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www.theguardian.com 4y ago

Instagram disabled artist’s metaverse handle after Facebook rebranded to Meta

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www.theguardian.com 4y ago

Apple bans Fortnite from App Store indefinitely

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www.theguardian.com 5y ago

BuzzFeed lays off 47 HuffPost workers less than a month after acquisition

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www.theguardian.com 5y ago

Game of Thrones video game tycoon dies in suspected poisoning

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news.ycombinator.com 6y ago

Ask HN: What are the best tools for working with remote developers?

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www.theguardian.com 6y ago

'Irrelevant': panel pours scorn over Google's ideas for Toronto smart city

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www.time.gov 6y ago

Time.gov

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www.theguardian.com 7y ago

Manmade Antarctic snowstorm 'could save coastal cities from rising seas'

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www.theguardian.com 7y ago

Facebook's free food banned

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www.twitch.tv 8y ago

Amazon EKS released

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www.theguardian.com 8y ago

US study lays bare extreme pay-ratio problem

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www.theguardian.com 8y ago

Why do we still shame adults who live with their parents?

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www.theguardian.com 8y ago

Deep-sea microorganisms could survive on Saturn’s moon – in theory

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www.theguardian.com 8y ago

Game of Thrones stars' personal details leaked as HBO hackers demand ransom

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blog.google 9y ago

Welcoming Owlchemy Labs to Google

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www.theguardian.com 9y ago

Donald Trump to overhaul H-1B visa program that admits foreign workers

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www.theguardian.com 9y ago

Spouses of US immigrants on H-1B visas could lose their right to work

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www.theguardian.com 9y ago

US consumers lose privacy protections for their web browsing history

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www.sfgate.com 10y ago

SF to require Lyft, Uber drivers to obtain business licenses

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pointersgonewild.com 10y ago

Why I Chose Industry Over a Postdoc

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twitter.com 10y ago

Tesla releasing autosteer and parallel parking software update

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www.whitehouse.gov 11y ago

Modernizing our legal immigration system for the 21st century [pdf]

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globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com 11y ago

Driverless Trucks to Hit Alberta’s Oilsands Region

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www.valleymorningstar.com 11y ago

SpaceX Fined by OSHA for Safety Violations

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www.youtube.com 11y ago

Project Ara Module Developers Conference (Live)

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Is that the right way to view it? If you believe Listerine isn't going anywhere, at that price you're making a reliable 7.5% return that should track with inflation. On something you presumably could sell just as easily as you bought. Doesn't sound that bad!

Why TV Lost (2009) 5 years ago

If it helps (not that ITV has anything _worth_ watching), I think TV stations recognize this - both ITV and Channel 4 have ad-free on demand options for a few pounds a month

Requirements for "Goldfish" and "Tropical Fish" are listed under the "Small, Harmless, Cold–Blooded Animals" section

Clubhouse Payments 5 years ago

Apple guidelines, section 3.1.1, regarding in-app purchases:

Apps may use in-app purchase currencies to enable customers to “tip” the developer or digital content providers in the app.

Section 3.1.2(d), regarding permissible use of other payment methods:

3.1.3(d) Person-to-Person Services: If your app enables the purchase of realtime person-to-person services between two individuals (for example tutoring students, medical consultations, real estate tours, or fitness training), you may use purchase methods other than in-app purchase to collect those payments. One-to-few and one-to-many realtime services must use in-app purchase.

https://developer.apple.com/app-store/review/guidelines/

It's fuzzy, perhaps, given the word "may". Apple's unofficial advice for fuzzy guideline questions is to implement, submit, and argue your case once it's live.

I'm not incredibly familiar, but I watched some of those tasty videos I referenced. It certainly looked like there was somebody in there unconscious, with a Dr gowned up. Tubes and cameras and robot arms inserting various things.

Depends where you draw the line at surgery VS procedure, does something have to be cut? Who knows! Either way, I recommend not DIY'ing this one.

I have never known anybody that died of the flu.

I personally know of 4 people (in 2 different countries) - family, friends, or family of friends, who have died from Covid. None were over 60. I don't know that many people.

This is not the same, stop believing this garbage.

It's nice but, for the service, per-node pricing is frustrating. Maybe our workload is unusual, but I'm running something at a reasonably small scale, with about 30 nodes.

The cluster autoscaler has been so good that we've optimised for more, smaller nodes, on spot instance pricing. At $79/node, that's about 4x the cost of the actual instance itself...

And yet the actual cost of the services provided, don't _really_ seem to scale with number of nodes? But then, I can't think of another metric to tie it to easily

I visited Monterey and noticed some odd markings on the roads. Monterey has induction charging built into the roads along some bus routes. I'm not sure if they're charging along the way, or just at the bus stops?

Either way, it's an interesting application. I'm not sure how wild you could go with this right now, given all the roads that exist already, and the cost that would come along with it. Or maybe the traffic implications of people climbing to get on those free charging roads?

But public transit seems like a smart use for this kind of thing. Takes a predictable path, for a (somewhat) predictable about of time, on a loop all day. If you designed it right, perhaps you could drive that bus along that route until it breaks down?

Yep. It's near impossible.

Somebody (presumed ex- or current-employee) took handful of iOS devices from our office a few months ago. Changed the password to the Apple ID, added 2FA phone number.

The account isn't even deleted, and we can't get back into it.

We have a dozen other devices logged into that Apple ID, all prompting for the password. You cannot install updates, you cannot roll back, you cannot log out, you cannot factory reset.

Apple have been no help at all.

The devices we have that are logged into this account are bricks. Apparently if we have original proof of purchase, we can take them into an Apple store and have it reset. But a lot of our devices are older or were acquired refurb/used - they're used as testing devices.

The accounts are locked, they just won't help us get back in, we've tried several times and channels. We've offered to do anything, sign anything, they won't do it. I once went through password/2FA recovery with an Amazon AWS account, and it really wasn't that painless (sign some legal paperwork, show a bunch of documents).

We are an unknown startup, but we have generated millions of dollars for Apple over the past decade in App Store cuts. If we can't get back in, I don't know how it'd go for grandma's iPhone.

It depends what you're working on. We have a fairly small team (7 engineers) working on a reasonably complex app (many features).

Our "features" take anything from 1 day to 3 weeks of effort, and generally need to roll out as a whole. They are often really upgrades of existing features, and the work to continuously merge w/ feature flags, supporting both flows/designs, is just not something we've felt was worth the extra time.

We release on a 2 week cycle, the same day each time. We merge our features into the develop branch as they are ready and safe for production.

Our scheduled release day is Wednesday. The Thursday beforehand, we branch from develop into a release/x.y.0. This builds release candidates. We have a sanity check on Friday, then our remote QA team runs through them over the weekend. Any issues they find, we try to have squared away by Monday, Tuesday at the latest.

Meanwhile other team members are still merging new things into develop. It's useful to have that release branch because it lets the rest of the team keep moving - we maybe only put out 1 or 2 developer's features each cycle, the rest are still trickling in.

Once we release, we tag, merge into master, and start over again. If any issues show up on production, we use the hotfix branch, hotfix/x.y.z. That let's us resolve issues with risking a ship of any of the changes that have come into develop that haven't had a few days of stability behind it.

For our team scale, we have a lot of users (100k's DAU), and we find this method is a nice balance between the pace of output you might get from true CI but with the reliability of a more traditional cycle.

Backend and web projects, however... Straight CI, into master, and we roll out test > staging > production when we're happy.