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Apple is not in any danger of losing their lawsuit with Epic. However, it did not make sense why Epic was paying the same amount of fees as an indie developer.

I said it before, but Epic went about this all wrong. They should have started this out as a grass roots campaign focused on their indie devs that licensed Unreal.

Epic should have advocated for Apple to reduce low revenue App Store royalty payments to these people. Then used that win as a springboard toward trying to get their own reduced as well.
Cmon, let’s be honest. A LeetCode subscription.
Buying Bitcoin.
i hope android version will bring back webauthn as it was available in fennec
Also in the mid 90s during Clinton times, the level of engagement between US and NK had warmed enough that US even agreed to supply nuclear reactors to NK. If I am not wrong one of them was even actually partially installed in NK, before construction was halted abruptly by the NK nuclear test.
Not sure why you'd get flagged for that, you don't seem to have an association?
They got more data so they updated the number to 95%, if a member of the public doesn't understand that they are just being willfully ignorant.
The difference is just a historical choice. The desktop platform owners chose to be open in that way, but they didn't have to. Games console makers chose to go the locked down route at about the same time (in the grand scheme of things). The Mac launched long after many locked down games consoles existed. They just chose different strategies.
To Apple developers are disposable, if you don’t want to make software in their garden someone else will clone your app there. They seem themselves as the ones providing value to you.

It won’t be long till they make more changes to make sure they get that value out of you on the desktop too.
You can get them for free at the library. No need to spend professional development money on them.
original press release:

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2020/11/apple-announces-app-s...
Objectively it doesn't matter. You need several measurable criteria. Each of those criteria are subject measures. They could be things like quantity of delivery, originality, speed of change, and whatever else you might want. You just need to measure something to establish a plot.
Absolutely agreeing as well. It’s a nice gesture from apple towards independant developers, but it doesn’t solve the fundamental issues stated over and over. I hope they won’t get away with it, especially now that laptop and desktop are closer than ever to live the same fate.
Airpair, Codementor, Hack Hands
Redirecting to a page full of ads is different from having a horrible javascript bloated page that takes 20 seconds to load on mobile.
The capacity to meet volatile demand
> Only the first two are affiliate behavior, and they don't apply to every purchase, and you can't opt out.

What is and isn't affiliate behaviour isn't important. They are acting like an affiliate I said. It is close enough.

> Right. But that's just facilitating a transaction, which is usually not a 30% cut.

Yes it is a 30% cut. We have already established it is on other stores.

> Again, standard and reasonable are different things. And again, the problem is you can't choose the type of relationship.

You can choose not to do business with Apple.

> People get pressured into unreasonable rates all the time...

These aren't unreasonable rates though. If they were unreasonable people would not publish there. End of. I don't understand how people can say something is unreasonable when there are lots of people using it and making money just fine. So for a lot of people they obviously think it is reasonable.

> Again, standard and reasonable are different things. And again, the problem is you can't choose the type of relationship.

You can. You can not deal with the app store.

> It's always going to be viable for someone to publish. Even with a 90% fee. But surely we can agree that 90% would not be reasonable, even if it was standard?

No we cannot agree. Firstly 90% is not viable to anyone, nobody would agree to that and people wouldn't publish on the app store. So to start your premise is completely absurd.

Pretend for a moment Apple did raise it tomorrow to 90% cut to them. The vast majority of would just pull their apps and Apple would have to lower the rate again. Every company chooses 30% because it is what everyone else does because it is more or less fair to both parties. Now if another player releases a new phone with a store and they have a better market rate and a decent market share then Apple will lower their rates (like Nintendo did).
Problem with Linux is that in order to support arm you don't just have to build for the architecture but also for a specific distribution and version.
Apple has revenues of about $275bln, and a net margin of about 21% company-wide, meaning $58bln.

The app store sold about $50bln worth of stuff in 2019, Apple's 30% cut would therefore mean $15bln in revenue. If they operated the app store at a least a 70% margin (and really, if they didn't, then I'd be rather surprised), that would mean a good $10bln in net profit from the app store, or 17% of their total net profit.

And that's still not accounting for the network effect the app store creates, or the business intelligence.

It might not be the biggest elephant ever, but it's not what I'd call a tiny baby elephant either.
For anyone in India, the cheapest way to get a Safari Books subscription is via an ACM Professional or Student membership. It’s only INR 1500 per year.
> he just happened to know that repeatedly using the differential operator on a seemingly random differential equation would create a pattern that resembles the original equation after using substitution repeatedly

Yep. One of the main differences of advanced Math is that the problem gives no clues about the solution. You look at the problem, you pick one of the standard tricks from your backpack of trick, and try to hit the problem as hard as you can. Sometimes the trick solves the problem. Sometimes the trick simplifies the problem. (Sometimes it is not obvious that it is a simplification). Sometimes the trick does nothing, so you just pick another trick from your backpack of tricks...

