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> What if you found every other company were the same way?

Then make your own company, or failing that, start to think critically about why every company is structured in the way it is. Maybe others have tried it your way and it didn't work?

> That's like telling somebody living in a monarchy that if they want influence over their lives, they just have to marry into the royal family.

Luckily, because of the freedom this country offers us, the solution is instead to (per the metaphor) go to another of the million monarchies, create your own monarchy, or, yes, work your way up in the monarchy. If you decide to start causing chaos and sowing discontent in your current kingdom, then you may be kicked out of it.
Yes. that's what happens when you have an institutional bias against men. Why is anybody surprised about it? Why is there no discussion about it?
Sorry, how does it make sense? Except after a lot of gaslighting? And maybe not by you, but I also feel the arguments of "don't put personal things on your work phone" and "don't delete [personal things] off your work phone" are getting blurred easily in this whole comment section.
Apple only has 80K employees. As countries go, that's a pretty small one.
Would a "bumper case" (just a ring, with no back protection) do what you're describing?

Or would you rather have that ring volume filled with battery?
Not much to discuss. Majority is in agreement.
80k direct plus a lot more indirect.

And a decent gdp.
Because California insurance laws are extremely rigid in how rates are allowed to be formulated and it essentially precludes all forms of driving behavior based UBI
Why is it so hard to grasp the idea that "consciousness" isn't any more complicated than our brains following natural laws of the universe and that you in fact don't have free will?

Look, if you jump, you will fall back down to the earth, and there is nothing you can do about it. Just the same as if you remove the eyes' nerves, you can no longer see, or if you have someone tap your knee is a certain spot, it will jerk.

We are nothing more than input, output machines, whether made from "meat", or other parts as in people with machines for pacemakers. Get over it.
Whenever that happened to myself, I'd start over in a different space. New rules, new acquaintances, new things, and new experiences.

Get out the house. No.

Sell it and move. Move somewhere you would expect to be surprised. Do something you would not expect yourself to do for a living. Experience a new life, a new meaning.

Give it 7-15 years and you may want to do it again. It's good for you.
Your question makes no sense. Not every company is the same way. There are other companies with different cultural values and employment policies. Apple doesn't operate any company towns where there are no other employers.
Which is definitely more inline with the view of privacy I remember before the current ‘internet generation’.
Why? Shouldn’t it lower ones rates unless one drives recklessly?
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I played a couple of times at my friend's house; I wasn't allowed to tie up the phone line
It's not "required", the office culture is just one that encourages employees to dogfood new features and whatnot on their daily drivers. It's not uncommon for Apple employees to make new regular Apple IDs for work: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28242037

It's fair to say that combining personal data with work data won't end well.
Its not criticism that is any problem. Its going to press to try to force some change when you are not getting entirely your way. This is a bad thing. Correct answer if this person was seriously in the interest of Apple would be write letters to shareholders/board if management has ignore the concern.
> phrases like vaccinated people have similar viral loads to unvaccinated individual obscures that point and helps lead people to think vaccines are useless

I neither stated nor implied any such thing and these sorts of PSAs are really not constructive. HN I believe has a generally well-educated and technical audience that is capable of having intelligent, nuanced conversation about scientific research.

In fact, with all due respect, given that you've repeatedly misconstrued and misunderstood the research presented, and by your own admission abused terms, all in an effort to argue something that was totally unrelated to what was being discussed, I'd suggest your efforts are actually counterproductive.
I love it. I wonder how much of this they applied to AOE2 DE, which is currently thriving, and uses the same basic game mechanics, artwork, and balance as "AOK".
It's not that the story's about Apple, it's that it's about a woman and HN is filled with lonely dunning-kruger men.
Jira itself isn't the problem.. it's a decent bug tracker + with a whole lot of 'agile/scrum/sprint' tracking/planning features on top. That somehow attracts a whole lot of 'process' focused middle managers who can absolutely kill any project... They want to 'use' jira - not focus on getting the product built. It doesn't help that most alternatives aren't enterprise-y enough

I've seen enough efficient but somewhat chaotic projects move to jira, followed shortly by a bevy of managers who're brought in to manage jira, followed by the usual agile theatre & process overheads that's been a 'kiss of death

You can argue that this isn't jira's fault.. but IMO, simpler tools require more work and act as a filter for the agile process minded types

PS: I've also had extremely good experience on teams where Jira was used.. and it's always been because the 'agile process' guy was capable.. however, those have been few and far between
This is not explicitly true. They are allowed to create their an account separate from their personal one.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28242037
So much condescension in your response, no I am not expecting a child to find role model, only that there is more place than public school where child finds the role model. This is exactly why I had a list of others, church, boy scouts, etc. I knew some growing up who had no good father figure, these were places they find them. I think we must limit degree to which government employee acts as role model for child.

