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Apple doesn’t care about first to market. They will take the time necessary to refine a huge breakthrough.

If you haven’t yet used rust-analyzer, immediately go and try it out. The developer experience is much better than RLS, particularly for larger projects.

One question I’ve had for some time: what exactly is the relationship between Ferrous Systems and the Rust core team? The most important part of this article - the call for sponsors - calls out the former, but I would think Mozilla would also be greatly motivated to sponsor this work. (If they haven’t already?)

I really can't fathom how this is possible. The largely young demographic (which I'm guessing warrants this valuation) has a track record of jumping from platform to platform, whichever is trendy for a given year.

With that in mind, how are investors seriously willing to get behind this company in such a big way?

Looks to be a play on the word “Angle” - in the context of news, this is the point you’re trying to convince your readers of. “What’s your angle?”

Thank you. I can't really fathom why the BBC would not think to link to the _actual_ source of this news.

PSA your email is not actually in your bio.

> The final nail in that coffin is that a significant portion of the web is accessed these days via phones: which, by Google or Apple mandate, are extremely locked down ecosystems.

How is that the final nail in the coffin?

> In its simplest form, it will require a user to input their health information into their phones, then health organizations can build apps to consume that data. Then, using bluetooth technology, they will be able to analyze a users behaviors and whom they have come into contact with. Building a web of social behavior information.

I think this paragraph, particularly the last sentence, is misleading. Apple and Google are working to implement this at the operating system level in a way that does not share any information about you at all, with anyone [1].

If you want to have technologists read this article and get past that point without a huge grain of salt, consider reviewing the specs and revising that description to be a little more correct.

1. https://www.apple.com/covid19/contacttracing

> my work remains my work and is not easily stolen nor transferable without consent

I think in general, this is a "hard" problem for an Internet-based service. You would have to include a watermark of some kind, which arguably hinders viewer experience. And regardless, it is still very easy for viewers to capture an image by downloading or taking a screenshot.

I do agree with your sentiment about IG though.

Would love to hear more about what you desire in a photo sharing experience. My email should be in my profile if you want to chat.

Disclaimer: no affiliation with IG

This sounds like a _very_ unusual experience. Clearly millions (billions?) of people create Instagram accounts with no issues. Why not just create a different account?

> If this is how they treat their prospective customers...

You certainly aren't a customer, which might explain the lack of priority. :)

I despise the fact that IE11 is still used, but it’s used by a quarter of our users at the large company I work at.

We don’t use Bootstrap, but hopefully this encourages the companies that do use it to usher their users to something more modern and secure.

At this point, any app that is sold on the App Store that offers any OIDC auth options (e.g. Google, Facebook) MUST also include Sign in with Apple.

This is the most intriguing thing for me, perhaps second only to the fact that you guys are working with Rust. I have followed Deno since it was announced and it has been fascinating to watch it evolve. How much Deno code do you all have working in production right now?

Why would Apple pay developers for this work? If OP didn’t want to advertise their app this way, Apple could’ve easily asked another dev.

Granted, I’m sure the uptick in sales more than compensated OP for their time. If it didn’t, then this HN article probably will. :)

Facebook is not telling them they have to come into the office. Rather, it’s the contracting companies that these people actually work for. Quite a difference, which is clarified in the first paragraph.

FTA:

> contract workers stating that, contrary to statements to them from Facebook, they are barred by their actual employers from working from home, despite the technical feasibility and clear public health benefits of doing so.

Sounds like Facebook should immediately evaluate their relationships with these contracting companies.

Bummer. I was hoping for a more feature/engineering-oriented article.

I recently started the switch from GitHub to GitLab, both for myself and my company. Generally boiled down to a wider feature set for a better price.

I have a similar-ish story. I actually just spoke on the phone with a representative from Atrium just a few days ago; I was interested in having some policies written/reviewed. I was particularly interested in their "start-up" package which seemed to offer general counsel for those looking to grow their business.

While I would have been happy to pay for this sort of concierge approach, I was also "declined" for being too small / not needing the specific services I suppose they were willing to provide. I imagine this kind of interaction with potential clients is one reason they got to this point.

I can appreciate the effort that went into this, but I don't really understand its appeal, or even the appeal of Helm, when installing anything on Kubernetes is as simple as running `kubectl apply -f <manifest.yml>`.

For my personal cluster, I have a private Git repository filled with various singleton manifests that help me bootstrap various different things. Most "standard" installs (nginx-ingress, cert-manager, istio, etc) provide their own single manifests as well.

I feel that introducing layers of abstraction on top of that is generally unnecessary, but particularly because it doesn't really help you understand how K8s works.

The study: https://techpolicyinstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/P...

It says it is unofficial. Must have taken a ton of effort to get this stuff together. Very cool!

See also: React Firebase Hooks

https://www.npmjs.com/package/react-firebase-hooks

Are you me? Also in NYC and also dream of a quiet place in Montana. My team has actually had discussions about Montana specifically.

What is it about Montana?

I normally chalk these articles off as fluff/advertising. “How many of these companies really need a design system?” I think that question is still important; some companies prematurely optimize by spending too much time on this stuff rather than just building their product.

But this one I enjoyed going through. It was a good blend between visual presentation of the system, and commentary about the system.

He says he has used the card for a month and doesn’t go into any detail beyond the onboarding process.

I’ve also had mine since early August and can say that it works very well. I am fortunate to live in NYC where most places support Apple Pay, so I hardly use the physical card. The experience is seamless and the UI, of course, is very well done. It is particularly nice to have card’s UI right in the Wallet app, though I think Apple might extend the Wallet API to enable other credit cards to provide more detailed information there. It would make sense. Shout-out to whoever designed the bill payment flow; it is clear and promotes better financial health.

Another shout-out to whoever designed the transaction detail view. They’ve partnered with Yelp to provide information about merchants, and has been mentioned many times, seeing the location where the charge was made is a subtle yet helpful detail.

Ultimately, it isn’t the next top tier luxury card. It is clear that wasn’t Apple’s goal. However, I’ve been very happy to see other companies onboarding to their 3% cash back incentive (Walgreens and T-Mobile most recently). I think the benefits will continue to pile up.

They really upped the game with this one. I think the biggest detail in the OP is that they had access to millions of potential customers on (or before) launch day. Their ability to access their customers so directly will set this (and other forays by Apple) apart from the competition.

It’s kind of mind-boggling that people keep themselves up at night over this. Seems like it requires some level of egomania.

With SwiftUI and Jetpack Compose on the horizon for iOS and Android developers, respectively, you should really invest time into learning those frameworks.

For more information about the author, their personal site: http://voicefirst.expert/

> I don't know why others are mentioning a DPO. You won't need a DPO.

After reviewing those parts of GDPR a bit more, I agree. I was thinking of the EU rep for businesses outside the USA.

> The easiest route to compliance is to not collect Personal Data.

The product I am working on has a social aspect. That said, nothing - particularly the data the GDPR defines as sensitive - would be collected without explicit consent from the users. Actually, nothing is really collected without their opt-in.

> As a solo founder, don't worry about it.

Thanks for chiming in! It is good to hear from someone in a similar situation.