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I recall this pattern being taught in my first year or two of my computer science degree. Emphasizing only one return statement per function, utilizing a shared return variable.

I much preferred (and still greatly prefer in industry) the pattern of exiting the function as soon as possible.

I appreciate the perspective.

> Having said that, most of my music is on MP3s, but the idea that referring to them via some block chain crap will give them "value" is just silly.

I think the point here is that verifying ownership of digital goods is hard, because they are so easily reproduced identically. Blockchain technology and NFTs are one way to solve this problem because it allows you to have a verifiable chain of ownership which cannot be modified or faked. (ie. if a music release was as simple as the artist distributing an MP3 to 10 people, it would be impossible to tell who actually owned the "original" MP3).

Is it unreasonable to think that in 50 years, someone might look back at the limited digital release they got of their favourite album as fondly as you look back on your Live Dead record, and then pass that digital ownership down to their next of kin? It's a concept that's been explored time and time again physically but seems weirdly uncharted for anything digital.

I agree, but I think that's just a short term effect of people trying to cash in on the hype.

Suppose I'm an artist that releases a limited digital run of an album and that NFTs are used to attribute ownership of the digital release. Would this have more, equal, or less value than an artist doing the same thing but with a physical limited run album release?

The actual music content can be pirated and made available just the same, whether or not it was physical or digital. The cost of the physical goods themselves is negligible. However, I feel like many people argue that the digital release via NFTs would be worth less because all you have to show for your ownership is a digital token, and not some sort of limited release physical item.

I've struggled wrapping my ahead around whether this line of thinking has merit or not.

I'd argue that everything you listed can be reproduced, almost identically. But there's no value in doing so since it is not the original or was never authorized by the creator. Why does this change all of a sudden once we go digital? Is it because it's so much easier to reproduce something that originates digitally?

For me, it's information density.

Encountered a similar issue with an app of mine that implemented certificate pinning. Still a large iOS 9 user base using a version of the app which contains a soon expiring list of pinned certificates. Unfortunately likely have to drop support for those users entirely.

Likely option 1. In my experience, App Review will not entertain any sort of "preliminary approval" but you could theoretically submit a less polished version of the app to test the waters.

I too received an email requesting my service address (near Kenora, Ontario, Canada).

Issue seems to be resolved, but the the comment on their bug tracker is almost infuriating.

“ Earlier today, a code change triggered crashes for some iOS apps using the Facebook SDK. We identified the issue quickly and resolved it. We apologize for any inconvenience.” (1)

At the scale of Spotify and other massive blue chip apps, this bug could have very well cost companies hundreds of thousands to millions of dollars in damages. This apology on the bug tracker seems so insincere. With this type of issue occurring twice in a couple months, I’ll be ensuring that no clients of mine ever install or rely on Facebook services within their mobile apps. Facebook has a responsibility to developers to ensure that their SDKs and integrated components are stable, and they have failed.

[1] https://developers.facebook.com/status/issues/17391881029111...

My guess in this particular instance is that it seems like the Facebook SDK is fetching some sort of remote serialized configuration, calling “count” on what it expects to be an array, and instead is calling it on NSNull (an object representing “null”) which is throwing an exception.

There are some intricacies on iOS surrounding null values and serialization, and as a developer it is important to understand that you may encounter NSNull. As a standard practice in my company, we type check every remote value before calling anything on it. Seems like that would have prevented this issue.

For sure. I am not in a position to determine whether TikTok is looking at clipboard contents for good or evil. I simply wanted to point out that there exist innocent reasons for looking at the clipboard.

I know there are a few apps which will check the clipboard in order to provide functionality to the user. For example, some shipping apps will check the clipboard to see if the user has a copied tracking code and if so, ask the user if they want to track their copied code.

Not sure if TikTok does something similar, but there are certainly innocent reasons for checking the clipboard.

Seems like this could be a big hit to indie developers and applications that function off of an ad supported model, as CPMs for users that opt out of tracking is a fraction of their tracked counterparts.

Looks like Apple wants to guide more developers to a paid/subscription model as there is no direct financial incentive for them to have ad-supported products on their platform.

Fentanyl is typically used as a cutting agent. Heroin, xanax, etc are all fairly expensive so if you can cut these drugs with fentanyl to provide a similar experience, then it may be in the dealer's financial interest to do so. From what I've read online, not a lot of users chase fentanyl itself unless it is the only opiate available to them.

