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I am all in her camp on this one.

Most services eat the cost of trial periods in hopes of snaring subscribers and making up the loss. Apple is being dishonest by claiming free trial while passing off the costs to the artists by relying on Apple's name and status so as not to have people question it. In other words, they are spinning the story faster that old 78s
Here is a better model of paying artists:

- If artist sells music on a DRM-free downloading service like bandcamp.com, support them

- Otherwise let them starve
"If the code has more than that many variables, OCaml compiler has to park the extra variables in memory and this parking is called spilling."

This is just wrong. It would be accurate to say "If the code has more than that number of variables live at the same time".

If the computations are not live at the same time, they can share a register.
Despite agreeing a lot with your sentiments, I don't exactly agree with what you said. Agreed that fair compensation is crucial. Agreed that sensible hours are important. Agreed that too many places fail to give these to their employees.

However, I've known lots of companies who offer good compensation and good work-life balance, but still think it's important to be "employee-friendly". Again, agreed that there can be conflicts of interest, especially in a non-cooperative model. But still, happy employees tend to be more useful employees. It can be useful to hire people whose motivation isn't solely limited to the compensation.
To me there are, but I'm open to discussion.

- Different pricing. Apps can be anywhere from $1 to $500, while songs typically hover around $0.99. The wide variance in app pricing makes a subscription model challenging to satisfy all users and developers.

- Different markets. When you make an app, you're tying it to be used on a specific platform. It is additional work to make it cross-platform. That alone is limiting for an apps' market, and in the case of iOS, the platform's owner can impose additional limits. Music is open-ish in the sense that you can make music once and release it in a way that it's playable, essentially, everywhere.

- Different revenue streams. Music is a digital good like apps, but it's also a physical good (CDs, records) and most importantly it's a service (live performances). It's possible to have additional revenue streams with apps, but it's not as common as it is with music. If Apple spontaneously created an app subscription model and your app was iOS only, you would suddenly be very locked into that business model, whereas with music you will always have additional options.
I'd say you are correct.
> Software developers aren't immune to piracy's effects, either. Whether we like it or not, we're quickly shifting into a world where art is only viable as a labor of love. Everything being digital means copying is free.

Isn't this one of the big reasons for the rise of SaaS apps, though? Developers, unlike musicians, have found a way to combat piracy in a way that both consumers seem to prefer (lower upfront costs and usage based pricing) and developers benefit from (more revenue over time in exchange for delivering real value).

Besides, being forced to provide 3 months of free usage without any say in the matter is hardly defensible due to piracy. It's even less defensible when the party enforcing the free usage is the party that stands to benefit most from it.
Why so many people blame apple? For the beloved Tayloer? Or for the beloved Music industry?

I still don't get it. Today's music pretty much sucks, I mean the artists mostly didn't even make their own music, they just buy the text and everything.
Most music of today costs way less than it costed years before and still isn't that great, it's just for the masses and yet artists are crying cause they get not enough?
Huh 10 $ per month is a lot especially when you think about it, a normal person won't buy an album every month which costs nearly 10 $ per month..
Also why should an artist live with a single hit for his whole life? That makes no sense.

People in this business don't live in the reality, I mean more and more films happen to be on streaming platforms, yet a film costs way more to produce than music and still you pay the same price for netflix / amazon instant video / etc than for a music streaming service.

Also why does an album online costs as much as an album inside the store?? Thats way out of reality.

People should stop buying everything from labels, artists, just to show them what they do today is not funny anymore.

P.S.: And i don't get it why she has so many fans. Hell her music is way worse than a lot of pop music I listened so far.
Why can't we have great artists today? Nobody remembers the good old days of The Who, Queen, Redbone, Blue Swede, etc.. Too bad what happens to music these days..
My own (very limited) understanding is that methane is primarily the product of anaerobic decomposing, which is what happens in landfills, but can be avoided in well maintained compost piles.
Thanks, will do. And if I want to go even further and also learn about how the code interacts with the hardware on the lowest level? So that I for example know what code will have lots of cache misses?
We aren't meant to have bosses, but we are social animals who are meant to work in groups. Groups often do need leaders who are able to synthesize a path that is mutually beneficial and help people to work in concert.

