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811.
by cageface 6y ago
The fact is we don’t and can’t know if bad press factored into Apple’s decision here so there won’t be any “evidence” unless Apple provides it, which they won’t. Apple has relented on similar cases after getting a lot of bad press so it’s a
812.
by cageface 6y ago
Report written and published by whom?
813.
by cageface 6y ago
What would constitute evidence in this case? Apple is not going to admit they were swayed by bad PR here. The pedantry of HN really is tiresome sometimes.
814.
by cageface 6y ago
Apple has shown several times recently that reaching out to social media is by far the best way to get them to back down, provided you have the following to make them sweat the bad PR a bit.
815.
by cageface 6y ago
Devs should not have to mount social media campaigns to get bad app store decisions reversed. I'd like to see some regulation of all app stores that requires a formal appeals process for decisions to ban existing apps that also mandate
816.
by cageface 6y ago
Another tactic I find useful is to ban any apps with an endless content feed from my phone.
817.
Bad physical reactions to Powerbeats Wireless Pro(discussions.apple.com)
2 points by cageface 6y ago|0 comments
818.
by cageface 6y ago
Yes this exactly. If Apple insists that they have absolute control over what you can install on hardware that you ostensibly own then they also bear the blame for for kowtowing to every jurisdiction's whims. The ability to install the
819.
by cageface 6y ago
This is true although I find that the current emulations are good enough for a lot of sounds, especially when they’re buried in a mix and played back on a low bit rate stream on bad speakers.
820.
by cageface 6y ago
Aliasing occurs when you try to sample frequences above half your sampling rate. This is the famous Nyquist theorem. This might help you understand why this can happen in naively implemented digital oscillators: http://www.martin
821.
by cageface 6y ago
A lot of the best commercial softsynths now support all kinds of audio-rate modulations everywhere in the signal chain. I guess they must just be throwing CPU power at it and oversampling the crap out of everything.
822.
by cageface 6y ago
An ideal square or saw wave contains infinitely high frequencies because of the discontinuities. When you represent an ideal square or saw wave as a series of digital values you are effectively sampling it at a much lower sampling rate than
823.
by cageface 6y ago
Synth nerds are among the most ardent gear fetishizers there are. Personally I'm very happy to have my gear finally reduced to a laptop and a set of headphones.
824.
by cageface 6y ago
Push notifications are the most obvious example of a feature webapps need to compete with native apps that Apple has so far refused to implement on iOS. They’re also much aggressive about wiping out local storage data. Whether you agree wit
825.
by cageface 6y ago
All anti trust against Google is going to to is strengthen Apple and accelerate the migration to proprietary app silos. It’s not going to drive a Firefox renaissance. Most likely it will be executed so ineptly it will end up strengthening G
826.
by cageface 6y ago
I'm a big fan of Firefox as well and appreciate some of its unique features like containers. It's improved a lot in the last few releases. But none of my clients even ask about Firefox support anymore. They don't care and nei
827.
by cageface 6y ago
iOS safari users have made up at least 50% the traffic of the last few sites I’ve launched. In the US at least they effectively have veto power on new browser features.
828.
by cageface 6y ago
The unfortunate truth is that Firefox is irrelevant now. There’s just not enough value to users in a completely independently browser engine. And if there’s not enough value to users then there’s no sustainable business to build on top of i
829.
by cageface 6y ago
I live in Thailand and they're everywhere here. So far I haven't been brave enough to try them.
830.
by cageface 6y ago
I think you're going to have a lot easier time getting people to eat lentils than crickets, but sure, if it has to be cows or crickets then go for the crickets.
831.
by cageface 6y ago
They're everywhere here in Thailand. You can buy a bag from a street vendor or find them in many supermarkets along with worms and other things we wouldn't consider eating in the West. I haven't had the courage to try them my
832.
by cageface 6y ago
Climate change is going to necessitate a lot of uncomfortable changes, including not eating whatever you want whenever you want. Selfishness at that level doesn't work with 8 billion people. That said I think lab grown meats look prett
833.
by cageface 6y ago
Plant protein is easier to grow and perfectly adequate for human nutrition. This obsession with animal protein is unscientific.
834.
by cageface 6y ago
In twenty years of coding I’ve used math beyond junior high algebra exactly once.
835.
by cageface 6y ago
Rails is great if out of the box with devise + active admin it gets you at least 80% of the way to what you're trying to build. Once you start writing loads of background jobs and business logic it becomes a quagmire pretty quick. I&#x
836.
by cageface 6y ago
Can you think of any examples of the kind of effort you describe that didn't turn into a bureaucratic and extravagantly expensive mess?
837.
by cageface 6y ago
When I first got my new 8gb Air there was some indexing process running for a while that was using 6gb. The machine was a bit slower but still quite responsive. I think there’s some truth to the claim that you need to think about ram a litt
838.
by cageface 6y ago
He’s also way too dismissive of Russia’s influence. They’re way more than a “medium regional power”. Dismissing the country with one of the two largest nuclear arsenals in the world and one of the most significant and extensive intelligence
839.
by cageface 6y ago
I don’t think we’re beyond repair yet but it feels much more like gaping fissures than surfacing cracks. Our infrastructure, education and healthcare is a disaster.
840.
by cageface 6y ago
The US is turning into on object lesson on what happens when you make wealth a religion.

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