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Unless Google has a sweetheart deal like Amazon.

Would you not call Apple Search Ads targeted? This looks similar to Facebook's ad targeting system: https://searchads.apple.com/advanced/

I understand why everyone's instant reaction might be "good," but if you are in the business of making an app, you will eventually need to get users for your app. Advertising is how that happens. That's because app store discovery was nerfed years ago, to make store search ads a revenue source. This Apple IDFA change will likely force you to redirect your ad spend from the Facebook Audience Network to Apple search ads.

BTW your installer includes a gitkeep file.

Apple might think so! I had a popular YouTube downloader app for Mac OS and I spent a lot of time on a port for iOS, but it was rejected from the app store back in 2010. The app reviewer did call me on the phone to tell me -- in fact, she called twice, once to tell me that my app was going into an extended review, and then a few weeks later she called to tell me that my app had been rejected. When I asked what the reason was, she told me to check the review guidelines ("check them again now" she said) and lo and behold, they had added a new guideline about downloading media without explicit IP rights. Moving the goalposts, one app at a time!

Hard disagree. TBH had great disruptive potential -- it was huge in middle/high schools. If someone else acquired it, FB was looking at possible a re-run of the Snapchat playbook, where a younger audience not yet on FB was lost to them.

As the author of the first web browser plugin for Unity (HTMLTexture) I must say I'm very impressed by this. Kudos.

Sounds like Unity has changed enough under the hood that the technique I used (calling gl_bind() behind Unity's back, using the texture ID you pass in, to basically write to the texture Unity is using for your mesh) no longer works.

Congrats on getting your product ripped apart on video ;)

There's a long history for this idea: https://lowendmac.com/1985/dayna-maccharlie/

That's not strictly true, and anyway it's different for the app developer versus a library provider. If you're making a 3rd party SDK that can throw, you need to make it can catch those throws.

Wow. I saw Star Wars first and read the Stainless Steel Rat second, and I always assumed that cover was a knock-off of a TIE fighter, and not the other way around!

Boo is a Python-like language for .NET that took a swing at answering this question:

https://boo-language.github.io

Boo's answer is "just syntax" -- libraries are .NET assemblies.

Not sure about the wavelength, but I believe the claim can be found in Aldous Huxley’s “The Art of Seeing” which is an account of vision therapies using the Bates method.

Yes, I'm a Sonic fiber customer on AT&T fiber. AT&T terminated fiber to the house, and my bits go over their network (with all the negatives that implies), but my service is uncapped and my bill comes from Sonic. It's more than $40 though.

Touchscreen Macs running iOS apps... At that point, what exactly is the difference between the product lines?

Isn't Instruments based on dtrace?

Not in Japan, but I happen to possess a prototype Picturebook and now I'm curious... Where did you sign it? Inside the case like the original Macintosh? Or on the outside?

Like me, you can pin your hopes on the 2022 VW Microbus: https://www.caranddriver.com/volkswagen/microbus

IIRC one of the FoundationDB engineers tested with Jepsen and found that it passed in its default configuration, but the blog post seems to have disappeared.

https://web.archive.org/web/20150312112556/http://blog.found...

If there's a more thorough evaluation than Jepsen, please let me know.

Sounds more like it's OpenDoc reborn.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenDoc

You can find CPAPs on eBay, but my understanding is that you'd want a sleep study to validate the correct pressure settings. Are you sure you can't just set up a room humidifier?

If your time machine backup volume was mounted, I would expect this behavior. Back in the old days, when storage was at a premium, you could have applications stored on a network volume, so they would be shared by everyone on the LAN. The OS would launch an application that matched the requested file type from any mounted volume.

If it wasn't mounted, I would file a bug.

Either way, not really Zoom's fault.

My guess was the same as the parent poster's -- the pictures of the monkey grabbing the phone, from the phone's point of view, belonged to the tourist, right? Because the phone belonged to the tourist? The photographer must have acquired those rights afterwards. (Although I don't recall the outcome of the copyright case of the monkey that took its own photograph back in 2014...)

> There are ways to adjust this on OSX too but it's a lot more touchy

System preferences > Keyboard > Key repeat rate

Adjust the slider to your liking. Works in every app. It's been there since 1984, but to the topic, not many users poke around in system settings anymore. If you want faster than the slider allows, try this from the command line: defaults write -g KeyRepeat -int 1

"The problem is that Facebook doesn’t offer free speech; it offers free amplification."

Not even that -- make a group for your business or product or band or political group, get people to sign up, and see how far free amplification goes.

Thanks for posting this.

Dashboard was a clone ("Sherlock") of Konfabulator, a third party app. It looks like Konfabulator was acquired by Yahoo but eventually shut down. Maybe this is once again an interesting third party opportunity?

I can't even recall how to invoke Dashboard. The fact that was always hidden meant I never used it.

It would be cool to get this out of the lab and into the hands of hackers and makers. You could combine a pocket DLP projector + a Raspberry Pi + camera module to make a cheap, portable Dynamicland platform.

Standardizing bar codes and color dot meanings could open the world to hacking -- i.e. stick a bar code on a building, and anyone can scan it and run the attached program.