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by eecc 6y ago
Precisely. Jobs didn’t want to be at the mercy of anyone else’s priority, strategies or convenience. Remember: Adobe was dragging its feet on MacOS because why bother, Windows PC is the market, iPhone was mostly welcomed as a “won’t fly”
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by eecc 6y ago
So? Go buy an Android device. You’re blaming a manufacturer for being 100% of its own product market?!
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by eecc 6y ago
You think so? So please elaborate on how having your platform marginalized to a mere window decoration around the ubiquitous, 100% dominant UI toolkit (Crome) is better for the consumer. Besides, there’s plenty of choice on the market, unle
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by eecc 6y ago
I guess you weren’t there when Flash was the thing.
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by eecc 6y ago
> How is Apple allowed to disallow any other web browsers on their mobile devices? We already went through this with Microsoft in the past but suddenly it's different? Nope, total Apple and Oranges. Forbidding other HTML rendering e
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by eecc 6y ago
Well, I do hope that in this case the “intolerant minority” will drive cross-compilation and platform independence of code. It would be sad - and in the long term unsuccessful - if it just Balkanized the development landscape.
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by eecc 6y ago
So true. Automation cannot infer nuance. It's ok to strike down obvious spam and troll but the but this pretense that private actors should spend their resources to cultivate a sane public space in just a broad-spectrum reflex reaction
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by eecc 6y ago
Meh, this and all processes running as root I might just nuke the native OS and just use a Linux distro. Any suggestions?
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by eecc 6y ago
I wouldn’t mind trying it, but does System 76 support dual boot with Microsoft Secure Boot? I’m also curious if it can include pinch-to-zoom; I’m old enough to find it a must-have.
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by eecc 6y ago
This is becoming Reddit :P
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by eecc 6y ago
You're welcome. I chose to earmark my dissent precisely for the same reason you ch engaged. I'm pretty done with the "silent majority" argument, but otoh I cannot drown myself in every quicksand :) have a good one...
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by eecc 6y ago
Dude, you're the personification of the bad-faith meme: Mister Gotcha. While I entertained the idea of arguing with you, there is simply no point and I've come to the conclusion there are better uses for my time. I'll just bu
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by eecc 6y ago
Uh? Did you even remember IE? How are the two scenarios even remotely comparable? It was abandon-ware, after Netscape was crushed Ballmer couldn’t imagine anything useful for IE.
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by eecc 6y ago
Yes. Here I am, looking at a Salesforce integration to Dynamo. Several attempts at elegance thwarted by the trashyness of the AWS libraries. The Salesforce data-model a pile of hundreds of ad-hoc fields. I wrote the most Java1.4 code I ever
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by eecc 6y ago
But don’t forget Microsoft let IE rot for years and that is what drove the interest - and the protest - for alternatives and helped Flash thrive. Today Chrome is a fairly good platform, tons of support for all sorts of html extensions, and
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by eecc 6y ago
Curtis just published a new doc: https://youtu.be/MHFrhIAj0ME
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by eecc 6y ago
Well, FreeBSD seems to be in dire need of some financial support to refurbish some of its process. The last near-miss with WireGuard should have raised a couple eyebrows
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by eecc 6y ago
Did you read what you quoted? The point Stallman made, in the most deliberately urticant and confrontational possible way, is: Are you willing to incarcerate people for drawings? However disturbing the subject? > 26 October 2014 (Prison
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by eecc 6y ago
So who should have access to “position of leadership”. Self interested, condescending, cunning sociopaths or can we also have obsessive, unpleasantly naive but ethically consistent individuals?
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by eecc 6y ago
Please refrain from libelous statements. I’ve never read anything from Stallman that defends any behavior a reasonable person would identify as Paedophilia, rather objections on the extremal formal definitions the US judiciary has for the s
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Saami indigenous back down Gates-funded geoengineering experiment(theraven.substack.com)
8 points by eecc 6y ago|9 comments
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by eecc 6y ago
Fine, but you're rationalizing living with poor execution. I'm rationalizing with deep (perhaps goldplating) correctness.
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by eecc 6y ago
Well, the original posts report some frankly tragic scenarios - so bad that they “reboot to initialize” just to keep sane - in what are some pretty ubiquitous devices. Or not?
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by eecc 6y ago
Exactly, particularly during an emergency where many procedures are being redefined in the interest of time and new processes learned.
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by eecc 6y ago
Well, if the implementations of the standard are such a garbage fire what's the point chasing them? Just to check the box "standards compliant" and likely providing an abysmal UX and poor interoperability? I fixated on Apple
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by eecc 6y ago
So given these data points, isn’t it reasonable for Apple to refuse to play along this broken tune and just roll out their own dialect of a wireless protocol? Why, if not in the name of scarcely affirmed “standards”, drag suppliers through
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by eecc 6y ago
Yup, very nice router/switch. If anyone could forward a properly documented configuration to make the Apple AirPort guest network work I'd be ever grateful.
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by eecc 6y ago
No, MS Phone became irrelevant because there's no space on the market. Indeed there's barely space for more than 1... Apple managed to claw its position out of pure first-mover-advantage, and it's choice to build on top of a
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by eecc 6y ago
Ok, Economist. So where’s the Coup? Usually it follows the moment when certain establishments determine that a government is no longer desirable, or convenient. In this case it’ll never be too early
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by eecc 6y ago
Well, if you’re caught stealing from your employer good luck finding another job, and keeping those savings from the lawsuits coming down on you.

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