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If the apps become more expensive then people will stop buying them from the App Store and seeing people are not willing to pay for more expensive apps developers would probably stop developing for iOS which in the end would cause users to abandon the platform seeing as they cannot get the apps they need.

If apps being more expensive is really the only problem then it seems like the problem fixes itself.

Genuine question: Why does this matter? I see 0 problems with Apple having a "walled garden." It's their product and their platform so they should be able to decide what gets supported and developed for it.

I personally don't like how Apple conducts their business so I just don't use Apple products and that's that.

I find the people in the tech space to be absolutely dreadful to be honest. Hacker News is no exception to this. I'm probably not an exception to this. Talking to other people in tech is just incredibly draining.

This is completely anecdotal but in my experience this is because wealthy people have high paying jobs and don't really see the value in starting a business unless they just want to be entrepreneur. I've lived below the poverty line and everyone I've met in those circles had a side hustle, business or second job. You gotta grind 10x as hard to get out of those circumstances.

This is my experience as well. I currently use a USB switch that I got off of Amazon for about 15 bucks. It typically "just works." Press the button, wait 2 seconds and my input devices have switched.

I don't understand what this Whataboutism has to do with the topic at hand.

The free license and the one-time purchase license do not allow for commercial use. You would need to purchase their Enterprise license to use this commercially. Is it expensive? Not really, $50 a user per year isn't necessarily expensive when considering price alone but when compared with other alternatives in the space I'd rather not deal with a yearly license. I used Obsidian Beta up until they released their licensing.

Obsidian's licensing makes it immediate non-starter for me and I would imagine the same for most people who would want to use it for work, side projects, or anything they hope to make money off of.

I definitely am on the opposite side when it comes to Tableau. After you get over the initial learning curve you start to realize that everything in Tableau when working with calculated fields is a workaround. If your data doesn't already look amazing going into Tableau you're in for a bad time.

> It also suggests that you may get back more than you put in

You can also get back significantly less than what you put in.

This doesn't really answer my question though. Seems like the other comment to my question is spot on. If you divide all company actions into making money or saving money then open sourcing your toolset is more of a saving money thing as you can get people who aren't on your payroll to contribute to them. That's all well and good but not exactly what I think of when someone says "making money with open source."

Do you have data to back this up? Because all accounts I've heard say that it's incredibly difficult to make money in open source.

Why would Nvidia care about supporting Wayland at this point in time? Steam itself doesn't even work properly with Wayland. 9 of 10 people are going to be using X right now and within the near future.

LuaJIT is much faster than Python, directly interfaces with C, incredibly small,and the language itself is very simple. This is also built on top of LOVE2D which is written in Lua and is arguably one of the best game frameworks out there.

I'm in my mid 20s, dropped out of college 3-4 years ago and have managed to get an average paying development job. I would go back to college and get my degree but there are two things that hold me back.

1) Dealing with college admissions is literally one of the most frustrating things I have ever done. The IRS has given me less run around than most college admissions I talk to.

2) Money. It all comes down to money. I'm having a very hard time justifying the cost at the end of the day.

With that being said, if someone comes up to me and ask me if they should go to college my answer is absolutely.

I was using Obsidian in the beta and it's pretty great but I stopped using it when the licenses were released. I like the product and I'd like to support it but is quite the leap from $25 one time fee to $50 a year for commercial especially since I'll be using it for side projects alone. Getting a proper commercial license is a must for CYA reasons and I don't see myself paying $50 a year for it.

Also, the $25 catalyst license seems odd to me. It's called a license but you get a Discord badge and nothing else really changes from the personal license. I would reconsider how these are structured.

Just because people are not being vocal does not mean they do not care about the situation. I haven't commented on the drama from this situation but I also got the email from them and my immediate reaction was "huh, thats kinda shitty." and proceeded to hide my profiles. A lot of people feel that only people who are displeased voice their opinion and people who are satisfied stay quiet but I would be wary about that line of thought. While the angriest voices are the loudest there are definitely a good number of people who aren't happy but don't feel the need to jump into every argument

I really enjoy working from home however I have realized that I have become increasingly unhappy with the communication on my team. Getting answers to simple yes/no questions takes hours. Someone will ask me a question, I'll reply within a few seconds asking for clarification and then radio silence for the next 90 minutes. Personally, I also feel that I'm learning less in some areas.

This is not a commentary on WFH in general but I think most people who endorse 100% remote work do the type of work where they get their assignment and then go sit in the corner and bang it out with headphones on and not the type of work that requires active communication and collaboration.

4K screens on laptops don't make sense to me. They are too small to get maximum value out of. 1440p is more than enough.

Disclaimer: I work as a dev without a college degree so I'm a biased towards the side of alternative credentials.

I would love to hear other opinions on this subject. Everyone seems to have a different take on adding certificates and online courses to your resume.

Personally, I would see any sort of online course or certification positively as it shows you are learning. Whether or not you can back it up when you get it for an interview is a different matter entirely but having traditional BS/MS doesn't bypass that hurdle either.

I work in B2B software and almost all of our clients use SAP. It's absolutely massive.

The post directly says they are seeing growth in their advertising business.

Can you name better hardware for people in the Linux ecosystem that all work together well?

The appeal of all of these products is that all of the Apple stuff works flawlessly together and all of the Windows stuff works flawlessly together. I personally have a hell of a time just getting bluetooth to work on my Linux thinkpad so definitely open to suggestions.

Working from home has many benefits and I prefer it but I'm more than ready to return to the office. This entire WFH situation has made me realize that my coworkers are absolutely awful at communicating.

Absolute basic things like due dates are not communicated, attention to detail is slipping, responsiveness is low. Things I didn't have a problem with because I could just walk over to your desk ask you to explain something to me. Now I have the most difficult time wringing basic information out of people.

>SQL never elicits a response beyond “the task is finished and it does what I want”...

To you this is a bad thing, to me, this is exactly why I like SQL. I don't need to be in love with the elegance and majesty of a language I just need it to work and SQL typically just works and 9 times out of 10 it hooks up nicely with whatever high level language I'm using.

And for what it's worth, I've seen quite a few senior level SQL developers write some pythonic SQL queries that would put my regular Python programming to shame.

People in tech vastly overestimate the amount of people who dislike Amazon. Your Average Joe could not be happier with Amazon and does not give a second thought to their business practices or worker treatment.

Asperite is open source and not free.

I will definitely give this a try. Also found the shout out to Peaceful Cuisine on your homepage amusing given that I have lost hours of time watching that channel.

I find GDScript to be fine and very easy to pick up having never actually read a tutorial on the language. With that being said I'm more of an average programmer and I don't spend my time debating every nuance to a language so your mileage my vary. Godot does officially support C# now and there are plugins for many other languages including Python, Go, and Rust.

This whole recent COBOL surge reminds me of a friend I had who was upset that he had a Bachelor's in Computer Science but still couldn't find a job while his friend with no college degree taught himself COBOL and got a job at a local bank.