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Someone's promised the Sauds a return on their Uber investment

That incremental reduction in friction converts to substantial financial gains, being on the app store.

Yep - opening up W3C PWA standards on iOS may really threaten "safe, curated, respectful of battery life and do not infringe on our privacy or user experience"

That's just science, and not a regurgitation of Apple's excuses, ahem, P.R. on the matter. I mean, just look at the devestation unleashed by chrome (which supports all PWA features) on MacOs.

How will they force you into the $99/annum developer program, shaft you a cool 30%, play judge and jury to your ios, macOs app store submissions and reject your work at the first hint of competition, if all the useful PWA features just work on iOS? Lest you dream of software freedom on Apple devices, their sycophants and overzealous employees will gaslight you into believing it's all for user experience and security, and any incidental monopolistic/anti-competitive byproducts are wholly acceptable collateral damage when the betterment of iKind, ahem, mankind is at stake.

Actually not. The appeal of the app store to users and developers alike, are access to already set-up Apple ID for auth and payment, and access to dependent APIs, like contacts

False equivalency.

Israel is pretty much the only Democratic, liberal country in the middle East, with Western level women's rights/empowerment, LGBTQ protections, legal protection for minorites, etc. And a land of massive innovation. US universities aren't partnering with Israel because it's politically convenient, but because Israeli universities breed world leading research in many areas. Which is why most high tech companies have an Israeli division, and which is also why Israel has one of the world's highest per capita entrepreneurship, patents and peer reviewed scientific publications.

Contrast that to Autocratic Saudi Arabia where women weren't allowed to drive, or move about in public without approved male company until a year or two, where the LGBTQ are punished by death, where every non Muslim is systemically discriminated with a religions tax [1], where critical Tweets about the establishment routinely land people in jail, where the actual law of the land [2] is a throwback to the middle ages, with almost no scientific or cultural output of significance!

[1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jizya

[2]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_system_of_Saudi_Arabia...

Yes - a feature of the editor is that it shows a file list panel for the directory the .md file is in. I'm not seeing that as "We're a notes app"

> Anyways, I went to the trouble of unblocking

Phrasing isn't flattering to an open source app given away for free, with no tracking.

However, you are right on the usability. It's worthwhile to file a bug to sign the app, and if possible, fund the certificate

After reading your review, lack of tags and "Electron" were you biggest complaints against Typora. Typora is not a notes manger, and reviewing it for what it's not trying to be, is unfair. As for electron, despite the perception of being a hog, Typora's resource usage is about 150MB in RAM and 0.5% CPU when idle. I think your modern MacBook pro can trivially handle that.

In my opinion, Typora's advantages are:

1. WYSIWYG markdown. I don't believe iAWriter is WYSIWYG. While that's ok for developers, Typora is more widely usable.

2. Extensions: from Mermaid, LateX, sequence diagrams to code highlighting, to export to ePub (via Pandoc), Typora is a lot more versatile

3. Saves files as text (.md) and assets, easily searchable via OS. Highly portable

4. Cross platform (Mac, Windows, Linux)

Nordic countries aren't socialist, they are regular market economies with high taxes. Those high taxes go towards healthcare for all, and a larger safety net.

Quoting Denmark's PM [1]: > I know that some people in the US associate the Nordic model with some sort of socialism. Therefore I would like to make one thing clear. Denmark is far from a socialist planned economy. Denmark is a market economy.

[1]: https://www.thelocal.dk/20151101/danish-pm-in-us-denmark-is-...

What they really want is for them to have the right to certify what speech is acceptable - by "they", I refer to the cancel culture crowd. Objective standards would work again their baises, so while they turn up the rhetoric on "hate speech", sometimes, they'll be making arguments for it, if it suits their political narrative. It's the classic "rules for thee, not for me" case.

Blizzard/China is particularly confusing, as they hate the grassroots organic support that Hong Kong has for capitalism, but don't particularly like China despite it being a socialist Mecca

How are such meteoric valuations for companies with relatively smaller moats (Airtable, slack, etc.) justified?

Why can't Microsoft/Apple/Google throw $20M/annum in OpEx, clone these products and flood the sales channels these upstarts are going for?

If they could they would. Who do you think is more powerful, the billionaire, or the politician who asserts his will on the billionaire? Case (s) in point:

1. Amazon/AWS losing the Pentagon cloud deal to Microsoft [1]

2. Amazon driven out of NYC by AOC and co. [2]. And still people think Bezos is the powerful one.

[1]: https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.washingtonpost.com/business...

