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by untog 6y ago
I realise this will sound negative, but: what made 2009 era YC a once in a century thing? I’m trying to think of the companies that came out of it that truly shook the earth and I’m coming up blank.
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by untog 6y ago
I suspect the downvotes are because everyone knows there are alternatives to iMessage out there. It isn’t relevant to this particular topic. “All you have to do is convert everyone you’ve ever known to use a different app” is... not the pro
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by untog 6y ago
> if you switch from an iPhone to an Android phone the messages aren't sent to your phone for a while? Apple set up a page years ago that lets you manually disable iMessage to avoid this issue. And yeah, I personally dislike iMessag
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by untog 6y ago
I suppose it’s certainly possible. But a Hackintosh operates at a very low level, making macOS believe it is running on supported hardware. It doesn’t need to know how the OS authenticates itself to iMessage. My suspicion is that disassembl
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by untog 6y ago
I have to say, I loved Theme Park more than the author did. Even at the age of 12 (I think?) when I got it I understood the cynical take it took on the whole industry and found it endlessly entertaining. I haven’t replayed it since (and jud
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by untog 6y ago
That pushed me away from web dev but not dev in general. Got into native mobile dev, now playing around with Rust. Wondering if I’ll end up full circling back to the web with WASM. Anyway, point is, there’s plenty of variety out there!
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by untog 6y ago
Not really. Pi Hole is great but it comes much later in the process and is an inexact process trying to filter out internet requests. The filter Apple has stops apps from being able to get the identifying data in the first place. It's
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by untog 6y ago
If you're already using Rust, an alternative might be raqote, which would avoid the need to interface with C++ at all... and it's the canvas library used by Firefox's Servo: https://github.com/jrmuizel/ra
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by untog 6y ago
> Why would a drawing API be needed on a server? There are plenty of reasons to want to generate an image dynamically on a server. Dynamic image resizing to fit client requirements is one that immediately comes to mind.
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by untog 6y ago
> with concurrent mode i think of what could be, web applications that can compete against native for the first time Native apps feel better than web apps because they have robust UI libraries that web apps do not. React concurrent mode
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by untog 6y ago
3 years... long enough that any warranty will have expired. I’m starting to see why the manufacturers would do this.
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by untog 6y ago
> Since when it's been the most interesting thing about the software in which language it's been written in? Presumably because I'm going to be writing the same language when I interface with it. Rust can export to a C AP
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by untog 6y ago
I think different languages are suitable for different contexts. I'm relatively well versed in both Rust and JavaScript/TypeScript. I'd never be able to get the performance I get with Rust in JavaScript. But I'd also n
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by untog 6y ago
I can second this. I was planning on making a library that wraps a few C libraries with seamless async and wanted a language that would work well in that context. Tried out Rust and really struggled to get something going, switched to Nim a
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by untog 6y ago
I remember many years ago when MooTools (yes, that long ago) announced localised APIs as an April Fools joke. At the time I thought it was an interesting idea! I do wonder if there’s still something to it. I can imagine that in the not too
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by untog 6y ago
Because it’s a massive invasion of privacy and customers hate it? Yes, they’re price sensitive, but if Airbnb carried a “you will be recorded while you sleep” disclaimer I doubt many would agree.
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by untog 6y ago
I can see the advantages, for example I could send you a page as an email attachment without any problems. There’s clearly a use for it because browsers let you do (more or less) this with their own custom formats.
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by untog 6y ago
Tiny nitpick: the article describes JavaScript as an interpreted language without JIT when most major JS engines do have JIT optimisation. It’s difficult to make this call about any language with more than one implementation. But anyway, ku
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by untog 6y ago
By the sounds of it Facebook’s note didn’t say “buy from us”, it simply notified users that Apple will take a 30% cut. I’m loathe to care either way here because I don’t think any giant multinational needs me to speak in their favour, but t
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by untog 6y ago
I'm sorry, but any guide that suggests you start by reading the entire specs for HTML, CSS and JS is just not realistic. The guide gets it right in the "practise" part, though: the beauty of the web is that you can write an H
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by untog 6y ago
I mean that a Mac with scrollbars enabled is still a different layout than Windows or Linux with scrollbars enabled. They all have different appearances, widths, etc.
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by untog 6y ago
> I kindly ask you to dedicate a little more attention to how the websites you create behave on platforms other than your own. Agreed. > Alternatively, you can set the scrollbars to be visible at all times by setting System Preference
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by untog 6y ago
> I don't even understand why they would remove them? Who ever complained of a scroll bar? IMO it's all part of this push to combine mobile and desktop UI. On mobile there is a legitimate case to be made for removing them becau
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by untog 6y ago
That's hardly the full story. Rust provides all the support it is able to provide for Android, yes. But it still relies on the NDK and has to sit behind a JNI layer. A "Kotlin vs Rust" comparison for Android is apples and ora
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by untog 6y ago
> All this pining for Flash is just revisionist history inside the HN bubble from people who have forgotten how much Flash was hated by the general public. At least in my social circle that's incredibly far from the truth. My friend
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by untog 6y ago
> people don’t want to send web bundles to each other. They want to share a link. They don’t want alternate transports in general, really, or the complexities that come with that. Arguably "people" don't even want HTTP, ei
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by untog 6y ago
Everyone is different. What you’d prefer is not what others would prefer. Hopefully a customer service agent is going to be able to pick up on someone who dislikes small talk and just get the job done.
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by untog 6y ago
This also applies to UPS and Fedex, actually. In rural areas they just hand the packages off to USPS. It's also why the recent debate about how profitable or otherwise USPS is misses the point: it isn't designed to be a profitable
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by untog 6y ago
> It subjected me to a bunch of banal content on my homepage that I didn't want or like. Three dot menu -> Remove Section. Ta-da.
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by untog 6y ago
I'm not sure about the "without leaking your info to Google" part, there. All it does is forward you search query to Google as if you'd entered it on google.com. There's not really anything DuckDuckGo can do about t

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