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by zapzupnz 8y ago
Few things: 1. TV sizes are getting bigger and bigger. You mightn't notice the pixels at the size of your current TV, but your current TV might be considered small by the standard of increasing screen sizes. 2. You mightn't be abl
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by zapzupnz 8y ago
I'm with you. The potential for websites to add themselves is far too dangerous; the web being open, wild, and dangerous, adding a website to the home screen should only ever be a browser-based task. And no, asking the user for confi
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by zapzupnz 8y ago
I really get annoyed when I see people talking about the "huge cut of all sales on apps" in isolation, as though hosting high-traffic downloads, handling financial transactions (purchases, in-app purchases, subscriptions, credit c
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by zapzupnz 8y ago
To what does the "like this" in your comment refer?
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by zapzupnz 8y ago
> and there's no choice And this is the thing that many web developers miss. As they've begun to creep into the mobile and desktop space, intent on replacing native experiences with a continual barrage of non-native, bespoke ap
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by zapzupnz 8y ago
> e.g. "knight attacks mage" is the "attack" function a member of knight or a member of mage? For me, it's a member of the Fighter protocol/interface to which they both conform, and either might override the
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by zapzupnz 8y ago
Firstly, Office 365 is not just offline apps. It’s software as a service; it’s a suite of high-quality online tools that rapidly approach parity with their product to flint counterparts, it’s being able to install multiple copies of Office
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by zapzupnz 8y ago
I'm glad I read this comment straight after I read the article because you've convinced me not to eliminate special cases in this particular manner. I'm sure special case elimination is useful and sometimes necessary for clar
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by zapzupnz 8y ago
It really did. It struggled with MobileMe photo streams; in the modern days of iCloud (being free) and Photo Library, iPhoto would have to be renamed to Beachball Simulator.
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by zapzupnz 8y ago
There are other aspects to Office 365 that are quite valuable to people, like a huge increase in the size of their OneDrive storage quotas, the ability to install Office on multiple devices rather than just one (which is pretty common; peop
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by zapzupnz 8y ago
> Just because Marzipan/UIKit today doesn't have good MacOS affordances doesn't mean it won't in the future, especially since it's not even being offered to developers right now. I don't see why it's di
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by zapzupnz 8y ago
> which you have to imagine is something Apple wants in the years ahead as platforms converge on common software stack and UX I don't think we have to imagine that. Apple's been against that sort of thing for a long time, and I
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by zapzupnz 8y ago
For those of us who struggled with Swift 1 and 2, something else to remember: the pure Swift reimplementation of Foundation was pretty basic (or non-existent), so what we used in the early days was basically the ObjC-based NS* frameworks bu
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by zapzupnz 8y ago
> Objective-C seems to be basically the same as when I first started iOS dev 10 years ago. Not quite a counterpoint, but UIKit and the iOS version of FoundationKit have changed quite a bit since the early days. Go back to the days of OPE
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by zapzupnz 8y ago
I'm fascinated by the concept of a verbless language, but don't want to go to the effort of learning a conlang to experience it. But taking English and removing the verbs, substituting similar structures as in Kelen, wouldn't
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by zapzupnz 8y ago
And some non-tertiary (primary/elementary, secondary/high) schools, too.
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by zapzupnz 8y ago
Re: the text; I think they're going for a consistent visual design language with the iOS apps - for better or worse.
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by zapzupnz 8y ago
I believe it was indeed a web app. The efforts to get a shared code base began in earnest after Nadella took over as CEO at MS, and Office stopped being a means to sell copies of Windows and rather a chargeable service unto itself - I belie
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by zapzupnz 8y ago
Netflix doesn't anymore. They stopped allowing new in-app purchases. Existing subscriptions done through iTunes, Apple still gets their cut; but from now on, Netflix subscriptions must be done through the website.
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by zapzupnz 8y ago
Keyword in your quote is "also". An in-app subscription billed through iTunes is explicitly written in the document as supported, so Apple will be getting a cut.
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by zapzupnz 8y ago
s/half/nearly every time Then again, Apple's not immune to this. Nine times out of ten, Software Update for Windows has an urgent update for Software Update for Windows.
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by zapzupnz 8y ago
If you have the App Store set to allow automatic updates, you should never see anything - it will always happen in the background.
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by zapzupnz 8y ago
Sorry, I just meant Try Guys. I should have put a [...] in place of Tasty. Here's the Try Guys' video "Why We Started Our Own Company": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MyhAz4-l0Wg Videos about leaving Bu
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by zapzupnz 8y ago
It's even odder to see people make the defence "Well, BuzzFeed News isn't BuzzFeed, and people are silly to mistake them". No, people aren't silly to mistake them. They're part of the same company, they share a
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by zapzupnz 8y ago
> such as Tasty, Try Guys They, and others, have left BuzzFeed.
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by zapzupnz 8y ago
Maybe. For me, the DOM is far from the oddest thing to deal with. That's just fine.
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by zapzupnz 8y ago
That's when you use the Nintendo Switch Parental Controls app, with its charming video to introduce it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=03bAayBtcb0 Plus, it's nice to play in the lounge with all the family. I&#x27
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by zapzupnz 8y ago
I wonder if that's one of the things that makes wasm appealing, being able to write for the web without having to learn the awkward dance.
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by zapzupnz 8y ago
Ah, so TS types are basically only available at compile time? Does that make the "standard" way to do things to have both TypeScript types AND some alternative form of type information in object prototypes/classes for runtime
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by zapzupnz 8y ago
Having to write these manually seems a bit … boilerplate-y. Why do we need the PersonType enum rather than just depend on the peoples' types? Why do we need functions to get spells for a person; why not just access the property directl

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