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Yes.

I've used Jira for years and never understood the hate.

The only times I have had real problems have been with particular idiosyncratic configurations or conventions that someone at my end has put in.
Most election polls (in the UK at least) aren't much bigger and can be very very accurate.

Usual caveats apply obviously.
... and competitors do the same for less than a tenth of that cost. The only thing that allows them to do so is complete control over the ecosystem to shut out all competition.
The current mobile F2P game market of about half a dozen distinct types of Skinner box, copied precisely and rethemed a zillion times, is quite grim. (Fortnite is an actual game, to be fair)

Apple really should shake up that market, though it's hard to say how a $0.99 minimum would work out in the end.
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Perfect, thank you! I wasn't aware of importlib.resources.
are you suggesting they were threatened?
If we had one of those we wouldn't need a CIA or NSA. Such a system couldn't very well be less correct than they've been for their entire existences.
Then let the market decide if they're ready to pay 30% for that, when they can get <1% at larger competitors who are not even allowed on the platform. iOS is so ubiquitous at this point it should be treated by regulators as a platform, not as a product.
Yes, what does the article have to do with my question to the GP?
a) There are no rules that mandate that a "general computing device" must be open in whatever arbitrary way you've not defined.

b) There are no precedents that state that a platform must have competing App Stores or make them freely available for anyone to publish. In fact the opposite is the default in companies today e.g. PSN, XBox, Tesla, Shopify, Salesforce.

If you have case law that contradicts this please by all means provide it.
I'd be a lot less grumpy at them if they talked about "Lambda" or even "FaaS" development then :D
Doesn't like every online "platform" take 30% cut? Google play, playstation store, steam, xbox store, nintendo store?
Cents is a lot of money in manufacturing.

When I made consumer electronics our production team would swap parts based on cost. 1c on a million units is $10,000. They only had to save a few cents a year each to easily pay for themselves.

The rest was margin for the business.

Saving cents on a $80 BOM (bill of materials) may not sound like much but it really does add up when you're doing volume manufacturing.
Suddenly trying very hard after years of stagnation isn’t the same though. They have generated a lot of ill feeling and this will take years to overcome.
Technically Palestine is split between Fatah/PLO in the West Bank, and Hamas in the Gaza strip. The two don't see eye-to-eye on a great many issues, although it's a pretty safe bet this is not one of them.
People will take sides in this and I think they will be missing the point. These are just 2 greedy corporations strong-arming each other and trying to win some hearts in the public space.
Epic would do the same if they were in Apple's position and Apple would do the same if they were in Epic's position. This is just 21st century politics and it’s all about money.
Not as big of a difference than you think. They're all rather bad, causing insults to cells and immune reactions - carcinogenic.
Additonally, resorbed into bloodstream they cause a variety of hormonal and kidney problems.

They can be roughly grouped into hydrocarbons, other plastics, aerosolized solvents, other absorbed aerosolized chemicals, inert particles.
It should be an undeniable right that I can use other app stores with my iOS device.
Don't forget Upstart, Juju, and Ubuntu Phone
Sure and if they believed consumers value that, they wouldn't object to competing with alternative payment options.
What if two teams show up and decide to have a turf war?
The only way I could see that making you unpopular is if you heard people talking about global warming and you changed the subject to talk about other pollutants instead.
Coronavirus Vietnam: The mysterious resurgence of Covid-19
There are multi-million dollar businesses that run entirely on content + SEO (eg https://sleepopolis.com/).

Yes, you are taking on a big platform risk in that your business depends on Google continuing to serve you high amounts of traffic. Does that mean "you will go extinct one way or another", heck no.

Risk management is a big part of building a business. Just because there's a low chance that you could lose a significant chunk of your revenue overnight doesn't mean the business isn't worth starting.

Every company has risk (AWS, Stripe, npm, etc, etc, etc).
Apple famously makes its money on the hardware; if they claim the cut is for the app store tools, then they better start charging less for the hardware. If the tools are indeed paid for by the hardware sales, they should reduce or eliminate the cut they take.

Based on the reports of how hard it is to develop for the app store and all the third party tools to help deal with signing apps, I have a hard time believing the self-proclaimed greatness of the tools Apple provides.

Apple claims level playing field, but that's obviously nonsense.
You're comparing apples and oranges, two completely unrelated industries.

One is payment processing, the other's a unified market of 155 countries and 1+ billion users where all the headache of payments, local sales taxes, APIs, etc are taken care of.
Would you be willing to pay a 30% "Apple" fee on all transactions because what Apple is doing prevents companies from passing on saving to consumers.
Adding sideloading support would not affect you then. This is about those users that want more control over their devices.
Physicists Cast Doubt on Neutrino Theory – Exotic Particle May Not Exist at All
It's not an "undeniable right" but it's also not like there are a lot of other options. You can say "just move to another platform" or "then make your own platform" but you also have to be a realist.

