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Is it just me or DHH is being a bit creepy?

Also, he always states super strong opinions on anything, punctuated by the f-word, as if everyone else was shit, and then he changes his mind. (For instance, the way he despised VCs and now he seems to acknowledge them, his stance on AI, …, his change from being seemingly more left-leaning to being a libertarian).

Europeans are not against A/C. They are just against "just putting A/C" as the easy solution for not trying to fix climate change.

Also the 6% CO2 emissions only include national emissions. A part of what China emits is due to what we consume in the western world. In other words, the 6% emissions don't include the emissions of all the iPhone purchased by Europeans.

I’m not sure work sucks (at least as a general statement). Work is a way to be useful in the society and feeling useful is valuable for our wellbeing. I don’t think people who stop working and spend their days laying on the beach feel better.

As a family: - We don’t use Uber Eats - We don’t fly - We bike in the city (long tail bikes to carry the kids) - We don’t use A/C (and resist so far installing it) and try to do some passive ventilation, shading to limit the house getting to hot in the summer (it’s gets sometimes around 42 C where we live) - We try to eat local food

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And we are not sad!

But how do you deal with that? How can they ignore the future suffering of our children?

I can’t believe there are people in our industry who turn a blind eye (or worse) to these problems. They say that climate scientists are fearmongering and argue there is not a single truth.

Could this run at the network level (like TripMode)? So it would catch usage from web based apps but also the ChatGPT app, Codex CLI etc?

> Will deliver a greener experience

LMAO. When you get people on a flight your unprinted paper is meaningless.

I think he meant MAID <> PII

Why does it look so similar to the RCKit app while not beign s feature complete? Couldn’t they just buy the RCKit app and make it free?

How can the planet sustain nobody dying?

Do they really need a pickup truck? There are so many alternatives to carry around loads which are much lighter. What do you think construction workers and farmers use in Europe?

So if these trees become an invasive species we can say goodbye to our old regular trees. No thanks.

Solutions is to reduce consumption, insulate houses and stop flying. The planet as finite resources.

I like to use Focus (https://heyfocus.com/) on the Mac to prevent myself from actually doing these context switches.

"The Datastore API is somewhat unique in that it, unlike the Core API, deals with non-file data, so we’re working directly with individual developers to help them migrate to an alternative."

I would be interested in what this help means concretely for developers. I imagine Dropbox has limited interest helping small developers who might have used this API.

Numbers are quite impressive: Millions of monthly active users. How do you plan to handle the operations once this is running? If I read correctly you are only two?

Same here. Even scrolling down I don't get what this does/enable very easily. The code examples are also hard to understand (naming is not obvious) for someone who doesn't know what Ethereum is.

I don't think it's a matter of statistics or probability: it's just easier said when you're not directly affected by the events.

For me personally, I completely agree when reading this article but I'm here, on the west coast, not feeling threatened directly and knowing my friends are now safe.

But what if you were passing the finish line as these devices exploded. You might well be the most rationale person in the world, you would not think about probabilities. What if you were there in the public, wondering why your life has been spared because you decided to stand further away from that point.

I get the point but was is the impact of recreationally burning wood a few evenings in the winter or at a campfire. It seems, even from the article, that the repeated practice is bad but I don't think that at this point it would still be called recreational.

It's similar to eating fast food. Every day, the consequences would be disastrous, but once in a blue moon that's a different story.

Do AWS Elastic Beanstalk and OpsWork integrate in some ways or is OpsWork just more flexible?

The problem with the autolayout is that it only works on iOS6 devices, so developers still need to use the old way until they can drop ioS5 support.

That being said it is very easy to support the new iPhone the old way.

One great advantage of C (which was kind of mentioned in the article) is predictability of the generated code. Compared to a C++ compilers, a C compiler is much simpler. When you write a for loop, even doing something on a struct or some fairly "complicated" object, you have a fairly good idea of the machine code generated. It's also easier to go between the assembly code and the C code generally. In some applications like email or image processing, this can be valuable.

What's the percentage of crappy apps on the AppStore?

I'm sure that there are less than 40% of really good apps. So if 40% of the apps, including not-so-good ones break even, that's still a goldmine.

I'm not familiar with football betting but it seems to me that the initial example is not a very good analogy. In the case of shareholders, someone initially lent money to the company in exchange for shares (owning part of the company) from which the company benefits. On the other hand, betting on a football team's success doesn't increase its odds of winning, hence it wouldn't make sense for the team to comment or apologize on the outcome of the bet.

The title of the blog post is unfortunately misleading. The tutorial shows how to convert PDF to DejaVu but doesn't explain how to compress a PDF file by itself.

> I don't know of a way to provide feedback within the App Store architecture other than through the review process. Any other method has a chance of being painful.

A simple "Support" link showing up a pre-filled Mail controller in our app has proven to be very helpful with that and drastically reduced the bug reports within the AppStore.

Link with more details: http://www.topgear.com/uk/car-news/tg-drives-the-citroen-sur...

For information here is one of these dialogs: http://arashpayan.com/blog/2009/09/07/presenting-appirater/

This is quite configurable and you can decide to show the dialog only after a given amount of time and a number of uses. This makes sure that the user has used the app quite a bit.

Interestingly, users reacts quite well to this. If it annoys them they can discard this dialog and they would waste less time than by putting a 1-star review as a "punition".

This is especially helpful because updates reset the number of reviews displayed on the App Store. So you can drop for hundreds of 4-5* reviews to a few reviews just because you fixed a bug in an update.

Looking at the original article from Veracode, nothing proves that they are sending the detailed GPS location. It's just saying the code to do so is present in the Admob library...