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It feels weird reading that someone in America “reinvents” the Australian concept of “chucking a sickie”.

HN is not a government or a political party, it's a privately run link aggregator.

> Not trying to be negative, I'm a fan of how much power AWS gives you. I am. I find AWS API incredibly baroque and has a lot of historic baggage. I suspect a lot of this complexit…

I'll be a contrarian here and say that Objective-C is an ugly mess, and not even "because brackets". It's the language full of terrible hacks, historic baggage, and bolted-on featu…

Please note that I specifically singled out C++ here, not C. C is not C++ (not even technically a subset of C++). It is a very different and a much smaller language.

I am a former C++ programmer who has moved on to the other languages/technologies and no longer suffer from Stockholm Syndrome. This is just the tip of the iceberg. There are many …

> This is a pretty bold claim - can you cite any examples of this? I don't know if you have read the original thread, but there are a few examples of this: https://news.ycombinator…

Ah, so the secret to launching without previous audience is to build up an audience prior to launch.

They are not at all equivalent. Shares are a lot more volatile, and your guess needs to be accurate within a very short term or you lose 100% of your investment.

Keep in mind that as an individual you cannot have a near-million dollar leverage at a relatively low rate to buy other investments.

Negative gearing is only one piece of the puzzle. There is also a 50% CGT discount if you hold an investment for more than a year. And yes, it applies to shares too, but it's not p…

People like to rag on Chinese investors, but I think the main reasons are insane tax breaks and limited supply.

I think the original intent of obscuring input password is to counter shoulder surfing.

I didn't know, that's great news.

I think the biggest annoyance by far is iTunes Connect. It's an odd beast. It's awkwardly separate from the rest of developer centre, and have this bizarre requirement that you use…

Do you still need a beta review to deploy to external testing with Enterprise account?

I have recently switched to automatic provisioning profile management, only to have it completely broken in Xcode 7.3 (radar filed and confirmed). Still using Member Centre for now…

Right, when you leak handles to package objects externally, all bets are off.

> The problem is if a package registers some global name, and another copy of the package also registers the same global name, that could cause an error. This shouldn't cause an er…

They probably pivoted. ;)

C++11 was originally known as C++0x, so C++17 may yet become C++19.

I feel like it would be a frighteningly common bug. I remember one like this from 2011 [1]. Install/packaging/utility scripts usually do not get as much attention and testing as th…

Thanks for very detailed feedback! There is certainly some room for improvement. > You don't see a live picture but you can "check in" as you put it by tapping on "record video now…

Developer here. We are glad you like it. We'd also like to hear about rough edges, if possible.

Disclaimer first: I'm one of the developers. Yes, you can see the video from your phone. We don't do continuous live streaming due to long-life battery-centric design. You can, how…