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> If there are competing app stores you only need to publish on one of them

That's only good for having to say that you have an app. Putting that app in the hands of the people is a different story and it's the hard part.

When there are multiple app stores, you can only access the people on that app store which can drastically reduce your market size. It is not realistic to be able to make people install and set up an app store and then install your app. Yeah sure, you can convince few very interested people every now and then but on mobile this doesn't make a business.

It is likely that the original App Store will shrink as some people will move to other stores where you might not be allowed to publish. Also, multiple stores creates support nightmare for the users since they will no longer be able to talk to Apple and get their refunds. People would no longer be confident when doing a purchase.
This is very bad for independent developers who are not hobbyist but hope to make living.

Sure, it would be nice for few hobbyists to get their torrent client in the iPhone but it would significantly disadvantage all small independent businesses. When you are small, the cuts and the commissions are not a problem, the reach and gaining trust is.

IMHO:

1) AppStore should be regulated to give equal opportunity to all. Right now there are some problems but it is not broken. An idea would be to have an special API to provide alternative appstore through backend integration but have all this completely invisible to the users. For example, maybe you should be able to link to an alternative appstore but the install process be exactly the same as the original AppStore, payments handled exactly the same but get the commisions to bare minimum when the provider is the alternative appstore. This is like the "repository" concept on Linux app stores, the problem is the customer support when something goes bad. It doesn't work well when the users don't have someone holding both the responsibility and the power to solve their problem. How is Apple supposed to handle the help request due to issues caused by other stores?

2) Jailbreaking should be an option provided by Apple. People should have the freedom to jailbreak their device and do whatever they want with it. Probably should be hard to do to make sure that it's done only by people who know what they are doing.

3) Commissions should probably differentiate for stuff like Spotify v.s. In game coins because on Spotify, they actually don't sell their original content but deal it by buying it from the musicians.
For those searching for the pricing. Here you go:

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Stuff like this always gets tons of press but exec bonuses during a bankruptcy often are logical.

Many execs will see bankruptcy coming and will jump ship. Bankruptcy can be complicated to navigate and there is often still significant value in the company. It really helps to have at least a few people that understand the business and the books.

A significant proportion of typical exec comp is equity/options which is/has likely gone to zero, so a cash bonus is often used as a retainer fee for key execs.
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Got curious and went looking, this looks like the one:

Ex. Yugoslavian military shelter for submarines
D117, 21480, Rogačić, Croatia

https://goo.gl/maps/imWgUufegJoe1ZsGA
Sure, when time and money don't matter.

If they matter, most customers will want their money back when 1.0 gets delivered, regardless of what was said during demos.
I had never heard of LSIF. Its webpage says it intends to "define a standard format for language servers or other programming tools to dump their knowledge about a workspace". SARIF being targeted towards static analysis tools results, it seems more straightforward to support it both for producing results and for reading them.

To be honest, since both formats are at least partially developed by Microsoft, they might have some common people behind them, but as a user and producer of static analysis tools, I'd prefer to have a single standard. SARIF is already standardized and gaining traction, so it seems the better choice for now.
It looks like they want to charge me the same as Lightroom but without the seamless cloud storage.
I think the situation is before steam had refunds people would try to make a chargeback and have their whole account locked.
Patching Oni for PowerBook G4
Would a Z mainframe be of effective use for data science chemistry modeling? I wasn't able to get a straight answer out of IBM directly.
There's plenty of justification; for example, because you felt like it.

On HN, people don't need to justify their interests or their pleasures. It is the scolds who are at fault.
This is amazing and sounds like exactly what I was imagining.
I really wish it were this simple, and altering your diet was a way to stave off or treat this horrid disease. My grandfather died from Parkinson's and it was terrible watching this man who was strong as a bull - even in his 70s - degenerate into a helpless old man over the course of about 3-4 years.
In Microsoft Windows the Police May Get Access to All the Files
Apple and Microsoft both have resources to dedicate as much man/machine-power as Google does for their browsers if they wanted to. They just don't want to play the neck-and-neck game any more. MS has opted to simply use Chromium while Apple as you say goes at its own pace. But they do have the capacity to match Google if they choose to, given some ramp-up time.
It appears that the procedure to sign up is to go to IRC and ask for an invite.
> it's funny because this looks like badly organized workplace

You probably should get out of the HN bubble more often, a badly organized workplace is the norm not the exception.

(I hope it doesn't come as condescending since it's not my intention)
Although, could this message thing not be modelled with lambdas taking remaining "holes" as arguments, "formatting" the message, which are given as arguments to functions?

