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by untog 6y ago
I'm a developer that spends 90% of my time in the web world and can say without doubt that the world will be better off without Flash in it today. But I was also a teenage developer fooling around with code back in the late 90s and F
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by untog 6y ago
You're telling someone who works for a PaaS company what a PaaS does and doesn't do. I think maybe they know. More broadly, almost any application these days is "just API calls". The issue is which API calls, how man
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by untog 6y ago
> More than half of voters, 57 percent, have a favorable opinion of the Black Lives Matter movement, while 30 percent have an unfavorable one. https://poll.qu.edu/national/release-detail?ReleaseID=3663 So it's
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by untog 6y ago
As another JS -> Rust dev I do agree. Over time I have grown to understand why it complains when I do X, Y and Z and I like having deeper visibility into what's going on. That said, I did some experimentation with Nim and it truly f
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by untog 6y ago
Just an FYI, Apple Maps uses Yelp for at least some of its data and they’ve been caught putting fake numbers on their site for Grubhub commission: https://www.eater.com/2019/8/6/20756799/yelp-grubhub-phon
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by untog 6y ago
So why on earth cite her as an example?
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by untog 6y ago
Edit: can’t delete my post but realised I have no interest in being a part of this conversation so deleting the text
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by untog 6y ago
Huh? A black person appropriating a term of abuse for themselves is very different than a white person using it against them. Their username is not offensive.
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by untog 6y ago
It’s not a vague promise, it’s an extremely explicit one. Search results for news contain a “top carousel”, a horizontally scrolling box that shows cards for different articles. On most phones it takes up most of the screen. If you want to
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by untog 6y ago
Eye opening but certainly not surprising. It’s kind of incredible to think of these people, with all the power, fortune and access they have, spending their time attacking journalists. It feels like there’s a limitless number of more produc
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by untog 6y ago
> in response to a copyright claim from one of the children’s parents So they didn't remove it because of their own demands for censorship, they removed it because the DMCA required them to.
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by untog 6y ago
> Does Facebook want to call itself a publisher? I'm quite sure it doesn't want to call itself one. But once it made an algorithmic feed it decided to have a hand in what users do and do not see. It's not unreasonable to a
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by untog 6y ago
Obviously this is all a matter of opinion but I don't consider a lack of exceptions, enumerations and generics "boring", I just consider them to be missing features. Certainly there's an argument to be made for simpler l
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by untog 6y ago
I can't speak to data centric but I was looking at both Rust and Nim for a project recently. I love the syntax of Nim and it feels incredibly easy to write in. The power of the macro system is amazing. But the Rust community is so mu
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by untog 6y ago
You put in your first destination. Hit directions. Then hit “add stop” until yo-you have your whole route. Why would you need to do that, though? It only makes sense if you’re going to print out directions, which no one does any more. You p
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by untog 6y ago
I think part of the issue is software becoming mainstream. What percentage of users need to put in ten different postcodes to plot a route that hits all of them? Barely any. So it doesn't make sense to optimise the UI for that use case
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by untog 6y ago
In fairness, at $45 a month you’re not getting any the unlimited DVR service YouTube TV provides, which is a big feature for some. If anyone is in a similar boat I can strongly recommend the Channels DVR app: it’s $6 a month or less per yea
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by untog 6y ago
I dunno about that. I literally choose it every time, because why not? It's my default.
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by untog 6y ago
> However, you have a lot of options for using network devices or inspection software to intervene and block requests on local machines. Do you? What would the average user install on their iPhone to allow such intervention? What’s the n
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by untog 6y ago
> Web apps by default talk to an outside server, native apps by default do not. Huh? There is no permission prompt for native apps to be able to access the internet. By default they can (and definitely do!) talk to outside servers for an
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by untog 6y ago
What if you are a user receiving 50 notifications a day from an app? You block them. Same with the web app. People have very strict mental models of what “the web” and “native” should do but they’re not actually based on anything. There’s n
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by untog 6y ago
What about Facebook? A native app, free, tied to a business and utterly motivated to violate your privacy. > False: you can definitely verify that a binary matches the source code in deterministic builds If I want to check an app I have
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by untog 6y ago
> They're also not collecting data about my consumer behavior with the goal of displaying more ads This is my original point. They 100% absolutely are. Look at some of the ad and tracking frameworks for native apps. Somehow no one c
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by untog 6y ago
That's not true at all! Free native apps abound. Web apps tied to subscriptions are also plentiful. Open source is neither here nor there: both web sites and native apps can be open source. In fact, the web is unique in allowing you to
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by untog 6y ago
I don't really understand: the PWA APIs are W3C APIs, they're not created by one company. Mozilla fully supports them.
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by untog 6y ago
You have to build these APIs before people use them, and a lot of what Google has been building into Chrome is stuff native apps can do, so the use-case is clearly there. IMO native apps are capable of far more invasive privacy violations
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by untog 6y ago
IMO this headline is too selective. They banned a whole group of subs, including /r/trapochaphouse, which is a left-wing subreddit. Only highlighting this one is needlessly simplistic and will mislead anyone reading it.
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by untog 6y ago
> Yes well, because you didn't have enough magical points. Other HN participants had more magical points and downvoted that comment to oblivion. This isn't a good example to show how HN is sexist. It is. Or at least, it's
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by untog 6y ago
Keep an eye on this thread. I would not be at all surprised if it is flagged! Sometimes you'll see that posts with a ton of upvotes still slide down the front page very quickly and disappear. That's because users are flagging the
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by untog 6y ago
By establishing initial guidelines and a regular process of evaluating the guidelines, changing them over time. I get that there’s a core question of “what even is harmful?” that many will debate but “I know it when I see it” was the answ

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