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by ebbv 10y ago
> they can't rest on their laurels simply because they're Apple. No, but they can because they have something like $200 billion cash on hand. Which means if they really care about their stock price they can do a buy back if the
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by ebbv 10y ago
I think you still can do that manually, but it is awkward. I think it's clearly an attempt to make Twitter more welcoming to new folks.
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by ebbv 10y ago
I've also been in the test for this new Reply since last week. It's got advantages and disadvantages. All the @'s in messages can make them cluttered, but the new way of tracking who's involved in the conversation result
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by ebbv 10y ago
While the idea of hiring all the writers is cute, the "known" writers all have deals in place already. So Apple would be effectively taking a gamble on all unknown talent. That may or may not pay off. Buying TWC is a monumentally
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by ebbv 10y ago
Can we not post obvious clickbait horse shit like this on HN?
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by ebbv 10y ago
I'll go against the tech culture grain and say I regret not going to college. I stared working when I was still in high school and I never pursued a degree. Sometimes I feel like if I had gone to college I might have pursued a differen
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by ebbv 10y ago
Why would that make you take the numbers with a pinch of salt? It doesn't matter that you bought 3 copies, they sold 3 copies. The numbers are still accurate for copies sold, they aren't claiming active players or something, there
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by ebbv 10y ago
It is controlled by a for profit company. That's what's different. If that sounds like a good idea to you...
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by ebbv 10y ago
This article is terrible. I am not pleased with the new MBP models but the reasoning in this article is beyond stupid. 1. No Esc and Function keys? They are available and I'd wager you can change the settings on the touch bar to make t
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by ebbv 10y ago
Yes I love how Elon doesn't hire rocket engineers and scientists or consult with NASA. Oh wait he does those things.
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by ebbv 10y ago
This is just flat out wrong. Microsoft has improved a lot and is doing some cool stuff but they are still doing horrible shady things too. Windows 10 installs with very invasive default settings, and updates have re-enabled those invasive s
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by ebbv 10y ago
As I said the last several dozen times ZCash hype articles got posted; what's worse than currency controlled by a government AND currency controlled by an unelected group of developers? Currency controlled by a for profit company.
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by ebbv 10y ago
if you draw the line between attacks of the past through this one you see that the scale of DDoS attacks continues to get worse. It's all well and good to say that the enablers of the past learn and improve their products. The problem
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My Case Against Coding Tests(medium.com)
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by ebbv 10y ago
> Are journalists immune from laws? Which laws? What constitutes a journalist? These are the kinds of questions that courts sort out. You state this as if it needs to be done. It's settled law. The state is clearly overreaching. Jou
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by ebbv 10y ago
Yes you absolutely can. That's the point of freedom of the press being part of the First Amendment. Laws that would prevent the press from fulfilling its constitutional role lose out to the first amendment. Journalists are allowed to p
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by ebbv 10y ago
Is that supposed to be insightful? The first part is obvious, the second part is nonsense. Neither offers a secret to repeatable, predictable software development. If you're going to make a fantastic claim that you can make software en
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by ebbv 10y ago
You're offering a lot of derision without any useful information. If you've discovered the secret to repeatable, predictable software development, by all means please share it.
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by ebbv 10y ago
This isn't wise. This is the same argument used to justify voter suppression laws. The myth of the unqualified vote. That my vote is well reasoned and I have done my research but you haven't.
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by ebbv 10y ago
Who would expect anything else? They cost less than half of even a MacBook Air which is in need of a hardware refresh even more than the rest of Apple's notebook lineup.
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by ebbv 10y ago
C'mon man. It purports to test personality, not mindset. It doesn't say "Run this after meals and first thing in the morning between meals to get an idea of your mindset throughout the day." Sheesh.
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by ebbv 10y ago
Your assertion that it is good for anything is based on the idea that the data is valid in any way. It isn't. When people are retested the results are very inconsistent. Results being independently reproducible is the foundation of sci
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by ebbv 10y ago
This is a good explanation of why people think it made sense for Disney to buy Twitter, but I don't buy it. The problem with this approach is that Twitter doesn't own any of those big celebrities or have any way of enforcing them
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by ebbv 10y ago
This article kinda sucks, and it all should have a big asterisk; on average the longest lived humans will be ~115 unless there is a breakthrough in repairing damaged DNA/RNA. Eventually there will be technology that allows us to repair
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by ebbv 10y ago
Yeah there's a couple examples but the article is mostly just general griping, which, like I said, I'm bored of. I should be clear; there are plenty of things to complain about with Apple. They aren't a perfect company and th
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by ebbv 10y ago
> He wants Apple to change back to what made it great. If that's what he wants this blog post is really short on actual suggestions or details of specific problems and big on just general "Apple sucks now, it was good before.&q
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by ebbv 10y ago
My point was that these blog posts complaining about Apple accomplish nothing. If you don't like Apple's products any more stop using them and stop buying them. If your device is having issues, get it repaired. These blog posts ge
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by ebbv 10y ago
I bought a MacBook Pro in 2010 that my brother is still using every day and works great. I have a Retina MacBook Pro I bought in 2012 that I used every day all day for work until earlier this year and I still use several times a week, and i
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by ebbv 10y ago
Another day another "Apple isn't what it used to be and I hate their products now" diatribe. If you don't like their products buy someone else's. If you don't like your Apple Watch stop using it. I use an iMac
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by ebbv 10y ago
I don't see how your second sentence follows from the first one? It's true that Swift is heavily type safe but that makes it appealing to me. I actually really enjoy writing Swift. Would you rather it were dynamic so you could wri

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