Nick T

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nope. this is for any executable, even if you don't distribute it via the app store.

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for others to download and run your mac app, you have to run a command line tool that sends your binary to apple and waits for a real human being to look around the .app and make sure everything looks good before signing off on it. only then the command on your build machine returns success. this means that a CI build job could take many hours or even days, weeks. 🤯

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the real turing test is if someone can work 10 tech jobs at once

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I’m not taking sides here - my stance is that it could go either way. But I think this debate is better than the one you started with.

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US outproduced everyone else during and after WW2. This swiftly put the US ahead and on top. People who argue that the US will fall under China will draw an obvious similarity here.

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oh cool! did not know about this

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why not compare it to the british empire, the last hegemony, and the rate at which it deteriorated since ww2? i find the general argument reasonable but rome existed at a time when things happened orders of magnitude slower than they do today

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idea: whatsapp/tg community for bootstrapped builders who have already proven themselves - e.g. shipped a $1k+ mrr product or similar @pfista and I are interested. anyone else?

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dan, did you play?

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16 years too late for me, but I would have loved this back in the day

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great for adults who learned to think without AI not so great for younger people who have access to AI tools for schoolwork, and can effectively avoid learning to think on their own whilst still getting good grades. I don't doubt someone with a fully developed prefrontal cortex can train themselves to "do the work" - but I bet it's much harder for young people who have a crystal clear path of least resistance to follow.

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coding because it's fun to build stuff -> coding to win competitions -> coding to make money -> coding to climb to somewhere more "senior" -> coding to get as many users as possible -> coding to raise venture capital -> coding to realise some arbitrary ego identity -> coding because it's fun to build stuff 🏁

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my guess at the reasons: - "premium" audience that spends more on the hardware/accessories - every app update is manually reviewed with strict guidelines. it's a pretty high bar just to get on the app store in the first place - hence less competition.

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the gap between apple consumer UX and devEX is enormous. partially because their consumer experience is so good, but devEX is certainly below-average. goes to show just how much shit devs are willing to go through to gain access to the ecosystem.

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I'm not at ethcc, but I did just arrive in SF for the summer

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surprised so many people care so much about your personal preferences

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i think many conflate “decentralised” with “unregulated”. not everyone is in the hardcore libertarian camp and many will be happy to concede paying taxes to get programmable interoperable tokens and the other stuff it enables

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still looking for some help with code-signing and notarizing an electron app for MacOS. willing to pay for help if you have prior experience 🍏

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building early in crypto on one hand helped me shape my intuition early to hopefully later get an unfair advantage, but on the other hand I’m jaded from the endless toxic griftslop “wen utility ser” that you need to deal with on a daily basis if you reach even the lowest levels of success i’m excited for the first significant wave of normies to reach crypto and hope there’s a sharp step change in culture that follows

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