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by hyko 6y ago
Yes there is: a remote kill switch that prevents the third party SDK from loading. That puts you back in control of the software you’re shipping. Fool me once, and all that.
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by hyko 6y ago
It’s a crazy argument from them, considering their licensing allows anyone to do anything they like with a system apart from hide the resulting source code. Policing third parties like Dropbox is actually a strength of a proprietary system,
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by hyko 6y ago
Is common crawl usable in this context? http://commoncrawl.org/
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by hyko 6y ago
I don’t understand what you mean?
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by hyko 6y ago
“The Dropbox app for Macintosh...” seems like a very lame overreach.
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by hyko 6y ago
If someone steals your wallet, my advice is don’t let them drive you to the airport.
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by hyko 6y ago
Illegal and immoral. How can anyone trust these people with personal data and access to your devices? We have allowed empires to be built on scummy business practices that are fundamentally user hostile. We are under no obligation to main
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by hyko 6y ago
See also: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy_Index
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by hyko 6y ago
Yeah, the disconnect is that the title and intro talk in general terms, but the actual advice is about a specific platform.
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by hyko 6y ago
But Turkey is not a democracy?
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by hyko 6y ago
My advice is to save your eyes and put the money you’d spend on VR over the next decade and buy a very nice monitor now instead. Every aspect of the experience will be superior, and if you’re a developer the payback time will be relatively
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by hyko 6y ago
How do we back up the Internet Archive? If they lose this case then it will be like losing The Great Library of Alexandria. This is our culture. This is our heritage! Edited to add: when I say “back up”, I mean preserve the data and the arc
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by hyko 6y ago
Because YouTube doesn’t have nuclear weapons and a plan to invade western allies?
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by hyko 6y ago
Great article, what we come to hacker news for. Edited to add: I'm starting to think that wireless communications were–on balance–a terrible mistake.
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by hyko 6y ago
I the UK really wanted blue sky thinking, why not open up a competition?
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by hyko 6y ago
The UK government operates its nuclear deterrent independent of control from the U.S.: they would not share control of that capability with any other country (regardless of current defence posture), just as the U.S. would not share the keys
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by hyko 6y ago
Given that the UK is the second largest global defence exporter in the world–and most definitely do produce pistols and rifles– I think they will be just fine. They ceased membership of the EU, not all international trade.
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by hyko 6y ago
Shame we're limited to 16 colors...miss those title bar gradients :D Was this the pinnacle of UI design, or is nostalgia clouding our judgment?
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by hyko 6y ago
The idea that removing external dependencies necessarily simplifies your code and leads to a maintainable system is a fallacy. Use external dependencies appropriately, follow SOLID principles and a clean architecture and you can leverage th
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by hyko 6y ago
Buy a copy of Farming Simulator. Agriculture is a brutal, pitiless world of perfect competition, commoditisation, and winner-takes-all consolidation. There’s an old farming joke: “What would you do if you won the lottery? I’d farm until it
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by hyko 6y ago
It’s not a Marxist or Neo-liberal critique, just an observation. People are (rightly) viscerally afraid of dying in a fireball, but are far less animated about the horrors of living as a non-person, without the right to privacy, freedom of
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by hyko 6y ago
People are scared of exploding airplanes, but not of turning the whole world into prison from which there is no escape.
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by hyko 6y ago
Thanks for the link, that is a good resource. I was wrong about them having a minority market share in the U.S., they’re more popular than I thought! They are still far from a monopoly position. Looks like it’s a roughly 70/30 split gl
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by hyko 6y ago
This made me smile :D
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by hyko 6y ago
I’m no Apple or free market fanatic, I’m just explaining that these attacks are going nowhere under our legal and financial system. They are pipe dreams that come round every twelve months or so, and will remain that way unless we radically
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by hyko 6y ago
Well, let’s use the food court analogy then: whoever owns the food court is permitted by law to set whatever rental prices they choose for their tenants (provided they aren’t discriminating against people based on certain characteristics).
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by hyko 6y ago
But this case is not relevant, because Apple faces robust and significant competition from Android smartphones (though I would argue perhaps not in wearables).
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by hyko 6y ago
No offence taken, we are all students :) Monopolies (and duopolies, where there is collusion ) can be bad for society, which is why we have specific exceptions in law to deal with them. Apple doesn’t hold a monopoly position in the smartph
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by hyko 6y ago
These aren’t Apple’s rules–they’re ours. It’s the parameters of a free marketplace and flows from the idea of legal ownership of property. Apple has a minority share of the smartphone market, so antitrust does not apply. Antitrust a specifi
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by hyko 6y ago
Apple’s position is clear and legal, and it’s how the economy works including the proposed hey.com business model . There’s no antitrust violation here, so pay your fees or go somewhere else. Apple don’t owe hey.com a place in the App stor

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