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by cageface 6y ago
A lot of people buy iPhones because of the superior app ecosystem and that's all thanks to developers, including those making free apps. So it's false to say Apple makes no money off free apps.
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by cageface 6y ago
The worst software hairball I've ever had to untangle was a react/redux/saga monstrosity that was excruciating difficult to debug or improve. I finally got permission to rip most of that out and the resulting plain react app
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by cageface 6y ago
Apple advocates always point to Apple capturing the vast majority of the profits in the mobile market but when discussing antitrust issues it's only units sold that matters. You can't have it both ways.
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How the Coronavirus Will Reshape Architecture(newyorker.com)
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by cageface 6y ago
Types also are also massively useful in making better tooling. The ability to refactor with confidence and get meaningful autocompletes is already enough justification for a static typesystem.
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by cageface 6y ago
Cars and phones play very different roles in our lives. Phones have become the way we access the internet and the internet is increasingly at the center of everything so the considerations for regulation are different.
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by cageface 6y ago
Apple is massively popular in the US. The last few projects I've worked on our users were 50% iOS Safari.
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by cageface 6y ago
I've been on the internet since it was called Gopher and there was no such thing as the WWW. It's far far more influential now than ever before and that influence seems much more negative now than ever.
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by cageface 6y ago
So you're arguing that there's been a massive pent up demand for alt right content that has gone unmet until now? I'm not buying it. People are very easily influenced by what you put in front of them. Until recently there wer
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by cageface 6y ago
I think there's an opportunity right now for new, human curated indexes in the style of the old Yahoo index. AI content generation is getting too good at fooling AI curation and I'm getting less and less value in broad searches on
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by cageface 6y ago
My tastes may be a bit hard to model but I don't get any value from Netflix's recommendation algorithm at all. I find new things on Netflix by reading human curated reviews online and then searching for titles by name.
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by cageface 6y ago
Oh come on. None of these are collecting user data in real-time and leading the user down engagement rabbit holes they never would have gone down otherwise. I watched a couple of amateur WW2 history videos on YouTube and almost immediately
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by cageface 6y ago
This analogy would work if Google was deliberately holding back new features on the web to favor its proprietary operating system but in fact the situation is pretty much the opposite. I also don't understand why everyone is up with pi
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by cageface 6y ago
This is never going to happen so what’s the point arguing that it should? As a dev if have to choose between a flawed but still very capable open platform and proprietary walled gardens where corporations wield absolute and arbitrary contro
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by cageface 6y ago
BitWig audio is a Java UI and is quite competitive with the native DAWs.
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by cageface 6y ago
I’m willing to pay enough monthly software subscriptions to count on one hand. Subscriptions are not the answer for the vast majority of apps and Apple’s insistence on pushing this as the solution is just more evidence that the survival of
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by cageface 6y ago
I don't have the numbers but it seems very likely to me that Google spends a lot more than this on maintaining and improving Android and this alone would not be enough to put them in the black.
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by cageface 6y ago
We're talking about US antitrust law and its enforcement in this thread. And in the US market iOS is the priority for app developers.
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by cageface 6y ago
How would Android be a profitable independent entity? By becoming a new vertically integrated vendor like Apple? I doubt they could charge enough just selling per handset OS licenses to make this a viable business without recouping any of t
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by cageface 6y ago
By this logic Apple is a monopoly in the mobile space since nobody can afford to ignore them when building apps.
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by cageface 6y ago
Audio plugins are one of the few software domains where you'll still often find handcoded assembly in performance critical sections. I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of third party vendors don't make the transition. On the ot
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by cageface 6y ago
American internet companies can address a large, relatively homogeneous market of 300 million people that all speak the same language. This alone is a big competitive advantage over any European company.
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by cageface 6y ago
The problem is that social media has made it possible for anyone to reach an audience of billions with a click of a button. This so radically changes the dynamics of how we communicate with each other that some new rules are going to be nee
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by cageface 6y ago
You can get pretty far with the built in instruments and effects in Bitwig, especially with the new modular grid. I haven't felt much need for third party stuff.
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by cageface 6y ago
They're also competing with native apps. Apple News, as an example.
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by cageface 6y ago
Are support vector machines still used much or have they been supplanted by deep learning methods?
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by cageface 6y ago
Samsung is getting better at software. OneUI gets very positive reviews. Many of the Samsung apps on my Note 10 are perfectly acceptable daily tools. Mail, gallery, notes etc are competitive now.
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by cageface 6y ago
This is true of all dynamic languages. Rails codebases become a nightmare beyond a certain LOC. It’s taken a long time but now that we have languages with strong static typing but good type inference like Kotlin, Swift, Typescript etc the o
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by cageface 6y ago
A lot of us are working remote these days. That means everybody needs a Mac.
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by cageface 6y ago
I would never try to build a business on either app store but even if you target the web you can't afford to ignore Apple, at least not in the U.S. On my last project Apple/iOS users made up half of our revenue. Unfortunately this

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