DavidNielsen

People cite Law of Jante to be anti exceptionalism when in reality it is meant and generally used as a means of reminding high and low alike that we are in this together.

We are different, but do not think that your view point on our difference makes you inherently better than me.

We are both human, we both share this place called Earth, could we be productive and not turn life into a weirdly specific genitalia measurement contest.. por favor?

You are allowed and encouraged to be exceptional, just like everybody else. You should just recognize how you got there and how other people got where they are. In essence, Jante, is a teaching tool regarding inequality.

Denmark is a lovely place, in part, because of a general adherence to following those guidelines. Therefore as a Dane it pains me to see it cited as a bad thing and as justification for actions and behaviors Law of Jante which are in direct opposition to how it is de facto taught and applied in Danish society.

Rob Reid did a funny 5min TED Talk on this called the 8 Billion dollar iPod: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZadCj8O1-0

He used the same premise when he wrote the comedy sci-fi book Year Zero, the story of naive aliens accidentally pirating all of Earths music and the legal consequences thereof, i.e. owning the citizens of Earth literally all the money in the universe leading to the ruination of their delightfully hedonistic utopia. A quick and hilarious read.

And a citation.

https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/blog/2018/01/private-i...

No timeline yet though but given the early state of WireGuard and the platform support that is understandable.

Seconded, e.g. going to the signup page on my iPhone 5 just leads to a blank page. I suspect the same might be true for my iPad Air despite being on a current iOS release.

A slightly better onboarding experience would be worth a lot, even if the answer is "thine device is unsupported and no plan to support it exists."

They would likely argue that HEVC and H.264 are hardware accelerated on nearly all of their devices whereas VP8 likely isn’t. This would mean compromising on battery life as they’d have to provide a software fallback where needed. I don’t see Apple being very willing to provide a bad user experience and given how hard they were pushing HEVC during their 2017 WWDC keynote the best bet is that they think that’s the better option.

Alternatively they’d have to add VP8 support in their chips and one suspects they would be unwilling to spend silicon on that which could otherwise be used for whatever witchcraft their silicon designers are whipping up.

I’d grant that as a valid technical reason for limited video codec support. Silicon and battery are at a premium.

There's also a somewhat incomplete reimplementation in C#

https://github.com/toshok/scsharp

In that case it would lessen the chance of a competitor gaining access to your eyeballs, not a bad bargain in some cases.

Signal is great in principle but:

1. Their desktop support isn't provided by a native app but rather ducktaped onto Chrome, which in turn forces me to have that pole of junk installed.

2. There's no iPad app, granted you can run the iPhone app in compatibility mode but that's just feels wrong in 2016.

3. Their support for multiple devices using one account can at best considered an afterthought attached to their mobile apps with gum. When I checked last it only worked with their Android and their Chrome clients so no love for iOS users.

Wire provides all of this, wrapped in beautifully designed apps (if currently a touch unstable)

Considering my wife just bought a 8620 this bodes well for my future.. oh joy.

Signal has limited platform support, e.g. I can't use it on my OS X desktop nor is there a version for the iPad (I could us e the iPhone app but I'm not a savage and the user experience actually matters to me).

Worse though is the complete lack of support for using the same user profile on multiple devices, I want all messages to follow me where ever I go on whatever device.

Signal is nice and all, and I want it to succeed. I try to help in that regard by providing and maintaining their Danish translation (as well as for similar apps and services, except Telegram who despite repeated requests have not opened a Danish translation on Transifex).

They have very well defined documentation for all the stable parts of the API, their code is modern and quite readable. In addition to this Lennart is good at publishing lengthy explanatory blogposts aimed at system administrators. Finally they have done a truly admirable job building a community and explaining the why's and how's of their project. This is evident in the fact that there is now a systemd conference coming up.

If this fails the test, I suggest that it is a marvelous failure which every project should strive to emulate. To suggest that systemd is poorly documented indicates an insufficient exposure to the sad reality of most Open Source projects where "our unmaintained, outdated, bug riddled code base is the documentation" is the best case answer to the question of documentation.

He created Instapaper, not Instagram. He sold it to Betaworks.

They've been doing great work with it lately and have a solid subscription business model now.

This is the second LWN subscriber link to be posted in as many days. I suspect they might have been a little peeved as posting those for the entire world to use isn't exactly the intended use.

Xamarin offers a free starter edition[1] and you can request free full licenses for use with Open Source projects[2].

Getting started on your own project or doing an Open Source project that relies on Xamarin's tools is perfectly possible. In fact we use such free licenses to produce OS X and iOS versions of the Tomboy note taking app[3].

[1] https://store.xamarin.com [2] http://resources.xamarin.com/open-source-contributor.html [3] https://github.com/tomboy-notes

It is my understanding that XMPP also presents a problem with regards to mobile due to inefficient design from a power usage point of view. I could certainly see how that would be reason to look into fixing or outright replacing XMPP but not opening the replacement protocol is just shameful.

I am a backer but it is pretty much just a multiplayer game and what I loved about RTS games was the single player campaign experience