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by gardano 11y ago
That's something I never understood (and admittedly never researched either). Isn't there something in the constitution about freedom of association?
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by gardano 11y ago
My first thought was civil disobedience on the part of Apple's developers too… But I couldn't make it work out in my head how that could result in a positive outcome.
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by gardano 11y ago
7 year old iMac with a dodgy GPU, and I crashed and burned. Can only run in safe mode now. While this is a not-uncommon occurrence for me, it's really freaking annoying.
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by gardano 11y ago
Should I ask myself, "Do I love this rabbit hole?"? Edit: The answer is YES.
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by gardano 11y ago
When trying to re-read Ringworld, I mis-remembered it as DiscWorld, and then entered the bizarre mind of Terry Pratchett. Best mistake I ever made.
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by gardano 11y ago
> what you're saying at a glance looks non-insane That's like 90% of the PR's I look at.
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by gardano 11y ago
Perhaps it's because developers always look for edge cases, whereas "normal users" look for comfort -- or ease-of-use.
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by gardano 11y ago
I guess my reaction is such that the term "Content" relegates an article (or a slide deck) to being a unit of commerce, rather than a summary of thought (or of emotion).
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by gardano 11y ago
As somebody with no dog in this fight, I cannot help but wonder if there's a correlation between PageRank and the rise of referring to text on a page as "Content", rather than, well, "An Article".
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by gardano 11y ago
I wish there were a way to quantify that impulse, because that is often my first thought when presented a click-baity link: "Shall I award my attention to this"?
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by gardano 11y ago
and you're the reason I spent too much time on the Mass Pike ;) There's no such thing as merge , there is only shove ! Edit: No blame devolves to you. As I said, it's a cultural thing.
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by gardano 11y ago
From my memories of driving in Boston, defensive drivers were an absolute menace. If you don't drive aggressively, you're the cause of problems… Perhaps each autonomous car needs to have a cultural knowledge, based on location.
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by gardano 11y ago
Question borne of ignorance: Have any of these vendors opened themselves up for any legal liability for these shenanigans? Also, if some small developer wrote a mobile app to control such devices, would they also see themselves liable?
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by gardano 11y ago
As a thought experiment: What would the repercussions be if Apple did pull iPhone sales out of the UK? I'd guess that there would be huge complaints from the populace. I'd guess that Android providers would swoop in. However, gi
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by gardano 11y ago
I cannot help but remember "The Ketchup Song (Aserejé) [0], whose lyrics are more or less a bastardisation of "Rapper's Delight" in Spanish. [1] Such a joyful embracing of purposeful misinterpretation of lyrics purported
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by gardano 11y ago
Makes me want to re-read Cryptonomicon again. The Imitation Game movie was a disappointment to me, after having read that book -- but I have to admit I don't remember if the Polish contribution was mentioned in the book!
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by gardano 11y ago
The word "privateer" comes to mind.
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by gardano 11y ago
My morning routine back in the days where the classic asp/.NET v1 transition was happening: • Read a bunch of RSS feeds in NetNewsWire. • Catch up on recent activity at FreshMeat, and learn to understand the code. • Catch up on recent
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by gardano 11y ago
I guess my worry is that I don't know what I don't know (regarding security), but I'm pretty sure there are use-cases that haven't even been defined yet (insert favourite Relmsfeld quote here).
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by gardano 11y ago
I started taking a deep-dive look at iOS HomeKit, and was alarmed at the security implications that would be on my shoulders. I'm not an embedded engineer type, so the security burden I saw being hefted upon my shoulders felt much more
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by gardano 11y ago
Other than Ghostery, I guess my ad blocker is myself. If I see anything that resembles an ad, I avert my eyes. I suppose something subliminal is at work even so, but I imagine there are many more people like who just avoid even donating the
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by gardano 11y ago
As a developer, I'm only too aware of my limitations in the design-world. Give me requirements, and I'll make it work. If I'm left to guess at what you want, it'll be a waste of time because you're not happy with my
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by gardano 11y ago
The country we were in was Switzerland, if memory serves...
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by gardano 11y ago
This might be an urban myth; however, when we were travelling in Europe a few years ago, my Argentine wife just laughed and laughed when she saw a car "Pajero", which in Argentina means "wanker"…
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by gardano 11y ago
Total speculation on my part, but my first thought was that the education market would be accomplished by hosting a MacOSX Server instance to support multiple IDs. I'm most undoubtedly wrong on this, but that was my first instinct, any
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by gardano 11y ago
Seems to me that what is needed is consistency . A hierarchical file systems represents something metaphorically 'physical'. A tagging system seems to me to be too ad-hoc, and therefore untrustworthy. If I know I left a file in a
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by gardano 11y ago
Baroque Cycle, for sure. And I'm stuck in a loop where I continue to read all the Discworld novels, over and over…