The problem is that we have developed economic structures that make it hard for individuals to reject bosses who are not leaders.
Well said. I've volunteered regularly prior to having kids because I was truly giving back to society. At some point, having more money loses it's meaning.
Beyond the cooperatives you can also run non-profit organisations with a business model. They can be without any owners, so you are not working for someone else's gain in the same way you do for a company. We have that where I work.
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> Can you explain why that wouldn't be a great deal for app developers? I develop iOS apps, and I'd love it if apple moved to a pay for use model.

While it may be the case that pay-per-use would be a great model for developers (though I'm highly dubious that this is the case for anyone that isn't making a trivial $0.99 app), that isn't the main thrust of my hypothetical.

The problem with this scenario is the loss of a full quarter of revenue from every new App Store user in the interest of Apple acquiring subscribers. Do you think it would be a great deal for app developers to not be paid for three months of every single App Store user's usage?
Have you ever heard of someone refer to taxes as confiscatory and it be the case that that person is not a conservative or a libertarian who holds the beliefs mention in my post? I haven't but I did acknowledge that perhaps those beliefs were not shared by the person I responded to. Thus the questions I asked. It was not demagoguery. The argument was quite rational.

People who refer to taxes as confiscatory rather than as being too high are attempting to frame the topic of taxation as it being, necessarily, wrong. It's a ridiculous starting point. These same people almost always scoff at arguments that the U.S. ought to adopt some social policies because all other industrialized nations have them. It is, with this fact in mind, quite rational to ask why looking at the corporate tax rate of other countries is a good argument.

Why is it demagoguery to ask why a person in the form of a corporation should pay less in taxes than a person in the form of a human?
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I am a bit mystified as to where people get the idea that competition is fundamentally better than cooperation. The only time competition has ever done any good is when it leads to greater cooperation.
Thank you, I appreciate that. I will definitely check out comicvine API.
Great point. One corollary is that with the increase in volume (and churn) of places to post a job, single openings & fuaxpenings are likely to be double/triple/N counted.
I agree, although I wouldn't say efficiency needs to be a priority. The language should simply be aware of the machine model instead of abstract those. It should know there's a processor, and that there's memory. Crystal does a pretty good job at being efficient without sacrificing much!
Imagine This: Drones could fly over medians of surface streets so if they do fall the only thing they are likely to hit is a car or a very, very unlucky pedestrian with some additional hardware and a connection to ATC (Think ADS-B 2.0) you would not need to worry about hitting other aircraft. And instead of landing at 1000 unknown landing points have them shuttle packages between a few known landing points. I.E go down to the corner Walgreens drone landing zone (rooftops or parking lots employees get the package from the drone drop it in a drop box for you to pick up and swap batteries for the next flight) Then you just head down to pick up whatever was just flown 10 miles to your area for you instead of fighting rush hour traffic, thus removing a car from said traffic and making the world a better place. The last mile becomes the last 100 yards.

The point is there are solvable problems that can make drones viable. I've done a great many long distance autonomous drone flights (we're talking miles) to then have it land within 3ft of where it was supposed to. The tech is very close to being up to the task (3-5 years) the regulation however is not.

Food for thought Cars kill 40k people per year in the US, even if a few are killed by drones the number of deaths avoided by having less car trips would likely well more then offset those killed by falling drones.

One more thing, if cars were invented today they would most likely be made illegal due to the potential for death (40k/year). Aside from a handful of freak accidents drones don't kill people yet there are a great many people trying to ban them out the the fear that they might. Now compare that to the 40k number for cars.
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I have reciprocal links going back to marvel.com, there are no ads and I did receive a feedback from an individual on Marvel dev team that he liked the app. So I'm assuming they are cool with it.
OK, so you're on about a physical/temporal separation of IO and logic: the logical calculations can be performed separately to the IO actions, and vice versa.

I view that as pretty trivial though; it's just a case of switching out the language's IO primitives, which are effectively free variables. With most "large" languages (Java, Haskell, etc.), the implementations are usually gnarly enough to make such substitution a significant engineering accomplishment, but that's an artefact of the situation, not the approach. As an analogy, the task of fitting corrective optics to the Hubble space telescope was only difficult because it was the Hubble space telescope; fitting adaptive optics is trivial enough that bespectacled children do it every day.

