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by whakim 6y ago
Even if it happens less frequently now, the fact that this is still a possibility at all makes submitting anything to the app store a really frustrating experience. Particularly for bugfixes I just really want to fix the bug ASAP, not have
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by whakim 6y ago
Since when? This happened to me a week ago.
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by whakim 6y ago
It's actually really annoying, implementation-wise. Apple subscriptions are read-only for third parties, which creates some annoying hurdles where you have to warp your data model to accommodate the fact that someone could have two sub
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by whakim 6y ago
In our particular case we had features that didn't exist in the app (for various reasons, including some that just didn't make sense on a phone). We weren't allowed to mention that those features existed, god forbid link to t
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by whakim 6y ago
I agree, but Apple will never go for this unless forced to for obvious reasons. As a cross-platform developer, the degree to which Apple has scrutinized our app and made sure there's not so much as a hint of the fact that you can buy t
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by whakim 6y ago
Actually, one of the defining features of hoplite armies is that they didn't require a lot of skill. Hoplite armies were pretty much blunt force instruments. And yet, even within that context, Spartan armies were pretty bad on a tact
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by whakim 6y ago
I'm not sure how you can pin this one on legislators. Legislators make laws, private companies (and individuals) follow them. If I don't want to follow the law, that's my own choice and I bear responsibility for the consequen
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by whakim 6y ago
Uber and Lyft could have spent the last 4 months implementing the necessary changes just-in-case if they had so chosen. They are choosing to shut down rather than sink time into work that may be unneeded come November. So yes, they are maki
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by whakim 6y ago
The "it'll take time to make this change and so we're suspending services for a while" argument is just a PR stunt. Even if you disagree with the law, Uber/Lyft knew it was coming - they've known for a long tim
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by whakim 6y ago
It's mostly a myth that there are tons of lucrative jobs out there which only require an apprenticeship/vocational school/training: https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2019/09/wel
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by whakim 6y ago
Seems like the author should've just used a much less opinionated framework. The last thing I want to do is choose a batteries-included framework and then take on the responsibility of maintaining my own system to manage SQL migrations
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by whakim 6y ago
That's exactly the reason that newsletters are effective, though. Objectively, the format is terrible (email is like trying to design for the web in the early 00's when each browser supported an overlapping subset of features), bu
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by whakim 6y ago
This is just another way of saying there's a "pipeline problem" (myth/fallacy/etc.) You might feel ignored, but statistically you'd be even more likely to be ignored if you were from an underrepresented group
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by whakim 6y ago
That may be the case, but much of the "piracy is justified" crowd seems to rely on an "ends-justify-the-means" approach to suggest that piracy is great. If everyone pirated software (or if even a significant portion of p
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by whakim 6y ago
Not really. You've said that because the difference between the intergenerational harm caused by "other crappy things" and 400 years' worth of racism is only quantitative, the intergenerational effects of "other cra
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by whakim 6y ago
Regardless of whether you think it's a "weak link", this isn't a logical proof where you can disprove one statement rendering the entire proof invalid. Rather, you have to disprove each piece of evidence for systemic r
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by whakim 6y ago
That is one piece of evidence of systemic racism. The problem with your counterexample ("systemic famine"/"systemic war"/etc.) is that those are one-off events in the past, and thus they don't cumulative
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by whakim 6y ago
I don't think it's just the "strictest, most technical" sense. It's a significant example of how "if you took the people out of the system, you'd still get biased outcomes based on race." (or, if you
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by whakim 6y ago
I'm not sure I understand what you're saying, but if your implication is that I'm saying "(legal) progress towards racial equality is racist", then I'm not really sure how you got that from my comment. My point
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by whakim 6y ago
In many cases, I don't think you can separate "people" from "the system" because the system is a human construct in which human discretion is called upon repeatedly. For example, studies which show that young white
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by whakim 6y ago
Yes, newspapers have been printing/selling the equivalent of clickbait and "fake news" for as long as newspapers have been around. People like this and it gets a lot of eyeballs. Newspapers like USA Today/New York Post&#
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by whakim 6y ago
I, too, enjoyed skimming search results about Grand Theft Auto and Peter Madsen and ended up with the same article you did (via another HN thread). Unsurprisingly I drew the same conclusions you did.
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by whakim 6y ago
I didn't mean to imply that your experience was otherwise; I apologize if it came off that way! The point I was making was just that this doesn't seem to be the case anymore, at least as far as I could find - it's pretty clea
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by whakim 6y ago
I had to look up "submarine pieces" are, but they don't seem at all related to the effects of advertising on what editorial teams write about. In my experience that just sounds like shoddy journalism, and editors shouldn&#x27
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by whakim 6y ago
So I couldn't find the ability to subscribe annually ( https://www.nytimes.com/subscription only offers me a weekly subscription) but at least right now they're pretty damn upfront that you're giving them your
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by whakim 6y ago
At the vast majority of publications, there's intentionally no relationship between advertising-type decision-making and what the editorial staff decides to write about.
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by whakim 6y ago
For a lot of sites, as you mention, it's payments and testing credit cards. I have found that simply throwing a reCaptcha onto your form forces you to make a bad choice between protecting the user's privacy and creating a mostly-s
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by whakim 6y ago
I'm not sure that really answers the question, though. My point was that only those with enough technical know-how get to choose to remain private; shouldn't everyone be able to choose as to whether they believe free stuff is a go
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by whakim 6y ago
I'm willing to bet that a lot of HN users block third-party trackers, but the average user has no idea how to do that. Why are we allowed the choice between (as you put it) "websites stay[ing] free" and privacy, and yet the
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by whakim 7y ago
Your response seems to imply that class and race are not related to each other in any way. In fact, they're deeply intertwined.

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