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> This isn't the case on Android.

I'd argue that it is till the case on Android.

Yes, alternate stores are possible, but they are severely handicapped. First, manual APK install has to be enabled in obscure settings that come with a "scary" warning. Then they can't provide auto-updates but require a manual confirmation for each version update.

Epic gave up on running their own store on Android due to the difficulties.

I do think that regulators need to force Apples hand - not being in control of your own device is not acceptable.

But even then most business would remain on the official stores. We also need legislation to curb the excessive fees charged by both Google and Apple.

A few years ago the EU limited credit card transaction fees to 0.3% or a fixed maximum, whichever is lower.

A similar cap is needed for app stores.
Amazon got a special carve-out after a long dispute with Apple.

https://www.theverge.com/2020/4/3/21206400/apple-tax-amazon-...

This provides additional weight to Epic's arguments. They have repeatedly said they don't want a special deal for Fortnite, they want every developer to have access to either alternate distribution methods or a smaller cut.
People pay to own their tractors, but yet they can't repair them.
It’s all about money. I don’t think epic wants a new App Store. In fact I do t think the majority of developers with legitimate complaints with the App Store want competing app stores.

They all want, from what I can boil down to, the majority of the time, two things:

1. Control over payments (to cut out the 30%)

2. More control over releases and updates (particularly upgrade pricing)

I think if Apple caved in on these all this would go away.

Likely, that’s about all we will see from a successful lawsuit too.

It’s never been about the App Store being the only game in town. It’s all about reviews, fees, release schedules and pricing mechanics. I don’t think the consumer wins if there are multiple App Stores. I do think the consumer and smaller developers may win if there is some shift around the above issues, though
For the same reason plenty of people here are completely unaware of what Java and .NET are fully capable of.

Many just learn the minimum to deliver something.
Hiss.
You do have that right, it’s called Android.
I have news for you buddy...

That’s exactly what they do.
I do think there’s more nuance to the matter for scientific software since choices are consistent even under perturbations of “what management will accept”. The nuance typically comes from how scientists are first exposed to programming at all, especially late in their career. It’s often a survey course like this so they can catch up and be productive members of their lab. And a course needs to fit in a semester, so any language that’s not Python, R, or MATLAB will be wholly inadequate for that purpose.
Spotify charges $1/song/month as a listing fee. I bet a majority of Spotify artists pay more to Spotify than they receive.
You might be interested in this article here: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/08/opinion/sunday/us-denmark... (note that technically, Denmark has no minimum wage - but mechanism that essentially enforce the same)

A few quotes here:

> Starting pay for the humblest burger-flipper at McDonald’s in Denmark is about $22 an hour once various pay supplements are included.

> Americans might suspect that the Danish safety net encourages laziness. But 79 percent of Danes ages 16 to 64 are in the labor force, five percentage points higher than in the United States.
The BBC admits to using them too in the article.
it is bad for promotions/opportunities at work to be doled out on any other basis than a good-faith estimate of capability. that is, assuming you agree that the point of work is to get work done.
"we have an extremely long project that consumed many of our best engineers to align our data retention policies and tools to Google"

The only way a big company can somehow ensure that all teams are going to follow the privacy or any other policy is to force the teams to "align our data retention policies and tools to Google".

This is literally Google having process to ensure some privacy policy and op having issue with that.
I have not yet, unfortunately, but would really like to.

It turns out I’m really not that great at it for one. That provides some limitations I’ve not quite come to terms with and I really don’t want to be stuck in the cycle I am till retirement or death.

Unfortunately there’s just not much else out there without highly expensive re-education. On top of that almost any other field is going to incur not only a pay cut but a loss internet maximum earning potential that is probably not worth it.
It's really weird right? On the one hand there's evidence that COVID destroys people's lung function even if you end up being asymptomatic (aka people not noticing they are sick). On the other hand the virus has killed millions so far, and it's going to infect people anyway so why not do it intentionally to better test vaccines or other fixes.
GOG is an exception there, given that all their games are DRM-free, and I know many people find Steam/Valve to genuinely be a good steward of the industry. The rest of the stores - plenty of peer pressure if your friends want you to play a specific title with them on those platforms, leaving little choice.
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> if Apple suddenly lost all of it's money

Well no-one would be using it so I wouldn't care all that much - Apple losing all their money would basically require giving away iPhones for free with 0 revenue given apples financials.
Dup of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26158525, with most discussion (>400) on the BBC analysis of the Which report at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26149754
But obviously people will by then move into NewerCoin (TM) . Would there be _any_ reason, considering the primary motivations and utility behind bitcoin, not to do it?
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> So I kind of hope that the EU allows third party stores, but allows Apple to place curation constraints on the sort of purchases that are available to users.

