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The App Store is about volume and profit and PR, not about providing a forum for art or expression.

An app with pictures of classic paintings that happen to include nipples will not be approved for sale.

After all, if you really want that kind of stuff, you can always install a different package manager and use someone else's selection of apps.

Oh, wait.
I think you misinterpreted what codegeek wrote.

People won't comment if they feel they don't have anything of substance to add - sometimes submissions can stand on their own pretty well and thus don't solicit a lot of comments. It's about maintaining a high signal-to-noise ratio. If anything I've found that you can use the karma/comment ratio as a moderately reliable indicator of link quality.

As for your original question, you should probably "lurk moar" before starting off-topic discussions. This really isn't that uncommon.
Political correctness has gone way too far in this country.

When the Boston Bomber was on trial, there was a point made that his actions, because it was in the name of Islam, in no way reflects the actions of the entire religion or culture.

Yet in South Carolina, the actions of one crazy person somehow now reflects on the entire culture and we need to remove the confederate flag.

I don't see Amazon and Ebay removing anything related to Islam and we have had way more deaths related to crazies in that religion than with the Confederate flag.

I also find it interesting that many people in government worked extremely fast to get the flag removed. I wished they could work this fast when it comes to actual important issues.
> The prime difference between Uber and, say, factory automatization is that it's not certain that Uber is strictly better.

In practice, though, as a quasi-frequent user of taxi service in a variety of cities (NYC, Atlanta, Chicago) who doesn't even care much about the price (as I get to expense most of those rides)... I'd opine that Uber is strictly better, even though the taxis a variety of huge advantages (like a straightforward airport pickup procedure).
People are way too oversensitive. Reminds me of Muslims getting upset over cartoon drawings of their prophet.
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My (least) favorite is job ads that list "working for a startup" as a "perk". Part of the problem is that startups have been romanticized so heavily that working for one has become its own reward in the eyes of many. As you pointed out, this kind of delusion only lasts so long.
By the same organization it was against. This conflict of interest should be questioned by anyone.
This is getting silly now. All for removing the flag from public buildings, but this is going too far.

Can someone get Taylor Swift on the case please?
In fact, Taxis GAVE their businesses to Uber by despising their own customers... If they has been good enough, Uber wouldn't have had so much momentum here.

I'm really sad for the few taxis working hard to be better because they're thrown now in the same bag as the average bad taxis. Hopefully, most of the time, good taxis have loyal customers (and no problem with UberPOP for that same reason).

BTW, I'm working in computer science so... disruption is at the heart of my field!!! :D
I don't think they did. Wasabi was originally the subset of VBScript that they were already using.

Also, there's a big difference between a rewrite and rewriting but maintaining both versions.
I get the feeling a lot of people here don't understand how important and destructive symbols like this can be. As stupid as it sounds symbols like that can have a huge impact on society and free speech isn't always the solution. I don't know how corrosive this particular symbol is as I'm not from the states but in general it is completely understandable to me coming from a place where stuff like this is a huge deal with big impacts on society.
If you've ever seen OTA HD at full bandwidth, it's beautiful.

Sadly, nobody ever sees it because either a) the broadcaster has added 7 subchannels and/or b) almost everyone is watching on cable or satellite and the provider has compressed it all to hell to fit their own transport.

I think Fox is the rare broadcaster in my city that doesn't subchannel and puts sporting events on in full bandwidth mode.
So, they're in effect banning historical fiction? None of these games condone slavery, do they?

I totally get and agree with removing the Confederate flag from state flags in the United States -- The confederacy failed. But, must we deny an important part of US history happened?
This was started 2005, not 2000, it says in the post. .Net had been out for years. They're bleeding edge guys, they would have been looking at .net 2. They used C# as the compiler, with Joel's defence being in 2006:

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2006/09/01b.html

The greater evil was between rewriting their code in PHP, Java, dealing with Mono or sticking with ASP (which was already old fashioned). Or writing your own language.

From Joel's defence post:

We could use .NET, but then I'd have to pay engineers to install Mono for all our Unix customers, and the .NET runtime isn't quite ubiquitous on Windows servers.

The greater evil was definitely writing their own language.

Obviously, hindsight is wonderful, but they had a lot of people immediately point out it was a bad decision and as they say in their blog post, they ended up having to employ a full time language developer. Installing mono doesn't look so expensive now!
Nitpick: the "Stars and Bars" flag and the ANV battle flag are not the same: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flags_of_the_Confederate_State...
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The first one, sure, but all the others don't really seem like features of source hosting...?
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As long as Apple prevents me from using someone else's store on my phone, they are not within their rights to censor any apps based on content.
No, I don't disagree with the use of functions or interfaces at all, but functions in particular are a programming language construct and as such not easily extended across programming languages, processes and networks, mostly due to different type systems and error states.

