Gorbzel

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by Gorbzel 10y ago
So, I reject the premise of your question & the groupthink, namely that the best product "is no longer available." Just like every other Revision A  product, people are considering the tradeoffs vs whether they still want to
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by Gorbzel 10y ago
As Steve famously said, if you don't want a tbMBP, don't buy it. If you buy one and you don't like it, take it back. Since that is/always has been the working approach, any chance the HN hive-mind could avoid posting EVE
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by Gorbzel 10y ago
Proper procedure (including appearance, notice, and other jurisdictional matters) is part of the decision. It's ridiculous how otherwise (mostly) rational professionals are so blinded by their version of facts & the adversarial nat
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by Gorbzel 10y ago
>Not sure how you say Alaska isn't innovative. Since VX has had those exact same amenities plus additional others for longer, and AS is not going to keep the Airbuses around...from the perspective of a Virgin flyer, Alaskan wouldn&#
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by Gorbzel 10y ago
He does love him some chain restaurants.
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by Gorbzel 10y ago
Hacker News: where a commenter won't hesitate to take a dump on your hero, but will lack the confidence to assert any truth to their contrarian takes.
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by Gorbzel 10y ago
Yes, they introduced higher storage options, but not until component prices dropped low enough for Apple to maintain their margins at the same MSRP. The iPod had already became a gigantic hit in its own right during the 6 years between the
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by Gorbzel 10y ago
This is exactly what tons of WebKit/Safari haters do — troll through the literally 100s of proposed standards (admittedly sometimes W3C but still) and rile up comment sections w/this false trope astroturfing for half-baked technol
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by Gorbzel 10y ago
Confirmation bias turning HN into an anti-Apple echo chamber of niche, subjective rants is really getting old (...and it's not even been a week). As an iOS developer, I've got the experience to know this kind of drivel doesn'
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by Gorbzel 10y ago
Nope, they can't. First of all, if it's actually fraud that totally doesn't scale. But in a more nuanced case, look at the iMessage App that allowed people to send images that looked like a stock Messages blue bubble. Good id
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by Gorbzel 10y ago
This was my understanding as well. Except now, two issues: 1) More a quibble, but I'd say that people around here pushing AOSP makes the term "stock Android" a bit less clear. 2) Article claims the new Pixels will have some
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by Gorbzel 10y ago
> So the whole issue boils down to "what if you get into a patent dispute with Facebook over a patent that doesn't relate to their core web UI tech". Which...I dunno, is that a real concern? Yes! On one hand, tons of HN co
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by Gorbzel 10y ago
Dropbox is using cached root privs that it now claims it doesn't even need to force itself into full control of your machine, on the back of an accessibility exploit, actively disregards explicit user actions taken to remove it, does t
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by Gorbzel 10y ago
Clearly you've never seen any teardowns of Apple adapters. Usually the best (cleanest power, data throughput, etc) in their respective categories.
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by Gorbzel 10y ago
What I don't buy is why it's okay to generalize your imposter syndrome to an industry as a whole. "Maybe I feel differently about this because I'm not in a major tech hub" Read: "I can afford to live in a com
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by Gorbzel 10y ago
Or they could compete in the marketplace w/ a better product, an integrated product strategy, and a long term understanding of the market and talent. In doing so, they deliver shareholder value without burning unnecessary cash. Oh look
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by Gorbzel 10y ago
Perhaps you should let the crowd answer the first part of your post before making a demand re: something you know nothing about in the very next sentence?
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by Gorbzel 10y ago
Location: Chicago, IL Remote: I have significant experience with remote-friendly/first organizations. Willing to relocate: For the right opportunity. I’ve lived and love early-stage experiences, but this means an established company (&
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by Gorbzel 10y ago
It it doing binary compatibility with iOS apps or just some cross-compilation approach? Don't have access to a Windows machine and if this is the mentality behind getting apps on the platform, not sure there's any reason to change
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by Gorbzel 11y ago
But that's the problem: the good points about hardware quality are objectively true regardless of an end user's ability to afford a replacement or the article author's proclivity to get offended. Things are improving, but man
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by Gorbzel 11y ago
And most purely-software developments in video gaming shouldn't be patentable.
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by Gorbzel 11y ago
CocoaPods exists because developers want to learn how to "build apps" but lack the resources to intelligently include and link to 3rd party code in their projects. CocoaPods doesn't enable anything not otherwise configurable
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by Gorbzel 11y ago
Research in (Moral) Bankruptcy.
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by Gorbzel 11y ago
It is, though I imagine there's better precedential cases for digital acts as speech than Tinker. More importantly, good on you for this: > In my opinion, code in its functional capacity is not speech. This is HUGELY important for
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by Gorbzel 11y ago
Article makes some good points, but then rolls into an increasingly common "nerd" talking point that completely undercuts the point: "It’s fine that no one cares about whatever dorky thing you’re into, but wow why would you m
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by Gorbzel 11y ago
Yeah, I was saying Boo-urns, and it couldn't find it. Also, yeah, this is coming down as soon as the lawyers get ahold of it.
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by Gorbzel 11y ago
All web positions. I hope this doesn't imply that the government avoids native mobile!
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by Gorbzel 11y ago
GENIUS! :-) At work we're ramping up a build on a huge mobile app, and we have a menu (though more accurately, the master of a split for those familiar with iOS UIKit). We've been debating how to represent the navigation item that
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by Gorbzel 11y ago
We agree, I don't think it matters. I initially believed based on the "petition" nature of the letter and adding signatories that it was going to be an inclusive effort. Which is why I've asked and received absolutely no
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by Gorbzel 11y ago
> That letter didn't feel ungrateful or malicious at all to me, but I sure hope it didn't come off that way to others. It might have; software engineering is a big tent, and people who touch Github (in at least someway) no doub

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