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by falling 15y ago
I moved to th US from Italy a couple of years ago and I was (still am) fascinated by the silly obsession with San Pellegrino water. Seriously, $2.5 for a pint of water? People here see San Pellegrino about the same way in Italy we see Evian
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by falling 15y ago
You can set the date you want your app to be available, independently of the review date (of course the later one wins).
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by falling 15y ago
How does that have anything to do with using a browser or not? Surely you could do the same thing on any other OS.
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by falling 15y ago
http://blog.arc90.com/2010/06/07/safari-5-another-step-towar... (last paragraph links to: http://twitter.com/chrisdary/status/15672452287 )
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by falling 15y ago
People are still bickering about the GUI, and that started at least forty years ago.
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by falling 15y ago
That could be done on the client side, reading the text on the page, like I assume they do for every other AdSense-enabled page.
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by falling 15y ago
Oleg, your vision is exactly what I like about Gitbox. Git is a toolbox to create your own VCS, Gitbox takes a stance and uses those tools to define a usage model, without tying itself to tradition. It doesn't work for hardcore users and ev
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by falling 15y ago
> If they forgot to add "read contacts" in their application manifest, then the code that tried to read the contacts would ALWAYS fail. Even on the simulator, which is rooted. I meant the Android OS developers (which is what happened
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by falling 15y ago
That limits functionality quite a bit. Say you want to write an email or messaging client (K9, Handcent), your solution prevents you from doing name/address autocompletion in the To: field.
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by falling 15y ago
On iOS if you want to use Facebook but don’t want to grant it permission to access your location, you can still install and use the app and just deny it when the permission is requested.
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by falling 15y ago
That’s not perfect either. It’s granular from the developer point of view, but it’s not for the user: when you install an app you either grant it all the permissions it requires (before you have a chance to actually run the app and see what
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by falling 15y ago
> I think it just means the app can fetch those contacts in a widget, or a SMS app, or something, but definitely not sending it to their servers. How could you give the app access to your contacts list and prevent it from sending the
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Two contradictory thoughts about Apple and Path(tracks.ranea.org)
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by falling 15y ago
A: True, but “mind-numbing” does not mean “quite difficult”. Also, if you have 400+ Facebook friends you wish you hadn’t I think it’s your fault, not Facebook’s. I don’t expect any service to provide marginal functionality like that. You do
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by falling 15y ago
Actually, you can just hover their name anywhere on the site (including your friends list), hover the “Friends” button and click “Unfriend”. It hardly gets easier than that.
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by falling 15y ago
No. Paging for reading long form is much better. See Instapaper or Flipboard. Text selection is a problem, but you don't solve it but throwing away the rest (Instapaper has a solution, for example).
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by falling 15y ago
Arrogance is more about tone than content.
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by falling 15y ago
Because you are being arrogant. (I don't have downvote powers)
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by falling 15y ago
You can get it here https://github.com/kennethreitz/osx-gcc-installer
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by falling 15y ago
“There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation and naming things.” -- Phil Karlton
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by falling 15y ago
Doesn't really solve the issue but you can globally disable per-application restore in Preferences and you can use Cmd-Opt-Q to make apps forget currently open windows instead of manually closing documents.
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by falling 15y ago
It's called advertisement. I'm sure Google wouldn't describe itself as "a good search engine. Most of the time works pretty well, but if you search many common words you'll only find spam".
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by falling 15y ago
From the article: > Boycotting Apple for better Foxconn wages and conditions is like having sex for virginity. Entirely counter-productive and exactly the wrong thing to be doing.
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The Apple Boycott: People Are Spouting Nonsense about Chinese Manufacturing(forbes.com)
126 points by falling 15y ago|119 comments
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by falling 15y ago
> While this may be a nice idea, I don't know if it improves the situation. Improving the situation means tackling the entire problem, top-to-bottom. First you have to define the problem. To me, git feels like building blocks that you
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by falling 15y ago
> simply because Apple is strongly pro DRM http://www.apple.com/fr/hotnews/thoughtsonmusic/ I would argue that iTunes' strong success (with DRM forced by the music labels) helped Amazon negotiate the deal to sell DRM-free music, whi
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by falling 15y ago
Did anybody read the article? There is no demo or measurement, the manufacturer is promising, in an interview, that the SoC should perform like that. Also, it's pretty confusing, mixing statements about Tegra 2 and iPhone 4S, which are qu
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by falling 15y ago
I find it quite funny to see the exact same phrases used to defend both Google and Apple when they do something unfair: “it's their [website|store], they are free to show what they want, you are not entitled to appear.”
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by falling 15y ago
Yes, you are a pirate because you want cheap music. There are nowadays plenty of ways to get music with much less hassle than TPB, at reasonable prices, with good audio quality and no DRM, often even directly from minor labels’ websites. If
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by falling 15y ago
more likely it interferes with his job.

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