mightykan

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by mightykan 8y ago
An alternative to Zulip is Twist - https://twistapp.com . (I'm not affiliated with them at all; just a fan.) They have a proper native (as in not Electron-based) Mac OS X app (probably other platforms, too, but I haven'
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by mightykan 8y ago
And a toy light bar whose brightness and duration cannot be controlled (which sucks precious battery life) and is an insult to the "Pro" name. Are there any serious options available?
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by mightykan 8y ago
I see you have nearly 30 different third-party frameworks in your iOS app, some of which are purely for user-tracking and analytics purposes. Furthermore, it looks like you’re using AWS (AWS Rekognition) and Azure (Microsoft Face API) AI&#x
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by mightykan 9y ago
Atlassian have become (probably always were) a horrible, customer-hostile company. This is terrible.
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by mightykan 9y ago
Honestly, they’ve been pulling the same crap on the Mac version, too. It’s like they purposely went about crippling their own app and making it worse in every way. Every version that comes out is uglier and has less functionality than befor
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by mightykan 9y ago
I lived in Salt Lake City, Utah for 11 years. Needless to say, I got out five years ago the first chance I got. If you’re not into winter sports, the weather is shit. You get 10 months of bitter cold and snow every day. You have to dig yo
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by mightykan 9y ago
Getting device serial numbers through private APIs and transferring this information to their servers isn’t “extremely minor.” Any other lesser-known developer would’ve been rejected if not outright banned. Apple has something to answer her
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by mightykan 9y ago
Objective-C isn’t deprecated at all. There is more chance of current valid Swift code being deprecated in a year than Objective-C. In fact, all Swift code written in its first two years of public existence is completely deprecated now. Th
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by mightykan 9y ago
Somewhat related: In 2010 I implemented a UIView subclass for a simple stylized spinner. In the view controller that contained this spinner, I added two methods to start and stop the spinner. I called them `startSpinner` and `stopSpinner`.
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by mightykan 9y ago
... for now. Once the news cycle ends, Comcast will be one of the first companies to sell this information and make tons of money. Verizon is already there[1]. [1]: https://www.engadget.com/2017/03/31/eff-veri
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by mightykan 10y ago
I have zero power now but have the potential to have it. If I don't know how to behave like a decent human around my female coworkers and peers right now, I would have no idea how to do this when I have more power (e.g. become a manage
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by mightykan 10y ago
I honestly wonder how people here would react if a blog posts like this came out about a company that hasn’t necessarily been in the news for this many past bad behavior. Would we still condemn that company or would we blame the victim, as
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by mightykan 10y ago
We should teach our sons to truly respect women. We should teach our sons to be respectful honest decent human beings. We should teach our sons to not be assholes who think they are entitled to a woman’s body. We should teach our sons to
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by mightykan 10y ago
“Fake news” is an oxymoron. I think you mean “propaganda.”
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by mightykan 10y ago
This is unfortunate as I thought an iOS 10-only update was supposed to fix this. Goes to show that the Pinner developer doesn’t care about providing any support.
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by mightykan 10y ago
Sorry, I don’t. ReadKit on OS X is decent (and is the only native Mac app that I could find that actually integrates the Pinboard API) but I don’t know of anything else on other platforms. I’ll have to start looking for this, soon, however.
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by mightykan 10y ago
Unfortunately there are no good iOS apps for it. The only decent one, Pinner, decided, inexplicably, to drop iOS 9 support as soon as iOS 10 was released. iOS 9 is still fully supported by Apple. (Using iOS 10 isn’t an option for me for now
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by mightykan 10y ago
This is absolutely not a solution if you have tinnitus or a hearing damage or both. Also this is an insane workaround. Think about what you’re suggesting: the environment that you’re working in, the place where you go to, intentionally, to
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by mightykan 10y ago
I believe they’re located in Mountain View. The only way I was able to find this was to look at their Terms of Service, however, so it might not be accurate.
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by mightykan 10y ago
Yes, this is exactly why headphones are not an option. No headphone I’ve ever tried is completely able to block outside noise. Some do a decent job but then my tinnitus kicks in and is maddening.
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Ask HN: Are there any tech companies in the Bay Area that offer private offices?
85 points by mightykan 10y ago|79 comments
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by mightykan 10y ago
They’ve been fixing this issue with every release of Xcode and it’s still broken. At some point we must realize that code-signing is something that the Xcode team will never be able to get working reliably due to incompetence or apathy (or
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by mightykan 10y ago
Even that is not true any more. A few recent examples: - iPhone 6s/6s+ are heavier & thicker than iPhone 6. They have worse, especially low-light, cameras compared to iPhone 6 and have smaller, therefore worse, batteries. All of th
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by mightykan 10y ago
Seems to be a hardware restriction. According to the PS4 Pro: The Ultimate FAQ[1]: "No, PS4 Pro’s internal Blu-ray drive does not support the new Ultra 4K Blu-ray Disc format." So, no future firmware update can fix this. [1]: htt
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by mightykan 10y ago
They included that adapter this year but is it going to be there next year? Is the next phone going to have the Lightning wired headphone, too? Apple's like the empire. They _will_ be altering the deal.
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by mightykan 10y ago
So what's the point of getting one of these instead of the Xbone S, which _does_ have UHD Blu-ray support?
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by mightykan 10y ago
Are you associated with the Mercedes (Daimler AG)-owned sub-brand, Smart car ( http://www.smart.com/ && http://www.smartusa.com )? If not, are you aware that they exist and if so, how do you think Daimler
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by mightykan 10y ago
Asking for email, and sometimes name, is fine. Forcing me to register is absurd. There are lots of “indy” software developers that don’t play these games.
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by mightykan 10y ago
Why do I need to create an account with an email and password to purchase this if it’s not a subscription service? To add insult to injury, I have to agree to some Terms of Service that probably indemnifies this company from doing whatever
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by mightykan 10y ago
Actually, everything is DRM encumbered on iTunes except music that is purchased. All other content has Fairplay DRM on it.

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