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It's somewhat circular reasoning, but my view would be: if you're so inexperienced such that you will blindly follow her advice then you should blindly follow her advice. If you aren't so inexperienced such that you don't blindly follow her advice then you're probably OK to not blindly follow her advice.

This is basically true for every field ever. Generally recommended practices are most important for beginners. Once you're experienced you can start recognizing when it isn't applicable. Beginners oftentimes aren't experienced enough to apply nuanced advice, and nuanced advice oftentimes is masqueraded as general, rather than nuanced, advice.

Somewhere inbetween people might get lost but I feel like approach this gets the majority of people on the right track.
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> I don't understand why people think this is a huge friction point.

Because the numbers seems to indicate that.
http://qz.com/253618/most-smartphone-users-download-zero-app...
Note that Monero's scalability problem also exists in Zcash - an indefinitely growing list of spent tokens; if scalability is a drawback of Monero it's a drawback for Zcash.
As do I, but the conversations I have on HN are more fascinating to me, so I'd actually rather have push-notifications on HN than Reddit.

The biggest thing is still a better way to browse/post on iOS.
12 year olds don't have money, I would wait till people are at least 16 to care if they use my app...
That may even be true to a point but folks have been beating their budgets bloody against the design limitations of current web display technology for as long as I've been making websites (~15 years). This isn't a new rant.
I wonder what the numbers look like at Forbes with regard to blocking ad blockers. How far has their readership dropped? Is it negligible?
Sort of a more high stakes version of the Grothendieck "prime"... makes you wonder how many more folks haven't made it through the gauntlet.
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If you're looking for a free, hyper-functional podcast app that will search _thousands of RSS feeds_, allow me to introduce [PodcastAddict](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.bambuna.po...). I've been using it for some time now, and every day I discover something new to enjoy. It's indisputably the best podcast app for Android, and it's leagues beyond iOS's native app.
For most of Silicon Valley's history, the technology industry was generally no farther north than Menlo Park on the Peninsula, and southern Fremont in the east, with the occasional exception (Electronic Arts in San Mateo, Oracle in Redwood Shores). There were the beginnings of a tech presence in SOMA in the dot-com era, but it died when the bubble burst. Tech didn't start to come back to the City until 2006-07 or so.
I'm available... and semi-actively looking... ;-) But I'm not cheap. That said, I provide great value.

I've been writing web based applications for about 20 years now. It's a lot better than it was in the late 90's and early 2000's, so stop bitching or get off the lawn. (sarcasm) Seriously though, I'd much rather deal with webpack, babel, react, redux and the like than angular 1&2 (just feels like a decade old solution now), and heaven forbid having to ever look at an <ILayer> again, or breaking up forms dynamically in the v4 browsers.

Yes, there are a few features not broadly supported, but there is also tooling that makes web dev as good, and in some ways better than app dev (though less than natural, and all out performance on a complex app is hard)... all of that said, it's a VERY valid option for many/most sites/applications.
Is there some rule that startup CEOs have to say "fuck" a lot?
It was really effective! It was great to be able to visually "walk" through the state space. If you do another, more technical post digging into the details then I would definitely be interested.
Ye gods people.

The entire article is saying "I used to believe it was too expensive to do native apps so we did web, I now believe I was wrong, even though it may seem cheaper at first the costs of the web are far less predictable and it's now economically better to just do native apps"
The toy industry would like to disagree!
Lessons from over 600 app pitch decks
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I appreciate your reply, but I also feel you are too nonchalantly dismissing something like e.g. Moral Mazes, which is a significant longitudinal study of bureaucracy and management hierarchy, using tools from academic sociology. It's not just some fly-by-night opinion.

In my experience, it is extremely hard to find jobs that provide a combination of paying well, allowing you a personal life, and having reasonable enough hours to avoid excessive fatigue or burnout. I've interviewed with places top to bottom and had four post-graduate jobs, all of which failed in at least two of those categories while having appeared like they would succeed in all of them when I did interviews. All of my friends and colleagues report similar anecdotes, as do many, many commenters here. The anecdotes describing jobs in which you feel you are well paid, have a feasible work/life balance, and freedom to pursue a personal life, are unequivocally in the minority. That's not "my perspective" ... that's just collecting data in the wild.

