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>I primarily work in elixir but have side-project aspirations in JS and react. I'm scared now, because my skills seem to be growing slowly at work but otherwise be stuck in "tutorial hell" as is sometimes discussed elsewhere on HN.

If I were in your situation, I'd drop the side projects and totally commit to the work codebase and own it all, build tooling for the team, add in whatever is missing: from issue templates to tests, from docs to monitoring, from automatic deployments to refactoring. Then think about the whole product, from design to the value it creates. Think of how you can build that organization and make it a success. Hiring, operating. Divided attention seldom gets you anywhere, so focusing on what will make that startup a success, whatever that is, is the way to go in my opinion.

You'll get good faster and, ironically, you'll have more time for other activities. But the other way isn't that effective: being spread too thin, not up to the task at work, and wanting to improve at something else. Being good at things compounds and frees up time to expand and explore more meta things.

It's hard to be on multiple fronts, especially with your predicament. Sequential gets things done.

You'll also be given more latitude in your job because you deliver and add value.

Yes, this may be terrible career advice because one might argue that side projects are good for a résumé and you want to start a company. I'd argue that being distracted is harming both your career and your prospects of starting a company.

I'd say commit. Commit to doing a great job with the company you're in right now. Climbing up the ladder, as you say, will be a consequence if you're at a good company.
Guess you were unlucky; I host with them since 2004 and it has been good with 100s of servers.
Oh man Microsoft or some other less activist company needs to sponsor rust
For better or worse, many individuals and companies have realised that the court of public opinion can have as much (or even more) of an effect than the legal system can. Hence instead of settling issues in private, now a lot of organisations are trying to set off a negative PR storm aimed at their opponents that paints them as the victim/underdog.

So that's the real goal here. To cause enough of a social media controversy/enough drama over this that Apple is pressured to back down/reverse their decision without a court case, while the court case itself is a backup in case that doesn't work.

I think we're going to see a lot more of this going forward, especially when it comes to individuals and companies going against opponents with significantly more resources than them. They may not fear your legal team/resources, but they might well fear their reputation being torn to shreds.
You are framing the issue with one variable only (openness of platform)

There are a multitude of variables to consider before deciding to release a product on a particular platform.
Blogs or GitHub. If i can't find the soln then i can normally find the code or unit tests and solve problems from there
That sounds like a totally DIFFERENT effect, almost certainly caused by droplet size.
> For example, the likelihood of admission for Asian American and White applicants who have similar academic credentials is significantly lower than for African American and Hispanic applicants to Yale College. For the great majority of applicants, Asian American and White applicants have only one-tenth to one-fourth of the likelihood of admission as African American applicants with comparable academic credentials.

Direct source, Justice Dept ruling [PDF]: https://www.justice.gov/opa/press-release/file/1304591/downl...

Edit: WTF!? Why are people downvoting me for finding source and quoting the relevant bit? I’m trying to help.
No, Republicans are and have always been the corrupt ones. If at all anything, Democrats are too fair because you know they tend to be decent human beings. Republicans are too power hungry and want to win at all costs.
I hope they will get toilet breaks?
There is always more work to do, and your employer will take whatever you're willing to give.
Pretty sure I remember reading that he was literally days from death from liver failure, when he finally got his liver transplant. I therefore suspect it wasn’t trying to get a normal liver for some sort of experimental islet-cell transplant – it was just about survival. Whether his liver was failing due to metastatic cancer or complications of the Whipples’, who knows – but I suspect the former, considering what ultimately happened.

You’re right he beat the odds, time-wise... but this is what being a billionaire with a team of world-class oncologists at your beck and call will do for you. He had full genome sequencing of his tumour before it was widely accessible, and it’s reasonable to assume that based on the results of this, his team will have tried a variety of atypical and possibly experimental treatments.
Yeah 40% ownership. I was wondering how that would suss out with the Trump admin Tencent ban that will supposedly come down in a month and a half.
It's bad for consumers to the extent that iOS and Android phones aren't interchangeable, and that's a very large extent.

> what do you think is a reasonable fee for Apple to charge?

That's an interesting situation, because if the game was free Apple would charge nothing. And the more they bang on the drum about consumer safety, the more I want them to charge a fee appropriate for payment processing.

If I was just arbitrarily setting the fees, I might go with something like 25% of the first 20 dollars per app per user, and then 5% afterwards.
Opera gave up because they literally couldn't keep up. Microsoft didn't give up because they couldn't keep up, it's just that they came to a realization which Mozilla's also about to come to: nobody cares what's underneath the browser UI as long as the branding and features are there.

And in the end ~500 million dollars per year should be more than enough to maintain one software project. Come on, they're not trying to send people to Mars.
> Actually neither Japan nor Germany have a central govt authority similar to the CDC, and they are far outperforming the US response.

