LaGrange

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by LaGrange 14y ago
Well, as a resident email-lover: both matter. So even if you're like me, you sometimes have to schedule a call, which is even included in the original article. You have to take into account what everyone involved is comfortable with, and fi
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by LaGrange 14y ago
It's not taking a hardline attitude. If you have, for example, Aspergers, unplanned, unscheduled conversations cause incredible anxiety and are extremely hard to manage. This leads to miscommunication, arguments and pointless stress. And th
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by LaGrange 14y ago
Of course — I said dependance . Just as we depend on abuse of countless people, and we can't stop either overnight. It doesn't change the fact that it's horrible one bit.
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by LaGrange 14y ago
Both involve sentient beings. This is not about valuing children less. This is about valuing sheep more. This might be an uncomfortable world view, taking how much we depend on non-human abuse in our civilization, but it's not the only case
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by LaGrange 14y ago
You know, no matter how much disposable income I get in Warsaw, Poland, I can't make it suddenly sprout Dutch or Swiss quality of public transportation, health care, food and entertainment. And commuting (by public transport) encourages coh
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by LaGrange 14y ago
Nah, it's just a place to rest or read. Reading too much into it is unhealthy for you. It's not even a particularly good place to work or listen to music (and definitely not to talk), because a lot of people going there actually want silenc
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by LaGrange 14y ago
"Respecting shared public space is becoming as quaintly archaic as tipping your hat to a lady, now that the concept of public space is as nearly extinct as hats, and ladies." ...and there you get it. It's really about someone pining for the
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by LaGrange 14y ago
They are way, way worse at it than Google. Which is good for me.
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by LaGrange 14y ago
I would say Switzerland, and the cultural and economical benefit they received from the mass influx of immigrants into a fairly small country during WWII. Oh wait... though, unsurprisingly, a lot of locals were less than amused. Though I kn
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by LaGrange 14y ago
Because I don't want to sign up for Google+. I dislike the idea of bundling their social data mining solution with just about anything, like a less obvious and impossible to opt-out version of whatever-toolbar bundled with software years ag
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by LaGrange 14y ago
Yes, that happened, at least according to one dude: http://daringfireball.net/linked/2011/05/11/facetime-standar...
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by LaGrange 14y ago
What makes me curious is whether this lawsuit has anything to do with Apple never actually submitting FaceTime to the standard bodies.
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by LaGrange 14y ago
The difference is (at least for now) that I actually get more useful apps on my iPhone. And if that changes, then in 3 years I'll get an Android. For now though, it seems that iOS remains more attractive for developers, and that's what keep
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by LaGrange 14y ago
Actually, even if I end up with ads when I wasn't at least sort-of looking for them (say, opening Yellow Books, doing a search), then I'd rather if they're not targeted — the less information they have the worse they are at hacking my brain
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by LaGrange 14y ago
And what would that achieve in that case? Nothing! Just as not being on Facebook achieves nothing — you'll just be completely defenseless if someone tags you in an image (which is horrifying — as far as I'm concerned, the only acceptable so
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by LaGrange 14y ago
No it doesn't. The information on who this is supposedly from is useful, but hiding the actual sender is potentially harmful.
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by LaGrange 14y ago
It points that there's a sexual background to a huge chunk of violence against women.
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by LaGrange 14y ago
Well, lets start with the fact that your personal reflection is bunk, and I'm not an american as well, but culturally aware enough to know that the european stereotype of Americans being really politically correct is actually present in an
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by LaGrange 14y ago
"Political correctness" I actually love political correctness, and people ranting about it always appear to me as deliberately obtuse and trying to avoid responsibility for behaving in certain ways. Here's the thing: political correctness i
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by LaGrange 14y ago
No, it's not just unpleasantness. Even digressing from the fact how much those words you talk about actually hurt, here's a neat link: http://www.endvawnow.org/en/articles/299-fast-facts-statisti... Some highlights, cherry-picked for spec
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by LaGrange 14y ago
Print restrictions? Let's talk about side-by-side articles, bundling commentary essays with the main feature, boxed info and the whole shebang of stuff that just doesn't seem to work on the internet (and I sorta doubt it will work on tablet
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by LaGrange 14y ago
It doesn't really have to be a short path. Sometimes things like highways and similar are intended to be profitable, but the up-front investments is so high, that the break-even point is far in the future. Sometimes the investments are clea
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by LaGrange 14y ago
Also, this article keeps repeating cliches. Yeah, sure, I won't get a pat on the head and universal admiration for starting yet another boring and doomed startup (though there's circles of people who will give you even that). Also, if you c
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by LaGrange 14y ago
Oooh, now that's the way to get real names + addresses out of people. Neat. It also involves social pressure -- now not giving away your address will mean rejecting a gift.
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by LaGrange 14y ago
Because you might have some more pressing issues to fix than that -- it's not a good experience, but, unless you did something horrible (which newspapers often do, unfortunately), it's not that bad either. It is economy of time and attentio
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by LaGrange 14y ago
Double-tap on the text. Like the article says. It really does work, quite often way better than attempts at responsive design. And then there's the reader functionality in my phone. The issue isn't, I think, responsive design itself, it's t
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by LaGrange 14y ago
khem , Eiffel Tower, you say? You mean, in Paris? I'm pretty sure that Paris has its infrastructure better prepared to handle riots than Haren. The things people mention around here -- like, say, redirecting huge crowds -- require actual u
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by LaGrange 14y ago
Maybe they don't want to? They seem to like their knitted scarves, art-house films and interpretative dance about marine life quite a lot. Going for high-profile store-like projects doesn't actually guarantee success (they may get whacked b
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by LaGrange 14y ago
Actually, in many places in Europe Google transit directions were non-existent or useless, and apps providing similar or better functionality are very common. * Netherlands -> 9292 * Poland -> JakDojadę + Bilkom * Zurich -> Weml
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by LaGrange 14y ago
Actually, I doubt the additional row of icons makes a huge difference (though, maybe it does help videos), but I bet the additional space inside the phone is useful.

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