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Fragmentation means that many apps I want would no longer be available through a vendor that I trust. No, that trust isn't blind or absolute. Yes, I recognise that Apple's review process is patchy at best—but most developers also fear getting on the wrong side of them and THAT alone has been pretty damn effective at keeping most apps under control.
that is ... bad luck. Or I have really good luck (having used mac's for over 20 years). This situation is a first for me (and in my case happens during normal usage, ie not upon waking) - though given Apple's recent track record screams buggy software
Some apps that would choose to be in the App Store if they had to, would instead use an alternative store. Some apps that wouldn't otherwise exist on iOS, would exist on alternative stores. I'd rather sacrifice that second category to ensure that the first category has to be released on the App Store. If I change my mind, I'll get an Android device. I knew what I was getting into when I bought Apple.
Its still pretty fragile but it does work. I wouldn't recommend it for daily usage though. Too many things in p4 show up as impossible breaking changes to the git repo.
First, the revenue isn't bad for a 10 year old business.

Eg. Google took 9 years and Facebook took 11 years to get to a $4B quarter, but of course apples and oranges on business models. Advertising has a massive margin, so Google and Facebook were very profitable at those points. AWS took about 11 years to get to a $4B Q. (You get to do the adjustment for inflation ;-)

The problem is that unless you are monitizing a private cloud (Google-classic, Facebook, Apple, etc), the Cloud revenue sweet spot is enterprise sales, and enterprise sales are hard, with long cycles and expensive sales support requirements. When you are playing catch-up there are many more ways to lose a deal than close one.

Year-over-year, Google Cloud made about $1.25B more, and lost $800M less. It sure looks like they will be in the black by the end of this year. It would be a long business cycle for a VC, but looks like a well managed business expansion.

When will the entire venture go ROI positive? Dunno, but in some ways that is a sunk cash fallacy. It looks like a pretty decent business now.

(Ex-Googler still holding GOOG in case either of those color your view of the above.)
Slight correction: all tags will get a closing tag if it’s missing; it’s just less likely to be where you want on tags that “require” an end tag than those where it’s explicitly optional. Remember that HTML defines an exhaustive parser: all inputs produce a defined tree. “Invalid HTML” means a nonconforming document, but it doesn’t actually change anything; it’s just a way of making you feel guilty, or pointing out a place where it’s very likely you made a mistake or might make a mistake in further modifying the document.

If you have something like this:

<div>
<h1>A
<p>B
<img>
<p>C
<h2>D
<p>E
</div>

… it’ll parse to this:

<div>
<h1>A
<p>B
<img>
</p><p>C
</p></h1><h2>D
<p>E
</p></h2></div>

See, the headings did get closed eventually, even without their proper closing tags; it just wasn’t where you wanted, either time. (The paragraphs, on the other hand, probably ended where you expected.)

Of your example, I think you typed it incorrectly in a couple of places. Here’s what I think you meant to express (plus a third one to make things clearer with the second having a bad trailing slash):

<ul>
<li>first
<li/>second
<li>third
</ul>

… and here’s what that is precisely equivalent to:

<ul>
<li>first
</li><li>second
</li><li>third
</li></ul>
We use story points in our SaaS product startup. In a larger company that I consult at, whose main business is not a software/technology product (but IT/software is a core enabler for their business), we tried story points, but eventually settled with hour-based estimates. I think the difference was in team sizes, nature of business and delivery timelines.

In the startup, we had a small team where everyone was aware of the agile processes, and the delivery timelines were based on the estimates.

In the larger org, agile processes and story points meant a change in the culture from the traditional waterfall-oriented process they followed. And larger team sizes meant it took a longer time to change the culture and thinking. Also, due to the nature of the business, the delivery timelines are stricter, and sometimes already decided before IT was involved. Projects also often involve multiple non-IT teams (sales, marketing, customer service, etc.), and it is easier to communicate in hour-based estimates to them. We still do agile development as much as possible, but settled on hour-based estimates.
> I'm not sure why you've extrapolated this kind of behavior to every customer support position. I've not encountered it in any of the ones I've worked.

I've not extrapolated it to every position, but I've worked with enough industries to know that there many have very difficult customers and it takes a toll.

> Also, I'm not seeing evidence that the Basecamp employees that had an issue with this behavior were "going to complain about every possible grievance".

DHH alluded to certain analogies in the discussion of racial and ethnic prejudices triggering needlessly emotional responses, and frankly I totally agree that a lot of contemporary framings of certain discussions don't allow for tolerating disagreement. And if you're going for those discussions that are going to draw such strong lines, yeah, either you rein in the discussion soon or you allow your teams to be fragmented needlessly.

