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by dimmke 5y ago
It really is. It doesn’t even make a casual attempt to adhere to MacOS interface guidelines. Even the notification system is completely custom and doesn’t work with the OS level system. It’s insulting.
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by dimmke 5y ago
I've had this opinion for years: Adobe is the Microsoft of creative software. They're gigantic and ubiquitous, but their software is miserable garbage and they don't care. I luckily only ever did web design with their softwar
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by dimmke 5y ago
I can only share my experience. I used Spotify for the first time in 2011. It completely defied what I thought was possible with music streaming. Songs would play immediately. It was faster than iTunes. I believe Spotify is still faster tha
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by dimmke 5y ago
I hate the physical act of having to turn pages/make sure the book is angled toward a light source. Kindle makes it possible to read in the dark and without changing positions. Also if you read a lot you aren’t piling up a bunch of phy
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by dimmke 5y ago
I skimmed the article and I guess it’s about a vulnerability that was patched in April so the title is a bit clickbait. I love Kindle and it’s ecosystem. I wish it wasn’t proprietary, but the convenience is unbeatable if you read a lot. Esp
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by dimmke 5y ago
I'm not an expert in how this works, but I am skeptical that Apple would do this if they had a way of scanning iCloud photos and videos on their servers. They also confirmed it is only when the photos upload to iCloud: https:/&#x
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by dimmke 5y ago
I agree- I think this is a bad decision on Apple's part. It really undercuts a lot of their statements about privacy by doing any kind of on device scanning of your content, even in such a narrow context. I guess the point I am making
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by dimmke 5y ago
I find discussions around this kind of stuff frustrating because often times what's actually happening always gets muddled by the hysteria, even here on Hacker News. From the link: "Before an image is stored in iCloud Photos...&qu
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by dimmke 5y ago
This is not the case at Amazon. They are known for PIPing engineers. They’re not shy about it. Also all of these big tech companies can just not refresh your stock if they don’t want to bother with firing you, which effectively halves your
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by dimmke 5y ago
Agreed. Big Bang Theory was horrendously bad.
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by dimmke 5y ago
You used to be automatically opted into overdraft. Also, you could still get hit with an overdraft fee even if they rejected the charge. Banks also used to structure transactions to force overdrafts if they could. It was really bad.
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by dimmke 5y ago
Banks used to structure these charges to create overdrafts whenever possible. They made it very difficult for you to see what your actual usable balance is. They also used to be allowed to simply reject the transaction if you didn't ha
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by dimmke 5y ago
>may be more like 50/50 or even 10/90 Maybe for some languages that are at the point of only having 2 speakers left. But at that point, you likely couldn't revive the language anyways. For this language, they absolutely sh
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by dimmke 5y ago
Seriously. It feels like an entire area of JavaScript I pretty much never wade into anymore.
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by dimmke 5y ago
It sounds like the main argument you're making is that having a record wouldn't catch every single edge case. But maybe that's okay? If you get 90% of the value of preserving the language and you miss the 10%, it's proba
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by dimmke 5y ago
I think the thing that doesn't make sense to me about all of these language preservation efforts is the idea that a language has to have people actively speaking it. That's a gigantic lift, that takes a ton of effort. Even if you
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by dimmke 5y ago
I used to like these kind of bank startups because they usually have a much more polished user interface/well designed app, but they definitely do stuff like this. Simple was the first big one. Then they got acquired. Then shut down. I
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by dimmke 5y ago
I give it about 3 months before these QR code menus start asking for your email "for deals" before they'll display the menu. And I'm sure some great new YC backed startup will be created to collect all the data and aggre
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by dimmke 5y ago
Whether or not using a library is better is highly dependent on the problem you're trying to solve. Sometimes there isn't a library. Sometimes the library hasn't been updated in years. Sometimes you need only 10% of a library
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by dimmke 5y ago
It depends on where you're at. I'd recommend taking a course on data structures to brush up first. Then LC until you are doing Mediums. Then, it's just a matter of trying to figure things out and reading up on solutions. I di
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by dimmke 5y ago
I had an iPhone app with 1k DAU and some very modest revenue. This would have been a perfect fit.
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by dimmke 5y ago
Getting better at algorithm/data structures has made me a much better programmer. People say "oh I'll never use that" but doing graph and tree problems got me much better at writing pure recursive code. I instinctively k
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by dimmke 5y ago
I've never liked this phrase. It sets up the wrong conflict. Police vs. Everybody Else. It's obvious that society needs a police force. But it's also obvious to me that American policing is in need of serious reform. When you
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by dimmke 5y ago
I keep seeing these things about TikTok that are absolutely not true. There is definitely political content on TikTok. Here's a few with > 100k likes from a minute of searching "Immigration": https://www.tiktok.
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by dimmke 5y ago
>takes American individualism to the logical extreme. It's funny that you opened your comment complimenting how I verbalized something, but this feels like an even better verbalization of it. What's the answer to my crappy 2 ho
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by dimmke 5y ago
I am reasonably productive WFH (I was 2 days a week remote before pandemic and have had fully remote jobs in the past)- but the way some people talk about it really bothers me. The people that want it, really want it, are almost like zealot
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by dimmke 5y ago
Good. I remember when this lawsuit first got announced, everybody was calling Epic crazy, but I always felt like something was needed to force Apple's hand. Even if they ultimately lose, they forced Apple to cut the percentage they tak
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by dimmke 5y ago
To be clear, I think it's way more important for Walmart to nail online shopping than vice versa, but clearly Amazon feels having a physical presence is important.
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by dimmke 5y ago
This is really the problem with everything Walmart has done wrt eCommerce/online pickup IMO - It's like all the pieces are there, but they can't bring them all together. I've hit their website from Google looking for an
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by dimmke 5y ago
I agree. I quit smoking back in 2016 and I don’t think of myself as a smoker at all anymore. I sometimes have to remind myself I used to smoke.

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