> Note: This chart only includes companies that are privately held, have raised money in the past four years and have at least one venture-capital firm as an investor.

Congratulations on publishing your first book! Did you have to write the book in Word, or could you use something like LaTeX?

Thanks! I wrote drafts in Markdown and then we worked on OpenOffice for formatting as it was more convenient for editors and proofers

Interesting! I wrote mine in LaTeX and merging what I got from proofers got a bit difficult at times.

Yeah, previous post have been about the move but it hadn't been done yet.

In case you prefer video format, this is from a talk I did a while back: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fNTf680fTHE

How can Apple get away with that? I am genuine interested! Sounds pretty much like the same thing Microsoft did with Internet Explore back in the day, except they didn't force you to use their rendering engine, but shipped the OS with their browser as default?

Microsoft was a monopoly. Apple is a niche player. Antitrust laws don't apply to companies with 20% of the market.

Actually, iOS has 42.4% of the smartphone market in the U.S. according to http://www.cnet.com/news/android-loses-some-us-market-share-...

Still, Android has ~52% of the market. The antitrust laws used against Microsoft were due to the fact that Windows was nearly all of the market, both home and business. Plus, people using Apple now can switch off of it, unlike Microsoft at the time which had no viable options.

There are other markets than the US and the antitrust laws were employed against Microsoft in the EU.

The US antitrust case[1] referred specifically to browser vendor lock-in.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Microsoft_Corp.

As did the European case, ultimately forcing them to give a choice to the user which default browser to download, if I recall correctly.

Because their platform, their rules? IDK, I think it's perfectly acceptable to limit what you can do on someone's platform, since after all allowing anything on your platform will cause a lot of crap to appear - like a lot of stuff on the Android platform before it changed to the Play Store and Google started being a bit more strict about using their platform.

Restricting what developers can and cannot do on a platform allows Apple to give more guarantees and reliability in terms of performance and battery usage, as well as security and stability. Those are the primary reasons behind Apple's restrictions on the iOS platform.

You are only partially correct in your analysis. Yes, controlling the platform can lead to a better user experience. But how does banning browser engines lead to better app quality? It doesn't. If you look at the history of app store restrictions, you'll find that any app that provides an open platform or programming environment has been banned. That is because it takes the control out of apple's hands. It's a power grab.

It may be a power grab, but it also provides protection from malware that customers value.

Some restrictions do. Some restrictions have economic benefits for Apple.

This one has both.

What are the performance, security and stability benefits of removing native print-to-PDF functionality from iOS? It was supported by Apple in early iOS releases.

I am equally surprised.

Some funny things in there:

    switch (gamemap) {
        case 24: /* Secret level? */
		nextmap = 4;
		break;

Source: https://github.com/Olde-Skuul/doom3do/blob/master/source/gam...

I like buying clothes myself, so I wouldn't have someone do it for me all the time. However, I also like getting clothes as Birthday/Xmas gifts and my family knows what I like.

My shopping is 50/50 in-store and online, when I do in-store shopping I like to have my wife with me, mostly for company and to verify what I pick fits and looks good.

I did a talk a few months back going over the changes up until today, and what is coming in C# 6, this was before they decided to drop primary constructors.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BA3sL783_Co

He might have been that times IT Administrator? We've come a long way over these past 30 years, but think about it for a second, if you're an IT Administrator today handling all the office machines, you probably have the power to click 1 button to turn them all off? (Depending on the setup of course..) There's obviously more access rights involved today.

Doesn't answer "who" put the button in there, I'm just thinking out-loud! :)

> if you're an IT Administrator today handling all the office machines, you probably have the power to click 1 button to turn them all off?

To err is human. To push the error to thousands of instances online at once - that's devops.

The issue wasn't whether he allowed to press it; it was just way too easy to press accidentally.

Even if I have the authority to press the big red button, I'd like it to be behind glass and far from the light switch.

I rather have lots of people reading my book, getting less royalty per person, than having less people reading my book getting more royalties.

I write because I want to share my ideas and point of views, not because I care about the money. It's nice though when someone pays the 5 EUR it costs, that keeps me awake with the coffee I can buy for the money.