And the same thing happens with management. Management isn't going to be willing to entertain every single discussion. To me it was clear from the start that they had limited energy to discuss the topic and once that was up it was time to move on. They may be right or wrong, but being clear on it is better than being ambiguous or allowing the thing to continue.
In addition to lost life, there is also a cost to quality of life. Air quality is one of the biggest contributors to the risk of senile dementia. But also the gas composition is known to affect cognition in the short run as well, with a measurable difference in cognitive tests when indoor CO2 is elevated.
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Could you explain what you mean about customers paying a premium today? I don't think any apps that are on iOS and other platforms charge more for iOS. I also don't believe an iPhone costs more than a similarly high end Android phone. Where's the premium?
> Meanwhile AMD’s Enterprise, Embedded, and Semi-Custom segment has seen an explosion of growth of its own over the past year, thanks to the launch of AMD’s third-gen EPYC (Milan) processors, as well as the 9th generation consoles.

Surprised to see enterprise switching over this quickly from Intel to AMD. How much infrastructure needs to get swapped out when making this switch?
That's the one. Thank you!
Pfizer is testing a pill that could become first-ever home cure for Covid-19
Author here.

Yes, this is my point. The Wagner card, or Action Comics #1 or Atari 2600 Air Raid are all rare items on their own without their rarity having to be defined in an extraordinarily narrow way to establish that they are in fact rare.

With SMB on the other hand you have to define that copy as a "one of a kind copy of a thing there are millions of out there", which is different from the above examples.

The point that I was mainly going for in the post was that just a few years ago it didn't seem like the hobby was going to go down this route. Until recently everyone just assumed that a game like Air Raid (or the NES World Championship carts used in tournaments in the 1980s which are also extremely rare but also aren't well known outside collecting circles) would be the hobby's holy grail because that is what collectors were most fascinated by.

Then WHAMMO, copies of SMB started going berzerk and completely obliterating the records set a few years ago for those rarer games, which I think has caught everyone in the retro gaming collecting community off guard since it is such a common game. Which I thought was worth writing something about, using Air Raid and examples from other hobbies as comparisons.
I run from display port to usb-c adapter -- I wonder if it is my adapter which is a simple Cable Matters adapter (which gets somewhat warm). Be nice if you shared what adapter you're using for comparison.
Similar happened to me. I dated a woman whose step sister was dating my 2nd cousin (no genetic interbreeding). At some point we had a falling out about her infidelity, but her emotional sway with both her family and mine were more supportive of her story. At first it was just "it didn't work out" but as time passed she decided, for reasons I don't know or understand, that I needed to be punished. She invented several different stories and spread them at the family gatherings I wasn't invited to, and eventually I had both her and her extended family and my extended family first avoiding me, then actively excluding me from communication and visits.

Eventually I learned that she claimed I was touching her daughter and was cheating on her with her coworker (whom I had never even met). I tried to defend myself but it was too late.

Today she has been married and divorced twice, and I have zero contact with any of those involved. I only know her status because Facebook doesn't stop sending me update email despite deactivating that account years ago.

Point is, the whisper network is powerful, and doesn't give a shit about reality.
i prefer sequencediagram.org

no upsell and pretty full featured. developer is responsive (i’ve had a couple minor things addressed).

most importantly you can export to svg. then i load into inkscape if i need a tweak for publication
It really does read like satire.
Downvoted because I don't disagree. But...

[Citation needed]
A new scribe is a more straightforward explanation than a new pen?
I donno about this mighty thing. But the M1 is a game changer for web performance for sure.
Apple ships a 30w charger with the M1 air. I can't find any zen 3 shipping with less than a 65w charger.

Mac mini uses like 25-27w at the wall. 15-25w TDP for the 5800u doesn't include RAM (it's LPDDR4 at 1.1v will use a lot more power than M1 LPDDR4x at 0.6v). 5800u also has a chipset that consumes a few watts.

5800u has some features that the M1 does not (these would likely increase M1 power usage), but still doesn't seem close in power consumption.
That is a really good point that I haven't even thought of before.
Actually after having a quick lil Google about this, companies that mention "political activity" in their guidelines are in the minority (1/4) and Basecamp may actually be contravening the NRLB guidance on political speech - particularly since its pretty clear that the political speech in question was surrounding a matter at the workplace. So no, they don't "absolutely get to define what the company handbook means" - there are legal boundaries to what they can prohibit.

Additionally, we should be absolutely cynical about companies prohibiting political speech. As this Basecamp example shows, they'll attempt to do so about workplace matters.
This made me think of one analogy, that shareholders just want heat in their homes and there are two ways to produce heat: by destroying something (burning oil, the nuclear reaction) or by creating something (fusion). The former is much easier and unless the laws prevent this low effort business, the heating company will happily burn forests, poison rivers and sell the future of the young people if necessary.
can we get apple/google to factory unlock bootloaders too? how about x64 chipset options instead of locking down their phones with arm?

i’m kind-of not kidding, either — more asking. is there precedent for governments being able to force companies to completely open up their systems to whatever the courts define as “competitive?”
Your choice to buy into a unified platform does not require it to be Apple's unified platform. You can probably find a windows phone and opt into that unified platform.