If we follow the logic of Phones providing access to a market that must remain "free" and allow competition, then constraints on purchase might be something decided by society/people/governments more than a single private company?
Why hasn't it on Android then?
Please don’t call them soft skills. If they weren’t hard, there’d be better leadership out there.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trilemma

Coined in the 1600s, most likely. Can be used one of two ways:

1. A choice between 3 unfavorable options where you must choose one (lose your arm, your leg, or your other arm).

2. A choice between 3 favorable options where you can only choose two (the typical ones we see discussed/posted here).
I'm tired right now but here's a link to a previous comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22480444
Ah yes, she set up a co-working space, held some events and launched (although presumably not heavily involved) in launching a White Hat consultancy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jennifer_Arcuri

Similar to Rohan Silva who advised Cameron; set up a co-working space, is on many boards, speaks at a lot of events
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I read the entire article and missed that entirely. More coffee! Thanks for quoting it.
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I know, Epic is trying to dodge its use in an vain attempt to actually have a case.
In the past US regulators have not agreed with your reasoning here. They broke up the original big telephone companies, for example.
> we began onboarding people with the wrong state of mind - seeing Waze as a stepping stone and not as a calling.

> There are people who are great for a stage of the company and later, do not have the right skills as the company grows. It is not their fault, it is reality. But not being able to replace them with people that do have the right skills means that people are constantly trying to “offload” an employee on a different team rather than fire them - something that is not conducive with fast moving and changing needs.

One thing that really irritates me is one way commitment. The author wants people who will see their work for the company as a calling, while at the same time having no loyalty to the employee and seeing them as just a stepping stone, to be used when needed and then discarded.

In Japan, the work culture historically was one of crazy dedication to the company. However, it was reciprocated. The company was expected to take care of your whole life, even to the point of coming up with a sinecure for you in your old age. They didn’t just use you and discard you when they thought you were no longer needed.

Every time I see a company talking about how they want employees to see the company as their mission and calling, I look at how they treat employees to see if they plan on reciprocating that loyalty. The answer if pretty much always no. They plan on using your loyalty when it is useful to them, often burning you out, and discarding you when they think you don’t provide value.
There is definitely a bias against engineers who choose not to go into a 'management' role as they progress in their careers, particularly if they've been there for >2 decades. It sucks in my opinion. It also means we have to think about potentially changing careers when we are at the peak of our ability!

Are you working on side projects or you have another source of income to ease the pressure?
If you browse a few of the ISO pages for other states/regions you'll see a bunch that have excess capacity above their projected peak for the day.

Here's one: https://www.iso-ne.com/

Here's another: http://www.caiso.com/TodaysOutlook/Pages/default.aspx

But there's a limited capacity for Texas to bring in power over just 5 connections, combined with their choice that makes conversion to something compatible with the Texas grid much less efficient.

By isolating & not focusing on compatibility they have made it very difficult to have more robust redundancy in their grid.
Most VC funds have an expected lifespan of (roughly) 10 years. Some longer, some shorter.

If your VC makes an investment 2 years into the fund, the expected return must come within 8 years if it's a 10 year fund.

I guess it comes down to what we consider "long term". If "long term" means 5-10 years, then the VC model works.

But if "long term" means 10-25 years or longer, the VC model becomes an unrealistic financing option.
> Hypothetical: if you modify the software in a Tesla, and your modification allows a hacker to remote control it, and this power is used to commit vehicular homicide, how much of the burden of responsibility do you have?

If you were negligent, I'd say you were responsible, just like if you hit someone because you took off the breaks and couldn't stop.

Although... response question: Let's say in ten years, Tesla stops providing security updates for their old cars. If you continue driving the car anyway, and it gets hacked and kills someone, who is responsible? Which is to say, I'm not super into this whole internet-connected-car thing. ;)

> With regards to phones however, I explicitly want the devices heavily locked down by law, to the extent that other people should not be allowed to put random software on them. This is because they are powerful sensor packages that almost everyone carries almost all the time.

