> The apps to which DHH compares Hey with are very different in nature and all the mail apps he constantly mentions are also different in nature. They all implement the suggestions which Apple has suggested in their response.
I can only speak to the app I'm most familiar with that DHH has compared it to multiple times. Fastmail. Fastmail's app lets you access Fastmail's email accounts, but not POP/IMAP accounts more generally. It doesn't provide a way of subscribing, and just loads to a login page when the app starts. It doesn't follow the suggestions they included in the letter, and I've seen DHH reference it multiple times.
For what it's worth, I've enjoyed Fastmail a great deal, and having an email client directly tied to the service provider has been great for me. I'm mainly concerned about this whole issue because of it's implications for new updates to Fastmail's app.
> Apple have (freely) provided Basecamp a platform to grow their business via the App Store, whilst giving Apple (effectively) nothing in return.
I've purchased an expensive phone mainly so that I can have access to a high quality ecosystem of apps. Apps like Basecamp and Hey are part of that for me. Apple gains so much from the breadth of high quality apps on the app store, including free apps. If they begin to see free apps as giving them effectively nothing, I see that as an indication that they no longer value the reasons I go to them as an iOS user.
The issue here is that Godot isn't someone you can contact to support their systems. It's an open source project. They either add it to the source, which they can't because of NDAs, or they point you to companies who have a track record of porting and publishing Godot games on Switch, PS4 and Xbox One, which they are currently doing:
It's feasible that they could do the work themselves and only allow access to a branch or patches for console to folks who have signed the NDA. This is basically how Epic works with Unreal. The Unreal source code is available for anyone to look at on github, but it doesn't include any console-specific code.
Open source projects can definitely be contacted in most cases (including Godot) and anybody can fork the project to support a given console. Vendors can publish such support under NDA.
For Ludum Dare 46, going on this weekend, the theme is 'Keep it alive.'
I had a few 'real' game ideas, but this is the thing I thought people might get some use out of, but after some reflection, the best task I could come up with, that would have a positive influence on people was just to give people who want it the opportunity and an excuse to say what’s on their mind.
The website will self-destruct if you don’t engage with it.
It’s been a rough month for me, and I’m sure it has for a lot of people. So I figured, lets create a nice cozy place online where you can write about the issues you’re having.
For those interested in the technical details: On page load, I check to see if the latest request is more than 24 hours old. If it is, I delete all the items in the database and stop rendering.
I read about 10 messages. A couple were really amazing. Most were touching, all were worth reading. So I hate that they will be deleted! I'd love to see all the comments permanently on a page. (But deletable by their author) Also I love the font, the page is beautiful. I didn't know what the heart does, and FB 'like' buttons have made me wary of clicking such things. Very nice work!
> Can we scrape Reddit, Twitter, or Facebook in order to stand up a competing service that strips out all the ads?
Even if web scraping was definitively legal (this preliminary injunction doesn't mean that), that doesn't mean you can bypass the content creator's copyright. Non-copyrightable functional data is one thing, but copying all of Reddit, for example, would include copying https://www.reddit.com/r/WritingPrompts/ and that would definitely be violating the rights of the authors.
If you're interested in the Ergodox, I do recommend really spending some time with the configurator the first month and keep iterating and practicing with it. It starts out slow, but now I'm as fast, if not faster on it than my old layout. And I'm always able to add new features. Just reading this comment section, I realized I missed my ten-key, so I threw a new layer together on an unused key to get a ten-key setup.
One of the major things I've learned using it is to configure with mnemonics in mind. For my ten-key setup, I was tempted to put the 789 where 'yui' are, but I opted to put 789 over 'uio' because then I could remember that the ten-key's top row is down-shifted one from the number row, while still getting the top row of '/*-' in the correct position. I probably won't use a ton of the ten-key this week, but hopefully that mnemonic will help me from fumbling when I do have a use for it.
>Prospective studies, however, find little evidence of the more physically active members of a population gaining less excess weight than those who are the least physically active.
>TEE adjusted for weight and age or PAL did not differ significantly between developing and industrialized countries, which calls into question the role of energy expenditure in the cause of obesity at the population level.
Exactly. If it starts happening frequently, maybe it's worth looking into. But I think there's a middle ground between 'worthy of complaining on hacker news' and 'need to implement and support a redundant backup payment system.'
KATG listener since 2006. Awesome to see you on here.
I can only speak to the app I'm most familiar with that DHH has compared it to multiple times. Fastmail. Fastmail's app lets you access Fastmail's email accounts, but not POP/IMAP accounts more generally. It doesn't provide a way of subscribing, and just loads to a login page when the app starts. It doesn't follow the suggestions they included in the letter, and I've seen DHH reference it multiple times.
For what it's worth, I've enjoyed Fastmail a great deal, and having an email client directly tied to the service provider has been great for me. I'm mainly concerned about this whole issue because of it's implications for new updates to Fastmail's app.