CJKinni

> The apps to which DHH compares Hey with are very different in nature and all the mail apps he constantly mentions are also different in nature. They all implement the suggestions which Apple has suggested in their response.

I can only speak to the app I'm most familiar with that DHH has compared it to multiple times. Fastmail. Fastmail's app lets you access Fastmail's email accounts, but not POP/IMAP accounts more generally. It doesn't provide a way of subscribing, and just loads to a login page when the app starts. It doesn't follow the suggestions they included in the letter, and I've seen DHH reference it multiple times.

For what it's worth, I've enjoyed Fastmail a great deal, and having an email client directly tied to the service provider has been great for me. I'm mainly concerned about this whole issue because of it's implications for new updates to Fastmail's app.

> Apple have (freely) provided Basecamp a platform to grow their business via the App Store, whilst giving Apple (effectively) nothing in return.

I've purchased an expensive phone mainly so that I can have access to a high quality ecosystem of apps. Apps like Basecamp and Hey are part of that for me. Apple gains so much from the breadth of high quality apps on the app store, including free apps. If they begin to see free apps as giving them effectively nothing, I see that as an indication that they no longer value the reasons I go to them as an iOS user.

The issue here is that Godot isn't someone you can contact to support their systems. It's an open source project. They either add it to the source, which they can't because of NDAs, or they point you to companies who have a track record of porting and publishing Godot games on Switch, PS4 and Xbox One, which they are currently doing:

https://docs.godotengine.org/en/stable/tutorials/platform/co...

For Ludum Dare 46, going on this weekend, the theme is 'Keep it alive.'

I had a few 'real' game ideas, but this is the thing I thought people might get some use out of, but after some reflection, the best task I could come up with, that would have a positive influence on people was just to give people who want it the opportunity and an excuse to say what’s on their mind.

The website will self-destruct if you don’t engage with it.

It’s been a rough month for me, and I’m sure it has for a lot of people. So I figured, lets create a nice cozy place online where you can write about the issues you’re having.

For those interested in the technical details: On page load, I check to see if the latest request is more than 24 hours old. If it is, I delete all the items in the database and stop rendering.

> Can we scrape Reddit, Twitter, or Facebook in order to stand up a competing service that strips out all the ads?

Even if web scraping was definitively legal (this preliminary injunction doesn't mean that), that doesn't mean you can bypass the content creator's copyright. Non-copyrightable functional data is one thing, but copying all of Reddit, for example, would include copying https://www.reddit.com/r/WritingPrompts/ and that would definitely be violating the rights of the authors.

> But, there are these "small" hacks: It joins Z with the ctrl key. Z has to be hit twice to type Z. Sounds like the end of the world, right?

For people new to the Ergodox, and as others have mentioned, this isn't required for use of the EZ.

I have two Ergodox-EZs, one at work and the other at home. For those interested, here's my setup: https://configure.ergodox-ez.com/ergodox-ez/layouts/Eej0Z/la...

If you're interested in the Ergodox, I do recommend really spending some time with the configurator the first month and keep iterating and practicing with it. It starts out slow, but now I'm as fast, if not faster on it than my old layout. And I'm always able to add new features. Just reading this comment section, I realized I missed my ten-key, so I threw a new layer together on an unused key to get a ten-key setup.

One of the major things I've learned using it is to configure with mnemonics in mind. For my ten-key setup, I was tempted to put the 789 where 'yui' are, but I opted to put 789 over 'uio' because then I could remember that the ten-key's top row is down-shifted one from the number row, while still getting the top row of '/*-' in the correct position. I probably won't use a ton of the ten-key this week, but hopefully that mnemonic will help me from fumbling when I do have a use for it.

> The thing is, you are bound to come across someone who finds a feature useful even if the feature is not useful for the vast majority of the people.

I think this sentiment holds true for function keys in general. I the vast majority of people never used them.

It's a chess opening, in an older notation. But for someone into chess in the 70s, it wouldn't be hard to remember.

> Not my experience, let me explain:

>> Experience and anecdote does not substitute for real scientific evidence. My research suggests that...

