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by intoverflow2 9y ago
Not defending the words of the poster you are quoting but African American is a race not a religion/belief system. Dating app for Mormons or Atheists would be a more appropriate analogy.
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by intoverflow2 9y ago
Beauty of Logo vs other robot command puzzles like Lightbot is Logo isn't just solving puzzles but a gateway to actually being creative with code. Kid walking away from lightbot: "I completed all the hard challenges" Kid walk
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by intoverflow2 9y ago
>Even the main Amazon shopping app is less than 100mb. 109 on my device, not sure why it needs over 100 for a menu/search and checkout function that relies entirely on external data. Also another commenter said Alexa was 78 when it&
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by intoverflow2 9y ago
>I also hate the suggestions and that I can't edit them and ban them. I don't know why it bothers me less on the computer with say YouTube. This bothers me way more on YouTube because all the thumbnails are just people pulling
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by intoverflow2 9y ago
Basic word filtering was added recently https://twitter.com/settings/muted_keywords I'm hoping one day there is something smarter. I know RSS still exists but it feels like Google Readers death killed a lot of the
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by intoverflow2 9y ago
Anyone still actually having a good time on this service? Just feels a cacophony of (US Centric) political screaming and foot stamping from both sides the past two years. Just utterly draining to scroll through my timeline some days and I
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by intoverflow2 9y ago
>I hope that at some points, Adobe will release the Flash source code. We can hope but there were big-ish campaigns to get them to open source Freehand and then Fireworks and they just don't care and would rather you keep their mont
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by intoverflow2 9y ago
Adobe always used to blame OS X for being literally half the performance of the Windows version claiming it wasn't their fault (Mac team was a fraction of the size I heard). Then Jobs wrote "Thoughts on Flash" and magically
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by intoverflow2 9y ago
> A lot went downhill after Adobe bought Macromedia Still annoyed Fireworks was killed, it was pretty much the feature set of Sketch and more with a decade of work behind it. Then they killed it and are now left scrambling to replicate S
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by intoverflow2 9y ago
Paint 3D is actually a decent app. I think people are going to hate it by default though.
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by intoverflow2 9y ago
Someone correct me if I'm wrong but this seems to be talking about FruitFly 1 [1] and the article is about FruitFly 2 [2]. Been digging around and still can't find any description of how to tell if you're infected by the new
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by intoverflow2 9y ago
I'm curious to what the ads looked like? I installed it but can't see them and the article only includes it's own ads for razors not pictures of the ads it's talking about.
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by intoverflow2 9y ago
> Why didn't they just use css as intended Too many engineers and not enough actual problems.
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by intoverflow2 9y ago
Being obsessed with metrics is the exact reason something like this would go through. All companies that design to metrics instead of vision always ship the worst UI/UX crimes. This is the ideology we have to thank for things like the
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by intoverflow2 9y ago
This must mean that Yahoo and the other search engines that followed the "portal" design pattern which Google was a welcome alternative to are so far in the past that they're about to sleepwalk into the same design mistakes.
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by intoverflow2 9y ago
Probably legal issues with Soundcloud offloading the data. This way they can skate the rules and save the data. Plus startups on the way out usually want to use their data as a bargaining chip to sell whatever remains of the service off, if
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by intoverflow2 9y ago
> Photoshop filter Funnily enough someone correct me if I'm wrong but these are almost entirely ancient single core code.
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by intoverflow2 9y ago
That part of my comment was obviously in jest...
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by intoverflow2 9y ago
If it has beaten Snapchat why is my Twitter feed full of memes about a dancing hotdog Snapchat filter? I have this inkling that tech press and lots of the tech community are super eager for Snapchat to be destroyed because they never unders
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by intoverflow2 9y ago
Risking dropping a genuinely useful feature for an engineering vanity project just to mark the 10th anniversary of a product feels very Tim Cook's Apple to me. As Marco Arment put it on the ATP (ep. 229) podcast >In so many recent A
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by intoverflow2 9y ago
Is anyone buying any smartwatch stuff? Wasn't Apple even lumping their Watch sales figures into the "Other" category along with the Apple TV out of embarrassment.
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by intoverflow2 9y ago
Think it's worth keeping in mind the state of the smartwatch market in 2017 is a fraction of what people thought it would be when Pebble was going big and the Apple Watch was a rumour. Investors were clearly hoping it was about to expl
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by intoverflow2 9y ago
>The only real long-term solution is supporting competitive products. Not really viable when the only OS that has software parity is OS X and the only OS with hardware parity is Linux. If we drew a venn diagram it would be a straight lin
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by intoverflow2 9y ago
Thanks for the list will definitely check them out. Think my main worry is the existence of the big players making things like this on a whim or acquiring things like this on a whim then dumping them (Let's be real here no way will goo
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by intoverflow2 9y ago
There is a thin(ish) line between convenience as a service and surrogate mummy as a service to prolong adolescence into adulthood.
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by intoverflow2 9y ago
>Does anyone actually use Blue Apron? Podcast hosts.
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by intoverflow2 9y ago
>Of course I suppose that reflects on authors profession (being a writer for a web publication) Far too much of this navel gazing when reviewing products from the tech press these days. Like the iPad being championed as a work device jus
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by intoverflow2 9y ago
Always feel when a software developer tries to teach coding to kids they seem to more wrapped up in the process and doing things the "correct" way (often over complicating things with typing, language nuance and command line ritua
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by intoverflow2 9y ago
> a great alternative to spending money and time at restaurants You realise that isn't a chore, right? It's supposed to be fun.
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by intoverflow2 9y ago
> sourceless executable This doesn't matter, the point is the option to do more was always present. Kids are curious and if the option exists at least a few will find it and try to understand it. Sure you didn't have the source

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