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by kyle-rb 8y ago
Oh, cool. I think I was confused about Apple's rules on this. I guess you are allowed to push minor updates to your app, as long as it's JavaScript being executed by their JavaScript engine/WebKit. But apparently there is (or
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by kyle-rb 8y ago
All browsers on iOS are essentially wrappers for Safari. They all have to use the built-in iOS WebView; per Apple's rules you're not allowed to execute JS or anything like that on your own.
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On one hand I can see rational reasons for them not allowing it; Apple doesn't control when you push updates to your PWA, so they don't want to give their seal of approval by listing it in the app store. But on the other hand, it&
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by kyle-rb 8y ago
>the second or third time they get the same question, they'll actually stop what they're doing and fix the code. This is great for actual issues, but what about the genuinely stupid questions? Or the customers who basically jus
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by kyle-rb 8y ago
>I've never heard someone long for a more "business oriented" programming language. I don't think that was a genuine opinion of the author, more just a cheeky hint at the reveal that they were describing COBOL (COmmon
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by kyle-rb 8y ago
Agreed; I discovered a lot of music through Pandora. In my experience Spotify tends to stagnate on the artist you seed the radio station with, whereas Pandora introduces more variety.
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by kyle-rb 8y ago
People can already spoof email addresses pretty easily though.
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by kyle-rb 8y ago
RIP Terry. I hope he finally gets his space alien.
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by kyle-rb 8y ago
What? First of all my main argument was that installing outside the App Store is much easier on MacOS than it is on iOS. Second: many, many sites host their own DMG downloads, with zero fake download buttons. I don't think searching fo
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by kyle-rb 8y ago
I feel like blocking European users should return a 451 error, "Unavailable for legal reasons"
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>Case in point - where's the competitor for the Mac App Store on macOS? There's not. Users have to do all the legwork themselves. Yeah, double-clicking that DMG and dragging the .app 30 pixels to the Applications shortcut is a
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by kyle-rb 8y ago
Yeah, Apple needs a monopoly on serving ads too.
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It doesn't seem like the publications stole it from the tweet. It's just that someone presumably saw the tweet, asked the question on StackExchange (question is gone now so not sure whether the asker mentioned the tweet), and then
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by kyle-rb 8y ago
If you mean hashing the whole blob of data, one issue could be that if they ever wanted to add a new tracking data point, they would lose backward compatibility with their previously collected values. I guess they could fix that by making t
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by kyle-rb 8y ago
Generally my go-to "upset" emoji are upside-down-smiley, or crying-laughing plus gun (still a real gun at least in Discord).
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>There is no OEM here being bullied. Right, only the end users are harmed, as it should be.
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by kyle-rb 8y ago
I read a lot of those pokemon books as a kid as well, and I agree that they provide some motivation. But watch out for recent unofficial books, specifically the "Diary of a <insert pokemon>" series (which I think got C&D
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by kyle-rb 8y ago
You're using Von Neumann machine in the sense of a self-replicating machine. I think the commenter you're replying to meant Von Neumann architecture, which is the basic layout of a computer, and has nothing to do with self-replica
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by kyle-rb 8y ago
I agree, but I think they started running out of cats. Puma, Panther, and Mountain Lion are all distinct releases of MacOS, but they're the exact same species.
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Nice! I made an SVG animation myself, but I used embedded CSS animations instead of SMIL: http://nin.ten.dog/img/shibe.svg
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>What do they know? They know real world. So when explaining something like for example a Superclass, you can use something like a vehicle... This is good up to a point, and obviously it makes sense for absolute beginners. But eventually
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by kyle-rb 8y ago
To clarify the woman farmer being 14 or 15 bytes: the example given is four different combined characters, and is additionally a "medium skin tone woman farmer". A woman farmer requires the "woman" and "ear of rice&
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by kyle-rb 8y ago
This reminds me of the "pull to refresh" patent that Twitter owns, but has promised to only use defensively. Optimistically, Google wants a similar thing so they can defend the use of this technique if someone tries to seek royalt
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by kyle-rb 8y ago
Flutter looked absolutely perfect to me until I looked into calling C++ libraries, in order to facilitate a mobile version of a desktop app made with Qt/C++. It turns out the only way to call C++ code is to write two separate wrappers,
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by kyle-rb 8y ago
As someone who learned web dev in the era after jQuery was marked by many as deprecated, I started to resent it mainly because of all the StackOverflow posters that give jQuery answers to JavaScript questions. (Plus the cases where CSS woul
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But Apache was born before jQuery, and continues to live on after jQuery (should have) died.
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>Such a system encourages riders to travel at dangerous speeds: once, 25-year-old Mohaan came off his motorbike and badly injured his knee cap, but continued to his destination for fear that terminating the job would get him the sack. So
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by kyle-rb 8y ago
Carmack is CTO of Oculus, which is owned by Facebook. So I imagine that's part of why a lot of his social media presence is there these days. Not sure about Jim Black.
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Based on their commercials, I assumed their business had something to do with talking dogs.
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by kyle-rb 9y ago
>And since our justifiable negative association with the Nazi leader is, fundamentally, that he weaponized this vulnerability in human cognition, it is one way of acting on our dislike for this Hitler to make sure that the AIs we build a

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