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Personally, as an app developer, I think Spotify is taking the right stance here. I believe that Apple should take some cuts but not as high as 30%. I believe for some categories l…

Why is it a necessity to store information for 90 days? Why not 10 or 30?

Resilio sync [1] is a great service I've used to transfer files using P2P technology. It still uses the Internet, but avoids any intervening parties. If you're using Android, you c…

This is an amazing post and one that every person who has released public works should read, including open-source maintainers. The basic gist of it is that a game developer, Jason…

I for one love this website. So clean and aesthetically pleasing. People who aren't devs would love the attention to detail, the high-res images and the animations. Well done! PS: …

Immensely saddening. I just read through some of his cancer tagged posts on his blog and it seemed like he was finally reclaiming his life back. So sad to read that it came back. H…

I have used CockroachDB and it a gem. Seamless replication, failover and ultra easy to setup. A bit more polish on certain aspects of it (especially querying) but overall it's exce…

I trialled ArangoDB for a short while approximately 2 years ago. I was looking for a graph database to tinker with and learn about. I was pleasantly surprised with ArangoDB. It was…

In my opinion, the first thing you should do is write down a list of things that you're really passionate about. Is it languages? Then find a language based repository on GitHub/Gi…

I suppose a related question is if every single person were to comment, would that be beneficial in any way? I personally think we'd get a lot of duplicate comments stating the sam…

I was addicted to gaming in my teens, often staying up late nights till 4am. I'm 100% sure if I'd have stayed playing games I would have destroyed my career. I understand the allur…

Wow this is was truly an amazing piece to read. I have a few questions: 1) How did you manage to keep working even after you realised you were $85k in debt after 2 years? 2) What d…

Yes, it would help to know why that condition is there in the first place and also why Apple exercise it for some apps and not others. There's little app developers can do about it…

If we were not to improve ourselves then it would be problematic for humanity as a whole. Think of the health professionals (such as nurses, doctors and psychiatrists) who, if had …

If it's a small project, then a quick email to the maintainer or a GitHub issue asking how to get involved would be great. More often than not the maintainers would gladly help you…

Related discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18321884

I understand that the traditional route for open-source maintainers to get paid is to offer some sort of support plan to those who need it. Or accept donations. However, support pl…

Just checked and no it does not seem that it does have public transport navigation. With that being said, you can select different transport types. Those are: Motorcycle, Private, …

From a user-perspective definitely Waze. It provides a great voice assistant and live updates from other users. Other Waze users are on-screen and you can chat to them. Other users…

A truly sad day for us all. He was a person who showed us that we can do amazing things even when we're up against debilitating diseases. He was an inspirational person who is up t…