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by cafed00d 4y ago
One of the deleted scenes from the movies shows Al Pacino’s character advising his henchman to ensure that the “dowry is large” at one his niece’s wedding. His niece and her boyfriend come to Pacino to seek his blessing on their marriage&#
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by cafed00d 4y ago
Oh while we’re at it, yeah, those Iranian Crown Jewels should also be returned to Kollur. More info: I think what you’re missing is atrocities have been committed and forgotten. Let’s stick to the topic at hand: we’ll unravel the stack rev
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by cafed00d 4y ago
Sure. That’s exactly what everybody who have an Android friend do. They use WhatsApp, or messenger or whatever else. And yes, it’s _an_ Android friend; singular; always that one guy. Doesn’t take away from the delightful features on iMessag
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by cafed00d 4y ago
1. Given that you agree this is subjective, it follows pretty indisputably that this feature qualifies as “really good”. Perhaps your pov on disliking carousels is a negligible outlier in the population of people who consider iMessage “real
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by cafed00d 4y ago
A few “delightful” features are: 1. When sharing multiple photos a carousel of photos is created instead of a boring boxy grid of photos. 2. You can paste stickers of your Memoji (Apple’s Bitmoji) onto text bubbles. All my friends have disc
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by cafed00d 4y ago
That’s a dangerous precedent to set. You’re essentially egging on today’s generation to “clash back”. Colonialism isn’t the same as ancestral predator prey mechanics. Or, that we should reverse every unjust war waged in the world. Some are
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by cafed00d 4y ago
Those diamonds were mined in Kollur in modern day south India. It should go back to them. And yes, before you harp on it, the land we call America should go back to the Native Americans, the aboriginals of Australia and New Zealand should a
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by cafed00d 4y ago
Whoops! Yes, you're right. Thanks! Wish I could edit it now.
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by cafed00d 4y ago
> Any former employee is a future potential employee that you can re-recruit when the time comes Not only that, all former employees are de-facto "background check references" / "evagenlists" / "detract
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by cafed00d 4y ago
> The Dirty Work Theory: The lamentable work that many people avoid are great places to look for high impact, low hanging fruit. One person's KTLO is another person's promo project. It's fascinating how much a project can
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by cafed00d 4y ago
YouTube has had the content and engineering UI to beat Coursera or iTunes U since 2009. As a nerdy little kid from Bangalore, I remember _really_ learning how to write code from Mehran Sahami's programming paradigms videos from back in
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by cafed00d 4y ago
All of this has a super simple explanation: the shitty products always have org structures that treat software dev as shitty cost centers. It took a long time to realize that the most compelling devices have good, well maintained software.
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by cafed00d 4y ago
The design team at Apple is still super influential. I should’ve probably clarified in my previous post: I work at Apple and over the years made good friends with writers on the team. We worked very closely in some Siri teams I was on. Anyw
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by cafed00d 4y ago
If this were Google where PMs ran feature development willy-nilly, then I bet this would've been true. Luckily, Apple's design team still has enough pull; so the MBAs haven't taken over everything.
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by cafed00d 4y ago
> No, a device I bought from them is very much not their hardware, but mine, I should do as I please with it. This argument falls apart when the “device” in question is a car or PlayStation though? You most certainly cannot do whatever
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by cafed00d 4y ago
> anyone who claims to care about user experience, and yet only gives a solution that results in Apple getting more money, is giving a bad solution. You seem to be getting easily confused or seem to have difficulty grasping the main poin
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by cafed00d 4y ago
> Well the purpose of anti-trust law, and pro competition laws Well, ordinary people don’t give a shot about this:- they just care about user experience. That’s the point, I think, you’re missing. User experience trumps any conversation
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by cafed00d 4y ago
As a user, why do I care if apple makes money over 3p devs. They’re all screwing over users in the end anyways. But historical data shows Apple has been enormously better at strong-arming devs into behaving properly. That’s why I can safely
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by cafed00d 4y ago
I hope Apple turns Xcode features into a tiered pricing model to counter balance and keep developers in check. 1. Want to use the swift compiler? Pay $5000 per year per user (pretty competitively priced if you compare it to the MATLAB Compi
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by cafed00d 5y ago
> - Apple can double speak all they want about digital privacy, but their actions tell the truth. As a paying Apple customer, you’re not deemed worthy enough to even understand how your own machines work, less even to “tamper” with their
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by cafed00d 5y ago
Sounds like what we're really saying is "You don't ever own a software-as-a-service controlled vehicle". If all cars ran on software updates then these complaints apply to combustion engine vehicles too.
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by cafed00d 5y ago
Computer nerds strike wordle! Goddammit! How long before Skynet. Sigh. The end is nigh /s
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by cafed00d 5y ago
This just goes to show the immense cultural power of defaults
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by cafed00d 5y ago
Wow, this is absolutely brilliant! How can I extend this to use other datasets? There seem to be quite a few interesting publicly available datasets out there: https://console.cloud.google.com/marketplace/browse?filter=
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by cafed00d 5y ago
"640 k ought to be enough for anybody"
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by cafed00d 5y ago
There will come a day when Apple will lean in heavily on Accessibility just like they've recently amped up Privacy in ads lately. I, for one, absolutely love this about Apple! Accessibility is a beautiful core value to strive for (Priv
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by cafed00d 5y ago
> The 6 months free money is hard for anyone entering a strong job market to pass up. Money is a funny business. I'm convinced that anyone who's a skilled software engineer makes more money than they ever imagined after 5-6 yea
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by cafed00d 5y ago
Third party apps have been dominant on PCs and Macs on the open web for a decade prior to the iPhone. Third party apps such as FB.Connor even Spotify.com still run on the iPhone built on HTML5. Of course, I will concede that the desktop pub
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by cafed00d 6y ago
I wonder who the target consumer for this would be. I mean, I get that the target users are probably marketing departments / communications people across the world’s companies. But genuinely curious who’s the end-customer who reads the

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