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by reidmain 15y ago
The fact that you have to email Path to "revoke access" is still unacceptable. This information should never be stored on Path's servers. Best case scenario they should be storing hashes of information and before people say there can be col
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by reidmain 15y ago
The Foursquare app says that is wants the ability to access your address book and you gave it permission to do this by installing it. You then press the "find my friends" button and are surprised by the fact that it sends information about
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by reidmain 15y ago
There is also a difference between "uploads" and "sends". If they send my address book to their servers, compare it with current users and then discard it that is pretty good for an opt-in process. A lot of this seems to be they upload the
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by reidmain 15y ago
Ah that would make sense. So that would mean that if you turn off location services any app could access your asset library without any prompt then. Good to know.
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by reidmain 15y ago
Hopefully this feature will not just prevent the Address Book from being uploaded but also remove any data already stored on their servers.
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by reidmain 15y ago
Really? It asks for location access to get access to your asset library? That is pretty stupid. Thanks for the heads up. I was unaware of the AssetLibrary framework.
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by reidmain 15y ago
Location: Permission is asked for Browser History: There is no way to communicate directly with what Mobile Safari stores. Other installed apps list: Apps are sandboxed so it is impossible to know what else is installed. If you've developed
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by reidmain 15y ago
Because it is an interesting question worth talking about. Assuming the OP found this on Reddit giving a tip-of-the-hat to where he found the question is just good etiquette and it also provides insight from another community that is usuall
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by reidmain 15y ago
But what is the app worth? This sort of creative accounting is the problem that this article is trying to highlight. If you strip out all the bullshit making an iOS app is going to be expensive because you can't cheat time and everyone's ti
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by reidmain 15y ago
So $15k was the cost the iOS developer charged you? What was the cost of having the art assets and server side functionality done in house? Adding that to the $15k seems to be the actual cost of the app. Also how much time was spent designi
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by reidmain 15y ago
I think this is the single greatest problem with Canadian politics. So many voters now don't even know who they are voting for. They simply walk into the polling station and check the name beside the party they want to represent them. The c
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by reidmain 15y ago
While I agree that there is a lack of major innovation in the video games industry and there is a problem with most gamers just waiting for the next AAA title from a major publisher, I think your examples are all flawed. SW:TOR is definitel
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by reidmain 15y ago
I truly hope these aren't common people. Based on those tweets it appears that the vast majority of them are still unaware of the legislation and the outrage has been directed everywhere but at SOPA/PIPA. Hell some of the most tweeted respo
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by reidmain 15y ago
And the worst thing is that they still don't know why Wikipedia is doing it. They just see the blacked out screen and their immediate reaction is not to read but to go complain on Twitter.
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by reidmain 15y ago
I can think of a bunch of reasons why people make the claim seeing as how the article is about that. 1) You will always have an outdated installation disc so whenever you want to do a install you're stuck with hours of system updates. 2) Lo
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by reidmain 15y ago
This is the scenario with most mediums (TV, movies, etc). Video games and music appear to be the only ones who have solved this with solutions like Steam, Good old Games, iTunes, Amazon Music. Netflix, and the like, are a good step forward
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by reidmain 15y ago
One of the greatest features of the Mac App Store is the ability to download the latest version of OS X Lion and then make a bootable image of it. I upgraded from Snow Leopard to Lion the day it came out but then had to do a clean install a
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by reidmain 15y ago
Looks like those tech illiterate Senators brought a knife to gun fight. Actually it is more like they are duelling with their ammo supplier and then are surprised when the don't have any bullets.
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by reidmain 15y ago
This is exactly what I do and I've switch friends and family over as well. Whenever they bring up the perceived inconvenience (which goes down on the desktop with practice) I simply remind them how much time they will waste if one of their
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by reidmain 15y ago
ah OK if we're talking about phones that don't compare to the iPhone then yeah Android has a lot of options. You referenced Nexus S with ICS so I thought we were comparing that to the iPhone.
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by reidmain 15y ago
1. Took a while to get used to but if you don't like pointers then yeah I understand. 2. In iOS (especially before the iPhone 4) memory management is one of the things that allows it to be as smooth as it. Adding GC overhead will eat up pre
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by reidmain 15y ago
1. I love that about the language. The 80 character limit has never made sense to me. The resolution of our monitors is so high nowadays that if you've got to a point where linebreaks are making your code unreadable you've got the equivalen
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by reidmain 15y ago
Why won't they be able to afford an iPhone? Are you are implying that they can afford an Android phone because they will be $0 if you sign a contract? iPhones have this option nowadays as well. What makes an Android phone easier to get a ho
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by reidmain 15y ago
What about it makes it painful? Of all the programming languages I've used (C#, Java, Visual Basic, Python, Javascript, C++, C) is is my favourite. Not that the other languages are bad but I prefer to write in Objective-C for the frameworks
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by reidmain 15y ago
> Ask them what they need. Build it. In my experience it is: Ask them what they do. Ask them what they want. Distill that down to what they need. Build it. People regularly don't know what they need but if you ask the right questions yo
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by reidmain 15y ago
"Proven itself" can mean that iOS grosses more than Android. Last I checked iOS users spend more on apps/services than their Android counterparts.
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by reidmain 15y ago
This is exactly what I came here to say. NSException and NSError combined with the fact that you can send messages to nil objects and just get nil objects back lead to much "cleaner" code in my opinion.
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by reidmain 15y ago
id Tech 4 is a weird beast. Carmack has said on multiple occasions that this engine is not made to generate a world like Elder Scrolls or Fallout. It will be interesting to see if they attempt to improve id Tech 5 and make all companies ins
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by reidmain 15y ago
Carmack definitely mentioned that they were not going to license id Tech 5 to companies that aren't being published by Bethesda. All existing licenses they probably have to continue supporting because of the contracts that were signed befor
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by reidmain 15y ago
Care to clarify why?

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