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by bengotow 7y ago
Yep this is correct, location history can be scraped from the EXIF data in the photos in your camera roll.
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by bengotow 7y ago
I think FaceApp in particular strikes a chord in the United States because it's owned by a Russian Company. Name + faces (and therefore age and gender and race) + Location is the kind of data that enabled a lot of granular facebook ad
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by bengotow 7y ago
I feel the same way. It seems like this is likely to catch playful bots and not truly nefarious bots, because in the latter case the owner / author will sufficiently cover their tracks (and will probably not be in the state of Californ
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by bengotow 7y ago
Reminds me of those election SMS messages. /Technically/ a human presses send on every single message so it doesn't meet the definition of SMS spam, but for all practical purposes it is.
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by bengotow 7y ago
I'm the author of the Mailspring email client and I've been dealing with this Oauth verification process for the last three months. Mailspring has "pro" features that leverage a small backend API, but it syncs your mail
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by bengotow 7y ago
I generally agree with you, but I think YouTube being safe for kids became their problem when they launched a version specifically for kids and marketed it as safe.
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by bengotow 7y ago
I agree - I’m all for fairness, but billionaires could come back to Earth and redirect billions of dollars. All I could do is, I dunno, write a medium post.
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by bengotow 7y ago
I'll bite. I ship the Mailspring email app on Linux and I prefer Snaps as an application developer. The big win is that the snap system provides automatic updates for packaged apps. You publish the build on Snapcraft and 24 hours later
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by bengotow 8y ago
Yep I feel the same. TypeScript improves my workflow tremendously and I use it for everything now. Going back to regular javascript feels like driving without a seatbelt. Sure you can but why? Type-checking and smarter autocompletion mean I
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by bengotow 8y ago
I know... when to use typescript = all the time? It's not a huge shift.
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by bengotow 8y ago
Hey! I maintain the Mailspring email client and I've thoroughly battle-tested SlateJS and DraftJS. I'd absolutely love if we could move to something with broader contenteditable support in the future (it's more or less imposs
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by bengotow 8y ago
Yeah that’s the general idea - except that in this case, re-use of the same public URLs means browsers can cache the dependencies. (So we finally won’t have to download 400kb of the same React library code on site we visit!)
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by bengotow 8y ago
This is somewhat true, but to be fair there are only a few countries the US and it’s allies don’t do business with - as long as you don’t land in Iran or North Korea you’d be in pretty good shape.
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by bengotow 8y ago
I think this is a fine point, but the issue here is separate from whether you agree with the underlying idea of corporate taxes. They exist, and Amazon is exploiting the rules to circumvent the intention of the laws authors. There are many
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by bengotow 8y ago
That reference is good but this is a better side-by-side I think: http://youmightnotneedjquery.com/
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by bengotow 8y ago
Yup - TablePlus is beautiful. I tried it for a few days and paid for it, really works wonderfully on macOS.
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by bengotow 8y ago
Yeah this seems aggressive. At that brightness it'd be like having street lights flying down your block. Also seems like lights that bright might use a prohibitive amount of power?
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by bengotow 8y ago
I dunno this seems clear enough to me - they don't want you circumventing the terms of your license by running the game on a single machine and streaming it to many players. Each game instance requires a separate license. I'm sure
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by bengotow 8y ago
Well, performance and memory usage are two separate things. Electron's performance is quite good and if your audience is "computer users at large", they won't care at all about the memory usage. I'd say you should a
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by bengotow 8y ago
This does seem like it'd be a much better solution... +1
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by bengotow 8y ago
Does anyone have a recording of the 9 minute conversation? Would love to hear how this sounded in person. Tried to find it on Youtube and Google, no luck.
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by bengotow 8y ago
This is a device with a unique approach to mobile user experience, but there are literally no photos of the UI on the site. Maybe the idea is that it feels like a phone, so you pull it from your pocket thanks to extreme smartphone muscle me
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by bengotow 8y ago
Unfortunately, Maripan is about porting iOS apps to the Mac, not the other way around. Apple's work on Marzipan isn't really an indication they're planning to do the inverse and bring Mac apps to iOS or do anything at all re:
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by bengotow 8y ago
I'd say there are a couple problems you're likely to have at a successful startup: 1) You (the early engineer) get promoted and are leading the charge, but have no mentors or role models to help you develop your career. 2) You rai
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by bengotow 8y ago
This is awesome! Would love to hear more about the dataviz the author is putting together. I have to admit the stack seems like it might be a /bit/ overkill for this use case, but it seems like it was a great learning experience!
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by bengotow 8y ago
What on earth is the Shopify App Store?
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by bengotow 8y ago
> There's no substitute for your package maintainer personally auditing and preparing the package for you. This is true, but it's not a feasible approach for software like Slack, Spotify, and VSCode that gets updated /week
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by bengotow 8y ago
I think this is largely because for developers, the auto-updating is one of the biggest selling points of the snap distribution method.
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by bengotow 8y ago
Wait they published an entire blog post and held a press call to announce they "removed 32 Pages and accounts"? Seriously? 32? It's a start (and I'm glad to see they're laying down some precedent) but who needs fanc
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by bengotow 8y ago
> One should completely distrust and be hostile towards a "feeling" until one is confident he/she understands why the feeling exists and is the way it is. I get the impression this is a very common sentiment in the enginee

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