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by bonaldi 10y ago
No, and I don't know where you got that from. "Troll" is rapidly coming to mean "person who behaves offensively, abusively or objectionably online". Of course the Guardian will have a different definition of what th
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by bonaldi 10y ago
This is as tedious a fight as the old "hacker doesn't mean cracker!1!" one was. Words (and phrases such as "begging the question") mean what they're understood to mean by the majority, much though those of us w
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by bonaldi 11y ago
There's no irony in this being posted on Medium, with a clean, beautiful, simple, elegant design? Should have done it on one of those tiny-fonted 1998 Blogger templates.
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by bonaldi 11y ago
> What is XML good at Supporting XQuery/XPath queries and typing with DTDs are the big ones for me, including all the surrounding tooling. You can get replicas of both of these in JSON now, but I don't think they're as mat
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by bonaldi 11y ago
What Nest is doing is little different to Reader or the other products Google killed. Alphabet is the common link and is clearly OK with this behaviour.
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by bonaldi 11y ago
Oh yeah? Any good ones?
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by bonaldi 11y ago
Er, the taser some officers claim was pointed at them, and the one that was lying on the ground beside his collapsed body as it was still being shot by officers
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by bonaldi 11y ago
With System 7.1 you could run WannaBe ( http://mindstory.com/wb2/ ) which I'd love to use again (I used it a lot in the dying days of OS 9 when any modern sites would kill a browser). It'd also need MacTCP, but
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by bonaldi 11y ago
I'm going to be pedantic, but only because I think that's how the letter guy is going to try and get out of this too. The letter did not say that "there shouldn't be homeless people living in the streets". Both it a
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by bonaldi 11y ago
I haven't hammered this point home because I've lost the graph, but have absolutely seen one breaking down user growth month by month, and there's a clear turning point around about August 2014 — which is of course the month
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by bonaldi 11y ago
You'd take Usenet over everything else we got from the growth of the network, from Amazon to MP3s?
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by bonaldi 11y ago
I think a social network is slightly different from the other companies where that argument applies. The Internet was a fun place with 300m people on it, but growth made it better. Same with Facebook. People bring problems, but in general n
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by bonaldi 11y ago
The price reflects the future prospects of Twitter, and a poorly-monetised Twitter with a shrinking user base is worth less than a poorly-monetised Twitter with a booming user base. Put another way, they used to be hosting a huge party and
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by bonaldi 11y ago
I've just gone through some pain to downgrade from iTunes 12 to iTunes 10 and can't believe I've been putting up with such crap for so long. iTunes 10 is so much better and so much easier it's ridiculous.
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by bonaldi 11y ago
Because they describe asymmetric power relationships, so you can't meaningfully flip them. "Workers can sack employers at will, and that causes employers financial hardship, so we need employer protection laws" is a less-char
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by bonaldi 11y ago
> People deride the "iOS style" features of El Capitan but first, what specifically are you referring to besides Launcher? So much hideousness. Like breaking Save As... with a clunky autosave set up. Like a badly thought-out fu
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by bonaldi 11y ago
I love this. There used to be a TextMate plugin for Mac browsers that did the same thing (well, without the live sync). Am going to use this for some aged web forms at work that have pretty hostile UX and that I often c&p into rather th
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by bonaldi 11y ago
I think MPW (the original Mac IDE from Apple) in 1985 can claim prior art on the notebook UI
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by bonaldi 11y ago
And how do Americans type the all-important § and ±? Also, there's a nice single-serving site for your Q: http://wheresthehashkeyonamac.co.uk
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by bonaldi 11y ago
I get the joke, but that highlights something I value in books: their physicality chimes well with my ways of thinking. Sometimes I can only remember that a book was blue, and will wander my shelves looking at blue books until I find it.
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by bonaldi 11y ago
What are you talking about? It hasn't done anything of the sort. It's made some of the AppKit APIs similar to how they operate in UIKit, but it's a long way away from "work the same"
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by bonaldi 11y ago
Well that was a nostalgia-fest. And incredibly impressive to me seeing something run in a browser tab that once took some expensive hardware (bespoke harward which took years to emulate at that!). It brings home in an easy-to-grasp way the
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by bonaldi 11y ago
Deals which are visibly not getting made for the Apple TV service, by most accounts
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by bonaldi 11y ago
Look at your GitHub link. The thread has plenty of people of colour on it thanking them for the change. Also, this trend started with a complaint from a black man. In 2003. http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/outrage/mas
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by bonaldi 11y ago
Sorry, I'm in Europe and disagree. This sort of thing is even less contentious here — this particular change went through a number of offices I know with barely a murmur. You shouldn't surf blindly. Naturally you choose the tide y
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by bonaldi 11y ago
First: yes, this is about you. But you were trying to present it as if there was a contingent with you. There doesn't appear to be. Second: "political correctness" is easily semantically replaced with "trying to avoid ex
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by bonaldi 11y ago
You are being silently down voted because nobody wants to engage the sea-lion. There are not "legitimate concerns being raised", it's just you, complaining that money is being spent on "political correctness", as if
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by bonaldi 11y ago
There are people making that argument literally in this thread. They're not saying "Muslims" but they're using terms like "culture" as signifiers.
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by bonaldi 11y ago
The way they talk about the new keyboard makes it sound like the MacBook keyboard, which I really can't get on with.
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by bonaldi 11y ago
> When people say they want higher taxes, they are almost always talking about higher taxes for everybody else than themselves. No, they generally mean for everybody , in a fairly distributed way. Of course nobody is going to pay extra

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