I think it's not an accident or historical vestige that Unix philosophy uses the word "program". It has technical as well as social implications that have barely changed in the past 50 years.

Functions and programs are certainly not an either-or kind of thing but making them one and the same would require a very different kind of operating system than we have ever seen. Say, emacs OS :)
Absolutely - if it's high paying. And I think this applies to almost any job not just tech jobs
In the unlikely case you feel most science and engineering is a "related area" to family life, yes.
"What interest do these organizations have in inaccurate science? How could they possibly be more neutral?"

If climate change is not man-made, they will no longer get funded. It's just as biased as any big company doing the same research, but it's excused because it's somehow seen as more 'scientific'
While looking for that I stumbled across patterns and text that only shows up after photocopying due to effects such as aliasing and low-pass filtering, also pretty neat!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Void_pantograph

And I easily found some shops carrying shirts:

http://www.spreadshirt.de/eurion-t-shirts-C4408A23774319#/de...

http://www.zazzle.com/eurion_constellation_t_shirt-235509764...

if you know German, here are some people from AK Vorrat planning a campaign, I don't know whether it's still up to date:

http://wiki.vorratsdatenspeicherung.de/EURion

And it has been discussed before, huh:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8926114
I believe he/she meant by Apple
The German government hasn't declared them not to be art either and as long as they haven't the real question is whether a court would consider them to be art. I think there is a very good chance that a court would consider them to be art but I don't see it coming to that anytime soon.

A lot of gamers seem to be happy with versions that have these symbols replaced and everyone else simply imports them (which is as simple as ordering from amazon.co.uk instead of amazon.de). Publishers have simply no incentive to pursue this and because violence in games can be censored, publishers censor a lot of games on their own already anyway. I would not be surprised to learn that there are companies even profiting from the current situation.
If you're happy to entrust your life into a random untrained uninsured stranger, then go ahead and get the cheaper unregulated taxi.

Except the whole point is that taxi license owners want to prevent me from doing that.
I think it's great that Confederate symbols are being removed from government and commercial situations, but somehow it's different for Apple; they have too much power over what their users see and read (though I suppose the users can access whatever websites they want). Mobile apps and games are a significant social medium, and should include political expression. As a weak analogy, though I'm glad various governments may get rid of the flag, I'd very strongly oppose the government banning private citizens from owning them.

While what Apple says about privacy is admirable, end-user control is still a serious problem.
It did. When googlecode.com launched, it was an immediate market leader (keep in mind that it displaced the wretched sourceforge.com). When the new wave of source hosting (github, bitbucket, etc) made its way up, googlecode fell by the wayside and, after becoming a distinctly third-rate offering, was end-of-lifed.
"Conversely, highly skilled individuals tend to underestimate their relative competence, erroneously assuming that tasks which are easy for them are also easy for others"

I agree with this. Thanks for the link!
Electronic+Music+Genres+-+Moombahton+-+Kash+Rockit+-+RedLipstick+|+simple+ver
It's kind of funny, HBO and Netflix are basically the same thing.
Sure, Apple may have reasons to do this to hit Google where it may sting some and also seemingly putting more effort in their own search. Additionally, it may be a reason to increase the incentive of getting products off web ads and more into their own eco systems of apps.

All this while getting applauses from end users who reap the benefit of ultimately getting a better user experience.

Apple is in a position to pull this off. Is it evil? Well...

No matter what - this has the potential of forcing more innovation around ad related business models. Especially since so many products (especially news/journalism) rely on a business model (ads) that is largely in conflict with their product (getting people to consume news). More innovation around "native advertisement" where the ad offer is actually something adding value to the end user rather than distracting from the core product. Hopefully...
>free speech isn't always the solution

>I'm not from the states

There's a cultural difference that rears its head here. Free speech in the US seems to be nearly-absolute when compared to even its northern neighbour (Canada), which has some provisions for "hate speech". Europe, from what I can see, is even more interventionist. I'm not using this post to argue for or against either perspective, but only to show that people from outside the US bring a very different perspective to the table, and it is reflected in their laws.
I don't really get what this is supposed to solve.

- `virtualenv` works by creating an overlay of the `site-packages` in `$VIRTUALENV`, and change the shebang of scripts to use absolute path of python in the overlay. That way, not only do you get dependencies isolation, but you can also call directly your programs from outside the virtualenv and it will work.

