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My advice for inner peace as a bald guy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wFPjLwzL-14


I want to hear the Android side of this story!


Android was a much easier story, Still had some binary size and method count issues but we were able to overcome them thanks to another brilliant engineer we had in the team in SF who worked on Android.


The Android apk is 56.9 MB for my device, while the iOS app is 331.3 MB. What accounts for the 6x difference?


APK is now more a delivery package format than a real executable format now.

On recent Android devices, the APK wil be recompiled to machine code on the device after a small number of runs (to gather code statistics).

So you are comparing an apple and a robot.


IPA is also a delivery package format. The big difference I am aware of is that IPA encrypts binaries, which will make them less compressible.


I assume that the constraints placed on the Android team are much higher, as that market seems like it would be much more sensitive of app sizes.


That is true, but what specifically is the iOS app getting in that extra quarter gigabyte? What couldn't they throw away to get under 200 MB at all?


I honestly have not been provided with a good answer beyond "we just didn't spent resources to do it".


Courage.


Bytecode is very compact compared to native machine code. Android converts on the fly on the device. That's at least a part of it.


Swift produces far larger binaries


https://twitter.com/ZacSweers/status/1337112019116453892?s=2...

(disclaimer: this is me)


Yup. You could sometimes find scene release group names in the metadata when Spotify beta launched. They cleaned it up in the "great purge" where 90% of my playlists became empty :)


Now, these same sites that grew to prominence based on the efforts of pirates are now going to lengths to thwart them.

Is there a better example of pulling the ladder up behind you than this? I can't think of one.


Hollywood is in California because film makers didn’t want to pay royalties to Edison on cameras.


Nimby property and development laws?


Related but not entirely the same model: Boosting Stop-Motion to 60 fps using AI: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sFN9dzw0qH8


Thanks for this! Very interesting!


Try the new Havredryck Deluxe for coffee instead of iKaffe! Despite the name it's even better, IMO


OMG, I hadn't even noticed Deluxe since the packaging is so similar to the regular ones, will definitely give it a try!


Haha, don't be embarrassed! I also want to know!


It's not dead! Without RSS I can't even use the internet properly. The hole that Google Reader left in my heart has since then been filled by newsblur.com.


The Chrome extension Spaces is close to that: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/spaces/cenkmofngpo...


Note: Blockchain.INFO, not THE blockchain.


At this point, journalists are intentionally doing this just to guarantee some attention from people calling them out.


That's incredibly dishonest, and pissed me off immediately after clicking the link.


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