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by rescbr 6y ago
IIRC you had to do server side push as Windows Phone 7 didn't support local notifications and always-on Internet connection. Some IM clients used some tricks to run in background, such as masquerading as a streaming audio player (that
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by rescbr 6y ago
I don't remember Windows Mobile asking for permission to use mobile internet either. So that's why I used a 100 MB modem plan in my smartphone (then 300MB before cheaper regular phone plans became available). Phone calls were 1.5x
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by rescbr 6y ago
I've never seen international sales being tax inclusive. The buyer (or local branch) always pays, and they are responsible to pay the tax authorities.
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by rescbr 6y ago
There are, and they are registered as payment processors or e-wallets. Facebook isn't.
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by rescbr 6y ago
> the country is deeply hostile to capitalism and innovation Sure, but payment processing, money transfers, e-wallets etc. are regulated matters in Brazil as they are in the EU and in the US. Facebook is not registered as a financial i
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by rescbr 6y ago
Windows Phone’s hub concept was marvelous. As a user I don’t care if I’m messaging you though MSN Messenger* , Skype or XMPP; I just want to IM. Gaming hub integrating with Xbox Live was a nice touch, it felt like MS finally got the concept
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by rescbr 6y ago
Oh, this would be a whole can of worms that Facebook would not want to open. International transactions are very regulated in Brazil and certainly not only the Central Bank would be heavy with their hammer, but Receita Federal (tax authorit
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by rescbr 6y ago
Nothing that cannot also be applied to Facebook. The Brazilian Central Bank has authority on money transfers, so whatever regulation they want to arbitrarily impose regarding this matter, they can do. Facebook is a registered company in Bra
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by rescbr 6y ago
UMTS (3G) is still up and running in many locations, sometimes HSDPA (3.5G) is faster than congested/low signal LTE and it still is totally adequate even for video streaming. Those are early 2000's technologies which telcos are up
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by rescbr 6y ago
Software are more bloated than 3 or 5 years ago. Performance with a HDD will suffer as everything has to be loaded to RAM before the CPU runs the code. Put a SSD in this machine and for most tasks your experience will be the same as with a
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by rescbr 6y ago
In São Paulo it seems PicPay is more popular with younger people, as you can open an account being 16 or older. Nubank you have to be at least 18, probably as it mainly is a credit card. I don’t have an account, nor have seen somebody using
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by rescbr 6y ago
I remember installing Opera and Flash Lite in my Windows Mobile smartphone and it being able to run Flash content. Was it a sluggish hand warmer? Sure, but then it was a 300 MHz TI OMAP (overclocked, of course!) and at most 128 MB of RAM, p
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by rescbr 6y ago
I do update banking and critical apps (say, VPN clients, PDF reader), though. In the consumer app cases, either I'm hitting somebody's backend with wrong data, which fails and so I update the app, or more frequently, those whiny a
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by rescbr 6y ago
I’ve got tons of apps in my App Store’s update queue, some that I haven’t updated for a couple months and they still work perfectly. Uber is one that comes to mind. They keep changing the UI while I keep using the same version from ages ago
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by rescbr 7y ago
The issue isn’t Google being down, it is my ISP’s connection to Google that might be subpar. They might have a direct peering which is down and unexpected traffic is flowing though transit, you got BGP flaps, you got local CDN outages... an
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by rescbr 7y ago
Chicago's CTA only accepts US cards, even when paying with Apple Pay. My international cards weren't accepted at all, the card reader failing with a generic error message. I didn't expect Apple Pay being declined, though. On
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by rescbr 7y ago
Still, most are things that old Presario could do with a dial-up connection. Sure, some might require a Pentium 4 and ADSL, but the smartphone isn't a revolution. The Personal Computer and the Internet were.
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by rescbr 7y ago
> even in transit There isn't the concept of international transit in the US. You have to "fully" enter the country as there aren't separate international terminals with passport checking and whatnot. There's a s
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by rescbr 7y ago
Microsoft tried that with Windows Phone 7. I loved the utilitarian concept of plugins for hubs. The OS was king. Unfortunately iOS' everything is app concept won the market. Soon enough, apps will be the whole ecosystem and the operati
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by rescbr 7y ago
What always amazed me was the scale of this difference not being larger. Really fine engineering. ;)
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by rescbr 7y ago
IBM's 9.0.0.0/8 is still IBM's, except for the 9.9.9.0/24 subnet.
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by rescbr 7y ago
There’s the always forgotten type of computer users: those who use computers for productivity. People who need to achieve some business goal and they have the energy to learn. Take for instance insane Excel spreadsheets glued with VBA power
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by rescbr 7y ago
I remember "right clicking" with a long press back on Windows CE and Windows XP Tablets. If you had experienced this era of mobile devices, it is natural. How to delete an app? Right click on the icon, delete. Kind of the same act
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by rescbr 7y ago
Compiled language CGI running on IIS. Unusual, but not that weird. Probably an old setup, nowadays the .exe would be hidden with a rewrite rule and you would be none the wiser.
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by rescbr 7y ago
As far as I understand it, user data is still encrypted and the key is protected by the Secure Enclave, which is not affected. This exploit allows flashing unsigned firmware, so by stealing the phone the attackers won’t be able to decrypt y
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by rescbr 7y ago
> With debit card you can't do that It depends on the debit card. I have both Visa Electron and Maestro, and they have 16 digits, CVV number and they behave like a credit card with 3D Secure when doing online purchases, while taking
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by rescbr 8y ago
In Brazil, SMSes are paid by the sender at local rates. If you are roaming internationally you might pay for receiving them, but it has been a long time since I saw charges for receiving SMSes. Probably the carrier recoups the interconnecti
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by rescbr 8y ago
The problem isn’t the technical standards: Right now in my living room I get around 10 Mbps download on 3G (HSPA) and around 20-30 Mbps on 4G (LTE). Latency between the two is almost the same: 1 to 2 ms difference. In some places 3G is stil
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by rescbr 8y ago
At least for South America, the most developed cities are concentrated in coastal areas, it's where the international submarine cables land and most large datacenters are located. The countryside is connected by the national/local
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by rescbr 8y ago
And then you have apps (at least outside the US) for hailing taxis with the same UX for Uber. In some countries the Uber app hails taxis too.

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