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What? Are you serious? Do you also believe everyone should just disband their local police force because a neighbouring town experienced a crime?

I would understand using Ukraine's example to argue the exact opposite, but for some reason you believe that a first sign of aggression justifies dismantling all defenses.
You seem to be stuck on continually making the point that if something hasn’t happened already that it should never happen.

Phones are a lot more important than consoles but, if a law doesn’t exist let’s make one that applies to both phones and consoles.

This is our country. If Apple doesn’t like it they can go do business somewhere else.
I guess it's more of a natural selection process - the software house which can deliver a good enough working piece will (nearly) always beat the one which adds another two years of development time (and cost) to make the app a bit snappier. Ask Lotus Notes and Netscape.

I don't want to say that performance does not matter at all - it does - but with hardware being as cheap as it is and developer time and time-to-market being as expensive, optimizing that last 500ms and 200MB out simply is not going to be worth it.

And let's not disregard the expense of performance optimization - you'll not only need a reference to benchmark and test against, but also spend a lot of time debugging and writing very plattform-specific code with tons of edge cases. It's not like saving 2GB of memory comes for free.
See modern IRC clients that take 500MB of memory on the desktop. Compare with Orcad Capture a mid 90's schematic capture program that would run acceptably on a 486 with 16MB of memory.
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I think the quote the author is looking for is by Chris Dixon.

"What the smartest people do on the weekend is what everyone else will do during the week in ten years"

https://cdixon.org/2013/03/02/what-the-smartest-people-do-on...
Frankly, this narrative is untrue.

Since the beginning of time, certainly modern times, artists have largely struggled to survive off their artwork. Most don't survive.

There is no time in modern history where artists, of any kind, on average made a living from their art. Even our most famous artists very often die poor.

There has always been a gross abundance of art. It's not a bad thing - but it does mean making a living off it is _hard_. Really _hard_. It's not good enough simply to be talented - there's a lot of luck involved too.

For every Taylor Swift, you'll find dozens of wannabe's with nearly as great, or sometimes as great of songwriting abilities and voice talent. Some even play instruments at the same time! Somehow, Taylor Swift was "picked" and propped up by record labels et al, and now is a household name.

How many artists can you name from the 19th century? Probably a few of the most successful ones. Do you think they were the only ones writing music, or painting? Definitely not.
I used tkinter in 1999, gtk by 2006, and switched to qt a few years ago. I love qt.
Qt doesn't even compete with GTK+, it's in an entirely separate class which GTK+ will never reach. It's an entire application development framework of over a dozen libraries, only a few of which are related to GUI functionality. And for the libraries where there is overlap e.g. QtCore and QtWidgets, the Qt design and functionality is again such a step up that it's not even worth comparing.

GTK+ is a simple and limited X11 toolkit. It can be visually attractive. But it's not something you would chose rationally based upon features, code quality, code maintainability or having a good developer ecosystem and support. Because it would come in last place on every metric, unfortunately.

There are very good reasons people don't use GTK+ for commercial projects. Or even open source projects, unless they haven't learned the hard way yet. Fundamentally: its developers don't prioritise the needs of the very application developers who should be their primary customers.

(I used to develop open source and commercial GTK+ applications. What a huge waste of time and effort that was. Utterly soul destroying how many unfixable bugs I had to find and work around.)
> They should be trying and failing quickly at a number of things, big things, including the small items you raised.

That seems very antithetical to Apple's fundamental approach to product design. Sure, they have some first-generation stinkers, but I think it's fair to say Apple tends to err on the side of waiting until they can release something to their standards.
Why don't you propose a protocol to solve the issues you have? If it solves a problem other users have it would get adopted I'm sure (except maybe GNOME).

I'm not a Wayland developer but it's what I observed in the issue tracker of my WM. A limitation is often overcome by a protocol and a basic implementation after. If you put the work in, the wlroots and KDE people are always very nice and will help you get started.

https://github.com/wayland-project/wayland-protocols/tree/ma...

https://github.com/wayland-project/wayland-protocols/tree/ma...

https://github.com/swaywm/wlr-protocols/tree/master/unstable
Is that allowed even when sandboxed?

Either way, allowing it from applications is a lot different than allowing it from user scripts or accessibility tools in terms of potential for misuse.
They started doing buybacks in 2012. They've bought back $338 billion so far.

https://ycharts.com/companies/AAPL/stock_buyback
I think he meant MS didn’t understand that design was opinionated and that some design opinions were better than others.
>just magically get more expensive.

It would take magic. The markets for most basic necessities are reasonably efficient. There's no major monopoly on them and it's not that hard for anyone to enter the market.
It's as if they want to eradicate the very concept of sexuality from the internet. Even if you rate your app 18+, you still aren't allowed to have any actual 18+ content in it. This makes no sense whatsoever.

