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by tolmasky 5y ago
Forget that, it’s a huge pain on a weekly basis when I go on a walk with my significant other and my iPhone reports that the one in her wallet is following me. It’s a horrible UX that in classic Apple fashion has no concept of family and al
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by tolmasky 5y ago
The business decision Apple made to largely ignore Cocoa, especially any semblance of documentation, and then confuse “native developers” by giving them conflicting half-baked solutions like Catalyst and SwiftUI? I guess given the option be
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by tolmasky 5y ago
I’d pay extra to have my meetings capped to half an hour.
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by tolmasky 5y ago
I had the similar thought a little while ago (I called them nested commits): https://twitter.com/tolmasky/status/1212452048618131456?s=21 In my version, the nesting can be infinite of course (I guess the author he
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by tolmasky 5y ago
Maybe not your left toe, but your left lung? Living in California today means signing up for multiple months of smoke inhalation, which is a problem that only seems to be getting worse. Not to mention that the Apple of today isn’t the Apple
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by tolmasky 5y ago
I'm a customer (and I have no apps on the AppStore), and I constantly feel that the customer perspective is the best reason to want multiple AppStores: the Apple AppStore sucks . 1. Search is worthless. It's basically only useful
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by tolmasky 5y ago
> You may have a valid point bringing it up with Apple's pull on the world, but that's not the whole picture. That's all I was trying to say. > You tried to pigeonhole me into some class of person in order to undercu
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by tolmasky 5y ago
> I just don't think it's fair to conflate the decisions one company makes towards what it thinks are good for engineering or business with every possible outcome of those decisions or how others can exploit them. If the cons
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by tolmasky 5y ago
> China has the great firewall. I'm not an expert on it, but I assume whether Apple allows alternative app stores is entirely beside the point of whether people in HK would be able to download and use a networked app. The HKMap.li
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by tolmasky 5y ago
> For starters, the AppStore is not "good" That is your opinion. There is no merit in this subjective standpoint from a legal perspective unless you're willing to share the metric by which you arrived at this judgement.
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by tolmasky 5y ago
For starters, the AppStore is not "good" (from a customer perspective -- it sucks, the search is basically unusable except for exact string matches, and still then it shows you the competitor's ad for almost the whole screen
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by tolmasky 5y ago
I feel like you stopped reading my comment as soon as you hit the word "duopoly". Look at the specific reasons I gave why phone AppStores are different: they are increasingly necessary for everyday life. COVID-tracking, political
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by tolmasky 5y ago
There's a fairly big difference between a duopoly, which, for the record, major government services rely on (if you want the COVID tracking app its either iOS or Android, if you want an app that your senator will use, you probably have
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by tolmasky 5y ago
They should take whatever percentage they want, even 100%, as long as they allow alternative ways to get apps onto the iPhone and to charge for in-app purchases. The problem isn’t that their price is too high, it’s that it’s the only game
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by tolmasky 5y ago
Later versions of Catalina remain not great. The problem is that each version of macOS compounds onto the next, since there's no time for the "tock" after the "tick" anymore. Sure, catastrophic bugs may get fixed, b
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by tolmasky 5y ago
That is great, but they literally break. This isn't about ergonomics, but the fact that the keys literally stop working. I had no issue with the "feel" of the keyboard, I had an issue with my "T" key no longer doing
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by tolmasky 5y ago
I'm not sure if 5 years of stagnation in the Mac lineup is a blip. Perhaps as a percentage of revenue? In terms of customer satisfaction, it was rough . Those keyboards were really bad , and not everyone has the ability to just swap
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by tolmasky 5y ago
I don’t think it’s generating anxiety, just creating a habit. Like washing your hands with soap after you go to the bathroom. Once upon a time that sentence might generate the response “if you’re worrying about how you wash your hands, th
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by tolmasky 5y ago
Plenty of companies get sweetheart deals from Google and Apple. Your contract has no bearing on another company’s. That’s why I can’t sue Apple for giving Netflix and Amazon a more favorable deal than 30%. It’s also why I can’t sue Target f
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by tolmasky 5y ago
A pet peeve of mine is the deferral and personification of "policy". Policy is just your opinion that you happen to have written down in the past. It holds no power over you, you write the policy! It's not like the US law, w
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by tolmasky 6y ago
I highly recommend you not use node-lru-cache: https://github.com/isaacs/node-lru-cache/issues/63 (as you can see from the last comment on that bug, these truly bizarre performance characteristics were not so
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by tolmasky 6y ago
Perhaps in the general case, but Deno is probably as opinionated or more so than your average JS framework choice on node.js. And certainly more opinionated than a more "neutral" runtime change like when Microsoft made the Chakra-
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by tolmasky 6y ago
Yes but my point is that this doesn't address the OP's frustration: learning new APIs without a clear sense of what one is getting out of it. Many of Deno's fundamental features are basically framework features . Learning th
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by tolmasky 6y ago
This relies on a lot of assumptions: 1. It is highly dependent on the mechanics of how Apple implements side-loading (again, if it has a scary warning or requires you to turn something on deep in Settings, it's unclear if this would ac
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by tolmasky 6y ago
It's really weird that most responses to you are that Deno isn't a framework, as if changing the category the thing is in would somehow magically remove your choice fatigue, especially considering that the most likely interpretati
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by tolmasky 6y ago
I actually believe that if they allowed side-loading it would be one of the best ways to guarantee that they continue capturing 30% of revenue in perpetuity. This is because they could actually for the first time make developers feel like
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by tolmasky 6y ago
Apple has just engineered the worst possible situation for themselves by being the only way to get apps on the store and by simultaneously incessantly marketing the store as "Safe and Secure". The former encourages them to maxim
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by tolmasky 6y ago
It would be difficult to qualify Bitcoin as pump and dump without inadvertently also including many other assets at this point (which is perhaps a reasonable position to take!). That is to say, the more time passes, the fewer properties it
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by tolmasky 6y ago
On Mac we definitely don’t have this. Everything is clamped to integer multiples (1x, 2x, and 3x). So the “real” size bounces around wildly screen to screen.
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by tolmasky 6y ago
Sure! But now we’re working with what we want to work with, how many inches on mobile vs how many inches on Desktop. Just like you want a different size chair for a dollhouse vs a real house, but we still agree on the units! But on computer

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