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by kartickv 9y ago
I have to update the screenshots for my iOS app, but it seems that I should submit a new binary, which in turn pushes it all my users. I wonder if it would help to have a checkbox "This update is not worth pushing to already installed
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Show HN: Noctacam: control the flash to take better photos
3 points by kartickv 9y ago|0 comments
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by kartickv 9y ago
I understand and respect that you're not against AMP for personal reasons. An acquaintance of mine was complaining that Google didn't give him a way to opt his site out of AMP. If he's right, that's a bad move on Google&
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Why Apple Shouldn’t Become a Services Company(medium.com)
1 points by kartickv 9y ago|0 comments
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by kartickv 9y ago
I know you don't work on search, but I still wanted to let you know I'm happy whenever an AMP site loads, because its instant, and that it loads at all, as opposed to other sites that may time out on my slow unreliable cellular co
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by kartickv 9y ago
I don't see us having a constructive exchange of views, where each person gets a perspective they didn't have earlier, so I won't reply. Have a good day.
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by kartickv 9y ago
Rather than respoding to the points I made about AMP, you're focusing on an ad-hominem criticism of me personally. Please stop doing that.
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by kartickv 9y ago
Google said that they prioritise fast pages, not AMP pages. You can use some other way to make your pages load fast, and it won't make a difference. Unless you have solid evidence to the contrary, I see no reason to believe you over be
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by kartickv 9y ago
Which search result, and which obscure AMP result ranks higher than which non-AMP result? That's what needs to be cited, not an assertion free of evidence. Second, even if that does happen, the question is whether it would have happene
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by kartickv 9y ago
Thanks. Please see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14526419 for the problem with the web. Maybe I'll just end up writing two separate apps in Swift.
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by kartickv 9y ago
Thanks, but I need access to some system APIs. Now, I can always bridge them to the web, with two implementations, one for iOS and one for macOS, but that seems like doing the framework's work myself. If I do that, I might as well do t
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by kartickv 9y ago
Electron is desktop-only, isn't it? I need to support iOS and Mac. Thanks.
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Ask HN: hybrid app framework for an app that runs on iOS and Mac
5 points by kartickv 9y ago|9 comments
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by kartickv 9y ago
I wonder if this is a divide between geeks / power users / developers on one hand, who want more speed, and average users, who want more space. Every time someone talks about speed, that statement comes from a geek. By contrast, I
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by kartickv 9y ago
Maybe you're right that in a few years, I'll be able to buy a 6TB SSD for the $200 I'd pay for a hard disc today, but speaking as a user about to buy a computer, I want one that works great today. Which means worrying less ab
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by kartickv 9y ago
No, you don't get to grant or deny access to a particular granularity of location, which Android has.
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by kartickv 9y ago
That's a good point. Maybe app developers should be able to request the level of access they want, like precise location, neighborhood (postal code), city, state or country. If an app never needs more precise information than the count
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by kartickv 9y ago
On the contrary, usaphp is making a valid point, which is that the Surface has two modes, and that many things that work well in one mode don't work well in the other. In tablet mode, you're generally using lighter weight apps, so
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by kartickv 9y ago
Your last point is interesting, but RAM is as relevant a spec as some of the others Apple still lists, like the A10 64-bit processor. If I'm not supposed to care how much memory there is, why should I care whether there's a 64-bit
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by kartickv 9y ago
But that still doesn't mean I'd pay $1000 more for aluminium. $100? Okay. $1000? No.
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by kartickv 9y ago
Thanks to you and the parent for sharing your experience. As someone who was looking to buy a Surface Pro, I wonder if I shouldn't.
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by kartickv 9y ago
I'll go one step further — any pro tablet, and any $1000+ device, should have it builtin. It doesn't add much cost. You can get an entire smartphone with LTE for less than $100. So maybe the LTE costs $20.
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by kartickv 9y ago
Good point — though I don't have any Thunderbolt 3 devices or docks, the Surface is limited by not having a Thunderbolt 3 port, because I may buy a device later, perhaps the LG Ultrafine 5k monitor. We need more compatibility, not less
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by kartickv 9y ago
I did that once, and I wished that I could plug my phone in to my iPad to charge it. That didn't work because the iPad uses Apple's proprietary Lightning connector rather than the standard USB-C. If my iPad had USB-C, I could have
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by kartickv 9y ago
It's not just the cost, but also the hassle of getting SIM cards, submitting documentation to get each (in India), paying multiple bills, tracking which plan you're on for each SIM card, and so on.
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by kartickv 9y ago
Exactly. Bragging about how they didn't add a mm to the iMac to make it "pro", and that it's art, is as clear an indication as we'll get that Apple has forgotten why we power users buy their machines. It's to g
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by kartickv 9y ago
Half-height arrow keys should be banned. Especially given how often we use them. What a poor tradeoff of visual design over usability.
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by kartickv 9y ago
As someone looking to buy a 15-inch Macbook Pro with Touch Bar, is it worth waiting for this? Does the faster GPU help with VR? How much more battery life does it get?
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by kartickv 9y ago
Thanks for sharing Apple's rationale, but I disagree. The bottleneck is space, not speed, of SSDs. Few people need a GB per second of read or write more than they need space. If compression gives me even a GB of extra space on a 128GB
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by kartickv 9y ago
Compression is worth it if it saves even a GB on a 128 SSD, or a few hundred MB on a 16GB iPhone. In an alternate universe where all Macs come with at least 512GB storage, things might be different. Footnote: Apple still sells 16GB devices:

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