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asou commented on Is Y Combinator worth it?   drodio.com/our-ycombinato... · Posted by u/gk1
asou · 5 years ago
Does anyone know if Y Combinator provides good feedback when sending out rejections . The best way to learn anything is to try , but I want more than ' Better luck next year'
asou commented on Judge temporarily blocks U.S. ban on TikTok downloads from U.S. app stores   reuters.com/article/us-us... · Posted by u/pseudolus
Spivak · 5 years ago
I agree with the activist spirit! But you have to realize that the incentives of legislators are to first create a strong economy and to maintain the dominance of the US tech sector. If you come to them with a plan that will seriously harm their operations then you won’t even get a meeting.
asou · 5 years ago
I'm dreaming here, no regulation will take place.

You need to self regulate though and assume all data you give these companies will be sold. At this point unless it's ride sharing , apps don't get my location. If they means I can't use the apps, that's fine.

It wouldn't be the worst thing if tommorow Social Media was effectively banned. It's done enough wrong in the world

asou commented on Judge temporarily blocks U.S. ban on TikTok downloads from U.S. app stores   reuters.com/article/us-us... · Posted by u/pseudolus
Barrin92 · 5 years ago
that'd probably kill every American social media app on the app stores as well, not sure they're ready to do that.
asou · 5 years ago
Yes!

Shut em all down !

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook–Cambridge_Analytica...

https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/press-releases/2019/09/ftc-s...

https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/04/03/599069424...

If you can't give a shit about the security of your user's personal information / safety , you shouldn't exist.

_mkef commented on Ask HN: What are good life skills for people to learn?    · Posted by u/smarri
war1025 · 5 years ago
> How to manage yourself when tragedy inevitably strikes

This is a place where, in my opinion, religion is seriously overlooked in modern culture.

The times when my religious upbringing have been most useful to me have all been in the face tragedy.

_mkef · 5 years ago
Another benefit of Religion is community. I recall back when we went to Church we had tons of people who took the time to reach out when things weren't going well.

That's easily the difference between being an isolated island of a person, miserable thinking the world is against you. Or being a bit down, and getting a hand up.

asou commented on Ask HN: What are good life skills for people to learn?    · Posted by u/smarri
asou · 5 years ago
Take nothing personally. The good or the bad. Build a community. You NEED friends that you get to hang out with every now and then . This online stuff doesn't count.

One of the more rewarding experiences I had last year was attending Meetups with people significantly older than myself.

The older you get , the harder making friends becomes. It's so bad I'd suggest to comp sci majors to consider a Liberal Arts degree instead if they're having trouble socializing.

asou commented on Straight, Middle-Aged Men Are Being Charged More to Use Tinder Plus   vice.com/en_us/article/ak... · Posted by u/Khaine
asou · 5 years ago
>Tinder settled a $23 million class-action age discrimination lawsuit—filed on behalf of some 230,000 people—in January last year, after it was alleged that the company charged users over 30 twice as much for its subscription services. As part of the settlement, Tinder agreed to stop charging people located in California, where the case was filed, different prices based on their age.

If I was King, I'd say this is perfectly fine as long as The Match Group ( Tinder's parent) clearly states the pricing tiers somewhere. My personal opinion is most people are better served by deleting their apps and being more involved in their community.

That said, this is downright illegal in most counties. You can't charge people different prices based on protected classes. It's like having a grocery store charge older people more since they tend to spend more time in the store.

Match's former parent IAC just spun them off. I reckon they know it's about to fall apart.

Anyway, I know I constantly meet better people once I went social media free. I'm much happier as well. Life is too short to spend it talking to bots on an app.

_mkef commented on LEd: Open-Source 2D Level Editor   deepnight.net/tools/led-2... · Posted by u/ArtWomb
umvi · 5 years ago
You don't need a Unity plugin. Just use LEd, export to JSON, and have a unity script read in the level as JSON and populate the scene.

The beauty of this is that it is completely engine agnostic.

_mkef · 5 years ago
Shouldn't be too hard when I think about it , if I write my own unity integration I'll open source it .
asou commented on Show HN: Fun with cell phone webcam and WebGL shaders   acidicworks.github.io/Aci... · Posted by u/jgeduldig
asou · 5 years ago
Great work.

If you can get these working as Unity post processing shaders I'd pay for it .

asou commented on LEd: Open-Source 2D Level Editor   deepnight.net/tools/led-2... · Posted by u/ArtWomb
asou · 5 years ago
Can you make an official Unity plugin.

This looks interesting, but I'm too lazy to venture beyond Unity in my game Dev journey

asou commented on Epic, Spotify, and Tinder form advocacy group to push for app store changes   appfairness.org/... · Posted by u/poorman
damnyou · 5 years ago
This also applies if you sign up for, say, HBO from an iOS device. You can keep using the same subscription on Android but can't cancel.

If you subscribe to HBO on Google Play, you can keep using it and cancel it on iOS.

The asymmetry is bad and Apple should be held responsible for it.

asou · 5 years ago
Good point. I stand corrected. I still don't think Apple is doing this intentionally, but rather as a side effect of it's ecosystem. Thanks for your insight

u/_mkef

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