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by fpgeek 12y ago
I'd make a stronger statement: Outside tech circles I'd bet that, in practice, the vast majority of YouTube viewers would abandon it in droves if YouTube removed Content ID. I'm sure they don't like Content ID in the abs
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by fpgeek 12y ago
This isn't Google using Apple as a feature implementation oracle, this is Google looking at pointer events using both their "web developer" and "browser developer" hats and reaching a disappointing conclusion. As a
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by fpgeek 12y ago
The account page is using the Lenovo logo. If it isn't them, I'd expect Github to get a takedown request ASAP, especially considering the current situation.
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by fpgeek 12y ago
Wow. Releasing the source to the removal tool might be the first right (rather than actively wrong and then merely a little less wrong) thing Lenovo has done in this entire disaster. It feels like I can almost hear the screams of the engine
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by fpgeek 12y ago
Well, well. Just as with the iMessage switching from iPhone issues, it seems that sometimes it takes a class action lawsuit to get results from Apple: http://9to5mac.com/2014/10/28/apple-class-action-lawsuit-2
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by fpgeek 12y ago
This just occurred to me: Lenovo is a Chinese company and this broke right at the start of the Chinese Lunar New Year (a Christmas-sized or arguably bigger holiday in Chinese culture). Obviously I can't prove this is having an impact,
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by fpgeek 12y ago
It is a superficially appealing point, but I think the analogy falls apart on closer inspection. Unlike the "right to be forgotten", a lot of effort has been put into harmonizing copyright law worldwide. While the mechanics of the
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by fpgeek 12y ago
I'd make a small clarification: While it is true that everyone can't devalue at once in terms of relative exchange rates, everyone trying to devalue at once can still be useful. In that case you'd get worldwide inflation (arg
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by fpgeek 12y ago
Probably the most on-point example of a sudden devaluation (rather than the gradual adjustment typical of countries with floating currencies) is the UK leaving the European Exchange Rate Mechanism in 1992 [1]. If you want to judge how that
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by fpgeek 12y ago
AFAIK, there was no compulsion. Instead, German wanted to lend to Greek banks / Greece because they got slightly more interest in return for debt that they believed (or, more accurately, hoped) had essentially the same implicit guarant
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by fpgeek 12y ago
I took a look at the press release. At the top it I found: "Sorry, you need to install flash to see this content." I understand how that happens, but, given the subject of the lawsuit, it's still very ironic.
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by fpgeek 12y ago
If you have to use iTunes, that doesn't sound similar at all. There's a huge gap between virtually any browser you're willing to log into and a computer that you can run iTunes on.
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by fpgeek 12y ago
It probably doesn't hurt that some of Apple's design choices reinforce that conveyed status: https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150211/05455029985/green...
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by fpgeek 12y ago
Also true in Singapore. Some contracts can be nastier (e.g. no early termination, just pay the rest), but that may just be an unrelated local difference (I've seen the same thing with residential ISP contracts, where there isn't a
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by fpgeek 12y ago
I think the real point is there's defending GCC and there's "defending" GCC. Actually defending GCC means making it as useful and usable you can in the context of a robust, interoperable GNU ecosystem. "Defending&qu
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by fpgeek 12y ago
In other words, more of a SafariFox than a Firefox.
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by fpgeek 12y ago
Degrade gracefully? BTW, for those playing at home, the Play Store website loads just fine if you claim to be running Firefox OS instead. If there actually are features the Play Store site uses that work in Firefox OS and not in Firefox for
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by fpgeek 12y ago
This isn't true. As I mention in a comment below, Firefox gives you two nicer ways to switch from the web to an app: 1. The droid in the URL bar once the page has loaded. 2. The "Open in an app" alternative in a link's
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by fpgeek 12y ago
There's some irony here. Chrome unpredictably punts you to the app when browsing the Play Store (actually I think it has to do with whether the link to the store involved a redirect, but that looks unpredictable from the outside). Th
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by fpgeek 12y ago
Think about the type of deep integration that Apple-owned Siri has on iPhones, or Google-owned Gmail has on stock Android phones, for instance. Those apps operate much more contextually and fluidly, and far more powerfully, on those phon
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Has modern Linux lost its way? Some thoughts on Jessie(changelog.complete.org)
282 points by fpgeek 12y ago|260 comments
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by fpgeek 12y ago
The standard Lisp use for generated symbols is to provide a way to reliably avoid name clashes during macro expansion. I'm not sure if that qualifies as a practical use in the out in the wild or just a practical way to fix pain (e.g. C
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by fpgeek 12y ago
I don't follow your logic. I didn't see anything in the story that indicated that the deal was exclusive. Twitter certainly wouldn't want it to be - they're trying to increase reach. In theory, I can see how Google might
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by fpgeek 12y ago
Their development roadmap could easily change after the acquisition. More importantly, Microsoft already has plenty of people who have a lot of experience adding enterprise features to products. It makes far more sense for them to buy the c
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by fpgeek 12y ago
The Apple Maps experience is evidence against that, though. We know that they were working on maps for years and things like PoI search were among the biggest issues. I find it hard to believe they would have done that badly if they had an
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Plane crashes into Taiwan bridge(smh.com.au)
1 points by fpgeek 12y ago|0 comments
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by fpgeek 12y ago
> People who recognize that the internet has been a free market for most of its existence Really? ARPANET and NSFNET were big free market bastions, were they?
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by fpgeek 12y ago
Exactly. That demonstrates the fundamentally unstable foundation of Chinese non-Google Android. China might decide to interfere with the non-Google services being used (I suspect that's more if they come from a foreign company like Mic
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by fpgeek 12y ago
For popular devices, the bottleneck with Android updates isn't really the resources to develop them, it's the carrier certification process. You can see that when the same device gets updates on some countries/carriers and no
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by fpgeek 12y ago
As you note, inside China is an important special case, but outside China, Xiaomi includes Google apps. For that matter, even plenty of people in China want Google. There's a practically a cottage industry of hacks to get the Play Stor

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