost every site and infringes on the privacy of everyone despite whether of not you hold an account.

Another area where we should exercise legislative action to protect Americans.

> I'm not interested in Facebook, TikTok, or the next VC social media company, getting native, unfettered access to hardware on my phone

You're ignoring the great strides we've made, and continue to make, in sandboxing.

I'd rather these developments happen out in the open, too.
Yes, you are in debt. Depending on your bank, your history with the bank, and the amount owed, it can go from nothing, to triggering a penalty, or an immediate freeze of all your bank accounts (across all banks/institutions in the country).
The whole freeze happened to me (not my fault), it is pretty impressive. All debit/credit cards are rejected immediately, you better have some spare... and visit the bank that issued the asset freeze and fix it. So, yeah, you learn quickly to not over spend.
That's why Chuck Moore, the creator of Forth, use to say that he can create any software with 99% less code that a commercial version. He always designs software thinking on how to keep it as close as possible to hardware and removing useless abstractions.
The application cannot decide where its window ends up. Every used a tiling WM?
> but most people won't care.

Charity Majors said about reliability: "Nines don’t matter if users aren’t happy."

I'd propose an alternative view here: "Bloat doesn't matter if users are happy."
https://www.electronicsweekly.com/news/business/arm-china-as...

> Arm UK sacked the chairman and CEO of Arm China, Allen Wu, but Wu refused to go.

> Wu is is said to have hired his own security guards and won’t let representatives of the Arm China board or Arm Ltd on the Arm China premises.

> 200 Arm China employees have signed a statement saying it “is a Chinese-controlled joint venture that should abide by the Chinese laws and fulfil the social responsibility in China. We plead with the government to pay attention to the turbulence Arm China is facing now, and intervene to protect this strategic asset.”

Lovely. Brilliant demonstration on why everyone should stay out of China.
The article seemed to imply that's one thing that deserves more research.
Zero-Cost References with Regions
> companies should face equal culpability to criminal hackers in attacks.

That's an interesting idea, and I think I agree with you in spirit. But don't most hacking-related criminal charges boil down to "unauthorized access to a computer"? It would be hard to argue that the company that owns the computers has unauthorized access.

Maybe a better phraseology would be to say that the company is an accomplice to the hacker. For that to really hold up, I think you would need to show that the company was negligent or not keeping up with security best practices.
"In Ohio, which has encouraged businesses to report employees who don’t come back to work, approximately 600 employers have already turned in about 1,200 workers, the state’s labor agency said."[1]

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/05/08/workers-u...
I encourage you to read the original article.

Couple things:

1. The argument isn't that it's a monopoly, it's that it's arguably monopsony. The issue is less that users don't have the choice to buy the phone they want with the OS they want, it's that developers/suppliers are unable to access a huge chunk of the market without being forced to pay 30% of earnings.

2. While it's closer to a "duopsony" than a "monopsony", it gets a little more complicated when you look at the level of each regional market. In the US, Apple's market share is closer to 50%.

Maybe it's not anti-competitive for there to be only 2 app buyers on the market, but maybe it is. That's the debate, and it's by no means clear cut.
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It has never had that feature.
And when the recipients of those $2 trillion put that money into bank accounts, we're creating another $20 trillion in additional money supply. I sure hope they end up in bank accounts as well, so we can create another $200 trillion.

Hey, see that? I created an infinite money machine! Now that's a good argument for those original $200 billion being super useful when "put to work" by storing them in bank accounts, right?
To be clear, the "efficiency with which a resource is used" in this case can be represented roughly by dollar per unit compute. As that value goes down, you would expect software "waste" to go up. That's how the Jevons Paradox applies here.
Spotify is no more entitled to Apple's customers than Nike is entitled to Walmart's customers. If Nike wants to sell shoes in Walmart they will have to accept Walmarts terms, or find another store to sell in.
> Should we make homeowners equally criminally liable when burglars break in?

Aren't they? I've seen a lot of insurance cases being denied due to negligence. This might even happen if you let your bag lie around openly in your locked car.

Also, burglar victims tend not to cause further damage. And, if they do, the victims will be in trouble as well. At least in Germany, a stolen gun will cause you a lot of problems, unless you can prove that you stored it securely according to the national guidelines.
Picking out a population of thousands to say "some Jews oppose Israel", and then conclude that the state of Israel is extricable from Judaism, is extremely disingenuous. Almost all Jews globally support Israel, half of the world's Jews live in Israel, Israel is built on Jewish laws and values, and you need to contend with that.
> This is very narrow minded.

