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The issue is coercion sanity - not that PHP or JS are sane by any other standard to begin with. You can do `0 == "0"` in Javascript (try it now in the devtools console) and it'll coerce the right hand based on the left hand using parseInt/parseFloat, just like PHP. What it won't do is parse the string "foo" as a zero, which is insane even by Javascript standards.

`parseFloat("foo") == parseFloat("foo")` and `parseInt("foo") == parseInt("foo")` in Javascript evaluate to false which is the sane thing to do. `NaN != NaN` is part of the IEEE 754 floating point standard, which predates every single one of the languages you mentioned.

We're all competing in the olympics of suffering, so none of us should be promoting this shit :)
I live in Hawaii. I've found that even though most companies are used to working across Pacific through Eastern time zones, they still want me to be online earlier, even though they don't expect someone in California to be online for an East coast morning. It feels unfair.

And you're right, it's definitely a tech wasteland here. And the predominant culture of locals and hippies is anti-intellectual. But it's great to live near the ocean, hiking trails and one of the safest places in the US (if you're not directly in Honolulu)
You've got two "aCkShuAlly" comments in this thread and they're both wrong.

1. The historical origin of "decimate" does not define the English word. Many words have historical origins that differ with their current definitions.

2. The word "fiscal" does not refer only to "taxes" but also to financial matters in general.
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Thanks! Good memory here...
They did the same thing with bezel free phones: early adoption of Korean (LG) or Japanese (Sharp) display tech. I'm not sure what their angle is, but these early adopter products seem like one offs.
If only 4GB of RAM would suffice on my Windows 10 SOE. That thing has 20GB of RAM And a 2018 i5 and still struggles. MS SCCM and all the other 'protection' destroys any ability to be productive.
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It's kind of a shame the Ubuntu phone never really materialized. At one point a while back I put off a much needed upgrade from a nearly dead phone for about 6 months because their phone was supposed to be "any day now".

I think the OS is still kicking around and technically not dead yet, but it's really hard to believe that it would be able to break into the OEM side of things at this point. If Microsoft couldn't buy their way in to it I don't see much hope for a group that wouldn't be paying massive amounts of money to handset manufacturers and carriers to support the development & deployment. Though I'd be happy if it were simply possible to flash it onto most Android handsets with full hardware compatibility.
I'm tired of this kind of bullshit. I can't buy books on the kindle app, I can't play Apple music on my google mini, I can't install the PAX app for my vape on iOS, and now that. Yet there isn't enough abuse from Apple to make us switch to another platform. Without regulation this situation will never be fixed.
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Chattanooga and EPB (our aforementioned fast internet) are both pretty awesome. I see a definite uptick in people from out of state moving here over the past 6 months, which is stretching the area's housing supply. We also had a tornado come through in April and damage or destroy several hundred homes. So if you do end up moving here, just beware the housing market is a little hectic at the moment.
It will take more than a couple of generations, because the children of people who got legacy admittance also get legacy admittance, which removes available slots for people who don't just have the benefit of being born to the right parents.

That's the big cudgel right: look at the racial spread of legacy acceptances, and if that does not match (within reason) the average racial spread then legacy admittance is adding a discriminatory pressure against those races that are less represented.
What about the climate in Denver is better than Seattle? Less rain, or at least rain less often? (Not saying you're wrong, I just wonder.)
> Why do I only have 2 choices?

There’s an extremely high barrier to entry and people don’t have time to learn different operating systems.
I did this with a Honda minivan a few years back. Got one of these buying agents to negotiate and get the deal. Just went into the dealership and got the car. In and out within 15-20 mins to sign paper and pick up the keys.

I can relate about the dance though. The popular Japanese imports last basically forever and the salespeople’s tactics aren’t great. I’ve said to myself more than a few times I’d get a Tesla so I could just get everything done in a web browser.
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In Latin, sure, but not in English. It's meant "kill or destroy a large proportion" for centuries. Wait til you hear about "December"
Speaking as someone in Hawaii, there isn't a lot that's great here. Predominant anti-intellectual culture, high COL, Amazon Prime can take up to 2 weeks, etc. The best thing is definitely the nature and safety, though
Car prices are the same as any other consumer goods prices: there is a MSRP and, unless it's some rare, high demand model, you can always buy at the MSRP. Unlike other consumer goods, though, it is worth haggling because the retail markup is in range of several thousand dollars and the dealer is interested in your business (maintenance, warranty repairs) enough to forfeit a part or the whole markup. Depending on the incentives, a dealer might be even considering selling under the invoice price. Also there are other components of the deal, not happening often with other goods: trade-in and financing. You cannot put a fixed price on those.