In light of this, I think that disentangling mixed-up definitions is a much more important and interesting problem. It's non-trivial to extract pure computations from imperative code (whether they're written in Java, or Haskell, or whatever), yet there is a great potential benefit for improving code, in terms of understandability, modularity, re-use, maintainence, etc. The fact that pure code is easier to test, or that side-effects can be substituted for the purposes of tests, is really a minor point in comparison. They are workarounds for running code which has too many responsibilities. Much better to avoid the problem in the first place by writing separate code for separate concerns.
Got a bunch of emails overnight from Jobsy, and it looks like they're scraping the HN freelance/who's hiring threads and then creating accounts and job listings that can only be unsubscribed if you go in and create an account. I can't imagine the HN crowd will take kindly to this entrepreneurial approach to spamming, and I certainly won't ever use them.
Regardless, the whole point of the greedy allocator is to throw out the fancy list of active intervals that linear scan maintains in favor of doing something simpler that allows more flexibility in spilling/splitting, right?

For example:

"Live ranges being spilled without being split first cause the mess that the rewriter is working so hard to clean up. We would much rather split them into smaller pieces that might be assignable, but this would require the linear scan algorithm to backtrack. This is very expensive, and full live range splitting isn't really feasible with linear scan."

i.e. a weakness of linear scan is that the active list approach helps it solve the coloring problem quickly and accurately, but it comes with a big drawback that live range splitting is hard, which is the wrong tradeoff in practice.
Also, the guy who founded VISA has spent his later years putting forward ideas on how build large organizations that still maintain the anarchic qualities which allow independance from too much central control.

https://books.google.ca/books/about/Birth_of_the_chaordic_ag...
Parkinson's Law -- an amusing read, even if quaint. The same book also gave rise to the contemporary term "bikeshedding."
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I always imagined a system where companies could only get so large unless they had a charter for a big project. (Which would expire, and they'd have to break up.)
Are adult ebooks that one pays for reliably better than the the stuff on literotica.com?

It's hardly necessary to pay people to write, it's nearly impossible to stop them. Of course someone with real talent should be paid because then they will be able to concentrate on it without worrying about paying the rent.

But the best selling 'adult' book of recent time was Fifty Shades which is hardly a book of great literary quality so I suspect that the simplest way around the ban is to just read free stories.
You're missing the main thrust of the hypothetical (arguments about how "amazing" the offer is aside):

> Apple simultaneously announces a 3 month free trial for all App Store accounts, and states that it will be making no payments to developers during that trial since users are not paying for it.

That's a terrible offer no matter how you cut it.
You can't keep a good man down but like the two replies, my boss chose to ignore my effort and results to keep costs low. He's a great guy but when it comes to recognition and pay negotiation, he's a real bastard hehe.
No one seems to have said this yet, but I wonder if Apple has done the following math:

expected negative value of bad pr = NPR

loss of customers from artists pulling songs = CUS

Cost of running PR Campaigns combating these stories = PR

Cost of paying artists for 3 month trial = TRIAL

Other forgotten costs = COSTS

If(NPR + CUS + PR) is greater than (TRIAL + COSTS) they should just pay the artists and make this go away. Obviously this is a very simplified example, but I wonder if Apple has done this sort of appraisal. I suspect they have.
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You're being deceptive

That's not very nice.

Who do you think owns SaaS businesses, or App Store apps, or downloadable software, etc.? I own a software company. If I couldn't resell my software over and over, I'd be homeless. If it couldn't sell software over and over, I'd have to fire all my employees (dev, customer support, marketing...) and shutter my business.

Do you think artists don't have employees? Is their music not their business? There's no difference between me owning software or an artist owning music.

Also, the companies you're saying "good riddance" to defined the world of selling software as a business and as a profession. You may think we'd be fine without them now, but not acknowledging the role they played is disingenuous at best - not to mention the literally hundreds of thousands of jobs they've created directly or indirectly.
I think a recurrent neural network is more suitable here as the size of context for each example might be different, instead of fixing the frame size.
I think that if cars were invented today they would most likely be made illegal due to the potential for death (40k/year in the US). Aside from a handful of freak accidents drones don't kill people yet there are a great many people trying to ban them out of the the fear that they might. Now compare that to the 40k number for cars. Drone deliveries have the potential to remove cars from the road thus saving lives.
Cordova does indeed do this, and gives you access to iOS hardware APIs. This doesn't.