What you propose is both bad practice (relative path in `$PYTHONPATH`) and rather annoying (you need to be in a specific directory to run everything).
Trying to automate that will sure end up in pure hell!

- As in "you need to `cd` to _this_ directory then run _that_

- Or "WTF it worked on my machine when I was in this directory but now it doesn't"
> (hell, if grain is unimportant, why do so many games have shaders which add it?)

I seem to recall there even being an added grain parameter in the h264 spec!
That's because it's not actually project hosting, despite what the article may claim. It's a way to get your code onto the platform.
Thanks for clarifying. This is a very neat way of removing what would be an extra level of nesting.

It doesn't look like native promises support this unfortunately:
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...

Another nitpick I have with native promises is that they require an extra level of nesting to get the resolve callback.

// How it is now
new Promise(function(resolve, reject) {
resolve('done');
});

// vs. What most libraries implement
var p = new Promise();
p.resolve(function() {
return 'done';
});
The tech stack used. When they're still doing LAMP in 2015, never. Or PHP in general. But that's just me I'd say
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All of the objections along legal and moral lines are missing the point. While those objections are valid in many cases, the point is that this flag is the symbol of the moment. A rough analogy is the way in which marriage equality has become a proxy for gay rights (whether this is accurate or not).

If the flag is shamed out of the public zeitgeist, in the same way that the n-word or the c-word have been, then that is a symbolic victory for those on the side of civil rights.

Whatever you think about the actual meaning or symbolism or historical context of the flag is beside the point.

Arguments about the importance of "heritage" fall flat because symbols do not teach history; they simply stand in for particular narratives.
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You, like many others, still don't get the point.

The point is that just because 97% of professionals believe something is true, does not make it so.
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I was running FogBugz on Linux at a particular start-up in either 2001 or 2002, so what you say isn't true. The original project must have been started much earlier than 2005. Edit: See reply below, must be getting old :-(
Hello !

Can you share another one ?

Seems an amazing product =)
In this interview the OLJB makes it very clear what their stance is: http://www.pcgames.de/Panorama-Thema-233992/Specials/Spiele-...

(Even though, imo, the dude outright lies by stating that their interpretation of the law is what the law factually says.)

Also, do note that i said at some point in the future.
Is "I do not understand [you] because I have an art degree" the same as "you would benefit from learning how to communicate effectively with a non-technical audience"? Probably not, but they seem to be conflated.

That's not to defend poor journalism. But it is important to notice where willful ignorance or aggressive blaming damages communications.
Good companies in SV are often not majority white. Failing to hire lots of the wildly qualified people of East Asian and Indian descent who live in the bay isn't a great sign.
What can you do? How about not kowtowing to the outrage of the week and indiscriminately banning games because they have images of the flag? I don't think any of these games are glorifying the Confederacy.
Funny you should mention that: http://consumerist.com/2015/01/30/appeals-court-sides-with-f...

Part of the problem is that the FTC is only so big, with only so many people, and the entire market is huge. I agree that even the allowable claims are suspect, but there are limits, even if they're not always enforced.
Where is Apple mentioned on that page?
It means only put code in source hosting, not user data. That is, follow best practices with your repository.
I think the comparison is fairly specious, frankly. There is a good argument to be made that the raison d'etre of the Confederacy was the subjugation of African Americans. Whether today's Confederacy enthusiasts agree or not, the Confederate flag surely sends that message to many of those who see it being flown -- particularly, of course, African Americans.

Islam, on the other hand, while associated to some degree with terrorism (largely by the definition of "terrorism", some would say), surely does not exist for the express purpose of cultivating terrorism. Moreover, even to the extent Islam is associated with terrorism in the public consciousness, it does not also convey a message of hate to a particular minority group, as do symbols of the confederacy.

There will be people who disagree with both of these points, but I submit that the former point is much more compelling than the latter. And, more to the point, the public reaction simply reflects, I think, widespread agreement that this is the case.
This seems like the logical conclusion of the inner-platform effect:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inner-platform_effect
The article addressed both of your points.

The people in charge of "testing" the device before approving the purchase were probably getting kickbacks.

The prosecution opted to go for fraud over corporate manslaughter because the former was much easier to prove.
Are they pulling all references to actual confederate
States flags, or the army flag of Robert E Lee which more closely resembles the "confederate flag" used in racist contexts today.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flags_of_the_Confederate_Sta...

It seems like the solid flag is now pretty much only used
For shock value and racist advertisement, without the historical content.

