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Unfortunately Mozilla has dropped thunderbird almost completely so that’s not been a real option either.
And I really doubt Etsy has the clout to blackball anyone in the technology industry.
The audience is clearly not casual users.
And why does the README have to be a pitch?
He got rid of the most effective global efforts to contain China’s growth through the TPP. I know HN hates the TPP because of amorphous claims about IP, but flouting IP norms forms the entire basis of these actions by Trump, and the whole point of TPP’a IP protections (which HN hated, apparently) was to make sure China’s neighbors would not flout IP protections the way China did, giving private companies incentives to move manufacturing and research from China to the neighboring countries instead.
That would have been a broad ranging global effort to ensure China followed rules, that would have cost the US nothing (in fact other countries were making concessions to the US for it), and would not have required 2-3 years of barely legal efforts to contain 1 Chinese company and even there only in the US market, but would have instead affected all Chinese companies, non Chinese companies manufacturing in China, and not just the US market but also eastern Asian and Australasian markets.
So yeah, if by Trump did something you mean he dismantled an effort that would have been more effective by orders of magnitude and cost the US nothing but actually won it more friends in favor of a barely legal effort that is pissing off even allies that are not friendly to China and has taken 3 years to maybe impact 1 Chinese company, then sure.
As pretty much every data point shows, in the US, the drastic drop off of economic activity happened well before the actual lockdowns. States saw drops in economic activity in the days leading to lockdowns that was 80-90% as much as the drop that happened during the lockdown.
So the trade off wasn’t COVID deaths and a better economy, vs fewer COVID deaths and a worse economy. The trade off was a lot of COVID deaths, potentially triggering devastating cliffs, and a terrible economy, or fewer COVID deaths, and a slightly more terrible economy.
And I’m not complaining about its prototypical inheritance either (I actually like it), but the fact that it tries to hide its prototypical nature under a Java like veneer.
And if you look at the .Net side of things, C# has basically been on a path to look increasingly like F# with every release. And of course, LINQ, one of C#’s most popular features, is little more than a functional subset of C#.
Arguably its backend developers moving to the front end who have been trying to bring functional concepts to front end programming.
The Ember team is one of the least dogmatic teams that I have come across, and has been willing to change their entire strategy when presented with a better idea (while providing a well defined and fairly convenient upgrade path).
I still remember when React first came out, and showed how one way binding was so much better than 2 way bindings, and the Ember team was able to quickly switch to this new philosophy via DDAU, while still providing an easy upgrade path for our code. And all this was before 1.0 if I remember correctly.
As someone who worked with Ember in the past (our company inherited a new product with an acquisition so we were forced to change tech stacks), this comment really comes from the fact that Ember has a very comprehensive file layout system. And one of the major criticisms about Ember classic was how different core pieces for the same component, were located in so many distant folders (hence the comment about colocation of component code, which seems trivial, but is a huge usability gain IMO).
I think that sentence should be read more as a reflection on Ember, than suggesting the author does not think React components can be broken into multiple files, and hence an indication of their knowledge of react.
But it’s definitely not the worst idea. People who like that approach seem to be extremely productive with it.
It’s definitely not my cup of tea though.
At least the ones I interacted with did not only know React, they knew it well enough to identify its pitfalls, and be able to translate what they believed to be its best parts to EmberJs.
Also, the comment about different files is a thing even outside this example (and is one reason I prefer react over Ember personally). React has no defined file system, and strongly encourages components are written in a single file. Ember, OTOH, does a lot of file separation, and a lot of convention over configuration.
And that’s before we even get to promising to send a submarine to save some trapped kids, and when the person who actually helped save them instead of the mythical submarine says it wouldn’t work calling him a paedophile.
It’s not civil disobedience if you’re getting a bunch of other people to do it on your behalf.
Elon Musk is no Rosa Parks.
What an utter load of bollocks. These are people who are creating something that they enjoy doing and giving you information you apparently need for free. I don’t understand why anyone would trash their desire to write something that is personal and/or interesting to them about it.
And that’s setting aside that these usually make the recipes far more readable and interesting to the vast majority of people.
It’s clear FUD.
And all this does not change the fact that whether it escaped a lab or not is completely irrelevant (other than the fact that it makes the Trump admins decision to pull US researchers from the lab even worse, since if they hadn’t pulled them to save peanuts, and it did escape from a lab, the US and the world would have been aware of this in October).
There is no reason to believe Western countries, many of which did not start acting until late March although information about the CoronaVirus has existed since the beginning of the year at the latest, and Asian countries had already started acting on it in mid Jan to Feb, would have behaved any differently.