With this in mind, the reason I made it was for projects which don't require those things. There is no middleware here, just a very simple Xcode project with a couple of code modifications.

You can literally drop an existing web app into this and get going! :D
Are we some day going to see the same activity in Homebrew on the Vita as we saw it on the PSP?
I think this is a little glib.

It's probably not reasonable to expect a manager to correct performance deficits that are a fundamental attribute of a serious mental disorder. There are coherent, reasonable, intelligent people who have disorders that are beyond even the awesome powers of the modern software team manager. Beyond, in fact, even their ability to make assessments.

I think it's a little dangerous to suggest that a manager should be freelancing as a therapist --- which is what you're expecting them to do when you say that a manager should be able to help workers who are impaired by mental illness perform better.

Finally, from a legal perspective, post-ADAAA, it's pretty important for managers to keep a laser focus on actual job performance, and not to casually involve themselves in employee mental health. An overt suggestion that an underperforming team member might have a mood disorder apparently has some liability/obligation implications.
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Stroustrup gave a talk where he demonstrated that the performance of a linked list is terrible compared to a vector. Here[0] is a summary.

[0] http://bulldozer00.com/2012/02/09/vectors-and-lists/
Here is a more comprehensive one-liner to see all items with more than 1 applications on a ACL list:

security dump-keychain -a > keychain-results.txt

grep -P '(^(class|keychain):|\s+("(svce|acct)"|0x0000000(1|7)) <blob>="[^"]*"|^\s+applications \(([2-9]|[0-9]{2,})\):|^\s+[0-9]+:)' keychain-results.txt | \
perl -pe 's/\n/\0/g' | perl -pe 's/\0keychain:/\nkeychain:/g' | \
grep -aP 'applications \(([2-9]|[0-9]{2,})\):' | \
sort -u | perl -pe 's/\0/\n/g'
"She felt the hostility was best explained as a kind of conspiracy between the ill-informed and Big Telephony."

or, just maybe, people don't like people who show up and demand everyone change for their sake - see any entertainment venue / farmer that has a new housing development show up in the next property over
Me too. Is this a sort of allusion to something?
The problem is that developers do not know that they mustn't call datetime.now() and there will always be a developer who doesn't know this, either because people have a tough time knowing everything, or just because you're hiring new people.

Wouldn't it be nice if you could just obstruct such patterns within the first millisecond of their first interaction with the compiler?
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Nice find, sytelus. Thanks for posting this!
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Hi pron,

I get the feeling you're spouting very strong opinions without ever having actually written real production code in Haskell. Because what you're saying is nonsense.

Anything you can do in an imperative language you can do in Haskell - the only difference is that Haskell allows you to define subsets of IO that are enforced by the type system.

Mocking time is crucial for testing timeouts. You don't want your test to actually take five seconds. You want to rapidly test the code in the case that a timeout occurs before completion of the action and vice versa. You want those tests to be 100% deterministic and fast. With the World approach described you can get that.

Also, there is nothing about the technique described that limits you to unit tests. IMVU tests entire web services with this approach and it works well. "World" in that case includes APIs for accessing Redis, MySQL, the customer's session, time, concurrency, and so on. They're all perfectly faked out in tests, and the tests are 100% reliable.
I'm not sure what difference it makes that they don't have labels? The deal is the same for everyone, you get higher royalties overall in exchange for the 3 month free trial.
I agree, Apple should front the costs during that 3 month trial period. It's just not fair to not pay artists. The only benefit I see from this is that artists can get exposure they normally wouldn't get, because of the smaller library size.
I don't think PCI is anywhere near the minimum that is needed. In the JP Morgan hack: did their PCI compliance help their status? In the Target breach: did their PCI compliance help prevent their attack? How about the Global Payments breach of a couple of years ago?

So with respect to Most of these questions can be rolled up into, i would post a Strong Disagree.
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I'm talking about all these firms that specialise in security for companies. If I wanted to work at one of these, what programming language would I need to know?

I assume it would be something like C++, but I don't know.

On another note, how many programming languages (and what programming languages) do you think someone would need to know to have a successful career in that field?
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It's supposed to read as a portmanteau of "ASCII" and "cinema", but yeah, I can see the misreading.
Yeah, but touring has a crazy pile of expenses associated, in addition to all the unfortunateness of being on the road for as long as you want to make money at it.

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