But Germany, at least, has functioning nonspecialist central government authorities that are trying to do the right thing. Even if the US government has the right kind of specialists, it's dysfunctional as a central authority.
No, I could do much better than ad hominem, but why bother? You pointed out a vanishingly small type of crime against mail-in ballots - with no numbers about how much crime occurs against real "voting booths", at that - and that was supposed to justify an intentional dismantling of a constitutionally guaranteed service for political gain by one party. This is clearly disingenuous on the face of it, and if it's not, and you really believe what you're saying, that's even worse and equally unlikely to have you yield from your position.
The thing is, mozillas market share is in steady decline, while Bakers salary goes steadily up.

And the tech people who are the ones who actually do the tech work, people expect of mozilla have to go.

I don't know any universe, where this sounds right.
My information is about 6 years old, but I am pretty sure both Xbox and PS4 disallowed external payment services.

Which is why I found Microsoft's bitching about the app store hilarious. They have been taking giant pieces of the action in Xbox for 20 years and tried to do the same in their sorry excuse for a Windows Store. I'd like to see them allow Stadia on the Xbox.

I actually agree with not allowing external payment processors on these (and mobile) platforms, especially for games where the audience is frequently naive kids.

Don't agree with the platform taking a huge cut of every transaction though. Maybe take a smaller cut and the billionaires can stop squabbling.
> The entire point of SEO is tricking google into thinking a page should be the top result.

Many SEO professionals help businesses by writing the content people search for. Their goal is not to trick Google, but to write content that deserves the top spot. A mattress retailer may not have the first clue how to write content that is useful to people who want to buy mattresses, but SEOs and professional writers can do it for them.

Additionally, Mr. Mattress Retailer has no idea about the technical aspects of content that help Google to understand it: site navigation, meta data, schema data, and so on. Technical SEOs can help them out. The result is content that's relevant to the right audience, informative, and published with all the extra stuff that helps Google to make sense of it.
> I agree with this sentiment... But I wonder if Apple considers iPhones to be general purpose computing devices, or even wants them to be. They're not marketed that way, likely most users are uninterested in using an iPhone this way.

But iPads (though iOS was renamed/forked to iPadOS on those devices) are definitely marketed as general purpose computing devices. The headline on https://www.apple.com/ipad/ is "Your next computer is not a computer".

iPad/iPadOS have these same restrictions as iPhone/iOS.
Treating every developer exactly the same was a cornerstone statement of Tim Cooks Congress hearing.
> And I am absolutely willing to sacrifice possibly a few years of extra time I could have my grandparents around for that. My grandparents are also happy to make that sacrifice so their grandchildren ...

Sigh. I can’t believe this needs to be spelled out for you and your ilk.

There are other people out there beyond your grandparents. Regardless of how you and they personally feel — I don’t want to die just because your personal definition of “living” (hello, a few months of lockdown or similar is still alive) facilitates disease spread. I AM NOT WILLING TO DIE PREMATURELY just so your kids can avoid going a few months without physically engaging peers, or just so you all can avoid having to take simple personal precautions when outside.

Lest anyone accuses me of not understanding without raising children- I am literally holding my sleeping 5 month old as I type this.

It’s not about being told to be afraid of everything (where does this idea come from? literally no one is advocating that). It’s about responding to existing, real dangers with appropriate measures.
I mean, in theory third party payment processors still take a cut. I don't think it's a dollar on a 7 dollar payment. But it's also not marginal.

The credit card companies themselves charge 3.00%+0.10 at the reasonable maximum (or roughly $0.31). That is still not even counting the payment processor's fees (which pay the credit card company's fees for you).

I mean the "7 dollar price" is all artificial anyway, it doesn't really cost Epic anything to make the product of those 7 dollars (it's economic rent extracted from the intellectual property they maintain). Either way Epic is making more money on this move even if the whole extra dollar is fees.
And then get a drawn out lawsuit. :)
The building of nix packages is completely sandboxed and secure. The running of them is currently an after-thought.

- https://spectrum-os.org/ is a big idea for secure running of applications, which leverages Nix for some things.

- I would like to see some CloudABI/Capsicum experiments, as anything that is not capability based seems baroque, difficult to, ill-fitting the problem at hand, and generally going to end in tears.

- There is currently some wrapping around systemd-nspawn which could be improved.

BTW when I say "The running of them is currently an after-thought" this isn't as bad as it sounds. I would say all the good solutions are not the scope of Nix, but instead the scope of NixOS, Nix home-manager, nix-darwin, etc. Still, a real problem that deserves a solution. Thanks for bringing it up.
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It's interesting that you decide not make an actual argument in disagreement, perhaps knowing well that you don't have one.
Besides cherry picking your stats you are making a giant mistake: COVID-19 has not yet run its course and any and all stats are subject to continuous change.

