AllenKids

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by AllenKids 14y ago
I was prepared to hate the new talk show and Mule Radio Syndicate, but to my surprise, John Gruber sound a lot more energetic than pretty much the last year, now if he can get a co-host to rein him in from time to time and at the same time
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by AllenKids 14y ago
The charger itself is a usb charger, the cable on the other end has a 30 pin connector. Nobody is stopping you from using the iPhone charger to charge other things via standard usb cable.
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by AllenKids 14y ago
The PR says nothing of importance or relevance. But to be fair, Apple didn't name drop any charitable orgs still.
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by AllenKids 15y ago
> Because he's the hero Gotham deserves, but not the one it needs right now. So we'll hunt him because he can take it. Because he's not our hero. He's a silent guardian, a watchful protector. A dark knight. Why am I quoting a 2008 movie
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by AllenKids 15y ago
Wow, just wow. Guess people really like pirates then, of course, this is Hacker News after all.
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by AllenKids 15y ago
What? Your math seems wrong. The registration fee is $99, Apple has paid out $4 billion as of February this year, and there are ~.25 million registered iOS developers in US, let's be generous and say there are 1M registered developers world
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by AllenKids 15y ago
We put on a great show because we all gonna die.
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by AllenKids 15y ago
Last time I checked G+ my feed looks like a mix of photo gallery and Google fan club. It is really really weird. All social groups have circle-jerky tendency, none is as apparent at the scale as G+
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by AllenKids 15y ago
And it's also worth mentioning that Instapaper will require iOS 5.0 beginning next update. His active users' OS adoption rate is really astonishing.
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by AllenKids 15y ago
Well by then those dinosaurs just have to abandon their outdated business model and innovate. Just like we keep telling the MPAA/RIAA to do. I'm only half joking.
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by AllenKids 15y ago
Oh please, you know who else does not ask me about my choice regarding third party cookies? Every other major browser vendor. Just because everybody is making money selling user information and attention to the advertisers does not negate t
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by AllenKids 15y ago
Because in almost every article about Chinese Labor practice it was filled with details describing how horrible those dormitory livings were, using colorful words like slave-labor, soul-crushing etc. But to a lot of Chinese people, living i
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by AllenKids 15y ago
I'm an asshole, not a dick. Mind you. Apple can and is trying to improve the labor conditions at its supply chain. That's the whole point of its annul report. Foxconn is trying too. Those companies' primary goal is money, suicide workers co
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by AllenKids 15y ago
The n-hexane poisoning incident happened between October 2008 and July 2009, Apple's 2010 report on suppliers' labor practice (published feb 2011) disclosed this severe offense and Apple demanded Wintek to stop such practice and compensate
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by AllenKids 15y ago
It's all so emotional isn't it? If you rage harder maybe our Chinese people's life would magically become better. Or in fact you do not care as long as your shinny new toys are isolated from the poverty and suffering of the rest of the worl
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by AllenKids 15y ago
Apple does not care about marketshare as much as Google. Google is playing the monopoly game and Apple is playing the King of its backyard garden game. The annoying part of Apple is it sees a rather large chunk of the world as its backyard.
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by AllenKids 15y ago
Not only those giant piles of Android phones, also Google's cheap farms of Linux servers, so they are customly made rigs, but where do the components come from? Are they assembled by the same line workers making every other lowly PCs?
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by AllenKids 15y ago
I have a relative working at Foxconn's Qunshan factory. His monthly income is about ￥3000, he's been there for 15 month.
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by AllenKids 15y ago
The most low level line workers are paid 1750+200+(100~800)+OT=more than ￥2500/month that's $13 a day. So you think wrong. The problem are hazardous working condition and excessive over-time, in the end of course repetitive jobs that have n
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by AllenKids 15y ago
I think what Grooveshark is doing is clearly illegal. Whether the law is just or current, that is up to debate.
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by AllenKids 15y ago
On a 17" 1920x1200 display Roboto still looks like crap. It has no desktop anti-alias feature. To me it never looks good, but on desktop especially crappy.
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by AllenKids 15y ago
In Roboto's defense (If there ever was one) it really is not fitted to be displayed on desktop OSes. Of course that kinda goes against Fleishman's argument that it is designed to be versatile across dpi configurations.
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by AllenKids 15y ago
All these rationalization still can't change Roboto as a whole is not well put together and has severe identity crisis. When your team look disjointed and at odds with each other, really there is no win in technicalities. Besides, fonts are
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by AllenKids 15y ago
Let's petition Google to rename it as Google Real People Store+ then.
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by AllenKids 15y ago
Which brings home the point: You are the product Google is selling, just as the apps in the App Store. Oh, and :-)
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by AllenKids 15y ago
WAT? Google removed this in your private circle? Please elaborate on the circumstance, is it set to profile picture or what? Blogspot allows 18+ content with a warning, why would G+ sensor such things?
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by AllenKids 15y ago
I think Apple got in trouble with Chinese authorities over warranty time too. Every computer sold in China has to come with a 2 year warranty for main components (screen, mainboard etc). iPad was marketed under portable computer category. A
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by AllenKids 15y ago
可口 means tasty though. Your example is not very good either, because 可口可樂 is an intentional translation aimed to invoke positive association by using existing words, it could totally go by sound and be 考卡考樂. Similar effect can be achieved t
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by AllenKids 15y ago
I have but one quibble, why is treating women like a men automatically not sexist? Your response follows the same line of logic as "gay people have equal right, right to marry the opposite sex" I think there is a blind spot.
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by AllenKids 15y ago
I thought about that before commenting. And yes I was being unfair to him. But still I stand by previous comment, it needs to be said and from his blog entry and reply to inquiry in the comments section, the collaboration between him and ad

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