The gain seems smaller than the gain from first class procedures, but it is an interesting idea, which might avoid some lambda wrapping in the code.
Don't blame yourself. If you're perfectly capable of using LG that's just clear indication the usability issues are with Darktable.
That would depend on what you do with the NaNs. For instance I have been using them extensively in time series data representation to denote a specific entry has no value - think of Saturday and stock/forex markets.
The illegal Airbnb nightclubs wreaking havoc on London
Probably the most informative source

https://www.sfmta.com/sites/default/files/Draft%20ManagingTa...
User managed passwords aren’t ideal. If you’re looking for more security and you’re concerned about compromise of local keys, you could purchase a couple of yubikeys (or similar), or you could use an SSH CA (Hashicorp vault and Step come to mind). However, if you’re very concerned about storing creds on a company laptop, or compromising your passwords by logging into a honeypot server (which known_hosts should be protecting you from), you ought to be much more scared of your company keylogging you...
Also, you’re prepurchashing common shares. These are only worth money if the sell price is over the valuation of the last raised round
Servo was always a research project, and not a full browser replacement intended to compete with Firefox. As the article states, many components of Servo eventually ended up in Firefox.
At least in my case, it's not that I'm constantly clicking on things that it turns out I dislike. Rather, it's that the few times I have clicked on a recommendation (because hey, maybe they know something I don't, maybe Sonic the Hedgehog actually is a good suggestion for people who liked Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind), I've regretted it.
I don't know why US schools and the government are trying so desperately to get people back on site. Its clear this isn't going to work and the only solution is remote education.
So a company goes to the effort of creating an audit system, but gives everyone the ability to modify the history?

If your threat model is a single rogue employee, auditing systems address the issues. If your threat model is "the whole company works against you", you probably shouldn't be using any company to host your infra, so host it yourself, because there's no way to be secure in that situation.
Do you know any numbers for that excessive mortality in NYC?

That would be pretty interesting.
Your favorite XUL extension broke so you "solved" that by migrating to a completely different browser which also doesn't provide the desired functionality.

Something doesn't add up.
Try searching for "why Christianity".
No pens apparent from Google Maps unless the lift bays are reinforced (Faslane's isn't?), so I guess the USN is confident in their local air supremacy.
> THIS IS ALWAYS A BAD IDEA because once any account is compromised, ALL OTHER ACCOUNTS with locally stored keys ARE ALSO COMPROMISED.

This is not universally true. If you generate separate private keys for each server-client pair, compromising one private key will limit the damage to just the one server.
Isn't Linux being free (including as in beer) one of the main reasons of Coherent fail?
Yeah, I use sessions, which basically means there’s no catalog. I just keep the files where I like and open those folders with Capture One when editing.

I also like the EIP package format. You can package an image into a zip of the original image and all Capture One data. Then it’s just one file for your archives but everything you need is there for the future. Even if you can’t open the Capture One bits at some point, the original is still in there.
They will just tell you to buy a compatible phone or you will not be allowed on site. Its a private school so if you are too poor for a $50 android phone then you wouldn't be able to go to the school anyway.
Maybe someone else will benefit from my experience as well: I recently wanted to create an RSS feed for https://www.apmreports.org/ as they didn't seem to offer one, nor did Feedly (my preferred RSS reader) manage to find one that was up-to-date. I ended up using http://createfeed.fivefilters.org/ instead because there wasn't an existing route in RSSHub that I could use, and it didn't seem trivial to set one up for this particular case; I hope someone will prove me wrong though.

With the Feed Creator feed URL I'm not able to see the content within Feedly (it just says "no content"), but it does relay new posts to me, which I can open directly, and it was amazingly quick to get a functional feed URL, so I'm very happy nonetheless.
Contact centers for software services like this are usually implored, or given specific language on how to deal with user-reported bugs. They’re trained not to admit a bug exists because that implies that the company is at fault. In most cases, this makes sense, as a majority of “bugs” are user-caused problems. In the edge cases where there really is a bug though, users can end up in these kafkaesque dungeons of unresolved problems that they have no control over. The company still benefits in the end as they never admitted fault and the user affected will probably give up sooner than the company gets the ticket resolved.
Isn't there? I feel like it's an almost-universal consensus here that startup employees get heavily exploited, whenever the topic comes up.
At the time, Chrome had Chrome Apps. If you recall, several XUL extension authors quit in disgust and started developing chrome apps. Google wasn't considered 'evil' at the time...

Firefox had a unique, special power which differentiated it and Mozilla chose to kill it. No wonder its browser share dropped like a stone.
This is pretty much coincidental with the rise of online dating. Who could have guessed that trusting the adtech industry with your love life was a bad idea?
> People forget that paying people who have significantly disproportionate power well makes them less likely to be tempted by outside influences.

