joeblau

There was a post by Ben Thompson[1] that outlines some of the challenges with Apples approach in the App Store. It's a good read if you have the time. I'm not trying to change your mind, but…

Is there anything a regular individual can do to help get this company shut down?

At Amazon, our team did a day of shadowing tech support calls and it was extremely illuminating. You think you've designed your product to work a certain way, but your message may not be communi…

Some programmers, when confronted with a problem, think "I know, I'll solve it with threads!" have Now problems. two they

You need your default case :)

Haha... I didn't even notice that but I just did a double take. "Upvote for official ycombintaor up/down vote bot"

Their recruiters reach out to me about 4 times a year. I will say that some of the challenges and scale of the problems Facebook is solving really can't be found at other companies. You're d…

If I have a Samsung Tab S3, do I need to wait until Samsung releases an update to fix this? edit: N/M I found the updates on Samsungs page that address these https://security.samsungmo…

When I worked for DISA I had a manager who loathed when anyone would repeat the last letter in an acronym. Hearing things like CAC card, ATM machine, PIN number all really got him going and we heard C…

You may not even have to do that. It looks like Apple disabled Group FaceTime server side[1]. [1] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19025329 …

I just called my friend who was already on a call talking to his brother. He could hear me and his brother but his brother and I couldn't hear each other. I was also able to call him, have him h…

I've used HelloSign as well, but every other app that I used that Dropbox bought has been discontinued so while I'm happy for the team, I don't have high long term hopes for the project…

Ah okay. I’m just slow to figure this out then :)!

I wonder if this would work on a VC? Say you've got an idea and you're trying to raise money from a Venture firm. Target the firms GPs with info that your business is trying to solve and th…

I was listening to this Hashing It Out Episode with the founders of Storj[1] yesterday. Apparently IPFS isn't even that resilient. The Storj founders said that if you take a look at the IPFS sub-…

This is removing sensational content from the articles. It's using a model to determine which sentences in the article are "not news" and stripping those out.

Ah okay. Apple Music works the way Google Music does.

Does Spotify let you merge your personal library with their cloud library? I used to use Google Music but I switched to Apple Music when they allowed you to have a hybrid library.

There was a time (Napster -> Bearsahre/Limewire/Kazaa) when I would have been excited about something like this. As I've become more financially stable, and have more hardware for m…

That's interesting because Apple Maps supports dark mode on the Mac[1]. [1] - https://www.reddit.com/r/mac/comments/9km62p/apple_maps_tran... …

This reminds me of the Peter Tripp stunt where he stayed awake for 8 days straight[1]. It sounds like a great idea but you never know what the side effects will be. I was in a sensory deprivation ta…

Just wondering if that was for a C-Corp or LLC? I'm asking because I'm looking at using Atlas in the next few weeks.