Hacker News: opayen

New comment by opayen in "Shops return to rural Sweden but are now staff-free"

opayen — Tue, 09 Mar 2021 16:46:17 +0000

It's also worth noting that BankID requires access location permission access (at least on Android).

New comment by opayen in "Android Q Beta"

opayen — Wed, 13 Mar 2019 23:10:29 +0000

That won't happen because 3rd party apps cannot have the READ_PRIVILEGED_PHONE_STATE permission.

New comment by opayen in "Android Q Beta"

opayen — Wed, 13 Mar 2019 23:08:02 +0000

They finally restricted access to clipboard (see https://developer.android.com/preview/privacy/data-identifie...).

I always thought it was insane that any app could just listen to everything that went to the clipboard, even while in the background and without any permission. I'm sure many people copy passwords, credit card numbers, bitcoin private keys, etc.

New comment by opayen in "Ask HN: What popular apps were made exclusively with React Native or Flutter?"

opayen — Mon, 02 Jul 2018 12:48:49 +0000

Microsoft News is built with Xamarin (source: https://twitter.com/migueldeicaza/status/1009433494840336384)

- Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.microsoft....

- iOS: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/microsoft-news/id945416273?m...

New comment by opayen in "Android P"

opayen — Wed, 09 May 2018 08:28:23 +0000

I wish they will use all of these new AI capabilities to fix the share UI (https://www.androidpolice.com/2018/05/05/google-please-fix-a...)

Personally, I always use the same app when sharing URLs (Send to Instapaper). Yet, it always shows me default actions I never used (send via Twitter DM, Print, etc.) and takes like 5 seconds to have the UI usable.

New comment by opayen in "Downloaded my Facebook data and it has the call history with my partner’s mother"

opayen — Fri, 23 Mar 2018 13:42:23 +0000

The user can always refuse access to SMS, contacts and other sensitive features on Android. I have Messenger on my Pixel, it's working fine without having access to all of that.

New comment by opayen in "Ten Years of Instapaper"

opayen — Mon, 05 Feb 2018 11:30:06 +0000

Shameless plug: I started creating an alternative client for Android, you can download it here: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.olivierpay...

I'm a heavy Instapaper user myself and was always disappointed with the quality of the official Android app: it runs terribly slow, some articles don't even show up, no image thumbnail, etc.

My app doesn't have all the feature from the official app yet (I'm starting simple), but I'm very open to feedback.

New comment by opayen in "Ask HN: What non-work task have you automated?"

opayen — Thu, 12 Oct 2017 12:56:39 +0000

Could you give more details about it? What device is it? How does it work?

New comment by opayen in "Development on Remix OS and related consumer products is being discontinued"

opayen — Tue, 18 Jul 2017 13:45:16 +0000

Access to all Android apps maybe?

New comment by opayen in "Slack Calls: Now with video"

opayen — Wed, 14 Dec 2016 09:37:42 +0000

As I understood, this part with printing emoji was just a joke :)

What they are saying is that you can use regular emoji reactions while a video call.

Google Translate Turns “Spotify” into “Napster”

opayen — Fri, 25 Nov 2016 13:32:09 +0000

Article URL: https://twitter.com/opayen/status/802074102634782720

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13036591

Points: 2

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New comment by opayen in "Review: The NES Classic Edition and all 30 games on it"

opayen — Tue, 08 Nov 2016 20:52:54 +0000

Why? I would buy it.

New comment by opayen in "Taking the final wrapper off of Android 7.0 Nougat"

opayen — Tue, 23 Aug 2016 07:30:16 +0000

You can still go back to Kitkat by resetting it (I did and the performance difference is astonishing).

New comment by opayen in "Why you should not develop apps for Windows 10"

opayen — Wed, 20 Jan 2016 13:00:46 +0000

I could be interesting to compare that to the Android/iOS/HTML5 equivalent.

Basically this XAML does 3 things:

- declare 2 states: narrowState for windows smaller than 640px widestate for windows wider >= 641px

- set the layout stacking strategy of a container to Vertical when in narrowState

- set a top margin of a button to 4px when in narrowState (not sure this is relevant for this sample)

New comment by opayen in "Why you should not develop apps for Windows 10"

opayen — Wed, 20 Jan 2016 12:49:22 +0000

From the article: "Unless you know the exact name of my app, you won't find it."

His "Website constructor" app is in 3rd position when I search for "Website". Not that bad for such a generic keyword.

Also, I guess one thing with these apps is that the price range (between $12 and $20) is a quite high compared to the majority of the other apps on the store and (unfortunately?) a lot of people are not ready to buy apps >$2.

I guess that the store search algorithm depends on the conversion rate (people buying the app VS people trying it) and that conversion rate is probably pretty low, so maybe lowering the app price could lead to more sales and higher ranking.

New comment by opayen in "Spotify's new privacy policy angers users"

opayen — Fri, 21 Aug 2015 14:43:24 +0000

Maybe to keep it simple for everyone? It's hard to explain to people why they need to have 2 separate apps to do almost the same thing.

New comment by opayen in "Vue.js: JavaScript MVVM made simple"

opayen — Mon, 03 Feb 2014 14:19:47 +0000

Is the use of of custom attributes a good practice? (example:

I thought the data-* attributes were the recommended way (https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Guide/HTML/Usin...).

New comment by opayen in "Show HN: jQuery.pin – a plugin for making stuff stick"

opayen — Tue, 26 Mar 2013 16:43:07 +0000

Doesn't work on IE10

New comment by opayen in "Windows 8’s Flash whitelist goes black, turns on Flash almost everywhere"

opayen — Tue, 12 Mar 2013 07:41:15 +0000

Flash is not available on Windows Phone.

New comment by opayen in "Nokia Unveils a Maps Service"

opayen — Thu, 15 Nov 2012 13:47:14 +0000

Yes, Windows Phone 8 has offline maps.