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by lolsal 6y ago
Not every thing we do has to solve every problem immediately and entirely. Incremental progress is good.
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by lolsal 6y ago
I found this site really interesting and went through the little quiz but also backed out when I had to give personal information. I guess they want to avoid the Greater Fuckwad Theory?
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by lolsal 6y ago
Thank you for saying what I could not articulate.
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by lolsal 6y ago
Given the other options, it's a vote with my wallet for the kind of world I want.
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by lolsal 6y ago
This is the other side of the open-source coin in my opinion. The freedom to fork and do your own thing is great when you're fighting The Man (somehow) but it seems different when The Man does it to you or one of your projects. I perso
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by lolsal 6y ago
I think you are dismissing another avenue you could take (even if I doubt it would be successful): bill them or send them an invoice. - bill for your time at a reasonable (previously established), rate. This is if you want to get your stuff
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by lolsal 6y ago
> Only if you assume features are equal in terms of necessary effort and value (they aren't) This is why we use story points and velocity, not time. > and never leave technical debt behind for later cleanup (they do) What does th
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by lolsal 6y ago
I don't evaluate engineers on feature value, only velocity and quality. If the product owners ask for it, that's what we're doing. It's not the engineers fault if some features don't fit the market and some fit real
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by lolsal 6y ago
Is it totally subjective? Can't you measure feature delivery velocity? I can look at delivered velocity for engineers and see trends over 10+ sprints.
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by lolsal 6y ago
I really appreciate apps like this that are just 'apps' - not services, not subscriptions, just a little stand-alone, offline, limited scope app that does what it does well. I bought a copy. Looking forward to playing around with
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by lolsal 6y ago
For reference, a teacher that I know in Maharashtra is paid about $9000 USD yearly, or ~630,000 rupees.
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by lolsal 6y ago
Sorry, it's been a decade so I don't remember that whole thing. Were users required to use IE, or was it required to be installed? I remember using Chrome/FF/Opera on Windows for many years. You could swap to another bro
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by lolsal 6y ago
Consumers in theory would punish Apple by not buying Apple products. But they don't and I can only guess why (they don't care about browser rendering engines). If you're trying to narrow your punishment to be specifically &qu
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by lolsal 6y ago
Buyer beware? Were you under the impression whatsoever that you were buying 'free' hardware?
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by lolsal 6y ago
Sometimes a job is just a job.
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by lolsal 6y ago
It boggles my mind that a company makes a fairly innocuous decision (which you would expect consumers to punish them for) like requiring all web views to use the same renderer as Safari, and there are people like you rushing to have the gov
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by lolsal 6y ago
I look for a car instead of a motorcycle for a similar reason. Maybe you are not the intended audience/consumer for tablets?
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by lolsal 6y ago
> What makes them scummy? Breaking the TOS > They want to make money without paying Apple's 30% Too bad, that's what it costs to play in the Apple ecosystem. > (for what? hosting the app would cost Epic very little, payme
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by lolsal 6y ago
Yes. I've been in software for just over 20 years, in the network security sector for the last 7. Did you have a point to present or just an attempted attack on me personally?
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by lolsal 6y ago
You're not understanding what I'm saying; I'm not communicating the point well enough. The fact that is impossible to side load apps is a feature to me. If Apple enables you and others to side load apps, it removes a feature
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by lolsal 6y ago
They are implying I'm not a hacker because I like the Apple ecosystem, aren't they?
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by lolsal 6y ago
> This would all go away if Apple simply made it a setting to allow other IPAs It's not that simple. Right now when I look at the apps on my phone, I have a very, very high confidence that they are not malware. It's not 100% th
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by lolsal 6y ago
> As an Apple user, I think you’re crazy. It being locked down is the worst part about it and the main reason I’m considering moving off Apple in the future. If it makes you feel any better, I have never, ever, felt "locked down&quo
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by lolsal 6y ago
> Ultimately, you can only say that this case has no value to you if you can reason that there is no way that it will make things better for you, and that's a very tough thing to prove without a crystal ball :) You're inverting
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by lolsal 6y ago
It's a fallacy to think you can play gatekeeper regarding 'hacking' just because I (or more generally the HN audience) like and value one phone ecosystem over another. Surely you knew that already though, right?
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by lolsal 6y ago
> This just makes it risky for the consumer to rely on 'Sign in with Apple', especially for cross-platform applications. The risk/reward cuts both ways. If a developer starts putting malware/whatever in their apps and
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by lolsal 6y ago
> Epic caused their own pain here, sure but What other way can we actually get a semi open platform that we're not being taxed on? As an Apple user, the whole point here is that it's not an open system. I just can't get ri
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by lolsal 6y ago
No I meant the revenue of Pinterest. I can't understand how they make that kind of money.
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by lolsal 6y ago
That boggles my mind.
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by lolsal 6y ago
> Let me clarify: I believe it's a waste of time if we're also not complaining to our elected representatives. I still disagree with your clarification. Even ten phone calls are better than zero.

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