Your PS covers a lot of ground that invalidates your previous writing, what you call 'side effects' are normally called just 'effects', if a disease does not kill you what remains are the symptoms, some of which can last a lifetime. You don't just gloss over that if those are as severe as they can be in the case of COVID-19, it's not that you end up sneezing once per day or something innocent like that.
Dumb question, but why is a vendor's cost a relevant input to evaluate fairness? Isn't a common theme around here to price based on value, not on cost?
>Remaining local eviction moratoriums will expire in the next few months, although court backlogs will probably provide an additional time buffer.

Only if you're lucky enough to live in one of the progressive states, Louisiana has already started evicting people. In Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has already released documents saying that local governments can't stop or delay evictions.
By this argument, fortnite also has a monopoly position with all things being sold in their market place - they don’t let me sell highly discounted gold skin and have it unlock features in their game.

This is just a battle between the billionaires, nothing to be gained by the rest of us.
More importantly: can Sony sell PlayStation games on Xbox?
They got spooked that Google will finish the job out of spite now that the post is getting so much attention. The focus shifted to fear of losing what's remaining (they mentioned it's still just barely paying the bills).
>No matter who wins between Epic and Apple human people lose. They're both walled garden monopolists.

This was the comparison, which is obviously wrong. Apple has a monopoly and a walled garden. Neither does Epic have a monopoly with their store, nor a walled garden, as the PC is not a walled garden.

So, no. There was nothing said about exclusives.
Well they got enough press that they didn't have to air it themselves. The media was doing it for them. :)

For example, I've seen the commercial multiple times on various programs and I wasn't even born when it was released.
If apps decide to avoid launching on the App Store, then I have to choose between compromising my privacy and picking a worse app.
the problem is not people who are worried about their finances - that is understandable. The problem is people who want to put finances over covid, mostly because covid requires certain measures in order to be eradicated (objectively) whereas an economy can (at the very least temporarily) be switched to a mode where people do not have to worry about their finances (such as UBI or a command economy). What makes at least me angry is people who are pretending that the way our economy functions right now has to be how it functions in every situation. It comes off as dogmatic and religious thinking.
On Android I always have one or two apps that are sideloaded because they do something Google or Samsung doesn't like. For example, I have an app that requires a lot of effort to install that lets me remap the Bixby button on my phone to whatever I want.

In addition, some open source software is only available this way. iOS, as it stands now, is actually incompatible with most open source licenses.
This is utter nonsense.
We absolutely can. We could be wrong and dead and we could be wrong and not dead. I'll pick the latter every time.
You can also be worried about both but more worried about one or the other. I'm a parent who was laid off because of COVID and I'm more worried about my kids health than the economy or my ability to get another job. That doesn't mean I'm not worried about the economy or trying to minimize the impact a bad economy will have on society/individuals.
Epic's reasons for avoiding Linux are substantially different from their reasons for circumventing Apple's restrictions.

See examples such as: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18845205

I do not think the irony holds in this case.
Slack as a DevOps control platform makes sense to me to reduce context switching and increase visibility.
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And there is nothing stopping Epic from releasing Fortnite on the iPhone (in-fact it was there for years).

The rules could be unfair[1] but this issue is just Epic not wanting to follow the rules to make some more money.

[1] We can discuss what a fair price/percentage should be. Arguably the market and Apple customers have decided 30% is fair, but we can discuss. Meanwhile, side-loading or not charging would make my iPhone experience worse.
RIP Intel
I can attest to this.

I tried offering my toddler a thousand dollars. She preferred to blow bubbles.
The alternative here isn't keeping things the way they are, it is giving way to the proliferation of the freedom to innovate on other platforms due to lack of regulation. And in the current setting that means eventually you'll be troubleshooting your parents' Chinese phones.
I’d say that always requiring an Apple Pay option (in addition to optional third party payment mechanisms) is fair when you’re acting inside Apple’s walled garden.

The problem right now is that it’s exclusively Apple, with a hefty tax, which is akin to a supermarket only accepting their own credit cards and no other payment options and adding a big premium to all products in the process.

Apple will have to settle for the “real” price though, if they add a steep premium to all transactions they shouldn’t require the other payment options to price match that.
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You're discussing mobile apps as if they exist in a robust free market, but it's actually a platform duopoly covering a nearly essential service. As long as Google doesn't decide to compete on price there is very little incentive for Apple to lower prices.

