Apple’s position in this Spotify spat doesn’t seem very secure. They immediately attack Spotify’s character rather than the specific accusations? I was hoping this would move the needle. I don’t think it is going to unless Apple is forced.
What developers sound like to non-developers
No matter your profession, industry jargon can quickly become laden with acronyms, buzz-words, and other gibberish.
I was reminded of this today when I read the abstract from this scientific paper re: mammoth cells showing some signs of activity in mouse cells.
The 28,000-year-old remains of a woolly mammoth, named ‘Yuka’, were found in Siberian permafrost. Here we recovered the less-damaged nucleus-like structures from the remains and visualised their dynamics in living mouse oocytes after nuclear transfer. Proteomic analyses demonstrated the presence of nuclear components in the remains. Nucleus-like structures found in the tissue homogenate were histone- and lamin-positive by immunostaining. In the reconstructed oocytes, the mammoth nuclei showed the spindle assembly, histone incorporation and partial nuclear formation; however, the full activation of nuclei for cleavage was not confirmed. DNA damage levels, which varied among the nuclei, were comparable to those of frozen-thawed mouse sperm and were reduced in some reconstructed oocytes. Our work provides a platform to evaluate the biological activities of nuclei in extinct animal species.
Do you have any idea what that means? Perhaps if you’re a biologist it makes complete sense.
If you listen to two developers talking about building apps you’ll quickly realize how insane it sounds from an outsider’s perspective. Even the real-world sounding names of software languages and frameworks can be baffling; React, SASS, Bourbon, Grunt, Python, Swift, SQL, Ruby, Perl.
We must sound like totally nutters.
Carbondale, Pennsylvania – April 2017
My photo in the Lackawanna County Visitors Bureau Spring Visitors Guide
I’m always pleased when my photos can be put to good use. It is why I license my photos the way that I do.
A few months ago the Lackawanna County Visitors Bureau reached out and asked if they could use one of my photos (with credit) in their Spring Visitors Guide.
Of course they can!
They chose this photo of geese at Aylesworth Park – a park I visit quite often during the year for hiking.
I’m very happy with how it turned out. Be sure to pick up a guide and get out this spring and discover Lackawanna County.
Unmark just passed the first 2,500 bookmarks added to it during this invite-only period. Fun to keep track of.
Spotify takes Apple to court in the EU
Daniel Ek, CEO of Spotify:
It’s why, after careful consideration, Spotify has filed a complaint against Apple with the European Commission (EC), the regulatory body responsible for keeping competition fair and nondiscriminatory.
Good. After reading through his post and their website – especially if it all is true – they have quite a good case. I’ve been complaining, for years, about iOS’s anti-competitive policies. I am glad someone is finally going to try to get Apple to loosen its grip.
While Spotify’s main objection is the tax Apple puts on apps and services in the Store my main objection would be not allowing me, the customer, to choose my own browser, mail client, music player, etc. I really hope this is the last straw and many more complaints somehow make their way to Apple’s legal department.
See also: Manton Reece’s thoughts.
Teams that build products for multiple platforms (web, iOS, Android, Mac, Windows, Linux) should consider switching their browsers/platform choice each year if possible. It can be eye opening.
How to use DuckDuckGo
The search syntax is very similar to Google’s, so if you’re familiar with that you won’t need to learn much. Obviously you can just search a bunch of words, but there are a few additional syntaxes you can use to refine results.
Duck.com (as I like to call it now) is my search engine of choice across all browsers and devices. Brett’s guide is excellent and – once you get some of the tricks down to muscle memory – are real time savers.
I recommend you use Duck.com but also that you kindly, yet strongly, recommend that your friends and family members to do the same. You can even take the 30 seconds to switch them to Duck.com on their devices.