Chickens have come home to roost. Someone had to pay for the servers and the debt, and its us!!
Arrogant. End users decide by deciding what they want to use. Thats all there is to it.
Interesting to see this stuff. I really enjoyed cracking this back in the day, just for friends, but took a different approach of using sector editors to read the code on the disk to find where the checks wer done to…
A discussion of the victim is not relevant. A discussion of the root cause is.
Terrible idea, the reason why Apple is so popular is that the apps are extremely diverse. Being suggested here is an app store with apps curated by computer nerds who think they are diverse but are probably left biased.…
A book called "Astronomical Algorithms" was written back in the 80's or 90's. It was very exciting and inspirational for me that the sun and moon and the position of planets - nature itself - could be predicted by code.…
Outstanding blogs, really enjoyed reading them. Someone talented actually performing a hack, rare these days.
This comes up often in various postings and forums, and I enjoy it every time I read it. I like the perspective.
It is important here that he wrote LETTERS. Not emails. LETTERS. Folks are firing off emails all the time. Taking time to write a letter is more likely to get a response, from just about anyone.
Whatever laptop you already own.
This. Especially on the app store. I have several successful side projects myself and am semi retired. But it is a waste of time trying to tell people that discoverability is the key to success. Everyone who owns an…
A lot of vocal small developers are unimpressed. A vocal minority is not a majority - most just don't care knowing what the outcome was going to be already - lawyers making a lot of money, and marketing teams posturing.…
My unpopular but realistic opinion as a successful financially app dev is - just post a Google compliant link to a payment system. Take the 15% hit. The payment link is likely to be more direct and user friendly, so you…
The scanning is to take place within iCloud Photos, which handles images / videos etc on an individual basis. It would be a pretty easy thing to do for Apple to calculate hashes on these. I'm not sure how iOS handles…
This article focusses too much on the individual case, and not enough on the fact that Apple will need multiple matches to report someone. Images would normally be distributed in sets I suspect, so it is going to be…
Once you've been around in this software business for long enough you see the same articles written over and over again... there will always be articles about estimating software, yet there is no solution to this…
Very cool. Especially the code that moves pieces out of the way as other pieces jump over them or are removed from the board! A lot of programming in that.
A similar concept is the Snowy Hydro project in Australia - essentially it is a battery for clean energy generators such as wind and solar when they cannot generate. There are two lakes - one at the top of a mountain…
There is more than two options - you can be anywhere in between - there is no need to choose one or the other. I find having a specific technical skill helpful in getting your foot in the door as employers are often…
I don’t see users as the enemy! Where did you pull that absolutely stupid idea from? ** DON'T ATTACK DEVS **. YOUR BEEF IS WITH A FRUIT COMPANY. My post states the facts - advertisers used to pay for the apps - now this…
Unfortunately Apple has made advertising in free apps unviable with their universally loved by users iOS14.5 update. "Stick it to the man!!!" Unfortunately, this means advertisers who funded free apps cannot pay for…
This is very true. END USERS in particular do not give a rats about clean code or the number of code reviews that have been done. They only care that it works. Technical debt, refactoring, reuse? Nobody cares except…
Well, I think this is true. Many devs are slaving over high quality software that is technically fine and a real achievement but nobody truly loves the niche except for them. I think the real talent is in writing…
I am always going to use print to debug in every programming language I can until the day I die.
Pretty incredible. I would like to see the assets to scale though, otherwise it seems crowded up there when it clearly isn't. It reminds me of all those graphics a year ago of the Australian bushfires where the fires…
Chickens have come home to roost. Someone had to pay for the servers and the debt, and its us!!
Arrogant. End users decide by deciding what they want to use. Thats all there is to it.
Interesting to see this stuff. I really enjoyed cracking this back in the day, just for friends, but took a different approach of using sector editors to read the code on the disk to find where the checks wer done to…
A discussion of the victim is not relevant. A discussion of the root cause is.
Terrible idea, the reason why Apple is so popular is that the apps are extremely diverse. Being suggested here is an app store with apps curated by computer nerds who think they are diverse but are probably left biased.…
A book called "Astronomical Algorithms" was written back in the 80's or 90's. It was very exciting and inspirational for me that the sun and moon and the position of planets - nature itself - could be predicted by code.…
Outstanding blogs, really enjoyed reading them. Someone talented actually performing a hack, rare these days.
This comes up often in various postings and forums, and I enjoy it every time I read it. I like the perspective.
It is important here that he wrote LETTERS. Not emails. LETTERS. Folks are firing off emails all the time. Taking time to write a letter is more likely to get a response, from just about anyone.
Whatever laptop you already own.
This. Especially on the app store. I have several successful side projects myself and am semi retired. But it is a waste of time trying to tell people that discoverability is the key to success. Everyone who owns an…
A lot of vocal small developers are unimpressed. A vocal minority is not a majority - most just don't care knowing what the outcome was going to be already - lawyers making a lot of money, and marketing teams posturing.…
My unpopular but realistic opinion as a successful financially app dev is - just post a Google compliant link to a payment system. Take the 15% hit. The payment link is likely to be more direct and user friendly, so you…
The scanning is to take place within iCloud Photos, which handles images / videos etc on an individual basis. It would be a pretty easy thing to do for Apple to calculate hashes on these. I'm not sure how iOS handles…
This article focusses too much on the individual case, and not enough on the fact that Apple will need multiple matches to report someone. Images would normally be distributed in sets I suspect, so it is going to be…
Once you've been around in this software business for long enough you see the same articles written over and over again... there will always be articles about estimating software, yet there is no solution to this…
Very cool. Especially the code that moves pieces out of the way as other pieces jump over them or are removed from the board! A lot of programming in that.
A similar concept is the Snowy Hydro project in Australia - essentially it is a battery for clean energy generators such as wind and solar when they cannot generate. There are two lakes - one at the top of a mountain…
There is more than two options - you can be anywhere in between - there is no need to choose one or the other. I find having a specific technical skill helpful in getting your foot in the door as employers are often…
I don’t see users as the enemy! Where did you pull that absolutely stupid idea from? ** DON'T ATTACK DEVS **. YOUR BEEF IS WITH A FRUIT COMPANY. My post states the facts - advertisers used to pay for the apps - now this…
Unfortunately Apple has made advertising in free apps unviable with their universally loved by users iOS14.5 update. "Stick it to the man!!!" Unfortunately, this means advertisers who funded free apps cannot pay for…
This is very true. END USERS in particular do not give a rats about clean code or the number of code reviews that have been done. They only care that it works. Technical debt, refactoring, reuse? Nobody cares except…
Well, I think this is true. Many devs are slaving over high quality software that is technically fine and a real achievement but nobody truly loves the niche except for them. I think the real talent is in writing…
I am always going to use print to debug in every programming language I can until the day I die.
Pretty incredible. I would like to see the assets to scale though, otherwise it seems crowded up there when it clearly isn't. It reminds me of all those graphics a year ago of the Australian bushfires where the fires…