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by TillE 3y ago
I've seen that take a lot lately, and it's odd because I remember the first big push for unit test popularization as being centered on Java and JUnit. Java is obviously a statically typed, compiled language with memory safety. But
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by TillE 3y ago
Swift is great, but the vast majority of apps really don't need to be lovingly hand-crafted for each platform, and Swift is (currently) a bad choice for anything non-Apple. Personally if I were working on mobile stuff, I'd be look
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by TillE 3y ago
I was a little surprised to see not one but two huge fans. Reviewers have mentioned hearing no fan noise, but maybe they crank up a little if you really push the GPU + CPU with a 3D game.
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by TillE 3y ago
Unity is definitely a huge reason that C# has continued to grow outside the enterprise-y space. It's unfortunate that they're still stuck on their old fork of Mono, because Microsoft's tooling (and their runtime) is really go
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by TillE 3y ago
Every field has jargon and assumed knowledge. If you're writing a computer science paper, you're not going to start by teaching the reader grade school math.
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by TillE 3y ago
Patreon has been amazing for niche creators, it's way bigger than I thought it would be. There's a long tail of podcasts and YouTubers with 1000+ supporters, which is a respectable steady income for one person, or a great side gig
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by TillE 3y ago
> Marketplace developers will need to pay €0.50 for each first annual install of their marketplace app. This is not going to happen. "Pay us fifty cents per user per year, forever, for the privilege of competing with us" is a j
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by TillE 3y ago
Counterpoint: the Watch. Completely new product, launched years after Steve was gone, started in a bad state (slow, useless) but now it's a great product that's selling very well. It's not some world-changing revolution, but
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by TillE 3y ago
Getting a really quick, coarse view of what a file format looks like, easily picking out different types of data. Try uploading a SNES ROM or similar and you'll probably see a lot of distinct squares because of how the ROM banks work.
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I'm guessing Apple really doesn't want third-party battery packs, because being able to reliably warn about low battery is an actual safety issue in a headset. At least it's not hard wired like their awful pre-USB-C laptop po
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> “Despite Universal’s false narrative and rhetoric, the fact is they have chosen to walk away from the powerful support of a platform with well over a billion users that serves as a free promotional and discovery vehicle for their talen
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Among GitHub's free runners, Linux is typically very fast, Mac is very slow, and Windows is somewhere in the middle. The quoted specs certainly sound great, hopefully they have sufficient capacity.
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Oh yeah that's a good one, it's become the TLD of choice for at least part of competitive gaming. Particularly melee.gg, but also magic.gg, racetime.gg, maxroll.gg, etc.
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by TillE 3y ago
> The first two iPhones weren't as innovative as they make them Yes they were. Multi-touch in particular was a revelation. Making a big screen with one physical button is a simple idea, but making it work well was the hard part th
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by TillE 3y ago
Apple's clear intent is to make it extremely unattractive to use alternative stores (unless you've got an app with a very high ARPU). You can argue about ambiguities in the legal text, but this is absolutely contrary to the intent
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by TillE 3y ago
The Verge is great, especially Nilay himself. I don't listen to a ton of tech podcasts, but Vergecast and Decoder are some of the best.
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> Protests while wearing robes and masks however This is absolutely permitted in America. It is illegal in countries like Germany which have no strong free speech protections.
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by TillE 3y ago
America has a very long tradition of anonymity being part of free speech, going back to the Federalist Papers. This is not some new online issue.
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by TillE 3y ago
I think it's totally reasonable for developers not to invest in the platform at this point, but Apple is definitely in this for the long term. Everyone is aware this is not a mass-market consumer product; the hardware is probably great
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by TillE 3y ago
I've also seen that, often enough that a hardware issue is extraordinarily unlikely. It's almost certainly just a boring old software bug.
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by TillE 3y ago
Probably the vast majority of important systems. PBKDF2 has been around forever and is in very widespread use.
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by TillE 3y ago
I'm sure they test those to some extent. I assume it's just a fraction of users affected, so it could be something like a service reading third-party app data and crashing due to a bug. The kind of thing that should be caught in c
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by TillE 3y ago
It's a cool design! I think they could've fixed nearly all of the issues with it by just installing one big, relatively quiet fan at the bottom, a la the trashcan Mac Pro.
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by TillE 3y ago
Seriously, political self-identification is nearly meaningless. Drill down into actual current issues and you get a much, much better picture of what people really believe.
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A simple non-subscription paid app (say €2.99) makes way more sense, and you almost certainly won't have to worry about ever reaching a million installs.
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by TillE 3y ago
I guess they used to make considerably more than €0.50 average revenue per iOS user, because that's the floor now.
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It's a very Steve Jobs tone, much more so than anything I can remember from Apple in recent years.
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Yeah this is brutal for any truly free app that risks getting popular. The only exceptions are for "Nonprofit organizations, accredited educational institutions, and government entities", so I guess at least Mozilla will find a wa
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Unlike Tesla, they'd definitely ship with LIDAR sensors. Honestly, lowering the bar makes me think that they're actually serious about this, they want to make an Apple Car even if it can't hit their original goals.
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> no clear path The path is building an entire centrally-directed transit network out of custom vehicles. Waymo currently doesn't look anything like that because they're still doing R&D on the critical technology, but if we

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