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My guess: There are people inside apple that rely on and value LittleSnitch and they have enough influence to work with the development team and ensure APIs are built to align with Apple's Security/Privacy goals while still allowing LittleSnitch to function as it currently does.

Elizabeth Holmes 2.0?

The reason you didn't see the bevy of popups was because you did a clean install. With an upgrade install all of your existing apps have to go through the same security steps as a new app, and they tend to do it all at once, especially if you have a lot of apps that launch at startup. That said my experience was not as extreme as some of the screenshots, and I think it would be even less for the average user. And of course this is only upon first upgrade, so while frustrating, you quickly get over it.

I too use the serverless image handler but it's not perfect. The documentation is really crappy and over the summer they transitioned the whole system from thumbor to sharp and didn't provide great backwards compatibility.

But the people were already there, it only happened over the course of a single day; it's not like they paid the people more because they were busier or making more orders.

From the article:“It seems to me that Microsoft should stand up and shoulder the burden of the mistake they made,” he said. “But they’ve shown no real interest in doing that, and so I’ve shown no interest in giving it to them. I don’t really need the money. I’m basically auctioning off a chemical waste dump because I don’t want to pass it on to my kids and burden them with it."

It doesn't work like that. If a hiring requirement is not "reasonably related" to duties performed on the job (I think we can agree nicotine use qualifies), and if the selection rate is then less than 80% of a group with the highest selection rate, then it's an Adverse Impact and is illegal.

https://www.hirevue.com/blog/what-is-adverse-impact-and-why-...

I just lost a lot of respect for John.

I've worked in serious NYC restaurants for years, and made a lot of big mistakes, including serving inch-worms to celebrities. I've almost always been treated with respect and kindness when I made a mistake (save for some gentle ribbing). When I first started I had a few sternly worded conversations, but they were always respectful and very clearly delivered with the intention of building me up, not putting me down.

The one and only time I was ever shouted at was in private and one-on-one, and was a motivating factor in my putting in my notice a few days later.

Toxic culture is never acceptable, not in restaurants, or tech companies.

I would assume nobody. Unless it's explicitly stated in the Alphabet corporate charter, there's nothing that requires them to have an employee with the title President, or any employee with any particular title at all.

US currency can go to more than two decimal places...

http://blogs.reuters.com/ben-walsh/2013/11/18/do-stocks-real...

I guess it's time for someone to write an "Assumptions Programmers make about money" post.

I'd suggest getting an RPi with an ethernet port, I've got mine running on an original Raspberry Pi.

It's worth it if you have a lot of "secondary" devices on your network (phones, tablets, smart tvs, game consoles, IOT devices) because then you get ad blocking and no tracking for free on devices you couldn't otherwise effectively block. If you have a lot of those sorts of devices then it's definitely worth it. If you have an extra Raspberry Pi laying around, and are comfortable adjusting your DNS settings on your router, then it's definitely worth it too. I have PiHole running my DHCP server as well, so I can assign static IPs to my devices as well, which is nice if you have any servers running or like to SSH into devices.

And the tech they do have is crappy, error prone, and inconsistent.

If they could figure out how to do printing without PCClient, now that would be a business worth 47B all on it's own...

WeWork will not be in either the S&P 500 or the Russell 2000/3000 because last year they adjusted their qualifying criteria to exclude companies with multi-class share structures.[0] They didn't kick out any existing companies (why google, facebook et al are still in these indices) but no new companies will be added with multi-class share structures.

[0] https://fortune.com/2019/08/20/wework-ipo-s-and-p-500/

This is what I use in production right now. It works well once you figure it out, but backwards compatibility with the previous Thumbor based version isn't as good (or at least correctly documented) as they say. And the previous Thumbor based processor just stopped working one day. It's not as robust as a system as I expected.

I have the opposite problem, apps/windows don't consistently return to where they used to be - in particular Slack never does (probably something with electron) but more frustratingly Messages never does either - it always goes to the same location on my primary display.