I liked what Dave Winer had to say about his experience with it:

http://scripting.com/2015/06/22/theConfederateFlagIsAHateCri...
Fully agree with you here. Wanted to also add that even the 'parsing' of text is easy by using standard tools like awk, sed etc.. rather than writing custom code to debug binary protocols. In addition with protocols like JSON, it is easily extensible without worrying about where new data fields are added as long as backward compatibility is maintained - i.e. if designed correctly, the server can be upgraded to accept new fields while still working with older clients.
Love to get feedback and ideas on this.
Hardly a nitpick! That deserves a correction. "Stars and bars" is a commonplace misnomer. Army of Northern Virginia battle flag is probably the correct thing to call it.
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He definitely knows Smalltalk and Lisp
I do wonder what the difference would have been had it been open sourced early on? I would think a tool that had a VBScript-like syntax that could deploy to PHP would have been a popular item with enterprise developers for the same reason it appealed to Fog Creek.
Well, sure, that's true. But let's augment that discovery: Illegal, unregulated services preferred by customers on both price and quality, despite substantial disadvantages (street hails, airport pickup nonsense, etc).

That should kind of leave you asking: exactly who are those regulations supposed to be protecting, anyway?
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Indeed, this post reads like a grand tour of languages and runtimes people don't use unless they're forced to. It's perplexing.
As a Windows user, I'm jealous this is for Mac only. Great work @pointum!

Does anyone know a similar tool for Windows 7/8?
because the claim is commonly made that free software is open source.
Too bad there are no PMs in here fn6fe439mymy.
not me.

What i care about is where the office is located, whether there is anything to do in the area around the office, what technologies i will work with and whether i regard the company as ethical.

I once worked for a former white panther at half the salary i could have commanded anywhere ele.
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Showing sallaries saves everyone's time and money, some people want higher wages, others are willing to go for the same, just want to change.. Really depends.
My insurance allows any authorized driver to drive my car and be covered. I called them up before my girlfriend's cousin's boyfriend visited from England and asked if he was covered (despite not being a citizen or resident of the US, not possessing a US driver's license, related to me (or her!) in any way, etc, etc.

They said "no problem".

(and yes, I realize I should probably not rely on phone support staff for legal advice)
Ouch. We're still using PHP but appreciate what you're saying. What tech stack are you using at the moment?
It's not mentioned in the article, but I suspect another factor was the growth of their SAAS (aka "Fogbugz on Demand") offering - which obviously severely undercuts the value of Wasabi.

It's listed from a Google search, but from just clicking around the Fogbugz site I can't even find the page/pricing for on premise installation.
Funny how HNers have such a high regard for his opinion on a domain he is well known for being sceptical and yet disregard his opinion, as UNIX co-author, that UNIX is well past its due date and is time to move on.
Can you point me to some prices, per core / core-year?
One more time. This time it's less attention rp9w4 grabbing xxr and rrhn conspicuous.
>Let's say that some kind of link between race and intelligence were proved and universally acknowledged, what possible positive outcome could entail?

Intelligence enhancement would become a cheap, simple, universally-available gene therapy, since we would have found that it only relies on a few alleles of a tiny number of genes, so simple that it can differ significantly between ethnic groups that can still interbreed, rather than being a complex, many-gene feature that evolved chiefly among the species as a whole.
Very true. I don't like the idea of being so rigid though. It seems like Americans stick to the idea of things like free speech or right to bear arms (basically constitutional ideas) without considering the fact they may not be right or times have changed. It's almost a religious zealotry as evidenced by the quick down voting of my post.

NB (to everyone not noarchy): Down down vote things you disagree with - down vote things that don't add to the conversation.
I strongly suspect they wrote that expressively in case a court ever looks at Apple's policies, and needs to decide if Apple is silencing art/freedom of speech

Why would that end up in court? Apple is a private company. It's free to include/exclude whatever content it wants. Consumers don't have a right to force a company to provide the content they want.
Why I'd never develop a Wasabi in my company:

When I learn a new, perhaps hyped-up computer language, I soon run into difficulties, no matter what the merits of the language. The difficulties are lack of tooling. eg, no debugger - or only a rudimentary one, no static analysis, no refactoring, no advanced code browser.

If the language is successful, these things come with time.

When you develop an in-house language, you'll never get the advanced tooling that makes for a great software development experience. This, for me, was why I was surprised by Joel Spolsky's announcement of an in-house language.

(Although, to be fair, these things didn't really exist of VBScript nor for PHP at the time Wasabi came to be.)
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