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by benzoate 8y ago
On the contrary, I believed that most “tech-savvy” people were ecstatic that not only was the scummy behaviour of some of the largest tech enterprises finally being reined in, but smaller companies were finally incentivised to take our info
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by benzoate 8y ago
The 5c was essentially an iPhone 5 (the previous years iPhone) in a plastic shell, with some other minor differences. Given that Apple are continuing to sell the iPhone 7 and iPhone 8 you could say that the spirit of the 5c lives on (iPhone
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by benzoate 8y ago
I agree emphatically, and it’s why I’m a member of the BCS (British Computing Society). It’s absurd that we have people building essential public infrastructure with close to no repercussions when their failure screws people over.
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by benzoate 8y ago
After they announced they were removing the ability to top up via debit card I was concerned as much of their utility at the time came from being able to share costs with friends from an isolated account with a lower balance. The app has lo
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by benzoate 8y ago
It’s consistently going back in the context of the app you’re in. If you want to go back to the previous app you can swipe from the left on the home indicator, or on older iPhones swipe from the left with force.
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by benzoate 8y ago
You can however consistently swipe from the left side of the screen to go back. There are a couple of apps which I suspect were not written by iOS users where this functionality is broken (such as Valve’s Steam iOS app), but those are far i
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by benzoate 8y ago
To my eyes this seemed like a completely normal amount of whitespace. The only thing I personally prefer that you would reasonably reduce is moving the left block delimiter from its own line (But left block braces being on their own line is
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by benzoate 8y ago
As a former windows phone user and .NET developer who is currently a mobile developer, Microsoft definitely treated mobile developers worse than any other company. They killed what small progress they’d made on their ecosystem 2 times, simp
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by benzoate 8y ago
I consider it more like behaviour outside of the spec is undefined, and some parsers have bugs.
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by benzoate 9y ago
Didn't their ad business fail because they refused to share/collect as much user data, and hence advertisers were less willing to spend on their platform?
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by benzoate 9y ago
I’d be interested to see how Siri performs on different devices. The Siri on your phone is not the same Siri that you have on your Apple TV. The Apple TV version is much better at giving information about tv shows, movies and music, but ter
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by benzoate 11y ago
Because corporation tax is a tax on profit. Profit is roughly revenue - expenses. How do you ever reliably calculate Google's expenses for the UK? It's basically always going to be a pseudo made up number between total world wide
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by benzoate 11y ago
True, but then it's not on one line anymore, and the code likely ends up on more lines. If only there was some other version of the code that took up less lines and characters... :)
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by benzoate 11y ago
haha, I think the resulting one liners are a little over 80 characters :)
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by benzoate 11y ago
Call me when the results are compliant with PEP8
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by benzoate 11y ago
Microsoft was hit with an anti-trust suit in Europe at a time when they had >90% market share in desktop computing. Bundling Internet Explorer was seen as abusing their dominant market position. In Europe, iOS has around 20% market share
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by benzoate 11y ago
They do get discounts on Apple hardware from Apple of around 10% though (we did at my university at least).
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by benzoate 11y ago
Looks cool. There's a mistake on the learn more page though that you should fix. “Now any time you have your phone your new garage door opener is too.”
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by benzoate 12y ago
Well the Santa Claus question will defeat bots for now at least... http://imgur.com/qX8pWrQ
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by benzoate 12y ago
I think they're 5-10 years away from having a solution to their organised labour problem
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by benzoate 12y ago
I believe that's why they were originally added, to protect the disk in the event of a drop. My early 2013 13" MBPr definitely has both an SSD and accelerometers, though I don't know if they kept them for later models. Cool a
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by benzoate 12y ago
I think it could actually be done. I know my MBPr has accelerometers in it that can be accessed. (visit http://mrdoob.com/projects/chromeexperiments/google-gravity/ with Chrome on a MBPr)
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by benzoate 12y ago
Optional charges seem to work pretty well for Wikipedia. Although who knows how well that will transfer to a social network.
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by benzoate 12y ago
Did you ever want to crowdfund your idea but didn't know how?
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by benzoate 12y ago
I wonder even if he is cleared in Sweden he would still be self imprisoned in the embassy, since he broke UK law by breaching his bail conditions?
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by benzoate 12y ago
I don't think I've seen anyone suggest that Uber is cleaner compared to other forms of transport, just merely more convenient than normal taxi services. I also don't think switching to pure public transportation is a viable s
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by benzoate 12y ago
I assume it's for caching data/images. Way back when, many Android devices were handicapped by their tiny internal storage
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by benzoate 13y ago
And another... I ordered a wake up light clock from Amazon, whilst under a free prime trial. There was a problem with the courier so I contact them and a week later they send me another which arrives the next day. Later, they get the origin
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by benzoate 13y ago
Oh yeah, of course. I forgot about advance tickets because there weren't any available to get me to Stansted for my flight (needed to arrive by 12pm). Even now the cheapest tickets from Nottingham to Stansted are £52 sans railcard for
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by benzoate 13y ago
Yup, then double it for having the audacity to take a bag.

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