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by epo 14y ago
But you didn't give a brief summary. You gave your take on the bits you found interesting (or possibly the bits you bothered to read) which, to the rest of us, is worse than useless.
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by epo 14y ago
Its the Apple haters having their day in the sun. They have to have something to distract them from their rubbishy phones.
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by epo 14y ago
"The apps are free but the service is paid for." Is there any useful functionality in the apps which doesn't rely on the paid-for service?
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by epo 14y ago
London Overground. Also no attribution for the originator which appears to be https://twitter.com/binny_uk/status/248824180395614208/photo... some 2 days earlier
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by epo 14y ago
Ha ha! One of the better variations on this oft misquoted old saying I have read.
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by epo 14y ago
Apple is smarter than this. They would not have released such a half-baked replacement unless they were forced to. I suspect Google refused to renew knowing Apple were working on a replacement but were not yet ready. This is Apple's "Vista"
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by epo 14y ago
Because most people don't have the ability to write clearly enough to express their intent, and also because there are so many literal minded people out there. Labels and smileys serve the same purpose as laugh tracks on TV programmes, they
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by epo 14y ago
So, will Samsung now sue Apple for allegedly copying a Samsung business method?
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by epo 14y ago
I wonder what the behind-the-scenes truth of this is? Apple must have known that their mapping solution wasn't ready for release. Perhaps Google forced their hand or Google pulled the plug knowing that Apple would dump them eventually but w
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by epo 14y ago
No, just people piling on, and probably the Guardian using the BBC as a news source.
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by epo 14y ago
You can't make an omelette ... It'll be interesting to see the pace of development of this vs Google's inevitable maps app. The mapping must be updated OTA so won't require IOS refreshes to improve the quality. But for now this app is like
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by epo 14y ago
Ignoring the whiners, fanroids and Apple haters. Apple did this for a reason: to maximise revenue. If this encourages people to buy more stuff more quickly it stays otherwise it will change to something else. The "it's all different" whinin
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by epo 14y ago
"Android can be beautiful" eh? Saying it doesn't make it so. As an aspiration it is so far from current reality as to be simply delusional.
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by epo 14y ago
It has a few words in common with the actual article title which is "Manchester Airport's body scanners scrapped".
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by epo 14y ago
"There's no other site where I can talk and keep up with my grandparents, my college roommate, and my girlfriend simultaneously." Why would anyone want to do this? It is feasible to display 20 or more TV channels simultaneously, but you wou
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by epo 14y ago
A focus on testing is not the same as a focus on quality. Also, if your test criterion is "doesn't crash" then a lot of slowness, resource leaks etc, may be, and probably are, acceptable to you.
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by epo 14y ago
A paradigm example of why geeks are said to have poor social and/or communication skills. The distinction (between weight and mass) may be important to nit-picking geeks but ordinary people, educated or otherwise, will understand perfectly
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by epo 14y ago
> There are plenty of people with wisdom well beyond their years. Yes, there are. But not in the sense you want to mean. There are plenty of kids who have lived through great hardship, who have had to learn survival and coping skills wh
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by epo 14y ago
Absolutely. No technology comes out of Apple at all. You should try and maintain some grip on reality, for your own sake
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by epo 14y ago
Odd, the Economist is usually rather intelligent. Apple doesn't need great leaps forward, that was the first iPhone. "Steady as she goes" is now good enough. They mainly need to convince those whose contracts are expiring to renew their vow
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by epo 14y ago
You want to apply to Apple for a job as a lawyer, you obviously think you know more about the law then they do.
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by epo 14y ago
Big words. The Internet is full of windbags asserting we need to make a difference. Notice how none of these people ever seem to attempt to do so? They usually limit themselves to vacuous back-of-a-cornflake-packet, trendy posturing like th
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by epo 14y ago
Do you have a point to make? What is it?
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by epo 14y ago
The article wasn't written by a DBA. Reading isn't one of your strong points is it? Neither, if you think MySQL makes DBAs obsolete, is thinking.
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by epo 14y ago
How simpletons try to sound profound. Take something that other people like and ask "I don't get it, why is this so special? Convince me." Do your own homework.
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by epo 14y ago
The more worrisome phenomena is the cult of the whiny fandroid.
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by epo 14y ago
So, you don't seem to like posts about Apple but you do seem to like posts about Android. Isn't this the whole 'problem'? People only object to posts they don't want to see, so to a fandroid any post about Apple proves that HN is full App
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by epo 14y ago
Well, you could acquire it with the passing of time. Say for those with a karma below 25, they get 1 point a day until they reach 25.
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by epo 14y ago
Metafilter is on of the very few internet forums which maintains high quality. It costs you $5 to join and if you abuse your membership you will have your membership cancelled without refund or appeal. It is actively moderated by 'staff' wh
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by epo 14y ago
"but they'll willfully call out other companies without solid evidence" Citation required of both wilful intent and of calling out without solid evidence, from both Arment and Gruber.

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