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by vsl 10y ago
> Update: Apple contacted me and told me they found evidence of App Store review manipulation. This is something I’ve never done. This makes no sense. Why would he done that? Dash is very popular and has no competition to speak of, why w
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by vsl 10y ago
> That actually sounds like a great* idea if you have competition. It does, but Dash doesn’t...
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by vsl 10y ago
> I conversed with the developer of Dash a while back and found him to be a rather cordial and frankly honest person. Same experience here.
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by vsl 10y ago
Not even that, copyright concerns distribution , Dash isn't distributing anything, it's a tool the user uses to download stuff. Even if Apple misunderstood it, that would still not result in marking the account as fraud.
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by vsl 10y ago
I use (reasonably cheap, using MSDN discount) DigiCert one, and I'm an individual living outside US. Very little hassle involved.
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by vsl 10y ago
> It also seems to have some kind of threshold for code size, because for small contributions, it says that CLA was not required. That's because all this copyright stuff is needed only for things that can be protected by copyright i
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by vsl 10y ago
That doesn't make any sense, App Store has no relation to what Apple distributes as part of macOS. Apple takes issue with patents-related wording in GPL3 and doesn't want to be subject to GPL3 (while they're OK with GPL2). He
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by vsl 10y ago
Uh, no. The utter crap assistants used in these cars are incomparable to Tesla’s Autopilot even now. Polish and ease of use matter. Execution matters. For a representative example, see how bad Mercedes’ latest and greatest E-Class w/
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by vsl 10y ago
Counterpoint: I just return from a 7,000km trip across Austria, Italy, France, Spain, Germany, and it was fine. No problems at all in France and Germany. I had to drive slightly slower in one part of Italy to reach a SC (unplanned for detou
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by vsl 10y ago
True enough. Doctors unafraid to admit not knowing something inevitably impress me the most (to the point of staying their patient even after moving to the other side of the city): * A young GP who pulled out a medical book in front of me t
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by vsl 10y ago
The Roslyn one removing "whitelist", that's... Wow.
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by vsl 10y ago
Testing would be great. I have no use for team syncing, so won't upgrade to the subscription version, and use Paw as dev tool when working on new APIs. Having tests in there would be convenient and would actually make me test things (I
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by vsl 10y ago
In v3 (not sure about older versions) you can set the default visualization in preferences. I set it to JSON text the moment I discovered it.
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by vsl 10y ago
He's not wrong. And the claims of Twitter's political bias ARE supported above (and pretty easy to find too if you're willing to).
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by vsl 10y ago
Ah yes, the classic EU way of disrespecting the will of the people so popular since the Lisabon Treaty. Another way out of this mess is to perform European Voting: rinse and repeat until Brits get the message and vote as they are supposed t
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by vsl 10y ago
1. Laws are only proposed by EC, not the Parliament (as in parliamentary democracies). 2. EP is only able to vote against them and ammend them. 3. A "no" vote by EP doesn't mean anything. If the Council (i.e. the governments,
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by vsl 10y ago
US: Same language, same culture, directly voted government and Senate that answers to the people. A standard democracy on both state and federal levels. EU: A mix of countries that don't share the language or the culture. Legislative
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by vsl 10y ago
> NATO's time has come and gone Europe is defenseless without NATO. All EU countries, with the exception of UK (yes), Greece (historically strong army because of Turkish threat) and Poland (rich experience with Russia) fail to mee
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by vsl 10y ago
That's how most of the Brussels bureaucrat got there, it's common in my country too. And it does mean the project is bankrupt — the people in power, the ones actually making decisitions (i.e. the Comission and to a lesser extent
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by vsl 10y ago
Err, there isn't free movement between UK and the Schengen area. Yet it apparently doesn't impede trade.
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by vsl 10y ago
DigiCert. After a year with Symantec (can't recommend) it was a joy to get one from DigiCert. Good site, good tools, reasonable prices, 3 yr option, painless validation process (I'm in a small EU country, which tends to complicate
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by vsl 10y ago
The rest of the world (including a significant portion of EU) still isn't, though. You can sell from basically anywhere with PayPal or FastSpring, not so with Stripe.
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by vsl 10y ago
I'm typing this on a (2015/2016) non-US keyboard without them.
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by vsl 10y ago
It's in flux. International English keyboards (a bit different layout from US and not the UK one either) used to have the symbols. The most recent iteration has the command symbol, but not the others, it says "control" and
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by vsl 10y ago
Because he's trying to teach them how to write good, readable, maintainable code.
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by vsl 10y ago
> covering up "refugee” crimes This. Facebook agreeing to work with German government to do something about “racism” comments in German version (read: FB users talking about Cologne attacks that weren’t covered by mainstream press a
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by vsl 10y ago
> Howells is making the assumption it was a school district with no evidence whatsoever. You are making an assumption that he has no evidence with no evidence whatsoever. Apple provides educational discounts (if you allow it in your ap
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by vsl 10y ago
Are you beginning to see the problem here? A “normal” developer is screwed. You need to be pretty large (“reasonably sized”) and have good contacts at Apple (which is nowhere near as easy as you think it is, and basically impossible for m
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by vsl 11y ago
FWIW: I went through a few cars already: with every one, after 3-4 years, I wanted to have nothing with the brand, because there were always so many things that sucked (in-car UI, service etc.) I drive Model S. I don’t want to drive anythin
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by vsl 11y ago
He isn’t “conflating”, he clearly said this is the total paid to the government — i.e. all sorts of taxes. That you like the sound of it is, frankly, horrible.

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