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Apple's duties might be partially self imposed, but that's part of their value proposition. I don't want to sift through reviews to find out whether the app is safe to use, like my friends with Android phones have to do.

And comparisons with police states or monopolies are just ludicrous. With police state you have no choice, but with app ecosystems you are free to choose another (yes, with a different phone - but you don't buy a $700 phone by mistake or chance). And Apple is not a monopoly, there are plenty of other viable options.

You are looking at my point and refusing to see it, and then go on to make the same point yourself.

You want Amazon to take full responsibility for their merchandise, but yet okay with Apple not doing the same thing.

Amazon has to take the same responsibility with goods, as Apple has with apps.

There is a huge difference between police state and letting dodgy products on some store's 'shelves'. Do you support Amazon allowing sellers of counterfeit goods on Amazon Marketplace?

Besides the walled garden of Apple is not so walled - you can install any app you want on your iDevice, as long as you have access to Xcode (which is free). It is the access to the marketing and reach of App Store that Apple denies.

The only 'icon' I understood what the one with the text in it.

Call me odd, but I generally trust Swedish or UK courts.

Agreed about Manning and Snowden, not so sure about Assange. He seems like a way murkier character.

One of the very few good news this year...

That's like your opinion, dude...

The main thing limiting C++ code in UWP is sandbox, not the compiler. C++/CX is a glue language between proper C++ and the rest of the OS - you can freely mix it with proper C++ (11, 14, etc) within the same binary. I successfully compiled many open source cross-platform libraries for UWP without any serious issues.

As for complexity and generally APIs, UWP is way better than old Windows APIs. It is fairly consistent, predictable, and modern. I'm guessing you are really used to the old ways, but I don't really understand how can one prefer WndProc / manual message handling or message maps to clean approach of XAML; or think it was better.

I feel like posting something positive here - I travelled to the US last week for tourist-y purposes and the border control was fast, efficient, nobody looked at my devices (even though I had 3 phones with me), and the only gripe was with tourists of certain nations constantly trying to jump the queues.

Funny enough, I don't remember precise websites that really changed my life - usually they would trigger a flurry of activity and would be forgotten themselves.

I don't remember where I read in 1997 that being gay is 'okay' and normal - but that was a major revelation for a geeky teen in a notoriously homophobic and close-minded country (no more suicide attempts for me, yay). Co-incidentally that led me to work hard on improving my English, as all information was in it.

And my improved English led me to start my own website - the only website that changed my life and I still remember all the details of it (even though it is no longer online). It was dedicated to my hobby project - the project that led a foreign company to hire me and relocate me to a Western country. Which triggered a chain of events that brought me to the UK, to a much happier and fuller life than I ever hoped to have.

And finally, I don't remember where I read an article describing the author's struggle with an eating disorder, but I realised that I'm going through exactly the same thing and that I need help. It improved my life dramatically, pretty much kept me alive - but I don't remember what or where it was...

So the article mentions the threat of retaliation against the security researcher, and you are surprised people are afraid to come out publicly?

"Google Chrome required" - sure, because current crop of web developers are too young to remember dark age of Internet Explorer domination.

I'm guessing dates were translated as well.

I'd argue that Van Gogh isn't such a great example in this context...

Fascinating!

Voices in the head that are not actually voices. I wonder if deaf-blind schizophrenic would 'hear' them in Braille.

Sudden coffee? That's when someone knocks the cup into my lap!

Latest update of Workflow that came out earlier today axed support for Google services and Uber...

Because last time I checked it on the desktop (2-3 months ago) - it did. I'm very happy it is no longer the case!

I hope this means the end of Silverlight on the desktop - as it is still required for Amazon Video and NOW TV (in the UK at least).

This is mostly a side effect of their development efforts for Xbox and Windows 10 Mobile.

When the choice is between proprietary apps or DRM for multimedia content inside open web environment, I'd rather have the latter.

Yes, in ideal world there will be DRM-free streaming - but unfortunately that's unrealistic.

Not with Oracle being litigious pricks.

The frame data is incomplete with no keyframes - if you want to do a fairly typical memory conservation technique where after user switched away from the browser tab, you pause a GIF, unload it from memory, and then need to reload it from the same frame when user switched back - you will need to replay entire GIF to that frame.

Structure of animated GIFs is odd - you pretty much have to read entire file to animate it correctly; hence the inefficiencies.

I bet you'll think differently when installing LLVM –2147483648.0 !

Version number inflation strikes another software package, although at least it is not as bad as Chrome or Firefox.

I think St. Petersburg has/had somewhat better housing. Even 'khrushevkas' aren't entirely uniform.

I am biased as I lived in one of those for 20+ years, but I think they couldn't be replaced quickly enough.

Atrocious housing stock.