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by bonaldi 14y ago
It's targeted at girls because it uses all the signifiers of traditional stereotyped toy advertising, features only female characters and comes up via a special Lego For Girls page via the first Google hit on "Girls Lego" (for me, at least)
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by bonaldi 14y ago
You seem to have missed some old research about how damaging it is for kids to be told the things they are into are "not for them", based on their gender. How would we react here if somebody said "yeah, Vim is for women only", made a pink v
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by bonaldi 14y ago
"Legos for Girls" isn't a road that should even be on their map. Legos for Kids is their destination. If your nieces weren't interested in the sets Lego should have focused on better sets that were still gender-neutral. That doesn't exclude
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by bonaldi 14y ago
One can believe that, but it's different saying that "sometimes spam and dupes slip through" and saying "I disagree with everyone else, they're wrong, I'm right", which is what he's doing in this case. It's as if he visited a user page for
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by bonaldi 14y ago
Either trust what the upvotes tell you, even when you disagree, or manually curate the front page. We can eat your cake, or you can have it.
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by bonaldi 14y ago
It hasn't kept it for itself, it is still submitting patches and releasing new versions. The toolchain is no longer supported, but Apple also provides patches to the open-source toolchain. Lots, lots more at http://www.wocommunity.org/page
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by bonaldi 14y ago
The job is not just "display text", it is to match the UX of the other newsstand apps: + Background Updating + Push Notifications + Works offline, always + Doesn't go down when your server does + Subscriptions without a credit card. I think
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by bonaldi 14y ago
I love that his examples of starting with simple+easy (gym three times a week at 7.30am) are what are for other people the end goal!
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by bonaldi 14y ago
The potential for harassment is greatly ameliorated by the fact it's the caller who pays -- receivers don't pay anything in the UK, ever. And while you're harassing, you can't use your phone. I don't think I've ever heard of anyone being ha
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by bonaldi 14y ago
It allows you to hang up the receiver in one room, walk to another extension and pick it up without disconnecting the call.
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by bonaldi 14y ago
There could be a technical concern here, but practically speaking the BBC is so impartial it will happily half-destroy itself in the name of journalism. Their own Director-General just had to resign after a grilling by BBC journalists on
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by bonaldi 14y ago
Logic fail. But there is a difference between your (uncited) claim and "all Ethiopians I've met are thick", no?
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by bonaldi 14y ago
Yes, if proven they would cease to be sexist, because they'd be discriminating based on facts, not based on his apparent prejudice. (However, since the conjecture does seem to come from a combination of sexism/ageism/confirmation bias, it w
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by bonaldi 14y ago
No, he should disregard them because as written they're sexist, and don't even have good methodology to try and stand in their defense. His confirmation bias is one thing, the assertion that these women "literally feel a compulsion" that he
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by bonaldi 14y ago
Pretty much my sole use for Yahoo Pipes these days is filtering out any mentions of "episode" or "podcast" from tech RSS feeds. Why does anyone spend 30+ minutes listening to a) recaps of a previous episode, b) padding and filler, just to g
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by bonaldi 14y ago
Performance: Chrome beats IE10 in Google-written test, IE10 beats all comers in SunSpider, more like it.
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by bonaldi 14y ago
hard work anywhere has never guaranteed success. I'm amazed people still fall for this (and it's consequence, that failure is caused by laziness)
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by bonaldi 14y ago
> is it really desirable to revert to an older day where a faithful employee's reward for long-term service was getting a gold watch on retirement or a $10K bonus for having invented the thing that made the employer hundreds of millio
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by bonaldi 14y ago
Say I wanted to replicate Apple's Notes app: I can write iPad, iPhone and Mac apps that all share the same storage (and update in the background without the app running). But there's no way for me to create an equivalent of icloud.com that
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by bonaldi 14y ago
I wonder if there's any clever trickery can be done here to let web services get access to iCloud APIs. (I suspect not, due to the authentication nightmare that would be involved) Apple's apps are at a real unfair advantage, here.
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Objective-C in The Cloud(objective-cloud.com)
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by bonaldi 14y ago
At least with the Pro you can go to Crucial. If an SD card slot was available on the iPads the OP's complaint would go away, I'm guessing
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by bonaldi 14y ago
No, companies can't refuse to sell to another EU citizen based solely on their country. But Kickstarter's going to be in all sorts of grey areas, based on what they do.
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by bonaldi 14y ago
Oh, you magnificent eejits http://status.fogcreek.com/2012/10/diesel-bucket-brigade-mai...
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by bonaldi 14y ago
Given an average requirement of 500 gallons an hour? That's nearly 2 tonnes. Nobody's carrying that up 17 flights.
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red button.
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by bonaldi 14y ago
When the original iPhone launched, the mobile browser wasn't anything like as good as it is now, and it regularly blanked pages when you switched to other apps. Even just offline support was a huge thing to have, and you could only get it i
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by bonaldi 14y ago
The problem these things have for me is managing the hierarchy. My entry for "NSMutableArray", does that sit under "Data Structures", or "Objective-C" or "Cocoa"? I can see that I'd want to make my way to it from all three trains of thought
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They mean you will not be able to install existing versions. The ones that presently work.
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None of those apps are competing with Apple on a level playing field, because all four of the Apple apps update in the background (via iCloud or special privileges) and third parties either get a restricted version (eg no web API for iCloud

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