I do not think child participates in "patriarchal aristocracy", I only say that me and many other people I know have found other role model than biological father even without having male teacher. I do not know why there is pertinence on children out of wedlock, we mostly still see it as bad but I think you have already some anger on this subject and it has no relation here. Are you making statements that government school must provide male role model so women can have children without marriage and those children have role model? In loco parentis is not the intended normal course for all children to such an extent.
The offered options when it comes to phones seem legit. But this framework thing does not, imho.

It's the exact same proprietary tech you get everywhere else. (You actually can't have an open system when running mainstream hardware).

And when it comes to the design of that HW it looks more or less exactly like some of the more recent Inspiron Dell laptops. If I wouldn't know better I would guess it's just based on some run-of-the-mine China design.

This proprietary extension cards also doesn't look useful. Same reasons for why the "brick phones" didn't work out.

All in all it looks fishy. Attracting easy money with some hype topic but not delivering on that for real.

I would be happy to see Raptor Computing Systems¹ build some laptops. Only that sadly there aren't any proper CPUs for that purpose… But it's currently the only desktop grade HW you can really trust. Anything else doesn't run without custom closed source firmware in the CPUs (Intel, AMD, and ARM are guilty, RISC-V doesn't have the needed level of performance until now).

¹ https://www.raptorcs.com/
thanks for reminding me of DWANGO. I did.
Why no mention of Julia yet?
As GDP's go, Apple is the 8th largest country on earth by market cap. I know this is a bad equivalency, but they have VASTLY outsized influence with those 80,000 employees because of the wealth they generate.

With recent moves like Walmart creating in-house health care options, and Salesforce offering to move people out of Texas because of their abortion laws, our late-stage capitalism is morphing into the cyberpunk dystopia predicted by sci-fi writers 30-40 years ago. It's starting to matter more what company you work for, rather than what country you live in.
The vaccine hesitancy started out with the entire media, Biden and Fauci saying an effective vaccine will be years away. Meanwhile Trump is out hawking the warpspeed vaccine like it will save the world. A week after the election and the narrative flips.

I don't buy the first model year of a car, very rarely take an on patent drug, and I won't inject myself with a medical device before the long term studies have been completed.
In an earlier thread about this same topic[1] someone that claimed to have gone through Apple's onboarding process explained that they were told (approximately) "Log in with an Apple ID. You can use an existing one, should you have it."
So I think it's less a case that they're required to use a personal ID and more that they don't make explicit the fact that they can create & use a distinct one.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28242037
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Unfettered capitalism always tends toward monopolies, and then the invisible hand stops working and the whole system stops being capitalism. Capitalists who complain about competition are effectively complaining about the backbone of capitalism itself.

Healthy capitalism requires antitrust regulation for the same reason football requires referees.
That is a very different statement than saying the tech is bad.
Forgive my ignorance: where is it mentioned that the splice was for privacy reasons?
No that doesn't sound fair. It sounds like pointless virtue signaling.

Numbers increasing are meaningless. Which numbers? We all know that official case counts bear little relation to the true number of infections. Case numbers are trending up in Denmark but they haven't reintroduced any mask mandates.
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>So based on these tests, which country has the programmers that score the highest?

>In order to find out, we looked at each country’s average score across all domains

So it's taking the average of the country, not really looking at the best individual programmers. Considering the US had more entrants than China(which has 3x the population of the US), my guess is that there are many more mediocre devs from the US participating, which brings the average down.
I don’t understand what exactly you’re mad at the guy about? He made an ultra-usable textbox… millions of people use it every day instinctively because it’s a great tool. You can’t crucify him because of your own personal qualms and completely ignore the flip side of the coin.
You’d have a revolt at Google of you tried to take away their MacBooks and iPhones.
It's fair to assume that every firing is done for a reason/as a result of a problem, and having evidence of the reason being immoral is important if we're going to be a responsible "court of public opinion".
The problem is that if nobody talks up, the world doesn't become a better place.

