galonk

12 ms·

91.
by galonk 12y ago
How much you want to bet the average "smart" TV will start popping up "network error" dialog boxes every minute in that situation?
92.
by galonk 12y ago
Is it really necessary for an app to be able to query whether a URL scheme is handled? It would be nice if Apple could make that API non-functional to put a stop to this.
93.
Swift REPL has multiline editing and auto formatting in terminal(developer.apple.com)
4 points by galonk 12y ago|0 comments
94.
by galonk 12y ago
Nope, switched to BTSync. I'll investigate syncthing and whatever else comes along, but basically anything-but-Dropbox.
95.
by galonk 12y ago
I think it's a fine example because practically all Sony software sucks, and whether they wrote it or not, it sucks because the company doesn't understand or value software.
96.
by galonk 12y ago
4-hour-old throwaway account says: "don't trust unnamed sources!"
97.
by galonk 13y ago
I think the most compelling example of this is something called "Freemen on the Land", and related belief systems. Instead of people's ignorance of technology, it exploits their ignorance of the basics of law. Like, did you k
98.
by galonk 13y ago
Ars Technica isn't exactly big on fact checking. These days most of their short articles are rewritten press releases, and most of their long articles are personal opinion/recollection written as if it was reportage.
99.
by galonk 13y ago
The fact being interesting doesn't mean its encoding is interesting. I might find a movie interesting but looking at the raw bytes of the MP4 file much less so ;)
100.
by galonk 13y ago
I wouldn't say "looks like".