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Agreed. For GE or P&G that have tons of vertically integrated moving parts and the complex accounting for it, I can intuitively understand that compliance and accounting would be huge and complex. But there are many billion dollar companies with a more streamlined and simple economic model, and the tools should exist to comply with the SEC as part of the normal workflow.

He better have the chuptzpah to come out of the meeting telling the truth that Google results do not have an ideological bias and consider his civic duty complete after showing lawmakers evidence of such. We've seen what happens at Facebook when they try to make sure the range of opinions published is "neutral". I've seen people complain that the little 'i' symbol next to news stories on Facebook that details the viewpoint and credibility of the linked site is discriminatory.

There will always be a constituency for people who love to play victims to social media companies. That should not affect their decisions.

These guys don't take corporate money. https://now.justicedemocrats.com/candidates

Why does this matter? What apis are you using that are not available in Lollipop, which has 88%+ market share.

Also, those dashboards are misleading. For the North American market the proportion of older phones is less than half of what the dashboard displays

Uber rides do seem underutilized. Someone posted a picture of them hooking up their switch so passengers would be able to play mario kart and the response was so positive it seems perplexing that nintendo or hbo doesn't put in samples for passengers to try.

Your concerns make sense for considering things like payroll taxes and taxing other operating expenses. But if we consider taxing corporate profits that go to shareholders, taxing here is a very relatively painless place to tax, as opposed to, say sales tax. This is doubly so when corporations are already sitting in hoards of cash and not investing, due to lack of opportunity or demand, interest rates are low, productivity gains are going towards the top, etc.

I'm not quite as cynical when it comes to bureaucrats (military contractors aside), because as we can see in some of the recent teachers strikes, it makes sense to tax oil/gas corporations who are making full use of states infrastructure to for the benefit of themselves (and workers etc). The tax rate is not really affecting how much they invest. [1]

I'm with you on corporate influence though. However, I think the answer there is to limit corporate influence of elections, say by disallowing funding of candidate specific ads and limiting the $ they can put towards issue lobbying.

[1]https://qz.com/1243098/oklahoma-teachers-strike-how-income-t...

Consider mobile. A huge number of phones, ones you might consider mid tier and not low end, can only play 1 or 2 videos at a time. Hence, the need for a video format that can be rendered in only software.

From averaging the people who buy popcorn and a drink and those who buy nothing and those in between, I'd say the average person buys an icee, which is not a bad markup

Working in a dev shop with tons of test devices, the Nexus 5 was the most resilient and snappy over the years by far

This is really not an exaggeration. When I was looking for android jobs a few jobs had requirements that only aosp google or amazon kindle people would really have.

They abandoned the android port version before the ios port version, reportedly because the android version took 4x as many developers and any app worth emulating on wp would have both an ios and android version, so doing both was wasted work.

I did try out the windows phone emulation though, and was pretty impressed wrt speed. Video and camera wasn't working yet, but they had an intelligent strategy to stub and reimpment play services and billing.

Amusingly, I had to buy a $50 wp on ebay, because the one microsoft gave me when they flew a bunch of mobile devs to redmond to ask what tools we wanted, the one they gave us was not one of the two models that supported the beta. I'm only salty because, like wp itself, it was never officially killed, and we just had to figure it out when the program stopped updating.

This does not affect developers, only marketing and blog sites that promote apps and link to the app store.

Team liquid is what I think of when I think of active moderation done right

If making fun of windows phone is wrong I don't want to be right.

Are the frames drawn to a bitmap first or straight to a canvas? Can a single animation object display different parts of itself in different stages of that animation, or would a duplicate animation object be required?

This site isn't trying to upend the artificial customs that we've come to cherish, just to substitute one costly part of it with a cheaper indistinguishable alternative for all the reasons he described

This probably does not affect android. In 5.0, android switched to AOT with a new VM, ART instead of Dalvik, which was a huge win for performance. Jitter in many, many apps went away completely, especially when scrolling. This did cause install times to increase, however. In 7.0 (or 7.1?) there is a mix of JIT with AOT for code that is deemed hot by a profiler, hopefully bringing the benefits of AOT without the lengthy install times.

They do. Every once and a while you'll get a nice thank you, especially if you leave a note with your purchase

I'd love to know. Maybe if you gather enough phds in a hot industry into one room magical things happen?

I have worked on several react native projects. The more I do the more I'm convinced you are correct

Revolución.

It can be pretty demoralizing when you look at it from that perspective. We really need to have a conversation that even though passion is important and great for quality of life, it can hide real systemic problems and inequities

Aren't patent applications public?

On the bright side, my daydream app will get some accidental installs!

There is no excuse for how hard the permissions API is to use. Why can we not know if the user has "never show again " checked directly? It literally looks like the API and ui came from different proposals

Middle out padding. It just might work

This cuck thing is new to me. All I can find are some photos of them and they look like friends. She mentioned that he carried her luggage (maybe it was heavy?). Were users just being mean to him for fun or is there some more evidence I can't find? It's hard to find information about this.

The banning of gamergate discussion didn't sit well for me, but I don't go to /v/ so I didn't care too much. Unless there was a specific explanation for it, I imagine the decision was to stop raiding and harassment, which seems reasonable considering it was borne out of two specific cases of harassing sjws. I found any gamergate discussion nauseating after about a month since it quickly came to encompass every single aspect of misogyny real or perceived in the gaming industry and the stakes themselves were so incredibly low. I cannot physically care about kotaku reviews. It would be like taking nyt trend pieces seriously.

That was a long aside. Anyway, was there ever a reason given about gamergate banning or a reason to think it was a situation similar to sinfest?

Thanks for the explanation. I don't really buy the wasted CPU cycles argument since any dynamic jank after lollipop is caused by inflating views at the wrong time, not really how they're inflated. The other stuff sound nice but being able to do simple arithmetic and operations in XML sounds like the major win

What does it even mean for an XML layout to be type and null safe? This reads like a parody. XML resources give you orientation/screen size resolution and component re use. I haven't drunk the MVP kool aid that's the new hotness, but this is far too much in the other direction. If you're setting margins in code you're probably doing something wrong.

That's racist.

Can you shed a bit of light on the details or motivation? It's always bothered me how we never got a full picture of what happened. So they clawed back a portion of options from people who had been awarded options at one level then demoted? Was their motivation just for money? Because it seems like absolutely the worst possible thing for morale and recruiting and I can't imagine them getting back more than 50mm.