What you don't get regardless is an apple that "throws its weight around" to force competitors and the like to do what apple wants. That's abuse and bad for everyone. That you happen to like it doesn't make it legal
Got kicked off of Twitter, now we have to in-house all our manure operations
They're a duopoly that has effectively formed a cartel to abuse their market power. The market power abuse is the illegal part, doesn't matter how many competitors there are.
My point wasn't that it sucked; my point was that the architecture of ex-USSR countries is still dominated by that style even when the countries moved on.

So there's value in affordable housing with long-term aesthetics. It affects generations of people beyond those whose lives are immediately improved.
The real answer is one word: clicks.
This is a very simple reductionist argument and thus untrue.

The real reasons are far more complex and involve the interactions between lack of resources, poor infrastructure, geographical spread, uncontrollable diversity, overpopulation and of course History.
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There is a 2017 paper by Utsa Patnaik[1] where she comes up with a figure of GBP 9.2 trillion, which is about $45 trillion[2] based on historical exchange rates. Shashi Tharoor has written a book on what the British did to India.[3] This is based on his speech on the reparations question at a 2015 debate at the Oxford Union Society.[4]

1. Revisiting the 'Drain', or Transfers from India to Britain in the Context of Global Diffusion of Capitalism (Agrarian and Other Histories, 2017, Tulika Books) https://cup.columbia.edu/book/agrarian-and-other-histories/9...

2. British Raj siphoned out $45 trillion from India: Utsa Patnaik Interview. https://www.livemint.com/Companies/HNZA71LNVNNVXQ1eaIKu6M/Br...

3. An Era of Darkness: The British Empire in India. 2017. Aleph. https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2017/07/er...

4. Britain Does Owe Reparations. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mCgBQFhQGf0
Ideally as on the site (more or less): "CEO of Iterable said he was fired after taking LSD during work"

I was confused on the weirdly long wait too, especially when it seems like a one-time thing, but "Justin Zhu told Bloomberg that the primary reason for his firing was that he took a small amount of the psychedelic drug prior to a meeting in 2019, with the intention of improving his focus." - It was allegedly the primary reason.
It beats me why companies are not reselling their future freight contracts. If I was, e.g., shipping 500 TEUs of carpet that was a restock, I'd consider selling some on the spot market. But the mechanisms to do this at scale are not in place.

It highlights that liner companies (e.g. Maersk) are leaving cash on the table by selling capacity at rates which don't reflect demand, although perhaps they prefer long term stability.

I also wonder if significant demurrage costs were incurred by the logjam at ports, and that disincentivized charter shipping for a period.
The effect of removing keystone species has been extensively studied, particularly with respect to wolves.

Just google "keystone species" and the first result features a case study on grey wolf removal and restoration in Yellowstone: https://www.nature.com/scitable/knowledge/library/keystone-s...

Wolf impact on livestock is minimal, coverage is overblown, and in most states is investigated and compensated for by state authorities.

This is a terrible political move.
They use author to mean "person using a pen", not author in the normal sense of the person composing the text.

There's plenty of scribal material in the Judaic world, they should try their algorithm on it and see if it works.
Yes but they're argon based ion thrusters which can last a long long time.
It's not supposed to be fair, the women are always right
Exactly. It's not discrimination if it is objectively true.
For me their actions speak volumes. But if you want sources, here's Craig Federighi, Senior VP of software, literally yesterday:

"It [privacy] is a value that is so deep in us. Personal information can be used and abused and even weaponized in ways that can be really, really destructive. Often in a way that's not at all apparent to the person who might be giving up that information." and "These devices are so intimately a part of our lives and contain so much of what we're thinking and where we've been and who we've been with that users deserve and need control of that information. Abuse ranges from creepy to dangerous".

He says more about privacy in that same interview, recommended listen.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G05nEgsXgoI
If anyone else is curious, the oldest rocks found are about 8 times older than what is discussed in the article.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oldest_dated_rocks
Yeah, I said it's not straightforward.
Yeah, I would have much hear “we have tight access control, logs, and auditing, and can’t access it ourselves without an automated email sent to you.” Right now it sounds even worse than saying nothing at all as it almost implies their are now ACLs
There's always this fear that apps are going to going to become exclusively available via alternative app stores, and yet this has yet to happen on Android. The only app I can think of that's not in Google Play is Fortnite, which, as we know, is to prove a point.

Even Amazon (who pushed heavily on their alternative Appstore a few years back) never removed their own apps from Play.
Are you sure it was MSDOS and not BIOS, or to be even more specific, BIOS video services?

