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by lapcat 1y ago
> It's looking just at the moneyed class of entrepreneurs and declaring that "entrepreneurs come from backgrounds that provide a lot of resources". This is incorrect. For example, here's one of the links in the articl
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by lapcat 1y ago
"Please don't use HN primarily for promotion." https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html It appears that you're using HN primarily, indeed exclusively, for promotion: https://news.ycomb
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by lapcat 1y ago
I wasn't aware, because I'm not on Twitter/X, but yep: https://x.com/MillennialWoes/status/1893134391322308918
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by lapcat 1y ago
I hate to break it to you, but Cristiano Ronaldo is a billionaire.
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by lapcat 1y ago
> leftist discourse You jump to political labels awfully fast, based on a mere two sentences. > pretending not to understand things I'm not pretending anything. I also don't think I'm misunderstanding here. > thus ma
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by lapcat 1y ago
Imagine looking at the fattest people in the world and thinking, they must know something about food that others don't. Extraordinary. Everyone else knows that gluttony is bad, not good.
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by lapcat 1y ago
> Developers would revolt if Apple introduced it right away. What does "revolt" mean, exactly? I'm a developer myself, so I'd like to know what I would/should be doing? Keep in mind that a lot of Mac developers h
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by lapcat 1y ago
> just as soon as they can get away with it Who is stopping them currently?
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by lapcat 1y ago
Yes, the Apple developer program is $99 per year, but again, this has nothing to do with the submitted article.
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by lapcat 1y ago
What apocalypse, exactly? The stock market has eventually recovered from every "crash." Occasionally a big company crashes and never recovers, e.g., Lehman Brothers, but I wouldn't expect that to happen to Amazon, Meta, Micro
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by lapcat 1y ago
This headline is wildly inaccurate. $1 trillion in tech stocks were not "sold off." Rather, the collective market caps of some tech stocks dropped by $1 trillion. Market cap is mostly a useless number. It's the current stock
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by lapcat 1y ago
Note that the submitted article is about iOS, not macOS. The "notarization" process on iOS shares practically nothing with macOS except the name: https://developer.apple.com/help/app-store-connect/managin
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by lapcat 1y ago
> Their decision to use the same word for both is enough for me to treat them as the same. Ok... you can believe whatever you want to believe based on one word, or you can read the documentation that Apple has published: https:/&#x
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by lapcat 1y ago
> Notarization is the same for macOS and iOS AFAIK. It's not. They're totally different. The only thing they share is the word "notarization".
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by lapcat 1y ago
The submitted article is about iOS, not macOS. Apple unfortunately used the same word "notarization" on both platforms, but the processes are not even remotely similar. Perhaps the confusion was deliberate, but in any case, many c
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by lapcat 1y ago
> I still don’t see why you would want your parents to run untrusted software on their devices, but you do you I guess. I don't trust Apple's App Store review. They've approved countless scams that have tricked Apple users
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by lapcat 1y ago
> “Notarization of macOS software The submitted article is about notarization on iOS, which is vastly different from notarization on macOS. It's a shame that Apple used the same word for both platforms, because it appears to be conf
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by lapcat 1y ago
They don't notarize source code at all. They notarize compiled app binaries. Many or even most App Store apps are closed source.
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by lapcat 1y ago
No.
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by lapcat 1y ago
> The same thing exists on Windows, developers have to code sign their binaries. > Another solution that is not mentioned in the article is that users of both macos and windows The article is actually about notarization on iOS, which
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by lapcat 1y ago
We do know. It has never happened.
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by lapcat 1y ago
This has literally never happened.
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by lapcat 1y ago
You're talking about notarization on macOS. Notarization on iOS is vastly different. On iOS, notarization is more or less App Store review but with fewer rules.
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by lapcat 1y ago
> Is it? That’s not a given, and we definitely can’t say either way yet. Considering all of Mozilla’s past efforts, pretty much all of which they abandoned, I’d be very wary of calling this one a success so early on. The economics of sel
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by lapcat 1y ago
The criticism of this in the other comments is so strange. If Mozilla can raise some money independently of Google by selling merchandise, all the better! And it's not like software engineers are spending time on this instead of work
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by lapcat 1y ago
I downloaded the code from the repository yesterday, but it's really not very interesting.
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by lapcat 1y ago
Look at Obama's net worth when he left office and now. Look at Bill Clinton's net worth when he left office and now. It wasn't the final stage of their career but only the beginning.
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by lapcat 1y ago
> yeah but you're sort of attributing dishonesty to someones post when I don't think it merits it. There's a potential for dishonesty, but lack of honesty can also mean just opacity or reticence. Either way, openness and
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by lapcat 1y ago
That's fine, but you should attribute your certainty or uncertainty, as the case may be, to yourself and not to "the devil." It's vastly more honest to say, "I'm not sure about this" than "Devil'
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by lapcat 1y ago
Most small businesses run this way too, though. There are just fewer levels of hierarchy in a small business.

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