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by crispinb 8y ago
Marvellous article. Bill Evans' playing is one of the great consolations of life. For anyone who likes guitar, I also highly recommend Ralph Towner's lovely Nardis interpretation on his great album 'Solo Concert'
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by crispinb 8y ago
See other comment here on the Ikea effect. That's part of it anyway. I think the other part is humans can get fetishistic about almost anything. It seems to be part of our nature. Unsurprisingly, it's shaped around computers for H
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by crispinb 8y ago
There goes the automatic response. I really don't care what your coworkers do, because I'm not amassing evidence for a general proposition (if I were interested enough in that I'd go an do a Phd on it). I have used OSX/m
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by crispinb 8y ago
I've never spent any appreciable time 'navigating with a mouse' and 'adjusting window borders' on other OSs. Sounds like those thundering imprecations that we all must use vim or emacs because IDEs require mouse use
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by crispinb 8y ago
Nice - I hadn't come across that. Spot on.
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by crispinb 8y ago
There is a general rule that the more time people spend futzing with some particular aspect of their shit, the more they fetishise it. It's a kind of cognitive sunk-costs fallacy. I've used i3, and it's great. I wish somethin
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by crispinb 8y ago
> I'm honestly confused as to why a developer in this community would even think of not running Linux full time Well I'm a developer (if not 'in this community'). I don't run Linux on the desktop because when I h
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by crispinb 8y ago
A vast radical social experiment, replacing all human values with that of competitive & monomaniacal accumulation of material wealth, turns out to be a poor fit for actual humans. Well gosh.
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by crispinb 8y ago
Indeed. Our intellectual history definitely dodged a bullet there.
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by crispinb 8y ago
I understand many writers are desperate for views, but I'm looking forward to this nasty spreading imperative title infection to die out (which it will, but not soon enough). "What you need to know about ..." ( you have no id
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by crispinb 8y ago
Seems like a reasonable personal story about how you use an ad-delivery platform like iOS (and is pretty close to what I do on all the platforms I use). But it has little to do with the rightness or otherwise of disallowing users from decid
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by crispinb 8y ago
> I think it's way more complicated than this sort of snark makes it out to be Well of course. Snark is just snark -- it's hardly intended as a supported argument. It's a chuckle & wink to the like-minded.
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by crispinb 8y ago
Not really - it's eliminating competition. Apple is stopping competitors (web apps) from displaying any ads, and enforcing ads through the channel (App Store apps) it profits from.
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by crispinb 8y ago
The rules are designed to enforce the delivery of ads. I agree on the no surprise aspect. Adguard allowed users to expunge ads, Apple has many policies to prevent ceding such control to mere consumers.
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by crispinb 8y ago
TLDR: iOS is a compulsory ad delivery platform.
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AdGuard Pro for iOS will be discontinued due to Apple's policy(adguard.com)
59 points by crispinb 8y ago|62 comments
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by crispinb 8y ago
A tactically-'ethical' startup of the near future's motto: "Don't be Google".
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Google Plans to Launch Censored Search Engine in China, Leaked Documents Reveal(theintercept.com)
492 points by crispinb 8y ago|414 comments
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by crispinb 8y ago
A couple of weeks into f/t use, mine (XPS 15" 9570, i9, 32GB RAM) doesn't get hot at all (fairly typical dev stuff - Docker, VMs, browsers, IntelliJ). It throttles intermittently, for short periods (perhaps 5% of the time) un
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by crispinb 8y ago
I have the new 2018 9570 with an i9, and throttling is very modest. My workloads tend to be bursty rather than sustained, so I probably wouldn't notice in normal use anyway. But running the Intel XTU stress test, I only get very short
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by crispinb 8y ago
Apple's failure to retire the novelty keyboard has entirely vindicated my decision 2 weeks ago to replace my 2013 MB Pro with a Dell XPS 15. The transition to Windows has been moderately painful, but Apple now doesn't offer any la
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by crispinb 8y ago
Borders are, & have always been, fundamentally open, because it's a plain physical (biological) reality that H. sapiens is a resourceful, migratory species. Erection of walls and legions of petty border-guarding popinjays is no mo
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by crispinb 8y ago
Exact same deal here. That plus the lack of keyboard shortcuts for many extensions keeps pushing me back to Chrome. But I love the account containers enough that I keep trying again. I imagine it will get there eventually.
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by crispinb 8y ago
My experience is totally different to yours. Every time I install any desktop linux, I spend hours looking up how to get all kinds of little things working. Macs have their problems (not least of which the crappy hardware which is driving s
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by crispinb 8y ago
But perhaps an important one for Apple. Anecdotally at least (which is probably the best we can do here), concerns about Apple hardware are making many pro users, particularly developers, think seriously for the first time in years about mo
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by crispinb 8y ago
From a brief glance, the protagonist here is white, male, a philosopher and a Michael. To attribute something you don't like about his statement to his age (as opposed to his race, gender, philosopheritude or Michaelness) is a statemen
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by crispinb 8y ago
It's an unfortunate loss for our conceptual heritage for the word 'professional' to have been mostly hijacked to mean something more like 'obedient', 'conformist', 'dull', 'bland', &#x2
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by crispinb 8y ago
Sure, but I wasn't making a unicorn pitch. My point is that IntelliJ's relatively deep code insight nudges things in that direction right now , to an extent that makes coding in traditional editors (emacs being my favourite of th
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by crispinb 8y ago
For mutating programs (as opposed to general text-editing), this text-centrism seems to me like a limitation. I use a combination of IntelliJ & emacs, and the former's deeper model of the programming language syntax definitely lead
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by crispinb 8y ago
Well despite being as Cassandraesque as the next guy, I confess yours is a take that hadn't occurred to me.

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