But if you really don't care and want to buy a car for cash at MSRP you can do it with little to no hassle.
even samsung is limited. they have their alternative OS, but they are not allowed to support android apps on that OS because that would violate their android license which they need on other devices.

other alternative systems have more freedom than samsung because they are not bound by a license from google.
Isn't it better than not being able to install a game you want?
I'm actually picking between Seattle and Denver. What about the climate is better between the two?
regulation is not the answer. The market aka the consumer will solve this on its own.
Apologies for the extreme swearing that ensues.

Wow, I would have hoped for better support from the HN community. Instead there are apologists after apologists. So what if Epic is big. Really, seriously shouldn't we have had alternative app stores available form the official ones. Why is this even a point of debate? All the time we hear stories of people one of our own getting fucked by these app stores and their lordship and now that we have an opportunity to make some noise, this is the response? Fuck that. Maybe we deserve these lords.

Fuck your security and fuck your walled gardens. Fucking no alternative browser allowed. Fuck that, fuck you apple and fuck you google. Fuck your monopoly and chokehold on the devs.
I’m sorry to hear about the tornado. That’s devastating. I hope the repair efforts are going well.
I have only skimmed this paper, but the diagrams look somewhat similar to Penrose graphical notation. Is there any connection there?
+1 for query builders being an excellent choice for a lot of applications and uses. Keeping things DRY being one. We haven't solved the repetition in SQL with aiosql. We also haven't tried. :)
No where. My company came out with remote pay tiers and it's much more lucrative for me to stay put. They say there is a potential savings by moving away to lower CoL but I can actually save more absolute $ per month by living here. I'll move away _after_ I've stashed some money.

If location did not affect my career I probably would move around a lot. (Sans covid19) I'd like to go to Mexico, Italy, SE Asia ... many places in the US too.
Apple is worth 2 trillion if we are looking at market cap. They can literally buy out epic if they wanted to.
Apple still needs to pay credit card processors.

Avoiding most of the 30% cut is actually rather easy for consumers, but not for developers.

App Store Gift Cards can be purchased from retailers with a 15% to 20% discount (https://www.ozbargain.com.au/product/itunes-gift-card). And those retailers aren't making a loss either.
I hate that something which only exists to data mine, or serve ads is enabled (by default) in my web browser.
I'm sure the mods won't take kindly to your swearing but I agree with both you and your sentiment 100%
I expected to see a lot more people. The streets look deserted.
Games generally don't render at native resolution on phones.
So you believe in anarchy? You don't believe in any regulation? It sounds a bit naive.
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What's "the" job? Are we talking founder or corporate ladder? How much does this dream house cost?
Also it looks like a transparent phone held in front of your face without an optic
The barrier to entry is not high. There used to be many more options for phone OS.
I recently drove a Daihatsu Tanto [1], it has 2 thin a-pillars on each side, with glass in between. It looks strange but the visibility is so much better!

Certain types of intersections are especially deadly, where at normal speeds an approaching cyclist can be obscured by the a-pillar for some seconds.[2]

1. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daihatsu_Tanto

2. http://singletrackworld.com/2018/01/collision-course-why-thi...
I remember reading that 1 minute of an important speech of a politician requires about an hour of preparation by a professional speech writer. And I guess that a failure speech is even more difficult to write.

The current level of AI like GPT-3 can generate fluffy text, very good fluffy text, but still can't generate a text for this kind of speech.
Car salesmen might have carved for the personal connection and face to face deals, customers dread it. It's much better to have a impersonal buying experience over phone and internet. No wonder dealerships adapted to the new approach thrive.
Legit question, if it is a regional issue, can using a VPN to another Geo be helpful here in getting access to the affected services?
Launchpad actually predates Ubuntu :) A lot of the methodologies and practices used to develop it (both good and bad) didn't even get names until years later. I even hear monoliths are becoming fashionable again.
Everyone fell for the Hey! stunt too what do you expect?
I'm right with you. This is much worse than what Microsoft got in trouble for many years ago. They know what they're doing in wrong and I sure hope Epic gets their day in court.

It's predatory and anti-consumer. Apple can eat shit.
My partner has family in the area, and the infrastructure (ISPs, city-wide wifi, power grid) is supposedly some of the best in Mexico (which would probably make it on-par or better to where I currently sit.)

Tourist and expat investments have brought money to the area, and the city we're headed to is considered notably safe for North America generally, let alone Mexico.
Pick Seattle if you like rain and Denver if you like skin cream/ moisturizer
Soon we will be told that a century cannot refer to a 100 year period but only a unit of Roman soldiers. The list of words that no longer mean what they once did is very long and it's lame (and wrong) to "correct" people like this.
I assumed it came from a previous essay. Asserting that engineers should take responsibility for their actions in spite of their job. If your employer is doing something immoral or wrong, and you don't do something. You're part of the problem, and share in their guilt.
why aren't they like, suing sony for not letting you sideload games on playstation or nintendo for not letting you sideload games on the switch
That's some aggressive rent seeking right there.
ClassPass HQ is in Missoula. Bozeman has fiber internet and a good sized tech community that’s growing by the day. Plus Montana’s outdoor rec access is a great complement to sitting on your computer all day.
Your empathy appears to be in short supply. Having your business destroyed is more than uncomfortable. They didn’t sign up for that.

