Hacker News: calvin_c

Nude is a next-generation photo vault that uses AI to hide your sensitive photos

calvin_c — Tue, 17 Oct 2017 13:44:23 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theverge.com/2017/10/17/16414822/nude-app-photo-vault-sexting

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15490805

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

Apple Plans to Release a Cellular-Capable Watch to Break iPhone Ties

calvin_c — Fri, 04 Aug 2017 20:38:45 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-08-04/apple-said-to-ready-cellular-capable-watch-to-break-iphone-ties

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14932046

Points: 131

# Comments: 120

New comment by calvin_c in "Developers Are Already Making Great AR Experiences Using Apple's ARKit"

calvin_c — Tue, 11 Jul 2017 11:38:29 +0000

It was on one of the early versions of the Yelp iOS app as well. Don't really remember if it was there on day one, but I remember playing around with it in iOS 2 or 3.

New comment by calvin_c in "Going Mobile With React Native"

calvin_c — Fri, 07 Jul 2017 13:56:41 +0000

Exactly. It’s an abstraction, you will always be a few libraries and components away from implementing what you actually want, but that’s a lot to build on just to use a system provided tool. For instance, I’m working on upgrading my company’s app to use iOS 11’s new password auto fill APIs. All it needs is for you to set the UITextField’s contentType properly to one of a dozen enumerated values, in this case Username and Password. React Native doesn’t expose that propertie on the TextField component however, so I have to either build my own extension on top of the TextField component or form the React Native project and submit a PR to get this feature working, a feature that’s explicitly supposed to be painless to implement. There are so many cases like this around React Native, the community mindset is usually just to find another dependency to integrate.

New comment by calvin_c in "Going Mobile With React Native"

calvin_c — Fri, 07 Jul 2017 13:51:56 +0000

Correct. Every React Native component actually renders into a native view, so on iOS if you use a View (RN) it maps to a UIView when React Native actually builds the UI.

New comment by calvin_c in "Going Mobile With React Native"

calvin_c — Fri, 07 Jul 2017 13:50:26 +0000

Yes, that is certainly possible. It doesn’t have to be 100% either way, you could do any combination of React Native and proper Native you want.

New comment by calvin_c in "Going Mobile With React Native"

calvin_c — Fri, 07 Jul 2017 12:35:37 +0000

Could not agree more. There are certainly benefits to using React Native, especially when bootstrapping an app and you've already got a React shop, but once your app and user base gets larger it creates a serious barrier to actually taking advantage of the native platform and it's capabilities.

T-Mobile’s “Digits” program revamps the phone number

calvin_c — Thu, 25 May 2017 20:50:49 +0000

Article URL: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2017/05/t-mobile-thinks-google-voice-is-pretty-cool-launches-digits-program/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14420059

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

Report: Apple shows it’s taking the Mac seriously with WWDC laptop updates

calvin_c — Tue, 16 May 2017 21:01:59 +0000

Article URL: https://arstechnica.com/apple/2017/05/report-apple-plans-comprehensive-mac-laptop-refresh-for-wwdc/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14353284

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Y Combinator head who pushes basic income is reportedly running for office

calvin_c — Mon, 15 May 2017 15:15:32 +0000

Article URL: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/05/y-combinator-head-who-pushes-basic-income-is-reportedly-running-for-office/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14342198

Points: 40

# Comments: 4

Comcast mobile phone service coming in 2017 with wireless/cable bundles

calvin_c — Thu, 26 Jan 2017 20:30:43 +0000

Article URL: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/01/comcast-mobile-phone-service-coming-in-2017-with-wirelesscable-bundles/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13494998

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by calvin_c in "Democracy Index 2016"

calvin_c — Thu, 26 Jan 2017 15:07:19 +0000

Certainly does, which is why our score went down last year before Trump took office.

New comment by calvin_c in "Democracy Index 2016"

calvin_c — Thu, 26 Jan 2017 14:39:42 +0000

I think they're trying to say that the democracy is now worse because we have a leader who is lying to the media, threatening voting rights based on unsupported claims, silencing scientists from sharing publicly funded research, and is charging journalists with felony charges for covering protests against him.

HN: Please don’t crap on VR

calvin_c — Tue, 17 Jan 2017 13:39:08 +0000

Article URL: https://hackernoon.com/please-dont-on-vr-330a892debfe#.poqfcjou2

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13417372

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Apple’s FaceTime blamed for girl’s highway crash death in new lawsuit

calvin_c — Tue, 03 Jan 2017 21:49:02 +0000

Article URL: http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/01/apples-facetime-app-blamed-for-crash-as-distracted-driving-deaths-mount/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13313450

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

AirPods are now up for sale on Apple’s site, will arrive just before Christmas

calvin_c — Tue, 13 Dec 2016 14:38:34 +0000

Article URL: https://techcrunch.com/2016/12/13/airpods/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13167042

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

FCC introduces broadband labels inspired by nutrition facts

calvin_c — Mon, 04 Apr 2016 19:41:54 +0000

Article URL: http://www.theverge.com/2016/4/4/11362012/fcc-broadband-labels-nutrition-facts

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11424815

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by calvin_c in "Apple Letter on iPhone Security Draws Muted Tech Industry Response"

calvin_c — Thu, 18 Feb 2016 19:31:59 +0000

Even if they don't sell it, their business model requires that they have access to it. Apple's argument here is that they don't have it.

Magic+

calvin_c — Tue, 05 Jan 2016 22:23:56 +0000

Article URL: https://getmagicnow.com/plus

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10846540

Points: 687

# Comments: 462

New comment by calvin_c in "The Apple iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s Plus Review"

calvin_c — Tue, 03 Nov 2015 21:18:16 +0000

A good precedent has already been set for this. The first iPhone got two major updates, iOS 4.0 being the first version that didn't support it. The 3GS added an extra year to the lifespan, launching with iOS 3.0 and only being left out of support for iOS 7. The 4S added even another year, recently having received the fourth major update of it's lifespan.

So yeah, while there is certainly some performance lost on a 4S running iOS 9, it's not nearly as bad as the original iPad running iOS 5, or the original iPhone running iOS 3. I imagine the 6S will easily be able to handle iOS XV.

Also noteworthy is that the only iPad not still receiving updates is the original model, meaning the iPad 2 has received the most major updates of any iOS device at five.