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websap commented on iOS 26.3 brings AirPods-like pairing to third-party devices in EU under DMA   macrumors.com/2025/12/22/... · Posted by u/Tomte
reorder9695 · 6 days ago
But this isn't sacrificing your experience, you're free to keep using your Apple AirPods with the quality and reliability you'd expect from Apple. This just means other brands can create products with similar features to AirPods, and if they're not as good or reliable, well that's why you're paying Apple for theirs.
websap · 3 days ago
The best code is no code. Every line of extra code added, and every extra platform supported is potential for more bugs, which has the potential to affect my user experience.
websap commented on iOS 26.3 brings AirPods-like pairing to third-party devices in EU under DMA   macrumors.com/2025/12/22/... · Posted by u/Tomte
illiac786 · 6 days ago
I would agree in general, but in this specific case it’s still an advantage for the iOS platform in general. It just removes a buying incentive for the AirPods.

The general problem is that there must be a line.

Vendors don’t create lock-ins because they are malicious, they create it because it makes them money.

Now, if we limit these lock-ins, it will reduce their ability to make money and yes, it will impact some features - short term.

But looking at it long terms, vendor lock-ins are actually a reason to stop innovating: your customers are locked in anyway.

So, overall, I would say this is good for innovation in general.

websap · 6 days ago
I actually have a problem with this. I want AirPods to be undeniably the best experience for me because I am fully locked into the Apple ecosystem, and I know many folks have complaints against that. I find it to be rather pleasurable to use compared to all the other alternatives out there. So if I have to start sacrificing my experience in favor of universal support, that really sucks.
websap commented on Paul Hegarty's updated CS193p SwiftUI course released by Stanford   cs193p.stanford.edu/... · Posted by u/yehiaabdelm
mikeyk · a month ago
I took CS193P when it was first offered in 2007; one of my favorite classes at Stanford because it was so hands-on. At the time few people had iPhones, so everyone in the class got a free iPod Touch for development. My final project was a photo sharing app with a Polaroid shake to reveal mechanic… lightly influenced Instagram which Kevin and I built a few years later!
websap · a month ago
You built a solid app!
websap commented on Three kinds of AI products work   seangoedecke.com/ai-produ... · Posted by u/emschwartz
websap · a month ago
> Users simply do not want to type out “hey, can you increase the font size for me” when they could simply hit “ctrl-plus” or click a single button3.

I would def challenge this. “Turn off private relay”, “send this photo to X”, “Add a pit stop at a coffee shop along the way” are all voice commands I would love to use

websap commented on Ask HN: Do You Use Teamblind.com?    · Posted by u/napolux
websap · 3 months ago
Yes, not using it especially during a job search is foolish. The information asymmetry is against you, fight the machine!
websap commented on Unsafe and Unpredictable: My Volvo EX90 Experience   myvolvoex90.com/... · Posted by u/prova_modena
websap · 5 months ago
Thanks for documenting your experience, I would not buy a Volvo ever.
websap commented on H-1B program grew 81 percent from 2011 to 2022   twitter.com/USTechWorkers... · Posted by u/DonnyV
websap · 5 months ago
As someone currently on the H1B program, and working in tech for the past 10 years, how do I navigate the current climate in the US? Especially when sentiment around H1B workers is at an all time low - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44606374 ?

I love working in the cutting edge of tech, but no other part of the world has been able to replicate this model the way Bay Area, SF, Seattle, and now NYC has. Great companies, ambitious people, new emerging tech, and large compensation.

Are there other countries where YC sees companies originate from and they prove with a path to citizenship for software engineers?

websap commented on Series C and scale   cursor.com/en/blog/series... · Posted by u/fidotron
rched · 7 months ago
> the gap between them and VSCode has only widened since then

What is in this gap? Do you know of any good resources that outline the features that Cursor provides over VSCode with Copilot?

websap · 7 months ago
You can literally download and try it for free. Cursor is just better, its insane that Microsoft screwed up AGAIN!
websap commented on Ask HN: Cursor or Windsurf?    · Posted by u/skarat
websap · 8 months ago
Currently using cursor. I've found cursor even without the AI features to be a more responsive VS Code. I've found the AI features to be particularly useful when I contain the blast radius to a unit of work.

If I am continuously able to break down my work into smaller pieces and build a tight testing loop, it does help me be more productive.

websap commented on Cursor CTO Just Buried Yugabyte Recommends PostgresSQL on RDS   youtube.com/watch?v=4jDQi... · Posted by u/websap
websap · 8 months ago
Crazy to see him just bury their DB provider. I wonder how many SaaS-infra providers that aim to provide a more managed infrastructure experience over AWS would share the same fate if one of their users blew up like Cursor!

At least for now the large cloud providers are effectively the best place to run workloads at scale, so all these smaller SaaS providers are probably trying to gain customers by advertising the simpler and more productive dev experience. With the lure to smaller teams not needing to understand the full blown complexity of managing infrastructure on AWS, but in-actuality the profits are probably solely driven by overcommitting compute resources on shared fleets, and clever capacity management.

I wonder if the cost of software development reduces, which side of the equation will give out first. Will there be more new software developers, so managed experience providers like Yugabyte will have a bigger target market thus continuing to grow, or will dev tools get so good that smaller teams will directly be able to use AWS and bypass the UX benefits some of these SaaS companies provide.

u/websap

KarmaCake day815September 20, 2020View Original