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So it's either a choice between "not running some specific game/app whose publisher made their own app store" and "not running any iOS app because my only option is to not have an iPhone"?

I know which one gives me more choice.
> It's not like there were Wallmart exclusive games, right?

Either you’re younger than me or you’ve forgotten about the pre-order content exclusives from different stores.

If physical retailers had the marketshare that online distribution now has I’m sure they would have done exclusive games. If you have smaller game devs and no cost of disc manufacturing (ie download only) its easier to make exclusivity deals.
I actually have a Mac too, but I also have Bootcamp configured because Mac doesn't do everything I need. I'm just like, what do I need to do right now, and what's the most reliable tool for that job?

My phone, ultimately, is communications and quick research. I need it to make calls, send messages, send emails, and use the browser. And off-duty, I use the camera to capture memories. I got the big one because I wanted the bigger screen (though ultimately I miss the smaller size one I had before, so that will likely change whenever I get around to replacing it.)

And I also do projects. I build 3D printers, I play with Pi's, I build PC's. I do all kinds of tinkering shit. I just don't feel the need to do it on my phone, and therefore what are cited as "limitations" of it are just irrelevant to me. It does everything I need it to do, and more.

Android and iOS in my mind aren't really even in competition. They're two very similar products that should appeal to two entirely different userbases. They're pickups and sportscars, both great for what they do, but utlimately trying to have a pickup that's also a sportscar just means it's probably going to be lousy at both.
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> Then don't! You don't need that game

I think you fail to understand conflicting interests. Devs and Publishers do everything to hype up game releases, and Store Owners buy exclusivity to bring people to their platforms. Even if I restrict my own choice, my vote ultimately does not matter: these perverse incentives are at play, and make life suck for every end user involved.
This is literally how it's implemented in the rest of the world: store owner cannot list items that are restricted, by law.
Sotres can determine what goes in them, under constraints decided by society/people/governments (law).
A bit of both. The medical system has long known that doctors are too much "cowboy" and not following useful process. Many doctors resisted hand washing in the late 1800s.

User interaction studies have made great progress. A lot of software ignores that. Likewise we know a lot of ways to write high quality software that are ignored in your typical web app.

However we also know that doctors are human and they fail often. while computer systems do fail, those failures are much easier to fix once and for all.
I would go to law school. It was the other path I seriously considered coming out of college. We could use more people who are competent with tech working as attorneys.
s/Valve/Apple/g
I agree, would be nice to make some kind of curated list of businesses with nice and unique pages.

https://rekki.com comes to mind.
https://sils.unc.edu/people/faculty/profiles/Zeynep-Tufekci
Also just above (https://github.com/elixir-nx/nx/tree/main/exla), exla is an "Elixir client for Google's XLA (Accelerated Linear Algebra). It includes integration with the Nx library to compile numerical definitions (defn) to the CPU/GPU."
Epic's move has 0 to do with consumer's. It's only about Epic benefiting from Apple's platform.
You could use Apple sign in! Oh the irony.
Could stagnant wages be a result of increased automation (computers and robots) and increased globalization?
New graphene breakthrough could make computers ‘thousands of times faster’
> As MCUs get more capable

Doesn't power consumption go up as MCUs get more capable?
Softwares can auto update and hide the process to the user without the need for a store.
Limiting my complain to recent Pixar movies: I think Coco, Soul and Inside Out are fairly obvious and not multi-layer. Definitely they talk of "difficult" subjects to kids: death, depression, regrets about ones life. They are not much fun either and the story is rather weak: often predictable, déjà-vu moments (Soul and Inside Out are strangely very similarly built with a meta-world in both), repetitive loop of slow and fast action scenes.

Japanese anime also talks about difficult subjects and IMO does it much better. Thinking of "Okko's Inn": much less predictable, some funny and tense scenes, and yet not shocking for children and quite emotional for parents (OK maybe our smallest daughter woke up and came in her parents bed the following night but she has not been traumatized for life :)

Since I am engaged in a reckless defense of Frozen in other posts: I think this movie is multi-layered. It talks of women and power, femicide, love vs friendship, sisterhood, although it is packaged in a story suitable for the smallest children as its success showed. The story is definitely not predictable from the start and has the power of myths. Of course Disney is well known for its ability to adapt old myths and tales.

As for older Pixar: The Incredibles was fun and multi-layered, Ratatouille was fun, Wall-E was great ...
Yeah, I don't get the unhealthy interest in other people's private life. As long as your job is to get work done, and not cover duty station at time xyz, complaining about when people choose to take a break is really weird and invasive.