Can you cite your research. It's hard to criticize someone for giving an anecdote then going on to cite 'your research without citing it.

Exactly. If it starts happening frequently, maybe it's worth looking into. But I think there's a middle ground between 'worthy of complaining on hacker news' and 'need to implement and support a redundant backup payment system.'

KATG listener since 2006. Awesome to see you on here.

I believe most of 3M's products are industrial abrasives, films, laminates, and adhesives. I suspect they make more money selling layers of film that are part of electronic displays than they do selling scotch tape.

Well, this inspired me to install ScummVM, install this pack, and finally beat Kings Quest VII Chapter 1. It was the first game I ever had as a kid, and I never was able to get past one of the puzzles. The audio sounds great!

I loved the Crystal Maze as a kid. It started back up again a couple years ago. It's now hosted by Richard Ayoade.

There’s also an $8 kindle version.

Excited to see there’s going to be a second volume!

If you’re interested in more of this kind of player-made history of Eve, I highly recommend Empires of Eve, both the book and the podcast series:

https://m.soundcloud.com/empiresofeve

The podcast is very well produced and has interviews with the major players from the early years of Eve.

Occasionally when I get the craving to play Eve, I also end up listening to a few episodes of Talking on Stations, an eve podcast that gives fascinating in depth analysis of a world I’ll never have time for.

I don’t see how it’s belittling to acknowledge luck as a factor among many in success while also acknowledging the non-luck factors. You can be proud of your accomplishments while still acknowledging the influence of luck your success.

I haven’t looked into it beyond typing a couple of lines into the terminal but I’m wondering how useful iSh will be for people trying to go down this road.

From https://ish.app - “iSH is a project to get a Linux shell environment running locally on your iOS device, using a usermode x86 emulator.”

A great example of how an experienced photographer is more than just a body and a camera is contained within this story itself. The quality difference between the photograph the guy took a decade ago and the one he took this year was striking.

It's my understanding that the labor theory of value is only concerned with "socially necessary labor," and not completely valueless labor -- digging and filling in a hole ad nauseam.

Sorry, I'm very interested in how this all works. What does an application mean in this context?

I came across this yesterday and have been quite impressed with its customization. My previous attempts with automated time tracking through programs like rescue time involved lots of fiddling and not getting much work done. With this, after reading some notes in the documentation on Effective Use of arbtt (http://arbtt.nomeata.de/doc/users_guide/effective-use.html) I've got a pretty useful time tracking app that's not distracting and only gives me the information I want.

I'm confused by any outrage over this.

It's a tool that's meant to predict things, and they weren't able to successfully predict something that is used extremely frequently in lots of conversations. So they decided, after 'several' other attempts, that they were best off not trying to make suggestions.

If you can't do something right after repeated attempts, don't do it.

It seems like the owner was trying to find someone for over a year and nothing panned out:

https://github.com/FineUploader/fine-uploader/issues/1881

So much for the pivot to "move fast with stable infrastructure."

We may not be able to definitively know all societal consequences, be we can certainly predict some of them.

I think that's fair. I like to consider three factors when considering an original creator:

1. Did they have nefarious aims?

2. Did they reasonably attempt to consider and solve issues surrounding first and second-order effects of their creation?

3. How did they react to previously unknown first and second-order harms when they found out about them?

The first two, I tend to give creators the benefit of the doubt about. But I've become quite dismayed by the responses of creators to the harms of their creations.

As a reformed law student, I can say that I've seen a lot of smart people try to answer questions about long legal opinions after a few minutes of ctrl+f-ing through a case. 90% of the time it worked well enough for them to stumble through a question. The other ten percent, they ended up making silly mistakes, like quoting from a multi-page hypothetical argument that lead the student to completely misinterpret the opinion. It's easy enough to misunderstand a nuance of a legal argument when you read opinions, asking someone to guarantee their correct about a summation of 120 pages of text within 5 minutes, or even an hour, seems unrealistic.

News organizations like NPR like to be accurate when being accurate will only take a few hours of work. And I'd rather they be correct than fast.