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Little bit confused as I thought being open Android App Store instead of closed iOS App Store was supposed to mean this is totally not a problem?

That’s the gist in the anti-Apple anti-walled-garden threads common during the Epic tussle; though some less popular comments have sounded skeptical, referencing stories like this.

From this thread, sounds like Android gets you 15% of the consumer wallet share for app spend compared to iOS 85% wallet share of app spend, but still has enough distribution curation woes to “destroy our startup”?

What’s the attraction then? Or is this melodramatic?
"It's not much more complicated than that" is the language of the oppressor. It's the view of the indifferent technocrat who would flatten the world into software, and is willing to steamroll over any human bits that stick out. Google's algorithmic reinterpretation of justice is a perversion of justice. The simplicity of its approach signs its abdication of its moral and legal responsibilities.

OP's story isn't remotely okay. Fraud is a complicated issue. Here's what's uncomplicated: OP are not frauds. Here's what uncomplicated: Google reneged on a (very one-sided) contract, and destroyed a business. Here's a really simple one: Google is an abusive monopoly.
If all you do is talk to your immediate co-workers you lose contact with rest of the business. The larger the business the worse this gets. I have been endlessly productive in lockdown, and for the first six months it did not matter that I was not picking up on gossip etc. Lately I am realising all the changesI missed (and others missed). It makes everything harder.

So IMO if CEOs want to keep the value of those sort of interactions, (ie have everyone in the office) do waaaaay more communication, more cross-org meet-ups and mixers, have people come into office on same day for lunches and social activities

The thing that "being in an offi e" facilitates is cross-pollination of ideas, just like a city does. And what facilitates that is not working but interacting
Hi David, Just a heads up: in Safari under iOS and macOS there is a brief flash of content followed by "Client Error Occurred Want to go home?"
That would be disruptive to the fiefdoms and all put all the feudal lords into a tizzy.
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So, perhaps people should stop having good faith conversations with them because it has become apparent that you cant. How can you have a good faith convo with someone that is hell bent on undermining anything you say?

It's like trying to play a fair game with someone while they're cheating you the entire time. They don't want inclusivity or whatever else they say. They want control and will use whatever guise to get their way.
The President's powers are nominally proscribed by the Constitution, meaning they are overseen by Congress and reviewed by the judiciary. I'm not sure whether Cummings realizes this, although I suspect he does. After all, authoritarians are gonna authoritarian.
It may be the media affecting them affecting you as well. But this is supposed to be a sanctuary. :smiley:

I personally know a lot of folks across the spectrum who are good people with different priorities.
Same here, but I would be OK with a schedule that included (post-pandemic) a mix of remote and scheduled mandatory in-person work. As a programmer, once at the end of a sprint and the beginning of the next for example.

On the flip side, if you work at a company that has employees across time zones, and your team is in say NY and SF, what value does mandating "in-person" interaction have? You're not going to fly everyone from both coasts to a meeting all the time. I'm not even sure C-level corporate board meetings, where companies seemed to be more than willing to fund travel, were fully in-person before the pandemic.

Perhaps what's really up for discussion is the concrete value of in-person, in-the-office, working. I know there are some that would say people being together in the same space is essential, and at the other end there are some who say the cost outweighs any value. The truth is that people are different, and treating individuals as cattle doesn't have much nuance.
Get one. I did. It's seriously awesome.

Now if they'd only put 4g in it...
How do you square that with them removing sensors from their cars and going all-in on doing self-driving exclusively using vision? If they were so passionate about spending money to make the safest cars, they'd be doing sensor fusion.
That's precisely the point. People want to understand what they did wrong.
Now it is never.

The costs of alternatives to fusion are falling so fast that fusion cannot possibly ever catch up.

Fusion was always going to be an extremely expensive source of power--much more than fission, which is itself not now competitive. Spend as much as you like on development, construction, maintenance, each dollar spent takes you farther from commercial competitiveness. Meanwhile, each dollar spent instead of on building out solar and wind brings climate catastrophe nearer.

FRC D-He3 fusion might be a superb space drive. We don't know because dead-end Tokamak steals all the funding.
The next and last windows 10 ltsc release, which will be released soon, will only be supported for five years. (Usually it is ten years)
Can you buy location data for all registered lobbyists?
Which, on the other hand, would be a great thing because maybe it would finally put that stupid idea to rest.
What does the author hope to accomplish from this blog post? Congrats, the world now knows he had a CEO who over-promised and under-delivered, and who looks to have handled layoffs at his company poorly. I mean, get in line.

