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by lpsz 11y ago
A happy NameCheap user for years, I have started switching away. Their horrid "modern" 40px padding everywhere bubbly redesign makes GoDaddy look good in comparison. A major pain to manage more than a couple of domains, and numero
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by lpsz 11y ago
It's always possible to get the public key, e.g. see the accepted answer here: http://security.stackexchange.com/questions/16085/how-to-get...
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by lpsz 11y ago
The very insightful chart mentioned above: http://www.lumapartners.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/201...
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Lumosity fined $2M for deceptive ads of “Brain Training” app(ftc.gov)
601 points by lpsz 11y ago|251 comments
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by lpsz 11y ago
I'm an app developer. This change will absolutely break some of my stuff, and it's going to suck. Even with that, I do feel OP is taking an overtly political stance (even using the word "banned".) This change is perfectl
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by lpsz 11y ago
Always thought people eating sandwiches, burgers, etc. with their hands while also typing is gross. Keeping things clean, though: buy a box of 70% isopropyl pads (about 1"x1" squares) at your CVS/Walgreens and use them to cle
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by lpsz 11y ago
I can't tell if you're trolling, but "check your privilege" is one heck of a way to derail any argument. There is no virtue in being less privileged, and more privileged aren't necessarily morally bankrupt.
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by lpsz 11y ago
ECM is still very much functional, fortunately, this seemed like some kind of a restructuring move. Disclaimer: customer for many years
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by lpsz 11y ago
I've always found the biggest joke in these forms, among other federal forms, to be the OMB "paperwork reduction" statements. [1] Even airport landing customs cards have these. Why these make no sense: - They take up a good c
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by lpsz 11y ago
One can like or hate Amazon, and it may or may not be a crappy place to work. That said, it sounds like NYT (a newspaper of record, btw) did more than reasonable selective reporting, to evoke certain feelings in the readers, to get clicks,
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by lpsz 11y ago
I'm disappointed that this poster was downvoted instead of constructive discussion, especially with the reply about "the freedoms we have to give up."
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by lpsz 11y ago
Updating iOS via iTunes (for beta installs, restores, etc.) has the quirk of syncing apps to iTunes, and then syncing them back to the phone. This seems like a legacy annoying thing to me: why can't it just transparently re-download th
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by lpsz 11y ago
The point is that we've grown to mentally associate the word "work" with "doing chores for my boss because I have to." It's a dirty word, the way we use it. What about redefining this word to mean, for some ind
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by lpsz 11y ago
Surprised to see such a non-imaginative viewpoint on HN. Over what I feel like the last couple of decades, we've been taught that work == bad, life == good. You work because you have to, you trade time for money, you suffer from 9 to 5
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by lpsz 11y ago
Yes, and the standard Go workspace layout (and therefore not even needing a makefile) is great.
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by lpsz 11y ago
Thanks, I actually read! "The Go devs have since stated that they were surprised to see that a lot of Go converts were from dynamic languages like Python and not C or C++. Go still makes sense for a lot of apps ... somewhere, however,
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by lpsz 11y ago
I use upstart to respawn if crashes, but there's definitely more than one way to solve this one :) Hot code reloads is the more interesting issue.
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by lpsz 11y ago
Re: gin, thanks for the tip. I feel like this one makes more sense in development than in production, would like to avoid side effects (first HTTP request restarts the server), also an extra proxy layer. Re: web framework. Absolutely, no in
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by lpsz 11y ago
Hmm, still in the exploratory-hacking phase. Rewrote various parts of what Gorilla provides for learning purposes, plan to switch to Gorilla. Using "lib/pq" (Postgres) for the db. Also: need to cache some computed data in mem
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by lpsz 11y ago
If you were choosing today, would you recommend choosing Elixir over Go for web/back-end development? Would you say Go is more suited for high-performance command-line tools, and Elixir for long-term running stuff? I'm an indie de
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by lpsz 11y ago
Was able to find a video of the fight discussed in the article: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iXgE2SZBaUE
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by lpsz 11y ago
For those who don't know, this fellow was famous as early as the 90s [1]. If he returns to spamming again and again, doesn't it mean that the punishment is lesser than the gains to be had? And too bad. [1] https://en.wi
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by lpsz 11y ago
I use this on Mac, it looks like there's a Windows version as well: https://www.sourcetreeapp.com/
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by lpsz 11y ago
Yep. They could also use some shared C/C++ bits to generate various drawing metadata ("the model") and delegate the rendering/input handling to whatever platform-specific APIs. It may be more work, but if you're not
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by lpsz 11y ago
I have to say, I miss the age of native apps. I understand that it's awesome cakes for Spotify, GitHub, etc. engineers to share JavaScript bits between devices. But it sucks for me as the user! The Spotify app (on my Mac) has become a
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by lpsz 11y ago
I'm with you on the sandboxing issues and lack of means to contact users. FWIW, Fastspring is fairly customizable! The value over Stripe is that you don't have to deal with PCI details or worrying about fraud. Also, taxes/VAT
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by lpsz 11y ago
IAP doesn't work too well for trials. You have to label it a free app, and then users get angry that you're charging for features. 2.6 Apps that are "beta", "demo", "trial", or "test"
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by lpsz 11y ago
And it's not all that bad. * For updates, use Sparkle framework. [1] * For licensing, use CocoaFob [2] or write your own. * For payments, use FastSpring like most other indie shops. [3] Only other detail is having to write a EULA yours
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by lpsz 11y ago
I think most serious Mac developers simply don't use the MAS (notable exceptions being Fantastical and 1Password, but they offer the ability to purchase directly as well). It also seems like few users browse there. Being in "Top 1
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by lpsz 11y ago
At the risk of being off-topic, an honest stupid EE question: What physical innovations actually drive the processor releases, or even flash storage sizes? I understand that each generation shrinks the transistors. But what tangible things

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