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The beauty of iOS over Android is one of cohesiveness. Android seems "balkanized". Is something deployed guaranteed to work across all Android devices? I'm firmly in the iOS camp as an end user and my now-decreasing development efforts are on Linux, primarily Python and Bash (systems deployment and maintenance). Android, while nice on a Pixel (friends) seems almost broken on other devices.
They knew about the cut before writing their iOS app.

Edit: I was wrong; misread.
What's presented here by the interviewer is not actually what M. Berners-Lee's idea was. Here's what M. Berners-Lee actually said:

* http://impactlab.net/2006/03/25/interview-with-tim-berners-l...
It may be a benevolent monopoly to you but that doesn't mean it's not a monopoly. The predatory behaviors seem to be focused on other companies, other competitors, not on consumers. Actually, seems they are treating consumers very well (often thru very low prices subsidized from profits elsewhere) to drive competitors out of business.

So from a consumer standpoint, perhaps it is good now, but we also don't know how much better it could be if there were competition. From a competitor standpoint, it sure doesn't sound fun. I have friends who sell things on Amazon and if they get too big, sometimes Amazon even squeezes them out of their business.

I wonder if antitrust law is to protect consumers or to protect other potential producers. Regardless, I imagine some of the idea behind it is that monopolies have relatively unchecked market power and while they can be good to consumers, they can also turn bad for consumers with little freedom for consumers to leave.
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Another thread where people will fly to defend Apple and explain how it's circumstances are similar to PS and Xbox and no one is coming after Sony, yet everyone conveniently decides not to compare Apple to early 2000s Microsoft which is basically a mirror situation.

I guess people "expect" stuff like this from Apple which is the reason we are not allowed to criticize them, yet if Microsoft came out and said Steam breaks their "arbitrary rules" (well they are Microsoft rules, you need to respect them duuh) and kicked Steam off the whole Windows platform, all hell would break loose, people would be screaming for heads to fall..
Is someone making you use ProtonMail?
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to be fair, the title of the article is "Five Signs Your Story Is Classist". it's probably intended for an audience of people that already agrees and is genuinely worried about representation issues in media.
Let's start with domestic journalists who abuse their vastly disproportionate power.
Having principles hurts sometimes. Sometimes they require you to do things that are painful with the understanding that the alternative is even worse.

I'd gladly take a world with disinformation over a world in which an unaccountable third party determines what is truth, and therefore okay to say. I can work around the first problem with some effort much easier than the second one.
> "Black lives matter" is a statement that everyone already agrees with.

The fact that you believe that is probably most of the problem.
I disagree, consumers should be able to decide if they want to buy a product or not and do their due diligence investigating the producer.

The countries where labor is cheaper benefit by getting more work and ultimately they uplift themselves.

Now, if it comes out that such labor is abused or managed corruptly and so forth, that is a product I will not knowingly or willingly buy.
Good point regarding the incumbents. This clearly isn't a simple problem to solve...some one will always lose.

Sadly, we cannot trust our political leaders to simply do the right thing. To the contrary, we need to have these types of discussions in an effort to govern the government. :(
You seem to think Apple's cut is coming out of ProtonMail's profits. It isn't, it's coming out of users pockets (via higher prices). From the article:

>Yen says the company was forced to raise its prices since the 30-percent commission that Apple takes completely ate away ProtonMail's profit margins.

Now multiply the 30% increase times every (paid) app on your phone.

(NB: I'm not against Apple making healthy money from the App store but 30% is just gouging IMHO)
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Somewhere else one said it is more like Nix (than Bazel).

https://lobste.rs/s/ykk54d/amazon_s_build_system#c_wulrai
Maybe it's a bad moment for Medium but I'm getting unresponsive script dialogs, unloaded images or even bad gateway errors. Hopefully they're not because of this very post or are they? I'll check again later.
Not OP but I did something similar. Used to do the code/eat/sleep/code/eat/sleep lifestyle but realized I liked to refactor, polish and perfect too much and that was incompatible with the industry's demand to "ship barely working garbage on time". So I became a product manager, then project manager, and instead do coding on my free time. It's great because it lets me stay in software, but in a supporting role and I don't feel the pressure to get on the code/eat/sleep treadmill. The down side is it's a little harder to find jobs. Companies hire software developers by the truck load, but usually only require 1 PM or PJM for every 50 engineers they hire.