> The fact that the app ecosystem continues to be rich is a signal that either

How do you know it couldn't be vastly better? I know I would be extremely hesitant to develop an iPhone app given Apple's behavior, and would bet many others feel the same.
Why not? Your argument is that companies can just charge their customers 30% more. They can do that right now just by making their prices 30% higher.
I don’t think comparing only mortality rates is accurate. I can’t say « you are much more likely to die by falling into a volcano than to die because of the flu » just because the mortality rate of falling into a volcano is much higher than getting the flu.

I think one also has to factor in the likelihood of the event, in the case of diseases we might look at how contagious the diseases are.
You cannot. The T chip that boots the touchbar and fingerprint reader (and provides the firmware to the main CPU on boot) is just as locked down as any iPhone. If you try to modify its OS (BridgeOS, a modified iOS), your computer will not boot.
Right, until the app needs to access a file, change a setting or do any number of other things.
Have you tried the alternatives like YouTrack?

The Jira UX is amongst the worst in the business.

And yet... there it is, on every workplace with an useless operations team.
Apple's the richest company in the world.

They certainly have a lot to lose if they back down, and a court battle's outcome is uncertain.

What is also certain is that Apple has enough cash sloshing around to out-lawyer and outlast anyone on the planet. They very clearly do not have a monopoly, and the charges of anti-competitiveness are a bit flimsy. Seems like a worthwhile risk to take.
The point is to incentivize local spending, not just spending on local goods. Money that circulates within a community stimulates more local activity. Local producers are more likely to undercharge for the value of their goods and services for the sake of community vitality than large, remote businesses that want to squeeze every bit of value out of a transaction.

It's essentially a way to get more work done. It doesn't work if the network is so large that people lose that incentive.
That sucked way more than I was expecting.
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Basecamp (dhh at least), were very vocal about Apple's app store shenanigans when Hey was under a similar threat. Not quite as loud as Epic here, but still pretty visible. Maybe dhh influenced Epic.
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I dont think people here actually understand why monopolies are bad.

Its not for consumers. Consumers will always feel safe with what they have.

Its to not stifle the competition.

Look what happened to vine.

A competitor bought it, twitter. Gutted it and left it. It could have been next tiktok in a few years. We would never know.

How many competitor have google and apple stiffed?
even so, there's no reason a filtering of software for anti-malware purposes must be conflated with the private entity also arbitrarily deciding what software is and isn't allowed. they could do one without the other
My point is that people love to let Atlassian off the hook. They set up the conditions for failure. You can't blame all of the consequences on the person who touches it last.

It's really the same class of externality that we used to blame Microsoft for. You can try to collect all the cash and all the fame and then blame stability and usability problems on third parties, but not everyone is going to buy it.

If you weren't pandering in the first place, you wouldn't have all that cash or fame. You knew what you were doing. Even if you don't want to say it out loud.
Thanks. What platform/website is used to buy shares like this?
100% this. The economy isn't part of nature. In it's current form it's a relatively new social construct that honestly doesn't seem to be working very well for a lot of the global population
While it's probably not 10%, the transaction cost will come out of the transaction when processed by Epic. Normally that comes out of the 30% that Apple takes. Either way, the purchaser is saving $2 and the developer gets a larger share; this doesn't seem like a bad thing, especially when the developer is going to be spending a decent amount of cash fighting the App Store monopoly.
in what universe is apple banning fortnite not a huge story?

the eagerness with which people jump to conspiracy theories around chinese influence is nuts.
That line is very blurry.
And yet the California legislature is looking to reinstate [1] discrimination in hiring based on race and endorsed by the University of California system.

[1] https://www.wsj.com/articles/a-vote-for-discrimination-11593...
I mean, 136MM is a million every two days so OP is dead on.
They can't retract the open source license that already exists for Chromium. Maybe Google could start adding proprietary features to Chrome and close-source those bits, but the code that's out there is already out there.
You should take a win when you get one.

Yes it's another Billion dollar company going against Apple, but then, who else can actually go against them and not financially ruin themselves? Smaller Indie studios definitely can't
2015 me would be quite surprised to learn that 2020 me is rooting for an obnoxious gaming company to take down apple.
I think the UK telecoms market has much lower headline prices thanks to the sheer number of MVNOs (virtual networks) - regular operators even own MVNOs to get some brand segmentation (Three owns Smarty, Telefonica O2 owns GiffGaff, just to name two).

The MVNOs compete heavily on price, and drive prices down for savvy customers. You can get 3 GB/month with unlimited calls and SMS (with roaming to 50+ countries) for 6 GBP per month on a 30 day rolling deal, right now.
> The cardboard is probably subsidizing the landfill. If someone else takes the cardboard, they would have to increase fees on other waste to break even.

If this is the case, the subsidy should be ended and waste disposal should be priced more accurately.
Yes, we’d be much better off with the currently sidelined government that has suggested the evidence should be ignored as long as you’re protesting civil rights.