Lazlo_Nibble

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by Lazlo_Nibble 16y ago
When I've "become a fan" of things on Facebook it's been because I was interested in those things and wanted regular updates about them. It was not out of some kind of weird desire to flash my tailfeathers at people.
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by Lazlo_Nibble 16y ago
He gives a little context on page 6: "Worse, there are often no perceived affordances for how various screen elements respond when touched. The prevailing aesthetic is very much that of flat images that fill the screen as if they were etch
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by Lazlo_Nibble 16y ago
Well, yeah, people are getting kind of twitchy about Facebook privacy issues. It's like Water Torture -- the individual drops of water are basically harmless but they just keep falling and you have no idea when the next one's coming . Most
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by Lazlo_Nibble 16y ago
Since I got my iPod touch eight or nine months ago, easily 3/4 of my recreational web browsing has moved to the Touch. I frequent a couple of VBulletin-based sites that are just too painful to use that way, and I still use the PC for a lot
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by Lazlo_Nibble 16y ago
Yeah, and here's the nightmare scenario for Apple: what if the prototype is actually for iPhone 2011 instead of iPhone 2010? Everyone expects a front-facing camera in the next release now. Wanna take bets on what happens to Apple's share pr
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by Lazlo_Nibble 16y ago
It parses okay for me, though a comma between "work together" and "as we are" might help. "If Apple worked with us, as a number of other partners do, we could provide..."
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by Lazlo_Nibble 16y ago
Yeah -- #3. Where are you getting this from? And what does your parenthetical "(Or Apple would have denied it and requested that they return the equipment.)" even mean? It's true that the warrant was executed as part of the investigatio
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by Lazlo_Nibble 16y ago
Powell doesn't "admit" that he was drunk, or that he left the phone at the bar, at any point in that story.
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by Lazlo_Nibble 16y ago
This assumes that it's actually "the company" laying down this directive, which isn't clear from the post -- it could just as easily be something his manager came up with on his own. Having said that, I wouldn't expend too much energy on tr
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by Lazlo_Nibble 16y ago
If Car & Driver bought a Ferrari prototype from someone who clearly wasn't its legal owner, then ran a big front-page teardown story on the car with a snarky sidebar about how stupid it was for Ferrari to "lose" it, do you really thin
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by Lazlo_Nibble 16y ago
We already protect one and not the other. If the seller had only provided Gizmodo with the information they published (photos, teardowns, etc.) instead of the phone itself, Gizmodo probably wouldn't be in any legal trouble and the seller's
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by Lazlo_Nibble 16y ago
The question's not whether or not bloggers count as journalists for the purposes of the shield laws, it's whether or not the shield laws apply when the journalists themselves are under suspicion of committing a crime.
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by Lazlo_Nibble 16y ago
I usually pick a name based on some piece of music that's nearby the first time I get asked to set one. Sleepwalk (Santo & Johnny), Skyscraper (Underworld), Hinterland (William Orbit), Zoolookologie (Jean-Michel Jarre)...
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by Lazlo_Nibble 16y ago
I don't think Powell's public silence to date indicates anything other than the fact that Apple hasn't authorized him to discuss it in public. (Most large companies wouldn't under the circumstances, it's not an Apple thing.) If the phone
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by Lazlo_Nibble 16y ago
Again, the only source of the "left in a bar" story is Gizmodo. That may be the story the seller told them, but it hasn't been confirmed by anyone else. If the seller "acquired" it by more overt means, they have plenty of reason to lie abou
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by Lazlo_Nibble 16y ago
Can you even associate an iPad with an iTunes account that's registered in a territory where they aren't selling them yet?
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by Lazlo_Nibble 16y ago
There's also the problem that the "found on a barstool" story came from the guy who sold it to Gizmodo. Gruber hints at another possibility, but let me just lay it out explicitly: 1. Powell takes the photo that he posted to Facebook, but us
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by Lazlo_Nibble 16y ago
Well, that's certainly the story as Gizmodo reports it. Unfortunately it comes from a source with plenty of reason to lie about the details, and can't be verified as nobody outside of Gizmodo knows who that source is. It also leaves open th
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Hotmail's social networking busts your privacy(windowssecrets.com)
2 points by Lazlo_Nibble 16y ago|1 comments
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by Lazlo_Nibble 16y ago
> What Jobs should have done then was not ban apps by language, but ban "shitty" apps. Whatever you think of the app store rules, you can't seriously be suggesting that a rule as subjective as "don't be shitty" would make life for devel
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by Lazlo_Nibble 17y ago
Here's some how/why, at least as regards frameworks designed for cross-platform development. Cross-platform frameworks push developers towards lowest-common-denominator UI design -- you can only use the UI elements and interactions that are
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by Lazlo_Nibble 17y ago
> But Apple has no right to any opinion whatsoever regarding how I create those deliverables - that is my business, and remains so until I submit it. So, companies in the 1980s had no right to any opinion whatsoever regarding whether or
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by Lazlo_Nibble 17y ago
At the time, you weren't allowed to hook arbitrary equipment up to the phone system -- everything had to be approved by AT&T. IIRC the hardware Woz used for his dial-a-joke setup was homebrew.
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by Lazlo_Nibble 17y ago
Having a platform that's easier to develop, publish and distribute software for is only half of the "developer friendly" equation. The other half is having a user community that's willing to spend money on that software. Are there many Andr
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by Lazlo_Nibble 17y ago
There has to be some kind of creative component to the compilation. And arguably Facebook didn't even compile the data in the first place -- it'd be like a college claiming a compilation copyright on the band fliers, roommate requests, and
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by Lazlo_Nibble 17y ago
They made the #27 app by having an iPad-tuned app ready on launch day (which by definition will be the day with the fewest competing apps in any category) that probably came back at or near the top of the search results (I think we can safe
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by Lazlo_Nibble 17y ago
Toodledo, via the web and the App Store app. Though I'd be using the mobile version of Things if it synced to anything other than a Mac application.
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by Lazlo_Nibble 17y ago
Coverscans, coverscans, coverscans.
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by Lazlo_Nibble 17y ago
I have no information specific to Citi but I doubt very much that any bank manager/supervisor is in a position to do anything about a decision made by the Compliance office. Compliance is a big gorilla in a financial services org -- they're
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by Lazlo_Nibble 17y ago
The bible verses were introduced in the mid-1980s when the then-president of the company went "born again" (as it was still a family-owned/family-run business at the time, this was easy to implement by fiat). I suspect their continuing pres

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