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Key reasons I use steam:
1. My payment information is there
2. Updates happen automatically in the background
3. I can stream games from my pc to laptops
4. I can uninstall and reinstall later without having to try to figure out where to re-download the game from
Not quite as bad as "that is LITERALLY the worst thing ever"
>That seems like a moving goalpost to me.

Reality is a moving goalpost itself. The desktops (Windows, macOS) aren't in some standstill waiting for Linux desktops to catch up.

But what you described isn't a "moving goalposts" case anyway. It's problems that need to be solved one after another and which all were initially present as issues.

Since at first, it wasn't usable, it wouldn't matter if it has Autodesk apps. Usability was more important.

Once it got usable, it still didn't matter if it had Autodesk apps, when it didn't have drivers.

Then, when it got the drivers, that only meant you could use your printer, wifi, bluetooth, etc. But the "crashing a lot" would be a problem greater still, greater than the lack of commercial apps.

>A "desktop" for me is where you can play movies, edit documents, browse the net and check email.

And for billions of people it's those things, plus work stuff they need to be able to run, multimedia creation they need once in a while, game stuff they like to play and so on...

Now that it does have most things in order, the lack of commercial apps is another problem it should work on (when it comes to people's needs).
I really agree with this, though I suspect some young bright 20 year olds are desperate to work hard for the little cash VCs throw at them, especially if FAANG says no to them for arbitrary reasons.

The thing that has always stopped me from starting a business is the fear of being sued, the fear of failure, and the fear of just breaking even compared to working for a normal company. I also am not very good at sales despite years of trying-- my personality is hardwired towards laying all my cards down on the table immediately.

My question to you is, if you have 2 million, why not continue to work for FAANG or retire semi-frugally to do hobbyist work, when considering that starting a startup involves immense downside risk (getting sued）
All I want is a system preference that says ‘allow apps from other sources than the apple App Store.’

And I want that setting to work exactly as you imagine.

And then everything else problematic about this debate would disappear.
Ah, thanks for clarifying, that makes sense.
Apple and Google chiming together: "we're not a monopoly, we're a duopoly and that's perfectly legal"
People are perfectly free to use Apple App Store and stay free from viruses and have a nice curated environment. Nothing changes for them if you allow sideloading. The ONLY change is that you have the OPTION to run software Apple doesn't officially sanction. That's just a basic freedom right there and it's hard to see any rational argument against it.
> This is not entirely correct. Distributions can use a "brand store" to have complete control over which packages their users get.

By “you” I assume they are referring to users, not distributions.
> Non-repairability is not planned obsolescence.

You already acknowledged that 6 year old phones are obsolete.

And you also claimed claimed that "only someone who didn't work on Apple products" could possibly "buy into" [that's also a huge accusation, one you don't even bother to back up] the idea that Apple is a treadmill of increasingly crappy things. That is demonstrably wrong, yet also not worthy of you even acknowledging it.

> that’s a technical challenge not a financial decision

Proof for that? Nevermind, you just ignore your glaring errors, and demand more proof, as if you watched those videos fully, while dropping laughable claims like that casually.
That phrase has two common meanings..
Wooha, was looking for exactly something like this. Thank you.

This is why I love hacker news.
Very common in the US and Canada but probably not outside (updated my comment).
How its dream of zero bloatware when Google itself adds tons of Bloatware starting from Play Music, Books, Duo, Drive what not.

I am even ok shipping them by default and giving an option to uninstall. Any app which I cant uninstall is Bloatware.
The platform is not merely the App Store. The hardware, the OS, the APIs, they are all part of the platform.
Since the S2 has USB OTG, I wonder whether anyone's working on porting the QMK keyboard-firmware project to it. QMK on ESP32 could make for one heck of an overpowered mechanical keyboard.

Too bad there's no Bluetooth.
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You should look closer at average test scores of admitted students by more fine grained ethnic groups. My high school discriminated by particular ethnic groups: Chinese, Japanese, Indian, Hispanic, etc...
As far as I can tell, there aren't any legally binding steam exclusives. The pc was the device with oo mandate exclusives, and epic brought that there. They deserve whatever hate they get for that.
I like the idea, but then you have specific-purpose hardware like game consoles, although they're becoming more general purpose devices so I see them less and less as an exception.

But there's still other devices like Fitbits that I'm not so sure about.
Really? Where do I find that setting? I've looked, hard. Edit: Found it - I wonder if this is new or if I missed it when I got the phone - thanks!

Doesn't stop it from being bloatware...
I have no opinion on the value of permits, but people may misinterpret the meaning of "free" in this context. There is no where in manhattan you can park for free for any duration greater than a day or two:

https://imgur.com/a/dABUl5u

The exception would be police who park wherever they want and taxis that hop from spot to spot.
Company offered permanent remote work, thought through career trade offs and whether we wanted to stay in the Bay Area forever.

