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I saw the writing on the wall in 2008-2009. A developer created a podcast app that downloaded directly to the phone without syncing through a PC running iTunes. I was running Linux, and I really wanted to buy that app.

But Apple rejected it, so the developer lost out, and I lost out. I could not accept that Apple was preventing me from running an app on hardware I "owned"! I never bought another iPhone after that.

I've been an Android developer since 2010. But now I've realized that Android has similar flaws because it is controlled by one corporation:

=> 30% Play Store transaction fees!

=> Apps delisted without any explanation

The freedom on open platforms is vital; so I will invest more time in them than in closed ones.

Location data can also be used to help prove your innocence.

It sucks that this innocent person ended up suffering. Hopefully law enforcement will become better at figuring out false positives before arresting someone.

I do like that the gov. doesn't have direct access. Seems to me like the more independent parties required to access the data, the lower the chances of abuse.

True, but hiring freelancers isn't usually the same as being part of the same team working towards shared goals.

Ideally I'd find people I enjoy working with and who have complementary skills.

I'm sympathetic to his goal because I have similar aspirations to have more freedom.

What I might miss in his situation is working as part of a team with others: business people, SW devs, design

The claim that he is receiving 5400 Euros/month welfare is false. It was investigated by journalists. Other claims made on that webpage are also false.

https://www.liberation.fr/checknews/2018/12/20/non-le-pere-d...

Kinda scary to have a chrome extension that can read all of your email. Is the cure more dangerous than the disease?

For a some explanations of what happened: https://www.metabunk.org/explained-6-5-trillion-unsupported-...

ZipRecruiter was 100% bootstrapped, was profitable, and had 100s of employees before taking VC.

Job Platform ZipRecruiter Takes Its First Outside Funding, $63M Led By IVP https://techcrunch.com/2014/08/26/job-platform-ziprecruiter-...

Disclaimer: I work for ZipRecruiter.

I had the same concern re: battery life, so I looked at CPU use while running an app, scrolling through lists, and then idle.

The CPU use seemed to be very similar to well behaving native apps.

Counter example: On the April cover of Vogue, Selena Gomez is referred to as Selena.

Seems to me like the main value for Google is the data from all the apps that have Fabric SDK integration (e.g. Crashlytics).

Quote from the Fabric blog post https://fabric.io/blog/fabric-joins-google

"Fabric has grown to reach 2.5 billion active mobile devices".

Money quote at the end:

"“A huge part of an assistant is search,” he said. “Google is a search company. Amazon is not.”

Thanks for correcting my mistake.

From what I've heard React Native doesn't yet handle lists containing many views without rendering the entire list.

I'm looking into Flutter/Dart from Google for building iOS/Android apps from the same codebase.

The SDK is still alpha so there are still rough edges, but I've created a POC app and have been able to run it on both platforms. I'm very pleased with the results so far.

https://flutter.io/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mx-AllVZ1VY

Why would they do that?

Maybe they just want to get out of the house and do something useful?

Otherwise if it was for $$$s, and they aren't poor without a safety net, seems like they'd be better off learning higher value skills and getting a better job.

My dad has a 2.

Erdős stayed at my dad's house so that they could work together. The first morning at breakfast, Erdős asked my dad to butter his toast for him. My dad refused.

That's why he doesn't have 1!

Good to hear when politicians improve something , and even better when it was a bipartisan effort!

hangouts.google.com is enabled on my business account. I didn't enable it, so I can't tell you how it was done. Only that it's possible.

Please don't apologize for your posting. So far it is the best/most interesting part of the whole thread.

Another salvo in the continual barrage of "why we always need to bail-out banks"from the financial media.

The problem the OP brings up is when you're a USA citizen living outside of the USA.

It seems like you live in the USA, so you don't have to put up with all of the unreasonable and invasive bureaucracy she writes about.

Guilty until you prove yourself innocent is not the USA way! But that's what the current systems require USA expats to do every year.

Deciding not to AB test because of this article would be a huge mistake.

Learning from mistakes made by others, and avoiding them is what I would suggest as the take away.

I work for a successful ($50M+ revenue) bootstrapped startup. And one of the reasons for the success is that AB testing became part of the company's culture, as soon as there was enough data coming in for the tests to become useful.

AB testing is so important that we have built our own in-house framework that automatically gives results for our company specific KPIs.

I'm guessing you're using an iPhone. On iOS all the apps are displayed somewhere on your homescreens. When I tried iOS that bothered me, because coming from Android I was used to being able to choose which app icons are displayed on the homescreens.

Google has added an "Enable location" prompt in Android 6 (aka Marshmallow).

Even if there isn't any proof yet,it does seem like immunity from prosecution would be in FB's short term interest.

My Google searches aren't showing anything after january 2015. And the WSJ article from that date doesn't add any new information. http://www.wsj.com/articles/judge-rejects-settlement-in-sili...

Congrats on finishing and publishing a side project. I know how hard that is!

Some quick feedback.

First the Play Store listing. I installed Tiny Words on a Nexus 7, and it shows the first 3 screenshots for a 7 inch tablet. Then it shows the same screenshots but on a phone. It is only by scrolling to see the other screenshots that you finally see the 4th and following screenshots "The best score after 3 rounds wins!", etc.

After installing I chose the FB option, but it opened a FB login web page which would require typing in username+login. I have the FB app installed and logged in, so this shouldn't happen. You'll lose a lot of users at this stage unless you fix this.

Am I the only one who thinks that the IRS should not be able to make someone who is mentally fragile homeless, just because he hasn't filed his taxes? It seems very inhumane to me.

Thanks Andrew for all the time and effort. My big regret is that I didn't start listening before 2011!

The more people actually know about a place, the less they think it's a good idea to kill people who live there.