Harimwakairi

It doesn't work in court. FUD works in business because people are (necessarily) risk-averse. If a giant company whose legal team is larger than your entire payroll says they will find some way to sue you for doing X, are you really going to gamble your business to do it? Even if you're fairly sure they're blowing smoke, that's a hard decision to make.

They target and serve ads. Yahoo is still a key piece of Verizon's strategy for making money from internet advertising. Verizon, as a wireless carrier, knows where you are most of the time, and the various internet properties of the Verizon Media Group (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verizon_Media) know a lot about what you do online.

Parent of a toddler here, and always looking for best practices.

Can you give any more detail about how this works? At what age did you start doing it, what's in the boxes, and how did you introduce the idea to your kids?

It's technically a type of cheating, but it's used here to mean profoundly bad luck.

A cold deck is one that has been rigged to the advantage of one player, and then swapped in after the cut and shuffle (hence its "coldness"). Typically the deck would be stacked to give the victim a fantastically good hand, but the cheater one that's slightly better. The victim would bet a great deal thinking their hand was good only to lose at the end.

Players now use the term to describe the rare occasions when someone loses with a particularly strong hand in a fair game.

> What are these people personally doing to ensure that they are respecting women, creating the right kind of social climate at work, etc?

Part of the reason to go to the walkout was to find out what to do. People didn't just stand there doing nothing. They listened to women speak about their experiences and ask for specific, concrete actions from attendees that would lead to less sexual harassment, bias, and associated garbage.

Given that flutterstudio.app isn't made by Google, I'm not sure what you're implying.

> For someone called the "most hated man in America", he actually seemed like a nice person.

Not to be an ass, but many horrible people are skilled at manipulating an audience and crafting a particular persona. This man couldn't have defrauded his investors without a great degree of charisma and the ability to appear trustworthy and likable.

Can you give a little more detail about what you'd like to see? What would the ideal example look like for you?

Flutter (along with Dart) is used for AdWords, which is Google's mission-critical, billion-dollar business. It doesn't get much bigger than that.

Linting is included with the extension (I think it's way down in the list of features on its page, but it're there). The flutter command line tool (included with the SDK) comes with a formatter, so it'd be insane not to hook into it.

Re: plugins, I hadn't noticed until just now that the instructions for the plugins repo say to file issues under the main one. There are plenty there, though. A search for "Firebase," though:

https://github.com/flutter/flutter/issues?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=f...

turns up ~350 issues.

I can't speak for the team, but solid support for platform APIs is going to go a long way toward adoption, so I can't imagine it's being overlooked.

I can answer a few of these.

For Visual Studio Code support, the community has produced an extension: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=Dart-Cod...

Regarding packages, they're a combined effort between the Flutter team and external contributors. There are a bunch in https://github.com/flutter/plugins, for example, with commits from both inside and outside Google.

How-to: https://flutter.io/platform-channels/

Tons of real world examples: https://github.com/flutter/plugins

It's also a clear counterexample to the idea that Google always abandons projects.

There's a few.

- Flutter renders the UI itself rather than using native components, so you get the same experience on both iOS and Android.

- Flutter uses Dart, which can be compiled AOT, rather than relying on an interpreter.

- Flutter is completely open source, tools, engine, all of it. You can go a long way down before hitting iOS platform code, for example, that you don't have source access for.

There others, but those are the biggies for me.

> But back to Flutter, it uses Dart. I honestly don't see the point of Dart.

Hackernoon's got a recent article covering this exact topic:

https://hackernoon.com/why-flutter-uses-dart-dd635a054ebf

> What the elected, Republican majority legislature voted for is not "crass disregard for the democratic process".

The fact that the judiciary has the power to stop them does not make what they did any more or less acceptable. Gerrymandering the state specifically to subvert the will of the voting population is crass disregard for the democratic process.

Makes me want to dial into something and play Trade Wars.

But that's so much less entertaining to speculate about! Why should obvious truth get in the way of our fun?

Thanks for writing all that out. Much easier to understand the whole story now.

> the outrage needs to be kept down

No. If a foreign power attempted to influence one of my country's elections for its own gain, I am outraged. The amount of effort or money spent is quite immaterial to me.

> ...he did some incredible work...

Can you elaborate on this?

"Embrace, extend, extinguish" was Microsoft's strategy for destroying open software interoperability standards. I understand what you're saying, but it's not nearly the same thing.

I still remember our guide, who was a retired man who'd previously worked in the market and whom we found on Voyagin) walking us past the line at Sushi Dai. He swept his index finger from the tail of the ponderously long queue all the way to the door, said "See? No Japanese person. Sushi Dai very good, but no Japanese person eat there."

He then walked us a block away to a place he recommended, which had exactly two open seats and very good sushi. It also offered us the guilty pleasure of being the only white people in the place. :)

Thanks for bringing data.

"...Meridian 59, the first computer game that allowed people from around the world to gather and quest together via the Internet."

Have these people never heard of a MUD?

> Generally speaking, only left leaning speakers are allowed on campuses.

No. Just no. While American college campuses tend to skew left, they are not fortresses of liberalism where everyone duckspeaks about Bernie Sanders. They all have conservative professors, Young Republicans clubs, and so on.

Hell, part of my large, public university tuition money went to pay a 50k speaking fee to Alberto Gonzales, ffs.

Do you have citations for the stats you claim? That's not a dig, btw; I'd honestly like to see them.

So, straight-up copyright violation?

Having access to code and data you don't technically "need" is often how people learn new skills and advance their careers without leaving the company. It's an important part of the culture.

+1.