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by Nerdfest 10y ago
They are proprietary, not BlueTooth, although they do leverage BlueTooth. What, you thought Apple used a standard?
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by Nerdfest 10y ago
Linux is not limited to Canonical/Ubuntu, and even if you do use Ubuntu, that is opt-in (now) and only ever applied on the Unity desktop. With Linux, there is a free lunch.
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by Nerdfest 11y ago
The number of magic numbers in that code makes me a bit nervous.
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by Nerdfest 11y ago
Running all Apple across the board is okay until you decide you want to leave. hey don't play well with others. I think rewarding that sort of behaviour with money against my long term interests.
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by Nerdfest 11y ago
A big part of why I dropped FaceBook was their poor Android application. Apparently it's slightly better now, but not much.
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by Nerdfest 11y ago
I find it strange that he'd recommend the Apple TV. Doesn't it have by far the most limited choices of content and formats, and the most limited connectivity to other devices?
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by Nerdfest 11y ago
"Best backward compatibility of any browser". This is a reason not to use IE11, but thanks for reminding is that you're the best at implementing the various broken standards implementation you inflicted on everyone.
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by Nerdfest 11y ago
Run Windows in a VM, try it under Wine, or use Microsoft's cloud version of Visual Studio. Not sure about IIS for that one though. Better yet, stop rewarding a company that treats its users like pests and switch to open languages and s
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by Nerdfest 11y ago
Wireshark. Run it on a separate machine to be sure you see everything.
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by Nerdfest 11y ago
Absolutely. This is what I posted on the other copy of this article: The problem is that even if you understand those concepts well, you're not necessarily able to apply them after most programs. If your startup is in the business of c
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by Nerdfest 11y ago
The problem is that even if you understand those concepts well, you're not necessarily able to apply them after most programs. If your startup is in the business of crating new algorithms to solve various problems, that's one thin
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by Nerdfest 11y ago
"The F.B.I.'s use of such techniques is subject to close oversight, both internally and by the courts that review our work." I very much doubt there was any court oversight of anything related to this.
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by Nerdfest 11y ago
Does it actually say "Android Wear"? It's more likely that they're implementing their own OS and app with the functionality limited to what will work on iOS as well as Android.
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by Nerdfest 11y ago
Except that one is currently open and the other isn't. That carries a lot of weight for some of us.
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by Nerdfest 11y ago
... the hipster market.
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by Nerdfest 11y ago
Eclipse or IntelliJ and Java/Groovy. I can't believe I wasn't using Groovy earlier, it's fantastic.
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by Nerdfest 11y ago
Know what outweighs all of those problems and makes it worth it over even the medium term? It's open. You don't get tied to a provider who has your business at their mercy.
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by Nerdfest 12y ago
Google reader was better than GMail as an indicator of people's interests. It not only showed general areas of interest,but could gather clicks on specific articles within streams. I don't think you could get more precise targetin
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by Nerdfest 12y ago
With Swype (my favourite), a single backspace deletes a word you just typed. Alternatively, you can select a correction of the word from the correction bar.
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by Nerdfest 12y ago
That 'simpler lifestyle' only works until they force something that you can't abide by, and by that point it's too late. Personally I can't even tolerate that there's only one hardware manufacturer and one s
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by Nerdfest 12y ago
It's an absolutely gorgeous pen though (in my opinion).
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by Nerdfest 12y ago
TODOs are presented in task lists, etc, by many IDEs. For me, they're included in my workflow, not forgotten.
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by Nerdfest 12y ago
Apple and IBM both survive due to blind fans and platform lock-in. In Apple's case it's consumers, and with IBM it's corporations.
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by Nerdfest 12y ago
FOSS doesn't pay for golf vacations for purchasers.
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by Nerdfest 12y ago
Pieces like this are the reason people make fun of Apple fans.
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by Nerdfest 12y ago
Perhaps the solution here is for people not to tie themselves to an operating system that allows exactly one hardware provider and one source of software. The fact that people don't see how that generally ends astounds me. If you w
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by Nerdfest 12y ago
That's fixable as well. You can turn off location reporting on your home device while still leaving location services active for things that need it.
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by Nerdfest 12y ago
How do you explain iOS?
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by Nerdfest 12y ago
Strange, I think it's the opposite. That's a lot of money for an i3 with little memory. It's cheap next to a MacBook Air perhaps, but still quite expensive.
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by Nerdfest 12y ago
Microsoft, like Apple, wants you to only be able to use their products, so there's a very low probability of them releasing a Unix version. Both Apple and MS would actively stop people from installing Linux on their hardware if they co

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