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by hrktb 7y ago
It’s so far from the narrative we’ve been hearing for years now, than even reading your comment triggers a “that’s just some batshit conspiration theory” reaction on the moment. Going through the link requires putting aside that reaction. I
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by hrktb 7y ago
I get the feeling that a viable program produced locally was in itself a user feature. While other global programs could be shoehorned into their use case, it still means poor customizability for specific Korean issues. In particular being
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by hrktb 7y ago
That’s great of your dad, and it seems it was well fitting with your personality. Did you ever want to change your goals based on opportunities, once you got out of school and your dad had less influence ? I rarely met people that had actua
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by hrktb 7y ago
How do you see this quote relative to your real life observation ? I always wonder why people post out of context quotes without commentary, when arguably their interpretation is the most interesting part. I care a lot more about what you t
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by hrktb 7y ago
> Those specific users won't use it anyway even if you add it These users often understand what features are missing because they rely on them in other products. At that point your product is already dead to them.
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by hrktb 7y ago
Getting chosen to work on high visibility features and creating new products seems contrary to what most people qualify as “incompetent”. Now all you are describing feels more like a Product Owner’s job than a manager. But even putting tha
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by hrktb 7y ago
As dwg says, there is an optimisation of the grip for what is seen as good writing. The interesting part is that stroke count and order is important, sometimes more important than the exact resulting shapes. That puts an emphasis on how the
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by hrktb 7y ago
> I doubt many people would've cared if Apple had TOLD us that's what they were doing, and also made it an switch. It’s just a few dozen of bucks to change a battery, and people did it in droves when Apple told what they were d
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by hrktb 7y ago
I think the issue is that as a sport, what running is has never been that clearly defined. Even if we don’t go to the length of running without shoes, enforcing a single shoe model, with something as close as possible to bare 5 finger socks
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by hrktb 7y ago
Part of the issue was that replacing the phones was not needed, getting new batteries was enough (that was initially a 85$ replacement I think, that got down to 29$ after the issue was made public if my memory is correct. Don't quote m
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by hrktb 7y ago
Apple is punished for trying to push the issue under the rug, perpetuating a situation that was beneficial to their revenue. It would be the same if an ISP silently slowed a user's internet when detecting their ISP provided router is g
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by hrktb 7y ago
I feel your concerns will only be addressed by buying Apple itself. That’s a peace of mind you won’t get at a lower price. Otherwise how do you feel about the regular person selling you a device that might have internal usage damage not app
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by hrktb 7y ago
"Messy Api" isn't just parameters. For instance "Fatal" errors and regular errors going to two different logs was very messy and would byte you if you didn't pay special attention to it. Or multi-byte compliant
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by hrktb 7y ago
Good point. Less of a mod scene and more of people coming up with new approaches to the existing weapons. In a way it’s sad we don’t get mods, the silver lining is the game continued growing and getting tweaked for 2 years, with new stages,
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by hrktb 7y ago
Looks to me like the author should try Splatoon 2 - moving fast in non realistic patterns? check - not being dragged down by realistic limitations? check Its network stack is garbage, but from any other point of view (speed, strategy, syste
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by hrktb 7y ago
For me the fallacy lies in two parts: - my standard cup of coffee is not 5$. It’s a free perk on the job, coffee I drink at home and buy in bulk so I don’t think in terms of cups, or a 2€ expresso I buy to sit in some warm place waiting for
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by hrktb 7y ago
There’s another way to see it: violently playing games fosters violent behavior. How you play and what you think while playing games matters more than the exact content of the game. It’s easily seen in how the same games can be played in co
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by hrktb 7y ago
This only works if better alternatives don’t impact the existing means. For instance if you want a good cable car system or dedicated bus lanes, bike paths, it will go through reducing or removing private car lanes. In general it’s both eff
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by hrktb 7y ago
The usefulness of the number depends on your perspective (some would say agenda) If you want to build a library and some official tells you the place would be better used for a movie theater, you have a reference number to argue. Some peopl
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by hrktb 7y ago
There is the old "nobody is ever fired for choosing IBM", and I think Google actually succeeded in forging a "shouldn't we avoid Google ?" mentality. I saw it real time with Maps changing its pricing model, where an
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by hrktb 7y ago
I think a lot of people sharing this sentiment assume cars will always be there, or at least will still be relevant when we finally have generic autonomous driving nailed down. If it takes 50 years to have a fully ready environment with bea
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by hrktb 7y ago
That's a single scenario (focusing on the 'obsolete' part), and android users buying iPhones has the same effect (additional cables for no functional difference) There's an infinite number of cases where getting rid of t
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by hrktb 7y ago
Interesting, and I also remember similar results from other studies, where essentially playing the game would make the subjects better at the game with no other provable benefit. Now, the control for these experiments was amusing: for one o
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by hrktb 7y ago
I think it comes down to the maturity of an industry, a bit like how cars have regulated designs. At some point there are aspects that see little innovations, are “good enough” for their purpose, while having sizeable impact on their user
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by hrktb 7y ago
Obsolete cables are not just technology marching forward, but also customers buying other makers’ devices that make them useless. An iPhone user buying an android phone will need a new set of cables, his old lightning ones have no purpose a
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by hrktb 7y ago
Business model is different but the situation from the consumer and developper point of view is the same. There was a good interview in the vergecast with a lawyer preparing the case against Apple. The answer to “is it a different case for
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by hrktb 7y ago
“dumbphones” had very useful and prolific apps with integrated carrier billing depending on the country. Motorola phones might have been truely “dumb”, that wasn’t true for a Casio or a Panasonic phone for instance.
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by hrktb 7y ago
https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/IP_18_... > In particular, Google: > has required manufacturers to pre-install the Google Search app and browser app (Chrome), as a condition f
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by hrktb 7y ago
Sorry I mixed up Franks and Gaulois, which are two different things altogether. The part I had in mind is the old “our ancestors, the gaulois” which is not taught as is anymore, but still stays very present in the minds through an almost ex
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by hrktb 7y ago
Playstation is basically embedded software though, and everything that runs on it has been custom made for it (it’s also interesting that it spun from a Nintendo cooperation, which makes it a very special division compared to the others) In

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