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by benoau 1y ago
Also allow customization, most people probably want specific tools repeatedly nobody will want everything or to wade through it all. You could do this through browser storage mechanisms pretty easily but it also gives you a reason to provi
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by benoau 1y ago
Make an app-version of the website with ads + pay-to-remove-ads and focus the website on promoting that. Make it easier to share results with people so they visit your website too, this would need presentation changes to emphasize the resul
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by benoau 1y ago
> Performance of Flash was awful on mobile. Of course, in fact I watched Adobe unveil the final iterations of their mobile Flash Player plugin at conferences it was simply garbage. But then they shifted away from the plugin model to tra
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by benoau 1y ago
Coincidentally, at the time Apple was doing their best to kill Flash, there was a thriving ecosystem of "social games" on Facebook minting tons of money from exposing massive audiences to small transactions that were unplayable on
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by benoau 1y ago
Thanks for that.
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by benoau 1y ago
I previously used Synology since 2016 but I'll never buy them again, due to a combination of how poor their hardware options are and how unfriendly their recent policy changes have been. My next NAS will probably be an NVMe-only comput
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by benoau 1y ago
> You HAVE TO move to bim, the better vim. It's very similar to vim, but different enough that you have to learn new stuff Wit the added bonus that "bim" won't remain popular enough to sustain its development for long
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by benoau 1y ago
#2 happens to me a lot, never ceases to annoy me.
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by benoau 1y ago
There used to be iPhone apps that did something similar - https://www.theverge.com/2015/10/28/9625340/iphone-6s-gravit...
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by benoau 1y ago
NodeJS + NestJS + TypeScript, Postgres, Redis React + Tailwind PhaserJS VSCode + Cursor
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by benoau 1y ago
> wth is going on over at intel Thousands of layoffs. It's surprising someone even had time to post the notice.
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by benoau 1y ago
That's basically what gift cards are isn't it? > Leaked internal slides peg Steam’s net revenue last fiscal year at just under $10 billion https://www.simplymac.com/games/3-5m-per-employee-how-valve-...
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by benoau 1y ago
Feels like every time I open Steam I'm waiting for the latest version to unpack...
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I wonder wtf is in the 200+ megabyte installer that has to download every other day if not the data the store needs...
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by benoau 1y ago
Yep I think both smartphone platforms have done an horrific job as gaming platforms. There's a UK CMA (Competition Markets Authority) complaint accusing games of posing as suitable for all ages in app stores eg 4+, and then claiming t
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That's only until Apple introduces an incompatibility, then it will be unavailable with a certain iOS update or new phone.
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by benoau 1y ago
Funny how all that AI led to Roblox becoming the premier hunting ground to groom children, while all of the AI moderating apps on Google Play and the App Store didn't catch any of it either.
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by benoau 1y ago
> Bloomberg reports that Google is paying $2.4 billion to license Windsurf’s technology and hire its top employees. Sounds like they're getting a payoff but probably not what they had in mind with the much larger numbers being throw
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by benoau 1y ago
They're referring to the "Google Search Deal", where Google shares 36% of ad revenue with Apple in exchange for being default search provider across their devices, an amount approximately $20b/year for basically just not
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by benoau 1y ago
The "import defer" sounds awesome, should have a good impact on project startup time.
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by benoau 1y ago
This is the type of software I'd like to work on * sigh *.
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by benoau 1y ago
If the job was as simple as submitting pull requests, sure, but there's usually a lot more process and social-overhead that candidates need to fit in with too.
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by benoau 1y ago
Save the $200 for when she's an adolescent and enjoy this period where a $5 thing that makes noise is just as much fun.
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by benoau 1y ago
It's the same with DuckDuckGo's search and Cursor, the models are interchangeable and there's no "walled garden", none of them can assert any control or restrictions on others, it's a strict meritocracy.
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by benoau 1y ago
Really just an extension of the "Stop Killing Games" initiative, "Stop Killing Everything Else", even the Belkin devices that will survive through HomeKit are tied to an iOS device with a limited support period! Buy a n
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by benoau 1y ago
BTW the feature I most-loved from iTunes was when they added the colour analysis to albums, it made each album feel more unique. http://ssrubin.com/img/musiclibrary/iTunes.png https://www.tech-recipes.c
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by benoau 1y ago
Looks fantastic, I used to love using iTunes for my music library until they screwed up queuing albums. Will there be mobile apps too?
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by benoau 1y ago
I find Synology's DS Audio pretty decent because it has mobile apps and local playback through a web interface, although very little confidence in them as a company.
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by benoau 1y ago
> However, about two years ago, at Roblox’s 2023 keynote (around the 1 hour 40 minute mark), they expressed their goal to enter the elusive 17+ market. A specific objective was to turn Roblox into the next dating hub for adults. Sounds v
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by benoau 1y ago
Relentless gatekeeping is turning them into a loser. iOS should be the platform where users reap the benefits of all the winners of AI but instead Apple gets to decide who may have a deep integration as an auxiliary to Siri, whose only sav

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