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by _qulr 6y ago
I'm arguing that Developer ID should be entirely separate from the App Store. That they involve the same Apple developer accounts and programs is merely a matter of convenience, but until now we never had the worry that App Store dispu
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by _qulr 6y ago
Mac malware, come on. There's no Developer ID or notarization on iOS, it's App Store only.
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by _qulr 6y ago
> Notarization is about protecting users who are not capable of making an informed decision about code safety from developers who refuse to comply with Apple's terms of service. No, notarization is about preventing malware. That&#x2
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by _qulr 6y ago
You can run Xcode. Basically anyone can run Xcode. But distributing software on the Mac is another matter. Epic could try distributing unsigned, giving users instructions on how to bypass Gatekeeper, which is possible.
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by _qulr 6y ago
Is it a just fun myth though, or is it psychological manipulation of children by adults? After all, the premise is that Santa is secretly watching you the whole year, and you're only rewarded at the end of the year if you've been
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by _qulr 6y ago
The bigger problem is the parents. Let's start with Santa Claus. Blatant lie. Parents teach kids that lying is ok from a very young age. Abolish Christmas, and then get back to me.
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by _qulr 6y ago
Sure, but that only works if a critical mass of people rally behind specific leadership. Millions of individuals acting independently is just chaos. So the question is, which web organization should we rally behind? WHATWG? Well, ok, but...
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by _qulr 6y ago
I think the fundamental problem is that the web has no clear organizational structure. Although the internet itself is decentralized, it has a fairly clear organization structure, where each part of the internet has ownership, and there are
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by _qulr 6y ago
I don't understand this reply.
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by _qulr 6y ago
Apple actually bragged in their response to Spotify that 84% of the apps on the App Store were free. Imagine a game console where 84% of the games were free. We can't compare these platforms to consoles.
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by _qulr 6y ago
Apple's expensive hardware pays for itself, and for the operating system. That's the way it's always been, since 1976. Third party software helps sell Apple's hardware, so in that sense it's always been mutually ben
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by _qulr 6y ago
But again, Mac malware exists, Windows malware exists. Yet "sideloading" is still much easier on those platforms than on Android. So obviously this kind of "liability", i.e., bad PR, doesn't and hasn't required
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by _qulr 6y ago
This is the complete opposite of holding Apple liable for sideloaded apps. Apple was a direct party to these transactions. If Apple isn't the payment processor, they're off the hook.
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by _qulr 6y ago
> The reason malware isn't everywhere on android and iOS is because randomly installing apps isn't unsafe. What about macOS?
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by _qulr 6y ago
> Of course they have to put a scary checkbox, otherwise they would be held liable for any sketchy app that is actually malware people accidentally downloaded. What do you mean by "held liable"? It can't be in the legal se
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by _qulr 6y ago
It's about Epic's freedom and choice. Hopefully this leads to widespread developer freedom. You're looking for a "perfect victim", but it's impossible to find those, especially perfect victims who have the fina
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by _qulr 6y ago
"certain stories routinely get tons of upvotes regardless of how good they are for HN—e.g. anything sensational, indignant, or meta. If we didn't have a compensating factor, those stories would dominate the front page every day&qu
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by _qulr 6y ago
It looks like the HN moderators have kicked this out of #1, indeed all the way off the front page, and are starting to do the same with related stories too. Welp, it was fun while it lasted (a few hours).
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by _qulr 6y ago
This doomsday scenario is completely refuted by the longtime existence of the Apple Mac and third-party Mac software.
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Apple takes legal action against small company with pear logo(iphoneincanada.ca)
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by _qulr 6y ago
> Then it's time to mark all but the most used and obviously trustable extensions as untrusted. That's basically what Firefox has done.
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by _qulr 6y ago
The Chrome Web Store is grossly understaffed. Google as a whole relies too much on automated processes rather than humans, but this is particularly a problem in the Chrome Web Store, because Google requires every extension to be distributed
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by _qulr 6y ago
> The problem with unions is they reward seniority over merit. I've never seen a company, union or non-union, that doesn't have a relatively narrow salary range and progression for non-management positions. Of course the base s
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by _qulr 6y ago
> Doubt I've passed on many good ones, either How would you even know? Do you do any follow up with candidates you rejected?
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by _qulr 6y ago
> It's like a sledgehammer when most people just want to make more $$. Except the Epic dispute is not about money, it's about working conditions. Epic workers are fairly well compensated. They're not demanding to be paid m
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by _qulr 6y ago
> But it strains credulity for me to accept that being nervous makes half of software engineers forget how to do a loop, conditional, and modulo. Which is more improbable, that programmers who tend to be socially awkward and work alone i
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by _qulr 6y ago
And if they say no, then they're considered "not a team player", which could hurt them at review time, even though they're personally forced to carry the entire team's diversity efforts.
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by _qulr 6y ago
> It's not that uncommon for employees to volunteer their time doing charity work via their employers. Yes, emphasis on "charity". In other words, it doesn't directly help the employee at review time. > It looks to
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by _qulr 6y ago
It's important to keep in mind (1) there are only a few hundred active NBA players on planet Earth and (2) most of them have been training hard at basketball since childhood. (Only the rare "big man" can get away with being a
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by _qulr 6y ago
> I'd have thought that being a face of the company externally would be a good thing for when it comes to review time. Why would you think that? If that were true, then engineers would be competing and fighting over who gets to go t

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