If the author was actually trying to do something with this post (e.g. expose criminal behavior as the recent Ozy Media articles have done, or expose a broken, misogynistic culture in hope of affecting some change like Susan Fowler's post on Uber did), I could understand. But this just seems to be a pissed employee who wants to vent - which I understand, I just don't understand what he wishes to accomplish with this public bitch list.
Not a great answer but basically everything that occurs in this Universe must increase the overall entropy of the universe (second law)

Of course local entropy can decrease, hopefully in a way that is beneficial to our little corner of the universe :)

Would recommend Schrodingers “what is life” if interested further in life/entropy
Norvig's PAIP is what won me over from Scheme to Common Lisp. https://github.com/norvig/paip-lisp
As Uw7yTcf36gTc said below, buying from the storefront is misleading. Your response seems unnecessarily combative.
"You were complaining about coffee machines and lights. "

'vast custom-built corporate/government IT platforms' are actually worse than most consumer products I had to deal with.
The entire industry being infantile and irresponsible in every area it touches, from coffee machines to ATMs running windows XP and vulnerable oil pipelines.

"staff at Fujitsu working on such a system would likely be university qualified"

Traders were qualified in 2008, the crash still happened. You are missing the point.

The system encourages risk and staggering incompetence from leadership, untill the firms are held accountable and subject to real scrutiny, nothing will change. I know, first hand, a payment company which decided to switch from Perl to JS, and fired all Perl developers. Then they realised it's broken and they have no-one to fix it before JS system is ready.

"It's not simple at all, to completely rewrite every IP law"

You don't need to change IP law or anything else, you just need to equip justice system to inspect software and hold irresponsible gamblers accountable. If a Car company is accused of gross negligence, you can take a car apart and check what's going on, this is accomplishing the same for software, and to make sure it's not suddenly lost, deleted, etc. What is the "technology business convention" that we have to change? We already use version control.

We do the same for plans of buildings and aircraft, they don't suddenly belong to the government.
> You're cherry-picking data to make Tesla's numbers and potential look worse than they actually are.

This accusation is false.
I owe much of my current success as a professional software engineer to the instructors at Treehouse. As an intern, I went from 0 to learning the fundamentals of JavaScript on both the front and back end. It was the one site that helped React finally click for me.

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For their Android apps they can launch on third party app stores besides F-Droid, for example Amazon Appstore, Samsung Galaxy Store, Huawei App Gallery, and I'm sure there's plenty of others... most users are likely to be on Samsung phones or one of the Chinese brands so getting your app on those stores should cover a lot of the customer base already.

For customers using other phones just tell them download Amazon Appstore and provide an APK download on the site for the lazy ones (but put a note saying using an app store is best to get updates etc.)

While it does damage business to not be in the Play Store, thankfully Android is flexible enough it's not a total killer if you get into other app stores customers are likely to trust, and they are likely to trust the app stores that are preinstalled on their phones.

It's also smart to not only be on one platform. Of course if their dev account got canned by Apple they really wouldn't have any alternatives, but it'd be very bad luck for them to genuinely have done nothing wrong but still have both Google and Apple ban them.
Is your company looking for interns?
There's a similar issue with online dating: the better an online dating service is at matching people, the higher their subscription churn rate.

A customer who had been using an online dating service for many years is presumably a great revenue source but a bad experience for people they are matched with!

The result of this is that online dating becomes mostly about new user acquisition - you've got to keep new people coming in to keep the service useful.
You cannot replace a Xeon with an Epyc without redesigning the motherboard. In reality is even worse. You replace a chip from ST with one from Renesas for example.
It absolutely is. When your boss asks for overtime and weekends to support the company in a startup culture, they take the most valuable thing any of us has. The exchange is about more than money and time: they are also expected to pour their time and effort into this one idea with similar, if not equal, sacrifices. They sink or swim with you.

This putz was too cowardly to lead honestly, and too incompetent to get a deal done to protect the livelihood of his team. If he knew he was checked out, he could have explored restructuring and letting the team buy in, maybe allowed them to reach out to their network and replace him. Instead all those hours of effort were reduced to nothing while he ran away from his responsibilities.

