SiVal

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by SiVal 10y ago
TO THE DEVELOPER, FWIW: I'm also in California and it thinks I'm in the Philippines in a town with the same name as one a few miles from here. I assume you use IP to find town, country; throw away country; look up town in a list w
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by SiVal 10y ago
Money has a lot to do with it. When a company is booming, people tend to be optimistic, generous, enthusiastic, and feel secure. The company is more generous and "enlightened", and their success feels like your success. When a com
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by SiVal 10y ago
From the Verge article: CNN has also released a statement: “The RCN cable operator in Boston aired inappropriate content for 30 minutes on CNN last night. CNN has asked for an explanation.” But that still doesn’t really verify that anythin
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by SiVal 10y ago
There's no rule that you have to do a specific amount, the same amount, at the same time, all at once, every day. Just break it up and relax. Take a quick break from work in the mid-morning and walk outside for 15 minutes instead of dr
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by SiVal 10y ago
I see no technical reason this cannot be done using image processing (e.g. a Photoshop filter), robotics and/or 3D printing. In Japan, I watched a robot paint portraits of live models. A person would sit on a bench, the robot would
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by SiVal 10y ago
My MacBook doesn't have its own data plan, so when I'm out and can't sponge off someone's free WiFi (or don't trust it), I tether my phone. It's a great thing to be able to do. And if I'm in that situation
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by SiVal 10y ago
I half agree. The road transport portion can easily be automated when self-driving trucks are automated. It's just the loading and unloading (from, as you suggest, a private home) that will be much harder to automate. So, you call a se
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by SiVal 10y ago
Just a thought in case it helps someone: a family member of mine always had cold hands, and a doctor prescribed a special prescription antiperspirant. Making his hands dry also made them warmer.
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by SiVal 10y ago
It seems pretty obvious that accessibility is always going to require extra thought Actually, I think this extra thought could help everyone by treating disabilities as just special cases of the general idea that different people prefer d
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by SiVal 10y ago
The policy of predetermining a narrative and looking for news that will support it is virtually guaranteed to produce a non-representative sample. You have a giant bin full of balls that is so large that it contains at least a little bit of
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Former NYTimes editor on policy of matching coverage to predetermined narrative(deadline.com)
5 points by SiVal 10y ago|2 comments
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by SiVal 10y ago
So Microsoft is treating the Mac more seriously as a professional platform while Apple is treating it less seriously? I'm not saying this in a snarky way; I mean it literally as a change of corporate strategies in both companies. Micro
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A Confession of Liberal Intolerance(nytimes.com)
20 points by SiVal 10y ago|27 comments
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by SiVal 10y ago
You know, libertarians have been saying for a long time that it's best to keep government as local as possible, so you could choose how you wanted to live, and live that way to the greatest extent possible, without having to worry abou
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by SiVal 10y ago
Interesting, isn't it? Filtering out facts that they didn't believe, not because they were trying to lie, but because those who demand that we "celebrate diversity" have so little actual diversity themselves that they al
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by SiVal 10y ago
I agree that it's not a lack of resources, but I don't think it's about OSX penetration. They don't seem to care much about OSX penetration anymore. If they did, they would make a wider range of OSX devices and sell them
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by SiVal 10y ago
You're very gracious, but whether I owe you an apology for being "over-aggro" or not, you don't owe me any, which you would have seen if you had seen my expression face to face. Imagine me looking down, smiling, shaking
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by SiVal 10y ago
What you're seeing is the information equivalent of an endless, free salad bar with everything a human being could possibly eat available in unlimited quantities. There are high-quality veggies and hideous junk foods, clean water and t
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by SiVal 10y ago
No, I'm referring to all the recent hubbub about Ive's declaration that he had decided that the "skeuomorphic" look was no longer his fashion preference, so the flat, featureless, cartoonish rectangles for UI elements th
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by SiVal 10y ago
Thank you so much for that link. I didn't know it existed, and it's a lot of fun looking over all of those different designs. The thing is, Apple took care of my basic laptop needs very well, but at a price. I had to put up with a
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by SiVal 10y ago
Sure, but they're never guaranteed a place and time for a nice recharge.
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by SiVal 10y ago
"Out of routine" is routine for frequent flyers. You never know when you'll end up spending the night in an airport transit lounge or you can't get into your hotel at the end of a flight around the world, or whatever. Or
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by SiVal 10y ago
I doubt that would help. Some developers do the tests but aren't very good at testing. Others wouldn't do the tests but would copy and paste a long list of "tested devices", and with two million apps, you would never be
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by SiVal 10y ago
Yeah, you were snippy, and caps-lock shouted at me when you mistook me for an Apple fan boy skeptical of wasm, when in fact I was a wasm fan boy skeptical of Apple, but as I noted earlier in another comment (just a few below this one, writt
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by SiVal 10y ago
Decades ago, I remember it being called the "Mid-Atlantic accent". It was a joke, because it was an artificial accent. The name suggested both a blend of US and England, but also suggested, tongue in cheek, that it was the way peo
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by SiVal 10y ago
I would take Eich at his word I'm an Eich fan, so what I DO trust is that he's doing everything he can to make this happen. I do trust that whatever he says is an attempt to help the web platform become the best it can be, meani
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by SiVal 10y ago
It's not WebKit that matters; it's Apple. Apple was also conspicuously absent from the original wasm announcement. Brendan Eich announced (paraphrased), "This wouldn't work without all browser makers buying in, and all o
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by SiVal 10y ago
You can define "enterprise tools" any way you like, but there are software tools that cost millions of dollars that only an "enterprise" would ever buy, and tools like the JetBrains tools that are priced at a level where
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by SiVal 10y ago
I'm addressing the argument that there is no point making more powerful Macs--presumably there is no good use for them as long as we have better cloud viewers. I'm not suggesting Apple get more into gaming, I'm using the situ
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by SiVal 10y ago
Exactly. As a developer, what I decide to build depends in part on the market "out there" and in part on what tools I have. When I had an early Mac, I talked my office into using more Macs (despite a corporate "Windows only&q

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