I keep my skills up and could still pass your company's C++ interview, but honestly I don't really want to.
I hope they will complain about this with the EU. Maybe the EU can stop this nonsense.
> one of the most critical pieces of networking software in the world

cURL is widely available and widely used, obviously, but I'm surprised to see it described this way. I've always seen it mainly as a way for people and scripts to conveniently try out endpoints and download files. But this makes it sound like more than that; does it get widely used in an infrastructural capacity?
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Facebook and Twitter don’t make the determinations alone. They contract internationally recognized fact checking organizations. Is it perfect? No. Do we need to curtail online disinformation at a platform-level? Yes, clearly we can’t rely on the critical thinking skills of the reader to make a rational determination — if we could, we wouldn’t have this problem in the first place.

This and several posts on this thread seem to think it’s impossible to discern fact from fiction, that every opinion, even if false and presented as factual, deserves equal time.

I fear that if we cannot have factual, cogent policy debates, our democracies are doomed.
Checked this out and to be honest I'm completely stoked. We've been looking for a solution to our secrets nightmare and this just might be it.

Question, is it possible to rename the default local environment to "local"? dev means something else at our place ...
but how does it work? I imagine it requires sophisticated software on the receiving side? (and thus they can give away the 3D designs and still profit by selling the software?)
Quite simple: You are not allowed to push any further updates until you either 1) allow the subscription to be purchased through Apple or 2) make your service completely free so no IAP is required.

Apple has been rejecting app updates for lesser reasons.
You could argue the same thing for many big monolithic C projects though. How many of the original authors/maintainers are left in OpenSSL or the Linux kernel?

My main worry about Rust dependencies is not so much the number, it's that it's still a fairly young ecosystem that hasn't stabilized yet, packages come and go fairly quickly even for relatively basic features. For instance for a long time lazy_static (which is one of the dependencies listed here) was the de-facto standard way of dealing with global data that needed an initializer. Apparently things are changing though, I've seen many people recommend once_cell over it (I haven't had the opportunity to try it yet).

Things like tokio are also moving pretty fast, I wouldn't be surprised if something else took over in the not-so-far future.

It's like that even for basic things: a couple of years ago for command line parsing in an app I used "argparse". It did the job. Last week I had to implement argument parsing for a new app, at first I thought about copy/pasting my previous code, but I went on crates.io and noticed that argparse hadn't been updated in 2years and apparently the "go to" argument parsing lib was now "clap". So I used clap instead. Will it still be used and maintained two years from now? Who knows.
They tell you to add IAPs that are to their liking, or you're out of the store for violations of the App Store Review Guidelines.
They have to. Doing nothing is so much worse. It won't be an amendment, it'll be the end of the constitution.
Imo, making API's copyrightable will only make things worse for all the US based software companies, sort of gain dollar, loose hundred situation, as it'll open a whole new front in an already existing software patent wars.

Maybe it's just what Google wants- to test the water and this is more of a opening act and the real play is only ahead of us! ;)
As stated by another post, they built the trains but didn't own the track.

However, I'm not sure your conclusion about owning railroads is a nightmare is true. Berkshire Hathaway (Warren Buffet's company) bought Norfolk Southern in 2007 and it's done fairly well since. My understanding is that these are relatively stable businesses because the barrier to entry is large enough to stifle competition.
It's pretty clear the viewpoint is "any negative depiction of poor people is bad," and more broadly, "class divide exists and is significant."
...and with cases pending before the Supreme Court, we're on the cusp of the societal shock of a sudden return to this situation.
So you're part of the "tear down journalism" crowd that are a part of the problem?
not even that, according to the linked issue:

> yes, configuration files are specified on the command-line and not hard-coded, so only those performing legitimate surveys of the Internet (possibly wanting to be responsible or respectful of those NOCs who still live in the world of generating abuse complaints when snort tells them to) would be likely to use them. Maybe there are a few script kids out there who are intelligent enough to avoid hitting the small collection of networks on this list to avoid their scans generating abuse complaints that may get their boxes killed, but I guess it's probably a near-zero population
A direct quote from the CEO appears to say otherwise -

"Out of the blue, one day they said you have to add in-app purchase to stay in the App Store. "
Keen observations, terrific comparison. Thank you.

Pieter Hintjens, Clay Shirky, Bryan Cantrill, Nadia Eghbal caliber.

I'd read anything you write about FOSS, organizational psychology, governance.
Book looks interesting but I'm curious... how do we know this is Sid Meiers's site and isn't just a site with a bunch of affiliate links on it?
The west, the most powerful civilization in history, stand by watching in horror. Are you serious?

I don't have links or videos saved with me right now, but I am an Egyptian and followed all of what happened. I can get it if I wanted, but it will take time. But I think you can easily find it. Listen to professor Chomsky's lectures for example.

As far as I remember, this one (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zLPYN82xHck) contains most of his opinions about it. But I would have to watch it again to be sure.