You don't speed up checkout because people care about faster checkout, you speed up checkout because people care about lower prices and faster checkout reduces fixed costs, or increases revenues allowing you to lower prices.

If checkout lines are supply constrained (eg. there are always lines) then increasing speed increases throughput which increases revenues.

If checkout lines aren't supply constrained (eg. there are empty checkout lines) then you can reduce the number of open lines without increasing wait times, reducing your headcount and driving down your labor costs. If you lower your labor costs you reduce your semi-variable costs and you can keep the same contribution margin and lower prices.

Angle of Attack doesn't refer to the angle of the plane relative to the horizon but the angle of the plane relative to airflow.

The type of error that this appears to be is solved if you know what it is, you can just turn the MCAS system off and hand-trim the plane no problem. So testing the failure at a high altitude is of a relatively low risk, you've specifically briefed and likely practiced in a simulator exactly how to turn these systems off. The pilot not flying the plane almost certainly has their hands right on the switches and or fuses.

I wouldn't say they are the norm, but they're certainly expected by any re-seller (auction house, retailer, restaurant) when dealing with the highest echelon of wine (1st Growth Bordeaux, Premier Cru Burgundy, Vintage Champagne) they'll also expect a description of the storage conditions over time.

See the documentary Sour Grapes to understand how this system was undermined and trust evaporated from the industry.

It's really not, when you're at that level (which I think is easy enough to define) you don't sleep with anyone in the company. At this point you should be a mature enough adult to be able to handle this, if you're not, you probably shouldn't be in a leadership role. If you're so enamored with someone then you leave. The workplace is a place for work, not a place to find a date. Do people date people they work with? Of course – and that's fine, but the second it gets in the way of the work it's a problem and needs to be handled, rarely can it be handled any other way than having one person leave.

I should have included this in my parent comment: this is the argument regarding facebook's activities being anti-competitive; I don't necessarily believe this argument to be true. I really don't have a position on it in either direction at this time.

A big part of anti-trust law in the US is that natural monopolies are permitted - you can build a business that dominates your market segment and not be subject to anti-trust proceedings, but you cannot use that natural monopoly to advantage your other lines of business by providing them with exclusive, preferred or other special treatment in said natural monopoly. This was the crux of US vs. MSFT.

The argument here is that Facebook is a natural monopoly and by only allowing Instagram to post automatically to a users timeline, they are leveraging that legal natural monopolies power to advantage Instagram.

Did you copy files and take them with you? Or do you just remember things that you then apply? If it's the latter you're probably safe.

I don't understand the assertion that the US Gov't can't do anything to prevent the foreign governments from doing this... The FCC has broad powers to regulate the public airwaves. This technology clearly disturbes authorized and licensed utilizaton of the airwaves OUTSIDE of the bounds of the Embassies. FCC should have the power to prevent this.

NDA situation is getting out of control in the United States.

Almost every employee at every company signs an NDA when they start working. Oftentimes NDAs and other employment documents (Non-Compete clauses etc) are chock full unenforceable information. Most people agree because there's no ability to negotiate these documents, because they don't understand the clauses or because they don't know they're unenforceable.

The unattributed quotes in the story say a lot. Apple employees with that level of information don't have casual, off the cuff, and not-for-attribution conversations with Journalists by mistake or by accident. I suspect this was a purposeful and controlled leak.

TSA agents are not LEOs. They are security guards. They do not have the same rights and priviladges, protections or responsibilities as police others and other sworn Peace Officers.

A non-profit ensurer staffs itself to have high quality customer service by pushing back on improper billing by providers and instead of returning that savings to its members investing it into higher quality employees, more training, and better systems to ensure that hospitality is a paramount concern.

Their original shows and movies depreciate far faster than most other assets and do so much more unpredictably than most assets. That 39M non-cash charge was almost certainly because of an unexpected depreciation of House of Cards post Kevin Spacey.