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by calambrac 17y ago
Dude, you keep saying that "it's the same problem we've always had", but it simply isn't. You seem like a smart guy otherwise, so I don't know why you persist in making this assertion. The difference is simple: url shorteners introduce a
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by calambrac 17y ago
Are you serious? I don't think he's a racist, I don't think he had racist intent, but I think he accidentally used a racist phrasing, and that he should be more careful in the future. That's really a difficult concept for you to grasp?
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by calambrac 17y ago
I didn't say you misunderstood the study. I said you learned that headlines can be misleading, which I assumed was new information to you given how much of a whiny little rant you felt you needed to give us about this instance of that fact
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by calambrac 17y ago
You should email 37Signals about your profound disappointment at how ineffective their "Campfire" product is for making S'mores.
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by calambrac 17y ago
And now you've learned a valuable lesson, which is that titles given by a third party to pop summaries of studies somehow (amazingly, I know) don't invalidate or replace the information actually contained in the study. Not being able to l
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by calambrac 17y ago
Where does it say you can't upload vector images? And, really, we're dinging someone for coming up with a product name that isn't perfectly descriptive now?
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by calambrac 17y ago
How is it any spammier than any of the umpteen million other links to one-off idea websites that we get around here? Because the submitter didn't call it their "startup"?
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by calambrac 17y ago
The iTunes music store is emphatically not a monopoly anymore. Those days really didn't last long, and are completely over at this point. I personally haven't used it in years, because Amazon and eMusic both blow it out of the water as
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by calambrac 17y ago
That's not the case anymore, since the introduction of parental controls in iPhone OS 3.0. That should have been more than clear from the article, Schiller and Gruber both emphasize precisely that point.
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by calambrac 17y ago
It's all a conspiracy. Or, they also sell powertrains and batteries.
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by calambrac 17y ago
You're right, their definition of 'medical bankruptcy' does include that person if the $1,001 wasn't covered by insurance, in the cases where they were comparing the results to their 2001 study which used the same criteria. Their new result
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by calambrac 17y ago
If there were a parental control for the app store that blocked objectionable content, off by default, this whole issue would go away. Um, that's exactly how the parental controls for the app store work. Apple uses the rating system to d
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by calambrac 17y ago
Yes, your hyperbole aside, I do think people should take care in how they speak. 'Urban slang' is pretty clearly associated with a particular socio-economic group (regardless of if you wish to acknowledge that or not), and saying that it,
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by calambrac 17y ago
No, it's not, at least not to the point you were originally making, which was that Apple has put in place a system of control for apps but not for their own browser - that's false. Why are you hung up on this? I'm not saying "don't be piss
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by calambrac 17y ago
No, I think that where he meant 'extremely vulgar language', he mistakenly reached for a term that has racial connotations.
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by calambrac 17y ago
It doesn't 'necessarily' imply that, but it is a widely-used euphemism for inner city hip-hop culture. Acting like it's not, that the term arises from the name of the slang dictionary (and not the other way around), is just wrong.
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by calambrac 17y ago
I wasn't saying that this is a good feature, or that I'm glad it exists, I'm just pointing out that it's there, and that it seems like a waste of time and energy to pretend that Apple's censoring dirty words while giving parents no way to p
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by calambrac 17y ago
Yeah. Except that he specifically mentioned Wiktionary as the source, and even if UD was the dictionary in question: why do you think they decided to name it "Urban Dictionary"? I'm sure that it was just completely coincidental that they
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by calambrac 17y ago
Okay. That doesn't change the fact that you can lock down Safari on the iPhone, in direct contradiction of your statement "The browser is far worse. And not restricted." Again, I agree with you in pretty much everything else you're saying.
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by calambrac 17y ago
Wait... what? Being prejudiced against 'urban slang' is okay because poor minority kids in the city obviously don't update online dictionaries?
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by calambrac 17y ago
I completely agree with pretty much everything you're saying, but to be fair, the iPhone's parental controls do allow you to lock down the browser.
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by calambrac 17y ago
A quick search on Wiktionary.org easily turns up a number of offensive “urban slang” terms that you won’t find in popular dictionaries such as one that you referenced, the New Oxford American Dictionary included in Mac OS X. We're totall
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by calambrac 17y ago
This puts a lot of consultants out of business :/
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by calambrac 17y ago
30 seconds on Google: http://www.torctech.com/company/news/jaus-standard-emerges-d...
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by calambrac 17y ago
I'm sure it never occurred to anyone on these teams to try out their code in a simulated environment. I'm 100% positive their development model was to crash car after car after car until they got it working. I can only imagine how expensi
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by calambrac 17y ago
Then use a better text editor. You're doing a bad job of distinguishing between a feature you personally want in an application, and the actual problems associated with storing times. As has been pointed out, there's no such thing as a t
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by calambrac 17y ago
Then just write your strings-that-represent-timelike-things in your text editor and be done with it. What, exactly, is your point? You think that because you don't need your personal strings to actually denote time, this isn't a problem t
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by calambrac 17y ago
That wasn't the argument at all, that was your absurdist disingenuous interpretation of the argument. Anything that creates disease is a pretty wide net. He was specifically talking about industrial farms, because they seem to have par
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by calambrac 17y ago
Really? You think cities are the equivalent of industrial farms? That the human experience is exactly like cows huddled in their own shit with no room to turn around? Like pigs forced into quarters where they go crazy and eat the tails o
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by calambrac 17y ago
I don't personally know any farmers in impoverished parts of rural India, where this scenario isn't hypothetical at all, no. As to what I sound like, my uncle is a successful independent farmer in North Dakota. He's not organic, but he str

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