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by apozem 6y ago
I like this reply because not only does it strawman my opinion of “red” states, it boils down to, “I’m going to brush aside your substantive points because did you know some states are run badly by LIBERALS???”
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The US should have done this. We could have done it. We don’t know the total economic damage yet, but I would wager it is already many times what it would have cost to do what New Zealand did. The problem is a huge chunk of the country flie
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by apozem 6y ago
Simple. Apple users spend more [1]. Not to say you can’t make money on Windows, Linux or Android, obviously there are thousands of successful software businesses on those platforms. It’s just that iOS and Mac users really don’t mind spendin
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by apozem 6y ago
What a great compliment. I love how he thanks the maintainer in extremely specific terms, showing exactly how their work helped.
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Microsoft has to do this because most Windows OEMs don’t have the business model to do it. If you’re some budget PC maker with slim margins per unit, you’re not going to match Apple’s R&D spend on ARM chips. Even if you do, you don’t co
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by apozem 6y ago
Bill Gates explained why everybody but Google and Apple failed at mobile OSes: > “In the software world, particularly for platforms, these are winner-take-all markets. So the greatest mistake ever is whatever mismanagement I engaged in t
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by apozem 6y ago
Defaults are so powerful. There's a damn good reason Google pays Apple $8-12 billion every year to be the default search engine on iOS. https://www.businessinsider.com/google-apple-search-deal-doj...
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by apozem 6y ago
Politely, you are conflating whether a service has value to you personally and whether it has value to other people. I don’t doubt you can exercise fine by yourself. However, on-demand fitness was up 59% in 2019, before the pandemic shut
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by apozem 6y ago
Great article, thank you for sharing this. Makes a good case that the right thing to do, from a business sense, is usually not to do the full rewrite. Rather, you should do slow, un-sexy work of refactoring and cleaning up while adding new
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> The complaint also alleges that Facebook, over many years, has imposed anticompetitive conditions on third-party software developers’ access to valuable interconnections to its platform, such as the application programming interfaces (
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by apozem 6y ago
And of course, Jobs built the rest of Apple around this culture. I read Ken Kocienda's book about working on the original iPhone keyboard [1]. He says development revolved around demos: first to each other, then to senior leadership, t
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by apozem 6y ago
The data bears this out - maps of Apple product use match wealthy areas. https://www.businessinsider.com/android-is-for-poor-people-m... I don’t know why it would be implausible that wealthy people use expensive products ai
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by apozem 6y ago
Many years ago, after they iced one of their half-assed messaging apps, I joked that the Google motto is, “If it’s worth doing, it’s worth doing badly.” Will Flutter keep improving? Or will Google get bored with it and neglect it, like they
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Show HN: TypeSwift, Swift-like extensions to TypeScript and JavaScript(npmjs.com)
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My impression of Microsoft's plan for the forseeable future, on the developer side, is to capture value from open source projects with cloud hosting, GitHub enterprise billing and the like. They want a golden path from their developer-
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by apozem 6y ago
You’re being a bit literal. The fan video is an example of “the future.” The future is: > “let a thousand flowers bloom and users/algorithms will pick the best”
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by apozem 6y ago
An interesting piece, though I would have liked more about the failures of YouTube/TikTok and other platforms that simply aggregate user content. The author suggests a fund to help develop IP, but YouTube and TikTok don't need tha
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Along those lines, it's low-key fascinating for me to see unintentional 9/11 imagery in pre-9/11 movies. Look at something like True Lies, which treats a terrorist attack and a plane destroying a building as lighthearted acti
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by apozem 6y ago
My wife and I have been watching a ton of movies in quarantine and it feels genuinely weird to see images of the old world with huge crowds of unmasked people.
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by apozem 6y ago
My wife and I just went down to the courthouse with my parents and got married this September. God knows when this will all be over, we’ll have some kind of ceremony then.
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by apozem 6y ago
In high school, I drove a 1993 Toyota Tercel. It was a functional, reliable car, but it had no keyfob to lock the doors remotely. Getting out of your car, pressing the lock button on the inside of the driver's side door, and shutting t
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by apozem 6y ago
Doesn't matter if it's their fault. If their monthly recurring revenue is high enough, they'll make it your problem. I've seen it happen.
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by apozem 6y ago
Location: Denver, CO Remote: Yes, FTE only Willing to relocate: no Technologies: React, React Native, Angular, JavaScript, TypeScript, Swift, SwiftUI, Node Resume: On request Email: kylebnazario+hn@gmail.com
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by apozem 6y ago
I needed a Markdown editor SwiftUI view for my app and there were not a lot of options available! Nobody had what I wanted, which was a text editor that dynamically highlights the text as you type. So, I ended up learning way too much about
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Show HN: HighlightedTextEditor, a SwiftUI view with live syntax highlighting(github.com)
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The way this article frames it, all these fashion companies are going direct-to-consumer (DTC) as their business model salvation, but that is only good for Facebook. > Here is the problem for DTC companies: Facebook really is better at f
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by apozem 6y ago
What's wrong with women's magazines?
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> [For Tim Cook to] omit the fact that there was — dating back to the mid-’90s, well over a decade before the iPhone App Store — a thriving market for software sold directly over a thing called “The Internet” is sophistry. Most Mac softw
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by apozem 6y ago
> “What people don’t understand is how the victims in these scams are manipulated and groomed. For the criminals, this is their job and they are extremely good at it,” says Roy Beauchamp. In most cases a fraudster will start with “love b
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by apozem 6y ago
This is a poorly written article, but I will take this opportunity to plug unofficial-amazon-search, my NPM package that scrapes Amazon search results and returns them in an easy API. Works in Node and the browser. https://www.np

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