Fuck people like that, and fuck their boats and their Instagram feeds. They steal time away from our families for no benefit to us our society at large.
It is more than just a few values, it's maps to plot a curve.

But they do actual control software too, though that's less common. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MegaSquirt
I've heard so much nice things about this, but just can't figure out how to get it to work.

AUR has packages for replacing PA and jack with pipewire, but when I tired this I ended up with a dead ardour and not even timeshift could get me back to a working system.
This article won't load -- just a headline and picture is visible. Is there another source?
Google didn't give a reason in this case. Have you heard of a big company getting terminated like this without being given a reason? So as far as I know the rules are unfair.
> Do you have a source?

I mean.. that's capitalism? Capital accumulation is the bedrock of the system.
"if it's so easy to get away with rape, how come you haven't done it yet"? Wtf?
They could but Google's AI would likely pick it up instantly and they actually would have broken the ban evasion rule at that point so they wouldn't have a leg to stand on when accusing Google of being unfair.
A little weird to assume he “made” $3.2 million from the house. Who knows what he bought it for, what he owed on it, what his profit in the transaction was, etc.

Maybe he’s neck deep in debt? Maybe he spent all his money on a boat assuming a windfall would come that never came. There can be any number of reasons someone would sell their house as their company goes under.

Seems pretty clear he was fully planing on the acquisition to go through. Which may be haphazard, but happens.

The most likely answer to, “Why did he fire everyone instantly with no severance?” is “Because there is no money.” It seems very likely after the acquisition fell through there was simply nothing left.
For anyone that tried this and failed miserably:

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In my github page:
https://github.com/derek-zhou/airss
I listed several options. Please choose yourself; I can't choose for you.
Isn't that a serious problem, when the final decision withholds information related to the case.

For all we know it could be the virus attack that lead to Googles decision.
Sadly, it has been my experience
Headlines from 2055:

Ransomware gang releases man from MyBrain sleeping cap after family pays $10M

CEO: users can opt-out of dream-based ads, monitoring -- but face degraded platform experience

Police use bulk collection of brain data for secretive warrants
It depends. If you want to sleep well at night you take care. Of course if you are VW you take risks.
Lots of people have had bad experiences with kratom giving them headaches/nausea. This is largely due to poor quality kratom from head-shops and gas stations or from consuming excessive doses. Never buy Kratom that isn't lab tested with GC/MS. And don't take too much of any opioid unless you want motion sickness.

There are lots of strains as well. You may have had a racier green strain. Red Mae Daeng would be closer to a conventional opioid.

Don't listen to /u/samhw. He clearly has no understanding of what it is to use something therapeutically versus in a maladaptive way. I on the other hand have a pre-med degree.

With any drug comes a bit of risk of addiction or dependency. Even antidepressants. Having a healthy attitude and lifestyle and avoiding the stronger things like oxycodone, heroin, methamphetamine, etc is wise.

/u/samhw please avoid discussing topics you know nothing about while labeling those who do as 'addicts.'
But he wasn't just CEO; he was founder and probably still a significant stock holder. While all the shareholders bear some culpability, either:

a. having enough capital in the business to pay severance, or,
b. firing people at the point before they stopped being able to avoid severance.

... are both better options than he should have taken.
They downsized 90%! Saying that they haven't failed yet strikes me as needlessly pedantic.

Yes, employees of a tech startup are probably compensated pretty well and have great job prospects. However, their wealth is probably negligible compared to the CEO, despite them appearing to care much more about their work than the CEO does. I understand that most people will say that this is fair and the market has determined their worth, but even if that's true the people who get the short end will resent it and see that they have more to gain by toppling the system than by working inside it. Wealth Inequality is an existential threat to western capitalist democracy, and if it's not rectified it will lead to revolution. If you are in favor of our current system and wish to preserve it, wealth inequality must be addressed.
> you even get rewards if you choose better security

Service providers should know better than their users and make the best choices for them.

It is not like when you buy a car you get to choose whether you want airbags or not. They decided for you, and you must
have airbags, period.

Users, on overage, do not posses the knowledge to make the best decision when it comes to security.

They go with the least friction solution. SMS works great everybody know how they work.

