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> If you need a new invariant, you make a new type.

Agreed, but is that OO?

From [2]:

> Class invariants are established during construction and constantly maintained between calls to public methods. Code within functions may break invariants as long as the invariants are restored before a public function ends.

That just sounds like a race condition with extra steps.
Do you take each Vitamin individually, or do you take a multivitamin?

Do you make an effort to get large doses of these things from food first?
Are you arguing against something I've said? Because if so I don't understand what or how.
They seem to have the technical wherewithal and motivation to prioritize all that tracking in the first place, though...
Apple doesn't just own the only app store on their platform: They also prevent apps that don't meet their personal moral standards on the store, arbitrarily. As a result, Instagram, tumblr, and many other sites are forced to censor and curtail content on their platforms because of apples perpetual moral consternation.

Apple should be able to do this - but they shouldn't be able to do it without those companies being able to represent themselves independently, through another app store.
If you lose the card someone can just use it if there is no pin. Lose a card with a pin it can’t be used.
We shouldn’t have to choose between one of two products, each of which is controlled by a giant, unaccountable entity which has its own type of anti-competitive stranglehold on consumers and engages in harmful behavior.

It’s pretty clear the only path out of this situation is to rethink antitrust laws in a society where companies have evolved to evade them, and to legislate.
> Imagine telling Hemingway he has to release a new blog post every week instead of a book every couple of years.

In his prime writing period he was closer to the former than the latter; between 1923 and 1933 he published, it looks like, at least 49 short stories, 10 poems, 3 novels, and two nonfiction books. At least one of the novels was initially released in serialized form over 6 months of magazine issues.
To people who put too much stock in these "studies", consider this: as of July 2020 we _still_ have no conclusive answer if _eggs_ are good for you or not. What makes you believe this is any different?
No, Android is an existence proof that this will not happen. Users in fact hate it, so apps mostly stick to in app purchases.
How is their app store any diff?
Only because of the 30% cut. Very few apps would start doing it if the App Store took a cut similar to what Stripe takes.
The Krebs article says that prior to the bitcoin hack, they were selling accounts such as @6 for $2000. They probably had a rapidly shrinking window and the bitcoin scam was the last ditch effort before whatever admin account they hijacked got discovered.
The problem with Spotify is how they allocate royalties.

If I pay my £10 a month and only listen to whatever 5 indie bands I like, I’d expect them to get £2 each from my listening.

But they don’t. Lady Gaga will get most of my money despite me never listening to her music, because all they do is put everyone’s money in a big pile and divide it up depending on who got the most listens.

They have to do that because otherwise Lady Gaga wasn’t put her music on Spotify.
Market cap is actually a quite precise estimation of what company offers to the world.

Money is just information about usefulness. If you are useful to other people you've got money. If someone is useful to you, you give money.
Because people don't want to provide support. I absolutely hate worthless phone trees, just give me a self service portal.
We all remember the time before Youtube, and how 15 years before Youtube Napster was vastly more convenient than anything that was offered. Not very convenient compared to Youtube, but still.

Neither Napster nor their end resulted in decent streaming options. Why would Youtube changes be any different ?
As an app developer, they have a large percent, though. And you cannot choose the phone your customers have.
DHS seized $2b from travelers but most were never charged with a crime
A counterfeit is meaningless in a free market—intellectual property is an unnecessary constraint on the market to incentivize production of goods.

A brand is just a label, immaterial to the quality of the received commodity. The term I would use for folks who buy an expensive item, sight unseen, and expecting proportional quality, from a third party market is “sucker”. Regulating counterfeit sales will just keep prices high and competitive pressure low, fucking us all over.

Why not simply regulate the quality of the item and force brands to compete on things that matter? Say, require phones to have offer a version with a headphone jack so you aren’t forced to shell out endless money for dongles and bluetooth sets every X years.
Is GTK 3 -> 4 expected to be as big a clusterfuck as 2 -> 3?

I'd really rather not go through all that again.
As a customer, I am happy with the potential for greater consumer choice. And as an app developer, I am happy with the potential for greater 3rd party dev leverage over the platform. In this specific situation, I am okay with exploring options involving the government monopoly of force to bring about potentially beneficial outcomes, when used against the most valuable company on the planet, for what will likely cost them relatively little downside. This is from a practical standpoint, not one involving schools of ideology wrt government power.
I remember when I sold all my Apple stock back at $250 (pre-previous-split) thinking “at this point they’d have to become the most valuable company on EARTH to go up much more!”
Still, the authors accept correlation as a potential objection, despite doing their best to control for it. I suppose they need a randomised controlled study or something to be more certain.