Small anecdote: I always did worse in college with professors or courses that were looked at as “easy” because I was not motivated to put in effort. Courses that were looked at as hard or professors that were rated as tough tended to make me “respect the class” and subsequently do better and learn more.

You only can with a new update to the app, to ensure that the title is reviewed by App Review.

I run an app with 1m+ DAU. For me, the server tech stack did not matter. What did matter was the ability to iterate quickly and identify bottlenecks. Although it was still critical, the server was not a massive component of the overall business, which may have given me better mileage than other users with a sub-par tech stack.

I originally started the server component using procedural PHP on $5/month shared hosting, which ground to a halt after receiving local news exposure. As users grew, I slowly built up the server stack to be more robust, tested, etc. For the most part, my users were okay with these growing pains (certain parts of the service had downtime as it expanded and grew) and they did not impact the overall success of the app.

When starting a new product, my biggest focus would be to put together the stack in a way which allows for the ability to expand, pivot, and change to account for unforeseen events. I feel that in a lot of cases, too much time is wasted debating tech stack factors which ultimately do not matter.

Trial and error. I didn't really read anything but instead just tried to put myself in the shoes of a customer. It came down to me realizing that the features and info that I felt were important as developer were possibly not so important for a user.

Yeah! Entirely ads mediated through MoPub and some other partners. Since the user base is strongly recurring users, ads perform very well

Got in the game super early (nearly 5 years ago) when the space wasn't nearly as saturated. That and getting really lucky with ASO

Not entirely single person, but I run Musi [1] with one partner. We have monthly revenues in the mid six figures with 2-3k a month in expenses.

[1] https://feelthemusi.com

Almost certainly human error.

Anecdotally, I had a standby ticket recently when my seat was reassigned to a paying customer, although I still had a boarding pass for that seat. I was halfway down the jet bridge before the gate agent realized that my ticket had been revoked.

I imagine it's second nature for gate agents to let passengers through, and one lapse in judgement can cause the United incident, despite the software showing that the ticket was invalid.

I know a local bank that limits password lengths to exactly 7, and the contents of the passwords to ONLY DIGITS. I can't imagine how many users are going to just use their phone number.

In Canada, it's $50 for 5 years of Nexus which entitles someone to quicker security lines in the US and Canada, quicker border entry, and more.

At $10/year (for the amount I fly per year, it works out to roughly 25 cents per leg of travel), I can't really think of anything more cost efficient to save that much time, stress, etc.

I always find Facebook's example feed to be funny since it's a completely unrealistic depiction of what their site actually is for most users.

Just quickly looking at the top few posts in my feed, I see someone celebrating their two year friendship with someone I don't know, one person sharing a link to a new airplane, four people sharing videos, one person liking a sponsored video, and finally one person updating their profile picture.

I wish I could see actual updates from people instead of being kept abreast as to what piece of third party content they've liked at some point in time, what third party content they're sharing, etc.

iOS app: 550K DAU with ~2.5M downloads, 3 years in the making.

What is your plan to attract bands to the platform?

I was in a similar position as you (except instead of pursuing a web development certificate I was debating dropping out entirely, after having success with a side project and various development jobs).

Although I would have done just fine if I dropped school, I'm happy that I stuck with it. I feel now that I have a much deeper understanding of computing, especially after taking advanced algorithm analysis courses, AI, and more.

Two years ago I posted Musi here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6987738

Since then, I managed to grow it to be one of the top 100 apps in the App Store. It's been a trip.

Interesting site. I love the ability to narrow down apps through an advanced search. However, I feel like it rewards apps with keywords in their titles over those that don't. Consider someone searching for "music". It's reasonable for Spotify to show up, or even my app Musi which currently ranks first for that keyword in the App Store since both of those apps heavily involve music. However, on AppApp, none of those are found. Instead, there are mostly music creation apps which generally include music in their titles, versus music listening apps which may not.

If Apple changed their search to work more like this, I would have to change my app name to "Music Player" to stay competitive, and add even more keywords in the title.

As it stands, I feel like Apple rewards popular apps a little too much and I like how this is a more literal search, but there is definitely merit in having a search which has understanding about what an app is about (which is what I believe Apple tries to do with their current App Store search).