Osiris

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by Osiris 6y ago
The trend is definitely moving away from many separate games and toward "living" games. Look at how many games these days end up just doing updates/DLCs over many years rather than releasing whole new versions of the game. Lo
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by Osiris 6y ago
My favorite headline: "Drivers using cell phones are more likely to crash". 15 years later and we still haven't solved that one. It's interesting how much has changed and how much has stayed the same in 15 years.
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by Osiris 6y ago
> The fact that people spend lots of time on social media just demonstrates that they derive something from it, not that it’s addictive or harmful. I can't tell you how many times I hear my wife say "I need to get off Facebook&
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by Osiris 6y ago
That's weird. As a merchant, I get requests for refunds and even if I provide all the details about the transaction (for me that would be a license key and proof the license key was used) they always side with the buyer. Really, the on
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by Osiris 6y ago
I learned about this in journalism class in high school over 20 years ago and it's still one of the most valuable lessons I remember from high school. As someone with ADHD, I really appreciate when people follow this style. Blog art
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by Osiris 6y ago
> In general, comprehension seems to have plummeted in the last five to ten years. I send people e-mails asking two questions, and only get the first one answered. OMG, this happens to be all the time, and I don't even use email as
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by Osiris 6y ago
When you do a login with Facebook, does the popup show you what permissions are being requested? I know I've seen that before.
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by Osiris 6y ago
Why not? If their fees were transparent maybe that would start a bit of a pricing war. They WANT the cost of their service to be hidden. If I remember correctly, I think their agreements already forbid retails from adding the fee on top of
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by Osiris 6y ago
Facebook want saying they could pay less. They were saying, if you pay $10, $7 goes to the event, $3 goes to apple. It didn't say "go to this other website and just pay $7". I think it's totally reasonable to disclose th
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by Osiris 6y ago
This send to be a common thing that Apple does. I read an article recently about how some had a lot of unwritten rules but uses it's vaguely written public rules to enforce them, as is happening in this case. "Irrelevant" is
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by Osiris 6y ago
I don't think we should think in terms like that. We don't always have to be working toward a goal. There's nothing won't with reading, taking a nap, it sound other unproductive activities. Also, not everyone has big lof
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by Osiris 6y ago
> Should closed hardware (that owns its entire stack) even be legal to sell? His answer: Nope.
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by Osiris 6y ago
We generally do our standups with the cameras off because we're screensharing the JIRA board, but every other meeting is highly encouraged to have your video turned on. This was a decision made back in March when we shifted to full rem
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by Osiris 6y ago
I rode my motorcycle through Death Valley just last month and it was an unseasonably cool 105 F. The average for that time of year is 113 F. "Climate change" used to be more commonly referred to as "global warming", but
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by Osiris 6y ago
Big enough deal for them to remove it...
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by Osiris 6y ago
I don't think it's a stretch to say that these platforms are being monopolistic either. Why should you not be able to write your own game and sell DVDs of it for people to play? Of course, in this case piracy would be the primary
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by Osiris 6y ago
It was never mentioned in the complaint, but I thought Apple also had a policy that required in-app purchases to be priced the same or lower than prices offered outside the store... I found an article from 2011 saying they tried to do this
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by Osiris 6y ago
It sounds more like removing restrictions than ADDING features. Push notifications already exist but with arbitrary restrictions. They don't have to "build" anything.
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by Osiris 6y ago
We can't know that because Apple forbids it. You're just guessing at what would happen. Regardless of whether Epic lowers its prices or not, that doesn't forgive Apple for REQUIRING all developers to use their payment proces
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by Osiris 6y ago
> Epic is not bringing this case to recover these damages; Epic is not seeking any monetary damages. Well, that's interesting. > But for Apple’s illegal restraints, Epic would provide a competing app store on iOS devices, which w
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by Osiris 6y ago
On what evidence to you base your belief that Apple is guaranteed to win this case? Yes, they have more financial resources, and they have a lot more to lose if they lose so they definitely fight as hard as they can. That doesn't mean
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by Osiris 6y ago
I completely agree. One reason I like prettier is that it only has about 6 options you can change. It removes the bike-shedding. Just let it do it's thing and worry about more important things. It also remove all debate in PRs about st
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by Osiris 6y ago
Don't most FOSS licenses explicitly allow for redistribution though? So once one person gets itm they can then redistribute it for free or a cost with the original developer not benefiting (directly).
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by Osiris 6y ago
I built a relatively simple system over 10 years ago that ran on PHP and MySQL. Over the years, the company I built the product for has come back to me to upgrade PHP and MySQL after a security scan. The problem is the software was build fo
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by Osiris 6y ago
Doctors can have their licenses revoked. Software engineers cannot. There's no downside to being involved in unethical businesses.
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by Osiris 6y ago
When are you going to offer a cheaper plan with less storage for people that only need <50GB? I lucked out and have 2 free plans that have bonus storage from various promotions. I get about 25 GB per account. I haven't maxed either
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by Osiris 6y ago
This is my experience as well. I had a co-worker that really pushed for FP in JavScript using Ramda.js. the principles were appealing, but because JavaScript doesn't have native syntax for many of the principles like pattern matching,
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by Osiris 6y ago
All this is exactly why I've never paid for a security system. I have some cameras in the house but that's more to monitor the kids when we (parents) are out of the house.
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by Osiris 6y ago
> Most businesses while closed could have very minimal costs. For me, my mortgage on the property is my biggest expense and my bank offered my no forebearance. So, no, most couldn't have minimal costs unless you can address lease&#
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by Osiris 6y ago
I had a great experience with Kaiser (had to drop them when rates spiked after the last election). They made it easy to get answers without going in to the doctor. The primary care physician would just call/email specialist for you rat

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