So far, in 35 minutes the Worldwide “Developers” Conference seems to be exclusively about consumer features, though they did mention API as an afterthought :)
That's pretty typical of how they do WWDC though... big consumer feature announcements, then share new developer features throughout the rest of the week.
I guess that's owing to the fact that unlike all other streaming platforms, streaming is Netflix's core competency and not a side hustle unlike all other owners of streaming platforms. They need the in-app engagement as much as subs.
I’d love to know whether it works in their favour or not. I find myself viewing less and less Netflix content on my Apple TV as the “up next” queue is always full of non-Netflix content.
It is interesting to contrast the U.S system of genetically modified food (e.g. the "new" genetically modified cottonseed) with how traditional systems dealt with food (such as cottonseed).
Cottonseed is considered as a nutritious source of food in Madurai, India (and perhaps in other parts of the world). They don't genetically modify cotton, but they process cottonseed to create cottonseed "milk", a healthy, nutritious drink
ddg couldn't find many online references to cottonseed milk (Paruthi Paal in Tamil). However, here are a couple of links
1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DlD9gxef5mo
Starting from around minute 18:00 onwards, this video shows a vendor talking about how he makes cottonseed milk. Unfortunately, the video doesn't have English subtitles, but it might be interesting anyway :)
In all these years, GitHub didn't make a single penny as profit
Like most "successful" startup companies over the past decade, only way (for investors) to make money was to make the company a "product" that would be sold to the highest bidder
Why is anyone surprised that GitHub would be sold ?
My older iPad (yes, first gen iPad from 2010) is eight years old and it works great (from my perspective :)
Yes, I can't download most new apps, but last year, I released an update for 'Economy for iPad' (#1 Finance app for several weeks in 2010) and that app continues to support the original iPad and iOS 5.1
Generally, the best way to keep old devices running well is to keep the old OS. (Old major version at its latest minor version e.g. 10.3). There is a slight risk of not being able to pick up security fixes that didn't make it into 10.3, but made it to 11.0. However, as a developer, who tests apps on older OS versions, I keep old test devices with old OS versions on them.
Btw I should also add that Netflix runs perfectly on my old iPad with iOS 5.1 :)
And this is why the US has so much trouble with climate change as an issue- first it was sulfur dioxide, then lead, then CFCs, now it's CO2. The US has been doing this since the 70's. Now Europe and China want to pretend they care with words, and giving the US's money to the third world, yet every picture of a city in China looks like London in the 1890's and it turns out those oh so green Euro car makers were cheating their emissions tests, but that's not important, what's important is that we hold hands and make pleasant noises at each other.
I don't see how anyone who calls themselves an engineer can stomach when this feel good ignorance is put forward as a solution- this is rearranging deck chairs to the highest degree.
Per capita and cumulated are BS measures to obfuscate that China is a bigger contributor, and likely to grow for a while. The first rule of getting out of a hole is to stop digging- the US has, China hasn't.
I fail to see how the very real reduction in sulfur dioxide, lead, and CFCs is "rearranging the deck chairs". We had a problem, and fixed it. We now have another problem.
The Paris Treaty is rearranging the deck chairs. The others were fixed by plugging the hole in the boat. Plenty of US companies and governmental agencies are working on plugging this hole, but the country as a whole is tired of being hit up to pay the orchestra so the the rearranging can continue as before.
I have no pre-existing health problems (that I know of) and I get no government subsidies. The scorecard lists people like me as winners in the GOP health care bill.
However, I think, most of us will lose from this bill, because we'll live in a country that is less fair
* less fair (if you believe that a market-based approach to healthcare is unfair to people who are born with - or acquire - serious health problems, aka pre-existing conditions ...... and if you believe that poor people should get subsidies to let them get affordable healthcare)
> most of us will lose from this bill, because we'll live in a country that is less fair
Most of us will lose, even financially. Uncertainty is a huge drag on business. Insurance is all about reducing uncertainty, and universal insurance is even more potent in that regard. Millions of Americans will now be less likely to change jobs or take other risks that might leave them exposed to a greater risk of catastrophic medical expenses. Lenders and businesses will have to adjust for an increased number of people defaulting on loans because medical expenses forced them into bankruptcy. In these and a dozen other ways, this regression on insurance is going to hobble the economy and end up hurting us all.
BTW, I'm not at all trying to imply that it's only bad because it's bad economics. Far from it; I think the moral objections are even stronger. I'm just trying to explain how this change is wrong even according to the one criterion its proponents still (arguably) care about.
Worth noting that the winners are mostly the people that are subject to the 3.8% medicare tax, which you don't see until after your first 250k of income, and is only subject to investment income. So, your average high-paid software engineer is still not going to be a "winner" in this case.
This was submitted 46 minutes ago and it is ranked #45 with 5 votes.
Meanwhile, at #39 is "Japanese researche firms part of global effort to develop spray-on solar panels" with just 3 votes (and submitted more than two hours ago). Btw I'm referencing #39 for ranking comparison purposes, I have nothing against that item.
HN ranking is very strange. But in some ways this is "old news"; Apple consistently refuse to allow what they deem to be "political" content on their App Store. Personally I strongly disagree with this kind of Maoism, but they have absolutely no intention of changing it, the public aren't going to boycott them for it, and the US government aren't going to force them to change it.
It's hard to construct an argument that they should, other than reaching for "common carrier" status or some kind of anti-trust. To the extent that they're acting as a "publisher" they can publish what they like.
But it's still strange that Microsoft is forced to put in browser choice (and in some jurisdictions media player choice, I think), while Apple get to be a platform-monopolist. The usual argument against this is the non-dominance of the iPhone; so long as Android is the most popular OS and allows some choice of stores, I don't think anyone's successfully going to make a case against Apple.
India does have a high level of criminality and corruption in politics, but it is different from the U.S. in one aspect.
An Indian politician who brags about sexual assault and doesn't even deny video-taped evidence of the bragging .... would have no chance of being elected as Prime Minister. As we demonstrated in November, American voters have a much higher tolerance level when it comes to electing our president.
I beg to differ here. In India, you can be elected as a PM if you have large social media brigade. Our current PM has charges of rioting against him and he won by huge margin by using effective PR and his social media brigade.
Like the op, I do both iOS and Android development work. However, as an indie, my platform preference is primarily market-driven. So most of my work has been on iOS
Unlike the OP, I like and use Android AsyncTasks. I have no problems with Android fragments either.
>primarily the low quality of Google's SDK for Android.
This has always been my biggest frustration with Android. I've written a few applications for the platform, and while their architecture leaves a lot to be desired I've never had any real problems with it. However, the immense disappoint and anger that comes from their SDK idiosyncrasies is astounding. Google really just hates stability and nice API's, in my opinion. Everything from GAE to Android, it's always just so terribly frustrating to keep track of any one-off decisions they make without any form of actual communication from the development team.
