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by ChrisLTD 10y ago
I'm skeptical for a few reasons: * AirPods don't look all that great, even if they are familiar in design * AirPods are expensive * Siri isn't useful enough yet * Talking to Siri in public still feels weird * Talking to Siri
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by ChrisLTD 10y ago
If the U.S. economy keeps putting downward pressure on non-college wages, people will keep borrowing whatever it costs to have a chance to escape modern serfdom.
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by ChrisLTD 10y ago
The X was smart phones. Unfortunately, Apple and Samsung made all the money there.
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by ChrisLTD 10y ago
If there is a business entity behind the project, they could certainly be the CEO of a one-person company.
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by ChrisLTD 10y ago
Apple went with option 1 for split screen and picture-in-picture video support on iOS, and a year later many major apps still don't support those features. Option 2 is definitely the way to go.
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by ChrisLTD 10y ago
There is a middle ground between inadequate taxes and taxing into "oblivion".
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by ChrisLTD 10y ago
That's Federal government spending. I was thinking this was more of a city and state level issue.
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by ChrisLTD 10y ago
I wouldn’t be surprised to learn that a lot of these deals come from constrained government budgets rather than corruption. The conservative movement has been very effective at keeping taxes and government revenue low since the 1980s.
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by ChrisLTD 10y ago
Agreed. I'm surprised they didn't put a darker background behind the text. Otherwise it was an interesting piece.
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by ChrisLTD 10y ago
Even if the President was elected by only 15-17% of eligible voters, they would still wield 100% of the power of the presidency.
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by ChrisLTD 10y ago
To be fair, IBM and Microsoft are very different companies now. Maybe Facebook becomes the VR company and not the social media company?
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Pokemon Go's creators say they didn't mean to spy on Google accounts(recode.net)
15 points by ChrisLTD 10y ago|0 comments
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by ChrisLTD 10y ago
Update from Niantic in this Game Informer article http://www.gameinformer.com/b/news/archive/2016/07/11/pokemo... "We recently discovered that the Pokémon GO account creation process on i
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by ChrisLTD 10y ago
"Creating exclusive games and buying exclusive content licensing/distribution rights for any gaming platform, especially ones in stiff competition for early adopters and the lion's share of a new market, is a great business
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by ChrisLTD 10y ago
Different strokes for different folks. I'd personally rather have a power efficient browser than one that implements every single experimental W3C spec. Now, I don't use Windows, but I've switched from Chrome to Safari becaus
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by ChrisLTD 10y ago
Increased tourism might be "on balance a good thing" for NYC economically, but NYC also has an obligation to the welfare of its citizens. Does this new law bill strike the right balance between welfare and economics? I don't
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by ChrisLTD 10y ago
If your job is to answer email, that seems reasonable. But if you're a programmer, I can't see how you'd need to check your email more than once an hour, or maybe half hour. Otherwise you'll never actually be programming
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by ChrisLTD 10y ago
In any event, Safari is perfectly capable of scrolling a page.
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by ChrisLTD 10y ago
Apple platforms already have the best consumer software, so maybe Apple's strategy is the right one?
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The Crisis Facing the Web Platform(medium.com)
2 points by ChrisLTD 10y ago|0 comments
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by ChrisLTD 10y ago
Nothing went wrong. The philosophy behind CSS Zen Garden is alive and well in some quarters, and in others it's not. It's the CSS world's version of EMACS vs VIM.
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by ChrisLTD 10y ago
A lot of folks can do serious work without a built in Ethernet port.
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by ChrisLTD 10y ago
To stretch the analogy, lives are being threatened in war as they are also threatened by medical illness.
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by ChrisLTD 10y ago
http://ChrisLTD.com – built on Jekyll
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by ChrisLTD 10y ago
Bingo. The private profit motive isn't the only way to get things done. Two of the greatest scientific and engineering feats of the 20th century, the atom bomb and landing on the moon, were both government run and funded.
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by ChrisLTD 10y ago
Because consumers buy them for video games.
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by ChrisLTD 10y ago
Plus all the people that need to run Windows in VMs or Bootcamp. And ultimately, what would they gain by switching to ARM? ARM isn't yet better at the types of chips being integrated into MacBooks, let alone iMacs and Mac Pros.
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by ChrisLTD 11y ago
But that screen... Blech.
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by ChrisLTD 11y ago
Great read. The big risk that Kirk doesn't mention is that Apple's hardware offerings could start to falter if they don't at least keep up with the service offerings of their competitors. Apple has been famous for creating th
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by ChrisLTD 11y ago
And the ability to mute future notifications from apps that have overstepped the bounds of good taste.

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