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Exceptions stand out from the crowd, good and bad. If you are a competent dev, nobody cares about that if no one notices you.

If people notice you, they'll next notice if you are competent or not.

Companies in China have Party Committees, appointed by the government. These committees have oversight over how the company operates, and how the board is appointed. The Chinese government has a strong direct influence inside Chinese businesses, that isn't present in the rest of the world.

Using the Windows SDK without Visual Studio is a not great experience though.

Doubly so if you are a newcomer to programming.

I think a main reason Microsoft lost their development community is because they charged for access to Visual studio (which is the gateway to the entire ecosystem). People didn't talk about it openly, because no one was building for the microsoft platform outside of work.

Meanwhile a whole community of competing free alternatives appeared - students learnt Java and Python because C# was a paid product that was also not cross platform.

Visual studio code's launch.json, combined with the extension for your language of choice, is generally a pretty good experience.

But also, what synergy do the tech giant and retail giant parts of Amazon have?

If the two parts of the business don't really gel, what's the benefit of keeping them together in one company?

The safety of your home directory relies on the integrity of the operating system.

Lot's of domain squatters listen out for whois requests, to try nab unregistered domains before the real interested buyer.

Wouldn't surprise me if big tech like Google does the same.

I mean it's sad that this change will affect Termux, but at the same time I can see why Google wants to enforce W^X on apps home dirs.

This is currently a big backdoor for apps to sneak unvetted code in at runtime, bypasses Google's review policy. Sure Termux was using this for good, but I guarantee that Google has examples of apps doing this to sneak hostile code onto user devices.

Development tools often need higher security permissions on Desktop, maybe Android just needs a "development" class of app that is more privileged? They'd just need to enforce the limitation to development focused apps really strongly in the review process.

>I normally don't close out of applications when I'm not using them, so I was always hovering around ~6-7 of my 8 gigs of RAM in use.

That sounds like your problem. And I refuse to believe that the new steam UI uses 2gb of memory.

Funny to hear the author of Ninja say that he's never used CMake...

And they shouldn't have been surprised at the number of Ninja users that were on Windows, Ninja is so much faster than the alternatives if you are using CMake on windows.

Goodbye accessibility.

Sure they are open source projects, but the majority of dev work is done on Google's dime. Google employs many of the most important people in these projects. Sure the code will still be there if Google gives up, but will anyone have the capacity to step up and maintain them?

Part of the challenge of competing, is that it's so easy for Google to adopt good features from other search engines.

I'm not sure what to call these, but you know the rich results Google searches provide these days? Like showing the definition of a word, or a snippet of data from Wikipedia off to the side of the main search results. It's a useful feature, and it was first developed by DuckDuckGo not Google. But it didn't matter, because it was so easy for Google to adopt a feature like that into their own product.