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labmixz··on How Apple Kills Indie Developers
Kind of one sided. The developer who posted this didn't include his emails to Apple. With that being said, it's hard to determine what was said to support.

Did said developer ask why his account is currently under investigation? Hard to determine since he only posted what Apple sent back.

Personally I have 5 Apps on the AppStore, have for many years, they are small bs apps that don't have much to them (stuff like a Migraine Tracker, before HealthKit was a thing, etc..). I've never ran into an issue with my apps being reviewed. Yes, some have taken awhile, Apple is flooded with requests and they've increased requirements (etc) which only makes things take longer.

But since this really isn't about the Application being submitted, more so about the user's account under investigation. I would venture to say, there's something else going on that said Developer isn't posting.

Your $99 developer subscription means nothing if you violate their terms. All that $99 does is weed out even more potential malicious developers (as most won't bother with paying $99 and will just go to Android).

With that being said, the amount of developers submitting apps for review, Apple should find some way to review apps faster, especially since it is something we pay for. But there are a lot of developers trying to be sneaky and make simple applications for more complicated than they should be to sneak in code to either collect or steal data they have no business with. The more developers that do this, the more extensive review process Apple will have, the longer the wait times will be.

labmixz··on BlizzCon 2019 tickets revolve around invasive, poorly reviewed smartphone app
The same app that just got called out for scraping any data it can from the mobile device?

https://theoutline.com/post/5628/how-a-concert-ticket-steals...

labmixz··on Repair delays for Tesla owners
I suppose you don't frequent the Tesla user forums or any YouTube Tesla channel?

It's been a topic for a very long time, not just repair delays, but basic maintenance needing to be scheduled months out.

labmixz··on Chatbots aren't as difficult to make as you think
soon PHP8 with JIT...

It's come a long way since PHP5.

labmixz··on Mumble – Open source, low latency, high quality voice chat software
Discord is definitely a great evolution above Ventrilo, TeamSpeak, and Mumble.

Though if you want to get old school, MPlayer did voice chat before it was "cool", way before 2005. If you remember what MPlayer is, you know you're already old.

Back then MPlayer was free, which is kind of where TeamSpeak/Ventrilo/Mumble fell off, either you had some technical know-how to host it yourself (and the bandwidth to do so properly) or you paid for hosted solutions. It was only a matter of time before a free solution came around and stole the user base with intelligent marketing, nice interface, and a decent product.

labmixz··on Mr Robot S02E01 easter egg
Neat easter egg. Though you should get some better servers for your site. That load time is crazy. Especially on my 1GB connection. Granted, I'm going through proxies, but wow, still horrible.

Anyhow, can't wait to see what this season has in store. I find myself relating to a lot of the personal struggles in the last season. Maybe that makes me crazy. ha.

labmixz··on Code Keyboards
Have you used any other MX switches before?

Wondering how the MX Clears compare to MX Blue; I'm currently using a Ducky Shine 3 with MX Blue, I attempted to put on some o-rings to quiet the clicks, but lost a lot of tactile feedback which annoyed me.

labmixz··on Google got it wrong. The open-office trend is destroying the workplace
I've been a developer for over a decade, where I'm currently employed they have adopted low-partitions (lets be honest, no partitions). I can hear people twitch, breathe, randomly talk with others 3 isles down. Every developer has on headphones trying to ignore all the movement/talking around them, it's just a horrible setup. I find myself being less confident in my work, because I can't concentrate due to a all the distractions around, wearing headphones/earbuds is a nice work-around, but not a solution, I would like to not have my earbuds on 6+ hours a day.

While I see the advantages to open offices, not everyone works the same way, companies who want to maximize employee effectiveness should cater to both types of needs.

labmixz··on Plastc Card
Well, I briefly scanned through some of the comments here, one thing I didn't see mentioned was the fact Coin is not rechargeable, once it's dead, you are required to buy a new Coin.

Apparently according to plastic, it is rechargeable, therefore once you buy it, you never have to buy another. Another interesting point was it's wireless rechargeable from the video, which is interesting.