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It's not documented or in the public headers. Meaning you do have to do a bit of fiddling in your app, but that just amounts to using reflection to use the API.

Just because an API is private doesn't mean it's privileged. Indeed, many once private APIs have later become public. Apple does scan the binaries that are uploaded for private API use, effectively banning them from the store.

One of the main reasons for banning use of private APIs is that those are usually in flux. They're not release worthy, and the last thing any platform maker, be they Apple, Google, or Microsoft, wants, is for a private change to break a bunch of 3rd party apps. These private APIs might also be doing things that they don't want just anyone to be able to do.

Except what would f.lux add on top of what Apple has released? It seems like Apple already did all the work.

Irrelevant. We're talking about people who feel entitled to the work of others just taking it.

And that entitles you to just take it? Again, why should anyone pay you for the work you do if that's what you believe?

No, because part of the reason for the crackdown is due to the content creators. It's not Netflix not wanting to serve people who are using proxies.

Except that is not the case, and your statement is nothing more than worthless hyperbole.

Jesus Christ you people are such entitled little snots. With attitudes like that, why should anyone pay for the hard work you do?

Emotional experience does NOT trump usability. Period.

Another 3 seconds will reveal that your thinking is similar to the justification used for spending public money on stadiums, and giving tax breaks for movie filming. Both of which have been proven to have negative effects on the local economies.

Forbid them from giving sweetheart tax deals. Which is NOT forbidding them from attracting employers.

There's the added costs for those additional people in terms of traffic congestion, schools, and other services. There's also the lack of a guarantee that GE will stay long enough, or that they won't demand an even bigger tax break when this one expires.

"I'm not advocating that states should race to the bottom, but they should race to the bottom."

If a state is competitive, then it should be able to be competitive without giving away sweetheart tax deals.

So? Couldn't one say that about any large company? Should states be constantly cutting taxes for these large companies, and shoving them onto the people who live there now?

I would have to ask why you have 120+ projects. That's likely your problem; you're doing far too much within one solution.

That's an editor, not an IDE. It's basically Atom, with some specialized plugins.

Why? Do you only work for companies that employ children?

That's an extremely poor assumption. Any home user's computers would be on their ISP's network. Should they have the right to access any of the stuff on it?

"I find that hard to believe."

You're probably not a woman in the tech field on the internet, then.

"and if they aren't - what kind of stuff are you spewing out that makes so many people waste their time getting angry with you?"

Stuff like women should simply be treated equally.

I'm sorry, but I think the phrase "clamor for sanitization of their daily internet lives" is very much undermining the problem of people who are receiving death and rape threats by the ton on a daily basis. And further, I cannot, at all, look down on them for wanting that to go away.

Most people didn't have to deal with it on a daily basis, and hardly anyone had threats that were deemed credible enough to actually happen.

Sorry, but it's not all ridiculous, overblown stupidity anymore. Some of these people seem stupid enough to actually follow through on their threats.

If you're constantly receiving a barrage of horrible, hateful, violent threats, then it becomes really hard to ignore. Some people may have thicker skin than others, but really, no one should have to deal with that. And quite frankly, I see no reason why anyone should be entitled to say those kinds of things on someone else's platform.

Or just update to Python 3. It's honestly not that hard.

Because it's not just syntax changes.

You're still crapping on other people's stuff. Honestly, what value did your original comment have other than to potentially make you feel better at the expense of others?

I dunno, why would anyone think of the stuff you write as exciting?

Other people have different definitions for "exciting". Don't knock someone else's idea of it just because you don't agree with it.

No, but I don't have to blame myself for having stupid numbers when I lose :p

Funny that they allow multiple people to pick the same numbers, then.

Shouldn't it stop once you've hit the jackpot? At least until it goes up again? I'd imagine once you've one $800 million, you're not going to be interested in the $40 million reset jackpot.

And nothing of value will be lost.

Possibly, but not likely for a while. The Play Store is the one with all the Android apps. There'd have to be something quite compelling to get developers, especially ones using Google services in their apps, to support the Microsoft or Cyannogen stores. Because there'd still be a cost in supporting the alternative store, and so far most developers aren't wanting to do that.