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Exceptions stand out from the crowd, good and bad. If you are a competent dev, nobody cares about that if no one notices you.

If people notice you, they'll next notice if you are competent or not.

Companies in China have Party Committees, appointed by the government. These committees have oversight over how the company operates, and how the board is appointed. The Chinese government has a strong direct influence inside Chinese businesses, that isn't present in the rest of the world.

For anyone else interested in the topic of radiological accidents, check out the reports published by the IAEA. https://www-pub.iaea.org/mtcd/publications/pdf/pub815_web.pd...

Curiously like in the series Chernobyl, the first person to take radiation measurements at the scene in Goiania thought his equipment was faulty, because it measured at the maximum of the scale.

Using the Windows SDK without Visual Studio is a not great experience though.

Doubly so if you are a newcomer to programming.

I think a main reason Microsoft lost their development community is because they charged for access to Visual studio (which is the gateway to the entire ecosystem). People didn't talk about it openly, because no one was building for the microsoft platform outside of work.

Meanwhile a whole community of competing free alternatives appeared - students learnt Java and Python because C# was a paid product that was also not cross platform.

Visual studio code's launch.json, combined with the extension for your language of choice, is generally a pretty good experience.

But also, what synergy do the tech giant and retail giant parts of Amazon have?

If the two parts of the business don't really gel, what's the benefit of keeping them together in one company?

The safety of your home directory relies on the integrity of the operating system.

Lot's of domain squatters listen out for whois requests, to try nab unregistered domains before the real interested buyer.

Wouldn't surprise me if big tech like Google does the same.

I mean it's sad that this change will affect Termux, but at the same time I can see why Google wants to enforce W^X on apps home dirs.

This is currently a big backdoor for apps to sneak unvetted code in at runtime, bypasses Google's review policy. Sure Termux was using this for good, but I guarantee that Google has examples of apps doing this to sneak hostile code onto user devices.

Development tools often need higher security permissions on Desktop, maybe Android just needs a "development" class of app that is more privileged? They'd just need to enforce the limitation to development focused apps really strongly in the review process.

>I normally don't close out of applications when I'm not using them, so I was always hovering around ~6-7 of my 8 gigs of RAM in use.

That sounds like your problem. And I refuse to believe that the new steam UI uses 2gb of memory.

Funny to hear the author of Ninja say that he's never used CMake...

And they shouldn't have been surprised at the number of Ninja users that were on Windows, Ninja is so much faster than the alternatives if you are using CMake on windows.

Goodbye accessibility.

Sure they are open source projects, but the majority of dev work is done on Google's dime. Google employs many of the most important people in these projects. Sure the code will still be there if Google gives up, but will anyone have the capacity to step up and maintain them?

Part of the challenge of competing, is that it's so easy for Google to adopt good features from other search engines.

I'm not sure what to call these, but you know the rich results Google searches provide these days? Like showing the definition of a word, or a snippet of data from Wikipedia off to the side of the main search results. It's a useful feature, and it was first developed by DuckDuckGo not Google. But it didn't matter, because it was so easy for Google to adopt a feature like that into their own product.

Hospitals are experiencing shortages, because the masks don't exist - there is not enough mask production in the world.

To limit supply to drive up the price, this will only work if the mask manufactures are a cartel.

Doesn't much of youtube's revenue come from music these days? Whether a patreon-style model competes or not depends on the kind of content. Individual channels making videos on youtube act like patreon is a much larger income stream for them than ad revenue.

I don't think consumers are smart enough. Look at what's happening to Corona beer right now.

Just archive.org every page on the wiki. Their api will let you do 15/minute.

How do you transfer it though? If some businessman has all his wealth tied up in stock in his business, how do you convert that to money? Some other person has to buy the stock. All this does is move the wealth around.

Sure, but why would you pay Google for that same experience when you can already get it at a very low cost?

The same with Bitcoin. It was massive, everyone had an opinion, articles on hn/reddit every single day, now I never see crypto news unless I seek it out.

The world economy runs on Google/Microsoft/Apple/Amazon. Imagine if any one of them were to fail, it would be catastrophic.

That said I'm not sure I trust the current American political climate to step in and regulate, and I'm not sure they have a right to... The influence of these businesses extends far outside the borders of the United States.

It's like saying "he was killed in 1954" about someone wrongfully executed by the government.

Google already penalizes based off payload size/download speed.

An index fund isn't doing research or making decisions though.

They invest in companies that make up an index. When a company enters the index they buy units in that company, when a company leaves the index they sell those units.

The "fun" flavors are also a key part of helping people quit cigarettes. They aren't designed to appeal to children, "fun" flavors are by far and away the most popular among adults. Somebody trying to quit tobacco products doesn't want to be reminded of tobacco flavor every time they use their vape.

It would be great if we had the time to collect all the answers around vaping, but we don't. People are dying of tobacco related health issues right now, and vaping looks to be a healthier alternative that can be extremely effective at helping addicts reduce tobacco consumption. I think you underestimate the health impacts of smoking, nearly 20% of deaths in the USA are caused by smoking according to the US government: https://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/data_statistics/fact_sheets/heal...

This article is a reaction to the heavy handed reaction of the US government. Rather than implementing sensible regulation like manufacturing standards, age restrictions, nicotine content limits, state & federal governments are reacting by banning flavors, or banning vaping companies from manufacturing their products as helping quit tobacco.

At the current time this is much more likely to be abused for political/intelligence reasons, than for profitable criminal reasons. Sneaking a malicious commit with the same signature into a git repository for example.

I mean, that is the only reason. It's a first party language in the Apple ecosystem. If you are working outside that ecosystem, there are better choices.

Java forces you to use profiling, at least with C you can see the exact instructions your compiler outputs. Missing the fancy vector instructions? Modify your code til you can guarantee it's vectorized. With Java you are at the mercy of the JVM to do the right thing at runtime.