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XAML is why I’ll never write a Desktop App with .NET, who’s been unable to rid themselves from it.

React, Vue, Svelte as well as Flutter & SwiftUI all implement different but vastly more productive reactive dev models.

MAUI will not be resurrecting .NET Desktop Apps which have been on decline since WPF. Blazor Desktop Apps might, anything XAML won’t.

That’s where the poor & questionable transparency comes in, they try to market it as independent but it was formed and funded by Microsoft with the Executive Director whose performing all the objectionable actions an MS employee who is also the only person that is able to approve all material changes made to the foundation whose position can only be filled by the founding member who is Microsoft, in effect they are the silent hand making all the power moves to its member projects without their consent, wishes or even a courtesy notification. Then to try downplay the bad PR you had the MS VP Director with no visible ties to the foundation willing to jump on a call to disgruntled members so they can downplay their MS foundation employees actions behind close doors.

https://github.com/dotnet-foundation/Home/discussions/39#dis...

RDS (PgSQL) is what keeping us on AWS, CF delivering a better alternative will trigger us into evaluating switching over.

IRS thinks Green Card Holders who are non-citizens and non-residents owes them taxes on income on their country of residence and citizenship.

They're effectively the only country that believes they're entitled to non-citizen and non-resident income, but we're the "selfish lot" for relieving ourselves of a double tax burden to a country we don't reside in? No thanks you can have it back.

It’s a play for dev mindshare where they get to control the platform and have access to devs using their software, they have no intentions of making money from it directly only to maximize its appeal & marketshare. It’s a cross-platform dev environment they can easily deliver extensions to connect to their commercial products.

There’s no point in them continuing to invest in fragmenting the dev community by developing 2 competing platforms now that they own GitHub so I’m not expecting to see any increased investments in Atom.

That was just MS sending "Thoughts & Prayers" for the death of his multi-year efforts that they've cloned & looking to extinguish & claim originality credit for with their celebratory announcement.

Not clear if they were trolling or just tone deaf.

Can't think of a more wasted effort then trying to compete with maintaining a package manager in your spare time than a clone from the OS vendor who can out resource, outspend, out market, out evangelize, out reach you, etc.

It would a futile endeavour, a realization acknowledged by the author, any further dev cycles on it would be wasted & are better spent elsewhere.

Compared to what? What’s the best Desktop media player?

It’s 100% deductible just like most other businesses expenses given you only pay taxes on net profits, if it weren’t tax deductible you would end up with a higher tax burden than what your business makes and therefore can pay.

Paying family/friends wages counts as a business expense to the company and taxable revenue to the employee. The business can also incur additional overheads for having employees like payroll taxes, super, etc.

IMO it should have an option to stick with dictionary words, I spent a long time on puzzles that had 'zdnet' and 'vsnet' as words which were basically impossible to work out without trial & error since there are no english words in the dictionary that starts with `vs` or `zd`.

If includes cryptic abbreviations, brand and product names the number of possibilities open up exponentially and you can no longer rely on English rules to help solve the puzzle, it basically becomes a trial & error permutations game.

You make it sound like there's a tonne of FOSS community on-hand just waiting for the chance to step in and create a popular fork that will lead to fragmentation, when he's effectively been the sole maintainer since 2012 [1].

It's far more likely there will no future well maintained OSS forks, he'll continue developing it as a closed-source product, allowing end-users to install it for free but any company who wants access to his future source code and improvements can compensate him for it. This is a far better outcome than it turning it into abandonware where that will stop working in future macOS versions.

> software won't be available for public scrutiny.

It's a popular cliche to think all OSS projects have healthy development communities and many eyes pouring over it, but as he's the only person contributing fixes, the only way the product was going to improve is if he spends more time working on it which is more likely to happen if he can get sponsored to continue working on it.

None of your fears are likely to come to pass and the health of the project would be far worse off if he abandoned it.

[1] https://github.com/osxfuse/osxfuse/graphs/contributors

Likely the best outcome for the project barring company sponsorship that pays him to continue working on it as OSS.

He's been the sole maintainer on the project since 2012 [1] and has never been compensated for it, he says it will always be free to end users but wants companies that are financially benefiting from it to help sponsor continued development [2]:

> I will never ask end users for financial support. FUSE will always be free. However, what I'm asking for is for companies, that are selling FUSE-based products or rebrand FUSE and bundle it with their apps, to re-invest some of the profits in the continued development of FUSE on macOS, if they can afford it. I don't think that is unreasonable.

So he's just exercising the same BSD rights that all the other companies who have been taking and commercializing his work and not contributing back any fixes or funding for continued development.

Given that the alternative was to abandon the project [3], the only way it was going to see continued development as an OSS project was is if others took over maintenance/development of it, which anyone is free to do by creating and maintaining a fork.

[1] https://github.com/osxfuse/osxfuse/graphs/contributors

[2] https://github.com/osxfuse/osxfuse/issues/590#issuecomment-5...

[3] https://github.com/osxfuse/osxfuse/issues/590#issuecomment-5...

Given AAPL is at an all-time high they would've made money if they held onto it and not sold at a loss.

