ninedays's comments

ninedays | 2 years ago | on: How freemium almost broke our business

It is actually incredibly clever and never thought about it until now. I can relate to so many services I have spent some time curating, managing, triaging, etc ... It helped me create an emotional connection with the product I am using and certainly will generate an emotion if the service will closed or if they introduce features that break the existing user flow.

ninedays | 2 years ago | on: Nintendo is trying to patent some broad Tears of the Kingdom mechanics

Couldn't disagree more with the first 2 paragraphs. It feels like saying Apple publishes a slightly different version of its iPhone every year. I think you will find plenty of differences - even major ones between the first iPhone and the latest one. Same thing with Nintendo games. IMHO, Nintendo is probably the best developer in the world and have proven this again and again. Completely agree with your last paragraph though.

ninedays | 3 years ago | on: My favorite iPhone feature was removed, long live its subpar replacement

There clearly was a discoverability issue with 3D Touch. When you knew which app supported the feature, it was awesome but there was no way of knowing in advance if there was support for it before using it. Long pressing an icon or anything just to see that nothing happens was just frustrating. Long term effect was that users probably felt this wasn't reliable/supported enough to use the feature at all or at least not in the scale Apple wanted.

edit : fixed typos

ninedays | 4 years ago | on: Apple M1 Pro and Max Surprises

If I had to guess, I would say that the HN crowd is not fond of unverified claims that are not backed by any source other than the person personal opinion.

> "Obj-C is a much better framework language than C++. How and why is that true?"

Anyone could throw these sort of claims about absolutely anything and doesn't elevate the debate at all.

> "I honestly think Objective-C is a big part of Apple's OS success."

How and why is that true? Same thing.

ninedays | 5 years ago | on: TSMC and Google push chipmaking boundaries with 3D 'stacking'

The very first paragraph : > “ Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. is working with Google and other U.S. tech giants to develop a new way of making semiconductors more powerful.”

The title is unfortunately misleading as it makes it look like only Google and TSMC are “pushing the boundaries” whereas it also includes other tech companies.

ninedays | 5 years ago | on: QA job interview questions for managers to ask

QA here. The article is decent for someone who has little to no experience in the field and wishes to know more about QA practices or processes.

ninedays | 6 years ago | on: Ask HN: Is RSS dead?

> then content creators realized that GR is stealing thunder and started dropping RSS, and then GR died and we ended up with no Reader and no RSS.

Funny how anyone can define History.

ninedays | 6 years ago | on: Firefox is showing the way back to a world that’s private by default

Am I the only one seeing the irony of having The Verge talk about Firefox and privacy when the website is bloated with tracking scripts?

ninedays | 6 years ago | on: Most Amazon-Owned Private Label Brands Have No Warranties

> Seriously, who cares about a warranty on a $6 thing?

Just because you do not care doesn't mean it should apply to everyone.

My parents would definitely use a warranty on a $6 thing if it had one because they do not spend blindly all their money on one-time items that cost $6 each. Sorry but I have to disagree with your reasoning.

ninedays | 6 years ago | on: Microsoft 4-day week boosts productivity and sales

The problem with this reasoning is that it doesn't apply to countries outside the US. Take Europe for example where the healthcare system is miles ahead compared to the US yet Europe is clearly not the most innovative space because of this.

ninedays | 6 years ago | on: The Failure of 3D Touch (2018)

The fact that iPad never had 3D Touch adds another argument as to why developers never truly adopted the feature.

ninedays | 6 years ago | on: Goldman Sachs reportedly spent $300M developing the Apple Card

and it reassigned thousands of engineers across the company to fix a security vulnerability earlier this year, delaying other Marcus products by months, The Journal reported.

I wonder if it was related to the development of Apple Card.

ninedays | 6 years ago | on: French court rules Steam’s ban on reselling used games breaks European law

Ultimately people will vote with their wallet if they truly want this or not and no matter how long I look at this, I don’t see it being the future we are heading.

ninedays | 6 years ago | on: Google DeepMind Co-Founder Placed on Leave from AI Lab

Maybe the goal was to find a way to get a lot of medical records and it didn't make much sense to continue Deepmind Health once that goal has been achieved - hence the move to Google Health.

ninedays | 6 years ago | on: After September 18th, you’ll no longer be able to send messages on YouTube

Yet another feature being removed that noone ever remembers using.

ninedays | 6 years ago | on: Open letter from an Android developer to the Google Play team

> WebKit that was forked by Google because they couldn't collaborate with Apple?

You say "they couldn't collaborate" I say "Google really wanted to compete".

Remember that it was Google who decided to perform a fork because they had a different approach than Apple for how "multi-process" should be implemented. Google had an implementation that they didn't want to integrate into the Webkit branch - hence the Blink fork.[1]

Also Apple would have been happy if they could use the Google's implementation instead of using their own - they said that repeatedly [2]

You can also find more details of the story here. It looks more and more obvious that the decision to create a WebKit fork was more political than technical : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5490242

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/apr/05/blink-goo...

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5490661

ninedays | 6 years ago | on: Open letter from an Android developer to the Google Play team

> There is no open source in iOS and the entire platform has an anti open source culture.

People really have short memory and unfortunately have too much biais to even make a simple Google Search to get some informations. Trying to define this as "one is better than the others related to X" is childish at best.

https://developer.apple.com/opensource/

Warm vibes,

ninedays | 6 years ago | on: $4M per hour at Walmart

And yet, IMHO, none of what you listed is a reason enough for creating this unseemly situation.

ninedays | 6 years ago | on: Hong Kong Airport shuts down as protesters take over

"Not sure what the HK protesters endgame is here." People are fed up about how the system works and about their life and the life of people they know. They want things to be "better" without having to clearly define and write a 167 page law that will probably not benefit them.

People are expressing their dissatisfaction and IMHO that's a valid justification for protesters and good enough for me.

ninedays | 6 years ago | on: Uber Freezes Hiring of U.S. Tech Staff as It Seeks to Cut Costs

You should tell that to Jeff Bezos.