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They’ll never stop people from doing this unless they make it impossible to hijack audio, which doesn’t seem realistic, assuming we always have pure hardware interfaces for audio.

If these interfaces go away, the future of music won’t be nearly as much fun as it is now.

I feel like this is something I have been looking for for years.

This reminds me of Ice-nine, from Kurt Vonnegut's Cat's Cradle: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cat%27s_Cradle

I wanted to read this, but the styling of the website cuts diagonally across the content on my tablet in portrait mode.

It makes the article unreadable...

Excel. There are many good Powerpoint replacements, and few competent Excel ones.

Did you mean to post this here? I think you commented on the wrong topic :)

The behavior Kiwi Farms encourages seems like it should be illegal. How is this not murder?

I _love_ Blink Shell on my iPad – it's great for connecting to other machines, and I've had some success setting up a dev environment in EC2. but what I really want is for my iPad to be a complete development environment.

So do these things run Xcode and Terminal, or not?

+1 to this. This is an incredible record.

This article appears here pretty frequently: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...

Interesting! Sounds like the company is doing pretty well, that's nice to hear. I'm a fan of it, just wish there were fewer bots. Thanks for your work, whatever you're doing there :)

Similar problem, different platform: every time I post music on Soundcloud I get likes and comments from bots that want me to pay for reposts.

They seem to have a huge problem at SC and it’s not clear to me that they have any reason to try to stop it. I have been reporting this behavior for years and from my perspective it hasn’t gotten any better.

I have no evidence for this but it feels like Soundcloud is on life support and they have zero or near-zero developers working on it.

PS: if you want a real treat, take a look at how some of these studies measure "aggression".

My favorite was where they used the volume of hot sauce poured into a cup as the measure of aggression.

Hopefully they've come up with some better ways of measuring it since then.

This reminds me of when I was at grad student in that area. It was really frustrating to read all of the studies from e.g. Anderson and Bushman asserting the links between violent media and aggression.

These publications were headline-grabbing, but some of the study design was laughable. The whole state of affairs led me to leave the discipline (which led me to a career as a software engineer). I'm glad that I did, because the reproducibility crisis hit hard within a few years of me deciding to do something else with my life.

Some of the studies that I read made me think that there was a link between frustration (caused by e.g. undesirable outcomes in videogames, or performance issues like high latency) and aggression, but of course the researchers assumed it was the violence.

Try saying that three times fast.

last time I tried this it was great on my laptop, but because it uses Firefox in the background for rendering, it brought my t2 small instance to its knees.

I wonder if they've done anything clever to make it more efficient since then?

What differentiated Google Music from iTunes Match?

iTunes Match is still around, costs $25/year, and works through Apple Music.

I wonder if it is more expensive to manufacture – I know Sony had a pretty amazing-looking automated manufacturing pipeline for the PS4: https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Companies/PlayStation-s-sec...

banana_giraffe's comment is pointing out that you linked to an unrelated google doc – maybe you meant to link to the vimium homepage instead?

Perfect, thank you!

Anyone have a link to the full article?

This is great to know. For years I've been adding `&& git commit --amend` to write any amendments.

Sorry, haven’t read the mountain of comments yet: will it be possible to have a hybrid car that runs on Electric, with Hydrogen fuel cells as an alternative fuel source?

Looks like it’s a board game

This is how I feel as well. But I know a lot of folks use the terminal inside of e.g. VS Code for this.

I wonder what they'd say in response?

For me, a lot of the value is in having a single app that I can turn to for most of my dev tasks. That app happens to be a terminal (with different projects contained in different tmux sessions).

Article headline is misleading, the article itself provides more context and is less sensationalized.

I believe that this is happening in NZ and per the article, Italy.

But in other places (USA and Brazil come to mind) it’s a whole different story. Seems dangerous to suggest it could just die out, while cases are on the rise.

I think Jason Fried does a good job of explaining what's wrong with it in the post:

[...] at Basecamp we help people for all sorts of reasons. We apply credit to accounts for all sorts of reasons. We provide hardship exceptions for all sorts of reasons. We discount our software for teachers. We provide free versions for first responders. We extend trials for those who need more time. We extend payment terms occasionally for those who can’t make ends meet this month. We make exceptions because people are exceptional. We take enormous pride in helping people out. And we’re damn good at it.

If we had to push our customers through Apple’s system, we couldn’t do any of that. Apple’s rules prevent us from servicing our customers, yet Apple gives us no choice but to submit to those onerous rules or not be represented on their platform. [...]

This reflects my experience as well. If I can help customers with their billing issues, it makes my company look really good – we get an opportunity to provide exceptional customer service. If their subscriptions are managed via Apple, we don't really get that opportunity; instead, we're just one of many apps that can't make exceptions.

Apple is far less likely than the company that builds the app to care about the sorts of individual customer reasons for needing a trial extended, account credited, etc, that are mentioned in the article.

Yes, lots of companies are bad at customer service. But some are really good! (you can tell by how their customers gush about them.) And with forced in-app purchases, the good ones don't get the opportunity to do their best work.

From the post:

When someone signs up for your product in the App Store, they aren’t technically your customer anymore - they are essentially Apple’s customer. They pay Apple, and Apple then pays you. So that customer you’ve spent years of time, treasure, and reputation earning, is handed over to Apple. And you have to pay Apple 30% for the privilege of doing so!

Very true. I think people tend to associate in-app purchases with Apple unless they're very sharp or very motivated to do otherwise.

Does anyone think Apple will address this in any form at WWDC next week?

That’s really interesting. I only know Honeywell from a decade ago as a provider of commodity-class desktop computer parts.