And though I think I've had it bad, my experiences have been like a dream vacation or something compared to what my mother has lived through in her job as a court reporter in a small town courthouse. Rampant sexism, ageism, uncompensated overtime which is not allowed for her position, bosses (judges) who demean her, yell at her, do illegal things like carry out their private landlord affairs in their judges chambers during work hours and force her to handle the paperwork for it.

Or my brother, a factory worker in the area whose work stories almost cause me to have an aneurysm out of frustration. More uncompensated overtime, overtly insulting and demeaning bosses, sales staff who make jokes about all the catered meetings they get and how they will leave the day-old food out on the factory floor because the floor workers are so desperate for a free meal that they'll eat anything. He earns just barely over the poverty line, has no vacation, commutes around 40 miles each way plus traffic, and every single other job in the region that he could possibly get is no better. All so he can just barely service college loan debt that has been utterly useless for getting employment.

The problem of finding employment that can sustain human cognitive health is massive and hearing you utterly dismiss it like this makes me feel like you reside in an incredible bubble where you've been shielded from what it's really like, and that while I appreciate your advice, it is just not applicable.
Yes, and the idea is to have a lot of "Matrix powered" apps out there like Vector
On iPhone they do, and I doubt you'll have much luck getting the average Android user to side-load either.
> You can disable autocomplete

You can, but it makes you pretty much the literal devil.

Don't disable my autocomplete.

> TL;DR: "We tried to make a responsive web app act like a native app and it didn't work because it doesn't work, and that makes me a grumpy goose."

It makes him grumpy because he can't get users what they want.
Yup, Stealth Addresses are just a small fix to one usecase, not a general solution. And I say this as the guy who came up with the name and played a part in developing the exact protocol Dark Wallet implemented (many others deserve credit, including for the underlying math).
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> I thought the attraction of web development was that you just write something once and it works on all browsers. If you have to write it 8 times then what's the attraction?

You generally only have to write it once. But you've gotta write it right. The other attractions are no installs, just visit a web page. No users with "out of date" clients, you just serve the updated page to users. A sandboxed environment to run in. Ease of sharing (URLs). The DOM, while slow, is also rather nice if your layout model resembles documents. There's a million reasons why web might be the better choice. There's also a million reasons to prefer native.

> Often people show me "tech demos", by which they apparently mean something you'd never bother to show anyone else if it was an app or a game, but because it's running in a browser window and because it doesn't look like yet another shitty website (because it has something that moves, or which you can interact with in some limited way) it's supposed to somehow impress me. I don't get it.

Usually these are showing off new features available in the browser that weren't present before. And they can do a hell of a lot more than let you interact with it in some limited way, or move an object. How about an entire 3d Modeling Application in your browser? (Warning may lag a mobile device or slow PC)

http://www.3dtin.com/

But these are crazy, cutting-edge things that are still best done natively. Most of the time you're not making a 3d Modeling application. 99% of the time an "app" is something that shows text and images, and takes text (and sometimes images) from the user. You can make it super flashy, and that's where a native app would excel. But does it really need to be flashy? Does a cruise line's ticket booking app really need to show water flowing across the screen while you load the next page, and a tugboat pulling in prices? Or are these gimmicks that will just end up pissing off the user?

I guess I really just disagree with the blanket statements by the author. Native probably was a better call for their app, but they don't focus on why. Just that web supposedly sucks... Instead of learning the strong suites of web and native, and why they thought web worked for their app but it didn't, they've "learned" to not touch the web. Which I think is the wrong lesson.
Hmm - so what was the problem statement, exactly? (I may have been thinking of something related, but different).
What would you consider the web of a couple years ago/solid simple guaranteed tech?
> First of all, it is impossible to instrument a random binary on the fly without private symbols.

That's not true. You can use DTrace instrumentation on any binaries. It's more effort, of course, to figure out what address is what. You can work backwards from system calls to get some reference point about target process data structures. And of course trace obvious things such as function entry points, particular instructions, etc.

Also other dynamic binary tracing frameworks can do tracing without symbols.
And it works with https://matrix.org!
Dunno, I'd be okay with web notifications via chrome.