What if I decide to carry around a Raspberry Pi, or wear a wire? I understand the concern, but I don't think controlling what everyone else uses is a reasonable solution in a free society.
You aren't constrained to live in those areas to make a living, though. I'm a senior/principal level developer living just outside of Boston (I can walk to a subway in 30 minutes or just hop on a commuter rail stop in about five) and I can very comfortably afford a 4-bed house on a single salary. And the Boston area is not cheap.
Because you don't have to pay Linus Torvalds money to run a program on a Linux installation - that should be the standard.
"Human rights, democracies, and whatever... It's all ~~nonsense~~ entitlement..."

(https://pics.me.me/thumb_translated-by-memritv-org-human-rig...)
in hindsight, it's kind of incredible. in the show, he said this to a young reporter who was trading sexual favors for scoops.
Ooof. I think people are picking and choosing too many points to make it seem like this guy is an asshole and a toxic manager.

I read that he wants people to:

- Do their work
- Provide value for their users
- Get stuff done.

vs

- Work on flashy stuff to only get promotions
- Be stuck with BAD employees that do very little
- Have employees spend all day doing recreation

Work/life is important to stay healthy but at the same time employees need to get their work done. He is saying that the pendulum has swung too far towards the recreation side of things.

I think I am biased as I worked at a startup that was chasing Google level of perks. They were fantastic but caused a huge divide between the people that abused them and the people that worked their butts off.

All I want is for people to be reasonable and get their stuff done...
But it's interesting. Do we like artists due to marketing only ? Or seducing feature over artistic quality. A small but gifted artist on Spotify could, in theory (in theory), generate word of mouth at quickly get known. Sometimes I believe that labels were filters for that. They could see who was just very good and who had some 'it factor'.
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They became spycraft tools right when that research was published. Seeing as how spying is done opportunistically.

But yeah go ahead and check out some of these articles: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22480444
good move, more countries should have such entrepreneurial agencies!
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"Take the shot, serf!"
Generally people don't have to use those last minute days often and I don't think that's what OP meant.

It seems like people just were abusing it.
Sounds like those "good on paper" things. But in practice, we know how it usually goes...

Though of course all government will have secret projects in one way or another
This is a fair point, there's a lot you can get away without worrying about the complexity today, and that amount is certainly steadily growing (which is great!).

But particularly on the creation side, if you say, try and combine a vector created in one program with a bitmap created in another, you'll likely encounter some issues (e.g., color profiles), or taking an animation created in one program and overlaying it over a video in another, you'll often need to know your codecs. Or exporting a video optimized for social media, e.g., videos shared on Instagram and Twitter often have heavy compression artifacts.

I'm really looking for seamless creation and sharing freely combining media from different programs, with the same ease as cut, pasting, and editing text. (As well as interfaces that are as easy to use as manipulating pen and paper with your hands.)
Kens: where do you see bitcoin mining in the next 5, 10, 50 years?
Or at the very least, not continuing to be worshiped as some sort of saint.
As someone who's released multiple retail games on the PS4 store:
Sony should allow sideloading. Microsoft does for the XBox (and has since the 360 era), and at one point Sony allowed it in the 'other OS' environment for the PS3 until they decided to take out that feature after using it to advertise their console.
This looks like a great resource, but the vast number of grammatical mistakes is really distracting. Some issues are to be expected with a self-published book, but at least in the sections I read, a majority of sentences are grammatically incorrect. Maybe I'm just naive, but that surprises me, especially with this being affiliated with an institution like Berkeley.
If you are looking for a video explanation, it is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vgKjatRVtys
To be fair, the above attitude is more common among my male colleagues.
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What are you on about? App developers are not the ones who should be monetarily supporting the ecosystem, the end user has already paid for the device.
Not only that, without developers, there is no ecosystem. An iPhone without apps is less useful than an iPod touch with apps.

Boohoo, the most cash rich silicon company will have to compete. Brew or Cydia never ate into Apples profit margins, instead it allowed users to do things apple couldn't be bothered supporting (Like Bluetooth audio on the 3g iPhone on iOS 2.0). Having multiple app stores will allow users to circumvent government censorship in countries where Apple is forced to follow the governments demands.
And on Oracle's VirtualBox, which is available on both OSes: https://www.freshports.org/emulators/virtualbox-ose
Swearing just changes the dynamic when used in a professional setting (in the US). It is casual, widely interpretable use, generally negative language.

At worst, if targeted to a person, project, or role it immediately heightens the tension in the relationship.

