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by aikinai 6y ago
An simple outlandish claim doesn't make constitute a joke unless it's referencing something. I think that reference is what GP is asking about.
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by aikinai 6y ago
But Apple doesn’t have beanbag couches or free catered meals.
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by aikinai 6y ago
This is a rumor that won’t die because it’s too enticing to believe and tack onto any anti-Google sentiment. The phrase was only moved from the introduction to the conclusion of the code of conduct, never removed.
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by aikinai 6y ago
I’m not even close to a serious photographer nor have a trained eye, but phone cameras have such terrible dynamic range and artifacting (the impressionistic watercolor look), they’re still not even close to a real camera. Maybe in very spec
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by aikinai 6y ago
> and growing into incredibly strong shapes for any purpose. This makes me think of Lothlórien[0], the living bridges[1], or grown furniture[3]. [0] https://i.pinimg.com/originals/3b/00/fa/3b00fa449cf2
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by aikinai 6y ago
Managers (both product and engineering) know it too; that’s just not how their incentives are designed (as mentioned above). Though I don’t have an answer for how to align incentives correctly in a modern company. If you have one visionary
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by aikinai 6y ago
The least discoverable patterns are obviously going to be gestures. Add on top of that, modal gestures. Try to ask a new user to find iPad multi-tasking for example; it requires a specific starting state and then a hidden gesture, a long pr
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by aikinai 6y ago
I’m a native English speaker, but I’m pretty sure this thread is the first time in my life that a computer menu and a food menu have come in contact in my mind. Of course they’re the same, and that’s why they called it a menu on the compute
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by aikinai 6y ago
Is that really going to raise eyebrows? Google has had over-booked nap rooms for more than twenty years.
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by aikinai 6y ago
I've been using my mirrorless camera as a webcam while working from home and it overheats after a while. I solved the issue by laying an ice pack on top of it before long meetings.
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by aikinai 6y ago
It's interesting he says that the guidelines "aren't the easiest thing to read." I'm a native English speaker and non-native Japanese speaker and I've found that it's far easier for me to go straight to th
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by aikinai 6y ago
I also recently discovered the Concepts app. It’s amazing and too bad it’s not more widely known.
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by aikinai 6y ago
This is a good explanation about why people defend brands, but in case of Apple, my experience is that the anti-Apple crowd is more emotionally invested in being anti-Apple than the fans are for it. It used to be the other way around when A
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by aikinai 6y ago
Apple was not first through the gate. This fee structure has been in place at least since Nintendo in the 80s.
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by aikinai 6y ago
How do people come up with these arbitrary rates? How is 30% anticompetitive and 15% okay? 30% was standard long before the App Store, so why does Apple have to lower it now that they're the most profitable app platform?
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by aikinai 6y ago
The comment says nothing about it being "good."
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by aikinai 6y ago
My address also always completes to "XXX-borough (except the following buildings)." I hope one day more sites migrate to Posuto on the backend to clean up the mess.
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by aikinai 6y ago
I also learned Japanese to a professional level very rapidly by immersion (and focused study in parallel), but I was single and not working at the time, which was critical. If you have a full-time job (that you need to perform in your nativ
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by aikinai 6y ago
Who’s we? I doubt anyone would claim that most people are rational.
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Apple Ordered to Pay VirnetX Another $502.8M for Patent Infringement(macrumors.com)
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by aikinai 6y ago
This has nothing to do with Cloud Print specifically; printers have had support for IP printing for years. And don't most major companies have their printers set up so you print from and to anywhere?
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by aikinai 6y ago
None of which seem in the same league as "turning down a little used print protocol."
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by aikinai 6y ago
> things like Google Docs that are just nearing perfection I'm completely baffled by this statement. The Google Docs UI hasn't changed since it was released ten years ago and it's just an imitation of Microsoft Word from t
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by aikinai 6y ago
That's Atwood's Duck[0] [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_triviality?Reposting#Re...
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by aikinai 6y ago
I wasn’t arguing for or against everything Google has done, but pointing out that these dynamics are neither trivial nor inevitable as many people (like lucasyvas above) want to believe, and it absolutely does take a time-traveler to know w
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by aikinai 6y ago
That’s exactly why those examples are relevant. There’s not a single, static market for browser-accessible website search engines that Google is bound to dominate indefinitely. Google’s been very clever to survive and thrive up until now, b
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by aikinai 6y ago
You chose the perfect example to disprove your own point. Other companies could not run phone lines. There are plenty of hard monopolies, and they’re very different from soft, virtuous cycle monopolies.
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by aikinai 6y ago
> It doesn't take a time traveller to tell you what is going to happen once it reaches a particular point. Just like it didn’t take a time traveler to know that Kodak, Microsoft, and Sears would grow to be unstoppable?
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by aikinai 6y ago
On the topic of WireGuard, I just thought I’d share wgcf that discovered recently. It generates the configs and keys you need to connect to CloudFlare’s Warp+ from any WireGuard client. I used it on my router so I can use Warp+ with my enti
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by aikinai 6y ago
"The bridge would need to be four football fields long" Playing right into the stereotype; they didn't even start with a standard unit.

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