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> My advice is to immediately rebrand as gracefully and effectively as possible and use all that activist energy to effect the transition.

Apple will definitely appreciate it if all of us would just shut up and let them screw us.

While I appreciate your well-meaning advise to the author - pick your battles in life carefully - I'd like to add that using your anger constructively at some injustice is a positive move too. You do have to accept some things in life are beyond your control. But it does not mean you should not be an advocate for necessary change. Speaking up is the beginning. (And in fact, more positive to your well-being). And you can even stop with that. But speak up.

The author has made some good arguments and I urge everyone to read it. Irrespective, of what the author ultimately decides to do, he should be glad for having the courage to speak up. And that many of us appreciate it and support him.

Apple shouldn't forget that while it may have hoodwinked many developers to pay them for the "privilege" of creating and distributing apps on their platform, it is the developers who are the ones adding more VALUE to their platform. And that there's a limit to how much you can abuse and gauge them (one would have that all the law suits on the app store would have made them realised that by now).
Sure. Every hobby I’ve learned in the past few years has been through YouTube.
Nah rename it to modafinil
That’s true, I’ve seen toxic situations happening in other teams like those described here at several employers that were otherwise good places to work.

Sometimes it’s down to a particular manager, but sometimes it can just be the consequences of a bad decision taken further up the food chain. This can leave a team in a no-win situation where even a good team lead can end up in a mess with no good options. I was at one employer where this happened and the team lead in question fell on his sword and quit rather than beat his team to death. I ended up taking on some of his responsibilities and team members and got some additional resources to deal with the re-org, so it worked out well for the team members and the company. It also gave me my first taste of management. It cost the guy his job though, which was grossly unfair. Not many mangers would have the guts and integrity to do something like that, and even if they did there’s no guarantee it would actually benefit the team. They could just be replaced by a tyrant.

The only answer is to be open and honest about what you think and principled in your own actions. Call out bad behaviour where you see it and say when you see mistakes being made. If you aren’t prepared to do so, why should anyone else? Too many people silently tie the line and keep quiet and then wonder why these things spiral out of control and end in disaster. It’s because nobody said anything or did anything about it. We have to be prepared to take responsibility for calling out what’s happening around us and what we do about it as employees. It’s not somebody else’s problem, it’s our problem. Don’t be afraid of losing your job, it may well happen but jobs come and go. Having principles carries a cost, but one I think is worth paying.
In the UK our prisons often look nicer than our (state) schools. Many of our prisons are quite ancient, whereas many of our state schools are 1960s monstrosities.

For example:

* https://hidden-london.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/geograp... vs https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/47/James_Ho...

* https://i2-prod.mirror.co.uk/incoming/article1185483.ece/ALT... vs https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/33/Cefn_Sae...

* https://ukhumanrightsblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/HM_... vs https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c5/We...
Change your apps name. Not that big of a deal.
> Extensions are not for average computer users. They have icons and filenames. Windows also hides extensions by default.

As far as I recall, extensions became a thing with DOS. They actually had meaning to the OS, e.g. naming a file .exe would make it executable, as there was no other concept of file ownership or permissions.

In Unix/Linux systems, filename extensions have always been for the user. Before GUIs and icons, they were a convention that let the user know something about the file contents. As far as the operating system is concerned, "." is just another character in the name and extensions are meaningless. Note that most binary executables don't have an extension at all, and other files have more than one (e.g. .tar.gz)
Still annoyed that Apple made me use one of my $29 AppleCare replacement slots for that when many forums say that they've gotten theirs replaced under warranty.
You can observe and articulate specific evidence to suggest that an individual is infected with COVID-19, or that they were in a situation where exposure makes infection probable.
Sure if that was the case. How many abusers have you seen tho? Have you seen their MRIs after the damage?
This is one of the most delightfully overblown quotes of all time. But Herbert Marcuse went one better: he compared amusement parks to concentration camps.
I don't see how any of these contradict freedom of speech. We are talking about 1) people being offended by a name; 2) a company banning an app on their own app store.

Whether you find the situation distasteful, it has nothing to do with freedom of speech. Neither the offended people nor Apple is infringing on the developer's freedom speech.
I thought an obvious clue would be Windows or no Windows. I’m wrong.
Which covid mandates are causing death?
Well - they do actually do that and under certain circumstances, they are used precisely for that. I find the puritanical mindset a little bit of an overreach here.
The application keeps one's Mac from going to sleep. Its name is basically a direct analogy, and doesn't imply any wrongdoing or illegality, as far as I can see.