The "like we did in the old days" way of doing stuff, you watch on Mad Men, was pretty unkind to a lot of different folks.
If you are the same Walter Bright who invented the D programming language then this comment should win a fun comment award

also there should be an HN comments award show or something
None of those you linked are recommended on the official websites:

https://www.rust-lang.org/tools/install: Curl an .sh

Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/about/: Download and install a .deb

Firefox: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/all/#product-desktop-r... - Download a .tar.bz2

VsCode: https://code.visualstudio.com/download - Download a DEB

Pycharm https://www.jetbrains.com/pycharm/download/download-thanks.h... - download a .tar.gz2

Python - Install from source or use a 3rd party dep.

https://www.kicad.org/download/ubuntu/ - KiCad is the only exception that wants you to use an official package.\

Docker is a pain to use; it's a crutch used by web devs and Dev-ops for complex business stuff.
That endeavour would be pretty much futile, would it not? The momentum in the other direction is built into the world physics, the rules of the game, is it not?

Would that not lead to a frustrating life?
> No. Google has a large market share of search because it got in early

"got in early" compared to what?

There were dozens of search engines before Google.
The elderly typically are more conservative than the young. The elderly are also taking the vaccine at a higher rate than the young. Just based on demographics, I would assume a significant number of Republicans have taken it.
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I've never seen a struck out anti-Apple comment that didn't spend the majority of the comment preemptively complaining about downvotes and disagreement.
(2001) - Not some strange content collector, Gamasutra rebranded

Definitely worth a read. The deterministic simulation is easy to understand (though not to do), clever and allows for great networking performance.

Afaik this approach is still useful and used today (e.g. in fighting games).
Unless company is doing something clearly illegal I think that publicly advocating against the company is not something you can do as an employee. You'd have to do that internally, however difficult.

If you want to do public things, you'd have to do it from the outside.

True whistle-blowing notwithstanding.
Depends what "promotes" means. They don't provide separate Apple accounts for employees, so among other things, if you don't link your personal account to your work phone you're either paying twice for any services or working with a hampered phone.
If I am in top 1% worker, and if union is generally flatten the salaries to make me receive less for others more, why should I not "nodding along on union busting talking points"? I like my very very large paycheck.
There are a lot of advantages though if you can get the interpreter fast enough to write more the standard library in Python instead of C. Racket moved to the Chez Scheme VM recently because it is much easier to maintain Racket/Scheme code than it is to maintain C. At my job, there are way more code scanning and audit requirements for any serialization code written in C/C++. While serialization code is always somewhat risky, at least you don't need to worry about buffer overflows in your parser if it's written in Python.
A) The data that flows through my browser is private to me, and I have no assurances that Firefox will respect it. The tools I use for work have a license that openly respects IP (without which they wouldn't be in business) and I'm am comfortable that their business model relies more on keeping me as a customer than selling the (limited) IP that flows through their tools.

B) The tools I use are force multipliers for me, that differentiate from their competition through the improvements they make (thus making me far more productive than I otherwise would be). I use Firefox, but there isn't a huge amount to distinguish it from other browsers, and it's not clear to me that improvements in browsers over the last 10 years (beyond security) have added enough value to my life to need my data.

C) For the tools I'm using, I am one of a relatively small number (tens of thousands) of users, I am occasionally in direct contact with their staff (again, I pay for this support, among other things); my contribution of telemetry data to them is making a substantial contribution. For Firefox, with its install base in the hundreds of millions, my individual contribution is meaningless.
Why has this post dropped 20- odd ranks in roughly an hour?
Comparing GDP to market capitalization is meaningless. If you want to make a useful comparison then GDP is more akin to gross profit.
In recent years I've heard car manufacturers refer to LCD displays as "TFTs" to sound higher-tech.
Or, use your freedom to stay where you are and try to change things. You can't pull the freedom card to tell some one they should do something else. Its not consistent.
the laziness of it all would be funny, if it didn’t indicate that people have to now be on the lookout at this casual of a level.
I know right. I seem to remember the late 1800s and early 1900s where unions were fighting to take care of that stuff. Is that not old ways? Are 'old ways' only occurring in a specific time period?
I don't know. If I sit down with my back straight and close my eyes, I can, in the space of 3-5 minutes, infallibly find the inner joy rising up from my body. Same way that something's kinda tense, and something's kinda sat on – there is a form of joy.

I hear it is never lost, lest you're actually dead or in the process of.

So I don't know about that.
I’ve been waiting 20 years for this article.

I used to have 28.8. I’d play this game for hours on there!

