There's a reason why this went from widely supported/used to... not so much. And even if most people claim it's big-co's locking down their ecosystems (which is partly true), the "extensibility" of XMPP allows for a very convoluted ecosystem with some servers supporting certain XEP and some not. Also, sorry, but XML just sucks to work with nowadays :(
Readit Newsrafaelcosta commented on XMPP: When a 25-Year-Old Protocol Becomes Strategic Again process-one.net/blog/xmpp... · Posted by u/neustradamus
rafaelcosta commented on Apple violated antitrust ruling, judge finds wsj.com/tech/apple-violat... · Posted by u/shayneo
If through Apple it is easy to cancel and all subs are listed in one place.
If done through third parties directly the scammers will not make unsubscribing easy and it will not be as easy to find out where you are subscribing.
Thus I expect the scamming to increase.
Easy from your point of view... This is the argument I mostly hear from Apple folks, but my experience (especially with less tech savvy folks) is that they have no idea where or how to cancel a subscription on IAP and they think that the multiple "Apple" charges are just some iCloud thing or something along those lines. With Credit Card flows the alarm bells go off waaaay earlier: when a website asks for their CC data, they immediately scrutinize more (and thus, conversion rates are lower)
rafaelcosta commented on Apple violated antitrust ruling, judge finds wsj.com/tech/apple-violat... · Posted by u/shayneo
Nothing? The ruling is that app developers get to choose how they communicate to users, or how they charge in-app fees. The kind of shady developers you describe would simply continue to use Apple, as it benefits them to do so.
Right now, yes, but there's a potential to:
- Most legit services move to a web based Apple Pay (note to the unaware reader: this is NOT In-App Purchases and has never had 30% fees) due to the ease of implementing and lower fee (easier to do cross platform + web) - Non-legit developers keep the In-App flow
Over time this would skew In-App Purchases to be scammy-only (and therefore, easier to spot). I'm sure people at Apple consider this possibility too – and therefore, now that there's actual competition, IAP flows will probably have to change to prevent this and compete for actual developer preference (and keep it a viable legit-developer choice)
rafaelcosta commented on Apple violated antitrust ruling, judge finds wsj.com/tech/apple-violat... · Posted by u/shayneo
There's a whole class of sh*t-software that only exists (and is profitable) because users subscribe to them and then forget – primarily because the subscription fee is charged as "Apple" on their Credit Card. I wonder what's gonna happen with this type of scam.
Aren’t decane and dodecane present in fossil fuels?
I'm wondering what the "because when we read it in, we mangle it" part really means... does this mean that there's no way to reference the commit (signaling that it's just a reference and has no actual data) without actually reading the contents of it?
-- Update: just realized why it wouldn't make sense: `git push` would send only the delta from the previous commit and the previous commit is... non-existent (we only know it's ID), so we'd be back in square 1 (sending everything).
rafaelcosta commented on Storing UTC is not a silver bullet (2019) codeblog.jonskeet.uk/2019... · Posted by u/ingve
Because making programmers happy is so much more important than making users happy?
Let's go back to each city having its own time. _Because making train companies happy is so much more important than making users happy?_
All jokes and "snarkiness" aside, it's just a matter of habit. If the whole world used UTC and working hours/social time were set differently per-country, I bet we'd get used to it eventually.
I hope no one falls for this (check the date). Straight out of Hunt for Red October! : P
rafaelcosta commented on Why Positive Cashflow Matters avc.com/2019/09/why-posit... · Posted by u/simonebrunozzi
Breaking News: Companies that make real profits have more flexibility.
Except Positive Cashflow != Profitability. ;)