> I also would not buy your product if it were called alcohol poisoning. I love alcohol. I’m drinking a beer right now (happy New Years everyone). But naming a computer program after it sounds like an odd thing to do. And more to your point would also be a violation of the same rule Apple is using in this case.

What about an application that assists in force-quitting other programs? One might call that "Scotch", since that's what it does ("It 'scotches' other processes, you see..."), and the application might have a cutesy whiskey glass as its icon. Would that run afoul of your sensibilities?
The thing that gets me is that no matter what is on the line, spoofed Caller ID or no, telcos know exactly which account is paying for that outbound call to exist. The technology can't be quite as primitive as portrayed, since AFAIK there is absolutely no way you can spoof someone's number in CID and have something billed to them, such as a long-distance call from a landline (which still have LD plans). Telco is always going to know where the money is coming from for every volt and bit on their wires.

It's possible I'm clueless, but that's where I feel enforcement should be focused: on the money side.
Small, positive steps in the right direction are how you get there.
I also use Github for non open-source development at work. But I don't distribute binaries through git. That's weird.
Directed by Michael Bay
You can refrence a truth without promoting it. E.g. Darik's boot and nuke wipes everything but you'd be off your rocker to say it's promoting nuclear war as a result.
You're confident about this comparison. Have you been to prison?
The unbanked, the post office, and fintech in the 1880s
You are just displaying your ignorance here. Amphetamines are used in medications prescribed for narcolepsy (i.e. unwanted/inappropriate sleepiness), ADHD and obesity.

If you look at this and think of street meth, that's your own problem.
The entire purpose of legislature is to legislate solutions to problems that society faces.
Teachers can deal with it. It's worth it to have to deal with the second order effects of folks lying to be disruptive or getting out of class so that we don't deny basic bathroom rights to those who need it most.

I have literally ZERO sympathy for any teacher who has shitty (haha) bathroom policies.
Freedom of speech isn't the same as freedom of distribution.
There are lots of edgy things that you can say somewhere. You just can't say them everywhere.

We can have lots of lively debate about how to draw the boundaries. But we'll get a lot farther if we can move beyond the two-state absolutism of "allowable everywhere" vs. "outright banned with breath-taking severity."
Israel first country to vaccinate 10% of population
I don't get the downvotes.

They are making the compiler.

How hard can it be to do a proper decompiler?

They have the binary; they have the source (in some way)
It tends to 'degrade' from the end, which is why all of the additional 'A' nucleotides are tacked on to the end, it's basically a NOOP sled that gets shorter and shorter until the instance is disabled.

The mRNA isn't intended to be copied in the body. Once the dose is used up there should be no more spike proteins created.
> I can and should be legally able to take whatever precautions I think are necessary

A significant portion of the population isn't capable of making that judgment.

> I'd much rather this sort of thing be policed socially amongst individuals

There's a significant risk of becoming a victim of aggravated assault when you confront individuals or groups who insist on flaunting guidelines. Even if not, staying in close proximity to them while trying to get them to follow the guidelines increases your own risk of getting infected.
You think there might be a good HN comment hidden in the sentiment that we should evaluate Beowulf translations by the physical appearance of their writers? I can't imagine that I could be reading that right.
> The EU views more regulation as inherently good, and anything that isn't caked in hundreds of pages of regulations as being merely on the TODO list

One of the best examples of this are the digital tachograph design documents, which are hundreds of pages of legal gibberish mixed with a convoluted tech spec. 100% design by comitee. No wonder the top digital tachograph supplier is VDO and one if the lesser players, Stoneridge, has a much better designed and executed product.

In contrast with this, the US ELD is an 125 page document standardising functionality and the data output of the device.
Not to get your hopes up but there’s no reason your options won’t grow. You might be surprised what your total comp is in a few years.
Here's a really good article to explain the consequences of schools being the holding pens which they are:
http://paulgraham.com/nerds.html
People just like those things, or at least enough do. There are lots of lawyers that want to wear a black robe, get called “your honor”, make decisions, being deferred to, and so on. So even though judges don’t make much money, comparatively speaking, there’s no shortage of people that want the job.
I don’t know, the diagram of the turbine next to the Empire State Building made it much easier for me to picture standing near it. Awe-inspiring bordering on a kind of primal fear.
I wonder if that phrase is still protected by the USA network, for those of you old enough to remember when regular ol’ cable would show topless women. Now you can’t name an app Amphetamine. It is interesting to watch the pendulum swing.
No. Certain internet communities have a culture of dunking on them, but they do not represent any kind of real majority. The housing market continues to show a preference towards communities with HOAs.
Really interesting analysis: "schools operate that way because that's the way they are."
I download and use the app despite the name. I’m not okay with it, but I need the features it offers and there isn’t a better alternative with a better name. There used to be (called Caffeine) but it disappeared from the store and I’m not sure why.

