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by cbs 14y ago
That's the key, when you said "many" consumers No, when I said "many" I was trying to avoid this conversation right here. We know software is never done, its not a thing you can finish, you can only stop. I tried to nip this in the bud
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by cbs 14y ago
I don't know how to respond to this other than "lol". Apple often releases products that many consumers would consider "incomplete". The only difference is that Apple never admitted to being wrong ever . Their branding depends on being
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by cbs 14y ago
"that sort of London glottal stop", dropping the T in words like "important" or "Manhattan". So I agree with the premise of this article, but the glottal stop is found in many regional American accents. The internet removes language barri
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by cbs 14y ago
Public beta is apple's customers, not a QA team.
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by cbs 14y ago
Carmack is no doubt familiar with Microsoft's game cert process, it probably wasn't in jest at all. It does impact Microsoft more, because Microsoft has taken on responsibility for games to be good (well, meet certain baselines for various
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by cbs 14y ago
is an absolutely baffling design decision. There is no way that users can intuitively learn what these buttons do Says you, I picked it up pretty easily over a few days.
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by cbs 14y ago
>And why do banks (or credit card companies) even let users pick their own PIN codes? Sure the PIN sucks, but ATM security is actually two factor, something you have and something you know. The cards can be duplicated, they've made goo
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by cbs 14y ago
In iOS the 'back' button is always on the same location AND tells you where you're going back to. Yes, that is true, but only for a screen with a back button, otherwise that spot on the screen is probably an "edit" or something else you d
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by cbs 14y ago
Thats kind of my point. If you're the type of person to actually know what v6 is, you're the type of person we're all waiting on. edit: And its not a "hackers" thing, its a "technical competency" thing.
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by cbs 14y ago
That's the thing though. If everyone is waiting on everyone else, nothing gets done. If your network doesn't already support v6, you're the person everyone is waiting on! You don't need to wait for your upstream provider to supply you wit
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by cbs 14y ago
We need to quit looking back at the v4 space like this, bite the bullet and deploy v6. It's already in use on some networks, and inevitable on 95+% of the rest. The amount of time spent bike-shedding "well, v4 isn't running out as fast as
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by cbs 14y ago
it's not like 500 million people are using a high-quality device like Galaxy S3. Sure, they don't have the latest greatest shiny, but so what? Its still market penetration, and unlike people just chasing shiny toys, they're looking for t
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by cbs 14y ago
That debate exists because the people selling the idea of unit-tests were so goddamn gung-ho for unit testing everywhere and all the time. I have friends in the medical industry, their tests must achieve 100% code coverage on multiple cov
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by cbs 14y ago
I don't think anyone was waiting for this. Did you mean to say "This doesn't fit my particular use case."? I can name a dozen people off the top of my head that will be excited about this. General purpose computers are general purpose en
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by cbs 14y ago
I assume it's because they're owned by Gawker Media.
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by cbs 14y ago
It wasn't to give us a boogy man, it was just that the whackjobs that thought the USSR was a huge boogyman (before we turned it into one) were listened to. There's a decent section on this in the book Drift.
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by cbs 14y ago
I've been doing android only work for the last few years, does iOS still not have an equivalent to andriod.intent.action.SEND?
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by cbs 14y ago
>All it does is make things more confusing causing customers to drop off. So what you're saying, is that it becomes more expensive to use cookies for bullshit like user profiling and you have to think about whether or not they're goddam
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by cbs 14y ago
No, I just think its an odd contradiction to respect that guy, and simultaneously make a video publicizing the dude. He disappeared himself, and I thought that particular community was good with leaving well enough alone. Especially in lig
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by cbs 14y ago
A documentary about the guy that just wanted to fade into the sunset. Interesting. That's fine and all, but is the Ruby community still pretending to respect this guy? If so, why are they making a big public video tribute to a guy that no
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by cbs 14y ago
PwC has already made a statement to the effect that no such incursion has been detected and no documents were compromised. In a story that smells like a big pile of bullshit, the one easily-believable piece- No, the one downright-expecte
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by cbs 14y ago
>The idea that you need Apple's permission to install software on your mobile computer is false. How do I put executable code onto my iPhone and run it without their permission? Unless you can answer without the words "iTunes app store
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by cbs 14y ago
I agree totally with the limitations of a technical solution to a social problem. Furthermore, even if the technical solution work to any extent, it doesn't work as well as it could if it were visible. The attitude of relying on monkey-s
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by cbs 14y ago
you militantly miss the point of the comparison when you benchmark the experience of installing a new app against the enjoyment you get from a cup of coffee. Actually, you're missing the point here. Yes, marginal utility blah, blah, blah
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by cbs 14y ago
* No one is baiting anyone here except the people who feel the need to poke holes in a call for decency.* Am I supposed to sit back and just let ends I happen to agree with justify means that I don't? Why?
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by cbs 14y ago
Do you really exist in such a vacuum that you haven't seen the problems geek culture has with women? No, I can see it. Off the top of my head I can paint with broad strokes that many are stuck in their shell and terrified of them, or hav
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by cbs 14y ago
Are you just looking to pick a fight? I don't disagree with the parent post's point. I disagree with the way they are arguing it. I can fully, 1000% get behind the statement that "Rape-culture and patriarchy are definitely major society-w
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by cbs 14y ago
I'd like to ask that you re-read my post. You're talking past me. Given the subject matter I made a poor choice of words using "any one isolated" instead of "any individual", the later phrase is not associated with marginalizing harassment
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by cbs 14y ago
> Rape-culture and patriarchy are definitely major society-wide issues but they undeniably find a special welcoming home within geek culture. Please cite your statistics. edit: Statistics that the geek culture provides a "more welcoming
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by cbs 14y ago
edit: I give up. Who was I to think that the fact 1-in6 men are sexually abused while underage was a quick and easy response to a remark that men are not sexually assaulted in any real numbers. I should have looked up the statistics on all

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