MS-DOS is about files -- and AFAIK most games did not re-implement that part, nor they re-implement BIOS drive handling which was sometimes machine-specific. I certainly remember playing games from Novell Netware shared drive, which would be impossible if they re-implemented filesystem support.

And none of the games I know was taking over the boot process as unikernels do. It was always: start DOS, configure system with MSDOS's CONFIG.SYS / AUTOEXEC.BAT, and only then start the game. Not very unikernel-y at all.

Now BIOS video services were very common. BIOS "int 10" was great at setting video mode, but it sucked for everything else -- even in the text mode, we often read/wrote to framebuffer directly.

Not sure about keyboard -- the hardware is fairly simple, so it would be easy to reprogram... but also BIOS did a satisfactory job handling it, so it was OK as long as you keep interrupts enabled.

And as for mouse and sound card, those did not have any DOS drivers to begin with.
Cloud infrastructure doesn't necessarily mean only GCP as a product, but all the computing and network resources shared across the fleet.
The big Pentagon internet mystery now partially solved – Federal News Network
Whereas Coinbase basically doubled down on "We're not going to say Black Lives Matter, in either personal or professional capacities, so stop asking."
100%. There's no reason why people can run spreadsheets and word processors and vector design apps on their Mac browsers but have to download a 100mb binary app on their iPhones to order pizza.

Mobile web tech could support the overwhelming majority of use cases without jank with a few key, non-impossible improvements. And they would if there were any incentive for platform owners to do so.
+1 to this in NY
Sorry, but why exactly do you want other users to be deprived of software choice on iOS? Like how is that enhancing your experience?

I get that people want to use Apple only software, in which case I'd understand why they don't want other software on the Apple Store, but how the hell is your experience worse if there is another store available on the phone? Just never use it?

It's like as if Microsoft locked down Windows and the only option you have available is to install things through the Windows Store and someone goes "yeah that's why I use windows man, I don't want anyone to be able to install Steam". Has anyone ever argued this? how did it become a thing
I thought the same, “ Mr X have been working on this for 2 years” or “ our team reversed engineered x feature of Mac OS “ means nothing nothing without real data.
Imagine you are someone who lives in Beijing meeting a person from the Chinese countryside for the first time. That should help you come up with answers to your questions.
P4 is ok even if I find it buggy and slow.

Ironically, what files count for p4ignore isn't even centrally configurable. You can't configure diff tools or merge strategies centrally either.

Because every commit has to hit central, receive hooks are actually useful and you can do big branch remappings in a more seamless way than adding a git submodule.

I forget where line ending configs live.

P4 solves some of these things but not everything and adds its own headaches.
I use the git command line almost exclusively and find it preferable to other tools for manipulating the staging area.
As soon as Apple offers that, companies like Facebook will tell their users that in order to install their apps, they have to sideload it.

And people will go willingly into that dark night.
>That's obnoxious and anti-competitive, particularly in cases like Spotify where they directly compete and undercut them in the same market.

How many Spotify users paid through their App though? I'd imagine it would only be a tiny fraction.
> True, but is this not also the case when using Python's native async/await functionality?

Yes indeed.

> The difference is that async/await doesn't even work with previous pure-Python code which performs any I/O, either. There are thousands of ordinary third-party libraries which basically have to be tossed out the window and rewritten from scratch, despite none of them using any C extensions.

Hmm, yeah. I sometimes wonder about a language style where functions are monadic by default, and I guess being able to monkeypatch the internals is a way to achieve the same thing - rather than introducing a syntax for a "programmable semicolon", we can just monkeypatch the actual semicolon. Introducing effectfulness into code that wasn't written to accommodate it worries me, but I guess gevent usually works in practice. I guess a language like Frank is a more principled way of doing that kind of thing.
Pretty sure it wasn't a "mystery" to begin with, much less a "big" one.
The issue on Congress's side though is they can't just give money to a company outright. They'd hit all sorts of other laws preventing that.
I've never met a UI for which I didn't have to google how to accomplish some things, even macOS'

Completely self explanatory UIs don't exist. In the olden days they required manuals. Now we have online help and google at our fingertips, fortunately.

Unlike jokes, UIs are not an end unto themselves. I'm more than willing to accept a somewhat ugly or cumbersome UI if the underlying tool is as good as Calibre.
> It's not possible to make this a switch the user can turn on or off (with reasonable effort).

Frankly, citation needed. If phone manufacturers can find ways to unlock bootloaders, I refuse to believe that there is no way to allow for sideloading of some form on iOS. It particularly disturbs me how this comes from the “Think different” camp which praises the quality of its software to high heaven. Nowhere have I argued that the line should be drawn at “free mixing of application stores”, yet I continue to get the same boilerplate arguments that any move from the current status quo will lead to a complete collapse of the allegedly all so superior iOS ecosystem. I do not buy it.