If that doesn't work, you call a friend that has another backpack full of tricks ...

The idea is that in a Math BS or PhD you see a lot of tricks, and get some advice about where each one can be useful. Transforming an infinite sum to a function is an standard trick. Transforming that to a differential equation is not so standard, but I've seen it before.

And sometimes no trick solves the problem, so you must invent a new trick. After a few year, if the trick is useful in other problems it will become popular and it will be added to the standard curriculum of a major in Math, or to the advanced classes for PhD, or just be a standard trick in a small niche.
“I don’t know enough about the reporting process” yet continues to come up with a theory based on nothing.
Linux will not run on the M1 until 1a) Apple decides to allow it or 1b) someone finds a boot chain exploit, and 2a) Apple releases full chip documentetion or a Linux port outright or 2b) People spend years reverse engineering it all until it works well.

I don't see 2a happening, and let's hope for 1a and time.
At the moment I'm using git hooks on bare repos on a deployment machine to automatically build detached work trees whenever someone pushes the deployment branch. This works well because no secret keys need exist on the deployment machine. Even if encrypted, I don't want secret keys sitting on a deployment machine.

Does ansible pull require a secret ssh key on the pulling machine? Seems like it would but I don't remember.
That would be an incentive to drop the price is almost 0 until January if you see that you're trending towards $1M at the end of the year.
Sure, I refer you to a comment I made in a previous thread about mobile payment revenue shares: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23583011

As a point of reference, HumbleBundle charges 5% for the Humble payment widget. They handle hosting your data, all the payment systems for taking payments from most of the world, handling chargebacks on your behalf etc etc.

If you want to sell your game on the Humble Store on the other hand, well then they take a 25% cut. That’s the value in being able to deliver a customer.

Apple’s fixed 30% cut is effectively saying: our brand is more important than yours in delivering customers to your App. The imprinteur of being in our App Store and bringing you a customer is worth 30% of your income. Your ability to deliver your own customers is irrelevant; we’re taking 30% either way. Unsurprisingly this sticks in the craw of some companies.

The fact that Apple’s systems make it almost impossible to effectively communicate with your own customer is an even bigger problem for a customer-focused company who’s income & branding depend on a close relationship with their customers: those companies are completely stuffed by the Apple App model & are the reason the App Store has not lead to the explosion of innovation some of us expected - it’s just not possible for a company to sustain themselves outside a very narrow set of income generation patterns.
If you aren’t great with your toolset spending time learning your editor/ide .

I spent some time a decade ago learning better emacs skills (macros on the fly). Also getting better with jet brains IDEs. Made me more productive and my work more enjoyable.

I also read some of the “Unix power tools” book from oreilly, to help my command line skills.

Thirdly I had to learn symfony so I signed up for symfonycasts video tutorials and did the first lessons. It was a little cheeky but it really helped getting running. I liked the short lessons followed by actually doing.
this is not the way it has been on ps4, for sure it is not the way it works on ps5. ps4 can do updates when it is on stand by. i don’t know about xbox, but i presume it is the same.
Not that I've applied to all that many jobs since school (a long time ago), I'm not sure I agree unless you're applying for materially different roles. I certainly agree that a cover letter should usually be customized. However, the downside of customizing a resume for each application is that it introduces the possibility of mistakes or at least less polishing. At the least it's a tradeoff.
My plan is to not fly on these for 6 - 12 month; see if any more crash. On the one hand, I would be terrified because, obviously! But on the other, they must now be extremely safe, with all the scrutiny, right?
> very timely given the trends for low contrast design that seem prevalent combined with my now over 40 eyes

I'm a decade younger than you and I still bristle every time I see someone disparage black-on-white. #000 on #FFF looks fine, guys, and it looks way, way better than the #BBB on #CCC that you're about to publish. You're overthinking it.
It sounds like this is a cliff? If you go over the threshold all your revenue is taxed at 30%?

That will lead to some wonky behaviors.
Gemini ...recedes a bit too far, though I sympathize with the intent.
FDA approves first coronavirus test for self-testing at home
Looks like it is built on the new Gateway Load-Balancer, which the Enterprise firewalls are a part of and auto-scale out. Meaning, third-parties have the same scaling capabilities now. So I see this as "Oh I don't need the big fancy palo alto crowd, just the basics". I've known a lot of people who spent a lot of time trying to get snort running proper in AWS, this seems to be geared at that. The Palo Altos of the world certainly aren't scared of competing with Snort.
While I agree that while application is a great way to learn most of the time when you go to school they don't just tell you "just keep doing a thing over and over" without any other kind of guidance or material.
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Downside is that it takes ~30 seconds to create a short link :)
If I recall correctly, the weaving was often done in Malta as it was the only place where the carpet weavers had fingers nimble enough to do it.