This is why antitrust laws exist - sometimes the market realities make this nearly impossible.
"If you are not with us, you are against us."
Wind power is also great for massacring wildlife (bats and birds in particular).

TANSTAAFL
Thank you for the details. I guess I had an overly rose-tinted view of the quality of Intel documentation.
Epic Games Store is 12%: https://www.polygon.com/2018/12/4/18125498/epic-games-store-...
I on the other hand think that Epic and others have no reason to complain, if they had to give the slices that Vodafone, O2, and many other European operator managed stores used to ask for j2ME, Symbian and ringtones, then yes they would have such reason.
This is really interestingm thanks for posting this! It's exactly the kind of thing I was thinking of, even if I expected a comment like yours to come from someone at Docker ;)
A reasonable argument, and so I've upvoted.

But even taking into account removing unnecessary complexity, a web browser that users will choose is still complex, and has a very high compatibility bar, which is also a moving target.

You might say, does the browser need to much in it? Well, for users to choose it as a daily driver, it needs to work with web standards, formal and informal, and with nearly all sites. The web standards accrue complexity due to commercial development too. So do expectations, e.g. for smooth rendering, running games, etc.

An open source "small" browser which avoids that complexity is certainly possible to write, but few people would, or could, use it as their daily driver.

(Case in point. I used an open source-ish phone for a few years, a Nokia N900. It was great fun. But ultimately I had to stop using it because the browser increasingly couldn't handle ordinary sites.)

Do you know of any "serious open-source software" of comparable scale, which does not require big companies paying for it, even taking into account the argument around unnecessary complexity?

Not much comes to mind. Linux kernel, GCC, RISC-V, things like that are predominantly developed by paid workers, whether from companies or by government & academic grants.

Debian comes to mind as a possible exception but I'm not sure, because so much of it is on the back of big projects which are themselves funded.
The public perceptions are wildly off on almost every metric about covid, so this isn't surprising. Most polls on infection rates, total infections, total deaths etc seem to indicate the public thinks covid is many times worse than it actually is.
That seems blindly naive but okay.
> if you configure it properly

This gets into the heart of what I consider to be the biggest issue with Jira, especially compared to nearly every other option, and was disappointed this article wasn't about: Jira is almost a poster child for the "inner-platform effect" [1]. Jira isn't so much an "issue tracker" as it is an "issue tracker development environment", with an ugly PM-focused configuration DSL GUI instead of a more useful to developers script language.

Presumably most of Jira's other technical faults derive from there. It's incredibly slow to use, which is about what you would expect of any program suffering from the inner-platform effect. It presumably has to check layers and layers of "configuration data" to do even the simplest tasks. It's easy to assume the databaase backing Jira isn't well normalized or index-optimized, because you can't build "configurable" normalization. (You might get away with profile-based dynamic indexes, but even then that will only get you so far, especially if your tables are key/value soup where traditional relational DBs fall down at indexing.)

Which gets back to the process failures that the article does talk about because it's easy to suffer from something like the inner-platform effect when your target audience (PMs) don't know what they want until they see it (if they ever figure it out), in part because of the impedance mismatch in the decision<=>development status flow between PMs and devs. So I would say the "inner-platform effect" is both a symptom, a cause, and an exacerbater of those process issues.

(Though I suppose it would be tough for an article directly pitching a Jira add-on to be too critical of Jira's underlying technical problems.)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inner-platform_effect
And I'm sure that other companies could be more efficient with the 30% App Store cut, or less than 30%, but the power of markets and competition are stifled by Apple's restrictive limitations.

Bandcamp, for example, provides both digital and physical assets, and only takes a 10% - 15% cut. They provide a secure experience for their customers free of ads, malware, spyware and spam.
It's a false dichotomy; the correct comparison is:

If a developer doesn't like Apple's terms, there are other phone platforms.
This sounds like some sort of nutty conspiracy theory.
Why do I know that? How do I know if something isn't going to be accessible in the future?

Either way, say I made a mistake and now I'm using Apple. Do you suggest everyone in that same condition go make more waste by buying new phones?
This seems ill-advised for Epic, in particular. The fight they're picking will logically end in a regulatory hammer coming down and that hammer is going to hit Epic a lot harder than Apple just because Epic is even more reliant on extracting revenue from being a platform owner than Apple is.
I think you're right in that the argument is against the huge, rent-seeking percentage, and not necessarily the concept of taking a percentage. If Apple forced all payments to go through them and added only a few percent on top, I doubt this would be as big of an issue.
I forget now whether I did it server-side or client-side but I do generate a random hex string, yes.

It's reassuring to hear that a former Google engineer shares my same suspicions as to why this happened. Thank you.
On the other hand, manufacturing has the general attitude that "software is free" because the incremental cost in production to make a copy is zero.

