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by lapcat 1y ago
I'm puzzled why this very short 133 word blog post that offers nothing new — literally: "I will add my voice to the chorus" — is getting upvoted so much on HN. I don't disagree with the blog post, but it's just not
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by lapcat 1y ago
> the basic and commonly understood meaning of the word "unimportant" - the definition is fairly easy to understand This is nonsense. I don't agree at all. The meaning of "important" and "unimportant",
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by lapcat 1y ago
> But... if every small bug is fixed This is a straw man that I never suggested. On the contrary, I said in Part 1, "I don’t fix every bug in my products." > How do the actually-important things get addressed? How exactly do
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by lapcat 1y ago
> How does one finance a project or a company with increased maintenance costs You seem to be assuming that the company will eventually pay off the technical debt rather than just continue accumulating it and lowering production quality.
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by lapcat 1y ago
> I guess you can't argue with the results, as they have a market value North of 3 trillion dollars This was financed by equally massive technical debt.
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by lapcat 1y ago
See also the Image Capture bug from several years ago where it appends a ton of empty data to imported photos: https://cdfinder.de/blog/files/image_capture_bug.html (I'm not sure whether this bug has been fix
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by lapcat 1y ago
> If he was averaging a dollar a week since release (which I was once told is above average for mac tools) it seems unlikely that cloners would continue cloning his app as long as he kept maintaining the original. With every comment the
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by lapcat 1y ago
I don't know, but the author's app is not "the 100th most popular app on the iStore/play store". A few things to note: 1. Mac App Store volume is separate from and vastly lower than iOS App Store volume. 2. Upfront
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by lapcat 1y ago
Do you have links? So far none of your claims have been substantiated. Frankly, this entire submission feels like a ruse to get publicity. If you wanted to just talk about your app, this should have been a Show HN like your past submissio
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by lapcat 1y ago
> I'm assuming a top 100 app that got talked about sold at least 1000 copies for at least a few dollars each No, this is a vast overestimate for top 100 paid utilities in the Mac App Store. And there's no actual evidence I ca
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by lapcat 1y ago
That was my question, though. In what sense is an open source Github project a "copy" of a closed source App Store app?
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by lapcat 1y ago
> To clarify, my app is not open source. I only mentioned the open-source clones that have also appeared. In what sense are open source Github projects "clones" of a closed source App Store app? Do you have links to these proje
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by lapcat 1y ago
> The app became unexpectedly successful, hitting the top 100 paid utilities What's your definition of "successful"? Mac App Store volume is quite low, especially with upfront paid apps. You're likely averaging only a
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by lapcat 1y ago
Redford's Sundance Institute and Sundance Film Festival was a monumental contribution, changing the film industry for the better, a boon to indie filmmakers. IMO this is Redford's most important legacy. This is so essential now es
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by lapcat 1y ago
Well, I was mainly referring to politicians and other prominent persons. I'm not denying that anonymous individuals exist who have remained consistent over the decades, but they don't seem to have much power anymore.
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by lapcat 1y ago
> I think some actually do. May I ask who? > And some follow what they thought it meant, or what they thought it should have meant. This isn't contrary to my claim.
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by lapcat 1y ago
> No consistent ideology or underlying theory of government > just blind support for your chosen side's leaders. These are two different questions. I'm not sure whether the political parties should have consistent ideologies
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by lapcat 1y ago
I agree that this is the claim of self-described true conservatives. However, I think the claim is empirically false, and they do not actually follow what the label meant in our youth.
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by lapcat 1y ago
In the United States, terms such as "conservative" and "liberal" seem to be used primarily to describe whatever currently happens to be popular in the duopolistic Republican and Democratic parties. I'm old enough no
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by lapcat 1y ago
> But the intro could use some context. What do you mean by that?
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by lapcat 1y ago
FYI on a Mac, option - is an en dash, shift option - is an em dash. Smart quotes are trickier, because the shortcuts are unfortunately unintuitive IMO. I forget what the original ones are, but they involve the [ and ] keys. I've actual
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by lapcat 1y ago
The article title is actually "Stop AI-Shaming Our Precious, Kindly Em Dashes—Please". The HN submission title is the subtitle.
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by lapcat 1y ago
> Most of the people that hang out in normie social networks "touch grass" a lot more frequently than the types that hang out on text forums It's missing the point to compare two types of people. You need to compare the so
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by lapcat 1y ago
> What actually happened was that the first generation of text-loving online people were eventually outnumbered by subsequent waves of "migration" by people who don't like text and prefer images and (especially) video. It
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by lapcat 1y ago
The article is talking primarily about third-party tracking scripts. These would not be providing autocomplete to first-party forms. The article does talk about one example which is not considered wiretapping: a Google search field with aut
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by lapcat 1y ago
Yes, it's definitely possible.
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A tech-law measurement and analysis of event listeners for wiretapping(arxiv.org)
74 points by lapcat 1y ago|8 comments
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by lapcat 1y ago
There's a reason nobody remembers: the DoJ announced it was no longer seeking the breakup of Microsoft on September 6, 2001. A few days later, 9/11 occurred, and all other news was erased. I'm not suggesting a conspiracy, by
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by lapcat 1y ago
> The only real difference I see is that reading doesn't require a reproducible example, while debugging does. You can manipulate values in a debugger to make it go down any code path you like.
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by lapcat 1y ago
> Does this person also identify performance issues by reading the code? This is completely impractical. This sounds like every technical job interview.

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