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by emdowling 8y ago
The App Store gives you discoverability and could be argued as being one of the reasons for a 30% cut. If your app can be distributed as a PWA, then the question becomes: is the App Store (which gives you discoverability) worth the 30% rev
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by emdowling 8y ago
Number 2 is a lot more possible now than just a decade ago due to the rise of smaller, more efficient aircraft (A350, 787) over jumbos and the popularity of point-to-point (rather than hub and spoke) airline networks. This decreases the cos
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by emdowling 8y ago
Echoing what others are saying. This is a great tool and one few new tools to enter my daily workflow in years. For a long time, I saw very little improvement in development tools, but this and Paw, an API client, have given me faith in bea
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by emdowling 8y ago
Yep. I work on Integrity at Facebook. The challenge is massive and a huge proportion of the world uses our services to communicate with friends and family. Personally, this is true for me. I've lived in four cities and three countries
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by emdowling 8y ago
If you don’t like it, buy another pair of shoes! There are literally thousands of alternatives out there. No one is forcing you to buy this pair.
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by emdowling 8y ago
> Remember Paragon? Some companies will have spectacular failures as well as spectacular successes. Successful companies are able to learn from both and iterate. Unreal and Unreal Tournament were absolute block busters that paved the way
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by emdowling 8y ago
Markets change. During the early 2000's, the going rate for a AAA engine license started at USD$250,000. The three main ones at the time were Quake 3 engine (id tech 5??), Unreal and Lithtech. Unity wasn't the first engine to try
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by emdowling 8y ago
I share this opinion. I was so excited for Destiny (fun fact: it came out the same day Apple announced the Apple Watch - I remember playing Destiny then taking a break to tune into the keynote) but it was pretty unpolished on Day 1. I dived
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by emdowling 8y ago
> if Facebook is really going to make this effort a priority they should publish a report detailing its efforts. Facebook does exactly this. The second report was published a little over a month ago: https://newsroom.fb.com&#x
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by emdowling 8y ago
I’m sorry to hear that. In a similar vein, 18 months ago I came out of an 11 year relationship. It took me a while after that to realise that my sleep cycle was not actually mine. Naturally, I’m a morning person but had been forcing myself
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by emdowling 8y ago
8 hours of sleep per night. That’s it. If I can nail this, everything else will fall into place. I’ll naturally drink less alcohol and eat better. In the last few months, I’ve experimented (via Apple Watch) with the impact that alcohol and
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by emdowling 8y ago
Like Google (mentioned in another comment), Facebook and Amazon also have large campuses in London with similar headcount, as well as large offices in cities like Dublin.
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by emdowling 8y ago
I love your wedding date. 09 + 09 = 18. It's beautiful. I know I'll probably get downvoted for a "Reddit-style" comment but it's worth it.
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by emdowling 8y ago
Unfortunately, diet is often not a simple choice. The price of calories has gone down significantly for mass-produced, less-healthy food, whereas healthy food (like fresh fruit and vegetables) are nowhere near as cheap. Look at fast food re
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by emdowling 8y ago
The only clause I've seen which is similar was from a crowd-funding firm who had some administration fees around the collection and transfer of the funds to the company. It was rather nominal and was fair given the work they'd don
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by emdowling 8y ago
I can speak from experience about user perception of security, having previously run security product for a major UK fintech (which works with Monzo). A large proportion of users would complain that biometrics and/or PIN was not mandat
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by emdowling 8y ago
Good on them. It's an outstanding product and they are iterating very quickly on it. The app UX is starting to feel like it's bursting at the seams - they've added in loans, and overdrafts, and savings pots, and international
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by emdowling 8y ago
It absolutely needs to come in the box for it to be effective. You need to be able to rely on 100% of your customer base having the hardware required to play it. The thought that they don't care that much is really strange, because ev
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by emdowling 8y ago
Did they really expect gaming to take off by not including a controller?
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by emdowling 8y ago
Why is the 12 inch MacBook still in the line-up? The only benefit is that it offers an i7 processor at the top-end - beyond that, I can't see any benefit. Why not just unify the two lines?
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by emdowling 8y ago
I just wish Apple would put the internals of the iPad Pro into the Apple TV and bundle it with a decent controller. The gaming potential is massive, and they even compared it to the Xbox One during the keynote. They are squandering a massiv
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by emdowling 8y ago
I feel the same way, but in reverse. I've been using iOS since the iPhone 3G and have built apps for it. I know iOS inside out. I recently started a new job where the vast majority of our customers use Android. I therefore chose my wor
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by emdowling 8y ago
You mention "interesting and challenging work" - but which one is more meaningful for you? Which one will let you deliver the impact which is most inline with your values and principles? Compensation-wise "A" edges out &
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by emdowling 8y ago
Just a slight point: iMessage is only relevant in Australia and US. In Europe, its WhatsApp, in China, WeChat, in Japan, LINE, etc. iMessage is not a competitive advantage in the markets where Apple can extract greatest growth going forward
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by emdowling 9y ago
If it is a standard affiliate program he is after, why does he not just say that in the email? I don’t think there is anything wrong for Wirecutter to say “hey, we make money from affiliate sales - do you guys have a program we can sign up
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by emdowling 9y ago
These guys are great: https://encrypt.me I used them when I was freelancing and working on public wifi. Super easy to use and reliable.
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It is conclusive for his usage, which is the majority of trips he took in 2017. It will make him make an objective, informed decision going forward. I would also say it is relevant for a large percentage of people on HN. Should he not share
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by emdowling 9y ago
100% yes, Apple should own this part of the experience. Increasingly, their devices are requiring constant connectivity. The Apple Watch comes into it's own with cellular - but the experience of adding it to my carrier (EE in UK) was a
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by emdowling 9y ago
I live alone and have a “half width” dishwasher. It’s amazing at saving me time but also clutter. No dirty dishes on the bench top. The thing is on every night. Research has also shown it uses far less water and energy than hand washing. By
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by emdowling 9y ago
Seems pretty clear to me that Apple is doing this to make Xcode for iPad viable. For vaguely complex apps, the iPad still wouldn’t be fast enough to do compilation in a reasonable time frame. By moving compilation (or at least some of it) a

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