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> Xbox, Playstation, Nintendo consoles. I fear they are similar in terms of gatekeepering to users and should be subject to whatever outcome Apple is. They seem a bit more open to begin with though so are likely to be less affected.

These firms invented the mode Apple is using. Consoles have sold at a discount and made up the revenue in licensing since the Atari 2600.

The just released $399 iPhone SE could easily be serviceable 10 years from now given Apple’s track record for providing OS and security updates on older devices. Part of the reason that they can do this is that they can realize revenue from some users late in the phones life.

You don’t see this sort of deal happening in the Android world where the incentives are much more aligned towards more frequent hardware purchases and less long term support. It’s good for consumers to have choice not only in hardware, but also in business models.
However, the contract is the only thing which allows Epic to publish in the store. So it is not enough for them to simply get terms they don't like to be declared illegal, they still would have to get the terms they like into the contract.

If Apple changed their stance to "all services and digital goods associated with your app must included in the original purchase price", that might meet the court's requirements for legality but it would leave Epic without their current revenue stream.
Several Zachtronics games are just "programming, but intentionally annoying".

I don't really see the appeal compared to ordinary programming. My favorite programming game has actually been a flash game where your goal was to transform binary strings (represented as sequences of blue/red dots) into other binary strings. You were still writing in Befunge, but the rest of it came off as trying to be helpful to the extent possible, rather than giving you a goal and then disabling the tools you'd want to use to get there.
> “If the funding goal is reached, upon the completion of the audit, we plan to support the launch of YAM 2.0 via migration contract from YAM.”

Shit happens. At least they’re undeterred. Couldn’t this just be fixed with an immediate hard fork? They’re new enough that probably nobody would protest.
> Apple protects its users better than the other major players

Who wants them to stop doing that?

They can still do that for the apps which chose to get the full treatment. This is not the problem here. The problem is that they don't give you an option to not participate. No alternative way. So let's not pretend here. It's all about MORE money here. They won't go broke if they allow what Epic did. They'll just get less and this is it. This is what it's all about.

I don't understand this sentiment of playing marketing division for them by some users here. It's quite disgusting actually. Do you get money for that? Seriously. You'd lose NOTHING if Apple would change so what's your motivation here? It makes no sense at all.

And yes, I created an extra account for that because you people are toxic as hell when the topic is Apple and someone is not part of the circlejerk.
> forbid you to just add the 30% to your price on iOS compared to other platforms

That’s new to me. Any source of that?
It makes no sense from any kind of rational investment strategy to found a startup.
The boiling pot will never pass through the state where it's uniformly room temperature.

We did this in high school, and put 3 thermometers in both buckets. At the point when the water at the very bottom of the hot bucket reached ~6°C, the top of that bucket was still >60°C. This was in a 30cm tall 10 liter bucket, it really surprised us how strongly the water stratified. The top loses heat fast through evaporation, but the temperature of the water at the top does not fall very fast because the newly-cold water flows rapidly down the sides of the bucket. If you add constant mixing to both buckets, the hot one freezes slower than the room-temperature bucket.
Obviously they try to prevent the formation of a worker's council as much as possible. If they did anything more, managers would face jail, as it is punished quite hard to prevent the formation of a worker's council in Germany.
Well, I'd still argue it would be cleaner if they're defined at the controller (I would also say the controller does not define them, the controller has them defined as attributes to it's class). Java devs don't seem to have a problem handling the "look for what path this is" either, in reality it's a grep or global search from your IDE away to be found.

The routes file for any moderately sized project will likely be sufficiently complex that you cannot simply Ctrl-F it.
When Should I Write an Architecture Decision Record
https://engineering.atspotify.com/2020/04/14/when-should-i-w...
It's Music Week on Inside Guide
Is there a public data set with invoice photos? The best I can find is use Google photo search. (I'm searching since about eight years). For proper training and experimentation we would need a couple of thousand
`Long` is a boxed (reference) type, but small numbers are interned so you get the same reference when boxing a primitive value. Larger numbers aren't interned, so you get fresh boxes.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1700081/why-is-128-128-f...
> a bit of a ritual: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gfCNTRIJsw

Huh, actual space between cars? I was told New Yorkers' cars all have scratched and banged bumpers from parking bumper-to-bumper.
I used to use PHP as a web backend and then moved to Go. Forgetting the debate about the actual languages, it makes so much more sense to me for a web app to be a full-fledged, self-contained program which happens to listen on a network interface and respond when things make HTTP requests at it.

The old-school style, where routes map to scripts or parts of scripts and a separate web server like Apache or Nginx sits in front of the app, feels harder to reason about (does this thing persist across requests?), harder to debug (where did that error message end up?) more brittle (did this fail because of my script or my web server config or something else?) and more dependent on configuration magic (i.e. various text files lying around governing the behaviour of things).

