FreakyT

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by FreakyT 7y ago
Yup, you're correct -- by the time 2005 had rolled around the Netscape-successors had finally produced a good product, Firebird/Firefox! It felt leagues beyond IE6, which came out near 2000 and was basically untouched for 5 years
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by FreakyT 7y ago
Really enjoyed the overview of all the ahead-of-their-time features introduced by IE! I feel like many people forget that, back when it completed against Netscape, IE really was the best browser on the market. The problem was that once th
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by FreakyT 7y ago
I remember these! I thought at the time that they would for sure take off, but they never did. Even ZIP disks with a similar capacity and less convenient form factor seemed to gain more market traction.
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by FreakyT 7y ago
Inform 7 is interesting, but I never really liked coding in it; I feel like its almost-natural-English-but—not-quite syntax falls into a sort of “uncanny valley” of programming. Because of how much like natural language it is, it always fee
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by FreakyT 7y ago
Agreed — CCPA makes the same primary mistake as GDPR, which is that while the spirit of the law (protecting users’ privacy) is reasonable, the ultimate consequence just ends up being bombarding users with popups, a worse UX for basically ev
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by FreakyT 7y ago
I, for one, am glad Apple opted to use the macOS user agent for the iPad browser. Previously, so many sites would give iPad users the mobile version of a site because their incompetent webdevs decided that `iOS == mobile` without even bothe
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by FreakyT 7y ago
Agreed -- I saw Sundar give the keynote at Google I/O last year, and while it was obvious that he was really into the tech, it was equally obvious he had no overarching vision for any of the things he talked about, outside of a general
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by FreakyT 7y ago
> The alternative is that we basically force people out of houses they've bought by gouging them with taxes. I would argue that being able to afford a place in the 1970s does not endow one with an inalienable right to remain there f
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by FreakyT 7y ago
As for 2, you're thinking of the Courier concept, which got killed in favor of Windows 8: https://www.cnet.com/news/the-inside-story-of-how-microsoft-...
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by FreakyT 7y ago
To be fair, it’s really unusual that they even let you get an account without an email — I believe they’re still one of the only major sites left that allow this at all.
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by FreakyT 7y ago
Also of note: Fall detection is exclusive to the series 4 or above, which seems questionable. (I would be very surprised if the series 3 and 4 have significantly different accelerometer hardware)
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by FreakyT 7y ago
> I think buying swag from startups to sell after they fail would be a better business model than the moviepass model. If this is your thing, and you happen to find yourself near the Bay Area, I highly recommend stopping by local thrift
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by FreakyT 7y ago
Agreed -- my favorite example of this is lyrics. Most lyrics sites are horrible, ad-filled messes, and I for one can't wait for Google to finally eliminate them from existence.
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by FreakyT 7y ago
You’d think they’d simply migrate to one of their other redundant chat products! But no, I suppose just killing the feature with no meaningful replacement strategy is the new GOOGLE WAY™. I can’t wait to invest all my money in a library of
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by FreakyT 7y ago
I hope San Francisco is eventually included in this test! I currently can’t have Dominos delivered to my address which I found quite surprising indeed when I tried to order a pizza.
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by FreakyT 8y ago
Inbox’s custom categories were created using simple filter rules. You can technically do that in GMail also, but only for folders, which are independent of the social/promotions/etc tabs. It seems to me that the ability to create
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by FreakyT 8y ago
Right, so that bolsters OP's point that the categories are so muddled that they no longer really exist. Apple used to cater to both specific markets -- "pro" and "consumer". Now they just label all their machines &q
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by FreakyT 8y ago
This is related to a pretty good example of why eSim fails in practice! You cannot use a Google Fi data sim with an Apple Watch (the cellular version, that is). Since the Apple Watch (Cellular) version uses an eSim, it's tied to explic
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by FreakyT 8y ago
Why would you ever want eSIM support? The very existence of eSIM is completely antithetical to reason SIM cards were created in the first place. Without physical SIM cards, you're forced to grovel to your wireless provider to please pr
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by FreakyT 8y ago
I really want to like K9 since I admire their ideals, but I wish they'd refresh the UI; It's still got the ICS-era "Holo" visual style. There have been discussions to redo it with Material Design, but no one could agree
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Gmail isn't ready to replace Google Inbox, and neither is anything else(dantilden.com)
8 points by FreakyT 8y ago|2 comments
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by FreakyT 8y ago
Google's actions here aren't going to make a sliver of difference in terms of what information is accessible from mainland China. In a world where a censored, Chinese Google exists: If you have a VPN, uncensored search with Goog
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by FreakyT 8y ago
Honestly, I agree with Nadella here. They built a technology which happens to be useful to the military (and has many, more numerous, non-military applications), and the military (understandably) wanted to use it. Protesting selling Hololen
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by FreakyT 8y ago
This is the approach that the Apple Watch engineers used, and it remains the only device I've seen with this option. Does anyone here with an Apple Watch use the time offset feature?
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by FreakyT 8y ago
I dunno, if the headline was "Is it time to regulate ISPs" I think the answer would be a resounding "yes, please".
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by FreakyT 8y ago
Back when I bought my SE, it was cheaper than getting a 6, despite having better specs. I also check for deals online a lot, and the SE was almost constantly being discounted. I think it's not unreasonable, based on these, to assum
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by FreakyT 8y ago
Nuclear waste can be buried away (relatively) harmlessly, while higher global temperatures and the extreme weather + fire they cause represent a large-scale potentially irreversible environmental alteration. I know which I'd pick.
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by FreakyT 8y ago
If they have a problem with it, they should take it up with the state government of Arizona, which specifically allowed self-driving cars.
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by FreakyT 8y ago
I was more going for "fearing new technology and therefore destroying it" angle.
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by FreakyT 8y ago
Unfortunate, but I guess with any new tech there will always be luddites. Many HN folks probably already know the etymology, but for those that aren't familiar, the word "luddite" itself comes from "English textile worke

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