Picked suburbs between Denver and Boulder. Good tech jobs, similar sunshine and outdoor activities as the Bay Area (but with snow also! we’ll see how that goes), affordable housing and better COL.
But the point of business is making money.
Apple has no monopoly in smartphone market. There are many choices.
And if the court will force them to lower prices - will it start forcing price policy on other non-monopoly companies?
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Aren't these abstractions often so complex, company-specific and leaky that most companies are better off building their own in-house solutions? Atleast that's what I've seen at most FAANG companies but then again they're notorious for having NIH syndrome and have the resources which your regular IT shop might not.
I'm most excited about str_contains(), str_starts_with(), and str_ends_with(). Call me simple but I'm so glad I don't need to come up with weird work arounds for those functions.
>That is a real problem, but in my opinion unrelated to whether an OS is "ready for the desktop". That's just a business problem, not a technical problem: Adobe cares about platforms where the money is.

Only back in the day part of the idea around "Linux for the Desktop" was that everybody would use the "better" FOSS programs, and not wait for MS/Adobe/Autodesk/Avid/etc.

But, as you note, this hasn't happened, and "even if you fix GIMP's UX issues, it's still not Photoshop or Lightroom".

>But that's not what being ready for the desktop is about. That's not what a desktop is for most people, either.

Well, pragmatically the desktop is a Windows machine, which just works, doesn't require them to think long and hard about which cpu/memory/laptop/peripherals/etc to buy, has drivers for all of their devices, has all kinds of apps they might use (beyond email and web), and so on.
The Startup Ideas section of the YC Library[1] fulfilled this aspect for me. It framed my thinking on startups' role in society and how to generate them.

[1] https://www.ycombinator.com/library?categories=Startup%20Ide...
Whatever the fuck I want it to be about dammit
There is a long tradition of Mac customers expecting that ability, and Apple has explicitly said they recognize that desire in the market and is not removing the ability. That said, they have added some extra warnings and confirmation steps in order to run unsigned software, and some people have even complained about that.
Fortnite is a console-quality game, so it may have trouble with continuing support for the low-power passively cooled CPU/GPU's found in mobile devices.
What about _no stores at all_? I am fine downloading the app or buying it from the dev website.
He's been gone from Google for six years, so I don't think we can paint him as a hypocrite or going back on his word over this.

EDIT: In fact it was around the time Android was changing a little bit away from its open source roots that Rubin was sidelined out of the Android division and into robotics, shortly after which he quit.
Fortnite: Apple ban sparks court action from Epic Games
I can't tell if it's a feature of the screen or just the very dark nature of subway tunnels, but I really like the fact that the screen goes completely opaque on the bright blue screens.

Transparent screens could be useful in all sorts of scenarios, but I think tech demos too often ignore the fact that, most of the time, you want the image to be as clear as possible, which means opaque.
I'm not liking the timeline either. News agencies are really dropping the ball on this one.
Link to original tweet here: https://web.archive.org/web/20200702004840/https://twitter.c...
Having to launch games from 5 different shitty desktop programs is terrible for the user.
Please, stay right where you are.
for whatever reason (also probably a bad one), i hate the syntax of switch statements, and for that reason i almost never use them. the match expression though, i'm actually very excited about. i quite like the mapped look; it seems more intuitive to read.
If it really was prohibitions on bloatware, Samsung would be the first to know.
Stock Pixel, at the very least, is _packed_ with Google apps that you cannot fully remove.
Uh?

The only meaning I'm aware of is "to take tons of money from", what's the other?
Their customers are not your right

For example,you are not forbidden from developing for
some random Linux distro

They did not build their trust and ecosystem for free,so you should'nt have access to them for free

30% is not unreasonable,costs can be managed,since you are selling a digital product
I have to assume you're not trolling but those are some impressive mental gymnastics my friend.

If Apple allowed sideloading then you're experience would be 100% identical. You would have the freedom to continue using the App Store just like you do today and have a nice curated experience. Contracts would continue to work just like they do today. The thing is, the rest of us would have -more- freedom as we could, optionally and of our own accord, use apps outside of the App Store as well. Nobody is harmed and everyone is happy. Everyone either has the same amount of or more freedom and safety.
Is there any reason go can’t do this automatically at compile time?
As someone who went to the CHOP multiple times through out the protests, I don’t agree with your characterization. My personal experience was not that of yours. It _was_ uncomfortable, but nobody makes change by staying in their comfort zone.

As for the miles of filth and needles. I’ve seen too. I’ve seen it in New York, Chicago, San Francisco, Miami, the list goes on. When you have folks being displaced as rents and property prices increase, so goes the middle and lower income folks. Small cities naturally don’t have challenges at the same scale as large cities.