Even "Last Week Tonight with John Oliver" was joking about how Obama didn't admit the coup to keep giving them aid, but I also don't have the link of the episode here.

So I think it is obvious if you wanted to see it. But pick your opinion as you wish. It is a free world, right?
It doesn't have Indian products as of now.

Is this exclusion by choice or just because there haven't been any Indian contributors?
Then I resign that my communication failed.

A baby step away from industrialization will allow people to connect with the world around them. So many people are disconnected from what non-processed food even looks, smells, or tastes like. Showing people that we don't have to eat the perfectly red, plump and tasteless tomato in exchange for a tasty, delicious, non-perfect tomato that they grew themselves helps show them that the world they've been conditioned to exist in isn't the only one available.
The same enlightened people that had negro sex slaves?
Yes it's politically correct but adding "git branch -M main" on every new repo the mankind creates is just a waste of goddamn bytes and kills a penguin every year for every extra cpu cycle it wastes.

If you really want to use an environmental argument it's very likely that using a branch name that's 2 characters shorter on every merge to the main/master branch, every list of branches, every Github page that displays the main/master branch name, etc will save a far greater amount of energy than renaming repos will ever use. On a random repo homepage the word 'master' appears 31 times in the HTML content, so switching to 'main' would reduce the bandwidth on every single page load by 62 characters[1].

Any repo that opts out must be run by a climate change denier.

[1] Compression has been ignored to protect the argument.
This stuff seems pretty famous and worthy of being preserved, so why is that someone like @historicalcode on GitHub hasn't put it into a repository yet? Some licensing issues?
The far right have been attacking journalists as "enemies of the people" for a while now. Extreme leftists tend to hate mainstream journalism, too.
I say let them both bleed to death, for a better world. Pity is that there is no guarantee that survivor will be shot in the head after that.
and what about the other half? We just use them as slaves? That's OK with you?
I got a birth affidavit from my parents because my parent's name was abbreviated in the birth certificate. This affidavit does not have parent's date of birth. Is that going to be an issue?
Before: One could subscribe only over the web.

After: You can subscribe in-app (in addition to online) and Apple takes a cut of that purchase. You aren't allowed to mention anywhere in the App that there are alternate (perhaps cheaper) purchase methods.
This 'article' loses itself every time 'should not' is used instead of 'does not'.
Responded in another comment.
Repeat after me, social media is not reality.

Social media is the new tabloid salacious media.

Yes it can be fun, entertaining, informative and educational, it can also be propaganda, misinformation, astroturfing, and a big high school like popularity contest where people are fake and narcissistic but probably insecure.

The truth is the internet is teaching the biggest lesson ever in critical thinking and getting your information from many sources across spectrums, countries, divides and more.

Let's hope that people see it as a lesson and not somewhere they can bask in their confirmation bias all day, or make decisions based on fear, in those cases the populace is easy to manipulate.
It's not like I want to build my own smartphone ecosystem or an encrypted email service.

So I pay and get on with my life. No one forces me to do this.
not really. a big part of the experience is the 17" monitor
I have no problem with Apple's basic approach with the App Store, they provide a service and are entitled to charge for it.

I do think they have gone too far with some of their practices though. This sort of shake down of free apps is over-reach and I'm glad they have revised the App Store guidelines. I hope this sort of arm-twisting doesn't happen in future.

It is a tricky issue. As I said it's their product their rules, but those rules do need to be clear, be fair and be impartially applied. I really don't want to see heavy handed regulation in this area, which could be incredibly damaging.
The higher prevailing wages don't impact the present wages of those currently in H-1B status; they will only apply to extensions and new filings.
> Facebook is not evil in and of itself.

Yea but wasn't it basically a DoD spawn? Since LifeLog failed?

I mean, no need to get around messy privacy laws if you can convince people to voluntarily upload data on every aspect of their daily lives. It's brilliant. Evil, but brilliant.
I think the clearest evidence for market failure is the complete lack of price transparency. Medical providers simply don't compete on price.

Prices quoted aren't actually prices. You have zero idea how much it's going to cost you until you get the bills, often split across dozens of providers, and what you see are the results of negotiations between providers and insurers.
Thanks for educational comments! I need to update those old statements. It was started originally as an object store only.

The blobs are read-modify-write, but a file can have many blobs. So the whole file does not need to be read-modify-write, unless it is a small file.

The redundancy is managed via scriptable admin commands.
Is someone making ProtonMail use AppStore?
If you put curl in a script that runs on every new machine in your infrastructure, I'd say that's pretty widely used.
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This is an assertion, not a plan.

Your statement could just as easily apply to publicizing a whistleblower exposing massive corruption as it could to active collaboration with a foreign power to subvert an election.

