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by phreack 6y ago
You're right, but also the article is over 7 years old. It's been time for change for a long time.
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by phreack 6y ago
I think that would still be a boon for society. Take Slack as a random example. They took an incredibly simple idea (chat, but seriously) and took it to market with great success. Everyone including the largest corps had been doing chat, ye
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by phreack 6y ago
I know what you mean. One of the first things I looked into when trying out Unreal was Version Control. The amount of hoops I had to jump through just to get things on git made me reach the exact same conclusion you did.
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by phreack 6y ago
This made me go look for a list of past successful enforcements, and it turns out one exists! So it gives me hope for the future of the GDPR https://www.enforcementtracker.com/
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by phreack 6y ago
What's astounding is that the video has been down for over 12 hours now at least since I first saw it on a large forum. So not even Sony can get Google to act 'quickly' on a major obvious error! There is zero chance any indiv
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by phreack 6y ago
You literally can't sideload any app on an iPhone and Apple will never relent on that unless they're compelled by law. So either you get people to stop buying iPhones or lawmakers to admit that's a problem, and neither is lik
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by phreack 6y ago
Sort of, but unlike Kickstarter if the (huge) goal isn't met, it's all lost to shareholders
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by phreack 6y ago
On the side closer to 'interactive' books there's the Lifeline series of games which were really inspiring to me. Then, on more conventional videogames there's Life is Strange, which at times feels a lot like an interact
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by phreack 6y ago
No ads, basically sold early access to builds via Patreon, and we were investigating ways to allow play by paying with cryptocurrencies and possibly PayPal but never got as far as setting that up before having to pause. Long term there are
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by phreack 6y ago
Really bad. For example, if you want to have push notifications on an iOS app, there's no way to do it via a website or a PWA. And there's no way of sideloading an app at all for nearly all users. So then the App Store is your onl
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by phreack 6y ago
I had an affiliate marketing website when I was a kid, mostly for fun and learning with some friends, that made some money off backpack recommendations and Amazon links. We didn't feel too good about it after a while so we shut it down
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by phreack 6y ago
Coming from Latin America I would have never imagined before this thread that so many large countries would not teach CS in their own languages, and would have to speak in English amongst themselves! It's fascinating, over here we inco
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by phreack 6y ago
I'm sorry if this isn't the place to ask (and please let me know), but how should we correctly title something like a tweet, that has no obvious title?
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by phreack 6y ago
What about tooling? Haskell being such a powerful language would take off a lot more if there was a very hand-holding, Jetbrains-like IDE that gave you everything you needed and pointed out the problems in your code in real time. Or at leas
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by phreack 6y ago
Weirdly enough, in many Spanish speaking countries the word that took over 'cyber' was cyber-coffee, as in the place where you'd pay to use a computer for an hour, and is what most people think of if you just say 'the cy
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by phreack 6y ago
I asked if you support Google's actions here of removing discussion of the Wumao. Could you answer that question first?
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by phreack 6y ago
That's unrelated. Do you think it's alright for YouTube to delete comments discussing the Wumao?
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by phreack 6y ago
It looks like a way to turn Postgres into a Firebase real-time database alternative, so not Crashlytics, Auth or file storage AFAIK (and I'd suggest making it more obvious on the website if I'm wrong!)
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by phreack 6y ago
Do you think charging users for support could be a feasible option? I'd pay $100 for a call with a representative who can call shots on Youtube's strike reviews.
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by phreack 6y ago
Thanks for recognizing it. I think it'd be encouraging to see a post mortem detailing the positive changes that came out of this whole ordeal, the sort of user hostile behaviors that you (as a company) recognized from this self reflect
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by phreack 6y ago
One of the first things they could do is stop with the dark patterns. The original thread had many people mentioning that deleting an account was a ridiculous process, with a 30-day delay once you managed to start it.
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by phreack 6y ago
I have always thought about what it would take for Whatsapp to lose their place as the dominant chat app and you finally nailed it. If I ever start getting ads or requests for reviews or anything remotely related to someone selling somethin
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by phreack 6y ago
There are a lot of libraries in different languages that are sort of in a middle place between drag n drop engines and programming straight to a graphics API like Direct3d or Vulkan. You should look around for a popular one in a language th
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by phreack 6y ago
It's hard to understate how much game programming helped in my career. All at once it helped me grok not just patterns, but also Calculus ("wait... isn't this for loop very much like an integral? is that what they actually we
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by phreack 6y ago
How much of the old "A fractal of bad design" post would you say still applies? That one post showcased so many footguns right at the language level that it spooked me away from it forever.
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by phreack 6y ago
The only non malicious answer I can think of is that having the camera on would somehow make joining a video call faster. But really it should absolutely be off when not very clearly in use by the app.
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by phreack 6y ago
Seriously. I have yet to find a non-techie user whose Downloads folder is not a complete mess, and why would they even know to organize it, it's so hidden from regular view. Many would just re-download things they might have already do
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by phreack 6y ago
Since there appear to be no right answers and I love this topic, I feel the band's name should play a big role in its plurality. I would never say that 'Queen are a band' but I would also not feel like 'The Beatles is a
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by phreack 6y ago
The latest South Park games showed that an original story drowning in rolling references works, so I think the formula may work!
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by phreack 6y ago
I mean, if Patreon provided a good service and the porn was hidden away under the default filter and not visible from my subsite or the homepage, I don't see at all why I wouldn't launch a product on it if I decided the business m

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