So, yeah, the burden and responsibility should not be on the end user. This is clearly companies' fault.
For any of the startup sized companies, this is totally a risk. I presume they wouldn't ban e.g. Twilio's account because one of their former or current employees got themselves personally banned, but there's certainly been accounts of it happening on HN to smaller companies where they hire a banned dev, and then the company's own accounts get banned (and on at least one occasion, their devs personal accounts too).
And you have to witness the mess without these people, or if they aren't allowed to do their job, in order to believe it. Better even, live the mess, I can assure you it is quite an experience.
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Not in US and in my knowledge software engineers haven't returned to office. WFH became so normal people are seeking jobs outside the country to the extend local companies can't find people to hire.
Note that a lot of the Gallium3D architecture is designed for the stateful APIs like OpenGL. Very little of it is used in the Vulkan drivers.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E4_Series_Shinkansen
Has a nice details and good interior photos. Even the exterior photos without much reference, the train appears massive!
You're still trying to defend your position... sad.

Claiming Tesla is the same as VW which basically buys batteries and shoves them into existing chassis\frames, is a joke.

Tesla produces most of the worlds batteries:

https://www.mining.com/muskmobiles-running-rivals-off-the-ro...

In their own factories, which automaker has this level of integration?

Tesla has the best battery longevity metrics according to thousands of tested cars:
https://electrek.co/2018/04/14/tesla-battery-degradation-dat...

Tesla is the only company with vast\robust charging network:
https://hbr.org/2021/01/how-teslas-charging-stations-left-ot...

Tesla is the only company seriously investing in their own battery facilities. boots on the ground, working facilities.

Now tell me how Tesla is just like any other player in the EV space again?
imagining Google.com pointing to a parked domain with junk search results in 2065 brings a smile to my face.
I’d be frustrated in the author’s shoes but far too much attention is paid to the CEO’s personal finances.

Who knows what he walked away with after he’d sold his house and cleared the mortgage. Presumably he needs to buy another house afterwards. Either way it doesn’t matter in the slightest because that’s not related to the business. What sense would it make to invest personal funds in a failing business? How much of a dent would it have even made with 45 full time employees?
I wasn't referring to academic jobs, but being a student. I don't need recommendation letters to get an A or to learn.

> I suppose if you're talking about code quality et. al, yes, but you definitely do get evaluated on its impact on the business. If you are part of a successful product launch and you engineered major features (even if other people could've written those features) you get rewarded.

A few remarks:

If you do something fairly major, then probably yes.

If you do something fairly major, there will often be people around you who will attempt (and often succeed) to take a fair amount of that credit without having contributed much. So yes, you get rewarded, but so will others who shouldn't. This is very common where I've worked. I think it's generally the case in large companies.

We should not focus on major product launches where you did major work. Say there is an existing product and most of the work is bug fixing and adding features. This category is where most of the work in industry is, and is where my comment mostly applies. This is also the category where innovation is highly touted but rarely rewarded. I've certainly been in jobs where innovation is needed, but the one who steps up to solve those problems is often the one who gets poor reviews, because everyone in the team becomes more productive because of him, and the manager sees less output from him because he spent a big chunk of his time solving infrastructure issues.

When I speak of objectively measuring performance, people often compare how it's done between jobs. This is not the point. Compare with how it's done when you were a student. In most technical courses, it's highly unlikely that someone who barely understands the material gets an A grade while simultaneously the one who understood the material well gets a B or a C. In industry, this scenario is quite common.
Oh no, the attention robbers and psychological manipulators are getting a few million our of their literal billions taken away :(
He basically went from EMI to EMF.
No one said anything about criminal liability: this is just about being a scumbag. A CEO is a receptacle of trust: they get to see things rank-and-file don't get to see. Leveraging that information asymmetry to profit at the risk of people who put just as much (in a lot of cases more) effort and skill into the success of the company as you do may not make you a criminal in a legal system that has decided a few decades ago to commit civilization suicide by grinding away labor protections, but it sure does make you a scumbag.

Live in modest house and give the people who sacrificed for you like a week of severance or something. Anything.
When I was younger, I use to believe (maybe I still do) that all lifeform's purpose was to accelerate universe death, by transfer from matter to heat in the form of radiation, like we are just an extension of the universe's agency/"desire" towards that, and everything we do is aimed to that, but never actually thought about consciousness.
It's slower, which slows down trains behind it capable of higher speeds.
I distinctly remember doing that for Quake. Going into the store and getting the demo hard disk to take home and install on DOS. That started years of FPS playing…