iiiggglll

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by iiiggglll 7y ago
Wow, what city is this? > I've filed bugs Was that using Radar? Did you try using the "Report an Issue" UI within the Maps app itself?
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by iiiggglll 8y ago
One of the perl guys (maybe Larry Wall?) said the same thing at a talk once about companies using perl but not wanting anyone to know it because it was a such a time saver they considered it a competitive advantage.
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by iiiggglll 8y ago
Welcome to the 21st century, where quality, accuracy, and precision are sacrificed at the altar of "scale".
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by iiiggglll 8y ago
Not that he's wrong about open-source abandonware, but that's rather an overstatement. No significant amount of his code remains in any modern browser, and when the engine that eventually became WebKit and later Blink (and which n
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by iiiggglll 8y ago
iOS already has the "Trust this computer?" dialog[1], but this sounds like it disables the port to the point where the dialog wouldn't even appear and no connection could get through, trusted or not. [1] https://su
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by iiiggglll 9y ago
> China has effectively been waging a trade war with the US for the past 20 years. ... America just hasn’t responded—which I find baffling. "Hasn't responded"? It was America's idea in the first place! It started 24 y
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by iiiggglll 9y ago
I'm not so sure. Developers may be excited at the chance to forgo the App Store / Play Store, but will users get onboard? They've had 10 years of training to download an app from a store. Will the flow for onboarding with a P
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by iiiggglll 9y ago
I agree with most of what you wrote, and I do think it was the right call for them to implement this feature for iPhones with batteries having trouble, and I agree most if not all the articles about this have been poorly written and badly m
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by iiiggglll 9y ago
> A third line of attack is likely to become important soon, perhaps as soon as next year. Former Facebook executive (yes, another dissident insider) Antonio Garcia-Martinez argued earlier this year that Facebook's ad targeting base
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by iiiggglll 9y ago
There's only one way to respond to this: http://i.imgur.com/lfcUz.jpg
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by iiiggglll 9y ago
> I wait for the day this page exists: > https://www.apple.com/paying_taxes/ Not quite what you mean, but there's this, just posted within the last month: https://www.apple.com/newsroom/
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by iiiggglll 9y ago
This will only become more common once vehicles are self-driving. People will live in their vehicles and have them either drive around all night or find a place to park many hours away from their jobs (assuming there any jobs left). The fan
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by iiiggglll 9y ago
I refuse to believe a single number about the online ad business while things like this are going on: http://fortune.com/2016/12/20/methbot-ad-fraud/
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by iiiggglll 9y ago
> Besides the big 3, I also froze reporting from Innovis. Why Innovis? Who typically uses their reports?
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by iiiggglll 9y ago
> Even though Apple had not ironed out many of the basics, like how the autonomous systems would work, a team had already started working on an operating system software called CarOS. There was fierce debate about whether it should be pr
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by iiiggglll 9y ago
I recall looking around at the time but didn't see anything. The most recent thread was already done when it happened, and then the convention one was opened with pretty much no mention of it at all. Even now I can't find any subs
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by iiiggglll 9y ago
Count me as part of the strange group that is dismayed at the quality but for some reason I can't fully explain, keeps showing up. I've had an account since late 2000 (yes, 17 years). I still read Metafilter pretty much every day,
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by iiiggglll 9y ago
Funny. But, here's a real answer: Too many people do not like Hillary, and they stayed home instead of voting for her. That's the bottom line. Right or wrong, fair or unfair, she is not well liked enough to get elected. The thing
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by iiiggglll 9y ago
That cuts both ways. Signing it would have made a lot of people feel good without actually doing anything. All the accords and agreements in the world will do nothing to help get us out of this mess. There is only one thing that will save u
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by iiiggglll 9y ago
> Waymo has around 200, we expect to pass them by the end of the year. Do you have any idea how ridiculous you sound? Waymo is a serious engineering effort with a lot of talented people working to do it right. There's a lot more to
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by iiiggglll 9y ago
And it was all done in the name of improving "human rights": http://tech.mit.edu/V114/N27/china.27w.html Every human has a right ... to be poisoned on the job!
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by iiiggglll 9y ago
> focussed on what customers and developers want I would hardly agree with the modern web being focused on what "customers" want. How many web pages today hijack scrolling, fill the screen with ads that lie on top of the conten
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by iiiggglll 9y ago
It's like everything in Dan Ligon's satirical video from 10 years ago came true: http://cargocollective.com/danligon/filter/current-tv/Ha-Ha-...
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by iiiggglll 10y ago
Note: I like TheDeck and what they were trying to do, not to mention I read and support sites like Metafilter and Daring Fireball, but… Damn, that is a hilarious parody.
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by iiiggglll 10y ago
> Uber is that bad? That's terrible. They shouldn't be off the test track yet. No kidding! Yet somehow I'm not surprised, as it has always been pretty obvious that these jackasses didn't know what they were doing. Thi
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by iiiggglll 10y ago
Looks like it's this same survey[1], which was already reported a while ago in the NYTimes[2], and when you actually look at it, contains this phrase, which adds a little more perspective: > 39% of responding institutions reported a
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by iiiggglll 10y ago
Wow, people who engage in hashtag activism don't pay attention to facts? Stop the presses!
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by iiiggglll 10y ago
As the blog post[1] criticizing Paltrow (which was written by a gynecologist and linked from the WaPo article) says, it's not something that should be done continuously, all day long: > Overenthusiastic Kegel exercises or incorrectl
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by iiiggglll 10y ago
Going by some of the recent antics of companies like comma.ai and Uber, it sounds self-driving cars mostly work via hype & publicity stunts. Any actual technology that is involved is purely coincidental.
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by iiiggglll 10y ago
Commutes will be solved when everyone is replaced by automation and we no longer have jobs to get to.

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