Let’s be honest. It’s a mess targeting iOS. It’s like the old days with VB - first 80% done in no time, last 20% takes forever, requiring ever more elaborate hacks to get around stupid restrictions (eg try hiding the keyboard associated with a TextField when you tap on a Picker).

If the objective is to put files where you can’t find them again, I think you’d be hard pressed to find a better alternative.

Except any plain file server that you can connect to via ordinary protocols?

Hope you just overlooked the auto-playing video ads due to the pressure of the interview. When can you start?

ERPs supporting complex asset maintenance (eg mineral processing plants in the middle of nowhere) have a different flavour of complexity, although you could argue they are EAMs.

Mincom, a Brisbane based tech company started in the late 80s with a suite for mining, and oil/gas production. At the time, they had 1-10 customers who paid a LOT of money. I am sure they are bigger now, but the fundamentals here are the same: you have to maintain almost every version of product back to the origin, and backport any change, because you can guarantee there is a mine in Kazakstan making a very large amount of profit, which is unwilling to upgrade, but is willing to pay you to maintain the legacy codebase.

TL;DR -If you support mining, expect to support the FORTRAN code you shipped them in 1960s.

Indeed. That was the very company I was thinking of! The Mincom EAM product (Ellipse) now sits with Hitachi and their technical mining products found their way to Datamine after ABB acquired Mincom, then divested the acquired assets a few years later. The resources sector has a gazillion lines of FORTRAN, some of it freshly coded (new codebase) within the last 10 years, believe it or not.

Cow poo and periodic trampling are an incredibly important part of topsoil development in a number of ecosystems - eg prairies.

Sure, but most beef farming is mass scale factory farming. Framing it as "it's good for prairies" is a little disingenuous.

A lot disingenuous. A CAFO lot.[0] That's how most cows are raised.

0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concentrated_animal_feeding_op...

Not in Australia. Our dollar has taken a beating too. I guess digging holes and selling property to each other at ever higher prices isn’t that interesting to the rest of the economic world.

Australia printed a lot more money relatively than the US from COVID-19 until now, largely to capitalize on a booming commodities sector. A factor that led to some do weakness.

But I think any weakness is temporary. With a stable government and abundant natural resources that will be even more sought-after in an AI-driven world and largely insulated from automation Australia’s long-term prospects look strong.

> I guess digging holes and selling property to each other at ever higher prices isn’t that interesting to the rest of the economic world.

Wow this is the case in most of the Europe too, what a coincidence. Fancy investing in our premium real estate?

If that doesn't work, let's try "one part of the population chasing another part into concentration camps!" That'll attract investors.

Australia's already tried that one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aboriginal_reserve

Every empire starts with free labour. Cheap labour is too expensive.

While there's a lot of truth to that, I think that works better in undeveloped economies, and in the past, than now.

The Hole just got 10 ft deeper!

Lol, Australia and Canada seem to be very similar in this regard.

“Actually - curly braces help save space in the context while making meaning clearer”

Not the original commenter, but it regularly fails to update emails unless it is restarted. Last 2 major iOS versions have had the same problem for me. That’s a fundamental functionality failure in my book.

This! Continuously restart app to read new mail.

Thanks! I didn't notice it because I only have manual mail fetch. But I did notice frequent crashes of the app when you open heavy email (e.g with lots of images)

It's pretty embarrassing that Apple doesn't bother fixing this issue.

Is it still like the archeological dig that was Windows 10 settings?

Yeah - next door didn’t enjoy the arrival of the rock breaker!

I like when they just give up and a huge natural rock sits in the front desk with a table top or something.