I was always in awe this ever worked, even more so over time as software has become more complex….
The ATM gives you money though…

7-11 takes your money for yucky hot dogs and apparently also your face long enough to satellite it to Azure. That’s weird.
Don't want to be taken for an antivaxxer or antivax apologist? Don't argue like one.

Otherwise, the risk is that you'll come across as just another concern troll. You've pretty much nailed the main tropes.
Maybe we just accept that Python isn't suitable for concurrency. There's a community of Python developers who don't want to branch out; write everything in Python and never learn or consider another language. Let them be. Let Python excel at its core competencies; use the right tool for the job.
What are these long term studies you speak of?
I have done this but management can’t accept that the mandatory overhead is taking that much time. They just don’t want to hear it.
Nice work! It would be useful for emerging scenarios like serverless computing.
Well if you can't be trusted to not infect the people around you, yeah get the hell out. Its literally the only pragmatic way to deal with it.
to continue in that metaphor, it's worth noting that here and most anywhere with something resembling "the freedom this country offers" was formerly a monarchy in which people thinking critically about the way it was structured started causing chaos and sowing discontent, so they could try this other way that people didn't think would work. say about that what you will.

it's not surprising that efforts are being made today to decentralize power within the private sphere and create broader rights and democratic management of capital. it's the place people feel most pressure in their lives today, feel the most helpless, and unable to act in their own interests or make their own way.

and of course people who are invested in the current system of management will make arguments that it is perfectly rational and any other system cannot work.

maybe everyone trying this will get kicked out. but i don't think that will discourage or prevent groups like this, because that doesn't kill the motivation. it's simply selection pressure for tactics that are more decentralized, more direct, popular, faster, and harder to shut down.
> Janneke Parrish was accused of deleting files that reportedly included the apps Robinhood, Pokemon GO, and Google Drive, and by doing so, impeding an investigation.

Because what they found (most likely Gdrive) would have also gotten Janneke embarrassed, fired, and/or subject to criminal sanctions lol.

Now instead Janneke gets to make Apple look like the unilateral aggressor, at least temporarily. It was the best chess move.
This disclaimer is applied to pretty much all polling done online, even if the samples are weighted to match the population. If you go look at election polls, for eg., the non-IVR ones will all have something like this, or a "If this were a traditional phone poll, the margin of error would be..."

Online polls are usually done by letting people opt-in and then sorting and weighting to sample, just like phone polls. The idea though is that because they aren't reached "randomly" in the first place (as they are by war dialing phone numbers for eg.) there's additional sampling biases at play that a margin of error doesn't account for.

Leger is a legitimate polling company in Canada, and I doubt they did it any different from how they do it for election polls. I'm not sure why people are assuming this was just an unweighted facebook poll or something.

But the reality is that "traditional polls" are probably no better because of the extremely high non-response rate these days. Inertia is a thing though.

An article about this subject: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/margin-of-error-debate_n_6565...
It’s such a shame that the Common Lisp community has to rely on archive.org so much. I remember working with others to recover (IIRC) https://wiki.alu.org/ from archive.org after... something.

In fact, it loks like it’s inaccessible now, at least in my browser. Google does have some pages indexed though: https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Aalu.org
While Dan Luu's post resonates with me to an extent, I think you are missing the GP's point.

In practice, if you improve your productivity at work, it's going to be mostly for your employer's benefit (other than bragging rights and some personal satisfaction).

Gaining time back is not always possible, and that is the core desire for most people (as your OP quote suggests you could do): incentive to improve significantly is not there in a job (even Luu acks this in his blog).

But GP is making a point that it should be perfectly acceptable to not want to (significantly) improve at work while meeting the bar for staying employed.

Not that GP and OP are not really in opposition: Luu is arguing for why it's ok to work on your speed/performance with deliberate practice, GP is arguing that it is ok not to. And I agree with both.
In place of short term disability, can you do paid programming / use it as a mentor / mentee opportunity for the next two months?

Build relationships, help others learn… could be cool.
At a previous employer, they’re building k8s clusters not for developers but for their infrastructure teams. In the past, where a vendor might have supplied an OVF file as the distributable product, they’re now providing Helm charts.
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> Progress in the arts is very limited and, as soon as the technique of artistic expression is perfected, ceases altogether to exist. Every artists starts from the beginning and depends for success on his personal talents alone.

It's curious that Huxley says that about the arts, and something entirely different about science

> Uninheritable progress, due to tradition, has genuinely taken place in the realism of science and technology, where each worker stands on the shoulders of his predecessors.
Bob nailed it for sure. This approach works.