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Spot on re: App UI designed and engineered by 20y/o in SF. That is actually accurate, because that was (is?) the team that engineered it. I interviewed with them sometime ago when Apple Pay had just come out, and that entire Wallet/Passbook team seemed really toxic and ... very mediocre. Not surprising that this feature hasn't seen much improvement over time.

That’s not what a straw man is (it’s two words btw).

This is a known and often repeated trend in tech: make something under the guise of disruption, with no regard for safety or regulations. Complain that those things are a hindrance to progress and then spend billions and destroy lives permanently to eventually fix the problems when the regulators issue an ultimatum that professionals warned you about.

You cannot turn off Find My without entering your Apple ID password. The option to turn off Find My is disabled if stolen device protection is enabled.

>>>uses the world's most notorious domain extension doesn't inspire confidence, to put it mildly.

What does this mean? Why or how is this TLD the world’s most notorious?

It’s interesting to note that the county restricted the amount of cars that could occupy the property, but did not otherwise control the environmental effects of running a maintenance yard.

What does the owner do with waste disposal? Various fluids and solids from the vehicles must be dealt with according to regulations. Are there any? What about leak abatement? Effects on groundwater and waterways? Tires? Other hazardous waste? Air pollution?

Startups will soon follow suit, since GS is a major investor. It's sad that none of the infrastructure was improved during the isolation/quarantine periods, and now we're going back full force and wasting billions in wasted commute time.

Both of you are making valid points, I don't get why either is seen as an argument. Your original comment was one with a strong sense of anger at the rich, and it is not misplaced. People and corporations hide their wealth with many different instruments, and one step to achieving equity would be to put all of this in the open.

Do you really think they care about that reputation? It's simply binary: Product makes money, product does not make money. Did you think Google was giving away free stuff for "the community"?

Oh, another thing. Their date formatter is hilariously easy to remember: https://pkg.go.dev/time#pkg-constants

"01/02 03:04:05PM '06 -0700" // The reference time, in numerical order.

This is great. I too enjoy working with Go coming from a Swift, Obj-C, Java and C# background. The problem that the latter 4 languages have is keyword bloat. For example, Swift has 23 keywords just for declarations (Source: https://docs.swift.org/swift-book/ReferenceManual/LexicalStr...)

The entire Go language has 25 keywords. That's it. That includes declarations, control, errors and multithreading.

Language design of the latter 4 along with this keyword bloat make for unfettered methods of writing code. Want a simple HTTP request to process JSON? You can open a Go file from the last 5+ years and expect that to look exactly the same. Try doing that in the other languages, and you will find every possible combination of the same thing.

Generics has so much indirection and emphasis placed on re-usability, that readability for debugging and understanding become exponentially difficult. In fact, almost every use of generics ultimately ends in type erasure or forced casting. And let's be honest: every generic has to conform to a super generic or protocol, so it's not really as generic as you thought it was going to be.

Highly opinionated, reverse compatibility and the lack of generics make Go extremely powerful for it's purpose. Type safety make for easy refactoring, and when refactoring needs to take place, your code is forced to follow the conventions laid out in idiomatic Go: https://golang.org/doc/effective_go

I penny pinch every opportunity I get. But, my application of it is probably more relaxed than true penny pinching: look on ebay, craigslist, amazon, camelcamelcamel, online coupons/codes, 0% financing and pick the best one.

However, if the effort is more than the cost, I’d rather just pick whats in front of me and move on. Sometimes, it’s just better for my mental health to buy something outright than to research every single $ or alternative I could have saved on it.

I shop at a butcher whose meat is significantly more expensive than grocery shops, but the quality is unbeatable. I’ll shop at a farmers market or eat at a boutique salad restaurant, knowing that I could be just as satisfied with a .99 McDonalds burger. Again, I’d rather optimize for health and lifestyle over purely cost. But it depends.

I documented these steps for those who want to try the AOE 4 Beta which requires a Windows 10 PC with good graphics. But, these steps can be used for any other cloud gaming needs and is cheap to try it out (.54 USD per hour + $7 monthly for storage), and you get full access to a Windows PC. I do not work for Paperspace or Parsec or Apple, I just love the idea of cloud gaming.

Played for 2 hours unplugged on the Air, battery barely discharged and entire laptop stayed cold.

I'm surprised there's only 2 top level comments on this article here.

The price point for an indie developer is quite steep. $1800 for a base level 2018 13" is the price to develop apps for the Apple ecosystem. iMac and Mac Mini are out because they're not portables. MacBook Air is pointless as it's so out of date.

At least throw in 16GB at that price point. Selling it with 8GB/256GB just hurts. I'm currently on a 2014 13" that I was able to pick up brand new for $1100 a month after release and I just can't convince myself that the new TouchID models are worth $700 more. The non-TouchID model will be around as a low priced Pro entry, but why would you want to buy last year's model with an even less performance gain (compared to the 2014 model)?