But beyond that, what are you actually proposing to "start"?
That it drives huge engagement is an indictment of public education.
From the article : Apple responded, saying that free companion apps to paid online services are no longer required to have in-app purchases as of September 11, 2020. As long as paid upgrades are not offered through the app and it has no notifications to customers about an external subscription service, everything is fine.

So....
Not necessarily related, but I’m subscriptioned and incremental-purchased out. Any time I see “In-App purchase”, I immediately skip the app.
Keep the marketplace of information free and let people adapt. In the short term, will people be manipulated? Sure. Is that desirable? No.

In the long term, as has happened before, people adapt to the new reality. Marketing has to change all the time because people wise up to manipulative strategies.

The long term solution is a more intelligent public, not censorship.
I did this. I was on H1B and wife is American. For starters, you don't have to leave the country for anything. You and your wife will apply for Green card and Change of status. But this is after marriage.
Married women lost almost 1M jobs last month, while single men gained 1.2M
But the down sides should be worked out in their prototype stage, once they sell this to manufactures the process should be worked leaving only upside. If they can make even a small improvement it will be adopted just because the first that does will see the improvement in their bottom line.
If somebody has renounced their us citizenship many years ago for the purpose of finding work abroad, is there any path for them to get it back?
The distinction that makes ai compression creepy is that it can use prior knowledge of what a face is.

Traditional compression has no high level knowledge of what a video call looks like, the algorithms are about patterns in how pixels change in time and space, so the artifacts from the algorithm are pixel-based effects (blockiness, blurriness, etc).

A neural net that has been trained on a million faces and is setup to draw a face may draw a perfectly clear image of a face on low bandwidth...but when it doesn't have bandwidth to be accurate, it doesn't blur things, it fills in details learned from looking at strangers who aren't on the call.
Good luck. I'm not convinced that's automatable.
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A "fun" insight here: https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2016/11/14/i-have-toyota-corola/
I thought they were shutting down nuclear and replacing it with new coal/gas? Or is that just Germany?
What is the alternative? Think you're the smartest person on the planet, unaffected by misinformation? "Feed me the libraries worth of bullshit from the Internet, and I will sort through this free market firehose to come to a logical, evidence based conclusion", hm?

Have you ever read spam ads on Craigslist, fake comments on news sites, bots on Tinder, etc? There are patterns, there are foul motives, and with their internal data, there is certainly technical stats to identify related accounts participating in bad faith campaigns.

I understand the gut feeling to be suspicious of any large org to filter information. People on this very thread are screaming "censorship!" as if they were Orwell in the streets warning us the end is nigh.

However, if you look at Twitter or Facebook on any given day, you can see that a lot of bullshit, emanating from every possible angle of the political spectrum, still exists. Much of it organic, much of it bots, I'm sure. Let's stop hitting the panic button every time they remove Iranian bot networks.
For how long the one can keep green card without applying for US citizenship?
More nuance

> even seek to move internationally if remote working is viable for their particular role

This is not true, it is not related to the role but related to if you are in the USA or not. In written internal memo it is specified exceptions are possible, but reality is the manager telling you directly this is not happening for employee outside USA.
No plain ePub option?
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"doesn't even try to prove this viewpoint"

Not every essay can be a scholarly paper with full references to defend its statements.

Consider this quote from the essay: """Other toxic stereotypes used to make lower-class people into jokes include crude language or behavior, having “too many” children, and being unintelligent. The United States has “hick” or “white trash” stereotypes that are often used to depict low-income white people."""

Here's a 50 minute lecture on "White Trash: The 400-Year History of Class in America" which expands on this one topic - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_cPII2l-K4s presented by the author of a book of the same name. I found it quite insightful.

That the author fails to justify every point might be because they appear to me to be well-known - and not based simply on a political agenda, but backed by sociological research.
Maybe instead of comparing to cookbooks we should compare an API's to technical standards? (think ISO)
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Hi Peter,

Does the prevailing wage rule apply only to base salary or to total compensation?

Do you think the new rules will be sued and blocked?
They're building a propaganda machine the likes of which Joseph Goebbels couldn't even have dreamed. It will certainly be fascinating, so long as you can ignore the unprecedented levels of damage it does.
Most applications are not supposed to survive a panic!(), to the point where I personally tend to use "panic = 'abort'" for any code where performance matters. As such it's not really a mental overhead, and definitely not the Rust way of doing error handling (in the same way than using "assert" and a signal handler is not the way you're supposed to do error handling in C++).

The Rust way of dealing with errors is to return a Result<> and in my experience it's the best system I've used. It doesn't have the code flow breaking aspect of exceptions while being a lot nicer and less error-prone than C or Go style error handling.