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by forgettableuser 10y ago
There was a British show called The Real Hustle where the cast basically performs real world scams on people filmed with hidden cameras. One year, they went to Vegas. In one of their most brazen scams, they gathered a crew to swap the card
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by forgettableuser 10y ago
Some time ago, a coworker of mine was in a terrible car rollover accident. He escaped without long lasting injuries, but the car was totaled. His Macbook Pro was loose in the car and it got bent in the middle. Amazingly, only the DVD drive
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Debate over: IBM confirms that Macs are $535 less expensive than PCs(jamf.com)
9 points by forgettableuser 10y ago|0 comments
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by forgettableuser 10y ago
You reminded me of Gargoyles which is worth mentioning. Creator Greg Weisman quit over Disney planning to ruin it in Season 3. It was probably a good call because they did ruin Season 3. Weisman had created a detailed story arc that had a
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by forgettableuser 10y ago
Somebody should compile a list of all the stupid decisions networks have made, because they all seem to make a lot. Mork & Mindy (RIP Robin Williams) became the #3 show in America in its first season. Come season 2, the network (ABC) fi
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by forgettableuser 10y ago
Trivia: Bryan Fuller made the list 3 times with Pushing Daisies, Wonderfalls, and Dead Like Me.
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by forgettableuser 10y ago
Yeah, the title is misleading. The article is trying to quantify the properties of a cancelled cult-classic and derive a ranking. It doesn't make claims about whether it was right or wrong. Such an article would also have to look at th
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by forgettableuser 10y ago
It seems like they live in an echo chamber sometimes or they are more fixated on solving their own problems instead of their users. Google more than any other company seems to have a bias in that if a problem can't be solved by an algo
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by forgettableuser 10y ago
Quest for Glory and Sierra fans who enjoyed this article may also really enjoy "Why We Loved Sierra Games". The Coles and some other Sierra designers said some nice things about this too. https://www.youtube.com/wa
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by forgettableuser 10y ago
I don't think this is intentional by Google, but think the problem comes down to the fact that they keep antagonizing the content creator community that they claim they want to help. The YouTube Heroes program antagonized the content c
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by forgettableuser 10y ago
I don't think this is overblown. Considering that issues of money and trust are on the line, (and the inverse of trust which is fraud), and we are talking about a company that deals with over $17 billion a year in ad revenues, I'm
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Why I'm Not a React Native Developer(arielelkin.github.io)
4 points by forgettableuser 10y ago|0 comments
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by forgettableuser 10y ago
Yes, Macs are a pretty small figure. The new iPhone modem deal Intel struck with Apple for around $1.5 billion is a bigger deal, which would be in the ballpark of 2% of Intel's ~$55 billion in revenues. But Intel likes Apple Macs as a
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by forgettableuser 10y ago
Yeah, it was probably Virtual PC. Remember they were called Powerbooks back then? I miss that name.
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by forgettableuser 10y ago
The hard part for Microsoft is not the porting of Windows to ARM. The hard part has been and continues to be convincing existing Windows developers to port their apps to UWP. The reason Windows on Mac is useful to people is because people h
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by forgettableuser 10y ago
Putting aside the fact that Windows RT was a commercial failure and discontinued which makes it weird to push yet another effort that this would be anything more than some niche demo thing like Raspberry Pi support, Windows in of itself is
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by forgettableuser 10y ago
Forgot to add that I think the real thing keeping Mac on Intel is the bullet point that Intel Macs can install Windows. In the PowerPC days, Apple had trouble convincing people to switch to Mac because Windows being so dominant, everybody w
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by forgettableuser 10y ago
There was also the 68K transition to PowerPC a long time ago. And more recently, the 32-bit to 64-bit transition. And for a lot of the older Mac developers, iOS was kind of like another migration. And iOS has gone from armv6 to armv7 to arm
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by forgettableuser 10y ago
TIFF is still used in the Apple ecosystems. It got a mini-rebirth recently when Apple started doing retina displays. TIFF has the ability to store multiple images, which Apple has latched onto to allow different images to be used for differ
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by forgettableuser 10y ago
There was a in-depth article from Vanity Fair from 2012, "Microsoft’s Lost Decade" which tries to put together what happened. http://www.vanityfair.com/news/business/2012/08/microsoft-lo... Som
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by forgettableuser 10y ago
That's called a recommendation, not a lock-in. The author also argued that Apple's lock-in like iMessage isn't really working. Thus, this is how Android gets to 100%.
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by forgettableuser 10y ago
I meant first time Apple buyers which includes both people who've never had phones and people who've switched. Apple's first time customer base is still significant.
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by forgettableuser 10y ago
This author has a pretty cynical view that the only reason people use iPhone is because of vendor lock-in, like from iMessage. This disregards the fact that many iPhone customers are still first time buyers with no lock in hanging over thei
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by forgettableuser 11y ago
I'm disappointed by the overall tone here. It's as if this were some kind of failure that everybody is piling up on. - She made three passes to fix the existing code base. - After that didn't work, with the CTO's involve
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Teaser of cross-platform 2D game dev in Swift(youtube.com)
6 points by forgettableuser 11y ago|1 comments
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by forgettableuser 11y ago
> *Did you know murder by males is the number one cause of death among females? I've been hearing that myth a lot recently too. I checked the CDC to see the real numbers. Cancer (disturbingly all ages groups), and (traffic) accident
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by forgettableuser 11y ago
The overall tone of the responses here are surprisingly negative and doing a lot of Monday morning quarterbacking, as if this was some kind of failure. There are wild assumptions about their clientele and the desires of the company, complet
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by forgettableuser 11y ago
I'm not being pedantic. libstdc++ was mentioned. That always can break. The ABI between g++ transitions is also platform and architecture dependent. Mac was PowerPC back then. Sun used Sparc. Not everything is always x86, even on Linux
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by forgettableuser 11y ago
That wasn't just Apple. The reason that happened was because gcc went from 3 to 4 in that time frame. gcc and C++ never guaranteed binary compatibility, especially between major versions. I had similar problems on Linux and Solaris bec
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by forgettableuser 11y ago
LGPL v3 is _really_ complicated. That's a red flag for a lot of corporate lawyers. As a result, some issues arise, such as code that is stuck on GPLv2 (e.g. removed the upgrade clause like the Linux kernel) may be incompatible with LGP

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