admiralpumpkin

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by admiralpumpkin 11y ago
As someone who has used both extensively, they both could use improvement. Venmo is a holding service, requiring an extra step to actually get your money. Square Cash, while easy and directly person-to-person, is slow. Fix either of these i
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by admiralpumpkin 11y ago
Agreed, subtle, but instant queasiness. Not a pleasant video to watch.
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by admiralpumpkin 12y ago
I'll help you out here: You unwittingly fall into an enclosure filled with angry chimpanzees. Some of the chimpanzees are guarding a ladder. You can't see where it leads. You notice other people have fallen into the enclosure too.
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by admiralpumpkin 13y ago
headphones reduce the odds of some interrupting you
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by admiralpumpkin 13y ago
The app wasn't removed from people's iPhone (I still have it on mine, for example); it was removed from the App Store—likely at the request of the developer.
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by admiralpumpkin 13y ago
Pictures and animated gifs don't save to camera roll, Messages or email properly (on iOS 7). Pictures shared to Messages just sends the title.
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by admiralpumpkin 14y ago
I'm glad it's not Google, Apple or Microsoft. Here's to a stronger Dropbox and a long-life for Mailbox!
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by admiralpumpkin 14y ago
The first link is a $50 piece of software that still requires a dongle. The suggested dongle is $99. The next piece of software is $40 and works with three listed 3rd party dongles each over $100 (unable to find price from the one in German
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Pwn2own: Desktop Safari the most secure browser?(nakedsecurity.sophos.com)
1 points by admiralpumpkin 14y ago|0 comments
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Why I switched from iPhone to Android(techhive.com)
10 points by admiralpumpkin 14y ago|0 comments
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Apple's jury award vs Samsung cut by over 40% by judge(arstechnica.com)
2 points by admiralpumpkin 14y ago|0 comments
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by admiralpumpkin 14y ago
Bluetooth headsets are effectively a punchline. Google Glass—in its current form—is even worse. Until that enormous blob hanging out in front of the wearer can completely fade into the frame this will be nothing more than a geek curiosity.
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by admiralpumpkin 14y ago
I agree with you regarding Elon's motivation, but I think Elon's reason for talking about the circling 0.6 miles wasn't to claim that it was a meaningful distance/fuel issue, but rather that it was evidence of Broder's true motivation.
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by admiralpumpkin 14y ago
I feel the same way about people forced to go through life with the same name as two million other people. I think, "How sad it must be that you're just another Dan or Tenzin or Mohamed..." If only some greater power would step in and limit
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by admiralpumpkin 14y ago
Your implication is that Google was surprised by what happened and so wasn't prepared with their own app. This strikes me as implausible. Apple's purchases of mapping companies was well publicized, as was it's slow break-up with Google. So
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by admiralpumpkin 14y ago
How about an iOS (and Android) app that does this for any selected picture?
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by admiralpumpkin 14y ago
In reading the comments generally I feel like there's two main groups being affected here: small businesses and small groups (families, geeks, whatever). The first group—small businesses—can of course afford $50/user/year, even if they woul
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by admiralpumpkin 14y ago
I just did a little research to see what alternatives are out there for custom domain emails. I haven't used these Namecheap for email, though I have used them for domain hosting after the SOPA debacle. Namecheap offers custom domain email
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by admiralpumpkin 14y ago
The iPad gets double to triple the battery life, has a higher DPI; the wireless keyboard is probably better than the MBA (or at least on par). Both (all) choices involve compromises. It's a matter of choosing which compromises matter. In my
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by admiralpumpkin 14y ago
Solution Only use Buy It Now ever. Require Immediate Payment. Not only are the fees lower for Buy It Now than for auctions, but there's no way for buyers to game you. The listing will sit until someone actually pays you.
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by admiralpumpkin 14y ago
I strongly agree with you that competition is good so far as motivates further innovation and, to a much lesser extent, lowers prices. The idea that "profits should not matter to anyone but...investors" I think may be a shortsighted view. I
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by admiralpumpkin 14y ago
Their profit isn't. http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/10/25/us-amazon-results-...
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by admiralpumpkin 14y ago
From my reading I think that price of the screen for a 2048x1536 screen, while higher, isn't the real showstopper. The truly big issue for a very high-resolution screen is power draw requiring a larger battery leading to a larger, heavier d
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by admiralpumpkin 14y ago
You're creating an inaccurate view of the author's desires that is not supported by anything he wrote or showed us. He wanted Word to not be laggy—completely reasonable and basic, nothing that would require laptop-level productivity. He wan
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by admiralpumpkin 14y ago
I completely disagree. MS bundled and highly touted the existence of the keyboard on the Surface as proof that its a "no compromise" tablet. Typing (a very very basic activity) in Word (perhaps the most established piece of software ever) s
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by admiralpumpkin 14y ago
A funny response (truly), but Office on OS X (which I use extensively) never lags like that for me, even on older Mac hardware (Core Duo from 2006 or so).
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by admiralpumpkin 14y ago
This article dodges (willfully ignores) the every-other good-bad release schedule that has tended to be the pattern of Microsoft (and Star Trek movies). 2000: good ME: bad XP2: good Vista: bad 7: good 8: bad
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by admiralpumpkin 14y ago
I think it leaves MS comfortably in the valley of failure that they've been trying to climb out of for quite a while now. "Teetering on the edge of failure" far from being overly pessimistic, is actually far too generous. By any reasonable
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by admiralpumpkin 14y ago
The last thing I want is my email address in the hands of every author of every book I've ever bought. Amazon has it right. They can notify me if there's an "important" update (hard to imagine for most books); if not, leave me alone.
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by admiralpumpkin 14y ago
"The value a curated app ecosystem" is that Apple's app reviewers greatly, greatly reduce the chance of malware or crapware winding up on consumers' devices. Few processes in practice are 100% effective. One, or a even few, failures does no

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