marbiru

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Land Ownership Makes No Sense(wired.com)
34 points by marbiru 3y ago|70 comments
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by marbiru 7y ago
my take for one-on-one video calls is that they're hard because you have to constantly be attentive to the other person, and it seems rude to look away or do anything else, whereas in in-person conversations it's actually more pos
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by marbiru 7y ago
>In fairness there is tons of scamware, and general garbage in the play store. I've heard this from a few people here, but I'm not convinced that the $99 fee is the relevant differentiator -- Apple already has stricter requirem
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by marbiru 7y ago
thanks! I'm not a non-profit unfortunately, but hopefully that can be helpful for others. A couple of people have made this Play Store spam-apps comparison but personally I feel like the more relevant differentiator is that Apple seems
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by marbiru 7y ago
hmm, ok, I take your point that the US share specifically doesn't really matter so long as Apple is pricing the developer account globally -- it definitely matters to me (in the sense that many of my users are American iPhone owners) b
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by marbiru 7y ago
To be honest my experience developing for Apple has been pretty unambiguously bad. For example, for (at least) 6 months there was a bug where users couldn't submit an App Store review unless they had a "sufficiently distinct usern
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by marbiru 7y ago
Yeah, definitely, $10 a year I would pay without complaint.
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by marbiru 7y ago
also.. for the record, my main complaint is that they're kicking off apps that they've already approved if the developer doesn't continue to pay $99 every year. I don't see how that's justified by weeding out spamme
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by marbiru 7y ago
> iOS has a 22% market share according to the first result on Google. that's worldwide, in the U.S. they're at 45%. And it's not a traditional duopoly in that there's huge lock-in -- I can buy Coke one day and switch
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by marbiru 7y ago
I'm not trying to be combative but... doesn't Google's one-time fee to make an account do that just as effectively? Or an annual $10 fee, or whatever?
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by marbiru 7y ago
Also, I don't want to sound hokey but... $99 might be low enough for your definition of a "serious developer" but it's not affordable for a hobbyist, a student or someone starting out in a low-income country, for example
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by marbiru 7y ago
I didn't want to look like I was hawking something so I didn't include a link but these are my apps: https://itunes.apple.com/us/developer/uri-bram/id1222415460 That's interesting, about the pr
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by marbiru 7y ago
How does the annual fee weed out spammers exactly? Are there examples on Android of the kind of spam apps you're worried about?
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Apple Charging to Keep Apps in Store
17 points by marbiru 7y ago|27 comments
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The Limits of Formal Learning(nautil.us)
2 points by marbiru 10y ago|0 comments
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by marbiru 10y ago
BetterExplained is a ridiculously awesome website for intuitive explanations of complicated maths concepts (that most of us pretend to understand but secretly don't). It's a really well-loved site (gets posted to hn every couple o
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BetterExplained has a Patreon(patreon.com)
2 points by marbiru 10y ago|4 comments
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by marbiru 11y ago
can you say a little more about what these "frequent email reminders" that you receive look like, and how frequent they are? I've just discovered that I was opted in, had no idea I was opted in, and have never received an ema
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How many days old are you?(marbiru.github.io)
2 points by marbiru 11y ago|0 comments
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by marbiru 11y ago
Yes! There's actually a name for exactly this effect in economics, if anyone's interested: The Alchian Allen Theorem https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alchian%E2%80%93Allen_effect
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by marbiru 11y ago
The thing I don't get about this argument is that there are many, many, many small companies for every large one. The piece gives several examples of small companies winning against large ones, but (at the same time) there were many mo
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The Case of the Disappearing Data(cafe.com)
1 points by marbiru 12y ago|0 comments
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Metric Spaces(theconceptsproject.com)
1 points by marbiru 12y ago|0 comments
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On Shuttle Drivers, Chocolate, and NP-Completeness(theconceptsproject.com)
5 points by marbiru 12y ago|1 comments