Though that some clickbait sites are asking for that permission is really irritating... I mean more so than interstitial or late-loading ads that push content down.
Interesting idea. How does TrueVault Keep work with systems that want to process user data in the background? Won't you need to give a single account access to all records which will introduce the same single point vulnerability?
I often hear this. I tend tp agree but what exactly do you mean? That Javascript is used more widely?
That's the 3D model that Google created in partnership with Matterport (Early 2014). However, I am not sure why Matterport has not been mentioned in any of the recent Lenovo Tango products. Neither have they mentioned this specific 3D indoor scanning feature with this phone.

I was curious to find out the quality of the 3D model this phone could scan.
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One thing we tend to forget as developers is that in any industrial process, there needs to be technical limitations enforcing requirements before requirements enforce technical specifications. We tend to be too easy because everything seems achievable with software systems.

A project should start by considering political things such as: is it smart to have this particular application hosted in a marketplace. Right after that, the chief engineer should be consulted to know the technical approach (platform, stack, etc...) that should be used, and the technical limitations that the requirements should observe to allow the development effort to be successful and efficient.

The more self-imposed technical constraints are observed, the more successful and easy the development will be - and passed a certain point, the more difficult it becomes to sell the product or service.

Applying this reasoning to the article, to me the problem is the very thing they have decided to develop.
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I know geo-engineering schemes are well-intentioned, but I'm worried that once productionized, country-specific motivations are going to move from "status quo" to "arms race"

Yeah we all know global warming will cause chaos etc, but some countries will be net winners, and some net losers. Canada and Russia have a lot to gain from global warming, with sea routes and more farmland. African nations, Bangladesh, India have huge amounts to lose.

Once we have sequestration technology working, would anyone put it past the Indian / Egyptian / etc governments to set a goal CO2 PPM below the "historic" status quo to lower temperatures for the benefit of their people?

Would anyone put it past Russia to be upset about this and intentionally release methane to counteract the cooling effect?

I think it would be very hard to prevent weaponization of this tech; "keep everything how it is" is easy to say but I don't think will actually happen.
They tried it for Android at the "early stages". It may be better now ?
The author of the article ignores user experience: it is much nicer to use a web app than install yet another app. Personally I don't like installing web apps, even if they don't ask for a lot of permissions. Also re: notifications: I think most users don't like to be interupted by notifications.
Key takeaway: "Open standards are always going to be inferior to closed ones." This is totally true, but as the author notes, open standards still have their place.

Also, I realize he's mad, but he really needs to expand his expletive vocabulary :)
It's "privacy" in the sense that it's nominally shielded from people you don't explicitly message, not Snapchat itself or nation-state actors.

Not that it really shields from anyone, since people regularly take screenshots of Snapchats and share them.
I find the premise of the article wildly incorrect. If we had to split my current 9 person company (building a JavaScript based app that runs in the browser) into an org with Android and iOS native projects, we would easily need at least 3 more devs. Arguably more. And those devs would be dedicated to their respective native Swift/ObjC and Java code bases, completely unable to help us build the base webapp.

Not to mention that every time we add a new feature or change something in the web app, that change now needs to be duplicated in two native code bases as well.

If anything the opposite is true: you can only afford to build native apps as a larger company.
She had a little bit of vocal fry at the end of her sentences. That could be it

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vocal_fry_register
like I said, not the best analogy, but.... you can go through a proxy or reboot your cable modem for example and because your web site hits are not linked (contrary to blockchain txs linked back all the way to where you acquired the coins) - I'd argue that this would be more anonymous than BTC.
That's a rather low standard for 'saving your ass'. I travel abroad frequently and I don't recall ever having had trouble to find a taxi except for Colombia, where you have to arrange one in advance (or rather, had, no idea how it is today there).

Really, of all the hard things one could attempt to do while abroad getting a taxi isn't one of them.