In my experience people who are permitted flexible work schedules and take advantage of them tend to be the better employees.
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> I began racking up my HR complaints

is this common at FAANG? i've never had anything close to an HR complaint in 8 years
This is exactly the point I've been making to my friends who think like the commenter you replied to. "Forcing people to have some ability to load programs" is exactly why so many people use Apple products; because it's extremely intuitive for non-technology inclined people to use.
Commercial space station developer raises $130m
Open Source, Portable, 4G Wireless Rotary Cellphone
That is a bug in the system them. Don't confuse bugs in the system with the idea that the system cannot/should not be fixed!
> who make the decision to put everything behind the walled garden of an entirely separate app store

Devs or Publishers, but devs can also self-publish when they are indies anyway. Epic Store is famously buying timed exclusives - we have seen ShenMue 3 for example exclusive for one year on EGS depiste a kickstarter campaign where they promised a release on Steam on Day 1. Devs/Publishers were clearly to blame there: they decided to ignore their supporters and go for the big bag of Epic money instead.
I don't think bitcoin will be a functional currency in its current state since your currency can't be more volatile than the prices of the goods you are using it to buy.
It's even worse, a lot of the app stores are going to want to leverage violation so privacy, security, auto-billing etc to generate at least short term margin at expense of trust in overall apple ecosystem.

Right now I'm PRETTY sure I can't get screwed by a random subscription. Having played with some of the others, definitely not true elsewhere.
A bit OT, but I still fail to grasp why Apple is allowed to restrict all browsers on iOS to the Safari rendering engine. Microsoft had to pay big because they didn't asked their users properly for alternative browsers, yet Apple doesn't even give other browsers a fair chance to compete on iOS.

Consumers suffer because Apple controls about 50% of the mobile market and if Apple decides a certain feature will not be available in Safari (e.g. Push API), no other browser vendor can even offer a solution.

Sounds to me like totally abusing their market position to uphold their anti-competitive behavior.
That's why it "doesn't give as much calories." It actually gives the same amount of calories, we just expend more calories digesting raw meat. Cooking the meat is also referred to as "freeing up" calories.
Haplotype linked with lower incidence of severe Covid inherited from Neandertals
So yes and no.

1) It takes time to get to know the framework, it's know-how, and often the docs are not clear.

2) Good UI work is almost always more than just 'stuff on a screen'. But it doesn't have to be if you have good designers.
> He's saying that most people optimize for promotion rather than building a better product. That's indeed the wrong thing to optimize for, esp for the company.

It’s literally his job, as a CEO, to make sure promos and career progression align with increased product quality.

Sure, it’s harder as a part big company, where there’s more bureaucracy to deal with (both for good reasons of consistency and equality, and bad reasons of just because) but no one said growing is easy. As an engineer I’d be fired if I wouldn’t solve technical challenges of scaling.
Honestly, I have never understood why landing on the Moon first would amount to winning the space race (except being nice to think about it as such).
> many small startups I’ve been a part of as an employee, founder, or advisor

As a significant equity holder in an early stage company, you cannot compare yourself to regular employees. We're no longer comparing professions, and instead are comparing approaches to wealth creation: salary vs equity. Again, if you're not a fan of risk, get a job at a bank.

To bring it back to your original post - you called someone ignorant for stating that leaving work at work is a choice. It is indeed a choice, as we both concluded by stating that this career gives you plenty of opportunity for career mobility.

EDIT: your post changed a couple of times and most recently added some bizarre criticism of capitalism ("setting aside the fact that the money is relative to the value created for these companies"). This is totally off-topic, and frankly I am having a hard time following your reasoning so I'll disengage and just hope you'll find peace and appreciation for the good things in life.
> > XML was inspired by HTML

> No. HTML used to be "an application" of SGML.

The “No” is wrong. It's true that HTML used to be an SGML application, but that doesn't contradict that XML was inspired by HTML.

Specifically:

(1) First, HTML was an SGML application.

(2) Then the Web took over, making HTML a very popular SGML application.

(3) Then, inspired by the design of HTML, but seeking broader application without the complexity of unconstrained SGML, XML was created.
I always enjoy posts like this. When the comments flow in, you can identify the steadfast obliviousness the urbanites have around how the other 99% of the world approaches work. Just the reactions to a different opinion (which more aligns to one formed outside of silicon valley) illustrate a built-in intolerance to anything resembling reality, difficult as it may be.
App store are good, not argument. The inability of side loading beside the store is what is being critisized.
> My gaming computer is already filled with like 8 different app stores each completely different then the other and a variety of privacy/security issues on each.

