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Plenty of point of sale apps. Really common in smaller retail stores. Also waiters in restaurants using iPad minis

The question asked about viruses, not malware.

Nope! I only use Mac and Linux.

I have a part time TT gig, and live in the U.S. They've been excellent to work with: extremely professional and reliable. I earn 70% of my market rate which I find fair due to the added value of their system and their payment processing.

AMA.

I see countless restaurants and food carts using square to accept payments

thanks! that looks super easy. last time i tried, i rage-quit.

Shit, what I need is "How to publish a package to PyPi in 3 easy steps."

I go around and round with the Python Packaging Authority's documentation.

Sweet. I've been doing this in Rails helpers, and it's a pain.

Now, how would I add this to my Rails asset pipeline? I'm thinking either:

* Port to Ruby, or

* Use this as a microservice.

??

What are the use cases for this?

> A "Terry Stop" relies on reasonable suspicion.

Which they had, because of the report and his behavior.

> A patdown is permitted to check for weaponry.

Which they tried to do, but then he resisted, which provided them with Probable Cause for any number of things.

This might not have held up in court, but definitely there's no getting out of the ride downtown once you physically resist.

Source: am a lawyer.

> What'd they think?

A principle in law enforcement is that someone who fights with police will be just as aggressive, and more so, with non-police.

> Everyone is entitled to argue.

I should have been more precise; I meant physically resist, which he was doing.

> I can't see any reason for the number of responding officers.

That's also mentioned ad nauseum in the blog post. So what?

> I understand he wasn't arrested. Is it still resisting arrest if you're not actually under arrest?

Actually, yes, it's called a Terry Stop. Whether he _ended up_ in a squad car and brought to jail isn't the issue.

I don't see a problem; he was resisting and refused to comply. And he continued to resist and fight even when he was on the ground. The article's main complaint was that the police held him down.

There are an endless number of unbalanced and sociopathic people in the U.S. who believe they're entitled to [EDIT: resist] the police, wrestle with them, etc. You're not. And the solution to this so-called police "brutality" is to simply be respectful, stop talking, and follow directions.

For sure, perhaps the police could have employed a more clever psychological de-escalation technique. That'd be an interesting training issue to research and borrow from other location that deploy it successfully.

But here was a person who was resisting arrest and disobeying instructions.

I believe it's a fairly poorly managed project, by looking at objective measures:

* Key documents are inaccessible to majority of potential contributors because they're only in Japanese.

* Releases are not semantic versioned. E.g., the second level version number is simply an indicator that another Christmas has passed. It's not an indicator of any semantics.

* Press releases are untruthful and self-deceptive: "Ruby is now semantically versioned". On discussion with the core devs on this issue, they declare that semver actually isn't important. So, which is it?

* A closed, insular development process with no public roadmap, and terse release notes. Cf. Python.

I could go on. But these items alone are good evidence that the project is not "insanely well managed."

I see more influence of the Japanese cultural phenomenon of insularity.