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by judah 9y ago
I understand lock downs for security or user experience (e.g. disallow sites to auto-play video, etc). But restricting web apps to the point they're actually broken? No, that really sucks. Shame on Apple. And if we care about freedom a
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by judah 9y ago
Yep. Before being listed in the app store, I was getting about 5 new users sign-ups per day. Now I am getting about 15.
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by judah 9y ago
Why build an app and not just live on the web? I answered that in the article, 2nd paragraph. The answer is two-fold: 1. That's where users are. We've trained a generation of users to find apps in app stores. 2. Some mobile platfo
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by judah 9y ago
Author here. Thanks all for bringing this to the HN front page. The jist of the article is getting a PWA into the app stores is harder than it needs to be, especially on iOS. Between Google, Apple, and Microsoft, I found Google's Play
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I built a progressive web app and published it in three app stores(debuggerdotbreak.judahgabriel.com)
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by judah 9y ago
Really? It's working fine here...
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by judah 9y ago
Unfortunately, their PWA "add to homescreen" feature is so bad, it's unusable. I've had to tell my users not to add to the homescreen. For example: sending a PWA to background causes it to die. For my music player app, t
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by judah 9y ago
All these new features, but HTML5 audio is still utterly busted on iOS Safari[0]. So much so that my music player PWA is essentially unusable on iOS Safari. Bug filed here[1], simple repro here[2]. I appreciate that service worker is here.
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by judah 9y ago
This is really amazing. Very impressive. Would love to see this published on the web somewhere to try it out quickly without requiring folks to have the necessary components to build it.
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by judah 9y ago
Homosexuality in general is associated with higher risk of disease[0]. But from a values standpoint, we believe (as we have for 3500 years) that God's ideal for humanity is monogamous male/female marriage. Homosexuality can't
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by judah 9y ago
Original poster here. To be part of our community, you must abide by the community's rules. Our values include an ideal of male-female marriage, no sex outside of marriage, no drug use or alcohol abuse, etc. You know, the things we adh
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by judah 9y ago
I don't deny that some things can go wrong, and I don't claim the system is perfect. But at the same time, in my 2 decades with Blue Cross Blue Shield, I paid through the nose (more than my mortgage!) and things still went wrong
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by judah 9y ago
It's not insurance. They disclose this on their own site[0]. When you go to the hospital, you disclose that. "I don't have health insurance, I am self-paid with a health sharing ministry." I think another major reason is
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by judah 9y ago
I'm the original poster. FWIW, my friend is on the same Christian healthcare. Last year he had a pulmonary embolism, which required an ambulance and a week in the hospital. The final bill was over $30,000. Within two weeks, the Christi
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by judah 9y ago
My answers: > What are your thoughts on nationwide healthcare then, as an extended version of CHM, but where the values (aka, rules of elegibility, and what is covered/not covered) are those of the nation instead of those of specifi
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by judah 9y ago
But Obamacare is still in effect. He removed the government fine for not getting healthcare.
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by judah 9y ago
I also stopped paying for health insurance; the cost of healthcare was already high and Obamacare only exacerbated the problem. This article is misleading, suggesting that the problem is the Trump administration rolling back Obamacare. The
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by judah 9y ago
What a bunch of populist clap trap. The people owned the web, but tech giants stole it? Please. Tech giants gave people what they wanted. Google, Facebook, Amazon: they gave people what they wanted and are compensated richly for that.
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by judah 9y ago
Graham addresses that in the TED talk. It'd encourage you to watch it - it's a short 15 minutes. Bertrand Russel, not a religious man by any means, said that "It's in our hearts that the evil lies, and from our hearts it
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by judah 9y ago
Graham did a fantastic TED talk[0] on technology, faith, and suffering. In it, he admires how technology has improved life and changed the world, but rightfully points out that the human heart and its propensity toward evil can't be fi
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by judah 9y ago
Side note: Pinker was in the news recently because Bill Gates says that Pinker's new book, Enlightenment Now, is Bill Gates' "favorite book of all time." [0] [0]: https://www.gatesnotes.com/Books/Enl
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by judah 9y ago
The United States is a wonderful, wonderful place. I've lived in several US states and have worked on temporary visa in foreign nations, so I have something to compare it to. Yes, healthcare and homes/apartments can be expensive,
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by judah 9y ago
Nope. Read the article[0], the temporary work visas on the chopping block apply only to low-skill workers without higher education. [0]: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/trump-admin-moves-bar-hai...
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by judah 9y ago
This is precisely what I'm talking about. It shows the President limiting the number of temporary work visas for low-skill workers. The original comment said that the President was revoking citizenship for legal citizens based on race.
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by judah 9y ago
This presupposes that the Titanic (civilization) will sink (die). The idea that civilization will die has been a remote possibility for virtually all of human history. That we should not have children because of this remote possibility is f
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by judah 9y ago
Your comment asserted that Trump's purported "sh--hole" comment referred to rounding up legal US immigrants and revoking their citizenship. I challenged that; the President was referring to discouraging immigration from natio
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by judah 9y ago
>> "What Trump was saying is that because Haiti is a shithole, my Haitian neighbors should be rounded up and sent back there" You're projecting. Trump's comment was that we should discourage immigration from places
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by judah 9y ago
This article starts off with several politically-charged insults and accusations against the President, claiming he is a racist. As the (never-Trump) news outlet National Review posted today[0], we can't have a productive conversation
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by judah 9y ago
Sure, there are scary and potentially troubling things going on in the world. If you are waiting for scary things to pass, you'll wait forever. There will never be a perfect utopian time when the economy is running 100% efficiently, wh
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by judah 9y ago
> "I don't want to make any child of mine grow up in the world it seems we're heading to" This is utterly short-sighted thinking. We in Western nations are utterly privileged and blessed to live in today's world.

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