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by K0nserv 6y ago
You might be on to something(see my edit here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25651884 )
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by K0nserv 6y ago
Hey, author here. Good point, I did look at it some initially but because it's now separate from the rest of the categories on the App Store I must've glossed over it in the end. I'll make sure to include it in the follow up
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by K0nserv 6y ago
I had the same thought. Presumably, as long as you hold one EU citizenship you're still eligible, even if you're also a UK citizen.
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Skyscanner | Onsite - London (UK remote for 2021) | Mobile Software Engineers (iOS/Android) | https://www.skyscanner.net/jobs/current-jobs/ Skyscanner are building the best travel marketplace on the small scr
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An Analysis of Privacy on the App Store(hugotunius.se)
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There's another angle to this that was discussed on the Risky Business[0] podcast a while back, namely the security angle. As the recent Microsoft Team's vulnerability[1] illustrated, with many Electron apps any XSS vulnerability
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God Jul
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It depends on what your goal is. If you believe that programming is a craft, akin to woodworking, then you'll soon realise you need to practice and work to put in the 10,000 hours to master it. Yes the list in the OP doesn't make
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by K0nserv 6y ago
Skyscanner | Onsite - London (UK remote for 2021) | Mobile Software Engineers (iOS/Android) | https://www.skyscanner.net/jobs/current-jobs/ Skyscanner are building the best travel marketplace on the small scr
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Author here, I'll try and write a response to your points. Yes the post is cynical, I'm the first to admit that. The topic makes me angry because I think we should expect better of frameworks for the web. As a whole Flutter Web mo
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by K0nserv 6y ago
Yeah I agree with the points about using your own stack, it's building towards the lowest common denominator that is the sockets support in libc. I think it should be possible to link against the platform libraries, but it's more
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mitmproxy is scriptable with Python which is very useful. For example, you can use this to record statistics about the requests or even alter responses/requests in arbtirary and complex ways
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Cross platform solutions all share several issues that result in poor experiences: Reimplementing platform UI Poor reimplementaions of platform UI, such as navigation, that almost always looks subtley wrong or doesn't "feel"
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Yeah that’s definitely a strength of Kotlin multi platform. My general point is that doing cross platform UI specifically leads to poor experiences, whereas sharing non UI code doesn’t have that issue
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I am very unconvinced by cross platform UI solutions, as such I like the idea of Kotlin Multiplatform. Sharing non UI code has always been possible via C/C++, but it suffers from several issues not the least of which is having to write
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by K0nserv 6y ago
I tried it briefly and no they don't? For example, pressing "f" with Vimium should enumerate things that can be clicked(think anchor elements and button elements) but it enumerates nothing on https://gallery.flutte
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by K0nserv 6y ago
Yes it is with a jail broken device
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by K0nserv 6y ago
I’ve discussed this with colleagues over lunch several times. The idea wouldn’t exactly be random, we’ve discussed a hash of the current date modulo some number of choices. So for any frequent choices, come up with n options and then take
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by K0nserv 6y ago
1. Read the Rust book[0] front to back. Yes seriously, the whole thing. Rust is different enough from other languages that it makes sense to do this. 2. Write 1 or more serious rust projects of your own choosing. Aim for projects that’ll
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by K0nserv 6y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Declaration_of_Human... seems like a good lowest bar to hit, incidentally the policy being discussed in this thread was based on it
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The challenged the FBI in court to protect the privacy and rights of their users, so you they can at least state they will challenge any such requests to the fullest extent of the law. They could also commit to not enter markets where local
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by K0nserv 6y ago
Apple have been very clear about you being responsible for the SDKs you use and while the technical limitations are only about IDFA Apple have also stated that other methods of fingerprinting are not allowed when the user asked not to be tr
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by K0nserv 6y ago
Yes, but this what the feature is aiming to address. Apps that use the Facebook SDK will have to ask for permission to track the user and if the user says no they shouldn't intialize the Facebook SDK, at least not the parts that relate
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by K0nserv 6y ago
I don't think people in the thread don't understand as much as they don't care about ad tech and the ecosystem. As technologist we understand the invasive and creepy nature of ad tech and would like to see it gone, sure there
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by K0nserv 6y ago
What you've said is accurate, but one thing that's different in this case compared to the web is Apple's walled garden. The walled garden certainly has problems but in this case a real benefit is that Apple forbids these kind
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You can turn off being asked in settings in which case it will just look like you asked not to be tracked to every app.
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I created something like this when I was first learning to code in C++. A horrible Swedish variant of the language based on massive abuse of the pre processor, good times.
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While I’m not a vaccine sceptic nor do I subscribe to any of the wild conspiracy theories surrounding vaccines I did grow up in Sweden during the Swine Flu. The vaccine, Pandemrix[0], used for the Swine Flu in Sweden caused an increase in t
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They just banned Fortnite
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While Apple are limiting access to IDFA for apps that don't ask for permission to track i.e. it will be all zeros they are also changing App Store policy. Specifically you are not allowed to track users using identifiers such as user i

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