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811.
by jeswin 6y ago
It was a blanket ban on all VPNs. Their exact statement said: "We are writing to notify that your application will be removed from the China App Store because it includes content that is illegal in China..."
812.
by jeswin 6y ago
Apple's stand on privacy is quite flexible at the top of the pyramid - for example in China they were happy to axe hundreds of VPN apps which were allowing people in HK and mainland China access to content without risking being thrown
813.
by jeswin 6y ago
I have been using an Apple TV and a Chromecast for a long time. I've never seen an ad on the Chromecast - it simply plays a stream as instructed by an app on the phone. Is it different with the Fire Stick?
814.
by jeswin 6y ago
Google's withdrawal from China in 2010 stands out as perhaps the most eminently courageous move a technology mega-corp has made against a powerful nation state. The tragedy is that the world didn't care - signaling perhaps to all
815.
by jeswin 6y ago
> Else they're bound to be compatible with the lowest common denominator standard connectors and drive implementations. The fairly common Samsung 9x0 Pro Nvme SSDs are way faster in almost all benchmarks. So I don't think that
816.
by jeswin 6y ago
If you're seeing many people building the same thing, it's probably because there's a need that you might have overlooked. Here's one: people want to share formatted snippets on Twitter. They often post a link to the cod
817.
by jeswin 6y ago
Not American, but the Wikipedia entry on the incident suggests that the two aren't in any way comparable. At the same time, sentencing a 15-year old kid (who hasn't even committed murder) to life in prison and not reconsidering it
818.
by jeswin 6y ago
The domestic narrative in China is that the virus is of foreign origin, with the CCP press strongly suggesting that it's of US origin - eg:[1]. The truth probably is that they know it originated (from animals) in China, and don't
819.
by jeswin 6y ago
That depends. Most countries have ratified the biological weapons treaty. If proven to be lab created, the onus will be on them/whoever to prove that this was not part of a weaponization effort. Not to mention, instant loss of goodwill
820.
by jeswin 6y ago
Javas FQDN model is actually pretty bad in practice. Domain names change quite often (I've seen many packages with a dead FQDN), and relying on the TXT record is going to be a security nightmare even worse than the username/passwo
821.
by jeswin 6y ago
Very useful, thanks. This will also be handy as a browser plugin - like click on an icon to switch to vscode view.
822.
by jeswin 6y ago
NYT is glaringly inaccurate if you're closer to the source of the news. Not merely a bias or a cherry picking of the data, but just really shallow research. From a distance though, most articles will seem well-researched (even if opin
823.
by jeswin 6y ago
The name is quite memorable and the points you made are valid; so please don't change it unless you have a very good reason to.
824.
by jeswin 6y ago
Official battery replacement costs the equivalent of $16 in India, as listed on their website.
825.
by jeswin 6y ago
I cannot find if project-scoped access tokens (which was a Bronze+ feature) are available in the Free tier, or whether they require Silver. It's such a glaring omission on GitHub - which only has personal access tokens which give apps
826.
by jeswin 6y ago
> Elastic wants to have their cake and eat it too. That doesn't follow from your preceding statement. Elastic doesn't want to constrain all users of their software by using AGPL; and instead they adopted a license which imposes
827.
by jeswin 6y ago
There's a good quote on that thread which captures what AWS is doing with products like ElasticSearch: "My argument is that AWS is eating seed grain, on its supply side, and doesn't know it."
828.
by jeswin 6y ago
There is no meaningful way for an independent vendor to compete with a Cloud Provider offering the same service. It gets bundled in the initial sales pitch, promoted in their documentation and at events, and gets heavily discounted. It simp
829.
by jeswin 6y ago
Elastic Search launched more than a decade back, when the cloud was used in an entirely different manner. The team had no way to foresee the shift to the managed services model; of AWS taking popular Open Source products, repackaging it and
830.
by jeswin 6y ago
Forgo has gotten better in the last couple of days, thanks to contributions. - Forgo Router https://github.com/forgojs/forgo-router - Error boundaries for sub-component error handling - CodeSandbox Links https:/&
831.
by jeswin 6y ago
China exported $125B worth of mobile phones. Cutting Google Play Store off would seriously harm their ability to sell outside - I wonder why Google doesn't play hard ball.
832.
by jeswin 6y ago
Re-rendering for state changes is a fairly easy thing to do, if you're willing to accept something like useState/setState. It can even be done application-side (without help from the lib). Basically, just wrap all state changes in
833.
by jeswin 6y ago
You're right - and I love what you said here. Backbone has been a huge influence for me. I liked everything being explicit, and the whole mechanism of your app working just as you designed it, without deviation.
834.
by jeswin 6y ago
Thanks, hadn't seen this prior art!
835.
by jeswin 6y ago
> I can't use a singleton for that; how do I know when that singleton is updated? It's up to the developer to make that decision. An AccountInfo control could be listening to "ACCOUNT_INFO_CHANGE" events (emitted when
836.
by jeswin 6y ago
Not now. I'll take a look at it if it doesn't add too much complexity. Thanks for the question, this is one of the reasons I posted the project early.
837.
by jeswin 6y ago
You make a valid point, I am upvoting you. It's a view rendering library, but it also does state management while not actually doing it. Forgo just makes some design decisions that makes state management not require any code in the lib
838.
by jeswin 6y ago
Point taken on TypeScript, I'll clean up that example later today. Perhaps I should move TS to a separate section. I totally expected rerender to be a bit controversial. But if you look at React, the user does provide (strong) hints in
839.
by jeswin 6y ago
It's manually triggered - you've to call rerender() which re-renders the specific component.
840.
by jeswin 6y ago
> What should a developer do that needs to share state across a Forgo app? We already have many facilities in JS to handle state. Singleton patterns, closures etc. The example on the website uses closures to handle component state - whic

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