Some simple rules:

- don't accept anybody's offer of a ride

- look for relatively uniformly colored vehicles in a row

- observe whether or not the drivers are asleep or awake

- approach the first one that looks awake

- ask if they are free

- if so enter the vehicle and state destination

- optional: if all you have is a credit card make sure you ask up front if it will be accepted, otherwise ask to stop at a local ATM to pick up some currency

Using taxis was a solved problem long before Uber and the like arrived. Just like there is more food than McDonalds that is perfectly safe to eat when abroad.
I use hnnotify to tell me about replies and the Hacker News app on iOS by premii is pretty decent for read only access ( I mostly only post when I'm at a computer, I find that my responses make a little more sense that way :) )
What's the deal with this? Has been on the front page all day, but only one comment?
It's hilarious how certain people keep talking about "clean coal" like it's plausible and scientists don't even have this basic requirement worked out yet.
Amazon, Google, Kleiner, Goldman Sachs Invest $45M into Ionic Security
I recently did a Clojurewest presentation on a few of the unique ways Clojure helped make this a reality!
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Join Tick on his 8-bit quest to win the heart of his true love, Georgia McGorgeous, by becoming a knight and defeating the goblin, Bloodclot.

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There are no IPs in the blockchain, are there?
racism is in the eye of the beholder. You've injected a lot of non-standard meaning into those emoji.

http://emojipedia.org/customs/
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But do you provide an amount of value that offsets the cost of two or three completely-adequate devs working in parallel on mobile apps? ;)

That's the killer.
I'm amazed that you even have an open source legal mailing list.
It recognized my German Shepard perfectly. I like the UI and functionality. From my dog to ABBA was a fun journey.

Google better watch out!
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To your second point... many companies are only paying lip service to finding someone good... I price myself out of the majority of jobs I'm approached about, and consider myself in the top few percent on front end web development (JS in general).
A big part of preferring a website over an app for me is sandboxing. A website via safari can't access and email all of my contacts, or record my location via GPS, or any other nefarious thing I'm constantly on my guard against.

By forcing everything through Safari I have reasonable protections against these privacy violations, as well as good blocking of ads and trackers.
> Do you want a global monopoly? Because this is how you get a monopoly.

I want consistently good service, no matter who provides it. I'd love to see more than one company providing that level of service, but I place far less value on that than I do on consistently good service.

I plan to try Lyft as soon as they either get their Android app upgraded for Marshmallow-style selective permissions (which they still haven't done a year after Marshmallow) or they provide a web app.
Just mentioned those since the OP's article is talking about monero using stealth addresses but doesn't mention these when talking about bitcoin.

SX and DarkWallet was what kind of pulled me personally into the bitcoin "ecosystem", very entertaining read trying to understand all of that :)
Thanks for the suggestions you right about Wordrpress. It will definitely be a fast way to get a nice site up.
Non-engadget link for those who have given up on them (I can't possibly be the only one):

http://bgr.com/2016/06/09/lenovo-phab2-pro-release-date-pric...
> what will you do to protect yourselves?

> What non-tech skills would you recommend brushing up on?

Simple for me - have your clients be based outside of SV, and focus on clients who actually make profits, not those who have funding.
Circumventing the App Store on iOS is problematic at best...
Have a look at Delphi if you want cross platform native apps https://www.embarcadero.com/products/delphi. It's very easy, $50K would take you a very long way.
The "rise of remote working" was supposed to happen 20 years ago. We should all be working from home for a good decade now. Instead, management invented excuses like "importance of teamwork", "serendipity happening at the water cooler", etc. Another messaging app won't change that by itself.
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It's a tough call, but I think it has to be this way, or we'd have popular projects getting major threads with every incremental state change. That's fine in itself, of course, but front page slots are the most limited resource HN has.

(This is in no way a criticism of jQuery or its fine 3.0 release.)
tl;dr - facebookization of podcasts (one discovery process in one app) is the worst outcome for publishers (who already have this for actual text)

So the least worst alternative is for each publisher to have their own app for listening to their podcasts and drive folks to download said app by using star power and marketing. To get there we will see some podcasts bribed with huge gobs of cash.

Ok - seems plausible but frankly as a podcast listener I prefer the Facebook solution, and am unconvinced by his arguments that most people wont
The core of his argument really boils down to: I have to do it this way because my audience is 12 year olds and this is what they want. A good lesson in knowing your customer I guess. But I don't think the conclusion is useful for most people.

Another thing that stood out to me: "a closed ecosystem will always deliver higher quality in any given moment." Which is so absolute it's ridiculously easily disproved, even while being true at certain points.