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by bryans 5y ago
You mean copying and pasting files that already contain metadeta? That was difficult? Because I'm pretty sure everyone universally hated the formats and auto-renamed files that iTunes forced.
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by bryans 5y ago
To me, this makes it so much more obvious that the only innovation they were even aiming for was a scroll wheel. Everything else is just a Diamond Rio with a hard drive attached. That's not to diminish the effectiveness or novelty of t
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by bryans 5y ago
Except for that $19 billion exit. Companies don't need to be turning a profit anymore -- they just need to prove they can scale, and someone else will figure out how to monetize it after a buyout. Hell, you don't even need to be a
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by bryans 5y ago
I hear what you're saying, but I think you're making a few assumptions that aren't necessarily always true or guaranteed. As to the obviousness of sending hashes to a server, I can think of a dozen ways to make that look like
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by bryans 5y ago
It's incredibly ironic that you're attempting to teach me a semantics lesson, when you've clearly never read the definitions for the words you're referencing. With one word, the OP implied that people who don't love
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by bryans 5y ago
There is plenty of legitimate criticism of Firefox in its handling of web standards. For example, they've effectively ended development and support for PWAs on desktop, which would have blown up the future of desktop PWA development (a
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by bryans 5y ago
What an outrageously toxic and arrogant comment. There are many reasons to dislike Firefox. Just because you're not personally affected by those reasons, doesn't make people who are affected by them somehow mentally ill or lesser
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by bryans 5y ago
I'm happy your iPhone shows you the notification in all situations, but that's not true for older iOS versions or any version of Android -- aside from maybe v11. So to outright claim that it's not possible just because you, p
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by bryans 5y ago
I'm not sure where you're getting your information, but it does not need to be a background service that's subverting a sandbox. It just needs to be a running app that has been given microphone permissions. Zoom and even basi
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by bryans 5y ago
That's not how any of these things work, at all. Much in the same way that Facebook and WhatsApp already hash direct messages and compare them to hashes of ad key phrases known to be effective, both audio and video can be hashed at the
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by bryans 5y ago
We really need a way to tell the browser NOT to access or return the cache if the server returns a 304. There are so many situations where stale data just gets discarded because it's not actually useful, but the browser still goes thro
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by bryans 11y ago
As I've said a few times now in different ways, if you received the content as the creator intended and then removed the ads, you would have a perfectly legitimate argument. But that's not what you're doing. You're preve
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by bryans 11y ago
My point was that this has nothing to do with the morality of ads being delivered or blocked.
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by bryans 11y ago
> Sending an HTTP request is much more like asking sears to send you the catalogue for this season. It's a REQUEST, they can REFUSE. You're completely ignoring the technological factors in delivering content online. If you were
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by bryans 11y ago
Exactly zero of your arguments have a logical basis. Literally all of the things you just said are completely ignorant of reality. It is so far beyond mind boggling that anyone could genuinely believe any of that, and I can only assume you&
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by bryans 11y ago
Sending an HTTP request to a server is no different than walking through the door of an establishment. You don't see the "content" of the store until you walk through the door. Deciding afterwards that you don't agree wi
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by bryans 11y ago
> Are people who read magazines obligated to spend as much time looking at ads as the content? Are people who watch over the air TV obligated to stay in the room while ads come on instead of making a snack or going to the bathroom? You h
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by bryans 11y ago
I own a physical store. It has a door. You walk through it. You then decide you don't like some aspect of my store. That doesn't entitle you to walk out with merchandise, declaring "well, you shouldn't have opened your d
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by bryans 11y ago
I'm sorry, but it appears you are completely ignorant of the technological complexities involved in denying a user content based on whether or not you are blocking ads from a third party provider. It has nothing to do with search engin
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by bryans 11y ago
Hello again, Nadya. It seems we are making a habit of disagreeing with each other. ;-) Though I do entirely agree with the first sentence of your comment. It's the same reason why piracy isn't the dire issue the various media indu
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by bryans 11y ago
I think this article completely misses the point. The technological revolution happening right now is unlike any other in history, and is escalating faster than anyone realizes. We are really just entering the ascent of the S-curve, and thi
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by bryans 11y ago
I have tinnitus as well, due to stupidly playing in a band for years without wearing ear protection. So I'm quite familiar with the risks. But to clarify, when I say higher volume, I don't mean damagingly high. The benefit of havi
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by bryans 11y ago
There is a very important point missing from this: volume. Despite the decibel range being vast, you really only have three options when choosing the volume of your music in regards to how it affects your brain. At higher volumes, music wil
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by bryans 11y ago
I'm pretty late in responding to your comments, but I feel the need to point something out. If an annoying UX element actually increases conversions, it is purely a sign that your overall UX or UI or marketing verbiage is failing. Conv
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by bryans 11y ago
I don't think you quite understood my point. There should not be a pop-up at all. Ever. Period. You have calls-to-action all over the site. Having one more pop up while the user is trying to read or navigate your site will do nothing b
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by bryans 11y ago
For clarification: Your website is an advertisement for your business. You don't need an ad for your business obscuring your ad for your business. It reeks of desperation, and the vast majority of people visiting your page right now wh
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by bryans 11y ago
> Our Mozarts are being left to die in pauper graves while Biebers are inundated in funding to compose their next masterpiece called 'Yo!'. I don't have anything to add to this, because I find it to be the most tragically
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by bryans 11y ago
This hyperbolic drama has really gotten out of hand. Microsoft isn't doing anything with Windows 10 that Apple and Google haven't been doing for years on iOS and Android. Yet, because Apple and Google have become darlings of the i
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by bryans 11y ago
This sounds like paranoid cherry picking, at best. Nearly all of these "worrying issues" are the default behavior of every mobile Android and iOS device on the market. Specifically, the sync and Cortana portions are complete non-i
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by bryans 11y ago
I think we are on the same page now.

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