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>Having never owned a smart phone I am curious if you need an app for this Yes. No smartphone will make people think you're a creep. /somewhat s
by NullPrefix 6y ago
>Having never owned a smart phone I am curious if you need an app for this
Yes. No smartphone will make people think you're a creep. /somewhat s
- drannex 6y agoHN rule: Don't snark or shallow dismissals - https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html. > Be kind. Don't be snarky. Have curious conversation; don't cross-examine. Please don't fulminate. Please don't sneer, including at the rest of the community. > Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith. > Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something.
- cheese_van 6y agoI did elicit laughter from very young people who saw me single-finger punching into a flip-top. I do recall when "portable" phones were carried in a suitcase. I'm not sure what order of magnitude change we have now with our phones, but certainly more than 10x. And since I also recall, with distaste, updating some dumb Banyan Vines email map on a daily basis, Gmail seems to me rather brilliantly > 10x.
- Traubenfuchs 6y agoIt's clearly a sign of a certain, actually quite high, level of refusal to participate in mainstream society.