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by gerash 6y ago
Well, let's elect those who'd fix bad laws then
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by gerash 6y ago
You're conflating topics. I'm saying the cost of switching is trivially low for search engines. The moment Bing becomes better I can switch to it with a "single click". The moment I like something about Android or iOS I
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by gerash 6y ago
IIUC graph core chips are very different from Intel chips so idk if their manufacturing can be compared. Or is it that chip manufacturing does not depend on what chip is being manufactured?
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by gerash 6y ago
I disagree. Apple maps is worse than competition but they push it to their consumers because it's not bad enough to be worth switching away from iOS.
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by gerash 6y ago
Yay! no AMP! Every news article will be exclusively published to Apple News, all websites will have to switch to Apple Sign-in, users will need to pay $100 / yr to "cover the cost" of running Apple crawlers and all websites w
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by gerash 6y ago
I don't get the antitrust against Google search. You can just click on Bing and start searching there as soon as Bing becomes even slightly better. On the other hand, you can't "click" on Android and suddenly switch to A
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by gerash 6y ago
In such doomsday scenario and assuming no laws gets passed to change things the service providers (eg. Instagram, Uber, Doordash) can start charging iOS users more to adjust for this. This is already happening as the YT subscription shows.
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by gerash 6y ago
Perhaps heavy negative campaigning previously by Microsoft (Scroogled?) and still by Murdoch's media outlets had at least some effects. Their fail fast, watch growth metics and bad product leadership also don't help
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by gerash 6y ago
I think the mistake Google is making is not charging high prices a la. Apple for their products. It'd result in a big drop in user base initially but over time people will respect it more and stop writing up articles on how to stop usi
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by gerash 6y ago
Monopoly over iOS or Android is a bit murky definition IMO. They are both creations of those companies and it seems fine for them to have a monopoly over them. Ring devices by Amazon or Nest devices by Google can have a monopoly over the de
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by gerash 6y ago
I don't think we need to stick to an existing law and second guess what courts think. We need new legislation that lowers the cost of switching across popular platforms down to a single click of a button. That'll solve a big chu
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by gerash 6y ago
The legislation I'd get behind is to enforce import / export of data across platforms a la. Google takeout but better where you can both export and import with a single click. That is, rather than getting into some abstrac
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by gerash 6y ago
IIUC a web app is essentially a some very old though popular protocols plus a web browser as the runtime. IMO it will always lag behind a native app in terms of access to OS capabilities and runtime efficiency.
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by gerash 6y ago
The HN post title is a click bait. TLDR: The google home device also listens for the sound of glass shattering and smoke alarms which is very useful. In fact I wish it would listen for dog barks too. I hope they add that.
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by gerash 6y ago
"Reading your emails for ads" [and search]: Even though that term was popularized by lots of MS negative campaigns (remember Scroogled?) but it makes as much sense as saying "Excel is reading your private financial records on
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by gerash 6y ago
I don't think there's any point in discussing the nuances of an arbitrary set of rules. Let's hope Microsoft or Google give Apple a more serious competition on the hardware front. Apple will continue to make it more and more
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by gerash 6y ago
The problems I see with UBI are: * It won't take into account the differences in the cost of living for different cities. * If it is paid based on the household size there'll be an incentive for lower income families have more kid
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by gerash 6y ago
what are you talking about? how is gcp even relevant here? Apple acquired a weather app (DarkSky) and promptly killed their Android app. Do you, based on your logic, think someone who was planning to buy an ipad is now going to think twice?
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by gerash 6y ago
This is an unfair advantage but I don't think is specific to Google. I don't know whether Apple collects such consumer usage metrics or not but Amazon, Walmart, Costco, etc. they all monitor consumer metrics and might end up build
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by gerash 6y ago
next headline: "Apple devices won't display any video other than those from tv+" Apple bros on HN: "Good! finally someone standing up to the BigTech abuse of privacy"
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by gerash 6y ago
No, native apps UX comes with installation, worrying about it wasting the device resources and ultimately uninstallation. The distribution is also centralized through App stores rather than self-hosted web sites. Both PWAs (using web app to
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by gerash 6y ago
IMHO both this and the Android Instant Apps are half assed ideas. The ultimate goal should be working towards having the ephemeral nature of web apps while maintaining the native app performance. That is, access to raw sensors, running nati
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by gerash 6y ago
The problem with electric scooters is even though they're nice in urban areas, they're a best-effort service. You can't rely on them to be somewhere by a specific time as they could either be unavailable around you, too far o
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by gerash 6y ago
I agree. In believe such opinions are shaped mainly by the media. So I'd argue these people are in fact ill-informed and to be more blunt, not that intelligent after all.
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by gerash 6y ago
IMO too much backwards compatibility hinders progress. It's obviously not sustainable to be forever backwards compatible all the way to the 70s. I'd say old code bases can simply stick with the older compiler. As for whether it&#x
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by gerash 6y ago
I'm all for doing things at compile time rather than run-time but both the syntax and debugability of CPP template metaprogramming suck. I wonder if C++ should pull a Python 3 and clean up the syntax. Given that the transition for Py3
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by gerash 6y ago
The video is available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2h2QMkS5Ftw
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by gerash 7y ago
It looks like they haven't integrated the kythe cross reference DB as the symbols aren't clickable
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by gerash 7y ago
That would've been called an antitrust abuse by any other company but it seems Apple gets a pass by its fans. Apple ecosystem is completely closed off. It does make it easier to ship software. For example they've hijacked SMS by c
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by gerash 7y ago
This might be too much legalese and IANAL but they do have a majority market share in North America. That said, I'm not suggesting this is an easy lawsuit but that it's obviously an abuse of power over the ecosystem. That is, when

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