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by vortico 6y ago
It's not the $100/yr that benefits Apple the most, in my judgement. It's the ability for Apple to control what software its users can use, e.g. to promote App Store sales. If they don't like your company, they can switch
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by vortico 6y ago
Most of the programs I use don't need sandboxing, so I don't need this. The programs that process arbitrary data people send me definitely need sandboxing, but luckily all of those are in the form of web apps such as webmail clien
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by vortico 6y ago
That's why I use web-based email (FastMail and Proton Mail personally) because I want email software to exist in the same sandbox as all websites I visit on the web.
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by vortico 6y ago
I'm a software developer considering releasing a mobile version of my software. Is there a way to completely bypass the iOS app store and allow users to download and install iOS apps from Safari? I hear stories like this all the time a
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by vortico 6y ago
What else is new? When you buy an iOS device, Apple only wants you to use software that benefits them. If you want to use and control software of your choice, don't buy mobile devices or computers from Apple, end of story.
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by vortico 6y ago
I think you're misinterpretating the fundamental axiom because it's still true for `x-y`. What you're thinking is that the fundamental axiom applies to the composition of operations `closest_float(x) + closest_float(y)`, but
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by vortico 6y ago
I love command-line applications for interacting with web services! They allow me to scrape things off websites that would be difficult with navigating the HTML DOM or learning the service's specific JSON API. For example, `youtube-dl`
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by vortico 6y ago
A better analogy is banning burgers made by a specific company or country, and specific food is banned all the time by the FDA. Banning TikTok is not the same as banning all services similar to it. You do lose a bit of freedom by not having
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by vortico 6y ago
A better analogy for this situation is banning skateboards, video games, or rock music made in China . If TikTok is banned, most teens would switch to an American platform. Their outlet for creativity is not reduced, just changed.
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by vortico 6y ago
Sabian, the cymbal manufacturer ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabian ), was named after Sa lly, Bi lly, and An dy Zildjian, the children of Robert Zildjian, when he had a conflict with his brother Armand Zildjian af
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by vortico 6y ago
What about the business risk of someone tripping on your git server power cable?
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by vortico 6y ago
What about on the Filipino Wikipedia? It's better to translate rather than start from scratch. I think it would be an excellent new English article with a mention on the Pepsi article, if there are enough sources to claim that it'
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by vortico 6y ago
>I'm probably one of the only professional photographers on HN I imagine there are thousands. I even know two professional photographers myself who hang out here.
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by vortico 6y ago
What do the designs look like? Billboards are an interesting form of marketing. Forget everything you know about audience data collection and careful targeting of ads with Google, FB, etc. These target virtually everybody in town, it's
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by vortico 6y ago
It would be common for large companies to simply adjust pay bands down by `150CHF * proportion of work-at-home employees` in order to keep the average cost of an employee constant. Therefore, this court decision will make a (small but nonze
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by vortico 6y ago
Wouldn't this just decrease average work-from-home salary by exactly CHF150/month?
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by vortico 6y ago
I used to use Mac pretty heavily for design and audio work, but around 10.14 because of Apple switching the way they do things, I've now entirely switched to Windows for that, and Linux for everything else. I just don't want to de
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by vortico 6y ago
I assume you could get better computers by just buying someone's old gaming PC on Craigslist.
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by vortico 6y ago
Our logo is black actually.
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by vortico 6y ago
Hopefully members on HN are smart enough to generalize my example to something that may be better or more suitable for their own website, and not just lazily copy-paste my example of a generic question. If you do, I'm not sure you pass
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by vortico 6y ago
What is your use case? I get exactly 0 spam on my website (of 100,000s of users) by simply writing my user registration page in a nonstandard way that bots aren't familiar with filling out automatically. It uses JS to `fetch()` a custo
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by vortico 6y ago
All of my childhood memories have been restored!
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by vortico 6y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zombo.com
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by vortico 6y ago
Oh okay, I didn't know GitHub had an option to host Enterprise. (It's way overbudget for me right now, but just curious.)
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by vortico 6y ago
Why not make two versions of GitHub, one free and one paid, having professional-level uptime and support? Is that the idea behind GitHub Enterprise ( https://github.com/enterprise )?
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by vortico 6y ago
I really enjoy articles like these because it offers a perspective that is difficult for developers of software to see themselves. Say you're starting a company that provides a technical service and you claim on your homepage "3-c
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by vortico 6y ago
What is this C++ `narrow()/widen()` function mentioned in the Windows section? At the risk of asking to be spoonfed, can someone give the source code of a function that takes a UTF-8 `std::string` and gives a UTF-16 `std::wstring`?
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by vortico 6y ago
Was just about to post that. You can get very fine-grained from sets to any mathematical structure based on sets, where the inclusion chain is a spectrum of structureless to structured.
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by vortico 6y ago
Because our contractors provide us a 1-6 month, non-full-time, packaged, isolated service by an agreed deadline for a lump sum, they're very far from the definition of an employee in all countries, so it's not a problem with us. H
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by vortico 6y ago
You're asking about TransferWise? Says on their website. https://transferwise.com/

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