Complaining does not help-What are the solutions to these problems? I don’t know, but I am all ears.
I want the choice to install it. Not interested in Win10 style updates on my production systems ;)
> is the fear of being sued...

I can't discount it entirely, but... for many situations, that's probably a somewhat overblown fear. It's why you get insurance, pay professionals to do legal/paperwork stuff, and get on with your business. Almost anyone can sue for anything, but it probably doesn't happen anywhere near the number of times you might think it does. When you start, you're going to be too small to get sued in the first place. And being sued probably means you have paying customers, so you're already doing something right.
The well known hack for the essay is to emphasize how you grew up poor, disadvantaged, first in family to go to college, escaped war, etc... Apparently helpful both for college and medical school.
> There is no where in manhattan you can park for free for any duration greater than a day or two:

Most blocks in NYC have street sweeping twice a week. Some people move their cars to another block the night before. Some sit in their car, move it when the sweeper comes, then put it right back. Both groups are getting permanent parking that costs some amount of time but no money.
There are some great Jon Stewart clips further down. Man do I miss his commentary...
Also Normal Accidents by Charles Perrow
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I was accepted by a graduate program at one of the more selective UCs. An alum of my college who was a current student at the UC contacted me to invite me to a recruiting shindig for accepted minority students (she knew I was Asian from the club activities on my resume). But when she found out what my specific racial background was (half white and half Chinese), she said I would not be invited. The only people who were invited to the recruiting trip were those from other Asian backgrounds (anything but Chinese/Korean/Japanese), or students who were black or hispanic.

Instead of an all-expense paid visit spanning from Thurs-Sun and including sitting in on lectures, I was allowed to come for a single Sunday-only event. I spent more money on that trip than I had ever spent on anything in my life, except for my college computer. I was pretty ticked that the school was treating different minorities differently, and that for all the money I spent I couldn't even visit a class in session (since I was only allowed on Sunday). I remember meeting a half-Chinese / half-Vietnamese guy there, who regaled me with tales of the wining and dining that the favored-minority students had enjoyed.

I should note that this was way after Prop 209 (barring affirmative action at the UCs) was passed. I ended up attending the UC, and I asked an administrator about how recruiting trips like this were legal (he happened to be a lawyer). He gave some hand-wavey answer about federal pre-emption that, if true, would have completely gutted Prop 209.
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In ten years it will be mature, if anyone still uses it. If not, it will be because people who like Rust today are off chasing some new hotness.

Whatever the direct technical impact of the layoffs, the language's credibility has taken a huge blow. Its future was already uncertain, and is, being honest with ourselves, substantially moreso now.

There is a lot to like about Rust. I hope something survives.

A sequel--Dust?--could keep its strengths but focus at the outset on fast builds and better visibility into dependencies, to avoid NPM disease. There must be lots of ideas that it seemed too late for.

Maybe make it relatively easy to import old Rust code, to help get jumpstarted?

Rust's real reason to exist, to displace C, was not working, and may have been doomed from the outset. Rust has been taking users from Java, Go, and Python; and some C++, in places where coding has been hamstrung by archaic "style" restrictions. But very few C coders have moved. That may be just because any who might have jumped already had. (Some of those might have come over from a pause at Go.)

Rust is a far, far better language than Java and Go. It never had a chance against C++, which picks up more new users every single week than the total who have ever used Rust. If Rust or its sequel could give people on Java and Go a language with a future, that would be a seriously worthwhile achievement.

Making a borrow checker less strident would aid adoption; so you always know whether your code and each dependency are "clean", without
being prevented from getting work done. The recent experience with that very fast GUI library with a few too many "unsafe" bits made a very deep impression. Nobody wants that experience, especially starting out. Code that is not borrow-clean would get clean soon enough if it is used; and, frankly, dead code never needs to be clean.
> Also the current SAT has been determined to be not racially biased.

Determined by who?
> and for people who are motivated to jailbreak, this isn't much of a hurdle

And also because, once you’re jailbroken, you can setup software to automatically resign the app on-device every few days, so you never need a computer again.
but I'm also one of the people who likes borders the way they used to be, with visual indication of where you can click with your mouse and I also use focus-follows-mouse, so I like to light up the border of the active window. So, to me, this isn't bike shedding, it's bike shredding.
Could it be because a niche is not such an interesting attack vector?
Exactly. I didn't mean it personally. It's human nature. Best we can do is recognize it. Or maybe, ignore it. I guess it depends on what you want in life...
Omg, user story “decimate the binary by next release”
Even a dictatorship has middle managers
Are those figures – i.e. test scores of admitted students broken down by fine-grained ethnic groups – publicly available for Yale? (Or any other similarly prestigious US university?)
The second photo has a building in the background that looks modern. Neat.
Would be interested to see if Asians whose families have been in the USA for many years get in at different rates to e.g. immigrants or the children of immigrants. It would indicate that perhaps Yale et al. really do care about "personality", and aren't just being racist.
Virtual artist Miquela debuted a music video at Lollapalooza
That's where I'm looking at as well! Nothing has ever felt like home like Austin has for me.
Don't forget that Google embedded Duo into the Google Play Framework so even if you disabled or uninstalled the app, people could still call you via Duo.
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I would say most universities who don't have a huge asian student body are probably discriminating against asians.
It's all negotiation on a grand, publicly viewable scale
A PR stunt from Epic and everyone's falling for it.
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> Supposedly amongst the Asian population, UCB is held in as high a regard as Stanford.

