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waspight··on EU Council to Vote on Chat Scanning Proposal on Thursday
How will this affect companies in a technical aspect? Just no more e2e encryption available in the clients? Or will it be some kind of weird e2e with a backdoor (which is not how encryption works)…
waspight··on Where do I find real GPS data to test with?
That openstreetmap data was just what I needed, thanks!
waspight··on Show HN: RevenueCat Paywalls
Alright, I might try it out. When the user cancel iOS the subscription is still payed and valid until the month ends probably. I guess one could delay the Stripe period the same amount of days or something.
waspight··on Show HN: RevenueCat Paywalls
I might be migrating to using Revenuecat and I am curious about one thing. I have in app subscriptions in iOS and Android. I plan to add Stripe into this mix as well at some point and I wonder if you handle the case when users jump from subscriptions in one platform to another.

I would like to move certain users (for instance by recommending that in a newsletter, or handing out coupons for the Stripe subscription) from their current iOS subscription to Stripe, and it is hard to make the overlap smooth. Does Revenuecat have some solution to this?

waspight··on Goodreads was the future of book reviews, then Amazon bought it
I have thought about this relative rating as well. Would it be possible to use? I mean, does it scale? I also have seen some ratings where you can only rate between 5 - 10, I guess since no one ever rates below 5 anyway. I think it kind of works.
waspight··on Ask HN: Friendly ways of adding ads to app?
This is how I intend of doing it. I am more curious of how I could place the ads in the app to make them blend in as much as possible.
waspight··on Choosing a Postgres primary key
I only use uuid as PK in Postgres. So many benefits, it is easy to migrate data between environments, client can generate its own ids etc.

I don’t know about performance but I think in most cases that is not a big concern anyway.

waspight··on Netflix has created a self-fulfilling cancelation loop with its new shows
Why don’t they just stick to mini series? Best invention since the movies imo.
waspight··on Ask HN: How do you choose your usernames?
I am a 1Password user as well. As mentioned in another comment, the last pass username generator is possible to use without an account on their website.

So no, I am not concerned :)

waspight··on Ask HN: How do you choose your usernames?
I use last pass username generator
waspight··on Ask HN: Why arent developers interested in secure coding?
Because you never reach any goals that get verified if you develop for security. It is like you only getting punished if the security is weak (you get exploited), but you never know if the security you implemented actually prevented a threat. So there is no real rewards.

Would be interesting to know if there is some kind of reward model out there that solves this.

waspight··on Ask HN: Did HN just start using Google recaptcha for logins?
Said every customer
waspight··on Why is the JavaScript ecosystem like this?
It is not always aspects of stability that are most important. I prefer js because it might be the fastest language to get an MVP out the door, among other things.
waspight··on Ask HN: How is Discord a better platform than FB?
I can absolutely see that the UI is better than Facebook groups if that is the alternative. But I would like the Reddit style community UI more if that was an option.
waspight··on The internet wants to be fragmented
What do you mean?
waspight··on The internet wants to be fragmented
But these are all closed communities. I just think that it would be a point in having a community that is also searchable from google? Why is closed communities like Discord so popular?
waspight··on The internet wants to be fragmented
In the spirit of the article, how do you start your own community these days? I think it was phpbb that was popular last time I checked (perhaps 15 y ago).
waspight··on React Native is not the future
The thing is that most paying customers are most often on iOS, so target that experience while using react native and you will get some Android users for free. Android users are less likely to pay anyway.
waspight··on Personal newsletters as a calmer alternative to social networks
But Substack is a newsletter service?
waspight··on Okta says its GitHub account hacked, source code stolen
I think that they have alerts for when an access token is found in the wild, for instance. So it is quite possible.
waspight··on Ask HN: Best board games of 2022?
Not released this year but I still play a lot of Terraforming Mars which is a good game. From this year I have played Ark Nova and that was great as well.
waspight··on Ask HN: Best board games of 2022?
I don’t like carcassonne at all. I find it to have too much luck involved since you always get one random tile. Is it really possible to be good at? Whenever I have played most players score about the same.
waspight··on Ask HN: Do anyone get anxiety from following Hacker News?
I read HN instead of world news to avoid anxiety, a different kind of anxiety perhaps.
waspight··on Ask HN: Appstore fee for digital goods sold by users?
So if I have iap subscriptions not related to the products I want to sell through Stripe, that affects the 30% cut of the products as well?
waspight··on Ask HN: Appstore fee for digital goods sold by users?
Yes. So am I allowed to use Stripe for this?
waspight··on Ask HN: How to build a website that will last 30 years?
If Github pages is still a thing in 30 years I would bet on that.
waspight··on Ask HN: Xcode users – how do you make it more usable?
I still use the same installation of macOS as I began using seven years ago. I only moved it to new MacBooks a few times using the built in solution for that. I thought that formatting like crazy was a windows thing?
waspight··on I'm an 18 year old developer. How do I become one of the best programmers ever?
Is high iq an indicator for success? Would be interested in a source about that.
waspight··on The Car-Replacement Bicycle (The Bakfiets)
I have a two wheeled bakfiets.nl (the brand and the type) and that is probably one of the best things I have ever bought. Can really recommend, especially if you have kids.
waspight··on The Car-Replacement Bicycle (The Bakfiets)
I second this. Also have one, it is not much different to ride than a regular bike.
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