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cloakandswagger
12y ago
Not sure why I'm being downvoted; yes it's self promotion, but highly relevant to the discussion
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12y ago
>Finally, what happens when nefarious individuals realize it's super easy to pick up rich people's children by pretending to be a Boost driver? This is where my company's app, Mooble, comes in. Mooble is a breakthrough ant
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cloakandswagger
12y ago
>User generated reviews are among the most useless things on the Internet. Ranking up there with your hyperbolic comment.
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12y ago
Correct. Victims bodies are tricked into generating large amounts of cells. This causes the hemorrhaging which is the ultimate cause of death. Fun fact: The victim's body continues producing cells for several hours after death. In rare
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cloakandswagger
12y ago
Old Blackberry phones are renowned for their battery life. If that's truly your chief concern then I would look into buying one.
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cloakandswagger
12y ago
Your comment is pretentious and assumptive. Consumers want bigger phones and manufacturers are providing them, it's as simple as that. I'd say deriving moral superiority from phone form factor is sillier than a 6 inch screen.
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12y ago
Everywhere I go I see people charging their phones: at work, at the airport, in coffee shops, in the subway station.. Modern consumers seem to be perfectly fine with trading all-day battery life for better display, and manufacturers are per
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12y ago
People use their phones for everything but phoning now. Ballooning screen sizes are just a reaction to this.
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12y ago
You're talking about a company that bitterly clung to the 3.5 inch screen for years before capitulating to the demand for larger screens. I'm sure Apple does market research, but they've proven to be very susceptible to their
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12y ago
>When you leave these behind, you have to think about scope hierarchies. Yes, a prerequisite to using a JavaScript framework is understanding prototypical inheritance >You have to watch your watchers What? >I wish there was a simpl
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12y ago
>Super salty about it. Yes obviously you are
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cloakandswagger
12y ago
The community is typically a pretty big aspect of a business running a community answers site. Would you have been satisfied if there was a pie chart?
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12y ago
Fake exclusivity wrapped in a shell of pseudo-intellectualism.
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12y ago
Individually, no. In large numbers they'll spark a chain reaction of humorless over-analyzing which consumes and ultimately destroys the herd.
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12y ago
That's because Quora is a social platform, and it's flaws are primarily cultural. You may or may not be able to make a legitimate business case for the site, but the point is that Quora will still fail due to its toxic, insipid cu
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12y ago
Vinyl records are bulky, expensive to produce and fragile. Now, what are the problems with e-mail that it's inevitable successor will fix other than, "it's old" ?
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12y ago
That's the optimist's outlook. I could just as easily envision an army of cheap, self-taught "programmers" making applications held together with spit and glue and causing a race to the bottom in the industry (see the re
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12y ago
Heh, I think you mean exacerbating
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12y ago
>Do you not want the curious to have ready access to dig in and understand the stuff they use every day? Yeah, pretty much. Combine offshoring with the baffling obsession some programmers have with teaching EVERYONE their trade and you c