Yeah I wonder they did a backroom deal with Apple and Google. These backroom deals that Apple/Google are doing is so anti competitive for small app developers and they keep on stressing that they are helping millions of developers. If this is not unfair I don't know what is.
Readit Newsdingdongding commented on Epic direct payment on mobile epicgames.com/fortnite/en... · Posted by u/bdz
I'm on the emulator team; we've considered this route before, but the hard part about maintaining a simulator is that the contact surface with the host OS is much larger, making it so that we would essentially have to port the current year's version of Android, with all java/C userspace APIs, to all wanted host OSes. This would require much greater resources dedicated to this porting than we're able to handle, and/or we'd need to make the hard choice of only maintaining certain Android versions and skipping certain ones completely. It would also be very difficult to maintain fidelity.
With full virtualization, the contact surface is restricted to a few low level bits in the kernel along with a few HALs/drivers that need to talk to the host for meaningful/fast I/O, like input/network/graphics, and everything else can be kept stock with no modification. This allows us to ship largely the same binaries that would go on a dedicated Android device and have it be able to run on windows/macos/linux easily, and it's how we've been able to keep up with the pace of yearly Android releases.
Edit: Oh and note that we are totally aware of and bummed out by emulator's increasing resource usage as android version bumps up, to the point we're afraid that the next one will finally be the one that really needs all resources of a modern PC; as such, we're looking into ways to minimize the cpu/ram/disk footprint of the system images, keeping only the bits that are actually needed for testing apps (with Google Play Services, and being better at maintaining/promoting more stock AOSP images in the case where GMS isn't needed)
Have you thought about streaming emulators from the cloud? I know it sounds crazy but if we can stream games, why not android emulator?
dingdongding commented on Facebook Takes $5.7B Stake in India’s Jio wsj.com/articles/facebook... · Posted by u/JumpCrisscross
So Facebook paid 5.7 billion dollar to buy "influence" in India. The biggest influencer of India is Mukesh Ambani who has strong influence in Indian politics. Now it will be a matter of months and WhatsApp payments will get regulatory approval to go ahead to launch WhatsApp payments in India. That is the boss move here IMO. Jio is just a way to solve for regulatory hurdles in India.
dingdongding commented on Reddit CEO: TikTok Is ‘Fundamentally Parasitic’ techcrunch.com/2020/02/26... · Posted by u/ykm
How different is the tracking that TikTok does compared to what Facebook and Google does? Except may be TikTok might be shipping this data off to the Chinese?
This is perfect for their name. Passing money from rich (VCs) to poor people
dingdongding commented on Ask HN: How did your startup change after an exit? · Posted by u/after_the_exit
Our founding team left or were made to leave by the acquirer. For one year everyone kind of relaxed because we all made money. After that our management team left had no vision because they were bunch of execs hired recently. They lacked innovation and kept beating around the bush and left in 2 years of the acquisition. At this point most of old timers left the company because of lack of innovation or anything to do. I becomes like a graveyard.
dingdongding commented on Kik, once valued at $1B, is to be closed forbes.com/sites/thomasbr... · Posted by u/Vaslo
Properly implemented "Laundering" services for crypto currency can make follow-the-money effectively useless.
The funds are transferred to a wallet, they are mixed with many other coins, and then they are paid out in different sized transactions to the recipient.
Assuming you have a busy enough pool, it should be technically untraceable.
Just like giant corporate balance sheets?