So although some of these changes look cool, I don't think it's the language itself that most needs improving.
Varendoncks conclusion as cited in the article: "daydreams betray preoccupations with unsolved problems, harassing cares, or overwhelming impressions [...] they all seem to prepare some accommodation, [...] they are attempts at adaptation: such is their biological meaning". I am astonished how much more balanced this sounds compared to the ideas of his contemporaries. To a certain degree it even seems to pre-empt some very modern theories about dreaming, e.g. this one that has been discussed here recently: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23956715
If you divide by the average score at the school, it assumes professors grade on an absolute scale that matches across universities, that a 4.0 is the same anywhere. Since this is not the case, then there already is built-in bias to the 4.0 at a certain school. At least if it is normalized to a C average, you'd know how a student stands compared to his classmates. You can then scale by the approximate academic rigor of the institution. If you don't remove the DC offset to the grade, then you would need to know both the individual's GPA along with the average GPA anyway to understand the number. This normalizing to a C average saves a step.
Buying a general-purpose computing device to run a handful of built-in applications is not really fully operating it.
Of course there is. At least in my country, there is a formal legal procedure to get your car inspected and re-registered after any changes are made.
In short: if you have bad people in your organisation and they can make decisions, that might be bad for the organisation.
So hire good people.
This is a great comment - especially the the last 2 paragraphs.

Docker is not the same as containers - docker is just one way to build containers. I've not seen one yet that would be easier to use (and as as result faster than docker) but it does not mean we cannot create one!
>Once you give an employee a permanent contract, you cannot fire them except for a set of reasons defined by law.

Americans be like: "Shock! Awe! How would anyone ever hire an employee under such a requirement?!"

(Meanwhile Netherlands unemployed rate is ~ 4.3%, and the US one at ~10 - and the latter with lots of under-reporting, e.g. people giving up looking for a job, and so on).
SoftBank Commits $1.1B to WeWork Amid Membership Drop
https://twitter.com/worker291/status/1294210928234373120?s=2....

> UPDATE: Someone has called the police to check the safety measures of the meeting. They found no issue and have left the premises.
That "many of which overlap with those of Apple" needs to be more specific. I can only think examples, where Apple and Android phone manufacturers are clearly different. Like forcing to use specific app store: Samsung has Google Play and own thing, modern Huawei (models without google) have support for several app stores.
Moreover, there are several "feature phone" manufacturers, phones without iOS or Android.
But if you are single lost sale amongst billions, maybe market is voting and doing it differently, than you.
Apple products are often more appliances, than real general use computers. They never hide their philosphy "Apple knows best". Many people like that; buying Apple products exactly because limited choices.
Well, it sounds like you got plenty of value from the game so maybe moving on isn’t the worst thing. I love Factorio, but there’s so much out there demanding my time maybe it’s best that I also lost interest eventually.
Pocket Meets Virtual Workspace
Paying huge sums of damages might make companies more careful and instruct their crews better.

Instead of that we seem to be getting the more common "We're sorry" mantra.
What do you think about systemd and monit?
Right “the silent majority”.
>That doesn’t really change that I’m currently still too scared to actually form one at the company I work for, even though I would very much like for it to exist. It still feels like painting a target on your back, even though Germany does not have at-will employment and you certainly cannot be fired or blocked or even just so much as reprimanded for wanting a form a Worker Council.

If there's one good thing that's gonna come out of the idiotic attempts by the N26 management to stop this, I hope it's bringing more awareness to the fact that "Betriebsräte" are even a thing that exists.

Second step is getting help in actually creating one, and I'm hoping that ver.di (and other unions! IG Metall has been active in this space recently too.) will step up and provide guidance and support for this.
Epic isn't demanding anything. Apple's involvement has nothing to do with who can sell hats on Fortnite.

Epic also isn't "expecting" Apple to do all that. Apple does all that as part of paying for an Apple Developer License. If their costs are not being recouped by that, they should charge what it's actually costing them to deliver those services.

They should not be charging 30% on transactions they don't need to have any hand in, and the only reason they can is because they are using their monopoly position to force participants to use them as the payment processor.
Exactly that. Our works council is doing everything bilingual. for our none native speakers. None the less it isn't allowed to represent the colleagues from the office in the Czech Republic as they are employed by a Czech subsidiary. A company could theoretically offer the same protections/conditions voluntarily. but the works council can't enforce that.
And one day we'll all be obsolete, implying we won't be able to show our value through our work.

