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by lux 5y ago
I got the sense that they meant "not willing" but I agree that's one of those English phrases that can easily be misconstrued towards the more negative interpretation. That said, I love the detailed post and the interesting s
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by lux 5y ago
Looking at this, along with using all of Unity or Unreal's engine, make me think of the saying "standing on the shoulders of giants". I usually think of that more in an open source context, but the layers of abstraction that
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by lux 5y ago
Good to know! Thanks for the example. Looking forward to giving this a spin!
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by lux 5y ago
This looks pretty awesome! I'd love to see an example using websockets. I've used Go for websockets in the past but find the boilerplate-to-custom code ratio isn't great. Knowing Go has a solid webrtc library ( https:/&#
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by lux 6y ago
That's exactly my point. I'm not arguing for the 1c/stream the OP is, rather to follow Deezer's model. Major labels are pocketing money that indies earned (and if you look into it they're not actually paying all of
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by lux 6y ago
I totally agree, the penny per stream focuses entirely on the wrong thing, further entrenching the real issue by derailing the whole discussion. It also makes it less likely the real issue will be taken as seriously later on after we'v
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by lux 6y ago
Deezer explains it well here: https://www.deezer.com/ucps
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by lux 6y ago
Tell that to listeners. Many artists don't list themselves there for that reason, but you're penalized for it because Spotify playlists are increasingly the only way many people access music at all. The do or don't isn't
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by lux 6y ago
Sorry, but there are plenty of developers on here (myself included) who can easily confirm that "too computationally expensive" is just BS so they don't have to change. Proof: Soundcloud is doing exactly this, so it's ab
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by lux 6y ago
Unsigned artists don't sign anything with labels but we do agree to Spotify's terms, and those terms take from us and hand it over to major labels. If a user pays $10/mo and listens to nothing but indie streams, those indies
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by lux 6y ago
There's nothing preventing Apple Pay-level security features from being integrated with 3rd party vendors like Stripe, except Apple's desire to keep 30%. It's highway robbery compared to every other payment processor's f
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by lux 6y ago
Instead of making the split at the app store level, enabling other payment processors within the iOS app store would solve most of these issues without creating a UX nightmare. That said, I wouldn't mind competition at the app store le
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by lux 6y ago
US only or will you ship to other places too (in Canada myself)?
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by lux 6y ago
I thought this was a pivot to WebXR for them or something at first.
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by lux 6y ago
Or make it a toggle instead of a separate section. I really appreciate being able to toggle between languages in API docs.
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by lux 6y ago
No affiliation with them, but we've had decent success with Twilio hosting our STUN/TURN ( https://www.twilio.com/stun-turn ). We still host the signaling server ourselves since it has negligible bandwidth/cpu
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by lux 6y ago
I've been meaning to check that out too!
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by lux 6y ago
Seeing things like this always reminds me of Boblo Island, which was an island amusement park in the Detroit river. You took a ferry from Detroit or Amherstburg, Ontario to get there and back. It shut down when I was 12, so my sisters who a
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by lux 6y ago
This absolutely improves the situation for a lot of indie developers, but praising Apple for it is short-term thinking. It's a strategic move, and it's not cynical to recognize that.
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by lux 6y ago
Essays by definition are to clarify one's own thinking. Why does anyone share them with others? Because we think they contribute something of value to others.
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by lux 6y ago
Cost of framework development is a fair point, and they do continue to add things like ARKit, the Swift language, and a million new submenus in Xcode ;) But that's been true of all OSes for decades and doesn't make iOS specialized
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by lux 6y ago
My point was to collect the arguments in one place (to clarify my own thinking), and that we need to establish that legal definition already. We've run the "unregulated app stores" experiment for long enough, now it's ti
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by lux 6y ago
Right you are! My mistake on including them as an example there. I should fix that. Edit: While they're not taking the same fee (honestly, 5% is pretty great!), they are the original company recognized for their "embrace, extend,
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Apple's 15% Deflection Tactic(johnluxford.com)
599 points by lux 6y ago|465 comments
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by lux 6y ago
One thing that strikes me from seeing all the discussion around the new macOS UI changes is that Windows 10 still falls back to far older UIs as soon as you get a few levels deep. I switch between them frequently for work and don't min
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by lux 6y ago
Good points, especially about the lack of documentation. Regardless of the type of interface, people need references to go with them. Discoverability can mean more than discovering features of the app too. To me, I think more about discover
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by lux 6y ago
Isn't that quote also the exact thing Apple and Google are doing by forcing a payment processor on people publishing apps to their app stores? (which I also think is a behaviour that should be stopped)
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by lux 6y ago
The best part is my fans revving up to max and getting noisy as heck.
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by lux 6y ago
It looks like this may be the new implementation: https://github.com/htm-community/htm.core
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by lux 6y ago
With it being open source now, someone may be able to write a new asset loader using either GLB or UDZ and convert any FBX assets to one of those formats.

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