NonNefarious

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by NonNefarious 4y ago
Amen to all that, especially the headphone jack. I'd respect the company more for these anti-customer moves if they'd be honest about it or just say nothing. But the stupid excuses for removing the jack are insulting to consumers
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by NonNefarious 4y ago
<click> Candidate 1 has left the chat
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by NonNefarious 4y ago
That seems to be overstating their "failure" here. It seems that the person they actually interviewed may have been qualified, personable, and so forth. The problem is that a TOTALLY DIFFERENT PERSON showed up to work. How is that
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by NonNefarious 4y ago
Uh-oh, some pro-illiteracy lobbyist has down-modded me.
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by NonNefarious 4y ago
I will decide what's appropriate, thanks.
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by NonNefarious 4y ago
I'm not saying it isn't impressive, but on the other hand... if you fire enough shots at something, you're eventually going to hit it. Where do you draw the line?
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by NonNefarious 4y ago
"He done it?"
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by NonNefarious 4y ago
Into "mo?" Whatever that is. Buried.
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by NonNefarious 4y ago
And also: Use tabs.
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by NonNefarious 4y ago
Is this to work around the way Apple has utterly and bafflingly broken the insertion-point handling in iOS? It worked fine for years, and now suddenly it takes five tries to invoke the "select all", "paste", or whatever
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by NonNefarious 4y ago
"It highlights them because they are a direct contrast to nearly every other interface feature on iOS." Hahaha, really? That's a laughable claim. Tell us how to remove a city from the Weather app then.
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by NonNefarious 4y ago
The G in "GUI" stands for "graphical." People forget that when they defend shitty, undiscoverable UI. The examples in this article are right on point. Apple (and others) far too often simply punt and give up on doing the
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by NonNefarious 4y ago
Just found out my hearing is ruined, thanks to a useless booster.
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by NonNefarious 4y ago
Apparently someone from the Xcode team modded that down. There's always someone eager to take offense at facts.
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by NonNefarious 4y ago
Thanks for that referral. On a side note: I like Swift for the most part, but the last time I looked at upcoming language features they seemed like a kitchen-sink approach that's bloating the language and would better have been left to
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by NonNefarious 4y ago
It's capitalized in the title, so it's a PROPER noun. And I've worked in software development for a long time, and have read HN regularly for a long time, and I've never heard of "Backstage" as software. There&
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by NonNefarious 4y ago
Why would Apple be interested? They really don't care about applications anymore. I'm a bit surprised they even bother with FCP and Motion at this point. I have no idea what they would do with Figma. They can't even get Swift
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by NonNefarious 4y ago
Backstage is a well-known entertainment-industry site and publication. What's the motivation for trying to duplicate it?
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by NonNefarious 4y ago
No, it's an abolished house at Hogwarts.
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by NonNefarious 4y ago
See FunnyBadger's comment above. Whoever mods statements like this down exemplifies the final sentiment.
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by NonNefarious 4y ago
Illegible because of paywall. Please remove.
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by NonNefarious 4y ago
Lenovo pulls some pretty underhanded shit, so I wouldn't put it past them. Just one example of at least a couple I remember: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29958247
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by NonNefarious 4y ago
But Verizon was caught continuing to charge the subsidy payback amount every month AFTER the customer had fully paid off the subsidy.
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by NonNefarious 4y ago
I arrived at that through the entire C++/OO/pre-built-components hype of '90s and beyond, the failure of which was blamed on a non-codified ABI.
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by NonNefarious 4y ago
The user can't "cancel the plan," though. It's a CONTRACT. That's why the entire scam is backward. Under contract, the user has to pay the original company every month. It's actually GOOD for that company if th
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by NonNefarious 4y ago
This arrangement is idiotic, though. Under contract, the user still has to pay the original company if he takes his phone to another network. Why PREVENT that?
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by NonNefarious 4y ago
Actually that's backward. Monthly plans are for UNlocked phones. The idiotic thing about locked phones in the USA is that they're given to customers who are ON CONTRACT. Therefore, if the customer takes his phone to another networ
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by NonNefarious 4y ago
ABI shenanigans are what killed the whole "off-the-shelf components" promise of C++ and object orientation. They really made the same mistake again?
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by NonNefarious 4y ago
Then you are also arguing in favor of the Oxford comma. "We're having hot dogs, hamburgers, and peanut butter and jelly.
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by NonNefarious 4y ago
OK. I didn't see that. I wonder if they updated it.

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