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matrixagent··on Will Spotify Ruin Podcasting?
What makes you say ad-free? Not even paying customers get ad-free podcasts on Spotify.
matrixagent··on Will Spotify Ruin Podcasting?
Which requires AntennaPod to be manually installed, which "normal people" won't do. (Either because they already have Spotify or Apple Podcasts or because they simply don't care enough.)
matrixagent··on Will Spotify Ruin Podcasting?
Good luck getting a non-tech person listening to a podcast by supplying them with an RSS link. I don't mean to be snarky, and I hate it from the bottom of my heart, but it's the sad reality. For 99,999% of people, a RSS link is not just making it "harder" to get to the product, it's making it impossible. They won't bother.
matrixagent··on XD2Sketch – How I built a profitable tool with one landing page
> Most of my projects never made it to a release!

I wish I could relate less to that statement.

matrixagent··on Secure ShellFish – SSH and SFTP Storage for iOS
How much is the 6TB Hetzner machine?
matrixagent··on Google Is Eating Our Mail
He's wrong about what this tool provides – namely information for people who want to use GSuite for their email. In that context it makes sense that you have to allow Google "spoofing" your domain, of course. But it has nothing to do with what is being discussed here.
matrixagent··on Google Is Eating Our Mail
This is not doing what you think it does. And it's the second comment where you are spreading your misinformation I've seen in this thread now. :( This tool is for people who want to send their emails via GSuite and their own domain. Not a lot of people in this thread want that, and it certainly has nothing to do at all with what is being discussed in the comment threads where you replied to.
matrixagent··on Drawing is the best videogame
A bit late, but do you by any chance have some resources to share that helped you? Started drawing a bit more lately and would love to improve beyond just practicing more.
matrixagent··on FreshRSS – A free, self-hostable aggregator
Most of them offer that as an alternative as well, yes. For example Reeder (http://reederapp.com/ios/), one of the most prominent RSS apps for iOS.
matrixagent··on FreshRSS – A free, self-hostable aggregator
I guess your RSS reading habits are quite different from those of me and other people that are the target audience for these kinds of self-hosted solutions. Not having read status synced across my devices is not an option, I might just as well use only one device in that case.
matrixagent··on Is the podcast bubble bursting?
No.
matrixagent··on Show HN: Python library to create Siri shortcuts
In a way you're certainly right: Not really a big deal. But then again, it's a difference like day and night. True automation versus assisted manual task-activation. I love the shortcuts feature, but not being able to have them run truly automatically (and in the background, you can't have a "wait"-action for longer than ca. 3 minutes) is a major roadblock that Apple should hopefully solve in iOS13.
matrixagent··on Show HN: Python library to create Siri shortcuts
Sadly, this will really just create a reminder to run the shortcut. Not run the shortcut.
matrixagent··on Algorithms Implemented in Python
Thanks for your warning! I'd love something like this with good implementations (and documentation as to why the implementation is good), does anyone know similar projects?
matrixagent··on Show HN: Feedbridge – RSS feeds for sites without one
Pretty cool, there's a few services out there that do similar things, but haven't seen a open source version yet. Any plans to create a (visual?) tool to aid with creating a new plugin? Where you could click/select elements and the tool generates XPath/RegEx?
matrixagent··on Craft: A simple Minecraft clone written in C using OpenGL shaders
They did. These days “Minecraft” officially refers to the new version, while what you are talking about is called “Minecraft: Java Edition”. As of now, both are maintained, though people are afraid that Java Edition is being phased out in favor of the new one. Main reasons for people preferring the Java Edition is modability and availability of an official server software for self-hosting.
matrixagent··on Elon Musk Confronts a Fateful Tweet and an ‘Excruciating’ Year
"and they will inevitably have extreme personality traits" – I find that a pretty bold claim and don't believe it to be true. And I'd much rather settle Mars a few hundred years later if that in turn means that Mars will be settled by not-so-big-assholes than if it happened sooner.
matrixagent··on GitLab Direction
We're facing the same problem at my company, I heavily pushed towards switching to GitLab and am currently overseeing the process. While we can probably make due with CE, there are a few features that only the 10 to 15 developers in our 300+ employee company would actually use. I don't think that in the foreseeable future the price point of Ultimate will make it viable for us to go that route. Having every employee being able to use GitLab is essential to my idea of how GitLab can be of use to the company, but unless free guest users will also come at least to Gold tier, I think we will have to live with the limitation of CE rather than becoming paying customers. (Please don't get me wrong, I definitely value the product a lot, but I'm not making these decisions alone and I'm merely stating what I know to be the facts for our company. As a fan and developer who would like to use some advanced features I'm hoping that free guest users will come to the other tiers as well.)
matrixagent··on Google Cloud Platform is down
Well this is gonna be a fun day at work…
matrixagent··on Facebook to ask everyone to accept being tracked so they can keep using it
I think you misread. The implication was that Facebook would not exist with real privacy in the product, not the role of CPO within Facebook.
matrixagent··on Facebook to ask everyone to accept being tracked so they can keep using it
The screenshotted example is nothing new, I've seen that specific thing at least 6 months ago. I don't think it has anything to do with GDPR, and as others have already mentioned it is not likely to be legal under it.
matrixagent··on People Who Speed-Listen to Podcasts
Could you tell me where to find that counter? I've looked everywhere… I for the life of mine can find it. I even tweeted the author. Google, looked at lots of reviews to find a clue… eventually I gave up and figured the counter must have been removed in an update before I got the app.
matrixagent··on Ask HN: What mistakes in your experience does management keep making?
Interesting. How did you like it? Does every person at Intel have their own quarterly OKR list, or do they stop propagating down at some level? Were they always on time? How did lower levels give input with regard to what they thought were important goals? Or did really everything come top-down?
matrixagent··on Ask HN: What mistakes in your experience does management keep making?
Oh, I hadn't heard it was that old. Fascinating, so far I've always thought it was something that came directly out of Google itself.
matrixagent··on Ask HN: What mistakes in your experience does management keep making?
Anyone else using that? We use it at my company with very varying levels of success.
matrixagent··on Perspective: Google API that detects toxic comments
Really? I feel that Facebook (especially the Company as a whole, not just the facebook.com site) takes that place.
matrixagent··on Safari Should Display Favicons in Its Tabs
By far my biggest gripe with Safari is the behaviour of the URL bar: https://www.reddit.com/r/Safari/comments/2uikrg/any_way_to_d...
matrixagent··on Intel Skylake/Kaby Lake processors: broken hyper-threading
How do you install the update from that version?
matrixagent··on Rules for REST API URI Design
Could you maybe elaborate a bit more with your send email example? We've been struggling a bit with API design and exactly this kind of thinking everything as a resource. I'm still having a hard time to imagine exactly how "a new email sending resource" would/should look like. having something like /api/sendmail/confirmation would trigger my confirmation mail sending method internally, which clearly is RPC thinking. How would that look like with REST? How would the REST version deal with /api/sendmail/{confirmation,thanks,resetpw} etc.?
matrixagent··on Show HN: MStream – A personal music streaming server
I've used Plex for more than five years and that happened like… three or four times. That sounds like a problem in your network setup. You can also always connect directly to it and skip the central server completely. A PMS does not need an internet connection at all.
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