bonaldi

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by bonaldi 15y ago
First post tells me what to do with scant justification; a thing DF has never, despite its other flaws, done.
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by bonaldi 15y ago
You can always spot the BMW by the Hofmeister Kink. If Volvo copied that, I bet BMW'd sue.
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by bonaldi 15y ago
He uses his iPad for reading and video and not content creation, huh? Must have been too busy sending The Memo to read it.
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by bonaldi 15y ago
"you can no longer decide that it's a bad idea to upgrade to the new version because of an annoying change." Exactly what I dislike about the web app model; I want it even less in my client apps.
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by bonaldi 15y ago
How awful is enflock? (NB: Very)
576.
by bonaldi 15y ago
Sure, it's as fallible as any blanket generalisation. But there are extra risks you take when young men are involved, and a lot of those risks are statistically quantifiable. There's a reason they pay more (a lot more) for car insurance, an
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by bonaldi 15y ago
Looks great, but I just don't trust small companies -- especially those set up by teenagers -- with that level of data. I know too well how too many people behave when they got access to the mail spools back in the day, this is that on a mu
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by bonaldi 15y ago
I wonder if YellowBox is still around. I used it last night to compile a little Mac app for Windows XP, and it still makes me chuckle when it works.
579.
by bonaldi 15y ago
The philosopher, quoted: Philosophy teaches you how to think, to ask questions, this is useful to society. The university should keep it. The blogger, replying: I am unpersuaded. Philosophy does not give you answers. Oh, but it does teach y
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by bonaldi 15y ago
Lotus Notes. It will never die.
581.
by bonaldi 15y ago
Whenever I see a thought like that my first thought is that English is a human language, for the transmission of meaning. Rendering it devoid of all ambiguity and shade in such a fashion would make it easier for computers to parse, but th
582.
by bonaldi 15y ago
Lion's terminal app is a beach ball nightmare on this machine. Hitting tab to complete a directory in bash results in a 3-second pause every time. Longer if the directory doesn't exist. I wondered if it was my new SSD, but it doesn't happen
583.
by bonaldi 15y ago
ish. The MB is based on the aluminium PBG4 which was bigger and rather less good-looking than the TiBook. But the TiBook's painted kept flaking off, and that wasn't sexy in the slighest
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by bonaldi 15y ago
They've already done it. It's an option under parental controls.
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by bonaldi 15y ago
Imagine harder. If you were a Mac user -- say you have a big Mac Pro or an iMac -- and you wanted something small and portable as a secondary machine for coffee shop and travel antics then you may well have found yourself considering these
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by bonaldi 15y ago
No, not at all. Until a few months ago, Instapaper didn't require users to set a password -- you could (and originally were encouraged to) use it without a password at all. This makes a lot of sense. If more sites storing non-critical data
587.
by bonaldi 15y ago
Was far happier when he didn't store passwords at all, tbh.
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by bonaldi 15y ago
Lockers of your own music are completely orthogonal to what Spotify is great at: social music. I have lots of shared playlists with friends, and when one adds a song to a playlist we all instantly get it. It's like live, endless mixtapes, a
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by bonaldi 15y ago
Ho, I knew there was a reason I kept the SS10 lurking under the bed. Somehow I didn't realise that OS3.3 would run on it. Now to find the 3.3 sparc disks, and copies of Improv and WriteNow. This looks like it might be tricky...
590.
by bonaldi 15y ago
I abandoned Rails years back because of precisely this problem. Releases would break or arbitrarily drop functionality, with little or no documentation. If you got more than a few point releases behind you were really screwed. I couldn't ex
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by bonaldi 15y ago
I thought iOS and OSX had versioned frameworks etc exactly to avoid issues like this. Yet every beta seems to bring nasty crashers from core functionality. How come?
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by bonaldi 15y ago
If you want business support from Apple, don't use the consumer channels. http://www.apple.com/uk/retail/jointventure/ is the way in. (As for the much-mentioned half-day of revenue, the store's also open on weekends)
593.
by bonaldi 15y ago
The point is more "the photo was taken from Twitter without permission and now hundreds if not thousands of media organisations are using it to make money, without any compensation to the photographer." Those organisations are used to payin
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by bonaldi 15y ago
iOS can do this too. But most developers use in-app web views to try and make it slightly nicer for their users. It's too late to demand that oAuth always go to the native browser. You use oAuth apps, chances are you're using an embedded vi
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by bonaldi 15y ago
and you can verify the embedded-in-a-web-view-with-no-url-bar login page how, exactly?
596.
by bonaldi 15y ago
Alternatively, "Twitter breaks 3rd-party clients and bans fully-native experiences with two weeks' notice"
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by bonaldi 15y ago
Happily, readers aren't fragile parsers, demanding escaping or special formatting. They can handle you making your meaning explicit, either inline or in a footnote.
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by bonaldi 15y ago
Dropbox is way, way more compelling than iDisk, the equivalent bit of MobileMe. Why? Because it just works: your files are always available on whichever computer you're on, so long as it has been recently connected to the net. With iDisk, t
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by bonaldi 16y ago
Is Boxcar as good as the official app's push? Official app pushes as soon as the mention appears in my timeline, which is great
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by bonaldi 16y ago
Love this. First Twitter app I've got no complaints about. Hopefully will get push notifications at some point, then I can ditch the official app entirely.

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