I expected a negative reaction for my post.

> you imply that people find purpose in their jobs

That's true for an awful lot of people. Even if their purpose is simply to take care of their families.

> you seem to ignore that this purpose can come from other aspects in life than wage labour

Labor is often a means to some other purpose.

> freedom in its literal sense

Freedom has many, many meanings, which should not be conflated with each other. "Free markets", for example, doesn't mean everything should be free of cost.
Declarative programming is also an option, where data is directly encapsulated into state, and programming entails describing the state transitions. SQL is a basic example of this, but it's also generally possible in other languages (eg template metaprogramming in C++). Prolog is a really cool language that operates solely on this principle.
I personally don't buy that NR does much. I think there's some interesting hints that we're getting close to finding out useful things, but I haven't found much that personally convinced me about NR and those related to it. Agree with what I hear on podcasts like Peter Attia about it, but I think maybe some day soon we'll find something promising in that area.

It's a hard area to give advice in since everyone is different, so I can't really offer much besides that I think for the best return, someone has to spend a lot of time doing their own research and testing and so on to find out what works for them
2.5mm jacks exist but iOS devices have never used them. I think some feature phones did that back in the day.

Personally I've only encountered them on a pair of headphones where they're a step up from a soldered on cable, but more annoying than a standard jack would be. It's also recessed really far in with a very narrow twist-lock connector, so isn't compatible with any cables except the special one it comes with.
Same path for me. Although I use Gnome and despise KDE, QT is far superior to GTK in my opinion.
Haha! Thanks for these two posts - made my day!
Intel will ship larrabee any day now... :)
it can (on the official app store), it's just not an argument against letting other stores compete on the same platform. For all I care put a banner up that says 'this is not first party Apple software, you use it on your own risk!' and what is the problem? You're not being robbed of your safe Apple store at all, users only gain choice.
So this must’ve happened to Google already since they allow sideloading...

I was not able to find anything.
The purpose of the signature is that you sign it when you get the card, then if it gets stolen, they check that signature with the signature of the person signing it.

Of course, no one checks these days.
They just need to fill 10 stadiums and it's done. The Rolling Stones did this in Buenos Aires, for example.
Which is a perfectly reasonable and legal thing to do, even if you don't personally like it.

Nike is the exclusive clothing brand of every NBA team. American Airlines is the exclusive airline of the Dallas Cowboys. UFC fighters can only wear Reebok apparel the entire week leading up to a fight.

Heck, I worked for a company that signed an exclusive deal to only use a single server vendor.
Then don't download apps from a hypothetical secondary iOS App Store. You literally have the same option as people in this thread who say "just don't buy Apple."
Yeah, I have it in a different section on my page mostly for that reason. It's not something I'd ever encourage people to 'just take', in the way I might some simple vitamins or minerals or so on that they might need.

Personally, I do think it can likely be taken pretty safely if monitored reasonably, and I am pretty hopeful for it as well. But it's true it's a serious drug so it shouldn't be messed around with as if it's a game.
Seems that engineers can be a rebellious lot, a-la Soul of a New Machine:

https://www.tracykidder.com/the-soul-of-a-new-machine.html
Calling it a "settler colonial ethnostate" is precisely the political lens that I'm criticizing. It does not properly capture the complexity and nuance of the conflict.

For example, what you would call an ethnostate, I would call a reconstitution of the Kingdom of Israel, after the Nation of Israel fell into exile 3000 years ago, and its people scattered into a global diaspora. The Jewish people are already a nation, and this is why the Law of Return exists. Plus, how can a state be an ethnostate if Jews come from Yemen, Iran, Morrocco, Argentina, Spain, Germany, etc?
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I myself was turned off from working on GTK+ when it became clear that GTK is turning from "The Gimp Toolkit" to "The GNOME Toolkit"
If it works for you at forty I wouldn't worry. It's generally for people who get anxiety that they say slow the breath down. It's to do with things like cortisol release and heart rate. If it ain't broke don't fix it.

I assume you're able to do decent amounts of exercise and don't find yourself out of breath when doing regular things like going for a walk or going upstairs?
Not forgiving someone means holding on to a grievance and adopting the identity of a victim. That's mostly what I mean. But there's more.

There's an emotional comfort that lies in wallowing in grievance, and a variety of social rewards from sharing it with others - attention, commiseration, and a kind of cathartic semi-religious feeling of confession from the recital, which takes on the form of a kind of ritual if you've done it enough times; you need to set it up right so that the payoff delivers.

