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by cvwright 5y ago
Matrix is one team trying to build three apps. Android, iOS, and web are all distinct code bases. Plus all the server side stuff. They’ve taken on a huge amount of work.
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by cvwright 5y ago
They’re not difficult, but they are far less convenient. If you want large groups/numbers of people to do something, you have to make it as easy and frictionless as possible for them.
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by cvwright 5y ago
> You don't like Facebook? Then don't use Facebook It’s hard though, because what alternative do people have? I didn’t log in to my Facebook account for 7 years, and I got way out of touch with most of my old friends in differe
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by cvwright 5y ago
We should all work on starting the next Apples.
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by cvwright 5y ago
Don’t think that Twitter will suddenly stop showing you ads just because you paid them. They really are fundamentally an advertising company. The microblogging thing is just how they get eyeballs onto their ads. We’ve been here before, wi
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by cvwright 5y ago
Email sent. Dude you asked for it :)
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Show HN: I'm building an E2E encrypted social network app(kickstarter.com)
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by cvwright 5y ago
Mandelbrot was such an entertaining writer. I enjoyed The Misbehavior of Markets a lot. He does tell a few “I’m such a badass” stories a la Taleb, but somehow he’s a much more sympathetic character. When he talks about bullying some burea
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by cvwright 5y ago
> end-to-end encryption is crucial for protecting children. A brazenly shameless plug for something that I'm trying to build to do exactly that: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/cvwright/circles-a-secu.
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by cvwright 5y ago
This is 100% the argument that pro-encryption people should be making everywhere. Think of the children. Encrypt their data!
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by cvwright 5y ago
This is worse. This is like curbing door locks to combat burglary. Like, the cops know there have been burglaries, so now everyone must leave their house open so it can be inspected for stolen goods. It’s that stupid.
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by cvwright 5y ago
OTOH Chrome has one of the best teams in the world working on it, funded by one of the richest companies in the world, with the best tools. And they take security very seriously. If they can’t get it right, who can?
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by cvwright 5y ago
It’s obvious that you’re trying to avoid shameless self promotion here, so I’ll be the guy who asks: What’s the App Store url for your app?
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by cvwright 5y ago
Overall I found it pretty nice. It’s hard for me to compare to other languages in this space, like Go or Rust, because I have basically no experience with them beyond the very most basic introductory toy projects. My choices came down to P
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by cvwright 5y ago
This is unfortunately true. I just wrote a very simple little web service in Vapor. Vapor itself is fantastic, but for documentation and examples, you’re pretty much limited to (1) the Vapor docs (2) the Vapor API docs buried on GitHub and
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by cvwright 5y ago
That's been a dream of mine for a long time. I don't think there's anything quite like we want just yet. However, there is a super cool open source project from the author of GKrellM (remember that from the ancient days of L
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by cvwright 6y ago
If the popularity of React persists so that it eventually drives a Turing award, I think the award would more likely go to Evan Czaplicki for his thesis on functional reactive programming.
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by cvwright 6y ago
No, the first note of Am is definitely still A. What makes the difference between major or minor etc are the notes that come after. For example, the A major scale goes A, B, C#, ..., while A minor uses the minor third, so you get A, B, C,
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by cvwright 6y ago
Wow, what a cool story. Having Kirk McKusick write patches for you is almost like that old Weird Al song: > I’m down with Bill Gates > I call him “money” for short > I phone him up at home > And I make him do my tech support
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by cvwright 6y ago
I have also been surprised at how terrible the Apple TV is. The PBS Kids app is super buggy. It randomly decides to start playing the audio from its home screen over whatever show my kid is trying to watch. And Emby, which works great on R
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by cvwright 6y ago
I think there's another big one too: Option 3 is for very personal stuff that you don't want to make public. Many of us put photos of our small children in this category. On a more depressing note, this could also include things
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by cvwright 6y ago
> [1] As the saying goes. It's from Arthur C. Clarke. https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/155962-when-a-distinguished...
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by cvwright 6y ago
Because it brings out the worst in everyone and makes people mad at each other. Before seeing dang’s post here, I would have thought that removing politics would have helped.
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by cvwright 6y ago
I’d be surprised if 24gb is sufficient for 100k users. Back when they switched Synapse to Python3, they showed a graph where the matrix.org homeserver had something like 8-10 syncotron processes consuming 8-10gb each.
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by cvwright 6y ago
Absolutely. I’m a CS academic writing “real” code for the first time in 20 years. It’s really reassuring to hear that Marco Arment is also googling for the same SwiftUI tutorials that I keep falling back on.
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by cvwright 6y ago
Yes, it’s called dumping, and it’s illegal to do this to expand a monopoly.
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by cvwright 6y ago
Agreed, it took me far too long to find an answer to this. Apparently you have to sign up for some Microsoft ad platform, and then select DDG as one of the places to show your ads.
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by cvwright 6y ago
Duck Duck Go
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by cvwright 6y ago
Ah ok that does make me feel better. I’ll try to take a closer look when I have time. Thanks!
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by cvwright 6y ago
That is great news! Please post a link to a preprint when you can.

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