Just because people use the app doesn’t mean they like the name.
It shows no windows at all, beyond the reception area.
While I wholeheartedly agree with the thrust of your argument (particularly that stigmatization is detrimental)...

> it’s not referring to a street drug.

Amphetamine (and other amphetamines) are certainly available as 'street drugs'. The stigmatization of 'street drugs' (and generally, drug use as part of someone's self-directed diet) is also harmful.
What makes the the nonsense you're conjuring up, with no argument or research, more valid than that of the renowned philosophers you are trivially dismissing? Doubt is good, but strong, unjustified claims are not.
Genuinely interested: What are the problems of the past iterations you are talking about?
It's not explicitly quantifiable.

Imagine you're a team of 2 top performers. Your workload is increasing, so your manager gets approval to hire a 3rd person so you can take on more work. Unfortunately, your manager is fooled by a charismatic person who greatly exaggerated their experience on their resume, to the point that they work about 1/4 as fast as the rest of the team and tend to code by trial-and-error.

Suddenly, the expectations for your team's output have increased by 50%, but the 3rd person can only really contribute another 10-20% at most. By extension, your job just got harder.

Worse yet, the average talent of the team has now gone down significantly. You spend more time fixing bugs and chasing bad work. You're also faced with the fact that you're probably getting paid the same as the over-leveled person next to you. This breeds resentment, wastes time, and ultimately leads to good people quitting for other jobs.

Alternatively, imagine if the company hired quickly and fired quickly. Every time a new person showed up, you had no idea if they were actually good or if they were just rushed through the interview process. You also don't know if they're going to be around after the 3 month probationary period, so why bother building a relationship? High turnover like this tends to destroy morale.
Prisoners appreciate those areas more because they don't have access to them in any other context.
I don't think most people strive for mastery. But many things just aren't that fun or satisfying if you don't at least achieve competence.

A lot of hobbies, crafts, and activities really only start to become fun (rather than "rewarding but tiring") when you start to get good at them, because you have to think/work less hard to achieve basic satisfying outcomes.
There's an app called Caffeine that does the same thing. It's what I use.
Why would he be in my feed?
I just did a search and found multiple apps with that name already.
Yet another reason to implement a Carbon Tax & Dividend [0] ASAP. There's certainly an argument that the intentional waste of Proof of Work is more efficient than the overhead of existing banks; but I suspect the whole crypto world would migrate to Proof of Stake if forced to pay for their externalities. As is it, they simply borrow against the planetary credit card (probably at a rate of ~100x interest), sticking future generations with the bill for their "innovation".

[0] https://clcouncil.org/economists-statement/
Not op, but no; the app has nothing to do with drugs.

I don't think we as a society should be this sensitive/prone to suggestion. If anything, I believe the censorship promotes the idea that people have no responsibility to make their own choices, and we must build to the lowest common denominator.

Note, I'm not really making a judgement about whether Apple should be allowed to do this - I think that is harder question.
Yes, really. That methyl group makes a big difference. It increases potency, toxicity, absorption rate and overall addictiveness, hence why amph is commonly prescribed, while meth (desoxyn) is reserved for severe narcolepsy.
There is already an app called "Caffeine" that serves the same purpose.
I have never seen a school with a literal panopticon (a tower from which everything can be seen, and which can not be seen into). So then if not a literal panopticon, a metaphorical panopticon? Doesn't mirror my school experience either. Feeling was that the teachers had no idea what was going on most of the time. But I didn't go to school in the US, maybe that's why?
> Do you have an example ...?

The Great Depression.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deflation#Deflationary_spira...

If you're looking for commodities only, it's easy enough to Google "commodities bubble".

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2000s_commodities_boom#Opini...

The problem is that when markets get turbulent, they can suddenly shift to going the other direction. Instead of everyone wanting to buy, suddenly no one wants to be the last one out the door. And with Bitcoin, what authority is going to stop the panic?

> What happened to Gold?

I suppose it depends on which branch of Bitcoin you're on. Are we talking about store of value or medium of exchange?

Soros' comments on gold are helpful.