"Third, regular glucosamine use may be a marker for a healthy lifestyle, but it is hard to distinguish the confounding effects of a healthy lifestyle from the impact of regular supplementations in an observational study. Although we had carefully adjusted for potential confounding lifestyle-related factors in our analyses, we could not exclude the possibility that the results were confounded by unmeasured lifestyle-related factors. In general, with the current observational study design the possibility of residual confounding due to imprecise measurements or unknown factors cannot be excluded for all findings in our study, despite our careful adjustment of all measured confounders."
Good for them. Does this mean we're going to get a GNOME 4 as well? I'm quite curious to see what neat things the new version of GTK enables in practice.
That's pretty scary. An interesting thought experiment: given a disease that was asymptomatic but after some time, deadly, do you think it would be possible to contain given current technology/social situation?

An interesting aside: I just looked it up, and it turns out that quarantine predated the germ theory of disease by many centuries. It's interesting that people can come up with effective strategies for defence against something that they both have no treatment for, and no real understanding of.
Cryptocurrency is not outside of the reach of the legal system.

"the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas ... ordered Trendon Shavers to pay more than $40 million in disgorgement and prejudgment interest, and a civil penalty of $150,000 related to [Bitcoin scam] BCS&T." https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/texas-man-sentenced-ope...
I'm guessing Apple's defense will be very similar to the author's own words, except a little less emotional:

> Apple is using its monopoly to hold all of us hostage

> Apple’s iOS controls 25% of the global smartphone market (the other 75%, is largely controlled by Google’s Android). This means that for over a billion people (particularly in the US where their market share approaches 50%), the only way to install apps is through the App Store. This gives Apple enormous influence over the way software is created and consumed around the world.

25% is indeed "enormous influence" but it's not a monopoly. It feeling like one isn't enough. The telcos in the States seem like a comparable example. There are three major players, so it's roughly 33% control for each (differs per region I'm sure).

With ISPs, it feels even worse. In most areas you can't even choose another provider with the same technology type (if you want fiber in my area, it's only Verizon. If you want cable, it's only Spectrum; DSL, AT&T; etc). But the rationale is, it's still internet at the end of the day, so I can technically choose.
We've written approx. 20 google docs that we have been sending directly to clients with information and are now trying to formalize the information by publishing them as blog posts. So hopefully this process is sound
> ARM makes GPUs?

They do [1], but don't provide documentation for them.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mali_(GPU)
NXP (formerly Freescale) generally has good docs and tools for their iMX series SoCs. For some of them you have to sign up to get the reference manuals though.
Other people watch more TikTok videos in a single day than the number of ARM consumer devices that you've owned in your entire life.
You think Spotify cares about artists being financially successful?
> Right now, companies artificially constrain their talent pools in search of the next Zuckerberg, while the country’s best coders are actually at schools such as Arizona State, USC, and UC Irvine. Companies unable to recruit based on geography and pedigree will now start to rely on actual skills, a far better indicator of ultimate success, thus democratizing access to the tech industry.

This would be great, but I wonder if it will really happen. Seems more likely companies will search for pedigree more widely.
My issue with the article is that despite acknowledging that Android market share overall they are acting as if Apple is the only game in time. Maybe my thought process is just overly simplistic and I'm missing something because every time the app store gets brought up my general feeling is just don't use Apple. If enough developers abandon the platform they will be forced to change.
It doesn’t matter why I bought one. Car manufactures can’t just do whatever they want. They have to follow rules.

What’s wrong with people wanting Apple and Google to follow some rules?

Having a rule that all smartphones should allow sideloading would not be the end of the world for people who like Apple’s app store. Those people would still have the choice to us it.
I'm not sure I would call this "authorized in a sense" since social engineering, in order to gain access to an internal tool, was the method.

Social engineering most often involves impersonation, so the person getting access was not really the intended party.
> If you're just passing around raw structs or arrays, it's way harder to manage blocks of data.

This isn't an OOP issue either.
Thank you! This is valuable information.
What I don't understand is not the value of Apple as a company, because I clearly see the value of their products directly as a customer for more than a decade, but WHY IN HELL they have so much actual cash piling up. I won't say they should split it with investors and blablabla but, really, why a company like that would have a cash stockpile so gigantic (around 200 billion USD) for so long without a long-term plan shared with stakeholders? It seems nearly impossible for them to use all that money with whatever comes up for half a century at least.
Same here, which makes neither of us an “average consumer”.
Yes, crypto scammers have been forced to give money back before.
Imagine we treated audio production the same way we treated video/movie production. The whole paradigm between starving musicians and Hollywood film stars is ridiculous. And to be honest, the two trades are not that much far removed from each other.
The cross-device copy paste thing is also very useful (between iPhone and Mac).
Have you looked at the kenesis advantage? Solved my wrist problems and it has function keys.
I completely agree with you from the perspective of being a fan of music for music's sake. Listening to a well put together album is fantastic, but that isn't the be all end all of music.