The solution was simple. Let police enforce the law. Crime skyrocketed and two young men were killed. Sexual assault went through the roof. First responder time went to 18 minutes from 5.
Samsung does have an app store though.
Do you have any concerns about Crime and corruption on the rise in Mexico?
The thing I love most about PHP is that regardless of the new features they seldom break backward compatibility. I have a site created with PHP 5 that runs absolutely fine with PHP 7.0 and I don't remember we had to ever update anything in that huge codebase.

It's a pretty big achievement and avoids a lot of hassle for users as you don't have to maintain different versions of programming languages on a server.
why has it become normalized to accept iPhones and Android as locked down computers where we are all rental peasants whove sworn fealty to our Feif Lords?

the computing culture from the PC era (1990's-2006) has been utterly destroyed. a computer used to be a thing you owned and which you therefore controlled like any physical property. install any software you want. you own it, so you dont have to keep plugging quarters into it like an arcade game. but not the phone. even though a cheap phone is a supercomputer compared to a high end gaming PC from 20 years ago.

everything Richard Stallman predicted 40 years ago about the worst case scenario outcome of propietary software has come true. the computing revolution was originally about empowering the user. information wants to be FREE. slowly we lost that, and now everything is about how much money can our corporate overlords squeeze out of us.

I FIGHT FOR THE USER
nothing wrong with switch statements.
Bozeman is great if you can make it happen.
1. Apple establishes rules that EVERY app publisher follows for YEARS.

2. Fortnite doesn't follow rule.

3. Apple kicks Fortnite out of the App store.

What were they expecting?
Big White mountain village in B.C., after my work confirmed I could continue to work remotely permanently.
The worm in the apple is a nice touch.
I don't give a fuck about Epic. Let's get alternative app stores be present in the default app stores on my device. What are you even complaining about? I am on your side, are you on your side?
Fair point. From the way I see it, Apple is not a traditional hardware company, persay. It’s not like buying a PC from Dell. Dell sells hardware, and just that.

The difference is Apple sells a user experience. Sure, you have to purcahase a physical thing to access that experience, but that is the nature of what you have purchased when you buy an iPhone.

I think this boils down to a mismatched set of perspectives on the business Apple has created. Apple breaks the typical “buy hardware from X, install software from Y” flow and instead turned their iPhones into a portal into their own user experience universe. They did this because it provides a fundamentally unique experience when compared to other platforms. It’s a differentiating factor for them. Again, I would argue that Apple doesn’t want to be a hardware company. They want to be an experience company. In order to do that, they have to develop and sell cutting-edge hardware to you and me.

Don’t get me wrong, not trying to say this is good or bad — just observing a sublety that I think gets missed when passionately arguing about hardware ownership and the rights that come with it.
This later video seems to indicate they don’t have much in the way of resources. I see guys in small fishing boats and a single helicopter dropping two drums at a time.

https://youtu.be/CKICk5LY2xg
They were expecting to get kicked out of the app store so that they could file a lawsuit and challenge the app store monopoly. How is that unclear?
This seems a bit backwards to me. If you have the best website for a subject, and Google doesn't rank it, the problem is not that your SEO is bad, it's that Google is failing. You have the best website for the query and Google's job is to find the best websites for a query. If Google fails to do that, that shouldn't mean you need to do more work. It should mean Google needs to make some kind of change.
It's also worth remembeting that contracts forbidding bundling by OEMs got MS into antitrust trouble in the 90s for locking BeOS out of the market.
Denver gets a lot more sun
Yes, I've come to the same conclusion. When interviewing ML engineers, I prefer to know they are exceptional programmers with passable knowledge of ML than the other way around. If they haven't learned to be good software engineers it's improbable they will in the future, but ML can be learned. In fact a ML team needs a large number of regular software engineers, there's a lot of non-ML code to work on, such as labelling interfaces, data pipelines and CI/CD for models.
I doubt developers miss the days of having to make a dozen different builds just to get a single J2ME app working on major phones. Forget about cross platform.
If I go to fortnite.com/android, I can still download and install the Epic Game Store for Android. So it's definitely better than the situation on iOS. In practice, you can still install Fortnite on Android (and it's only a Google search away — when I searched "fortnite android" just now, it was the top hit of the search results, just after the News section that's filled with the news of the Play Store ban); you can't install Fortnite on iOS at all.