[2]: https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.syracuse.com/politics/2019/...

> Excel for Mac performed well but it is a paid solution so I did not consider it viable for many developers

Because developers handling gigabyte size data, and wanting to reliably manipulate it in a GUI, cannot possibly be expected to pay/afford the $7/month to Microsoft.

That said, the recommended solution is probably the best option for developers, not bedside because it's free, but for the ability to run complex SQL statements, and visualize the results.

If I were to edit this article, that'd be my takeaway: use tool X for snappy vitalization of SQL queries, even on multi gigabyte sized CSVs

Can we please talk about AirBnB, Coinbase, et al selling personally identifiable data to third parties?

Buried deep in their legalese, they may have the right to do this, but I was NOT aware this was happening. This is not acceptable

It's always a technicality, and with enough pressure, any company is likely to "make it right". The point is that Sanders' demagoguery of companies exploiting workers mismatches with his own campaign's actions.

Likewise, Warren can rail on and on about underpaid, "exploited" workers, but her own campaign staff are subject to this, as it is an industry standard way to run campaigns!! They like to ignore free market rates for other companies, but insist on paying free market rates for their campaigns - hypocrites.

What's stunning about Warren is her 180 on just about everything, from when she was an unbiased researcher/academic at Harvard, to her new Avatar as a progressive, socialist Democrat.

1. She argued FOR women to stay at home, instead of the universal child care narrative adopted now [1]

2. She's not for collage debt forgiveness or even for subsidies. She argues for students to work through college, and pay their own way, contrary to her position on the matter now. [2]

3. She's been a steadfast capitalist calling for limited welfare, v.s. the hyper sociologist welfare state she's proposing now

[1]: http://id.lib.harvard.edu/aleph/009448907/catalog

[2]: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1269443

If you've invested in any of silicon valley's recent mega IPOs like Uber, you've already enriched the Saudi Public Investment Fund.

What part of my statement is misleading? Here's the history of Sanders' campaign underpayment: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/labor-fight-roils-be...

What about on iOS? And what about the fact that on MacOs notarization is more expensive than publishing to the store? I don't believe that to be a coincidence

Blame the developer? Which is why, when an app breaks on the Mac store or app store, users pound the app with 1-star reviews. Even if the breakage happened from a platform (iOS or MacOs or Android) bug.

This is not Apple "watching out" for the developers, no matter how much you spin it

In which universe is it good for Apple to roadblock JavaScript (or any other language) developers?

You must be chugging the koolaid to believe developers LOVE Apple's policies, or enjoy getting their hard-work rejected by a bot, or getting shamed by an overzealous Apple employee on HN. Developers are homogeneously unappreciative of Apple's treatment of them. They just don't have any leverage, or opportunity to negotiate

The post shot to #1 on HN in no time, because the developer community thinks this rejection, and it's backing policy to be nonsensical.

This summarizes Apple's attitude to developers. Eventually, you'll run foul of some obscure nonsensical Apple policy, and Apple will not hesitate to show you the finger. And Shame you for your dev choices.

Agree. Hence, the government should acquire Google et al, fix salaries at government wages (1/5th of Googlers' 350K take home) and run these companies like the utilities they are. We need a socialist takeover, and deliver to googlers that sweet sweet Castroism that their Democratic socialist heroes recently ratified [1]

[1]: https://www.dsausa.org/statements/statement-on-cuba/

Like the underpaid, overworked campaign staff of Sanders [1] and Warren?

[1]: https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.vox.com/platform/amp/2019/7...

Warren's motivation behind breaking the Googles of the world up is to .... wait for it, ensure that the already overpaid tech workers at Google, get paid "free-market" wages, because if Warren is known for anything these days, it is for fighting for the pay-rights of Google employees

What are your thoughts on socialism/Democratic socialism, from Google's long term perspective?

I know that's a very emotive, convincing bogeyman. But like Obama used to say, "truth has a funny way of catching up"

All I'm saying is, the day a Tesla et. al become significantly more affordable than a Honda Civic, with the ability for seamless cross country travel, is the day one can accurately claim no dependency on oil

This is no less frivolous than the person getting down voted for the Flintstones theme.

If we're to make progress on climate change, more practical solutions than those a grade schooler can trivially dream of, need to be discussed.

If we could cold turkey cut off single use plastic and IC engines without disrupting the economy and civilisation, we already would