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The statistics seem to say otherwise - https://www.cbs.nl/en-gb/news/2020/16/fewer-employed-in-marc...

I’ve been looking for visualizations for music app on macOS for a long time. If you could make one that works seamlessly with apps I’d be willing to pay for it. But, please don’t make it a subscription. Charge as much as you want for a perpetual license.

Contact tracing is a precursor to testing. An app flagging you as a potential positive doesn’t mean that you self-quarantine for x days, rather it means that you get tested asap. And this has to happen every time you get flagged. Otherwise there’s just no point in using those apps. Eventually the entire neighborhood would be flagged.

Not sure what the downvote is for.

Some would argue that willfully going outside while you’re infected is the more risky and irresponsible behavior on your part.

Whoa! I love the second link! Is there an orchestrated horizontally-scaled secure decentralized web service I could use to bookmark all the dang cartoons?!

It doesn't have to be, though. Just like iMessage is hugely successful despite being limited to Apple devices, and even then widely differing in features and reliability, for example, between iOS and macOS.

A wonderful collaborative experience could just be a USP for the platform. FWIW, the now obsoleted iChat was way ahead of the curve compared to the current iteration of FaceTime in group settings, anyway.

The author wrote an article for Guardian - https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/mar/12/scienc...

>And most startup interviews these days are theater.

They have been for years. I remember meeting a few wannabe VC types a few years ago to get advice on bureaucratic procedures to start a business and all of them subjected me to cross-examination using the standard VC question-bank, when all I wanted was the ABCs of starting a business.

Good point; I think it would initially involve some personal vetting as well as starting at a local level. This could be made part of the listing process where the only way to get verified as a member is to allow a designated photographer if you're hosting, and some kind of social proof (LinkedIn?) if you're looking for a space. I think this is a bigger concern in remote towns and the countryside, though. For a city like Amsterdam, safety might not be that big of an issue.

Yeah I saw them, but it seems like it's just a directory to Facebook pages that needs to be updated by sending an email. I think there's a good business case to make a nice website and app that would afford people a coworking space-like luxury, but at rather ad-hoc and personal locations.

I have thought about starting a little website where people open up their living rooms every once in a while to create an ad-hoc coworking space. It could even be the kitchen or the dining table, as long as you're sharing ideas, learning, and getting to know what other people are working on. From a business perspective, I'd rather make use of the plentiful libraries in Amsterdam than pay for a coworking space.

Would be great to hear more about what newspapers and magazines you’re subscribed to. I am in the same boat and much prefer subscriptions to quality journalism instead of untenable options like paying by the article or installing ad-blockers. The former just incentivizes the same crappy journalism as ads, and the latter is disingenuous.

I am subscribed to the FT, Guardian online.

It's not just bad cellphone service, but sometimes server issues could have the same effect. Hyundai ran a car sharing service here in Amsterdam that used a combination of Bluetooth and cellular connectivity to remotely unlock cars and provision software keys for phones. Every once in a while, though, the app would crash and lose the software key, meaning that the car would end up back again on the map exactly where you picked it up without leaving you with a way to unlock the car. I am not sure what exactly was the issue as the app just errored out.

I'd have to call the customer service line, where they wouldn't know what to do as the car was already in use according to the backend. After a few times getting stuck, I came up with a solution which was to literally beg them to cancel the checkout so that the car was available again. They were trained to not do that as their information was that a car could not be left parked outside their service area, which was definitely not the case as I was able to start a new reservation and unlock the car. This happened quite a few times, so much so that I would already know the solution but had to spend an awful amount of time explaining it to the reps -- starting with uninstalling and reinstalling the app as told by them.

Then, some other company took over the system and started a new system with the same infrastructure and the app codebase. When it happened again a couple times, I was finally able to get hold of a systems programmer who debugged the issue with me while I was out in the wind. It hasn't recurred since.

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This reminds me of various Windows applications back in the day (Windows 3.1 and 95) that claimed to fine tune your connection and one of the tricks they used was changing the MTU setting, as far as I can recall. Could anyone share how that worked?