> “Typically, a self-reinforcing process undergoes orderly corrections in the early stages, and, if it survives them, the bias tends to be reinforced, and is less easily shaken. When the process is advanced, corrections become scarcer and the danger of a climactic reversal greater”.

http://blogs.reuters.com/great-debate/2010/09/30/gold-as-the...
Are there any good examples of these minimal lisps which include typechecking? I'd personally like to learn more about incorporating that aspect, but it seems fairly uncommon.
I think density per volume is similar, but density per weight is a little less from them being heavier. They should work fine in plenty of portable situations, not everything is a drone. Power tools, universal battery packs that offer AC, USB, etc., scooters, motorcycles, and all sorts of other stuff should work very well. Even golf carts and some scooters use lead acid batteries.
There is a fabulous place in OKC called the surgery center that does not take insurance and lists the upfront cost for all of their procedures on their website. I live about 6 hours drive away from it but just having that resource available makes it worthwhile to check if it’s worth it to drive 6 hours if I need something done: https://surgerycenterok.com/
(If I'm "the Department",) Suppose I have reasonable suspicion that you have COVID. Under the bill, I can lock you up for 3 business days without any recourse, so long as I have not determined that you have not been infected or exposed (which is entirely under my control) and for a longer period of time during which you can petition for release.

I would be happy with articulable probable cause as the threshold for involuntary confinement, same as for other types of involuntary confinement.
How does this law compare to the law that allows individuals to be committed to a psychiatric facility upon determination that they pose a danger to themselves or others?
Ask HN: FarmVille on FB is dead. Are there good alternatives for seniors?
Loved one (senior) spent hours on FV. I noted thru FB that FV kept this person going during COVID. I want to buy/suggest alternatives to FV.

Person does not play video games. Not even casual mobile apps. This is why no transition into FV2 is expected. Eye-hand coordination is not great. Person has iPhone 8 and the ultralite Mac. Spends a lot of time on FB, so a social aspect would be great (MMO?).

What are good options for a paid game alternative?
Yeah it's just a search for "simjacker" on their site, which encodes it in a string instead of common sense.
That’s not what GP means. He means they consider themselves to be the “true” China and the “true” ruling faction of China.
If you think this is bad, you're going to be so upset when you hear about:

* the Patriot Act

* the War-on-Drugs

* Mass incarceration

* lack of abortion rights

* lack of LGBT rights

* police shooting of minorities

* The electoral collage system

* President Trumps refusal to conceded

* a LOT of American history.
Some fertiliser plants (Achema for example) still rely on exclusively signed contracts with Russia for buying cheap natural gas (its main cost) aka there’s some underwater influence there.
This is certainly a sound explanation – but is it a good one? If we optimize school buildings and prison buildings in a way that they end up being indistinguishable from one another, maybe we should reconsider the metrics we are optimizing for.
I saw an advertisement for an "apprenticeship" at a UK game development tool company that I'm a fan of. It said applicants must be aged 16 to 24. Is that standard practice in UK? How is that not age descrimination?
My issues with it stem from something unpublished in the late 90s, which is not something 'dismissable' that you can simply set aside using the negation-by-framing of 'outrage culture', so I can't offer any reply to your question. Please accept my apologies for how far off the mark my reasons are from your assumptions; perhaps another time we'll be better aligned.
When an app that simply describes how a product is made is "objectionable and crude" it says a lot about the product.
We’ll need to migrate to something new over the next couple years. We need on-prem due to the military nature of our business. What we’re really going to miss are the workflows that we just finished implanting a huge amount of engineering process in. Honestly the EOL was personally devastating (at least work-wise).
Ergonomics: Reducing Eyestrain
Caffeine was the old application that Amphetamine replaced. It was a long-standing utility that went unmaintained after Apple switched to the retina displays.
It's not illegal, it is perfectly legal, but like driving a car you need to go through a process for it that not everyone can clear.

For example, if you have issues staying awake from narcolepsy it's possible to legally obtain amphetamines, and our society generally accepts this to be a good thing.
This makes me wonder if people really accept the Western media's point of view that a population of 150 million act in unison as a singular being named "Russia".
I think adversarial is the right word for the current style of tech interviewing. It wasn't always this way. Back in the 80s when I first got into tech it was a lot more conversational and in the spirit of "we really need help, what can you do for us?".

I think something more akin to a thesis defense would be better than what we're doing now. Prior to the interview have the candidate write up a description of a project they worked on and particularly liked along with a set of slides. Have the candidate send this presentation to the main interviewer who will distribute it to all of the interviewers. The interview then becomes a presentation where interviewers can ask questions about the presentation. I've seen this done in industry, but it was only when we interviewed folks who were PhDs coming from academia - I don't see why we couldn't do this for all kinds of candidates, not just those coming from academia.