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by lukifer 12y ago
Alcohol prohibition is an apt historical lesson, especially regarding violence and black markets, but there is a significant difference: the intended targets. Alcohol was outlawed primarily to target men, particularly the violent and alcoho
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by lukifer 12y ago
I did not know this. Thanks for sharing.
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by lukifer 12y ago
Yeah, local SFTP would still be horribly inefficient; presumably you'd be aware of the leaky abstraction and use it lightly, whereas things would get messy if Coda tried to abstract it for you. > There's no technical reason why
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by lukifer 12y ago
I would like this feature too (as well as indexing symbols from remote files), butI wouldn't expect it, due to the potential for overwhelming a server by downloading hundreds or thousands of files. Doing the search server-side would be
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by lukifer 12y ago
This was due to the lack of upgrade pricing in the App Store; they essentially gave everyone the upgrade price for a while. $99 was always the intended "retail price"; now that they've abandoned the App Store, I expect Coda 3
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by lukifer 12y ago
If a Rolex stops keeping time, it's conceivable it would still be worn. But if a BMW no longer starts up, the driver's not going to sit behind the wheel. Whether it's the (mostly) info-appliance market of iOS, or the producti
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by lukifer 12y ago
Aside from all the little quirks of MyApp N+1 (multiple versions of the same app installed, new users accidentally buying old versions), there is one major flaw in this practice: upgrade pricing. I'm usually happy to pay $20-40 for a s
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by lukifer 12y ago
> A nightmarish minefield where you'd suddenly be being charged again for minimal updates to trivial apps. If this is true, we should be seeing it in non-MAS apps. Can you cite some examples of these practices in existing Mac softwa
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by lukifer 12y ago
I think that's debatable. Trials could result in more software getting purchased (and fewer instances of feeling burned, meaning more likelihood of future MAS purchases). Lowering the 30% would trickle savings down to customers, as pro
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by lukifer 12y ago
I think most developers understood not having these features at launch. But it's been over three years now, and progress has been glacial at best. No one believes that Apple can't implement these things; their actions demonstrate
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by lukifer 12y ago
I fail to see how any of the things I suggested put them at a disadvantage to Google, other than maybe lowering the 30% (and given that that the vast majority of Apple's revenue comes from hardware, I strongly doubt that it would be si
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by lukifer 12y ago
The lack of tabs drives me crazy. A few other letdowns on the user side: 6. No wishlist and no way to gift apps to friends (textbook example of leaving money on the table). 7. No way to rollback to old versions (particularly relevant when c
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by lukifer 12y ago
It's not just about revenue, but about process. For instance, the delay on bug fix releases could still use a lot of improvement. (Disclaimer: I work in web-land, where a deploy time of more than 10 seconds is laughable.) But even just
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by lukifer 12y ago
Sandboxing is an excellent default, but the lack of permanent, specific exceptions when they're genuinely needed is what blocks whole categories of apps needlessly. (Your mother is probably not likely to download a pro FTP client.)
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by lukifer 12y ago
Talk is cheap. What actions has Apple taken to demonstrate that they care about facilitating the businesses of developers using the App Stores? They've added APIs, tools, even a new language, but the only improvement I can think of for
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by lukifer 12y ago
Whenever Bruce Schneier gets an "I have nothing to hide" from a radio/TV interviewer, he always asks them on-air "What's your salary?". No one ever answers.
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by lukifer 12y ago
The counterargument is that regulation hurts small players more than large ones. Citibank can afford an army of compliance officers; most of us can't. I'm generally pro-regulation, if the details are sensible, but regulatory captu
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by lukifer 12y ago
I've also moved over to Laravel for the most part, but I like the minimalism of CodeIgniter, and still use it occasionally. It's actually to CI's advantage that it has grown so conservatively: it's still fast, secure, re
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by lukifer 12y ago
The mining self-balances; if enough miners shut off their rigs, the difficulty goes down, and it becomes profitable (or break-even) to mine again. (Mining was heavily over-invested, and it's in the ugly process of rebalancing now.) It&
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by lukifer 12y ago
Muslims are not homogeneous, and none can speak for the whole.
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by lukifer 12y ago
I would love a potential use case as a backup that is redundant dozens or hundreds of times over. I'm not sure the exact mechanism by which DVDs start to lose data over 10-20 years, but this tech might be a way to mitigate that risk (a
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by lukifer 12y ago
> people will still want to archive their downloads I don't know how true this is. Even the tech-savvy folks I know rely primarily on Netflix/Spotify/etc, and in the rare instances they buy something, they trust iTunes&#x2
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by lukifer 12y ago
I have never heard that before, it definitely sounds weird to my ears.
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by lukifer 12y ago
In addition to the oft-cited deployment story, I think another reason for PHP's success is that it's the only major language specifically created as a DSL for rendering web pages. Once you're accustomed to having its baked-in
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by lukifer 12y ago
A possible answer to Fermi that I don't hear often: that there's plenty of life in the universe, but it's long-lived, and very, very slow. If you assume that intelligence inevitably separates from its physical substrate into
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by lukifer 12y ago
Humans have a problem with complexity and compound causality in general; any person who succeeds does so by some combination of both individual grit, and support from society and loved ones (even if indirectly), regardless of what the propo
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by lukifer 12y ago
I wonder if there's a sufficient market for peer-to-peer lending of movies and games, backed by a floating deposit. Uber for discs-by-mail, as it were.
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by lukifer 12y ago
I cook for health, enjoyment and relaxation. I do strict paleo, which makes things pretty simple: omelette and bacon for breakfast, meat and vegetable for dinner, no lunch, but fruit and nuts as desired. If I'll be short on time to coo
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by lukifer 12y ago
> Also a good basis to delve further into relationships with non-persons of the state or corporations. At some level, personhood becomes interchangable with the concept of "brand", with the latter being an invention to piggybac
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by lukifer 12y ago
There is an interesting selection process at work here: power brokers rubbing elbows with other power brokers, forming trust bonds and learning who can or can't be trusted not to spill the beans (with all parties knowing that a single

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