As most stock market indexes have a general upward trend, more people make money then lose. Though I still wouldn't recommend investing what you can't afford to lose or can put aside for the long term as you'll stand a better chance to make money if you can hold onto it through the downswings. Obviously you can still lose by investing in the wrong company, but you can mitigate your risk by spreading out investments over multiple companies/markets. There's a much lower chance of losing money on shares in the long term if you're sufficiently diversified.

As always, it's because they performed much better than Wall St expected, who expected another operating loss.

TSLA is particularly volatile because they run the risk (and many analysts believe) that they will run out of cash before they can achieve profitability, so their share price have carried a lot of risk that have hampered its price from its $400's highs. This surprising profit effectively significantly weakens the risk giving investors more confidence they'll continue to be around for the long term to dominate the EV market.

Normally I invest in companies who I believe are undervalued and have solid fundamentals/profitability and are well positioned for future growth.

TSLA is one of my few "emotional investments" of companies I've invested in because I want it to succeed. IMO its share price is highly speculatively priced, but I expect they'll eventually be able to maintain profitability to justify it as they're best positioned to benefit from an EV (+ renewable energy) future.

I'm long TSLA and didn't expect them to achieve profitability before Shanghai Gigafactory (+ Model Y) is in full production, so this earnings release was a welcomed surprise. Happy to see them continue to grow and further invest in the future.

Sure, but it's not like he was actively defending his position until the point of his public persecution. They've been the only 2 comments that I'm aware of his thoughts on the subject. Granted they were very controversial thoughts to be ever be trying to question in a public statement. Which makes me think he has no fear/reservations of openly saying what he believes at any time and is not socially-aware of the consequences of his statements, either because he's eccentric, socially awkward, or just lacking in empathy.

For context, please also link to what his current thoughts are, where he's since changed his mind after being convinced he was wrong.

https://stallman.org/archives/2019-jul-oct.html#14_September...

It's well-known he's since recanted his thoughts in those posts:

https://stallman.org/archives/2019-jul-oct.html#14_September...

Are people allowed to change their mind after having conversations that convince them that their position is wrong?

There's also a perverse incentive in this age of outrage to incite public lynching and write posts to spark maximum hate where you're rewarded with reach, followers and self-reinforcing Internet points on social media and more clicks on link bait articles of which it appears to be all upside, there doesn't appear to be any downside for mischaracterizing or falsely accusing someone on social media, with enough hate-fueled reach any disinformation will eventually drown out uninteresting contradictory facts and be adopted as truth.

None of the hit piece articles I've read portrayed a true characterization of what he wrote, most presented quotes out of context and instead focused their efforts on colorful commentary to suggest he was somehow in support of child rape - an accusation that's clear to invoke the ire of the masses.

If he were more socially apt maybe he would've known to never share his opinion of what he assumed the thoughts of his late friend were, not even on a private mailing list, unless of course it's to join the chorus of hate and accusations against him.

Same, I’ve been using Rider whenever I can, VS only when I have to. Much better IDE overall.

Snap’s not a bankrupt Startup without product, they’re still a 23.5B company with growing market share and features Facebook has been copying hand over fist, that would be arguably be worth a lot more if FB had to come up with their own features instead of Xeroxing Snaps ideas.

> Thrusday

I guess I'm not up to speed and haven't read everything he said, can you quote his exact words he said on Thrusday that led you to conclude he was "Defending the rape of trafficked children"?

Stallman has just said he's having to resign after being accused over a series of misunderstandings and mischaracterizations, is this an example of a mischaracterization of what he said or did he really say he defended raping trafficked children?

> There's nothing about being embeddable that's a limitation.

An always-running in-memory server process is going to be a lot better at concurrency than multiple embeddable libraries trying to take locks out on the same file on disk.

Look at Google’s LevelDB and Facebook’s RocksDB.

Obviously if it was embeddable it wouldn’t be as fast and be subject to the same design limitations as SQLite.

It doesn't work in all cases but minoxidil and finasteride (aka Rogaine/Propecia) are the only FDA approved treatments for hair loss.

As with most drugs both effectiveness and side-effects will vary.

The scar is at the bottom (just above the ear) and would go either half way or all the way around and end at the same point on the other side.

Yes Follicular unit extraction (FUE) is possible, it has less yield than strip harvesting but if you don't need to maximize donor area it's a good option to avoid a scar (you'll still have micro scars from extraction area but it's much less visible).

But in Elon's case, it's clear he underwent strip harvesting for at least 1 implant.

It's very unlikely he would waste his limited donor area on facial hair, especially when he rarely grows a beard.

MPB generally only affects the top of your head, not other areas. It's just as common for men who's hairy everwhere else to have MPB.

It was, you can see his scar when he has a close shave on the sides of his head [1].

[1] https://static.ffx.io/images/eed406d72af2384b0d58edd9903e55c...

> you’ll need to take these drugs or your new hair will fall out.

Not really true, male pattern baldness is generally caused by non-resistant DHT hair follicles which nearly always occurs at the top of the head. New transplanted hair is taken from the "safe" DHT resistant hair follicles at the side + back of the head. Successful transplanted hair follicles still have different yields from various factors, but they're typically not susceptible to the same cause of baldness as the rest of the follicles in the MPB area.

You're recommended to take drugs to prevent/reduce further hair loss and avoid your new hair from looking like a patch infront of a balding area. But if you have good density/elasticity (to maximize harvest) and a mild pattern of baldness you can get away with not needing to take any drugs.