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by jamil7 2y ago
Just to build off this a little, there are also quite a few examples of cases in which Apple "sherlocked" an app and the original app(s) continued being successful as they offered a much more advanced feature-set than the basic ve
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by jamil7 2y ago
Yes, obviously.
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Bullshitting
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Yeah frustrating process for sure, I wasn't necessarily challenging those aspects, just that I hadn't seen many companies distributing mac apps through the mac app store (for many of the reasons above).
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by jamil7 2y ago
Sorry but this isn't true in my experience, I've worked on 3 different native macOS apps at different companies in the last few years and all were signed, notarized and then distributed with Sparkle. At least one of those has pret
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by jamil7 2y ago
Notes has become one of the better (best) first-party software offerings from Apple. They seem to have a really good team working on it.
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by jamil7 2y ago
While I agree everyday is too frequent. Too infrequent release cycles also lead to poorer quality software as the gap between implementing a feature and getting it into user’s hands widens. You generally want that context to be fresh enough
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by jamil7 2y ago
Yes, I cancelled my subscription a while ago, I can't tell if it's getting objectively worse or I just ran up against the limitations in using it for software development. I spent so much time correcting code it had written or get
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by jamil7 2y ago
It's good but VC backed. Also the actual file search is really bad.
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by jamil7 2y ago
I think apps like Opal use a combination of screen time APIs and abusing Shortcuts, might be something similar.
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by jamil7 2y ago
My partner is a data engineer, from what I’ve gathered the departments are often very small or one person so the roles end up blending together a lot.
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by jamil7 2y ago
Should be possible using AX APIs on mac, might not be all that performant, however.
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by jamil7 2y ago
Fair enough, thanks for the tip. I did write this before I drank a coffee this morning which is probably a questionable way to start the day anyway :D
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by jamil7 2y ago
Yes that part I don’t really care about, it’s pretty easy to point to misinformation on the internet. I think the part of your original comment that sticks out to everyone is your idea that generally, over hydration is more of a risk than d
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by jamil7 2y ago
You realise not all mammals have the same nutrition and hydration requirements right?
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by jamil7 2y ago
Are you talking about hyponatremia? That’s going to be very rare if you’re healthy. Also your source is an analysis of articles on water drinking advice, not a medical study.
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Yeah, some tools are built for complex, niche workflows and as a result need to have information and control density. You can't design away the learning curve in these cases and probably shouldn't try to or you'll harm the pr
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This isn't an artist building on the work of previous artists, this is a for-profit company repurposing people's work and mass producing it without permission or paying royalties.
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by jamil7 2y ago
No, there is wider a context and nuance to the whole topic, as there always is. Jumping to hyperbolic "slippery slope" arguments doesn't add anything interesting to this discussion and instead tries to deflect it.
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What languages scale better in that regard? Genuinely interested in recommendations.
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by jamil7 2y ago
It’s also gotten so expensive and unreliable that some people I’ve spoken to are just driving again instead whereas years ago they would have always gone by train. I can’t help but feel that the weird ownership model contributes to this and
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There’s a world outside of web development.
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I think so too, I also saw it as a lesson on careful and methodical debugging. I've been in situations like the one written up, trying to debug something tricky where each team member is coming up with multiple wrong hypotheses and mis
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by jamil7 2y ago
Yes, SwiftUI, Swift Concurrency and to an extent SPM have been quite frustrating. SwiftUI on macOS in particluar is a major step backwards from AppKit as it is right now.
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Foundation is going through a gradual open-source rewrite by Apple and the Swift community, which is going to take a while but will eventually open up Swift more to other platforms.
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Well never say never but doing this would completely destroy the ability to build software on a mac.
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This, everyone had to keep interrupting and talking over it to stop it from waffling on.
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I had a look, maybe, to me he just looks like bog-standard D.C libertarian think-tank type of guy. The Cato institute positions itself as libertarian non-interventionist (founded by American libertarians and a billionaire), so it would be c
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by jamil7 2y ago
I’m not familiar with the author or their other articles so I can’t say whether they are or not but do we need to label all critics of western foreign policy Russian/CCP shills?
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by jamil7 2y ago
I can recommend the podcast series blowback if anyone wants a deeper look into the knock-on effects of western intervention in the middle east and elsewhere. Also, the book the Jakarta method for a broader look.

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