It's actually even slightly easier to install APKs on Android than installing non-Mac-App-Store software on macOS — with Android it prompts you right when you open to allow or disallow installs from the source you downloaded from, whereas macOS makes you dig around in Settings the first time. I tried installing the Epic store just now on Android, and it was a fairly seamless experience.

I'm sure it gets fewer sales, since the Play store is bundled with most Android phones and the Epic store isn't. But it's pretty different than an outright ban: the Play store is charging you the 30% Google tax for reach/audience, but you're free to list on an alternative store if you choose to.
No, of course not, but Apple is essentially triple dipping in this regard. Lets break down the costs.

1. A $100 annual developer subscription. It could be argued that this goes towards SDK development, developer tooling, and App Store publishing systems.

2. The 30% fee when selling your app. Similarly, it could be argued that this fee covers application hosting and distribution, as well as advertising, and I guess as a "general fee" for selling your app through the App Store.

3. 30% on all in-app purchases. Given that Apple has no part to play in this (the application was already advertised and distributed, no additional hosting fees as developers are responsible for implementing/unlocking whatever happens once the purchase goes through, etc), what does this cover other than payment processing, which is normally charged at 2.5%~?
Epic is no better. Trading one owner for another makes no difference in the best case. It's either free and open source and user-focused or nothing.
Jets usually avoid flying low over cities in case of crash.
Can't oil tankers do something similar?
I, like GP, noped out as soon as I saw the SSO requirement. I also noped out of Microsoft's /free/ embedded offing for the same reason.

I don't care why it's needed. I'm not interested in voluntarily tying my business to your product if you're going to restrict access to it this early on.
Yes, Apple could just be reasonable, like you.

As you point out, awinder, it would be possible to rort the rules by charging zero for the app, and then making the bulk of the revenue come from the IAP, if the former costs 30% and the latter costs 0%.

Apple could overcome those technical nonsensibilities by simply defining a second tier lower charge of say 10% in a common sense way, and then granting second tier status to the kinds of transactions that deserve it in a common sense interpretation.

Without a second tier to app store pricing, Apple is not going to please all the people all of the time. Dissatisfaction is inevitable.

With a second tier, sensibly applied, everyone's a winner, all of the time.
December is actually the tenth month. Jan & Feb were added later. It’s the tenth month that was added, though not the tenth month since the start of the year. The array of calendar months was shifted to make room for two additional months at the beginning of the year.

If I have a son, in December, then I have another son the next year in January, which one is my first son?
app store "monopoly"? No one's forcing you to use the Apple ecosystem. it's called Android.
The rational argument is that the ability to side-load applications would be exploited by the nefarious and the clever to take advantage to naive users.

If a website can convince someone to download a "new version of the Flash Player", those same websites will convince someone to "side-load this application to protect against identity theft!"
You really shouldn't equate technology with "progress". How many people are going to die today? How many are going to die tomorrow? What are our health outcomes? Is anyone hungry? I think such metrics indicate progress much more clearly than "How many patents have been filed today?"
The monopoly Apple has is the paid mobile software market. The difference between software sales on the Google play store and and the iOS App Store are pretty staggering. I have no expertise in the law so I can’t tell you that’s it a monopoly in the US legal sense (if i had to guess, no) but it absolutely is one in practice. It makes sense that developers, particularly powerful ones like epic, would argue that it is.
It's easier to own multiple consoles than it is to own multiple phones. And hey, maybe that's next.
One could argue that it would be bad for the consumer since their subsidized divisions have zero incentive to improve. It's nearly impossible to beat a free offering, so no competition will arise. Therefore innovation halts.

This is what Google's been doing for years. In a healthy market we could have incredible email providers, video hosting services, calendars and whatnot.
Yeah sorry, I didn’t realize there were more recent videos and it’s too late to edit my comment.
While I agree with Epic's aim with this lawsuit, one should note that this has no basis in anything except wishes:

> The idea that a large platform like iOS can only have apps loaded through a market place controlled by the hardware manufactured is clearly in violation of the spirit of anti-trust laws.
Can we wave the Havel at Amazon too? I feel like they are more predatory and anti-consumer than Apple is. They take at least 30% bu the time you consider that you are practically forced to buy their ads, FBA, deal with (amazon’s) counterfeits etc.
Does anyone know how they are able to produce such a powerful chip so cheaply? Do they use Chinese fabs?
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So if Epic wins, will Epic be able to stop other stores from coming up? In what scenario do you see US (you, me, we) winning? The one where Epic loses or one where it wins?
You say it like it’s a bad thing. Perhaps if MS had remained so all-powerful, we would not have seen the rise of other US companies, including Google. If Google lost its monopoly stranglehold on Search and mobile, what interesting and useful innovation might emerge?