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by bonaldi 18y ago
It's never failed me on multiple-party messages, and it's especially useful on mailing lists. What it isn't is a subset of threading. The crucial difference -- and this is why it can't be "trivially" added to mail clients -- is that it tr
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by bonaldi 18y ago
"If something could crash XP, it should be able to crash W7 transparently through VXP" Pretty sure users are going to be willing to give up a degree of entanglement to both be able to run their XP apps and have a system that doesn't crash
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by bonaldi 18y ago
Conversations. You know, that threading-done-right they have that people love -- with a few holdouts -- but that no other email client has yet done correctly (and, no, an indented list of message titles isn't nearly the same thing, nor is I
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by bonaldi 18y ago
The figures aren't quite honest: the UK prices are extravagantly high for mortgage anywhere apart from London, which is one of the world's most expensive cities. Elsewhere in the country you can expect to pay c. £700 or less, which brings t
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by bonaldi 18y ago
I understood that, but he's got an audience that he presumably does care about, and he could have both snarked at Diggers and educated the people who don't understand the fuss at the same time. (Also, if he actually wants Digg to stop t
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by bonaldi 18y ago
It's a pity that Digg also made a grab for the URLs at the same time as they did the framing. Framing, despite all its 1996 squick factor, can be very handy: I've often wished HN had a bar similar to Reddit's, and the Google Images frame is
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by bonaldi 18y ago
Coo, I wonder if WebObjects can be levered into this, then.
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by bonaldi 18y ago
The point of Get Satisfaction is to give people a way to corral ignorant and unresponsive companies into taking action. This a good thing. Concomitant with doing that, though, is a bit of extra work for responsive companies who are already
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by bonaldi 18y ago
I don't see any HTML and precious little "open web" in Flash, Mr hey-hooray-for-Flex-Builder.
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by bonaldi 18y ago
This is seriously great. Because of the crazed iPhone goldrush that's going on, there's a lot less community sharing than you'd expect -- everyone's trying to get an edge on the other 80000000 apps, so they're keeping their cards close. Thi
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by bonaldi 18y ago
If this was MS they would also add a feature that sends an email when you cancel one, saying something like "bonaldi tried to recall message x". Exchange does that for non-MAPI clients, which always sends you racing to read whatever it was
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by bonaldi 18y ago
I know it's a joke, but those graphs are wrong, as is the way we talk about learning curves. If something has a steep learning curve, it's easy to learn to use. Look at the vi graph: Assuming the x axis is time and the y axis is knowledge
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by bonaldi 18y ago
I'm not sure what definition of "best" you're using, but there aren't many metrics on which that site comes out top that can be also used to measure the value of reporting. For one thing it's biased as all hell -- "Euroscepticism" is a part
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by bonaldi 18y ago
can you name a single subject, where the best source of information is an old school, mass media source ( ie, a source funded mainly by in print issues, distributed to a mass audience). Sure. Scottish politics. The best two sources of inf
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by bonaldi 18y ago
Off the top of my head, no, but that's because the best are now both. But it's the wrong question entirely. There's nothing at all relevant in the medium. Print isn't better because it's on paper, but because it has a business model that up
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by bonaldi 18y ago
Most reporting I see is just summarization of press releases or a collection of quotes from contacts of the journalist. I tried to address this -- this used to be the problem we faced: newspapers had grown complacent and corpulent and wer
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by bonaldi 18y ago
In Tech, you have sites like Techcrunch... That's a fail right there. Techcrunch is the bete noir of tech journalism, as Last.FM showed, and as Alex Payne ranted about: http://al3x.net/2009/03/03/towards-better-technology-journal... Th
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by bonaldi 18y ago
I wish I knew. They're usually the same people who buy Apples made by MAC
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by bonaldi 18y ago
Serious business apps on the app store? I'm not sure that's going to turn out at all well until Apple takes some active steps to fix the society on the store (and please god a way to filter out all the games). Otherwise: wat is this ap for?
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by bonaldi 18y ago
Also, when you're offering less for more, you don't want to shout about it too much. Prices have gone up (by large amounts for some, esp. the UK) , specs have gone sideways in a few cases (bottom two iMacs with integrated graphics, headline
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by bonaldi 18y ago
Virtues? It runs in comically small amounts of memory and on processors without much puff; yet is beefy enough to handle serious DTP, early Photoshop and the web. I'm not saying it's something to switch to today, but System 7 has features t
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by bonaldi 18y ago
I don't think it'd be any great loss for Twitter to dump SMS entirely. Stripping out SMS support is what really allowed it to take off in the UK. When you think that there's even a chance everybody is getting yr minutae fired to your phone,
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by bonaldi 18y ago
I've got a soft spot for Opera, but while they're getting whipped at Javascript speed and the UI is, er, characterful, I'm not sure I care who came first with Auto-Click. Also, I don't know if the guys in thread noticed that drlaunch's "reb
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by bonaldi 18y ago
Unless there's a clear way for something to shift hardware, Apple isn't really interested in it. WebObjects has languished, despite being killer in more than one respect. An update (and de-java-ing) of WO tools with something like Atlas int
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by bonaldi 18y ago
How does it look in the Classic view? I'm curious how they fit all the widgetry into the smaller frame
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by bonaldi 18y ago
I've been using a lot of this in a developer preview for a while now, and the improvements over 3 are many, especially in the massively improved web inspector. The majority of the new things today are in the UI -- the tabs at the top, the t
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by bonaldi 18y ago
Style is not a matter of control, it's a matter of consistency. There are many, many areas in English where there is no clear rule as to what's "right", so to ensure consistency style guides make explicit what a given publication will do in
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by bonaldi 18y ago
There's more than one way to do it, then?
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by bonaldi 18y ago
Not in the UK it isn't; the libel laws there are heavily skewed in favour of the claimant. It's why so many celebrities choose to have libel trials at London High Court if at all possible. Last.fm operates from London, so it's definitely
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by bonaldi 18y ago
Hardish. Expensive when you're talking about terabytes. Regardless of that, though, ma.gnolia had backups; it's just they were untested and were dutifully backing up the corruptions that were being introduced on the software level. It's t

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