Once, the production team swapped a component as part of a running change and it took a programmer nearly a month to write the new driver.

I think we still came out ahead in the end but there was some worry along the way as it wasn't clear how long it was going to take.
> [..] I really miss the yesteryears where everyone had a blog and linked out to great content.

This. Not only for SEO but in general I'd love to see the sources to stuff I read, especially in news articles, which often do not link to anything. It would also be great for content discovery as a reader.
>Improved Constraints on Sterile Neutrino Mixing from Disappearance Searches in the MINOS, MINOS+, Daya Bay, and Bugey-3 Experiments

https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.12...
This is really bad for Apple users like me and ultimately for Apple.

People are talking anti-trust, but I don't think it'll take a legal case for them to eventually lose this broader fight. Apple has enough money they COULD do whatever they want for as long as they want, but if this grows to even more companies, Apple's negotiating position becomes weaker.
Doesn't seem a fair comparison given the far more substantial costs of brick and mortar. Brick and mortar retailers do not, traditionally, have very large margins when all is said and done, whereas I think the App Store has quite significant margins for Apple.
How many of those narrative travesties are serving Google ads every other paragraph?
That's why I think it's up to the EU.
I don't use YouTube, but my preschooler does. And YouTube does take any video you watch and immediately start recommending stuff really similar to it, but it gets extremely repetitive. In particular, it keeps recommending literally the same videos. That's actually not a bad approach for young kids, but even they get bored with the same videos eventually.

Also just letting YouTube keep automatically moving on to another video, it pretty quickly gets off into weird territory. It's like YouTube thinks that for any video you watch, you want to hyperfixate on that particular topic and are perfectly happy to end up in some weird video with hand-drawn badly-voiced Sonic and Mario characters having a tea party.

Or perhaps my favorite genre of "where did this come from?" is a series of stop-motion videos with figurines of Ash, Misty, Brock, and for some reason Link (from Zelda), sitting in a classroom, with Nurse Joy as the teacher, who puts up a silhouette of a pokémon on the blackboard and asks what it is, and the characters try to guess. It always ends up with something weird like a silhouette that looks exactly like Voltorb, and once everyone gives up, Nurse Joy reveals it as a top-down view of Jigglypuff. This one is weirdly entertaining. But also just plain weird.

Not quite as good but even weirder is the 3D animated but badly-rendered and badly-animated scenes of lego pokémon with wizard hats and wands that conjure up lego buildings and collaboratively build a farm.

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I suspect the real difference here is TikTok wants to drive user engagement. It wants me to actively enjoy the videos I'm watching, put likes on them, maybe comment on them, share them with people, make my own videos inspired by them, etc. It wants me to be an active participant in consuming and creating content, and it wants me to always be confident of finding new content I enjoy by going through the feed. And me swiping past a video that I don't care for is perfectly fine as long as I don't have to do that very often.

YouTube on the other hand wants a passive viewer. It wants me to just sit there on the couch slowly going numb as I let it show me videos. If I never touch the remote control, that's a win for YouTube. Every time I hit the menu button to go back to the content list, that means YouTube failed. Picking new unique content is therefore a big risk for YouTube, its best bet is to just stay closely related to whatever it is I just watched, and to slowly migrate towards anything that keeps me fascinated. This means it tends to get weird.
You seem condescending and annoying....

I was alive and working during the 90's and a massive linux/freebsd user then. What Microsoft was doing, forcing the hardware manufacturers to install windows or lose their business - forcing the bundling of internet explorer, is absolutely and completely different than what Apple is doing. It's their platform, the are not forcing any one to do anything.
It's not even remotely the same. They don't require you to distribute on the epic store. Moreover you don't owe them a penny for using the game engine until lifetime gross revenues exceed $1MM.
Yeah this is definitely not surprising to the least! Even if I was laid off I am more worried about my children having long term health effects (or worse) than missing a few bills, and that is before considering how flexible lenders are claiming to be (I've gotten emails from all my major bills about covid related help they can provide).

I am just so confused why some people are acting like kids are a different species when it comes to covid. Yes they have less effects than adults but some children do go to the hospital and ICU. And also they can easily spread it to the parents/grandparents.
> ingress is free for almost all cloud providers.

that would still pose a problem, not cost-wise, but you'd still need to download image after image. Will a single instance be capable of "downloading" all existing images every 6 months?
Sorry, it's not immediately obvious to me how this excerpt is relevant. I don't really know anything about the French Revolution, so that's probably part of my confusion.

I think my key takeaway from it is:

>Men are not to make it the sole object of their political lives to avoid a revolution, no more than of their natural lives to avoid death. They are to take reasonable care to avert both those contingencies when there is a present danger, but not to forbear the pursuit of any worthy object for fear of a mere possibility.

And I can get behind this.