Also: you have any UGC in your app? Too bad, you'll have to hire a team of moderators to enforce Apple's rules because won't someone think of the children.
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Not agreeing or disagreeing, just want to point out that LLVM was always open source and wasn't developed by Apple. Apple just happened to hire the dev who initially wrote it.
How does LinkedIn compete with Salesforce?
Although the parent is downvoted his point is valid , individually brin or page does not control 50 % of voting rights as zukerburg so alphabet has slightly better structure than Facebook
Are you me? I had the exact two same issues when I was at Yahoo (2005-2007) basically due to Jerry & Filo. Somehow happy to know that I wasn't the only one :)
I’m sure airlines thought the same. As did hotels and restaurants.

That’s the point of an emergency fund. It’s for when the unthinkable happens.

Croatia for example is a country with a GDP of $63bil. 20% of their whole economy is tourism.

This year tourism is down 90%+. Oops
I don't quite understand why you are addressing this to me. I believe I was quite clearly against forcing users to build apps and to allow them installing apps from everywhere.
I am also one of those people I enthusiastically bought one back in early 2015.

I was one over also by the UI, found it super easy to use.
Or like the 77-year=old candidate for President? Or the 80-year-old Speaker of the House?
I talk to my Google Home pretty regularly. I use it to set timers when cooking, and ask it about the weather about once a week. My car has Android Auto or whatever it's called. I can push a button on my steering wheel which activates the voice assistant. I tell it where to navigate me to, and sometimes ask it things like when certain stores will close. While I'm driving, it reads any texts I get to me.
There's defiantly layouts that have been made with the thumb buttons moved in. The Iris[1] or Corne[2] for example. Though you're now in custom keyboard territory which means you're either building it yourself, or finding a person/company to assemble it for you.

[1] https://alexjj.com/images/iris-example.jpg

[2] https://alexjj.com/images/iris-example.jpg
Being creative with our analogies? Does Tesla contractually prevents you from buying gas?
Yes I am... What is the point of having a military alliance to protect against foreign invasions if that military alliance won’t protect you from invasion?
What a bargain! All that amazing software for just $3.99 :)

But seriously, thanks folks. Enjoying your stuff every day
> My question is pretty much what would you have to pay someone to show up for a somewhat unpleasant workplace when they don't need an income for a decent life already? (and they would lose their previous income if they did work)

Market rates.

Without answering your question directly, that's my answer. Somewhat unpleasant workplaces should be automated, and people should be paid a living wage. If you want them to go to work pay them market rates, or make it pleasant. That's a society I want to live in. The market rate should be determined as whatever they need to pay you above a basic existence to motivate you to do a specific job -- not above death.

I'm not sure why you're advocating a society that, out of some moral imperative around the value of work, creates unpleasant workplaces at wages you can barely live on, and considers that a job well done. Mandatory and uncomfortable is a minimum standard most developed nations left behind a long time ago.

Yes this may cost me more, but you know what, if that means I don't have to stumble over heroin needles and homeless encampments on my way to work, that's a fair trade.
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Anecdotally, I know more people who complain about their (slow, poor battery life) iphones than people who own android phones, especially the ones actually produced by google.
Near instantaneous. In the paper it is described as "noise-cancelling".
But why Mac OS still allows competent users to buypass the security restrictions? Is it because they can't screw over MacOS users ? Or for some reasons the people that use Mac OS can be trusted but when you give the same user an iPhone his IQ drops and we can't trust him.

Come on, let's be honest this is in the first place in Apple interest, if Apple needs to sell in China then they made sure they handed over Chinese users data to the government, now if they want to sell in EU they would need to also put a bit of effort into it(I have no idea if EU market is smaller but money is money)
When I bought the original Compaq Portable in 1984 the first commerical program I purchased was the Microsoft Flight Simulator, and it was stunning to have that running at home. It is amazing that this is still around and what progress in simulation and graphics have been made in all this time.
Don't expect reason or a sense of proportionality from USA "justice system". Prosecuting a social media hack will get a lot more attention than prosecuting e.g. some common crime of violence. Prosecutors are basically the worst people in USA. (In case you're wondering, yes they are worse than police.)
Absolutely yes I have. Those are the real model numbers from my experience. They also did the same thing to me about ten years ago when they refused to price match a Western Digital hard drive.
> I don’t have to use Comcast.

You're one of the lucky ones.
It was not the same person. The person in the video was Shilpa Yadla according to ArsTechnica[1].

I would tend to agree that management not getting results could be replaced. It could be that bad management was a symptom and not the cause.

[1] https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2020/06/microsoft-is-killing-...
I agree with the core point of the article, but I agree with your points as well. The conclusion of the article is definitely wrong.

I recently buddied up with someone who has a CS degree to try and make a desktop app, as a side project. I asked if he is familiar with MariaDB and whether or not he's used C++ ODBC.