630k ought to be enough for anybody.
Adding to PassiveHaus and Passive House (separate standard from the original PassivHaus) standards, look into NetZero, and Perfect Wall (especially Lstiburek's institutional Perfect Wall).
Why software architecture (visualization) matters
I rarely if ever go out of the house without my phone on me, but I reckon it wouldn't be that difficult to get a small group into a car and just drive out, maybe writing down the way beforehand. It would be annoying, but they'd manage just fine.
> I was curious about what drivers think.

This. I dislike how other people ("officials") are deciding what workers want for themselves. How about we stop patronizing the workforce and let them make decisions for themselves. People lean on Uber and it's not like they don't understand what money they're getting for their time. At the end of the day, shutting down Uber would just be a pain in the ass for the people.
This is a great idea and already being done (somewhat) in some of fields of psychology through pre-registration [0, 1, 2]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preregistration
[1] https://www.psychologicalscience.org/publications/psychologi...
[2] https://www.psychologicalscience.org/observer/preregistratio...
> But lack of alignment is known to be an issue with both flat AND time-based fees.

Agreed. Agile only puts you in a more flexible relationship. It does not fix every alignment issue. For that you need to be more creative with the contract. However it does spread the risk more evenly. And by you as the client taking on more of the risk instead of pretending an estimate or contract erased it, you will do a better job of managing the risk. Every sprint you'll decide what must be built next. Every sprint you get the opportunity to change requirements. Both of those are far better ways of managing risk than fixed price contracts or estimates.

> Charging per sprint is only superficially different from charging hourly/per day/per week/biweekly.

Not if you are delivering a working product at the end of each sprint. And yes, milestones are somewhat similar to sprints. Except as a client you've now locked yourself into what gets built and if requirements change you've got to renegotiate the contract.

> You can prioritize features? But why wouldn't you do that without sprints?

Because your fixed price contract legally "guarantees" all the listed features will be included.

> Clients will want it to be over as fast as possible.

And you can have that if each sprint ends with a working product. Up to you when the product has enough features included that you are happy with it. Or that you are out of budget. And you've managed risk aligned with the consultant instead of getting an unrealistic estimate they won't meet, or having a to head to court with a broken contract.
The usual trick to get a pty is `script /dev/null` by the way, if that command is available
For me Linux was only a thing, because it was the only way I could do the university homework at home, while the computer center was running DG/UX and Solaris.

Red-Hat Linux was eventually adopted when both of them died, until then it was available in a couple of desktops that would dual boot alongside Windows 95.

Had Windows NT offered a solid POSIX story, that would have been what the labs would have switched to instead.
There’s a non-death outcome that seems pretty bad and pretty common that’s hit the young and healthy, which is “seriously fucked up for an indeterminate amount of time”. As someone who is decently young and healthy, our lack of understanding of that outcome is what still has me scared of this thing, and why “just let it get everyone get it” feels like a nonstarter.
It works for 95% of the population. Good enouth
I think I saw a reddit post about hospital collection agencies, there was some good advice there; I'm not an american citizen so I'm in no position to give advice; I hope you sort it out without paying the 600$.
Python Hash Tables: understanding dictionaries
A new way to unit test multi-threaded Java
> I don’t know of a single app I use regularly that is older than a few years.

What did you use to visit this website? Check your email? Open a spreadsheet last? If your a software developer, what do you edit code in? Your operating system?

Hard to believe you're using apps less than a few years old for any of those much less all of them - or even those that are by name older but have been through a Big Rewrite in the past few years.
Advent of Computing did a great podcast about Coherent recently. For anybody who's interested, I'd recommend checking it out:

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/coherent-is-not-unix/i...
Too bad this guy wrote it in C.

Imagine the overflowing support from this little orange site if he wrote it in Go/Rust.
For some reason I just love how specific this is.
I tend to buy (indie, Linux) games on gog/humble bundle/itch.io, or on the official developer website. When I have to use steam it really pains me, their client, drm, marketing forced accounts, pricing policy .. are a pita.
Yeah, but lets not forget that community also is relatively recent, having replaced the Express editions, which were worthless beyond learning purposes, as per license.
I see you’ve never worked minimum wage jobs before.

There are not “plenty” of unskilled jobs that allow you to set your own hours.

In fact, all of jobs I had accessible to me before I had a degree had ZERO flexibility on hours. You were scheduled (rarely ever during standard 9 to 5 hours), and if you didn’t show up, you were fired.

I would have happily taken a few bucks less than minimum wage for the ability to set my own hours and educate myself. Who are you to tell me I’m being exploited—-as you sit at your 100k+ computer job looking down at me.
I had a discussion with one our devs just yesterday about this. He had the exact opposite notion that some devs are too focused on getting things perfect and don't care about the value they deliver to the business. I guess it's crucial to get the right balance.
As someone who discovered their celiac disease late in life despite having onerous symptoms I wholeheartedly agree.
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> It isn't obvious that you can't spend $700M?