Of course I don't mean to deny your lived experience, and when I say "you" above, I don't mean you specifically. I'm simply aware, and wary of, the psychological traps that lie down similar roads. I especially don't want to let people who've hurt me in the past to get to define my identity or mental or emotional state; or I simply become a fragment of a mirror of their life, and not my own.
There are plenty of potential side-effects for vaccines as well. The last time I had one, I had a relatively unpleasant reaction.

So I'm not saying that there aren't fair criticisms of object-oriented programming. But "the case against OOP" is not proven by real numbers and repeated experiments. It's the most successful programming paradigm in history. The evidence for the success of OOP is more overwhelming than for any vaccine. Yet we're stilling debating boogeyman like mercury in vaccines and inheritance in OOP.

Re-writing hackernews in a functional stack might be trivial. But what about the web browser, the GUI environment, the OS kernel? OOP based software stacks are everywhere. And there is no need to re-write anything because it all works fine.
Is it a wild simplification to suggest that the inner loop of every game is the state now, some processing at the current time step, and a new state to be rendered?
What an embarrassingly delusional comment! And quite deceptive too.

China, under no circumstances, no matter where the data is stored will allow Facebook or any other social/news media to have a presence in their country. What part of reciprocity do you not understand?
I had it on my Apple II. It was made by Sublogic. Microsoft sold the PC version and Sublogic sold all others.

Later Microsoft acquired the company. I also had the first EGA version.
Making life easier for Ford sounds like a low priority goal.
. . . and just like the recent Qualcomm-Apple dispute, courts lean toward insisting on requiring the holder of the patents or the technology license it fairly to others . . seems I recall 15% on patents is fair.

I think Nvidia will be fighting a loosing battle in the courts if they aquire ARM and then try to stiff everyone.
Ah yes: the fader, a smaller music publication, is just an example of why we should disregard media as a whole. /s

I don’t think the article is that sensational, I just think that you might have a predisposed belief that news media is always (or at least most of the time) sensationalized.
Well they are more time consuming and expensive to build for hobbyists, but I think that the main reason is that when you get a fully programmable keyboard it enables a lot of useful features that obviate things like dedicated function keys and the number pad. Using a columnar/grid key layout the number pad is strictly obviated by a layer switch to number pad keys under the right hand, and I use the same layer on my left hand for the function keys. It's honestly a lot easier this way having F1 thru F4 on the homerow. Coupled with "sticky modifiers" so that they can be tapped instead of being held down to do things like Alt+F4 I don't have any desire to go back to dedicated function keys.
Well, from personal experience, normal keyboards give me wrist pain, even mechanical ones, while the ergodox does not. Obviously everyone is different and the movements that cause me pain may be comfortable for you, but it's not right to say that the columnar layout is inherently flawed. If it were cheaper, I would advise you to try for yourself and see, but as it stands if a normal keyboard works for you, there is probably no reason for you to switch.
I don't need to make my case, we'll have months (years?) Of that when the case goes ahead.

What I know is: Sherman act jurisdiction does not extend into the EU
> The way tech companies have abused musicians to get rich is one of the most shameful things to ever happen.

Compared to what, the records major companies? I clearly remember artists were complaining about those, too. So which one is it?
They did a number lock-in driven things that clearly have global damaging effect. Like they refused to support Vulkan, they were the main force behind sabotaging using SPIR-V for WebGPU, they also were quite harmful for DASH and a number of other Web related standardization efforts, just because they wanted to cement their lock-in control.

Same applies to their ban on competing browsers in their application store which should have been simply forbidden by anti-trust a long time ago.

When a company so consistently behaves in such nasty manner, I'd say they don't deserve any respect, let alone loyalty.
You think most developers learn programming from scratch at a job?
Aside from avoiding tax, that practically limitless cash holding gives them strategic leverage in supply chain.
Literally being debated right now.

https://techcrunch.com/2020/07/29/apple-ceo-tim-cook-questio...
No it's not their freedom to be on Spotify. That's not how the music business works. The record labels own the master recordings. Spotify negotiates rights to stream the records labels catalog with the labels. The artists have no say. The exception to this are artists who have negotiated to retain ownership of their master(very rare) or they have acquired their masters back through a contractual clause called a reversion(also rare.) Taylor Swift, Prince and Metalica are examples of people who own their master recording and can dictate whether streaming services can license their catalogs and at what cost.