Our discussion quickly turned into choosing libraries / existing code. He uses Spring and Hibernate and was bewildered by the concept of tying columns to application variables "manually". After I told him I have some CentOS servers where we could put a shared database, he bought a Windows Server because he "needs a GUI". He added, "Ideally, after it's setup, we'll never even have to remote in to it." For the actual desktop application, he wants to use Electron.

It seems there are two distinct branches of computing emerging - one where performance matters, and one where it doesn't. Performance will always matter in places like the stock market or on IBM mainframes. In the consumer-facing world, All that seems to matter is perceived performance. Slack and Discord seem fast, when you watch how quickly a new message pops up on your laptop screen after you sent it on your phone. They seem egregiously slow when you open up task manager and see just how much overhead the chromium-based engine adds -- but most people won't care.

Applications made for "consumers" tend to be made like a cheap car - corners are cut, the end result isn't pretty, but things in the category are what makes up 90% of ordinary use cases. Slack isn't meant to be open on your work machine while you're compiling code in the same way a Prius isn't meant to chauffeur top-level executives. It doesn't mean that the Prius is bad or unimportant - it will do far more for more people than the entire lineup of many luxury car brands.

But I am damn sure that I'd rather be engineering a Bentley than a Prius.

Edit: In the metaphor, luxury and performance are sacrificed, not efficiency. I probably should've used Fiat Chrysler, but unlike Fiat Chrysler, consumer-facing software has its place. I just don't enjoy working on it myself.
Right because giving the government more power can’t possibly have negative consequences. Did you watch the congressional testimony a few days ago? Would you trust this government to pass laws with regards to tech?
> The age of the attacker is irrelevant to Twitter's role in this story.

I don't think so. Of course, you cannot put every 17 year old in a bucket, but I'm 99% sure that there is no hacker that age with three decades of experience. Therefore, this is strongly suggesting (yet not proving) that the skill cap needed is rather low.
>I want to give some applications the ability to place windows where they want, warp the mouse, grab certain keys globally, snoop input, and so on.

This is already how it works. The plan with GNOME and wayland is to put those in the xdg desktop portal so they can be subject to whatever security policy is appropriate. Really, nothing has changed here in regards to how much mechanism is provided or not.

And FYI, X11 can already be sandboxed using those methods in combination with firejail: https://firejail.wordpress.com/documentation-2/x11-guide/
If I am understanding correctly, a virus that targeted any receptors within the Anglerfish would be fatal 100% of the time?
They definitely don’t have to buy Netflix through Comcast.
If electric cars become as popular as smart phones that will change too.

Just because 2 bad actors exist doesn’t mean we can’t stop them.
Is it a simple case of pain-free joints enabling one to exercise more?
If the US forced ByteDance to sell Tiktok, the US would lose its last bit of moral high ground in China, the spirit of free market and rule by law.

If you are worried about data leakage to China, you set rules and law and enforce them. That is what China is doing. They asked Apple and other cloud service provider to store data in China. The US could setup clear rules and regulations about where to put data of US users and if it is allowed to send the data to third country like China and then enforce them.

And China asked companies to set up jv in some sectors before they entered China market. They didn't do it after they were already here. Microsoft destroyed China's local word and spreadsheet editor software developers and China didn't ask MS to sell its China local business.

This act is pure bullying and imperialism. After that happens, the US wouldn't be able to command any support from Chinese people when it accuses CCP of anything.
Nah, this was never really about lexicographic sorting. Pre-semver, there was general consensus between systems like dpkg and RPM about how version numbers worked. This is a bit of a simplification, but it roughly works out like this:

* Split version number into version numbers separated by non-alphanumeric components (e.g., 3.10.2 becomes (3,10,2) and 3.2 becomes (3,2)).

* Compare two versions item by item numerically (in this case, 3==3 but 10 > 2 so 3.10.2 is newer than 3.2).

This is a massive oversimplification, and if you're curious you can read more at https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Archive:Tools/RPM/VersionComp... for the gory details.

Source: long ago I worked at a company named Ximian that shipped a software update product that worked on systems using both RPM and dpkg, and I had to deeply understand this problem space.
Moving your own window around? Of course, I don't see why not: you can literally do this from JavaScript if you own the window…
I was going to try out Elastic APM for self-hosted APM option. Would that be the same case of a waste of time, energy, money? TIA for any insights!
> Not necessarily so! Gig (and self-employed) workers were included to participate in UI under CARES act, who normally are not eligible for UI benefits

Sure, and handling them is a potential system problem, but not one addressed by the flat $600 vs. a more complex add-on choice.
And Spotify may well be target of investigation one day. They are also in the monopolistic platform business model.
Qt includes an entire JavaScript engine if you use the new QML-based widgets. Not what I would call light.
Just because you don’t see it doesn’t mean it isn’t happening.
The only place I ever found Cortana to be useful was on my XBox One. At some point it stopped responding though, so I stopped using it. I suspect if I did some work I could get it working again, but all I ever really used it for was to pause/resume Netflix.
There was a thing called Birdly at the SF exploratorium that was just insanely great. It was a metal frame that you strapped into with a fan in front of you and VR goggles. As you flew though the city by moving your arms, the frame tilted so you could feel the attitude and the fan sped up when your bird speed increased. I would have paid $10/minute to get more time on it.
There are dozens of us!

