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by judah 7y ago
This is yet another reason proprietary app stores should be supplemented, if not replaced altogether, by the open web and progressive web apps. Having a central authority that dictates what software you can and can't use is bad for use
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by judah 7y ago
Shortcuts is an amazing, truly underrated app. Almost anything your phone can do, Shortcuts can do. Extremely powerful. For fun, I created the Martin Luther Insulter shortcut[0]. Say, "Hey Siri, have Martin Luther insult me", and
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iOS 13 for PWAs and web development(medium.com)
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by judah 7y ago
>> "mostly instant death" Afraid you're mistaken. See /r/natureismetal [0] -- or any nature documentary, for that matter -- and you'll see many animals are eaten while still alive. Predators tend to do th
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by judah 7y ago
> I find it increasingly harder to understand what objectively is wrong about these purported ethical dilemmas (e.g. cloning) Believer in God here, and, like you, I find these "playing God" concerns to be largely unfounded, and
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by judah 7y ago
That may be so, but it wouldn't matter much. People are messy. I've never met someone who is 100% consistent in their values.
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by judah 7y ago
Libertarian leaning folks will say that forcing people to receive injections at the mandate of a government with a past history of abuse is an infringement of individual liberty. Vaccines have undoubtedly saved millions of lives and eradica
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by judah 7y ago
>> I would argue that you are misusing the web What? I built a music player, like Pandora. How is that misusing the web? I don't want to build a native app. This is a side project for me - I don't have the time, resources, o
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React community accused of being pro-toxic masculinity(hub.packtpub.com)
8 points by judah 7y ago|1 comments
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by judah 7y ago
Power saving is great, except when it breaks apps. Unfortunately, Webkit has broken certain web apps by their power saving features. For example, on iOS, I have a Pandora-like web app that plays music. When my app is in the background and t
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by judah 8y ago
The data brought to light by Factfulness also contradicts this NYT article, which claims the US is not addressing poverty. In fact, the US and most western nations -- and indeed the world as a whole -- are getting richer with less poverty.
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by judah 8y ago
It's in the right-click menu, and also in the the "..." menu on the right side of the address bar.
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by judah 8y ago
You conflate the current state of PWAs with their ultimate outcome. If web apps are as good as native for most people, there is no need for proprietary app stores. This does indeed conflict with Apple's app store business model. And de
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by judah 8y ago
This exemplifies some of the reasons proprietary app store lock-in is bad for consumers. Progressive Web Apps -- web apps that are installable and available offline without any app store -- are a viable alternative, and ultimately a threat
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When People Leave(ayende.com)
1 points by judah 8y ago|0 comments
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PWA2APK – Get Your Progressive Web App into Google Play(appmaker.xyz)
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Making Money from Open Source Software: The Problem(ayende.com)
2 points by judah 8y ago|1 comments
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by judah 8y ago
Things are slightly better in iOS 12.2 (e.g. web share, slightly better PWA restore to fore), but lots of things are still missing or broken [0]. [0]: https://medium.com/@firt/pwas-on-ios-12-2-beta-the-good-the-...
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Google Play Store Now Open for Progressive Web Apps(medium.com)
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PWAs on iOS 12.2 beta: the good, the bad, and the “not sure yet if good”(medium.com)
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by judah 8y ago
>> "What you fail to note is that Palestinians use this term in the context of demolishing Israeli ...policies" That's true, but both of the Palestinian factions, Hamas and Fatah, use this phrase to mean destruction of
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by judah 8y ago
Sure, he has the freedom to say it. And CNN has the freedom to terminate their contract with him.
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by judah 8y ago
He absolutely implied, and the comments in this thread document precisely that. More importantly, he stated "Palestine from the river to the sea", which is an anti-Semitic dog whistle calling for the eradication of Israel. It&#x27
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by judah 8y ago
It's not twisting his words. He literally said, "Palestine from the river to the sea." That means no Israel. Its why that phrase has been used repeatedly by Hamas, the Palestinian terrorist organization whose charter calls fo
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by judah 8y ago
Here's a piece of the speech where he argues that we should permit violence against Israelis: https://twitter.com/AviMayer/status/1067985406388510727
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by judah 8y ago
For the uninformed, Marc Lamont Hill is a university professor and CNN contributor who was fired from CNN yesterday after his speech to the United Nations in which he argued for "a free Palestine from the river to the sea" (meanin
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by judah 8y ago
No, HTTP caching and PWA web worker caching works fine. (In fact, web workers require HTTPS to even function.) Eric Meyer's "HTTPS busts caching" complaint refers not to HTTP or web worker caching, but man-in-the-middle local
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by judah 8y ago
Thanks for this list! And I appreciate that the RTL naughty string contains Hebrew for the first line of Genesis 1. :-)
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by judah 8y ago
The article mentions it only in passing, but in 2019 we'll finally see Cosmic Crisps [0] on the market. These are likely to surpass the Honeycrisp in texture, sweetness, and tart. And unlike the otherwise excellent Honeycrisp, Cosmic C
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by judah 8y ago
It's a dim lens because it's a poor way of looking at the world; most things in life are not class/gender/race struggles. :-) Jacobin says parents telling their children to use their time wisely is actually a class/

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