Brave New World. Ideal for a certain social class: the alphas.
> it all holds well too, until you realise, however, that Apple is sitting on 200 billion dollars in cash.

how does that negate the given points? These 200b is an indicator of a healthy business that can survive major downturns for a long period of time, which should be much more appealing that an open credit line and piles of debt in accounting tables, so much prevalent in the industry nowadays.
Let's not compare Google with Walmart.

The differences far outnumber any similarities.

I was not making a general argument for profit-sharing, I was calling attention to this presumed idea in the example of users worrying "they will use my data against my best interest". Obviously they will not use your data against you in a way that causes measurable injury (damages). If they did, you could sue them and potentially win. They are not that stupid.

However they may use your data for purposes other than the reason you allowed them to collect it. They will likely use the data to further their best interest; they will not tell you exactly how they use it nor will they cause you any injury. The only claim you potentially have is to the value of your data, which they utilise in their pursuit of profits.

You might not get a "share of profits", but you could claim the value of the data they obtained from you. If many users make the same claim, in the aggregate, that could be a substantial amount of data that carries a substantial amount of value.
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If I could, I would move to Medellín, Colombia. It's beautiful modern city with friendly people and there seems to be a lot of digital nomads there to connect with.

And since I would only get to stay 180 days per year in Colombia, I would probably spend a few months in Costa Rica and in the Peruvian Amazon.
Are you perhaps talking about Manufactoria?

http://pleasingfungus.com/Manufactoria/

Probably my favourite flash game.
>You don't pay a fix dollar tax per citizen, but a percentage of your income

Yeah, the government has a monopoly on that.

> I can see private companies doing the same.

You must be American then. This is where all this friction comes from. Corporations aren't people, nor should they be government.

This is not because the people who work there are bad people or something, but because they are legally binded to do whatever maximizes profits. They are by definition not operating in the common good (they are not supposed to!). There is no democratic oversight.

You can imagine companies doing the same. As a European, i can't. It's a problem. And its fake innovation anyway. Where is the America that did real research and real innovation? That put people on the moon? These days all you guys are good for is 'bussiness model innovations'. Ways to cheat, extort or externalize the costs. Quality of life is just going downhill the more of these type of products one uses. Technology is regressing.
So Chem majors have their grades adjusted according, in part, to the the grades of Ed majors? I don't believe that is an improvement. I rather see that likely to result in grades shooting up as majors seek to beat the curve.

And if we adjust Chem majors according to the grades of Chem majors then small majors, with a high standard deviation, would have greatly different adjustments from year to year (and at my school there are many majors where the numbers of grads in a year is less than 10).
> All the work Apple does has to be paid for somehow

How about the money they make selling iPhones?
> This distro could setup whatever store, repo and keys

But only one. And changing it is a matter of replacing binary/entire package. If is a far cry from `flatpak remote-add $url`.

> Canonical is not forcing themselves on other distributions (it is not systemd)

Systemd did not force itself on distribution either. Systemd was solving real problems distributions had, and others were ignoring them. Including Upstart, which only made it worse.

It's not like systemd had easy start. Even Redhat's management didn't see the point (Lennart P. couldn't work on it during his working hours). It took adoption by Arch to change Redhat's position.

> I am looking at this from a dev point of view, you are asking to prioritize a feature that almost nobody will use over other high priority tasks.

How do you know? Did you do any research among users, or it is just against Canonical modus operandi, where they try to insert themselves as gatekeeper in some layer of Linux community and be the single entity that can be approached for a given topic?

For many, it has much higher priority than forced updates, enforcing a single signing key or paid custom stores for FOSS.

> The article mentions

The article does not make honest arguments, it often misdirects. It is an apologia piece.

> Canonical did this mistake in the past with Launchpad and it was for nothing

Canonical did many more, more serious mistakes with Launchpad. Yes, PPAs were a dead-end, but for other reasons, that are for a separate debate.

> The store code seems to be a mess and you can't just drop the code and GitHub and you are done, it is a lot of work to refactor the code.

The code is a mess from the start. Somebody didn't do their homework what their users will be interested in, but only what they are interested in (see gatekeeping above).

> Same for the client, it is a of work to correctly add the feature to support multiple repositories, if it was only 1 day work somebody would have forked the client, patch it and published it already.

On the client we can see that they tried to do MVP, be first on "the market" and capture it. It is full of user visible annoyances that are not going to be solved (polluting mount namespace, visible snap dir in user homedir, no dedup, etc). They did quick and dirty job to be first, instead of doing it properly, like the Flatpak guys did.

> But the reality is that this costs more

So drop the things that make it complicated, such as routing separate stores through Canonical...