I absolutely loved my Windows phones. I had a couple of different Lumia phones, including the flagship Lumia 920 which had a pretty decent camera for the time, but my favorite was the Lumia 520. The Lumia 520 was only $60, and didn't need a case or screen protector or anything fancy like that. When it was dropped, the back popped off and the battery flew out which reduced the impact on the screen. It had offline maps, a web browser, and the battery easily lasted for 3 days. And if it was lost, it was just $60 to replace! I went through 3 of them before my bank removed their Windows Phone app, which meant that I couldn't do mobile check deposit. I "upgraded" to an android phone, which cost much more and was so much more complicated to use.
Deep wallets help with manufacturing negotiations. Apple's demand might require substantial commitments from manufacturers like Foxconn.

Not only can Apple finance those factory and process investments (if they chose to), having a letter of intent from a deep-pocketed customer like Apple helps Foxconn et al. procure loans and offset the risks.
They did, Apple just rejected their app... https://www.timetoplayfair.com/timeline/
"Man who pays people less says they should work more, film at 11"
> Say you want to apply a transform to client windows - scale them, or put them into a 3D sphere in a HMD. Wayland compositors have full flexibility there because the apps don't make assumptions.

Except that macOS can do all this regardless? WindowServer can do all sorts of transformations on windows, fully independent of the position the window has set for itself. That's how all the fancy Mission Control/Exposé animations work.
That is not what the case is about. The case is about Spotify not having fair access to Apple customers.
https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/working-paper/2018/banks-are...

Banks are constrained by demand, they can create credit at will.
And Tesla? Will they also have to allow third parties to “upgrade” their cars since many of the additional features are software controlled? Why stop there? Kindles? Roku sticks? WebOS TVs? TiVo’s? Cable boxes?
You are making the case for the app store to exist, not for it to have no competitors.

Let's suppose that Apple's store is infallible. Well then the availability of other stores won't matter, will it? Apple will approve everything good and reject everything bad and you'll know that anything not in their store is bad and have no reason to ever look at another store even if they exist.

But suppose they're not infallible. They reject something good when they ought not to. Well now you gain something from the other store, because now you have the option to install it anyway. You don't have to -- you only would if the other store has a sufficient reputation for not distributing bad things -- but you could. Or you could still continue to refuse anything not in Apple's store. It only gives you a choice.

And the existence of the choice creates competitive pressure. It makes it in Apple's interest to do a better job for you, because they don't want customers turning to other stores because they've rejected something they shouldn't have, or because they're charging monopoly rents to developers etc. So they spend more resources to reject only what's bad and not what's good. They charge lower fees, so that more money goes to developers and you get better apps. And then even if you still don't want to use the other stores, their existence makes Apple's store better for you.
Nvidia did more than that, hooking their drivers in the same way that they would for benchmarks "oh actually ignore this API call" "oh actually issues these two calls when you see this one call with this signature" "yes this game requested synchronization here, but just ignore it" kinds of things.

While yes AMD did similar things when they could, it was way less prevalent (if only because they didn't have the staff necessary to pull it off to the same degree).

Edit: Here's an example of some of the stuff I'm talking about that goes beyond shaders. https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20040305-00/?p=40...
I agree with this decision, but wish it could be expanded to cover workplace as well. School, work, and home are three distinct places and except in rare circumstances should be treated as such.
I don’t care what they do. I know China bans Facebook, google, etc. and then requires >50% ventures
HN is intrinsically a system of oppression, man.
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Not really. You can't exactly cut in and buy arm from SoftBank for 16 and flip it to nvidia for 32. What's your pitch to SoftBank?
The Kinesis Advantage 2 does not use rubber dome switches for its function. They are cherry ml switches.
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CVV is suppose to be the secret that no merchant is suppose to store. It doesn't work. It can be easily be skimmed from a hacked site and users can be tricked to give it up with a phishing site.

Want to fix credit card fraud online. Make the banks require support for extended address verification so merchants can verify the email address is connected to the credit card. Credit card fraud will be caught faster with less risk to the merchant and credit card holder. People will notice the order confirmation email of fraudulent purchase and reach out to the bank and merchant instead of the old way of waiting till you get your credit card statement. Also for high risk orders(eg: billing doesn't match shipping or digital goods), having a known email helps mitigate risk because they can confirm that the order legitimate before fulfillment.