Music in the current age is equal parts pop culture as it is listening aesthetics. For an artist to thrive financially they have long had to take the first path rather than primarily focus on the later.

The artists all producing the top songs on spotify are doing so through the release of singles here and there and it makes total sense given the cultural context for how music is consumed and discovered in the current year.
Maybe they're relaunching their Sidekick phones!
What I heard was that one of the hackers managed to get access to Twitter's internal Slack, and that hacker was the one posing as having a Twitter employee friend. Don't know if that's true though.
Anything involving a computer connected to the internet (even firewalled or rarely connected) is considered to be a "protected computer" since it is involved in interstate commerce or communication and thus open to federal charges under 1030 (a).
Didn't Google brag about investing 2 billion dollars/year in just their network a few years back ?
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Except no one is threatened to be assaulted.

It's more a case of - you came into my yard and played music; I paid you a little bit; Now you're demanding that I pay more; So I asked you to leave my yard... then you called me a bully.

Google is doing a rational thing - remove all unlicensed Danish music. That's it! You still can have Danish music on YouTube, it just has to be properly licensed.

These "author associations" bully artists all the time - for the smallest crap.
Videogames are software products though so are a prime example of software products that are art. To quote your own recent definition of software:

"I have always viewed hard, firm, and soft as a description of the ware's malleability. Hardware is not easily changed or updateable, if at all. Firmware is typically code deployed to stay in hardware like an EEPROM, flash, or FPGA, where it can be changed but not necessarily dynamically or easily. Software is able to be easily molded and changed."

And whilst videogames do require traditional artists so do the construction of other mundane software products. Also invoking other disciplines rather ignores a lot of the work that goes into the gameplay itself which is entirely software driven.

Not to mention the other examples you studiously avoided.
I'm hoping for VR support!
The OP article argues that it is a monopoly. You are free to agree or disagree with its thesis. However, my statement was that "if Apple's control of the App Store platform constitutes a monopoly", then the government should have free rein to do so, as it has repeatedly done so in the past.
Outlook is one of the few services approved in China (I have a western friend that lives there and is constantly fighting with VPNs/trying to use the services he wants).

Outlook pesters you for a Chinese phone number (internet phone doesn't work), probably so it's easier for the users to be tracked.

I assume they've made whatever CCP requirements are necessary in order to operate there.

That said, they'd at least protect western accounts in the US if they bought TikTok.

Like Github and LinkedIn, I think this would be a smart move. Microsoft has also been a lot better stewards of these companies than they were back in the days of the Skype acquisition (2011, Steve Ballmer time). It's still amazing the turn around they've had after Ballmer left, people underestimate the effect of bad leadership at the top.
| give them a better foothold in Social Networking than Linked-in provides.

So you're saying that GitHub isn't a social network for coding?
Imagine what a russian could do.
Perhaps, but Apple would still have an edge on tight integration with the OS resulting in a quick and frictionless user experience. If that wouldn't cut it for some developers, so they would bother themselves building a separate processing, well, then Apple would probably have to lower their fees.

Personally for me, as a developer of applications, I could care less about 30% fee. I find it reasonable. What I DO care about is restrictions on owning the device and users' inability to run any app they need - even if it is not vetted by Apple. In part it is because I happen to live in an authoritarian country which government loves to block apps in the AppStore.
Limes (the fruit) are acidic.

Lime (the fertiliser) is basically ground-up limestone and used to reduce soil acidity.
This other study suggests 2000mg per day: https://bjsm.bmj.com/content/37/1/45.short
Way before the code was the contract with Ethereum, the IMF and BMF are the tax law.

If the printed regs say one thing and the masterfiles do another, the masterfile was always right.

Laughable that anyone thinks they can replace 60 years of logic.
I don't understand the trade offs. IIUC the internal values of the blobs are Speed, Size, Sense Range. Why is bad just to maximize all of them?

The evolutionary problems become more interesting when there are trade off, like the a big sizes makes you more difficult to be eaten (that is a good thing) but it makes you slower so other can steal reach the food before you (that is bad).
There is a very scary thing about digital art where platforms at any time can remove things or silently release a new version. It makes me uncomfortable in the same way as when newspapers online make updates to their articles with no transparent revision history of what was changed and when.

