@mickael @daringfireball Forgot to add Apple is correct that (1) they are obeying the laws as written and (2) they did not get special accomodation.

Apple Operations International (incorporated in Ireland) has no presence in Ireland and no employees in Ireland. All of Apple's non-US profits are routed to it. Its assets are managed and held in the US, so it’s controlled in the US.

It had no tax residency, so it paid no corporate income tax.

@mickael @daringfireball
A company (parent or subsidiary) needs to incorporated in some country. A company “should” pay corporate income taxes in some “tax residency.”

Under US tax law a company incorporated in the US has US tax residency. Irish tax law is that a company needs to be managed/controlled in Ireland for tax residency.

Apple’s subsidiary is incorporated in Ireland but managed in the US. It doesn’t pay corp. income tax in US, nor in Ireland.

Hence the lawsuit.

@Apepollo11 @SnokenKeekaGuard I’ve never heard anyone (American) ever use either “I lost my bottle” or “I lost my rag.”

Edit to add: is this a UK thing (?) https://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/lost+his+bottle

@qcoding thanks for posting my request.

This isn’t refactoring, but it has helped me translate my thinking: https://www.douggregor.net/posts/

@qcoding I thought of a possible way to use the gray X with TDD: to represent WIP checked into main.

I was reading Gio Lodi’s “Test-Driven Development in Swift” and he introduces a “test list,” in which he creates multiple test function names before writing code for them. He uses, as an example, identifying leap years. He first defines 4 tests, then implements one test at a time.

We could first define all 4 tests & make them fail, with the gray icons indicating tests yet to be written.

@qcoding I suspect the speaker used “test driven development” as a synecdoche for “agile.”

Perhaps for people unfamiliar with agile methodologies, the concept of writing test code before writing production code is an intriguing notion. So maybe Xcode’s grayed out X for expected failures is the equivalent of training wheels for them.