The reality is, that this is just an excuse to do what Canonical wants, not what their users want.
What Is CORS?
One difference is (at least with alternate app stores on Android, and I assume it'd hypothetically be the case on iOS), regardless of where you install a mobile app from, it appears on your app drawer/home screen. You don't have to go through a specific launcher for each store/platform as you do with Steam/Origin etc. (I think... been a while since I've used any of them). So in most senses, it may not "matter" where you bought it from (assuming all app stores can do auto-updates or notify you of available updates etc.)
But that doesn't square with the 50 year trend.
This looks like a great analogy, but it isn't. The app is still running on an Apple platform, with updates going through Apple infrastructure. It's a completely different situation.

Don't get me wrong, this statement isn't in support of Apple, I'm just saying that your analogy is bad.
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The Golden Rule of Generics
Are you non-white according to the classification system commonly used by the US government and universities though? In the US, everyone who lives in Mexico and almost everyone who lives in Iraq is white.
Economy itself isn't unethical, the corruption is. Unethical business practices and unethical corporate cultures is what allows our societies to rotten from inside. Tax evasions for the biggest conglomerates of the World, media cheering and rooting for anti-competitive behaviors and we don't even have to mention the shady political ties that make all other abuses possible.
Yeah, it feels kinda disrespectful since the author has no input on the thing.

I guess if you really want to note how it's by a female author, you could have it as "Ms. George Eliot", although that seems rather tacky.

>It's also a bit sad that most English names are gendered.

Non-gendered names are actually pretty much illegal here, so the English way isn't really that crazy.
I bought it with a friend and found it quite boring. I guess I like rimworld or dwarf fortress style games much better.
Immutable infrastructure killed Ansible.
Thanks for the explanation. How do you think crypto loans would work in a world without fiat money?
Ask HN: What usecases have you successfully solved with blockchain?
Also, is blockchain part of your strategy in 2020?
It has been traditionally manifactured in the Schwarzwald area in Baden-Württemberg.
What you mention doesn't sound like container problems. To be frank, dropping hotfixes and ssh-ing into production machines sounds like you have a rather un-systematic approach to ops and containers now show it to you.
"Ils ont également déclaré que le vraquier s’était rapproché de l’île pour capter une connexion wifi"

They also declared the ship got closer to the island to get a WiFi connection.

(Maybe the article got updated)
Anyone here from N26 who can comment on what it’s like working for them?
Sex Is Driven by the Impetus to Change
Great game and it has come a long way. Even the early versions were quite addicting. For me this is one of the best games in the last 10 years along with Kerbal Space Program (there may be others, time is in short supply these days).

If you are not into computer games, I would still recommend to visit their site. They have "friday facts" where they describe the work they did over the week an what challenges they had to solve. It is very well written and poses interesting problems. Really interesting for software devs, even if you are not in game development.
Perhaps I was too hasty in my comment. I am not partisan. The right has its own problems, obviously. I recently moved from deep red Georgia to deep blue Maryland, and the polarization is demoralizing. Even though the political climate is so caustic these days, there are reasoned arguments on both sides of issues that are worth listening to. Unfortunately, these voices are being drowned out by extreme views. Our democracy is being eroded by gerrymandering, 24 hour news and social media. Unfortunately, these sources of extremism and authoritarianism are extremely profitable for a very select few. I wish the bright minds that visit this site would work to create products that foster democracy rather than erode it.

To expound on my previous comment, those on the left calling for ‘equity’ should be viewed critically. The calls for ‘removing barriers’ should alarm everyone, because ultimately it only serves to control and dumb everyone down. The alternative is to encourage public policies that seek the empowerment of all individuals and groups. One concrete example is the debate in NYC schools that math and honors courses are ‘inequitable’ and racist. Voices on the left are calling for the abolishment of such classes, thereby denying students the opportunity to be challenged according to their ability. The other undiscussed side of this issue is that such calls for ‘equity’ result in basically giving up on poorer students who won’t be given the support they need to meet the higher standards. In short, anything involving ‘equity’ should be viewed as a race to the bottom for everyone.
I agree, Norway is in excellent position with hydro as its reliable baseline power source at the scale they have.

Other countries would struggle, and sadly the fission power-plants are demonized to the point of political suicide if you propose to build them. So globaly we are stuck with fossils until a miracle breakthrough in fusion (fingers crossed).
The project will go at the speed of the slowest skill the members have.

So if you're faster than your co-founder, you'll feel that as slowing you down. But the real question is whether you'd be faster at that task than them.

E.g. if you rock the backend, and are forever waiting for the frontend to catch up, you'll feel slowed down. But that's only true if you're also faster at the frontend work than your co-founder, and able to maintain that speed while doing both frontend and backend.

There's a point at which having someone else do half the work makes the thing go faster even if they're not as fast as you.