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by vlozko 6y ago
Because it can’t be both ways. If tomorrow Facebook decides to only offer its app only through Epic App Store, consumers now have reckon with a privacy compromised app. And Apple now has to spend tons more resources playing a failing game o
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by vlozko 6y ago
But that shouldn’t be an imposition on Apple to make an identical experience to what it’s replacing. It can be both a console and a replacement to a computer. The intended purpose of the two can be the same but have a different way of going
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by vlozko 6y ago
Because it’s a lowest common denominator, of sorts. Also, none of those apps are able to handle SMS on iOS. Also, why not use iMessage vs all the other ones you mentioned? Different strokes for different folks.
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by vlozko 6y ago
Legal security? Theoretically Tesla can go after Apple for permitting 3rd parties access to Tesla’s APIs. AFAIK, API access to Tesla’s cars has been reverse-engineered and isn’t something Tesla publishes themselves so there could me DMCA is
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by vlozko 6y ago
Would the PlayStation hardware that Sony spends millions on to design and build now must be able to support Xbox’s OS? There’s a lot wrong with such a proposal, much of it being way too onerous on the hardware developers and simply impracti
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by vlozko 6y ago
The software you run on it is Apple’s and you sign EULA’s to use it. That’s not an opinion of whether it’s right or legal, just that it’s how it is.
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by vlozko 6y ago
Very unlikely. Fireworks use against the police more common that you think. You’re just not going to see that many videos of them as it doesn’t help the narrative. A buddy of mine is a cop who had the unfortunate duty of being one of the ri
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by vlozko 6y ago
It does. It has been able to for some time now. A team I’ve worked with used it to build a cross-platform library. Swift wasn’t the first choice but the short story was they didn’t choose C++ because they didn’t want to hire C++ devs to mai
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by vlozko 6y ago
I know it can potentially be controversial but a lot of outside of work relationships start at the office. Some can be romantic and may even lead to marriage. Others can be friendships that last job changes. It can even be as simple as havi
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by vlozko 7y ago
Easy: Because Apple clearly sees it as a more profitable move and, whether you agree with them or not, contributes to an overall better user experience. Better experience = happier customers = more business.
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by vlozko 7y ago
The frustrating challenge to this is how long symptoms take to appear. Isolation will stop the spread from the individual but only after the virus has been spread around quite a bit already. So, sure, much of what you said about localized p
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by vlozko 7y ago
Oh, I’m not suggesting that it’s a worse way to do web requests at all. I genuinely enjoyed working with GraphQL despite all the build/CI headaches it can potentially cause. I was really addressing the sole point of difficulty of worki
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by vlozko 7y ago
Client side GraphQL is harder than REST, though I wouldn’t define it hard in general. Whereas with REST one only needs to update the data model for the response, GraphQL also requires that the request itself is also updated. It gets more co
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by vlozko 7y ago
> Once you can conveniently call up an automated Uber the need, at least in cities, to buy your own car will effectively vanish. I doubt it. One of the biggest obstacles you have is families and the need for infant car and child booster
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by vlozko 7y ago
Some people are generally good at doing software development and they choose the platform based on how well it pays. iOS is certainly way up there both in terms of demand and pay. If that's what matters to you, switching should give yo
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by vlozko 7y ago
The issues you tend to run into with mobile is that you have to either create so many shim layers to use native app features or resort to 3rd party solutions. And there are loads of examples (speaking for iOS here): 1. JSON parsing 2. Netwo
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by vlozko 7y ago
> Also, I wish I knew mobile developers are some of the lowest paid developers other than game industry peons. I wish I can tell you you were wrong here but I only have anecdotal evidence. Maybe you’re stuck in a company that’s taking ad
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by vlozko 7y ago
Code-only purists are still prominent in the iOS community. Yeah, there’s definitely baggage one must take on when using IB but the ease of being able to instantly preview your layout in different sizes is the big seller for me.
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by vlozko 7y ago
There's a lot to not like about this. I'm going to go under the assumption that USB-C is the standard here. 1. Companies will be forced into paying licensing fees. While not expensive, it's essentially a forced tax on compani
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by vlozko 7y ago
It’s not anecdotal. We used Anchorage for some time before dropping it for this very reason. There’s a compiler warning available to you to let you know if any line or function takes more than a certain amount of time to compile. Our autola
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by vlozko 7y ago
DICE claims that they’ve only ever had a handful of false claims in 2018: https://www.ea.com/games/battlefield/battlefield-5/news/anti... With regards to the use of Linux, I suspect there’s more to this
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by vlozko 7y ago
It’s because cheating software runs at a level that only invasive software can detect. Without any detection software, it becomes a far more manual (and likely unscalable) problem of having to deal with individual player reports of suspecte
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by vlozko 7y ago
Battlefield 4 had rentable servers. It wasn’t fun getting kicked for being good, despite playing on a PS4 where cheating didn’t really exist.
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by vlozko 7y ago
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by vlozko 7y ago
For general use, I wouldn't knock on someone using the KJV. While there are a decent number of differences between the KJV and other, more modern translations (NASB, ESV, etc), the majority of them are inconsequential. However, there a
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by vlozko 7y ago
I did not have a great experience with that approach. The now (in)famous DropBox article describes why way better than I ever could: https://blogs.dropbox.com/tech/2019/08/the-not-so-hidden-cos... My biggest
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by vlozko 7y ago
Short story: it’s complicated. But if you want to read up on something really fascinating about using technology to get the most accurate translation, look into CGBM: https://www.uni-muenster.de/INTF/Genealogical_method
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by vlozko 7y ago
To the best of my knowledge, there wasn’t much of a difference in programming style going from GC to ARC except for a few exceptions like all those pesky CFMakeCollectable calls that ended up being no-ops anyway.
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by vlozko 7y ago
This makes little sense. You’re imposing your sense of morality on an entity that is not beholden to the public good of mankind. If you want that that kind of service for everyone for betterment reasons, then demand your legislators to have
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by vlozko 7y ago
It’s pretty simple: don’t connect it to the internet. Use something like AppleTV or your own box that you trust to show your streaming services.

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