(edit) a bit of digging around turned up an article [0] showing women building core memory for the Apollo Guidance Computer.

[0] https://www.amusingplanet.com/2020/02/that-time-when-compute...
Pfizer says final data analysis shows Covid vaccine is 95% effective
This makes me hopeful we'll see an improved PineTab....
The Mac Is Losing Me
Even on a small business/startup average youd maybe see 50 businesses start, and 5 succeed
Azure had more specific routing capabilities, yes. But they can't do what this does and maintain the flow stickiness and sessions and scale out.
Oyster makes it easy to hire, pay, and give great benefits to your globally-distributed team.
Not even the compiler knows, since interfaces are resolved at runtime. You could build a list of potential implementations, but then structural typing means that it can't know the difference between an intentional and accidental implementation.
Share terminal sessions as razor-sharp animated SVG everywhere
$49/mo isn't cheap though, you can buy an awful lot of books for that money directly.
I think it’s just as easy to automate a monthly renewal as a five year renewal.

The argument that gets presented to me is that shorter times reduce the risk of someone compromising the cert and pretending to be the real server. But that risk requires a pretty motivated attacker to also compromise DNS or server farm and that probably doesn’t matter because they will plan around any renewal cycle.
Eh? Source?
I added that sentence to make it clear that I am not an expert. I am highlighting how this appears to me. I was hoping that someone with experience working in clinical trials would chime in
Cyca v0.8 brings groups into bookmarks and feeds management
Anyone knows if Xi Jingping is hakka? Your article (1992) is from before his rise but the following link from later on, 1999-2002, when he was governor of Fujian province (where historically part/most of the hakka holdings were) seems to imply he is.

http://www.china.org.cn/english/4344.htm
NumPy vs. Mir Using Multigrid
In that debate what’s the suggested alternative to the carrier?
There are about 7 million houses in England without some form of off street housing. Changing that will take far more work that wiring up ~2M lamp posts.

Also, to ban all parking on public roads is also infeasible aside from the houses with parking issues. Most city centre businesses would vehemently oppose such a move without replacement parking which would cost far far more money from the public purse.

So although I'm quite happy for people to have opinions, the consequences of enacting this opinion would be a greater waste of public resources than just allowing people to park on the side of the road (in most cases).
mpv (youtube-dl) cannot injest that. It's my one-off net audio player of preference.
> The second is default: lenders should feel the sting of making bad loans and_should not_ be rewarded for bad behavior and taking advantage of kids.

This would require being able to get rid of student loans during bankruptcy. Maybe the best policy is to just allow that.
I'm not trying to be snarky, just trying to understand. What are you defending against by refusing to visit a read-only, plain HTTP site?
Unless you buy a cheap brand I don't think the matte / glossy holds up anymore. A good quality screen can have a degree of gloss and still offer superior quality to matte. Crystal clear rendering of fonts is a given. Having said the above, I think there's actually very little competition out there that beats MacBook Pro's etc.
mpv (youtube-dl) cannot injest that. It's my one-off net audio player of preference.
The direct episode link is ... https://anchor.fm/chapteroneventures/episodes/Dustin-Schau-G...

... which still fails the mpv/youtube-dl test.
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I recently had a requirement to build flow charts and pipelines. I ended up using React Diagrams[1]. I did ended up using successfully, but I think experience was painful when you want to draw pipeline programmatically. This however looks quite easy to implement and manage. Will give it a try!

[1]https://github.com/projectstorm/react-diagrams
You're totally right that you have to know your audience and cater to it. Technical writing still requires it.

What changed my perspective though is the book "Comedy Writing Secrets". It's a very different topic, but the general aspects of writing fun an engaging texts translate quite well.

One example I've seen it done brilliantly is the re-frame docs https://day8.github.io/re-frame/re-frame/ - I often point it to people as an example of technical writing so good, that its fun to read just for the sheer pleasure of it, regardless of whether one writes Clojure or not.

_why's (Poignant) Guide to Ruby is also a famous example of this.
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The hot take is "I won't fly on these anymore", and I totally get it. However, this is a plane with a ton of recent scrutiny from the FAA, and the product of Boeing cultural failings.

Is the better version of this take "I won't fly Boeing anymore"? With the possible exception of this plane given its recent scrutiny.