Do you honestly think this is a worse scenario than having to buy all of your apps/games through Microsoft's app store? Can you imagine using macOS without homebrew because everything has to come from Apple's app store? Can you imagine using Ubuntu without apt because everything has to come from the Canonical's software center? Even Android is made slightly more tolerable by the existence of F-Droid.

Being able to use your preferred software manager/store for everything would be nice, but I don't know of any platform that lets you do that. You either have to deal with multiple software managers and use your preferred one as much as possible, or you're stuck with whatever the platform forces on you. I definitely prefer the former.
Google Movies and Disney+ can be watched on their app though. They are still "reader" apps.

Buying/renting you can go via their site and I bet they prefer that for at least Google. They get all that customer info and no cut needed.

Any previously purchased items are available on the apps it is just in-app purchasing is usually turned off to prevent the iOS 15% cut for "reader" apps. They could have it on and available to use Apple's Appstore to rent/purchase but the in-app purchasing fees apply 15%/30% depending on the content and app classification.

Pretty easy to just purchase online and then watch in the app.

Games will always be 30% most likely because iOS is a gaming platform as well and that matches other gaming store cuts.

Even Tencent was 55% at one point for MyApp, they came down to 30% inline with other markets in 2019. Tencent MyApp is a competitor to Appstore in China, both companies make about $16B on their stores in revenues. If anything Apple/Google/Steam/etc all forced Tencent MyApp to come down to 30% from 55%. So things could be worse. Cuts prior to app stores were in the 60-70% range for gaming which was absurd.

Epic Game store is 12% (was previously 30% but they lowered to compete on price) which Tim Sweeney has said profitability is around 7-8% but they only allow in games that you have a deal with them. They don't allow just any game to be sold which adds lots of additional cost. Apple, Google, Steam etc all allow in any game which is good as long as it meets their ToS. Mobile really opened up gaming markets and that is industry standard now. Apple/Google even forced Steam to open up about 5 years after the mobile stores appeared.

My guess is break even for stores is about 10-15% if you have a more open market for all, part of that is keeping the stores/games secure from malware and payment info protected. That is why Apple was willing to go to 15% for small business and does for "reader" apps. They aren't making a ton of profit on those.
My last engineering manager came from a technical background but ended up being a people manager after a decade of managerial duties.

He was a nice guy but useless in that he could not relate with problems the engineers were experiencing and advocate time to fix them - kind of like a black hole for complaints. Engineers by themselves had virtually no say in what they actually worked on here.

This, coupled with a non-technical PM, meant we were constantly adding features on top of a weak foundation which created plenty of fires. And for each fire we were only given time to wave away the smoke rather than put out the fire.

So I'd agree having true empathy and being able to act on it is important for managers - they don't necessarily need to code but they still need enough technical experience to fully relate to what the engineers are doing.
> A mapping application having features which really don't save lives 99% of the time.

And ruins thoroughfares not designed for heavy traffic, while degrading quality of life for people who don't use it!
Developing a streamlit-WebRTC component for real-time video processing
I think that’s true but the “rich” part is not really relevant. Personally I can sort of relate to his life journey, and I come from a very much not rich immigrant family. I just remember not understanding why people cared about money instead of say learning more math. But looking back there was always an implicit understanding that no matter how bad things got I could crash on the couch and get a meal at my parents place or something, so hardship never really crossed my mind.
> Fortnite's primary capital isn't the player's competitive standing, it's the uniqueness of their cosmetic gear. They target the most vulnerable and maleable markets, tweens and children, and ply them with social anxiety;

That does not sound worse than any fashion store.
I've been watching my bootcamp students gravitate more and more towards this aesthetic. Not sure if it's good, bad or both. I think in terms of communicating professionalism and the ability to make all the aspects of a project adhere to professional standards and integrate well into a larger ecosystem I think it's good. At least in terms of communicating that to non-technical people which could include users, recruiters or maybe investors. If it bothers me at all it's only because it takes developers a lot of time (sometimes) to fight and kind of cover up parts of how html and the web behave on a more fundamental level. Slick websites kind of make the internet seem like inaccessible magic sometimes, at least they did for me before I became a dev.
I discussed some related soft skill tactics in this post - for the specific problem of managing technical respect for a specialist team (in this case a machine learning team).