The technology just makes it easier though. The Foundations have been trying to erase the original Colin Young version of Build me up Buttercup that I love in favor of Clem Curtis rerecordings since long before Internet was a thing, as an example.
technically he did not take the money but rather ppl gave it to him under a false pretense. It is close enough but one can imagine a jury being harder one someone who stole vs exploited his victim's greed and gullibility.
The smaller size was what I was getting to with the subsection, I should have been more explicit.
They do stock buybacks, which return cash to investors in the form of higher share price.
In order to train people, you need people who are qualified to train them :)
This is exactly why I love my Ergodox. My biggest hand issue was pinky pain, and with the ergodox I've moved basically all of the 'stretch' pinky keys to thumb/index finger. In particular moving backspace/enter/ctrl to the thumb cluster makes me feel like I can never use a keyboard without one again. It's completely eliminated pinky pain on both of my hands.
This doesn't actually happen.
Ah, I never made the connection before.
Dump it through some mixers and it becomes a lot harder to tell who is who.
Skype should have been in the position that Zoom has taken over.
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> It is a monopoly,

Apple is a minority player in the mobile device space. If you don't want to use an Apple device no one is making you. It will not impact your daily life in any meaningful way whatsoever.

> I'm actually very surprised that this freedom-loving public here on HN is so happy be restricted by their shiny digital handcuffs.

I'm actually very surprised that this freedom-loving public here on HN is so happy let governments force private entities to do anything they want under the thinly-veiled guise of antitrust.
I always suspected that the US government had Microsoft buy Skype so they could centralize it under US authority and monitor the communications. I have a feeling that TikTok is the same scenario - instead of worrying about TikTok spying on Americans, the US will have Microsoft buy it and they it'll move the servers to the US and use it to spy on the Chinese. Google and Facebook will never get broken up as long as Uncle Sam gets access to everyone's communications.
I love Apple but I’m frustrated for a few reasons.

1. I’m sick of charging everything constantly. I feel like my phone, AirPods, laptop and watch batteries are always needing too much attention. I would prefer larger devices with bigger batteries.

2. The screens for these devices are too fragile. The devices are beautiful, but require ugly cases or regular, expensive repairs.

3. There are too many missing devices in Apple’s ecosystem. A pro computer under $3k. A TV. A smart speaker that isn’t crippled. Smart home devices that don’t suck. Apple should stop trying to compete (poorly) with Netflix and should focus on their ecosystem of devices and services.
Your privacy matters, only if you pay. I don't click on content site links where I am not a customer.
There's a certain amount of brainwashing I've come to expect from Apple users. My sibling uses a MacBook, but remotes into a Windows machine in order to use Excel and Word, as the native versions on Mac don't seem to have all the advanced functionality. As far as I can tell, there is no specific other use case for the MacBook for my sibling. Yet, they're convinced that their purchase was a great one (I only hear the occasional complaint about how scrolling feels a bit weird, and the lack of certain keys on the keyboard)!
I'm curious how often this has actually occurred in the App Store? I can't think of too many apps that Apple has released that have many competitors. Sure, there are the built in apps (which you can remove) but I certainly haven't seen any lack of To Do or weather apps on the App Store.
Because if you consider TikTok to be spyware then you would need to also block Google, Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn etc.

Instead Apple had implemented the most stringent, pro-privacy features and polices on any platform bar none.
It probably took me about 10 years to get good at programming. Sure, I could create programs pretty quickly---but making something like [1] is another matter altogether.

[1]: http://regent-lang.org/
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A consumer can somewhat choose freely. A developer though has to go where the market is. Not being on the app store is a huge blow to many businesses.
Most of Europe is moving to contactless card payments and PIN is needed only for large amounts (over 20 euro, recently raised to 60 euro) and for cash withdrawals. The result is I already happened to forget the PIN, fortunately I had another card.

So, stolen card can be used for small payments, but there's easy process to immediately block it (via app or internet banking).
Right, when the person is identifiable and within that jurisdiction. I'm saying that if I pay X bitcoin to someone on the internet for a service I have less change of recourse within the law if I don't get that service (in this case a back payment of x*2). If it was a normal digital/creditcard/whatever transaction it'd be easier to reverse and deal with.
One thing that I think GPT-3 does show is that NLP technology has now reached a level of sophistication where it becomes possible to use it in a wide range of new and different applications.
This is a fair point that I was overlooking and was more focused the part of the article that talks about Apple selling their own products and being the "only game in town" regarding selling apps.
I would be surprised if I've met anyone in the US who has eaten pig ear nor the chicken feet you see next to them in the hispanic market. And just about everyone would react to the ick factor.

I don't think it's as common as you think: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pig%27s_ear_(food).
By that definition, AWS and GCP are both "edges" then. Doesn't sound like a useful definition...
Yes because if it wasn’t for Apple, web apps would bloom like they have on Android....
Many of them are Apple and Google employees. Or own Apple and Google stock. (I do, but I still think they're monopolies.)
It is true though. It matters to them in the same way virginity matters to someone trying to seduce someone. It is an absolute binary status that maintaining gets in the way of what they want.