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by hn_check 6y ago
"People quickly forget that software was distributed on the web long before the App Store existed." Independent software development was an absolute wasteland. It was extremely hard to get a user to give you money outside of a f
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by hn_check 6y ago
Orthogonal complaint, but it was a huge loss when the Civilization catalog was removed from GeForce Now. I loved playing Civ while developing on my laptops, without it spooling up my fans, burning my lap or impeding my other processes. Play
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by hn_check 6y ago
Apple's GPUs achieve "integrated" level performance and it would be a large step for them to achieve AMD or nvidia performance levels. Maybe they can scale it up sufficiently, or put it on a separate die with its own heat dis
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by hn_check 6y ago
You should demand a refund. Vote with your wallet. Of course that was a bit trenchant, however you're complaining about a promise that was never made. No one ever promised that you could setup a old certbot instance and it was out of s
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by hn_check 6y ago
Mr. Mauch is replying through this thread and I don't think many have noticed. Great initiative and project, with a wonderful outcome. This is great HN material.
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by hn_check 6y ago
She was asked by CNN, given that she's running on the Biden-Harris ticket. No one particularly cares whether you care or not, but she is clearly a rather important person right now and was asked this question given that public health h
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The Myth of Harmonious Indigenous Conservationism(quillette.com)
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by hn_check 6y ago
You could have simply given your opinion, but leading off with a dismissive "ignore the haters" (where haters are apparently people who didn't enjoy it) made your comment carry zero weight.
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by hn_check 6y ago
The submission is about trying to draw in users for a meat-world social application during a pandemic. In the sunscreen example, someone could absolutely be designing packaging, securing suppliers, building a workforce, etc, during the wint
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by hn_check 6y ago
Their comment addresses the fundamental substance of the submission. It's as if someone started their sunscreen door to door business in January: The fundamental timing is broken.
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by hn_check 6y ago
"I believe most people just don't notice the judder, and many of the rest don't care" This is probably the case. DAZN took over NFL streaming in Canada and for the first two years seemed to use their existing European so
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by hn_check 6y ago
"supporting a brand as team sports is a thing like supporting a political party as team sports is" This may be true at times, but the assumption of the same is the root of a lot of the toxic behavior. You cannot be neutral or even
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by hn_check 6y ago
"I have an Apple TV 4K, which can do 4K Dolby Vision playback and looks ok, but the Apple TV tends to have some jittering when streaming certain shows (very noticeable in panning shots of animation)." How don't more people co
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by hn_check 6y ago
The chart does not see to show every bitrate for every target resolution, but rather is show where the 4K stream would have to drop to a lower resolution given insufficient bandwidth.
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by hn_check 6y ago
"But, selling it to a company that have commitments to investors, paying customers and an executive team who might not all have technical backgrounds makes TDD a hard sell" It's an incredibly easy sale. The whole basis of T
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by hn_check 6y ago
"The ISPs now will have a series of PR articles about how Google wants to own the internet, track all your web DNS, monopolize the access, and evil blah blah." They'd be right, but that's neither here nor there in this c
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by hn_check 6y ago
Epic knowingly, intentionally, and publicly defied Apple's rules. In response Apple "threatened" exactly what they threaten every single other company doing the same -- to suspend or terminate your developer accounts if you d
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by hn_check 6y ago
https://www.neowin.net/news/microsoft-is-apparently-cancelin... Note that Microsoft is not backing Epic in their court case against Apple, because that would be quite the glass house given the xbox (which is a 70&#x2
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by hn_check 6y ago
The US is nowhere near leadership in either democracy or corruption. I didn't hold it as the stellar example, beyond countering someone who is surprised (or finds it "weird") that a government has checks and balances, and a l
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by hn_check 6y ago
What about them? I replied to someone saying "ha ha isn't that weird they can contest it in the US look countries like India just went ahead and banned it and there's no recourse". Great. Other countries can talk about i
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by hn_check 6y ago
https://www.eiu.com/topic/democracy-index https://www.transparency.org/en/cpi India is no benchmark. There are far worse countries, but if someone cites India's actions as an example, it fall
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by hn_check 6y ago
How is this weird? A country of law and order and checks and balances rightly allows orders like this to be contested. India, used as the example, has a very flawed democracy and a high degree of corruption. EDIT: LOL, downvoted to oblivi
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by hn_check 6y ago
Because the story is an absurd lie. The guy has gotten 100+ upvotes for that hysterically dumb bit of fiction. HN has proven to be outrageously gullible time and time again, and this one takes the cake.
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by hn_check 6y ago
>When you move into iOS town, the only store within a thousand miles is the App Store. A thousand miles? I've switched between iOS and Android multiple times over my smartphone life (Android to iOS to Android to iOS). The switch is
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by hn_check 6y ago
"On iOS I guarantee that if the App Store had even one alternative, many apps would do the same and bail on Apple, and you’d see a similar ghost store." This earned a serious out loud laugh. Are you actually being sincere? An app
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by hn_check 6y ago
To the dead reply to me - lol. Saudi Arabia's geopolitical power is entirely predicated on the US acting in its interest, which was a premise that only held when the US was dependent on oil imports. Saudi Arabia's economy is non-e
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by hn_check 6y ago
Saudi Arabia exports oil but apart from that is generally just completely irrelevant. It is a terrible, despotic regressive craphole, but it doesn't have context enough in the world to come up a lot.
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by hn_check 6y ago
Deprecation is too kind of a word. Traditionally deprecated means that it is no longer a best practice/canonical. It's nice to see deprecated flags when building new code because you know you found an out of date bit of documentat
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by hn_check 6y ago
"Epic gave Apple over $360 Million dollars in the last twelve months just to list the game in it's app store" The stat you cited was for two years, not one. Further, they paid $99 for a developer account "just to list th
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by hn_check 6y ago
Your comment does not correct that statement, and uses erroneous data to claim otherwise. Apple does not have more than 50% marketshare of smartphones in the US. In most analyses it is between 41-43%, with an absolute high of 46%. Android a

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