thanksforthe42

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by thanksforthe42 6y ago
Different expertise. I'm guessing you are neither?
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by thanksforthe42 6y ago
I think that missed the point. Engineers are applied scientists. Programmers are not applied scientists.
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by thanksforthe42 6y ago
The primary fear is getting kicked off because Apple said so. The fees might suck, but the concern is spending a year on an app only to be denied or lose it once you gain popularity.
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by thanksforthe42 6y ago
Calling programmers "Engineers" is a misnomer. I wish programmers had the prestige it deserved for combining Science, tradition, authority, and art. Engineers are not allowed to use tradition, authority or art. They are restricted
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by thanksforthe42 6y ago
Meanwhile this leaves an opportunity for a different company to provide these services. I do my best to avoid FAANG giants who don't think about me.
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by thanksforthe42 6y ago
Doesn't surprise me Apple chose the laziest solution. Not like their customers care.
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by thanksforthe42 6y ago
Disclaimer, I love Ubuntu server. I hate that Linux philosophy for a daily driver. I remember being age 16, 17,18,19 23,26, and 27 and being told to figure it out. Every time I'm vastly more fluent and the community is just as unhelpfu
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by thanksforthe42 6y ago
Depends on the program. Also computing power increases with time, so this is a silly reason to kill off a feature.
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by thanksforthe42 6y ago
Ahhhh yes the much better solution of paying Apple 1000$ to compile a JavaScript app and 125$/yr /s
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by thanksforthe42 6y ago
(it was the Apple ecosystem that killed flash)
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by thanksforthe42 6y ago
Security is the major reason. I can imagine spinning up a virtual machine to use legacy flash content.
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by thanksforthe42 6y ago
Yesterday I was asked for my email for a fresh install of Windows 10. This immediately enraged me and I considered Linux. I couldn't help but to consider Apple. But Apple is worse, they started the trend of collecting your information
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by thanksforthe42 6y ago
Let's wait a few years. Bloat will kill these companies. It's inevitable.
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by thanksforthe42 6y ago
The fantasy that capitalism would punish businesses for treating employees poorly or people would stop buying low quality products is disappearing. Marketing tricks are the most important thing in the business world as shown by Tesla, Jeep,
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by thanksforthe42 6y ago
I've been called a good Engineer. All my companies I started failed. This hits close to home.
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by thanksforthe42 6y ago
I'm only half kidding when I say Apple doesn't consider themselves a US company. They consider them Apple. It's not like they are cooperative like US automakers, and they have done China's will.
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by thanksforthe42 6y ago
After working with graduates from "the best university", I doubt it is "the best". After using "the best" search engine, and finding what I needed on Bing instead, I started doubting it was "the best"
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by thanksforthe42 6y ago
Just curious, why don't you have a spam email in 2020? I have over 20 email addresses and only use 3 daily/phone notifications. Not defending the practice, but I'm genuinely curious why this is a deal breaker.
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by thanksforthe42 6y ago
Apple did it 10x worse with their iphone apps and now no one cares anymore.
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by thanksforthe42 6y ago
Microsoft already lost this battle. Google has decided not to fight the battle. Apple has their segment walled in like North Korea. Tesla uses religion to control their followers.
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by thanksforthe42 6y ago
Obtuse? Projecting Let me play you a sad song- There once was a poor minority boy who had bad parents through no fault of their own. They wanted to become a programmer, they got a $100 Android and started working on an app. Upon finishing t
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by thanksforthe42 6y ago
This is so out of touch. Check your privilege.
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by thanksforthe42 6y ago
Abstraction has made Programming a hybrid of Tradition/Authority/Science/Art. It's nearly impossible to have a scientific paper on anything with abstraction. At best you can create some "after the fact" optimiz
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by thanksforthe42 6y ago
Luck/Fortune is so critical. Genetics and net worth can be blown away by a good or bad group of friends. And unfortunately you start having friends before you are concious enough to realize the impact.
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by thanksforthe42 6y ago
The book Blueprint talks about this. Society can't function with only "dark personalities". When only dark personalities are in the room, everyone loses. When it's a mixture, the dark personalities get more. You can quic
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by thanksforthe42 6y ago
It's a marketing tactic. The goal is to be unaffordable, this way people create goals to buy it and show off to their friends. This has been Apple's marketing since the 2000s. The product quality is secondary to the price. Even th
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by thanksforthe42 6y ago
This is extremely important for the modern term capitalism. Every intervention the US government does is a signal to other governments and entrepreneurs. If you are an aspring developer, you can choose to make your program local, US centric
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by thanksforthe42 6y ago
I decided not to source my suppliers in China. Having a gigantic conglomerate in control of my supply chain is too risky. I think that's how we need to look at Chinese companies. Are you willing to deal with the biggest company in the