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jedikv··on Meanwhile, over in Androidtown
The objection was to you telling Apple employees to shut up and never question Apple authority. And then pulling some mental gymnastics that Apple is 'special' with not being remote friendly
jedikv··on The End of Indie Web Browsers: You Can (Not) Compete
It should be noted that those small number of websites are collectively responsible for most of the internet traffic today:

https://www.ncta.com/whats-new/report-where-does-the-majorit...

jedikv··on Apple is not your friend
it has an appearance of it, but we have no idea if that's all the info and/or the real control we have
jedikv··on Amazon Workers May Be Watching Your Cloud Cam Home Footage
What kind of tools/tech are you using to do this? I've been thinking of doing the same
jedikv··on I didn't get paid, so I open-sourced my client’s project
I appreciate you open sourcing this. Good luck on future projects.
jedikv··on Apple Sign In
Great feature, shame it's tied to apple hardware - making it inaccessible to those who cannot afford it.
jedikv··on Apple Sign In
When you're trying to read the site for yourself, it can be distracting and a bit obnoxious.
jedikv··on Google Cloud Is Down
Except kicking the door down is not particularly scalable or clandestine
jedikv··on I tried creating a web browser, and Google blocked me
>But his project's purpose is to literally broadcast media to your friends

Judging from the repo, there is no broadcast of content. Please take the time to read and think critically before you react with misinformation

jedikv··on Telegram: 200M Monthly Active Users
I can never trust their DIY crypto

https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/49782/is-telegr...

jedikv··on Zuckerberg on Cambridge Analytica situation
>When you singup for Facebook, you agree that anything you post might be shared with others on the platform.

There's no consent on behalf of the friends if one shares information about their friends to an app. Consent is given directly

jedikv··on After Equifax breach, anger but no action in Congress
Did anyone manage to successfully obtain a police report number as a result of this fuck up by equifax?
jedikv··on Inside continues to bet on email, the “largest social network”
Exactly, it's much more portable than any other electronic comms system atm.
jedikv··on Ask HN: Why are credit card chip readers so slow?
USA still hasn't adopted the faster payment model of same-day payments between the banks (without charge). Compare that to the UK which most payment transactions are completed within 4 hours
jedikv··on Ask HN: What projects are 20 years ahead of their time?
Magic leap looks more, and more like smoke an mirrors these days.
jedikv··on What if we made video conferencing work?
If the cost and cumbersome nature of VR can be reduced to bring it in line with just putting on a set of headphones and still be aware of the outside environment, sure.
jedikv··on Ask HN: Do you think Electron is good for building Desktop Apps?
>"From what I've seen, users are more than happy to have an application that solves their need no matter what it's created in. Most people don't really think about file sizes, or the fact that Chromium is packaged with Node, they just want their problem solved without visual or performance hiccups."

To be frank, most users often don't have a better performant alternative (outside of maybe a browser tab) so it seems like a redundant point.

jedikv··on Ask HN: What would you use to make cross-platform desktop application?
People use spotify for their library/features - they'll put up with the client because there's no alternative clients to stream their spotify.
jedikv··on Ask HN: What would you use to make cross-platform desktop application?
>I read people saying things like Spotify and Atom are "unusable" and slow because they're written in JavaScript when they have plenty of happy users.

Well there isn't exactly a choice of what spotify client to compare it to is there - so users have to use it by default rather than be 'happy' about it.

jedikv··on Cross-platform GUI Toolkit Trainwreck, 2016 Edition
>I'm willing to take a slight performance hit if that allows me to use the same app on any platform, even if it's size becomes 200 megabytes bigger.

From personal exeprience, it's beyond slight perf hit. Often js apps are the ones hogging most of the resources on my system.

jedikv··on How to answer the “What’s your current salary?” job interview question
Problem is that's just vague self-help-esq feel-good advice that applies to everything and subsequently means nothing.
jedikv··on iTunes built, and then broke, my meticulous music-listening system
well it's a JS app firstly so it's kind of laggy and a bit of a memory hog.
jedikv··on iTunes built, and then broke, my meticulous music-listening system
I really like MusicBee - seems to fill my winamp hole for the most part https://getmusicbee.com/
jedikv··on 10,000 Games projects have been successfully funded on Kickstarter
That's the most pragmatic approach. I don't give money to something untested and with no guarantees of getting a working/high-quality product (which aren't covered by regular consumer rights).
jedikv··on UK to follow US flight ban on laptops
You might feel safer - but it's not because of the 'extra security'. That's all it is...a feeling (much like that of feeling safer with a sky being) - http://abcnews.go.com/US/exclusive-undercover-dhs-tests-find...
jedikv··on Carlsbad, CA to photograph every car entering city
Looking at the data, most of those deaths come from India and China - countries that have fundamental infrastructure problems. Traffic mortality is a symptom of something much bigger.
jedikv··on Carlsbad, CA to photograph every car entering city
Well, unlike the police in your scenario, you don't have the legal power to affect one's rights for one. And the 'sharing online' part could be considered some sort of legal infraction on privacy
jedikv··on Windows 10 is bringing ads to File Explorer – how to turn them off
> Is it that they failed with XBoxOne, now Sony and Nintendo eat MSFT former console market share as breakfast.

I'll think you'll find that XBone has sold pretty well (faster rate than the 360 in the same time period). It just that the PS4 sold extraordinarily well in comparison. Too early to tell for the switch but WiiU (which was competing with xbone) was nowhere near eating their breakfast.

jedikv··on Windows 10 is bringing ads to File Explorer – how to turn them off
> This is your only legitimate point, but it grows less legitimate every day.

As a gamer I've not seen much more progress (outside of WINE workarounds, some GoG ports and Valve-specific games). Most AAA games still exclusively windows due to things like DRM (Denuvo is windows-only IIRC)

jedikv··on Windows 10 is bringing ads to File Explorer – how to turn them off
> who cares if it renders differently? So long as you can read it that's enough.

The idea behind word processing is that how you've authored your work should be rendered accurately and consistently without unintended side-effects.

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