It isn't. UCB is known as the school of Stanford rejects.
I would love for them to report enrolled Native Americans and what tribes they are from did they attend high school on a reservation. I keep discovering Native Americans who don't actually have any connection to any tribe.
TBF, this is bleeding fresh new information; I expect most of those arguing in good faith were unaware of this behaviour.

But yes, let's stop pretending that Google is an altruistic, benevolent and freedom-loving company. It's not.
Was working in Toronto, covid19 happened, moved back to Montreal, and work agreed I could permanently stay there even after covid19.
I have been and iOS developer for many years and my main problem with Apple is that it treats small and big developers very differently. Their policies are not applied to all, just like with Google.

But as far as I understand Apple is not a monopoly. So why should they allow users to install app from any source if they made their OS specifically in a way that doesn't allow it?
It is a product feature.

And pricing policy - sure I'd love do get 10% cut of 30%. But again, they made a product and allow you do develop apps just take a cut. A big cut? Sure. But shouldn't it be their right to price their products as they see fit as long as they don't have a monopoly?

I am thinking that if I start a company, why should the court force my price policy or tell me what features to implement (obviously as long as they don't harm users, break laws etc) if a consumer has many alternatives?
You don’t know that OP doesn’t actually know that doesn’t happen.
I am not quite sure it was that early, but I agree it is in the past. Specifically, I contend that the year of the Linux desktop was some time before 2015, when Microsoft made (a version of) Windows (10) available gratis.
You could say that standardized testing is somewhat biased against poverty rather than minorities directly. Poverty won’t let you afford extra summer tutoring, SAT prep, etc...
Found it! just in case somebody else is yelling into the void

https://medium.com/wardleymaps/on-being-lost-2ef5f05eb1ec
what range is your annual comp if you don't mind me asking? 2.2 is very impressive given how high the rent is in SF. Or did you invest your savings very well.
Montana has terrible internet, no local tech jobs, and is below zero for weeks in the winter. I recommend Colorado.
October 2013...

“Google's iron grip on Android: controlling open source by any means necessary”

https://www.wired.co.uk/article/googles-iron-grip-on-android
>Epic can walk away and deprive Apple of hundreds of millions of dollars of revenue. Epic can increase their prices. Epic can accept the margins.

And Apple could be honest brokers and not skim off the top of something they are only superficially entitled to in the first place. We can go back and forth offering our "perfect world" options all day. Both companies have options which solve this problem unilaterally, neither will take them since there is so much money involved.

>It's not "simply because". It's demonstrably a superior experience for consumers.

OK, then the demonstrably best policy for Apple is to both provide a safe platform for consumers which somehow doesn't involve price gouging the people that provide software for their platform. I do not advocate separate stores, I only mention alternative stores as a method to headoff these issues while conserving their current skimming policies. Removing the skimming policies is far superior, clearly, for the reasons you mention.

>I'm a former Apple employee and I can tell you that this is true insofar as it's beneficial to Apple to not have shitty apps, viruses, and malware on iPhone.

The idea, though, that "massive profits" didn't enter into the minds of of those who set these policies, whether as a first or last reason, is not realisitc. Apple literally makes hundreds of millions of dollars off of a product they had 0 to do with developmentally; don't try to tell me they do this in the name of not having shitty apps, viruses, or malware. They do it to profit off of it.
You're right. There may not be a way to manage this without locking people up and curtailing their rights. I'm not interested in doing that because this virus isn't the destruction of civilization. It doesn't effect 99.9% of people.

Your "by the book" is more like "at any cost." Why not just come out and say that you support draconian and authoritarian measures?

Your quarantine isn't comparable to forced isolation in a facility, right? Surely you can understand how that might damage a child?
I have had products that I’ve returned after 9 months. Many of the brands they carry are price controlled, yeti, osprey, Patagonia, smart wool, etc. I wouldn’t go there for everything but when price is controlled that extra 10% is nice.
Hello DetroitThrow! Glad to hear my not very subtle plug for the game might get at least one player back!