altitudinous

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by altitudinous 5mo ago
Chickens have come home to roost. Someone had to pay for the servers and the debt, and its us!!
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by altitudinous 7mo ago
Arrogant. End users decide by deciding what they want to use. Thats all there is to it.
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by altitudinous 7mo ago
Interesting to see this stuff. I really enjoyed cracking this back in the day, just for friends, but took a different approach of using sector editors to read the code on the disk to find where the checks wer done to see if the protections
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by altitudinous 1y ago
Indeed context awareness is the big difference here, GPT5 is a vast improvement. It doesn't lose track (as easily)
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by altitudinous 2y ago
A discussion of the victim is not relevant. A discussion of the root cause is.
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by altitudinous 2y ago
NO. I work on very public software, I receive pretty terrible criticism in reviews and email. Generally a vocal minority of people are unkind scammers and want it all for free and let me know. Blaming the recipient of the emails (victim bla
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by altitudinous 3y ago
I agree (and its not often I agree with folk on Hacker News), Apple provide a far superior password service inside a far inferior UI. The handling of authentication codes is particularly great in the Apple ecosystem, but very poorly promote
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by altitudinous 4y ago
Blah Blah Blah. I use ChatGPT for this every day to write code to save my own efforts and it is doing just fine thanks. I also use it for creative content in my apps, although I edit this work to get the tone in its writing correct. It is e
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by altitudinous 4y ago
Terrible idea, the reason why Apple is so popular is that the apps are extremely diverse. Being suggested here is an app store with apps curated by computer nerds who think they are diverse but are probably left biased. Terrible. If you wan
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by altitudinous 4y ago
A book called "Astronomical Algorithms" was written back in the 80's or 90's. It was very exciting and inspirational for me that the sun and moon and the position of planets - nature itself - could be predicted by code.
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by altitudinous 4y ago
Outstanding blogs, really enjoyed reading them. Someone talented actually performing a hack, rare these days.
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by altitudinous 4y ago
This comes up often in various postings and forums, and I enjoy it every time I read it. I like the perspective.
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by altitudinous 4y ago
It is important here that he wrote LETTERS. Not emails. LETTERS. Folks are firing off emails all the time. Taking time to write a letter is more likely to get a response, from just about anyone.
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by altitudinous 4y ago
Whatever laptop you already own.
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by altitudinous 5y ago
Looks amazing, but the youtube video on the site is so frustrating, endless demos and credits, not much gameplay - takes nearly 3 minutes of viewing to get to anything Prince of Persia related. Not the way to sell a game, but it does look g
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by altitudinous 5y ago
This. Especially on the app store. I have several successful side projects myself and am semi retired. But it is a waste of time trying to tell people that discoverability is the key to success. Everyone who owns an iPhone thinks they are a
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by altitudinous 5y ago
A lot of vocal small developers are unimpressed. A vocal minority is not a majority - most just don't care knowing what the outcome was going to be already - lawyers making a lot of money, and marketing teams posturing. Move on.
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by altitudinous 5y ago
My unpopular but realistic opinion as a successful financially app dev is - just post a Google compliant link to a payment system. Take the 15% hit. The payment link is likely to be more direct and user friendly, so you will likely end up e
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by altitudinous 5y ago
The scanning is to take place within iCloud Photos, which handles images / videos etc on an individual basis. It would be a pretty easy thing to do for Apple to calculate hashes on these. I'm not sure how iOS handles archives, bu
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by altitudinous 5y ago
This article focusses too much on the individual case, and not enough on the fact that Apple will need multiple matches to report someone. Images would normally be distributed in sets I suspect, so it is going to be easy to detect when some
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by altitudinous 5y ago
Once you've been around in this software business for long enough you see the same articles written over and over again... there will always be articles about estimating software, yet there is no solution to this problem. Anyhow, it d
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by altitudinous 5y ago
An analogy... I live in Australia, here there are endless straight highways through the outback. Beside the highway there are thousands of huge termite mounds with thousands upon thousands of termites in each one. Termites live a pretty org
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by altitudinous 5y ago
Very cool. Especially the code that moves pieces out of the way as other pieces jump over them or are removed from the board! A lot of programming in that.
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by altitudinous 5y ago
A similar concept is the Snowy Hydro project in Australia - essentially it is a battery for clean energy generators such as wind and solar when they cannot generate. There are two lakes - one at the top of a mountain and one at the bottom.
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by altitudinous 5y ago
There is more than two options - you can be anywhere in between - there is no need to choose one or the other. I find having a specific technical skill helpful in getting your foot in the door as employers are often looking to have their e
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by altitudinous 5y ago
I don’t see users as the enemy! Where did you pull that absolutely stupid idea from? ** DON'T ATTACK DEVS **. YOUR BEEF IS WITH A FRUIT COMPANY. My post states the facts - advertisers used to pay for the apps - now this has been stopp
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by altitudinous 5y ago
Unfortunately Apple has made advertising in free apps unviable with their universally loved by users iOS14.5 update. "Stick it to the man!!!" Unfortunately, this means advertisers who funded free apps cannot pay for apps any longe
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by altitudinous 5y ago
This is very true. END USERS in particular do not give a rats about clean code or the number of code reviews that have been done. They only care that it works. Technical debt, refactoring, reuse? Nobody cares except developers. The paying c
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by altitudinous 5y ago
Well, I think this is true. Many devs are slaving over high quality software that is technically fine and a real achievement but nobody truly loves the niche except for them. I think the real talent is in writing software that other folk ar
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by altitudinous 5y ago
I am always going to use print to debug in every programming language I can until the day I die.

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