That's far from clear. For example, from the article, turns out Sting costs $1m for a private performance. You could get a private concert on Saturday nights, and in 15 years, your money is all gone...
The resume driven development is a consequence of poor hiring practices that discriminate candidates on the language/framework hype instead of hiring based on experience, know-how and potential.

Our company is looking for an experienced dev with Node and AWS experience. What's that, you have 15 years of industry experience but it's all on-prem Java/PHP? Too bad. NEXT!
> I feel that many people would be satisfied if Firefox was just a small(ish) browser catering to power users.

There's no way to do that in today's environment. Browser development is extremely expensive (there's only 3 companies in the world developing competitive browser engines) so you need money. For Firefox, the only way to get serious cash is to have serious marketshare.

And in reality there isn't that many "power users". I mean, even a lot of developers (like me) use barely any extensions and in any case prefer more speed than more extensibility.
Covid apps using Bluetooth are useless.

If you want a chance for it to work, this might.

This is what a lockdown is. Taking huge risks, be it loose APIs or destroying parts of the economy, all to stop a huger risk.

If you want to understand why Republicans protest the lockdown, look here, this is the beginning of the creep. Republicans mightn't understand what they are protesting but they at least can see the fear, which Democtatz can't.

Given what the media, politicians and the public in general say, everyone just doesn't seem to understand either risk or it's magnitude.
Just reading this post was a lot of work. I can't imagine how these people find the time and patience to work this out from scratch.

Its also a show of how incredibly complex phones are where just the nfc chip has its own bootloader and firmware and update protocol.
> More specifically, it is their bundling of Chrome as the default, preset browser on the world most popular mobile operating system that really swung the tide decisively in their favour. Once ordinary users got used to Chrome on Android, they would naturally seek out the same browser on their laptops and desktops, to minimise interoperability issues and maximise familiarity.

Most android phones I've had have shipped with a stripped down "web" browser as the default.

I use primarily Chrome on my Android phones because performance is consistent. I keep Firefox (with an add blocker) installed and use it for sites where that's needed, but it just doesn't do a good enough job to me fore regular browsing on mobile. This is the same reason I used to stick with Chrome on the desktop too, though since Firefox Quantum I've been able to cope with Firefox for regular use on the desktop.
Good question. I remember that somehow we hafäd to go through at least 3 star creation/destruction cycles to get all our elements
Can tell him he had 1 more user ;)
Is that legal in the USA? Entering into a purchase agreement ("koopovereenkomst", not sure if I'm translating the jargon correctly) and then just not paying? Because that's certainly not legal where I live.

I understand that the odds of repercussions are small and that there are no damages on Adobe's side since you haven't physically taken their goods so it would probably have to be taken up by the public prosecutor rather than become a civil case... but still, I'd not be happy having my name on a "doesn't pay their bills" list, nor is it quite honest.

Or am I misunderstanding the situation and did they advertised with monthly cancelable? (False advertising) Nobody mentioned that in the thread though, and from this comment it sounds like it was very clear that you were agreeing into a year-long subscription: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24232282
> But from a product point of view, Firefox lost its "killer app".

For most of (former/present) Firefox users extensibility wasn't the "killer app".

FF gained its marketshare at the time because IE was so crappy on most metrics and that was the main competition.
How the blame can be on the consumer? They don’t even have a clue what a front end is. Just look at Adobe customers to see if they are happy with the cloud for their apps.
> What’s the role of an academic journal in 2020?

Status. Brand. Trust. That's all it's really about. If Newton and Einstein started a curated website of the best papers of the year, those papers would probably experience increased citations, and you would probably pay a premium to subscribe to that list.
GNU chmod/chown include this. I don't remember if stock tools on SunOS did, but I'd often use GNU coreutils compiled for Sun as they had more features.
> This has less to do with wildcards and more with passing arbitrary filenames

I think the issue being pointed out was that wildcards are expanded to filenames before parsing of arguments, which of course means you may not know what all filenames you're passing.

While this is something we all know, it can certainly slip through the cracks when you decide you just want to delete everything in the folder.

> This "vulnerability" ...

I don't know that it's a vulnerability proper so much as a warning to think before hitting enter.
Android developer class action suit targets Play Store and 30% transaction fee
Following this logic, all acquisition should have 0 cash, with what would've been the money for the acquisition going to retention bonuses instead.

This is definitely better for retention, and the share holders that aren't working there anymore? Well they aren't working there anymore so have nothing more to contribute right?