I think the key difference, though, is that there is not really much equivalence between the liberal ideals of the French Revolution and a misinformation campaign to burn down 5G towers. As Mill says, the former "did not choose the way of blood and violence in preference to the way of peace and discussion", but the latter certainly has. The intent behind each are just so wildly different.
I think a more apt comparison would be...
If a developer doesn't like Xbox's terms, there are other gaming platforms...
Someone will always lose in a competition for limited top spots. The Internet continues to rapidly expand every single day but there are still just 10(ish) spots on the front page.

I got what you meant but I think you have the words flipped. Google's customers are advertisers and the consumers of their products are users like you and me.
Apple takes 0.15% of every transaction that used Apple Pay, though- https://www.macrumors.com/2014/09/12/more-apple-pay-details/

They haven’t developed it to not make money off of it.
More people in the world use mobile devices than PCs by a huge margin. These two corporations essentially decide what apps humanity is allowed to use and how all software and services are built. That is a lot of power and it shouldn't be used for the benefit of a single corporation.

Pardon my hyperbole but this is nearing the level of a human rights issue. The freedom to run the apps and services you want to is so core to the way our society works that most people don't think about it. Having one corporation dictate how all apps for the entire world work is not compatible with a free society and actively harms innovation. This is becoming a big problem and regulations are being very slow to react to it.
Maybe when you have a product anyone wants, you can decide what metagame to use to get it distributed.
Companies pay 30% of an employee's salary to strealine their hiring efforts - doesn't seem far fetch to me to expand that payment pattern to a consumer level where one is paying 30% on transactions and in return receiving a streamlined process for discovering, managing and reversing them through a centralized gateway.

Again, not that I agree with this...just playing devil's advocate here.

I don't want to pay 30% on any transactions!
Note that $1mil lifetime revenue is a very low boundary. A very small consulting operation of 2 or 3 people could easily hit that in a year or two. A single freelancer could probably hit it in 4 or 5 years. It's easy to read "a million dollars!" And think "we're rich!", but running any business has a lot of overhead.
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> Curious about this, since as far as audio goes, as long as there's PulseAudio on the system, all others tend to have compatibility with it in mind.

There are hold-out ALSA users (even Linux OSS users still around, I think) and I gather people who need well-performing audio for Serious Work (particularly anything latency-sensitive or requiring that multiple streams be mixed at high quality without errors), and have decided to use Linux for it, end up having to replace or bypass PulseAudio one way or another (this info may be out of date, but given PA's history, I kinda doubt it).
In Sweden iOS is at ~50%.
Does anyone else experience Varnish using a surprising amount of CPU?

I tried after seeing this benchmark [0] and thinking "that must be wrong". I got the same results.

Benchmarking on a 1GB, 1vCPU cloud server (to get an idea of what it would handle), with minimal VCL and one 15kb file in Varnish's in-memory cache it used over half the CPU (with hitch, unsurprisingly, using the other half for SSL termination).

[0] https://twitter.com/BlackIkeEagle/status/1274977171400847361
+1 for jitsi
bad argument since Apple set the precedent and everyone else followed.
Apple's marketcap exceeds the GDP of most countries, it's hard to feel sympathetic given its size.

https://www.investopedia.com/news/apple-now-bigger-these-5-t...
Okay, but imagine that Fortnite used Unreal but wasn’t created by the creators of Unreal. Do you think that Fortnite would be more comfortable playing chicken with the App Store and risking getting banned like this, or playing chicken with the game engine that their entire game is implemented with? In practice I would say a game engine has more leverage over a game developer than a single distribution platform.
Google Fiber only launched in a handful of cities where the local bureaucracy had committed to bypassing many longstanding procedural barriers. They found laying new cables to be all but impossible everywhere else.
If you read into anti-trust laws for more than 10 seconds, you'll realize that it covers much more than just monopolies.
I wouldn’t be opposed to this but Apple could make a case that using a competing app store voids warranty or care because they can no longer guarantee the software is ‘safe’ for iOS.
That's right, but the basis of comparison is different.

Apple has a monopoly on 1/2 of Smartphones users in the US, Android the other.

This is a totally different scenario that 'choosing component vendors'.
Hah, touché. I meant more mac/iOS UX, less Apple employee experience.
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I too live close to a busy freeway. The dust doesn't bother me as much as the sound. The noise is constant, and though closed windows isolate a lot of the sound, for some reason, when I go to sleep, I feel like I can hear everything 3x better than when I'm awake. It took like 2.5 years, but now, I'm starting to have difficulties sleeping.

I thought I'd get used to it, but as the time passed, I got more and more sensitive to it. Strange.
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The infrastructure cost is 100000x than that for the storage and network of one file.

Downloadable is nominal outside of store. I had millions of downloads back in 2005 timeframe and we never even looked at file hosting cost.