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by antonovka 17y ago
Here Apple is dealing with someone who basically invented a fictitious company in a different country (! ! !) and is now trying to collect on payables. What do you expect to have happen? I actually believe vessenes --- he may just never ge
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by antonovka 17y ago
I manage a business, and we do invoice. Like any other business, our customers pay late. What I don't have is individuals who owe us money stonewalling our requests for communication/resolution on a late invoice.
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by antonovka 17y ago
3+ months of little-to-no communication, stonewalled by front-line support and having to e-mail sjobs@apple.com before getting any response is "by the book"? I get the impression that you're arguing (and users are downvoting) from the van
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by antonovka 17y ago
I have no trouble blaming Apple for failing to resolve an outstanding debt after many months of poor communication with the individual to which they owe.
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by antonovka 17y ago
Since Apple isn't at fault for the original mixup, they have no responsibility to help resolve their outstanding debt in a reasonably timely manner? It has been months.
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by antonovka 17y ago
He (for some reason) made up a fake company in a country he doesn't even live in. Which, if true, Apple never actually verified existed in the first place. Seems a bit odd to be pushing for it now. I can't really blame him, either. The si
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by antonovka 17y ago
Hey Google, please change the account associated with this adsense publisher ID please, make it point to my bank account in this here other country and please pay me pronto or I'll go public on you. It took the original poster 3 months to
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by antonovka 17y ago
The 'for no apparent reason' sort of proves that already. So if you had would you blame apple ? If Apple put up their usual bureaucratic wall, ignored our requests, or required multi-week/month turnaround times to resolve the issue -- the
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by antonovka 17y ago
The two resolutions -- verifying him as a suitable corporate officer, versus floating him a personal 11k loan -- are so widely different, I can't even begin to fathom what your point is?
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by antonovka 17y ago
I'm sure they can't, actually. All that's necessary is verifying that the individual in question is an suitable officer of the corporation. As long as you stick to the form and procedure in place things will run smoothly and you'll be fi
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by antonovka 17y ago
Immediate needs need an immediate solution, not one that may or may not happen. I'm not sure I see the problem in starting with the step that costs very little (a few hours of time) and could potentially immediately resolve the situation?
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by antonovka 17y ago
News cycles move quickly, and companies like to be able to defuse negative stories by making steps towards resolving an issue before more reporters pile on -- even if it means PR promising something on behalf of the organization. Since it o
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by antonovka 17y ago
When it comes to support, there is always another supervisor. You've clearly never dealt with Apple or the AppStore ;)
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by antonovka 17y ago
I suspect that the money is effectively lost to you. and that you should withdraw the app (if you can) and re-register honestly and clearly as yourself. Are you seriously claiming that -- if they were so inclined -- Apple couldn't safely
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by antonovka 17y ago
I disagree. If you've already e-mailed, called, and otherwise attempted to cajole Apple through the usual channels, try the last option left to you before you put hat in hand and go back to your former employer -- go public. The only thing
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by antonovka 17y ago
I've been finding myself saying the phrase "I wish they'd move this project away from google code and onto github" quite frequently lately. Funny, I usually find myself saying "I wish they'd move this project away from github, provide a p
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by antonovka 17y ago
As an iPhone developer, I desperately want it: 1) It forces Apple to compete for developer mindshare, improving our lot. 2) It provides an open platform that we can begin to support (and possibly migrate most of our mobile development to).
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by antonovka 17y ago
I have used Linux since 1994. I have written software for Linux. I had a job that was to support Linux. I still run Linux on servers where there's no other option. I don't like it; I don't think it works well. It doesn't do what I want -- t
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by antonovka 17y ago
If there were no patents, Apple would have no financial incentive (and that's the only incentive public companies have) to invest so heavily in all of the technologies in the iPhone, as they could easily be copied by others. No financial
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by antonovka 17y ago
It makes usage quite a bit cleaner for some target languages, but it's also optional.
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by antonovka 17y ago
Which seems to come down to "we don't like explicit protocol definitions via IDLs, think they are somehow incompatible with dynamic typing ethos, and didn't understand that Protobuf/Thrift can very easily be leveraged to provide dynamic sel
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by antonovka 17y ago
It's a phenomenally bizarre way of solving the problem. Not only do you have to maintain patches to sshd (which increases maintenance costs and makes deploying security updates considerably more time consuming), but you also risk introducin
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by antonovka 17y ago
This is just silly: I just can’t. I find the entire concept behind IDLs and code generation abhorrent. Coming from a background in dynamic languages and automated testing, these ideas just seem silly. The point of IDLs is to provide a sta
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by antonovka 17y ago
Nothing wrong, you can organize your own conferences in whatever way you like. ... and you can lose out on the participation of a valuable subset of contributors. This isn't a moral issue, it's a question of maturity, decorum, and being i
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by antonovka 17y ago
Apple doesn't seem to notice unless you're using a widely-known toolset that they can easily detect, and even then, they miss quite a bit. Not that this means it's a good idea to include an interpreter under the assumption that Apple won't
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by antonovka 17y ago
No, I think that the lack of women in IT is partially due to an endemic lack of social inclusion, amply demonstrated by hiring strippers to give lap dances at a technology conference.
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by antonovka 17y ago
Well, my wife is also in technology (a developer, not games) and isn't fine with it. I'm glad you're OK with it, but there's nothing wrong with those that aren't. As a man, I'm not fine with the perception these ridiculous stunts create --
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by antonovka 17y ago
I'd add a third point: - It makes male programmers look socially inept, weak, and sophomoric. I don't like the perception or suggestion that I'll appreciate bought eye-candy at a technology conference.
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by antonovka 17y ago
I have this feeling that we're just going to have to agree to disagree. That may be, but before you abandon the question, I suggest watching that Google Techtalk.
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by antonovka 17y ago
And it's certainly why people fight to ban gay marriage. Don't you see that, "Women find stripping offensive, it drives them away, don't let that happen" is the same thing as "We find homosexuality offensive, we can't let that happen"? Tho

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