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by crispinb 8y ago
> As an end user, I don't care what language a program is written in. The primary audience of neither HN nor github is 'end users'. > Don't do that. I don't know exactly how this fashion of people phrasing the
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by crispinb 8y ago
You could say the same about bias on contentious issues: "tribalism is an evolutionary trait, so such-and-such a news outlet's tendentious coverage isn't surprising". Or about poor software design: "Concrete thinkin
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by crispinb 8y ago
> That's not a real problem, you can export onenote to many other doc formats Oh it's a real problem alright. Having used many notes apps & formats over the years, I've been burned by this notion too many times to ever
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by crispinb 8y ago
Quite uncanny. Jony 'wanky' Ive is precisely as vapid as you'd imagine a person who makes his design decisions would be.
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by crispinb 8y ago
Did Lewis Carroll write you?
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by crispinb 8y ago
> they are nothing but a bunch of immoral fascists. Yep. The Apple death count must be nearing that of WWII by now surely.
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by crispinb 8y ago
Survival.
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by crispinb 8y ago
It can be fairly simple for many individual persons to not use Windows, that's hardly in dispute. But any sentence starting with "X would be easy if people [or 'everyone'] did Y .. ", directly entails "X is d
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by crispinb 8y ago
> It's really that simple. Until people stop buying Windows, this will never change As simple as halting climate collapse by 'people' greatly reducing their car & electricity usage. Then lets stop war by 'people&#
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by crispinb 8y ago
What I want for Xmas is an OS usable for laptops. Windows? Dealt with by comments here. Mac? Only runs on a limited range of crippled hardware. Linux? Life's too short. 2018 is sad, with no light on the visible horizon.
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by crispinb 9y ago
It seemed to me a bit dismissive of user concerns they clearly anticipated. I've always enjoyed ShiftyJelly's release notes in the past though, so maybe they're just being their usual selves. Either way, only time will tell.
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by crispinb 9y ago
Find me an open source app that I can use on iOS, Android & the web, and sync my subscriptions and play state between them, and I’ll be glad to have a look. Until then I am very happy to pay fine developers such as these a tiny sum for
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by crispinb 9y ago
That’s what it does now, yes, because it’s a good citizen in the open standards podcasting ecosystem. I hope it remains so. As for other apps, I haven’t found anything that suits me as well. PC has a decent UI, is user (as opposed to publis
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by crispinb 9y ago
Yep - PocketWeather is also great. ShiftyJelly has been a standout in the Aus indie dev scene
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by crispinb 9y ago
Fair point on the group purchase. It still puts the app largely in the hands of content producers, which is a potential conflict of interest. > I also wouldn't call NPR's app spyware by any means unless you call the vast majori
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by crispinb 9y ago
As I wrote, I'm keeping an open mind. But in the absence of information more specific than Russell's rather fluffy & evasive blog post, it's entirely reasonable to be suspicious. Don't forget that for most humans, NP
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by crispinb 9y ago
It might be fair if true. But is it true? In general java desktop apps that I've used have been heavy users of memory & cpu resources (I don't think any of these were JavaFX-based though). On my system, Everest is using a lot
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by crispinb 9y ago
Overcast is continuing to go against the podcast industry grain by making privacy a distinguishing feature ( https://marco.org/2018/04/27/overcast42 ). Good move. It's not useful to me as I have Android as
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by crispinb 9y ago
> What they want is the usage data like where they pause, where they skip, etc. That's exactly what I don't want > These data were traditionally not available to podcast publishers because podcast is really just an mp3 file
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by crispinb 9y ago
This strikes me as potentially bad news. PocketCasts is a great little app, with the characteristic advantages of being produced by a small indy outfit with no agenda beyond selling a good quality product for cash. I'll keep an open mi
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by crispinb 9y ago
> The reason can't be because macos is better It can (at least with a suitable gloss on 'better'). For practical purposes there are only 3 OSs to choose from. I had determined to ditch macs because of the new fake keyboard
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by crispinb 9y ago
If I used online dating services, I'd be thrilled at this initiative: a lure for the catastrophically stupid, hopefully keeping them off whatever competitor I'd use.
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by crispinb 9y ago
Resistance to remote work is very entrenched in my country (Australia). I suspect it's because competent management is very scarce here.
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by crispinb 9y ago
> have become two of the most valuable references in existence Well I'm not sure about that. Wikipedia is the better of the two, but that's a low bar. Articles are poorly written, inconsistent, and targeted at wildly variable l
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by crispinb 9y ago
Creepy (the fuzzy gopher-dalek, not you)
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by crispinb 9y ago
When I was active on SO I did often see unwelcoming behaviour. Closing questions as being dupes or offtopic, with no explanatory comments, was the most common thing. Infuriating too (and not only to new users) was the proliferation of bad
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by crispinb 9y ago
> Does anyone sensible think we're actually doomed? It's been at least 2 decades since I've met or heard from one who didn't.
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by crispinb 9y ago
Not offensive. Boring and trivial.
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by crispinb 9y ago
There can be a fair bit of inertia involved in using an OS. Like most mac users, I complain about the direction of macOS while still preferring it to the alternatives. And I have time & money invested in software & a well-establishe
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by crispinb 9y ago
Bon vivant trivia, tribal sneers, celeb gossip & huffy etiquette advice seems to be about all the wealthy inner city is interested in these days. Shame the infection has spread here.

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