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by WWLink 3y ago
lol first they came up with the phone menu. Then they came up with complicated phone menus meant to confuse you and get you to give up. Then they replaced those with voice recognition menus that are straight up infuriating. Then they replac
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by WWLink 3y ago
Man can you imagine if google, ms, apple, et all got together to make some open standards? It would be fucking awesome! Not that it hasn't been done before, but it's been a while. x_X
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by WWLink 3y ago
Ah, software is a big one but I was thinking of a few products that involved no software at all. Stuff like mechanical keyboards, that one PC case that looked like the current Mac Pro, there was some other hardware widget or two that I can&
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by WWLink 3y ago
I mean, they make the OS, they can force it to give teams top priority over all your other lagging shit lol.
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by WWLink 3y ago
I'm pretty sure they could get enough methane out of Elon Musk running his mouth to send a probe to Pluto. Probably have enough left over to catch up with Voyager 1.
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by WWLink 3y ago
You know, I'll pay the 50 cents to run firefox on an iphone. No regrets. My goodness, that would be the best 50 cents you could spend on an iphone app. Holy shit. Better than the hot garbage you assholes peddle (especially in-app gacha
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by WWLink 3y ago
I think this is the real reason some people hop companies every other year. They never have to be confronted by the result of past poor decisions.
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by WWLink 3y ago
You zeroed in on one of the things I mentioned. You didn't consider the mentorship, writing documentation, or just general product ownership over time. Of course, if your organization considers a firm handshake and constant eye contact
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by WWLink 3y ago
> dramatically hinder new entrants from selling new products Armchair product engineering thoughts: A lot of kickstarters seemed to set themselves up for failure by trying to make a hermetically sealed apple-style product and have it pro
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by WWLink 3y ago
We should just have a starship go crash into an asteroid. :p
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by WWLink 3y ago
> As for me, I've been a developer for 25 years and never wanted to go into management. I love my job because I love to code and I love learning new things. I'm 100% not the target audience for this book. I feel like you can st
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by WWLink 3y ago
There's also a membership that doesn't look optional....
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by WWLink 3y ago
"It's not very shiny, but that profession makes all your cars, airplanes and alien planet multicopters." If you have a good head for it, it's a pretty darn good career. You might not make $500k/year like you would a
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by WWLink 3y ago
You can get a 2023 or older wrangler, and replace the radio with anything else. Without the factory radio there's no internet connection. The 7" and 5" radios don't even have the modem to begin with (although apparently
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by WWLink 3y ago
The tribal war thing over android vs iOS makes me laugh. It really is ridiculous. I have an iPhone XS and a Galaxy Fold 4, and have bounced around between android phone and iPhones over the years. I won't deny that there are some thing
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by WWLink 3y ago
> if it's simply because Apple is HQ in CA, couldn't Apple simply move it's HQ (on paper) to another US state (like Texas, where a lot of other tech companies have moved HQs) I was going to say there's no way they&#x2
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by WWLink 3y ago
-rolls eyes- damnit that gave me a headache. they almost fell out of my head.
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by WWLink 3y ago
Yea I remember when the McDouble was $1 .. that was like 10 years ago wasn't it?! Burger king had a fantastic double cheeseburger for $1 too, pissed off all the franchisees lol. I think the mcdouble is $3.50 or so out here now.
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by WWLink 3y ago
It does actually. The McDonalds app "accidentally" forgets to check when you've picked up your order and keeps tracking you until you go into the app, then it'll check and realize you picked it up and stop tracking you.
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by WWLink 3y ago
The Schlage lock I bought in 2015 works like that, it just uses z-wave iirc. I originally paired it with a wink hub until they went to crap, then moved it over to a hubitat elevation hub. Yeeah... should've gone with a raspberry pi and
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by WWLink 3y ago
Interestingly, you can control wiz lights with OpenRGB. It doesn't really surprise me lol. https://www.reddit.com/r/OpenRGB/comments/jptv2a/philips_wiz... There's also a home assistant thing fo
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by WWLink 3y ago
TBH, the Photos app on Macs is just as bad at this. Especially if you have a LARGE album. I'll give you exactly the use case, and exactly why that is: I decided I didn't want to pay for the family 1tb icloud plan anymore because 9
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by WWLink 3y ago
ooOoo I work at the 3rd kind... the thing is, our products have several different major engineering components, luckily we're all treated equally! That can also be a little bit of a downside sometimes, because the software industry def
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by WWLink 3y ago
You'd rather have a locked down connection because you want to control what users do with the content you're selling.
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by WWLink 3y ago
It's more annoying really. Most companies refuse to let you see their website from android or iOS phones because they want you to download the app. The app... that is just a wrapper for their fucking website anyway.
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by WWLink 3y ago
Realistically, if someone makes a fringe rom that may be downloaded a few thousand times, how many people are going to bother checking for nefarious exploits hidden in there? I hate that I wrote that lol. It reeks of the kind of cybersecuri
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by WWLink 3y ago
In my own anecdotal experience, if you are a computer gamer, you miss out on all the "console exclusive" stuff. Stuff like Gran Tourismo or the latest Kingdom Hearts or Final Fantasy or whatever. I can't really remember. Then
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by WWLink 3y ago
It should be. Corporations are probably the biggest producers of ewaste there is.
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by WWLink 3y ago
I don't know. I think there are differences. Like ads on the front of a store (advertising things sold in said store), vs ads when you go to use the gosh darn toilet and a video starts talking to you while you're sitting there.
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by WWLink 3y ago
Whatever that article is talking about, I will point out for the people who don't live in the Los Angeles area, that developers have been standing up a LOT of new apartment buildings in the past 5 years or so. I can think of some areas

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