At best, it is used to emphatically describe something ("this code is a bit shitty") but again because of swear words generally inflammatory nature it can be interpreted poorly.
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From a UX perspective, the moving background on this site literally makes me feel sick.
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While he has valid points of how corp life is different from startup, he seems like a horrible, entitled person to work for.

General attitude that comes out of it to me, is that your employees growth doesn’t matter, only his vision of product matters. He complains about people being entitled, and at the same time he complains that as CEO of subsidiary of one of the biggest company in the world, he cannot say offensive things in his talks.

And most entitled one - he’s sold his company (that he actually didn’t own, from the beginning, like with most startups) and he cannot control it fully anymore? And complaining that he cannot fire people on the spot?

He should check his entitlement before complaining about other being entitled by not wanting to put his product vision above their wellbeing.
I once bought a pair of alpaca wool socks from some alpaca farmers somewhere for 75 BTC, because I liked supporting people who accepted BTC for online payments.

Don't sweat it.
I do the same but I don't jump in right away. We have runbooks and escalation routines. If it gets to the point that I need to "jump in" I take that time back in the upcoming days and weeks.

As a personal favour I will fire off a private message to whichever colleague is on call if I see they are floundering. Because I'm a good guy and believe the help I give today may be requited down the line.
Nah. My parents are doctors and I know quite a few surgeons. They might schedule their work around kids and family and whatnot, but none of them will opt to go to yoga or whatever when there is a pending surgery.

I know of only one guy who is a plastic surgeon and he is like that, but he’s also one of the best in his field and a bit of a prima donna...
Yes I mostly agree, it does set a good precedent, even if all it now gives us is "normal science" data.

Would like to understand better how much of the time was needed to ramp up production. My assumption was that Moderna & co. were working on that full speed, and once they'd made enough for the trials, stockpiled every dose they could make until approval.

If they'd had today's production rate in (say) April, I think we'd still have got all the deaths of the first wave. Unless, perhaps, knowing that vaccination was only a few months out would have allowed a much stronger lockdown, but I doubt it.
Unless they buy back the hardware, why not?

Companies change over time, it’s unrealistic to have the same service for ever (typically the product might be discontinued and not supported after some time, sometimes also the attitude when it comes to service changes). At the same time the platform was bought not rented and producing it and getting rid of it has its own cost.

I would argue it’s fair to demand open access to it.

I have an old iPad (3rd gen), since it can’t access iCloud properly or sync bookmarks with safari (a function that it originally had) or install Firefox, it’s essentially useless and I’m very unhappy with that, a whole car would be much worse though. I’ve learned to think about that before buying, but many don’t and often there’s no choice.
The growth seen in the area has gone almost entirely to amazon
Parsing official statements to detect the misleading omissions is something I've been doing for 30 years. Lies of omission are a fundamental skill of those who cant or wont tell the truth, and has been for several thousand years now.
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If you're brave enough, you can make spaghetti code in any language not just JS
Yes, basically Texas is great, this situation was unavoidable, nobody did anything wrong, and people should just suck it up.
I can't tell if this is a sarcastic comment or not because it's so so unrealistic to think that a sequenced DNA would tell you anything about the robustness of an immune system.
You just pulled that argument out of your ass. I wasn't implying that everything needs to be written down in a legal document.

Also I can't help but feel that your perspective is coming from a place of privilege. If I had to guess I'd say you either A) Haven't been screwed by an employer before or B) Are the employer.

I guarantee that if your employer fucked you over you'd be paying a lot more attention in the future.
IF you have the gear for it.

I think the chances of random families in TX having 0 degree cold weather camping gear are low.
That’s not true. There’s a documentary on ikea that shows them taking photos. They use CGI but it’s not 100%.
Yep, subtrees are the answer. I wrote [this piece](https://vjpr.medium.com/the-multi-monorepo-209041932fbf) yesterday about using a monorepo of monorepos using git subtree over git submodules, which should cover almost all use cases.

Basically, you only need other to create other git repos depending on access rights. That is, proprietary code vs open-source.

The biggest mistake is thinking: "I want to open-source these two packages, so I will create two repos and make them public and then add them as submodules in my private company repo". The problem though is that it's such a natural thought, and people don't realize the pain they are about to inflict.
Good leaders are people who teach others to grow, progress, and ultimately become their own leaders. Most managers aren't incentivized to grow their engineers because it would mean losing them. I find it hard to fully trust my manager because I know my best interests are only partially in their mind. They also need to care about the business and their own position, which usually carries more weight than how I want to grow my career.
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