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by cafed00d 6y ago
>> should not be allowed to mess with systems that can literally end their life by exploding in their pockets! > This is non-sense fearmongering. I was referring to "Root access"; not the ability to install Fortnite. Ther
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by cafed00d 6y ago
Is a car considered a "device"? Would you ride with or let your kids, family or friends get in a taxi that has been "modified" by the driver?
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by cafed00d 6y ago
I really think we should rename "root mode" to "DANGER 90000 VOLTS AHEAD" or something similar. Root mode _is_ that dangerous. You wouldn't want to allow astronauts "root access" to their starship launcher
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by cafed00d 6y ago
This post should be evangelized like gospel! We MUST make App Store rules _even_ stricter. I hadn't thought about the nefarious patterns particularly targeted towards kids apps until I read this. Heck, after hearing about Zoom's d
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by cafed00d 6y ago
> That's an easy opinion to have when it's not your livelihood. Isn't this sensationalist? Developers, just like Apple or any other software maker, can be incentivized to work _against_ the consumer. PC on '00s had ma
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by cafed00d 6y ago
I’m not entirely sure if skin color maps well to caste. Perhaps it’s likely that lighter skinned Indians are likely to be upper caste. I don’t know. It wouldn’t surprise me but I don’t know. Anyways, back to the question of discrimination.
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by cafed00d 6y ago
> People love to criticize Apple, but man do they do some wonderful things for their customers. I agree. Some solutions from Apple are uniquely wonderful. Imagine if they opened up this feature for 3p companies like Netflix. And let’s su
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by cafed00d 6y ago
An aside though: ^^This comment crystallizes the best of hn. Within 30s I was able to learn so much — The gist of the paper, about how nefarious activities masquerade as academic research, politics and money in funding, and hardcore commitm
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by cafed00d 6y ago
> > Pay software engineers on their payroll to help Spotify sell music on the iPod (oops; I mean iPhone)? > Well, Microsoft did that, they developed the Spotify app for Windows Phone back in the day. I was trying to be _too clever_
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by cafed00d 6y ago
Ok, I can see that my opinion is getting super-downvoted. But I genuinely fail to understand why developers' opinions should be treated with so much reverence. It sounds to me like the _only_ reason developers are clamoring against th
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by cafed00d 6y ago
Do the top 100 apps on iOS feel the same way though? Does every developer out there think 30% commission on paid apps is tyranny? I feel like it's a reasonable trade-off. Free apps don't cost you much (yes, $99 for dev tools is no
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by cafed00d 6y ago
Yep that is true. That doesn't justify that Apple _should_ enable side-loading on the iPhone. Just because they _can_ do it doesn't mean they're _legally, ethically or morally_ obligated to do so. Ultimately, it's their
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by cafed00d 6y ago
Yes, OSes are a service. Do you expect the consumer to patch security bugs in the OS as they are discovered? Doesn't a steady, predictable, stream of regular "OS Updates" entrench the fact that OSes are indeed services? Hones
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by cafed00d 6y ago
>A game deployed to an iPhone could theoretically be acquired through an alternative app store or just direct download This is false; unless theoretically means there's no concept of "money" involved in our world. A game d
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by cafed00d 6y ago
I agree. It does sound like a valuable process. However, now we've increased the burden of work on the author. It is not only the author's job to conduct research, validate and share learnings; but also their job to make sure to k
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by cafed00d 6y ago
>if Apple tomorrow said that all apps have to pay a 95% cut instead of a 30% cut But Apple could easily say "no more 3rd party apps" -- again, equally unlikely given the values those apps bring. But zero 3rd party apps is preci
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by cafed00d 6y ago
I'd imagine it depends on what granularity "interaction" means: 1. Do you have a chatbox/channel in-game? 2. Can you plug-in usernames/passwords to login to your game accounts? 3. Is your game account tied to social
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by cafed00d 6y ago
it depends on how much "consumer effort" repairing costs. Most people seem to replace their phones on a regular 2-3 year cadence. Much less so on laptops -- and surely Macs tend to get supported for long period of time; I can run
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by cafed00d 7y ago
the funny thing is: this website made me touch my face wayyyy more than I would have otherwise today.
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by cafed00d 7y ago
One of the best things I did was unfollow everything (i.e. friends, family, pages, celebrities, the kitchen sink, EVERYTHING) on Facebook. This explicit unfollowing took a few weeks and wasn't something done in a day. Now, I have the a
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Ask HN: How do you know that the team you're interviewing with are smart?
2 points by cafed00d 8y ago|1 comments
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by cafed00d 8y ago
Do you do H1B visa transfers? (Plaid seems to be working on building such amazing tech that I just had to ask)
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by cafed00d 10y ago
This reminds me of Jon Stewart's swan song of "Bullshit is everywhere"[1] message. Sigh, I miss Jon Stewart. [1]. http://www.cc.com/video-clips/ss6u07/the-daily-show-with-jon...