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Oh, of course. It's okay to kill migrant workers, as long as I don't create pretty products. Apple is like any other company, it doesn't matter how they paint themselves. What matters is the peoples lives that are being ruined.

Looks good.

Records and retention is a large part of my current project. It permeates even the lowest levels, and it's practically impossible for the narrative to occur. I say practically impossible, because there is always some way some idiot can screw up big enough that this happens, but this narrative didn't happen. I'd stake 3 digits on it.

Bullshit.

It would be great to post an image of what this looks like in a couple code examples. I've been working on this as well, primarily because I haven't seen a syntax that gets it right, usually it's rushed or sloppy, and some just really get the syntax wrong. with off false positives appearing all over.

A more pessimistic outcome is that powerful AI arrives before we've really thought through the moral and ethical issues, and it possibly destroys us, or is developed and exploited by military interests to who knows what outcome.

But it's not a very likely one. Spontaneous AI is almost impossible, primarily because we design and control the substrate. AI is very very hard, and when we get there, it will be very unlikely that it turns on us, or at least not for a millennia or two. This fear is a result of some seriously good sci-fi stories, but not a lot of logic or fact,

I'm good with options, but I like the way Lua is, as it is. I don't really accept that types are needed for safety in my games, or any application I've used Lua (okay, almost exclusively games). What would be the use cases for this? In my tiny brain, it makes as much sense as dynamic C.

It's a bold claim, but I haven't seen anything to back it up. I haven't tried all the apps made with the framework, but I haven't seen too many heavy apps that would require the power. Every game is a puzzler of some sort it seems. Nothing to really test if it is fast enough for gaming, or time critical operations.

I agree, there are more than a few features I'd like to see C# adopt from this, and that's a big one. Proper string interpolation is another.

Ruby isn't fast enough, and it would chew battery on a phone and make some apps impossible to do correctly. Ruby is a great language, it's my favourite hands down, but all that sugar comes at a cost. Even in ruby, we often use c libs to do the heavy lifting, they're just wrapped by ruby using the C extension framework.

Scala, yes, but not C++ at all. Indirectly from C#, perhaps (and there is a fair bit of that), but there is very little that borrows from C++ at the language level.

Thank you, you made my day. Though in truth, I'm not very brave, I'm single, without wife, girlfriend, or kids, or anyone really depending upon me. And I work for government because I got tired of making rich men richer. I'm an idealist, and an idiot in truth. But thank you.

That was a calculation, assuming that they would loose more in the suit than in opening up it's patents, this isn't the same at all, though it is a direct response to the question.

I'm not sure what the global numbers are at right now, but Microsoft and Google have roughly 30% each in America.

I write sites for a government, and I most certainly write code to standards, then to aria, and finally pick apart any IE weirdness. This has been quite the fight over the years, but if we want to be considered professionals and called engineers, then we follow standards, and when an employer says "I want you to ignore standards because we don't need it" you have to say no, I'll do this right, or you can find someone else to do it. If we all did this from the start, we wouldn't be in the mess we are now.

Well, I pay $83 a year for prime, I just don't get anything special for it.

Wooohooo, yet another amazon prime thing that isn't offered to Canadians. Considering we pay more, get "2 day shipping" which is actually 3 days because Amazon cant' seem to do math, and get no other services, and Amazon prices are rarely something to get excited about here, well Amazon, we're done. I just cancelled my amazon prime account. Apple, Netflix, and Google figured out ways to get media to Canada, but Amazon decided to suck donkey nuts... again.

Well, the bulk of the governments today can be classified as Democracy, Monarchy, and Constitutional Monarchy. On the whole, if we average the types of government, you'll find that Constitutional Monarchy actually has a higher middle class wealth, more freedom, and less 'mysterious disappearances' than the republics. I've seen some pretty bad republics in my travels.

Well, I think this is not the case in practice, only in ideal. Russia is democratic by definition (far more so than China is communist), so is almost all of South America, at least a third of Africa, most of Europe, and several Asian countries including India (Which just had the biggest democratic election in the world), and most of coastal Asia. There are a few in the middle east, but those have yet to really take fruit. Democracy in practice only means the people get to choose from one or more preselected individuals.

None of this is about democracy, but the freedoms of the constitution and a less corrupt system than some other countries. Corruption still exists heavily in America, but it's primarily focused on money and lobbies and whatnot.

Not an expert, but reasons I've discovered over my career: 1. Because words take up a significant amount of space. On mobile, icons improve the experience. 2. Words in other languages can destroy layouts, meaning customizing style for each language. For instance, potato in english is pomme de terre(apple of the earth) in Canadian French. Some other languages I've worked with are much worse. English can be very terse it turns out. 3. Drop down menus require more clicks than a toolbar. Word toolbars without images either read like a sentence and are confusing, or they are well padded and then will take even more space. 4. Pictures can be more accessible to many people (if done correctly) 5. Our brains react to icon faster than to words. We actually store words and icons differently as well. 6. Reading is hard, and expends more energy. Really. It has to do with the above.

Can you give an example where Microsoft has been innovating? Innovation mean 'novel change' and I've not seen anything outside Azure that was even the slightest bit novel. Balmer was not a risk taker, but the Azure and VS teams have been turning that ship, but it'll be years yet before I acknowledge anything as novel.

BTW a logical fallacy cannot apply to a personal value judgement.

America won the digital age, but the post-digital age will be won by whomever builds the most progressive laws into privacy and digital rights. America is at risk right now, and although momentum carries (hence why we even talk about Microsoft decades after any real innovation), but if America doesn't quickly course correct, they're soon going to find that the thing that made them great was freedom to innovate and thrive. In this new era, America is no longer the leader in freedom or the American dream. I hope whoever wins the next election is at least aware of this, as a country that focuses more and more on IP as a significant exportable product, if no one trusts or uses those products, and the natural resources have already been significantly exploited, this does not bode well for the long game.

I'm new to HN, but are you new to the internet? Saurik knows a few things about iOS, google him.

No, because you can set up a honeypot knowing this password, and then mirror your input to the sites you visit after I collect your information.

I love the idea, though the paranoid security conscious developer in me is really worried about the security for average users. I'm not worried about the individuals opening up their routers, there is always a risk, but that can be mitigated. I'm more worried about average people thinking that whenever they see an openwireless.org hotspot, they'll think it's safe. And it's obviously not, or I wouldn't know about my neighbours banana fetish. (joke, please don't arrest me) I know people sign in to any open network regardless, but this has a brand that can be exploited and then blamed.

I dunno, the whole fast casual movement seems to be catching on here. And most of the fast casual places are catering to people who want a fast meal but with real, fresh, non-processed ingredients. My rule would put a lot more focus on the existence of a drive through window and pre-processed ingredients.