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by bonaldi 17y ago
No one is forcing Apple to develop for public airwaves, either.
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by bonaldi 17y ago
There does need to be a base line of respect, and Arrington doesn't give it. He knows he doesn't as well -- according to his last Twitter post, he's "ripshit mad" ( http://twitter.com/arrington/status/2949113649 ) that people are talking
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by bonaldi 17y ago
I'm a little bit nervous to say this, but this is another of Jeff's articles where I think "man, so many of this guy's problems would go away if he didn't hate Macs so much". In my experience, Mac devs don't hate software, and Mac users d
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by bonaldi 17y ago
The difference leaps out at you if you've done any sort of colour work at all. I can even see in the gradients on the Finder window toolbars.
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by bonaldi 17y ago
From Neilsen's article: But password masking and Reset buttons are not something users actively seek out. Reset buttons might not be, but password masking sure is. There's nothing quite as startling as seeing your password in plaintext. N
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by bonaldi 17y ago
Hoo, the comments thread on this is still good. It's OK for Flash to suck, because sometimes other apps suck as well. the Flash plugin on Windows is far more efficient and performs massively better than in the same page on Macintosh. [jd
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by bonaldi 17y ago
It's not disinformation: it was announced at WOWODC in a demo given by Apple staff. It's just under NDA, so public details are very thin on the ground. Wolf Rentzsch tweeted about it after a demo, though: Blown away by gianduia. Cappuccino
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by bonaldi 17y ago
Apple has one due to come out this year called Gianduia ... and that's about all I know about it. People I trust who know more are absolutely raving about it, but, typically, details are scarce on the ground. Am very interested to see what
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by bonaldi 17y ago
Yup. This is especially true if a person is still employed. I've known bosses to give absolutely glowing references to otherwise-unfireable people just in the hopes of getting rid of them.
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by bonaldi 17y ago
Another agreement here. The new Apple keyboard is the first one that made me give up my Apple Extended Keyboard II (the Mac equivalent of the Model M), itself a classic.
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by bonaldi 17y ago
"This whole "HTML5" campaign will likely benefit Flash, because few remain who oppose the idea that "experience matters" Sadly for him, many people who back the idea that "experience matters" are also against Flash, in all its nasty, pr
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by bonaldi 17y ago
The third way is to announce something as complete. That gives you a real sense of motivation to get it done (see Vikings, burning boats).
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by bonaldi 17y ago
I'll never understand why you have to own a mac in order to develop iPhone apps It's not difficult to understand: the iPhone is based on a version of OS X, so when Apple came to write the developer tools, they extended the OS X developer
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by bonaldi 17y ago
They weren't cited as counterexamples to anything -- the original poster didn't give any examples, just said that he wouldn't hold with laws that limited him over his possessions. I see the distinction you're now drawing in yr comment abo
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by bonaldi 17y ago
They are reductio ad absurdum -- but that isn't a logical fallacy, it's a valid logical form ( http://www.iep.utm.edu/r/reductio.htm ). By showing that the logical consequence of an argument is absurd, you show that it's flawed. Either
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by bonaldi 17y ago
The reason I use a command line is specifically because it's not tricked out. That's valid, but the reason I use one is that it lets me get certain tasks done much faster than I can get them done with the gui. I don't think we've reached
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by bonaldi 17y ago
I will also ignore laws that attempt to tell me what I can do with products I've legally purchased. I take it you also object to laws that prevent you using the gun you've purchased to shoot someone, using the lighter you've bought to sta
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by bonaldi 17y ago
Where by "working" they mean "are making Microsoft look like a value proposition and Apple less so". In other words, they make Microsoft look cheap and Apple look premium ... this is not a message Apple is going to be upset by. The entire c
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by bonaldi 17y ago
Perhaps the problem lies with what the browser does when no cache control headers are present? I just checked with by loading and then leaving a Guardian.co.uk page, and Safari reloads it from server when you click back. Checked both the pa
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by bonaldi 17y ago
Because you can be happier with better things. For example, if you never tasted adult foods you'd still be "happy" eating baby food, and be completely unaware that you're missing out on greater happiness available from other foods. Upthread
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by bonaldi 17y ago
Sorry, I wasn't clear: he failed to get it working in 90 minutes . The title's not incorrect, as it doesn't claim he managed to do it, it's only ambiguous because of all the linkbait titles like "Making a Rails twitter clone in 28 seconds"
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by bonaldi 17y ago
Title doesn't say he managed it. He tried, and failed.
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Why silent [browser] updates boost security(techzoom.net)
3 points by bonaldi 17y ago|8 comments
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by bonaldi 17y ago
Yep, same in UK. For the vast majority of people: low-middle income, one employer, the employer works out your tax and deducts it monthly for you. No tax reporting forms, and if a mistake is made over the year, it's repaid at the end. The o
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by bonaldi 18y ago
MySpace had all of these things too, but it didn't prevent people leaving in droves when FaceBook really took off. FB competitors seriously missed a trick when the new real-time feed was rolled out. A lot of my friends hate it deeply, but t
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by bonaldi 18y ago
What is wrong with "cartoony" or "information-lite"? As a non-specialist, I prefer both the Stocks and Weather apps to Tufte's alternatives. I'm not a financial expert, and so don't need the extra-detailed stock graphs, and I'm not a meteor
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by bonaldi 18y ago
Frequently washing your hands, with soap and water, is better protection than eating and sleeping against such infections
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by bonaldi 18y ago
Maybe people who care enough to use a desktop mail client just have better ways to organize their stuff? This is what's so perplexing about this argument, and I'm clearly not articulating what I think matters here, unless I'm just getting
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by bonaldi 18y ago
I fail to see a massive difference beyond extraordinary lazyness there. "Laziness" is a key component of usability -- nearly all efficiency improvements can be dismissed as "just for the lazy", well back before the dawn of computers. Who
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by bonaldi 18y ago
I refuse to make you a screenshot of gmail, so I'll just ask: what are the contents of all those messages? You don't know, because your client allows you to read a message a time. Gmail lets you read a conversation at a time. Massive differ

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