The other planes in use are updated on a rolling basis, they've had "minor" changes here and there, potentially the same level of "minor" that the Max was – and we know how that performed.
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To be fair, you are ALWAYS using a security device even if your instance should not be doing anything. You want to know when something malicious is incoming from the internet, or when suddenly that malware calls out to a C2 server. You may think your instances are being quiet, but, that is why you have security tools for the abnormal behaviors and those can happen at anytime.
FYI this link on mobile iOS goes into an endless redirect loop of data:urls for some reason.
Not a CPU geek. Would an ARM laptop beat a say, 500 or 1000 USD Intel laptop in performance and price? Can Samsung or Lenovo make a Air competitor?
MVP as in minimally viable product?
Yes, I do. However I have to switch off my phone when not using it to get through a day, or use a second battery (which is fine for me). A night takes about 50% battery when it's on. Improvements are very much expected.
How does this compare to react-flow?
A course about management and organisational development that used https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychodrama methods. Self-awareness and people skills are invaluable in software development.

Other than that: rocking-kneeling chair from Varier.
How to split your time and not to be buried by meetings
Breaking America’s Patent Stalemate
>Is Linux a viable option as mobile OS?

As someone in the US, I would have to say no, for one reason:

None of the mobile Linux distros yet support group texts (reliably, anyway). If someone sends you a group text, you won't see it. (The only distro that seems to have partial support for it is Ubuntu Touch, and there it seems incomplete; sometimes I would receive group messages and sometimes not. I missed a few important ones this way.)

This is probably only relevant to those in the US as I understand MMS is not as prevalent elsewhere.
> Especially since Apple is worse than Google now.

Care to elaborate on that statement?
> The agency’s chief, Stephen Dickson, signed an order Wednesday formally lifting the grounding [...] “I am 100 percent comfortable with my family flying on it.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_5cpPGEj1Q

I'm looking forward to seeing a video of him and his family on this plane, unless this is just marketing speak. It sure would help raise the public image of the FAA and Boeing slightly if they put their money (family?) where their mouth is.
Of course. A manager was annoyed and asked questions, and at the end of a meeting someone was tasked with recomputing efficacy using up-to-the-minute data, and in the meantime some more of the placebo patients had fallen ill so the results came out better. If Moderna hadn't published, that manager might have asked next week, or the week after, who knows.
Making it easier for people to vote (and make sure their vote is counted correctly, as is the overwhelming primary use case in "curing") is not fraud, it's democracy. The fact that one party is (and historically has been) opposed to this is not something to be proud of.
We do not hear phase differences in the relative phase of different audio frequency components. Try it for yourself. Run a song through an allpass filter. It'll sound the same. In fact, speaker systems of all kinds do crazy things to the phase of signals, and nobody cares (what we care about is frequency and transient response).

The same is not true for radio. There, corrupting the phase relationships corrupts the data (for many systems).

Phase is relative, but our ears don't care about relative phase either (at least as long as you don't stick nonlinear filters after, then it starts mattering, but usually in audio things are fairly decorrelated anyway so it only matters in quite specific cases).

Here is an example: https://twitter.com/marcan42/status/1282685645731672064

Demo: https://twitter.com/zwegner/status/1282859889447116809 (interestingly, you can hear the change in Twitter's low quality encode, but it goes away at higher qualities, so it seems their crappy AAC encoder does care about relative phase :-))

It's counterintuitive how little our ears care about phase across frequency bands. This is not true for other kinds of signals.
I saw a joke on that the other day:

After hearing about Oregon's recent de-criminalization of hard drugs, a bunch of druggies were celebrating by doing cocaine in a public park. An officer walks up to them and says, "Is that a plastic straw?"
> That involves marketing, advertising, customer acquisition, cash flow management

The most projects mentions involved at least a few of hese things, and the last one, Earlyname[0], had them all and has been more profitable than many many "businesses" in SV right now...

[0]: https://tinyprojects.dev/projects/earlyname
> Is it even possible to build a fusion bomb that's "low hundreds of kiloton"?

Yes, and in fact most thermonuclear devices nowadays are in that range as its more efficient than a smaller number of megaton range bombs. Eg the most common US warhead (fitted to Trident) is the 100 kiloton W76 and each Trident missile can carry 14 of them, each independently targeted.
I don't think there's been any better value for me than Gary Bernhardt's Destroy All Software. I randomly stumbled upon it way back in 2014 when I had just learned my first programming language and was dabbling in Ruby, watched everything, and it made me much better at my job. It was $29/m at the time.

Apart from that, I think maybe one or two books every year. Most of them are pretty poor, but the value of that odd book that totally changes how you think about certain things is pretty high. A lot of technical books also have _really_ good, practical advice that can be applied to day-to-day work if you want to read them. It's pretty valuable to know the technologies you're working with in some depth.
No, but it seems to be the direction those two companies are moving anyway. Just look at Windows 10 "S mode". I'm just glad we have Linux as an option on the desktop to get away from that nonsense.
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Boeing needs to do some publicity stunts to get the public interested in flying on these. Best thing they could do I put their Board of Directors and their families one one and fly it around the world.