colinjoy

https://techcrunch.com/2018/01/20/apples-enterprise-evolutio... (2018)

why would it make any difference for the workload of middle management if their reports are in the office or remote? are they responsible for restocking the coffee machine?

assuming it will work like the iPad Pro

I doubt they would sneak in such a feature without at least mentioning it. I expect this to be even more limited, perhaps just tethered airplay for better resolution.

Last time I checked, Germany was located in Europe and twitter.com is most definitely down for me.

I am pressing the retry button as fast as I can to help with recovery. So far, no luck.

Like how in Germany the government guarantees every German bank balance

… up to the amount of 100k per customer, so less than the FDIC guarantee.

There are additional, voluntary, insurances given by groups of banks. These are also limited and customers are not legally guaranteed a payout.

As someone who dabbles in code without too much of an idea of what he is doing, using pure functions whenever possible helps me reduce cognitive complexity and makes the code more easily testable.

Misconduct. E.g. not fulfilling your contractual duties as an employee or actively causing damage to the company. Still, a warning needs to be issued before a termination in all but the most severe cases.

(Germany)

That idea of productivity is odd to me. If I build a house for you and you build a house for me and we both compensate each other with the same $ amount for the work, is that a net productivity of 0? Two new houses got build.

They are not any better or worse than MS/Google/Amazon etc…

You sure? I would be surprised if MS, Google and Amazon are the same when it comes to how they handle and use PII. Note that I say that "I doubt", because without having gone the length of issuing a GDPR right of access request with any and all of them it is more of a gut feeling based on personal experience than hard facts.

What about uploading every binary you run to their server to check if its “approved”?

You are either being dishonest or misinformed. For one, they don't upload binaries. Secondly, the more important function is checking that it isn't known malware, and thirdly they also do not (no longer) log PII like IP address or user id when performing the check. [1]

1: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202491

For me it’s about paying for a slightly smoother UX and for supporting the growth of the Mastodon ecosystem. I hope that good 3rd party apps will eventually also ease the onboarding of less techie audiences.

I hate subs, but I might make an exception here.

Surely nobody would use that format and allow a commit message including emojis to cause an effective DOS for a large Sonarqube project.

Before you get bombarded with advice on how to make applications pretty, here goes my recommendation for how to get better at designing them:

Read the classics:

  - "The Inmates are running the Asylum" (A. Cooper)
  - "The Design of Everyday Things" (D. Norman) 
  - "Don't Make Me Think" (D. Krug)

  - "Build Better Products" (L. Klein)
  - "Validating Product Ideas" (T. Sharon)

Even if that was true (which I believe it is not), wouldn't that already constitute "interest in dealing with businesses"? They want businesses to buy iDevices and use them for business purposes. Whatever you think on this, you should perhaps rethink after taking a look at Apple's own reporting and their press releases concerning business and enterprise customers.

https://techcrunch.com/2018/01/20/apples-enterprise-evolutio...

I think you may be wrong here. There is a consumerisation of the enterprise IT and Apple is happy to grab a big piece of that cake (and not unsuccessful) when it comes to push their devices into the business market. If they had no interest in dealing with businesses, they'd not invest in enabling companies to manage large fleets of Apple devices.

https://support.apple.com/guide/deployment/welcome/web

While AWS, GCP and Azure are all moving towards offering more higher level services(?), I think it is fair to say that when "competing with AWS" is on the table, people associate it with IaaS/PaaS offerings.

Providing more cloud services for the niche of mac developers is not "competing with AWS", is it?

I think it is more likely that we will see an Apple Coffee Machine. I could see them utilizing their silicone expertises and some creative thinking to launch an espresso capsule subscription unlike what is currently available. This, or any other first world problem that Phil might run into on a Sunday morning :)

Why would they choose to not focus their expertise on where they make metric tons of money already? What's more compelling about competing with AWS, Azure and GCP on IaaS margins than to keep on doing what works? I expect Apple to expand into more and more consumer products to augment their existing offering, not start something completely unrelated.

For some reason I just had WireCard cross my mind.

Self-hosted Drupal is an open source, community run project, that is free as in beer. A lot of headless CMS are SaaS products, it seems. Apples and oranges.

Is there a good resource listing/comparing the headless CMS options that are equally open and free as Drupal?

Given how subscription models are also pushed down the throat of consumers, who do not want them, I would believe that the love for ARR plays an even bigger role.

What constitutes good quality glasses? Or rather: good quality lenses? The frames are mostly a matter of taste, but for the optical component, is a €150 piece of glass significantly better than a €100 piece of glass? Who has the lead in material science here? Japan, Germany? Any good sources on that topic?

Probably less related to C++ as a language and more so an "embedded" issue or down to the specific industry that your friend is in.

E.g., there are hundreds of C++ devs at my company that have the same work from home options and flexible hours as their frontend peers. So these jobs exist.

s/make/keep … bad choice of words on my behalf.

Argument remains the same.

Previous: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33387047

pantone actually required the removal, as they want to charge customers directly.

Tweet by Adobe’s CPO — https://twitter.com/scottbelsky/status/1586903756783992837

What I cannot wrap my head around is why PANTONE requested their swatches to be removed from Adobe. What better way to make your system THE standard in the industry than to have it tightly integrated with the standard suite of professional tools?

Do they have such a strong foothold in the industry now that there is no risk of some other color matching system taking their seat at the table?

I am no longer in print, but I surely would not pay that sub. The colour guides are expensive enough.

Casio terrorist watch

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casio_F-91W

If you think that your job is to translate requirements from Jira into code that passes unit tests and ticks the functional requirements - maybe not.

If you think that your job is to create interfaces that people don't hate using – maybe yes.

When I look at candidates for a frontend developer position, design instinct is definitely a major plus. That said, I would not expect them to be able to build mockups in Figma or conduct qualitative user research.

There is a common misconception that design is about "how it looks". Design is multidisciplinary at its core.

That is not to say that there aren't mediocre designers and architects out there, but I would argue that – when taught right – there are few degrees that are more multidisciplinary and cross-domain by nature than those two.

https://www.gerritcodereview.com comes to mind.

Here is a useful article that contrasts how it works compared to GitHub:

https://gerrit-documentation.storage.googleapis.com/Document...

One of the goals is accessibility: ideally anyone could click "Edit" on a file in the web UI to start a "Patch Request."

I don't think Gerrit would support this out of the box.

Quick google as a service (I do not subscribe to Friedman's opinion)

- Who Really Pays Business Taxes? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDqVDw9qfH4

The elementary fact is that “business” does not and cannot pay taxes. Only people can pay taxes. Corporate officials may sign the check, but the money that they forward to Internal Revenue comes from the corporation’s employees, customers or stockholders. A corporation is a pure intermediary through which its employees, customers and stockholders cooperate for their mutual benefit.

Newsweek column from 1971-11-29 according to https://www.americanexperiment.org/milton-friedman-on-corpor...