- https://managingml.substack.com/p/the-myth-that-machine-lear...
> ...in a start-up there is complete alignment between the product, the company and the brand. The employees, management and investors are aligned as well - product does well, company does well, investors do well, employees do well.

Perhaps this can be true for founders/founding employees with significant stock.

Do employees 15 onwards (i.e. the majority of employees working in successful startups) really have so much stock so as to pour their hearts into the company?
How would children on otherwise quiet streets get to hone their reflexes if Waze didn't divert traffic down them?
I wake up naturally because I know I have an alarm clock.
It took me years to fully recognize this. But, at least for me, it's a fact.
Picatinny engineers set phasers to 'fry'
Amazon Completes Purchase of Shopify Competitor Selz
Ohmygod I can't deal this reductionist stance on choice. Software isn't fungible. If you, for example, want to play a specific game, need a specific messenger to talk to your friends, or need a specific app for work like the Adobe suite or Procreate then you have no choice but to go to a store where those apps are available. If Photoshop is only in the Adobe store then you're gonna have to download and use that store if you want it. Having the choice to not use Photoshop isn't the same thing as having the choice about where to buy Photoshop.
To further your point:

"Moderna’s mRNA-1273, which reported a 94.5 percent efficacy rate on November 16, had been designed by January 13 [2020]. This was just two days after the genetic sequence had been made public in an act of scientific and humanitarian generosity that resulted in China’s Yong-Zhen Zhang’s being temporarily forced out of his lab. In Massachusetts, the Moderna vaccine design took all of one weekend. It was completed before China had even acknowledged that the disease could be transmitted from human to human, more than a week before the first confirmed coronavirus case in the United States. By the time the first American death was announced a month later, the vaccine had already been manufactured and shipped to the National Institutes of Health for the beginning of its Phase I clinical trial." https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/12/moderna-covid-19-vac...

It's almost impossible to imagine the devastation that could have been averted if the vaccine was released in March 2020.
Yeah, I'm interested too. I might be wrong, but AFAIK there aren't any specs on how a browser should implement forward/back buttons, right?

I'm personally getting a ton of mileage on the Safari's much more stable forward/back cache, the fact that you can go back reliably gives me more comfort than other browsers where going back usually refreshes the page (although I can't really explain how this is much better). I personally feel that this bug is more of a web app bug rather than the browser.
If the newsletter uses a List-Unsubscribe header gmail will add a little unsubscribe button at the top of the email. It shows up in maybe 25% of the newsletters I receive.
> Passports are not used to track me without me knowing about it.

except every hotel, every flight, ever trip outside your borders... you make it sound like it's OK for your movements to be identified as long as it's outside the borders of your original country?
Why Atom instead of RSS? I understand the differences between the two formats[1] but I am curious what it is about Atom that caused the maker of this project to choose it over RSS.

[1] http://www.differencebetween.net/technology/difference-betwe...
DARPA gets used as an example a lot, so let's take it as a our type specimen.

What makes an (D)ARPA? What (besides funding) made it work?

Is secrecy and/or low accountability important? Defense/weapons focus? Was the cold war a necessary condition? Do they have an investment philosophy that could be copied? Managerial philosophy?

Is high level stuff even relevant or is it details like 5 year PM appointments and selection criteria? I always thought tenure-like jobs would be useful if you have high creativity/risk goals.

Thoughts? Any agencies (outside the US, also) that should also be considered shining example? Any failed attempts at creating a DARPA?
I never cursed around my parents, even as I got older, so it's easy for me to switch into that mode
"The doctor conspicuously said that the oxygen saturation was 'not in the low 80s' but carefully refused to say it never dipped below 90, and was uncomfortable and evasive answering other basic questions about the president's condition, therefore we can reasonably infer that oxygen saturation was in the high 80s and his condition was worse than the doctor wanted to admit" is pretty different from "this unidentified thing in the sky is not a balloon so it must be an alien spaceship".
A long time ago i was a soldier... so, in a sense i signed up to have a risk of getting shot (or blown up, stabbed... you get the point) for the benefit of my society. How is this different?
I recall watching a news report as a teen about how things used to be pretty chill at Microsoft at its heyday. These days it doesn't seem to have a monopoly on much of anything, but it can still crank out interesting projects.

It doesn't have to be a black-and-white do-or-die.
Sounds like if you have the potential to be addressing business problems at 11pm you should have an on-call schedule. Your boss just calling people randomly in the night is not a great way to get things done reliably anyway.
>Then they can't provide auto-updates but require a manual confirmation for each version update.

Is this true? Did they change the install permission to one time use or something?