I heard people say the same stuff about Apple slowing down performance on iOS. People complained about it for months and years, and Apple fans and “Geniuses” gaslighted everybody by saying they were just imagining it, until we found out that Apple was actually doing it. The reason they did it was not bad, but the lack of transparency was.
We also saw the same thing with the keyboards. People complained about the terrible reliability and how it was overall just worse for years, and not until later, esp when Casey Johnston I believe documented her keyboard experience, people kept telling others it was a matter of preference and anecdote != data, to the point that Apple, after 3 revisions, basically went back to the earlier design.
The anti-Apple sentiment can be tiring, but a lot of it is driven by the rabid pro Apple sentiment that assumes nothing Apple does can be wrong.
Specifically, even if x86 is not more open than ARM, if you believe that Apples implementation of ARM would be more open than what they have right now, then you are clearly relying on faith that is not backed up by any evidence at all. Apple for the past decade or so has been on a steady and consistent path of locking things down on both iOS and MacOS and they will proudly tell you about it as well.
Again, I don’t even entirely disagree with their locking things down (I’ve seen how much more comfortable novices can be with iOS than MacOS, although, at the same time, I’ve seen the same novices grow with MacOS in terms of stuff they can do in ways I haven’t with iOS), but that doesn’t change the fact that it is entirely reasonable to assume that if Apple changes from 3rd party processors to in house ones they will likely lock things down further.
In which case you’re back again in PHP land.
It’s a way to get the kids hooked and make them life long customers.
And almost all those people are people whose lives will not be affected negatively by 4 more years of the terrible administration, so they get to enjoy moral outrage while others bear the burden of feeding their moral indignation.
On the other hand, people whose lives are actually getting destroyed don’t have the same luxury. On a personal note, I have colleagues whose entire lives have been upturned thanks to this administration, but fortunately they are extremely skilled so they were simply able to recall rate by building their lives elsewhere in a country where the administration is not trying to make their lives miserable. The same cannot be said for the many millions of others who are suffering negatively thanks to the admin (especially the many tens of thousands who will be dead due to COVID who wouldn’t have been in a bare minimum competent admin).
A more comparable situation is if Ford had requested his supplier send him a certain type of screw but the supplier sent him a completely different type of screw because it was “better”. It may be better. But it may also be absolutely the wrong thing to build Ford cars out of because they weren’t designed to use it.
And that’s what Canonical often seems to forget. Ubuntu isn’t just a product. It’s also infrastructure, and an individual (although critical) part in many other products and systems.
And AFAICT Ubuntu as a product is far less popular, and pays far less of the bill than Ubuntu as infrastructure, which is why their actions are doubly incomprehensible.
Canonical could barely get its own users to prefer snaps over the alternatives, which is why they are forcing it onto them.
And the fact that they first did it in an LTS release seriously jeopardises the trust is have in canonical. This is a deprecation which may have significant undetermined consequences. This is exactly the kind of change they should have introduced in 19.04 and then used the ensuing year to iron out any issues before 20.04 LTS.
What this tells me, however, is that for Canonical their business interests are placed above ensuring the stability of the LTS release, and that’s extremely disappointing to say the least.
The thing is that systemd solves a lot of problems for distros in a good enough way (frankly, currently in a way that is better than any existing alternative) that they are happy to have systemd deal with those issues while they focus on the stuff the distro makers are interested in.
Mass bankruptcies are terrible.
I think you’re confusing 2 things. The technical and developmental side, where code is a liability that needs to be maintained, and the business/usage side, where code is definitely an asset that provides your company with additional leverage against competitors.
The original strategy was herd immunity. The argument being made was that Sweden was gonna get infected anyways, so better to get it out of the way sooner rather than later, while protecting the at risk. And this would reduce economic harm as well.
However, the Swedish decision makers seemed completely unaware of asymptomatic carriers, which led to the at risk (largely old people) being heavily exposed anyways due to the asymptomatic younger workers around them infecting them.
Further, the Swedish people, reflecting normal human behavior, shut down economic activity anyways.
The result was a slight linear short term economic benefit but an exponential, potentially long term, downwards public health situation whose economic effects itself will likely dwarf the direct economic benefit anyways.
So now that their plan has failed both in concept and execution they are changing their story saying that it was a Swedish cultural thing, where they trusted individual Swedes to take personal responsibility, because of the exceptional Swedish character.
At a time where the virus and its lethality is undeniable, and Fauci isn’t even just a random doctor, but probably one of the most decorated doctor in the past few decades.