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by nodamage 7y ago
There's no reason this can't be done with code as well. See: SwiftUI
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by nodamage 7y ago
At this point I am convinced that the decision to define UI layouts in XML instead of code has been a terrible mistake. - For starters, it's overly verbose. If you've worked with stuff like XAML in WPF or XML layouts on Android, y
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by nodamage 7y ago
Regardless of intent, we know that all three major voice assistant services (Siri, Alexa, Google Assistant) experience false positives and end up accidentally recording conversations when the device thinks the trigger word was spoken, b
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by nodamage 7y ago
The Play Store requires each developer to include a contact email address, which is then published in the store listing for each app. This makes it very easy for someone to scrape all the store listings to collect all of the contact emails
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by nodamage 7y ago
> I talked to many different lawyers, including lawyers who had successfully defended companies from scraping-related lawsuits, and they all told me, unanimously, that it was hopeless. How long ago was this? It seems like the courts have
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by nodamage 7y ago
The biggest problem with VR in X-Plane is the headsets aren't high-res enough for the text on the instruments to be clear and readable. It's a bit better on the newer headsets with slightly higher resolution, but then the framerat
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by nodamage 7y ago
This is a risk that has always existed and is not particularly new - how many web-based businesses have died due to changes in Google's search algorithms, for example?
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by nodamage 8y ago
Does this only apply to encryption or also signatures?
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by nodamage 8y ago
Is this really a good idea though? I thought it was generally preferred practice to store large binary files outside of the database. Otherwise the database file will end up growing pretty quickly.
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by nodamage 8y ago
It might be different from a technical perspective, but from a privacy perspective information about the user has been transferred to the advertiser, who paid Facebook for the privilege. And "at some later point" may not be that f
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by nodamage 8y ago
They might not have your name and address (yet), but they've likely taken a browser fingerprint which can eventually be used to de-anonymize you.
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by nodamage 8y ago
Are there any good examples of a cross platform application written in Qt that is available on iOS, Android, Mac, and Windows?
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by nodamage 8y ago
Yes I would normally expect "cross-platform" to indicate support for iOS, Android, macOS, and Windows... not just the first two.
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by nodamage 8y ago
Thank you for providing these detailed examples, some of these are serious showstoppers indeed and indicate this project is still very much in the alpha stage. It's always seemed to me that frameworks that try to emulate native UI widg
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by nodamage 8y ago
Is anyone else concerned that the influx of cheap, low-quality iOS apps ported to Mac via Marzipan is going to effectively poison the well for existing Mac apps? Software prices have already been pushed to rock bottom on mobile but things a
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by nodamage 8y ago
> “In the past three months (June, July, August), Evernote has been downloaded 2.5 million times worldwide,” a spokesperson for analytics firm Apptopia said. “After store fees, the app has brought in revenues of $2.9 million through in-a
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by nodamage 8y ago
Except that's not correct. If you've purchased CoolApp you can always re-install it via the previous purchases section of the App Store, even if the developer has removed it from sale. So you can continue using CoolApp as long as
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by nodamage 8y ago
Well if an app has been abandoned then it's abandoned and there's nothing anyone can do. But if makers of 'CoolApp' release 'CoolApp2' with support for newer devices then I think that's entirely reasonable
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by nodamage 8y ago
Actually, even apps that have been removed from sale by the developer can still be installed by the customer through the previous purchases section of the App Store. (Assuming it's still compatible with the device and version of iOS yo
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by nodamage 8y ago
The fact that D3 outsold D1 and D2 combined suggests that while it might have been disappointing to some subset of players, clearly they managed to find a much bigger audience that enjoyed the game nonetheless.
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by nodamage 8y ago
> The relevant metrics would be daily/monthly active useres (DAU/MAU) and churn rate. This metric doesn't really make sense for a (mostly) single player game like Diablo. Once the player has finished the game they're
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by nodamage 8y ago
Diablo 3 sold 3.5 million units the first day and 30 million units total as of 2015, so I'm not sure by what metric it would be considered a failure... aside from "I personally didn't like it"?
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by nodamage 8y ago
Bug fixes make sense, but I wonder if it is reasonable to expect/provide perpetual OS support based on a single purchase?
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by nodamage 8y ago
It's really not the same thing until the money can be legally transferred to him.
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by nodamage 8y ago
Having seen too many companies raise millions in venture funding and burn through it to generate millions in revenue (at a loss) with the founders ultimately walking away with nothing, I think that's absurd.
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by nodamage 8y ago
Headline is rather misleading as neither 1) hitting a $1M in sales or 2) raising $8M in venture funding necessarily means he actually became a millionaire.
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by nodamage 8y ago
This assumes (incorrectly) that every app is released by a different developer with their own account. In reality many of those 2M apps are basically shovelware - with developers releasing dozens if not hundreds of different apps under the
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by nodamage 8y ago
I thought bundles were only available on iOS, not Mac?
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by nodamage 8y ago
But Windows support is limited to security and bug fixes, not feature updates. Not quite the same thing as getting a free upgrade to every major version of an application.
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by nodamage 8y ago
Someone who purchased 1Password 3 when it was first released on the Mac App Store in 2012 has already received six years of free updates to versions 4, 5, and 6. As far as I'm concerned, AgileBits has gone well above and beyond what

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