antoinevg

Please fix your outstanding bugs before igniting that fire.

Thank you for clearly elucidating the difference between what we had and what we're going to have moving forward.

I'm so tired of this trend where folk keep pitching significant reductions of technical capability as some kind of "win" for the consumers and developers of a platform.

This is about exploiting platform owner privilege, no more and no less.

It does not please me that this announcement comes at a time when Stripe took an unprecedented FIVE DAYS to transfer incoming payments to my bank account.

Is this the new ultra-capitalism? Delay my payments so that I am forced to take on loans on unfavourable terms?

The real world is also hard and you also cannot make everyone happy.

Which is why we invented DUE PROCESS.

Analog electronics, working to get past the "wire things together and hope they work" stage and learn how to design circuits from scratch.

Edit: Oh, and Rust as well :)

Well hold on a minute with that enthusiasm there pardner!

If anti-trust is on the table it's the government who will be deciding whose ecosystem it is and exactly who owes what to whom.

Pet peeves:

* WKWebView is the only browser engine allowed on iOS.

* Apps can only be distributed through the iOS app store.

* No formal appeals processes based on established judicial principles for either Apple or Google.

I've found that folk ask better questions if I reduce my availability.

I get paid considerably more than 75% for 50% _time_. [1] Mainly because I'm in a position where I get paid by the value of my work rather than by the amount of time I waste behind a computer monitor.

[1] My bad. I should have said time instead of work.

I'm not entirely sure why anyone thinks downvoting observations from reality will change their outcomes but hey… this is slashdot^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H HN I guess.

Yeah, if you're not offering me 75% pay for 50% work I'm not interested. My peak productivity is 3 days a week. The gains from working more than that are marginal at best.

No buts. EXACTLY this.

Unless you are a unicorn or a huckster writing mobile apps is no longer an attractive business.

We provide a hybrid app development platform for mobile and over the last nine years we've watched a steady exodus of developers from the app space.

The only folk who are still relatively unaffected are the business developers.

No thank you, I don't want to have to choose between the two.

I'd like to see an end to both overpaid CEO's and criminal activity.

The reason to bring up paper is that the cost of election fraud is much higher than any "efficiency" gains to be had by digitising the process.

This is (often) not true for word processors.

I think the thing to understand about behemoths like Microsoft is that if the "others" are collecting data then your career will benefit if you hep Microsoft do what the "others" are doing.

Looks like it's time to migrate the rest of my stuff off US-based hosts.

Today Iran, tomorrow who knows?

Far easier to take a couple days to move my stuff now than having to do it under duress in a year or two.

Unless they're literally about to fire you it should be okay if you 1) stop missing startup and 2) spend a little more time reviewing your work before submitting a pull request.

Fuck that, I've been doing this for 25 years and what I want in order of importance is:

1) Pay me 2) Autonomy

For fucks sake.

"Thank you for your kind offer but I can do better elsewhere"

> If $NetflixOfEducation is too accessible and half of the applicants have it, then it loses its value as a hiring signal.

Only for companies who hire for signals.

For companies that hire for throughput this does not hold.

Please please stop optimising everything for click-through rate.

I know it's always the first measurement that springs to mind but I can assure you there are others.

This way you can get other desired behaviours without negatively affecting your metrics.

To put it another way:

The choice of metric is also a design decision.

Thank you. I've been waiting years now for someone else to notice this as well.

To contextualise, my comment absolutely assumed a modern desktop target.

I obviously would not be using this (or anyone else's higher level framework!) if I was targeting an embedded platform.

My ongoing experience is that this question is never asked in good faith so please don't misunderstand me.

What I am saying is: I think you know and you have an agenda.

If you truly don't know then this is really something you should know if you are doing the job you are saying you are doing.

To use an analogy: I would not waste my time explaining how type systems work to someone who is arguing rabidly against them in an online forum.

If they care then it's something that is so important they should actually go out and educate themselves before getting into conversations about it.

This seems to be a common theme on HN where folk who purport to be senior level profess their ignorance as to how one goes about performing one of the very basic tasks their role would require of them.

If you don't know how to do background verification on people then you have far bigger problems than your fears of being gamed.

Oh ffs, have you actually calculated this "cost" on a CPU made after 1985?

Explain to me again why I want to make you rich at my own expense? Really?

There is a difference between promising a unicorn and having a proven track record. That you are too lazy to verify the background your potential hire is providing you is 100% your problem. Bite me.

…and this is the rational response to a sucker offer. Go into business for yourself because competition like that is going to be an absolute pushover!

DRM technologies are often sold to the public & content providers as an anti-piracy measure but that has never been the intent.

It's _always_ been about control on the creation and manufacture of playback platforms and/or devices.