My advice would be to focus on iOS as a platform, and not as a matter of React vs native vs Swift vs Java. In the end, you could write an equally amazing (or distasteful) app using React as you could using Swift. Where most developers fall short is understanding the capabilities and constraints of iOS; they aim for the greatest common divisor when it comes to functionality.

While a more senior developer could mentor you, once you understand the platform inside-out, you become more of an authority, and that opens you up to amazing possibilities irrespective of what language or framework you're using.

Unless the philanthropy is run like a business with you as the investor/stakeholder.

Those employees would contribute a substantially higher portion of their additional earnings to the governments as tax. You could easily do the math.

Climate science research.

'The investment underlines Gates’s long-standing interest in alternative fuels, and his enthusiasm for new technology that could tackle emissions from industry and transport that together make up 75% of the world’s carbon footprint.'

It's an 'investment'.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/feb/09/bill-gate...

It is. Also, philanthropy is tax advantaged. It's the giving that keeps on giving back.

I tried searching, but couldn't find a good explanation online on the differences between Keybase and Riot, and why one is better than the other. Could anyone help?

The one thing I wish they improved was being able to scroll through my playlists using an index on the right (like in the Contacts app). Right now, there are limited sorting options but all of them require considerable scrolling. Also, the cells are huge for some reason.

Companies invest in growth areas. Mobile experiences are driven largely by interactive native elements using the latest platform specific API.

Not just smoother, native apps done right are interactive at the visual element level.

Translation: we don’t see mobile experiences driving our growth.

I feel that a lot of the shortcomings of the iPad as a platform are really a consequence of the chicken or egg problem. For the platform to be viable, you need a lot of good apps, and to make good apps a possibility, the platform needs to be monetizable. Currently, the iPad lacks on all 2 fronts.

Apple isn't leading either on the software front. All the stock apps are just resized apps of their iOS counterparts with nothing extraordinary about them. Most happy users are just using a bigger web-browser, or a bigger drawing app (with the same functionality as on smaller screens), or custom apps that are uploaded on an educational/enterprise portal and are a job requirement. A lot of families use it as an entertainment/learning device for their children where its processing power is underused.

There is almost no money to be made as a developer if you spend all that effort supporting multitasking or adding nice iPadOS-only features. Customers won't pay and Apple only makes your life harder with every OS release.

Someone(he) must have just read 'Range'.

Thanks for the effort! It looks amazing.

I do hope that more remote opportunities are posted. I am an iOS developer who has worked remotely for the last 5 years, but increasingly noticing the trend towards fewer remote opportunities. In the age of constant high-bandwidth video communication you'd imagine that the reverse would hold true.

SEEKING WORK | Amsterdam, The Netherlands | Remote Only

Native iOS developer, experienced in refactoring old code as well as writing in modern Swift. Previous experience includes senior positions at various multinational companies, all of them with apps in top 5-15 of their respective categories. Currently co-founder of a new parent-teen productivity app under development. Up to date with core Apple frameworks like SwiftUI, and very interested in building something on top of upcoming SDKs like CoreML and ARKit.

I have been remote for 5+ years, and would prefer to stay so, but if there's an amazing opportunity that requires a little bit of onsite time, I would be glad to discuss!

Flexible about availability, timeline, schedule.

Email me -- saurabh@gargs.nl

Website: https://www.gargs.nl

SEEKING WORK | Amsterdam, The Netherlands | Remote Only

Native iOS developer, experienced in refactoring old code as well as writing in modern Swift. Previous experience includes senior positions at various multinational companies, all of them with apps in top 5-15 of their respective categories.

I have been remote for 5+ years, and would prefer to stay so, but if there's an amazing opportunity that requires a little bit of onsite time, I would be glad to discuss!

I don't have much, if any, of open source work, as I have been very focused on my apps (which are also my hobbies). In my off-time, I have worked on personal apps that I some day hope to make successful in their own right, but those that I intend to use regularly.

Flexible about availability, timeline, schedule.

Email me! Website: https://www.gargs.nl

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