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by jxdxbx 8y ago
Most of Apple's R&D spending is not categorized as R&D. R&D spending is for basic tech research not product development.
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by jxdxbx 8y ago
If you are a paid developer your apps don't expire (at least not for a year or so).
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by jxdxbx 9y ago
The evidence is overwhelming that labor markets are monopsonistic, meaning that wages are almost always below what a competitive market would produce. Minimum wages work as advertised.
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by jxdxbx 9y ago
Markdown was specifically designed to just be shorthand for HTML tags--most of the missing features don't meet that criterion.
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by jxdxbx 9y ago
I can't think of a way to do authority-marking and tables of authorities, auto-updating supra and infra references, different page numbering systems within a single document, etc etc with markdown. Writing a rough draft in a text edit
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by jxdxbx 9y ago
With the exception of battery life 1G Apple Watches and iPads typically work just as well as they did on day 1. Cloud support will start to fall away at some point. But these products are very durable. Huge numbers of iPad 2s are still i
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by jxdxbx 9y ago
As a Markdown-loving attorney: Yep. And not just word processors, but Word specifically has non-negotiable features I need, such as tables of authorities. Yep, you can do any of this in LaTeX—but it’s just much harder, and generally works
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by jxdxbx 9y ago
> Perhaps the most interesting part about all this is that there was never (to my knowledge) such a thing as a store where you could rent records, tapes, or CDs -- Blockbuster for music. That is because it is illegal. 17 U.S.C. § 109(b).
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by jxdxbx 9y ago
Apple was one of the last holdouts. They were shipping matte and 4:3 laptops until relatively recently. Reflective screens are the biggest shame. They’re worse but they sell better. For a while 4:3 looked “old fashioned.” Turns out that a t
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by jxdxbx 9y ago
You can be fired for your political opinions.
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by jxdxbx 9y ago
Google employees do not have a right to discuss Google’s diversity policy. That does not fall within the “improving workplace conditions” exception. Google is within its rights to simply fire all conservatives if it wants to. I think labor
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by jxdxbx 9y ago
There is no such “legal right” to discuss things in the workplace. Where do you get that from? Maybe there should be one, but there isn’t.
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by jxdxbx 9y ago
Watch apps sucking at first was entirely Apple’s fault since the implementation was terrible. Now that the hardware is faster and watch apps can be more standalone there are lots of good ones: Carrot Weather, Fantastical, Drafts, Authy, and
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by jxdxbx 9y ago
Dude, there are loads of third-party music apps out there, including plenty that let you copy music to your phone any way you please—from a USB drive, from SFTP, etc. Check out nPlayer for a power-user media player. Personally I keep my per
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by jxdxbx 9y ago
I’m happy to let Amazon labor under the illusion that I want to use their crummy Alexa platform for anything other than music and timers, if it means they’ll sell me a voice-controlled speaker for $40 that I can connect to an existing pair
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by jxdxbx 9y ago
I wonder if anyone has numbers on RSS usage? There are way more RSS services, and better readers, now than when Google's mediocre product was dominant.
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by jxdxbx 9y ago
This just means that the iPhone X is not going to be next year's low-cost phone. Neither the original iPhone nor the iPhone 5 were kept in production a second year. It got distorted through a game of telephone into the iPhone X being
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by jxdxbx 9y ago
It's not like I love the notch, but I'd rather have it than a smaller screen or no sensors, which are the two only other options. It's not a piece of missing screen, it's two bonus bits of screen (and I like the approac
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by jxdxbx 9y ago
Apple's CPUs win benchmarks, but a lot of this is more down to economics. They're making CPUs for a single client, themselves, mostly for the high end, and they don't need to make a profit on them. Qualcomm probably could ma
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by jxdxbx 9y ago
Transcription is a hard problem but it's pretty closed to solved. The unsolved problem is telling an voice assistant to do something useful and having it do it. An AI assistant would be something that could act on "Book me a tri
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by jxdxbx 9y ago
Well, Alexa seems to be going the brute force route--using third-party skills is just like using a spoken command line utility. The problem is, while this approach is simple and it works, very few skills are useful.
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by jxdxbx 9y ago
"Voice first" seems like a misguided philosophy pushed by people who think that we're due for some sort of "revolution." Voice is important but mostly for narrow use cases (in the car, music control in the house) or
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by jxdxbx 9y ago
I agree. This sounds great, and people keep citing "older" software as the reason they don't want virtualization, which makes no sense. Old software is exactly where you won't see a performance difference. Do people th
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by jxdxbx 9y ago
tmux always seems kind of cool but I have a hard time seeing an advantage over just running multiple terminal windows, using mosh if remote.
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by jxdxbx 9y ago
Well, it's more an "avoid random shut-downs" thing than a battery life thing. In some instances throttling can lessen battery life. A faster processor might use less power to do a given bit of work than a slow one because of
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by jxdxbx 9y ago
Well, users can easily switch, to an extent (Google increasingly ties its services together, meaning you lose out if you use other Google products but not search). But, if you depend on incoming Google traffic, you can't "switch.&
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by jxdxbx 9y ago
Ads are never going anywhere. We had ads for decades that did not need to track your every move. They work fine and can work fine online. I fail to see why internet ads being more like TV, radio, and print ads means that free services wou
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by jxdxbx 9y ago
Nothing about what Apple has done has any effect on web sites or services that do not engage in tracking.
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by jxdxbx 9y ago
I know lots of developers who use a Mac specifically because it is a Unix system with normal Unix tools that can also run lots of commercial desktop software.
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by jxdxbx 9y ago
They're not just trying to preempt any hypothetical disclosure "rules" but to make generally-applicable fraud and misrepresentation laws inapplicable to ISPs. New York, for instance, is suing Charter for lying to customers ab

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