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cakedoggie
9y ago
> So yes, Apple's attempt to kill the aux jack was definitely premature, even among young tech savvy people. Not sure what you mean by this, it is the best selling iphone.
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cakedoggie
9y ago
Welcome to windows. They have finally started bringing out great laptops, but I can just never go back to Windows.
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They are water resistant, which is as good as you are going to get. Not sure what this guy means by water proof, but you will never have a truly 100% water proof phone, since you can't really have a truly water proof any expensive elec
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9y ago
I think it is a Star Trek reference.
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cakedoggie
9y ago
There date is from a source that exists, as opposed to not having data. It is a strange complaint to make, unless you know of a better source of data.
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9y ago
Because it is a time consuming pain to do that, and restaurants don't usually like dealing with cheapskates.
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9y ago
> It's not my fault I don't want to pay 13 dollars+tip for a cocktail when I can make 20 of them at home for the same price. Oh, certainly not your fault, but you might be better staying at home. Why agree to go out somewhere w
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9y ago
It is literally disruption. Disruption to the city, to pedestrians and cyclists, to traffic, to well flowing movement (not sure that applies to Indian cities).
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cakedoggie
9y ago
Do you imagine this is different in any other part of the world? In the West, if you run someone down and even kill them, you will often escape any serious penalty.
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9y ago
This is just silly, jobs allowed and even pushed web apps. You can just as easily circumvent the app store with web apps.
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9y ago
> It's hard to have respect for a field when they're don't know what they're doing, and still think they're better than everyone else. So you judge a field from one conversation that a friend told you happened? F
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9y ago
Sure, but also they have no reason to go. They have everything they need. I don't go to random suburbs in my city for no reason.
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9y ago
Why the hostility? Are people not allowed to talk about events happening now? I mean, do you make a similar comment on all the articles you read? "Oh thanks a lot ENCODE for telling us that 80 percent of the genome had a biochemical f
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9y ago
> Like I said in the OP, you will be shocked at how things can fail. (And this is far from my only horror story.) Did I miss the story, did you talk about it somewhere?
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9y ago
Our current one.
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> The point is that millennials spend money on frivolous luxuries and then complain that they can't afford anything. This may be true, but it is not why they can't afford housing. It is a red herring, that you seem to have fall
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9y ago
Where can I get that? I pay $13 a pint here in Melbourne.
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9y ago
People are allowed to dislike something, lots of people hate avocado, and there is no problem with that. It means more for the rest of us. I plan on buying a boat anyway, so much superior to a house.
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cakedoggie
9y ago
The idea is you buy something cheaper, or have cereal. That way you save money, and have more money to put towards a house.
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Windows phone dies today
(theverge.com)
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I mean, you took the job. You know what you were getting. I have never done anything like that, I would turn it down.
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9y ago
Having studied and worked at a Maths department at a University, it isn't only non-working-mathematicians who hate computers. Most of the professors and staff there hated computers, and how it was changing maths.
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> Only 17% of those who develop for Windows have Windows-based smartphones. I guess it is more a hobby for them now.
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Exactly, just rebuild the entire city.
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9y ago
In turkey pedestrians do not have right of way. So on zebra crossings, you have to wait until the cars stop, they don't have to stop for you.x
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> I mean, actually we kind of liked it. It was Object-Oriented Assembly. It's amazing what you can talk yourself into liking, which is the real irony of all this. And to us, C++ was the ultimate in Roman decadence. I mean, it was e
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9y ago
The $2.90 is a deposit though right? So it is returned?
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"Oh wow, so you have discovered that after someone buys something, and you keep recommending the same thing, a large number of people go out of their way to buy other stuff to remove the recommendation. So we actually make more money r
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They guy did say in general. In general, most people aren't SV working for a tech company.
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Or use a bike and pick up stuff on the way home from work.
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