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by lapcat 11mo ago
> It’s not that uncommon for a 3rd party to report a developer for violating Apple ToS. Frequently, it’s out of spite towards the offending party and not out of love for Apple. Also, Apple employees sometimes report stuff they stumble up
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by lapcat 11mo ago
> If he's sanctioned for being a Putin affiliate or whatever Unless you have specific incriminating evidence, please don't present this hypothetical nonsense as if it's a real possibility. Here's more information abou
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by lapcat 11mo ago
I think the comment was sarcasm. On the other hand, these days it's impossible to tell for sure whether or not someone holds an insane belief.
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by lapcat 11mo ago
> does Darwin use systemd? No.
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by lapcat 11mo ago
There's actually a better format than Safari web archives hidden in the Safari Debug menu: Save Page Complete. This saves the individual files of the site in standard format, html, js, css, etc., much like Chrome does with Webpage, Com
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by lapcat 11mo ago
> In my experience Apple's software has been accumulating small annoying bugs for a couple years. A couple? That's the understatement of the last couple years.
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by lapcat 11mo ago
> It would be nice if you could elaborate To elaborate, you made a wildly false claim with no supporting documentation, such as links to undergraduate degree requirements from universities. These two go hand-in-hand: there wouldn't
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by lapcat 11mo ago
"Please don't comment about the voting on comments. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading." https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html I admit to violating this guideline myself, but only
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by lapcat 11mo ago
> What I find fascinating is the voting is this thread. There's no reason to be fascinated. HN voting is generally inexplicable and random. For any given article, and even more so for any given comment, the "voter turnout"
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by lapcat 11mo ago
This is false.
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by lapcat 11mo ago
https://www-old.cs.utah.edu/docs/Undergraduate/UGHandbook_20... According to the University of Utah Computer Science Undergraduate Student Handbook 2014-2015, "Students must take two intellectual explorations
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by lapcat 11mo ago
> But if you reran the 2024 election today you'd likely get the same result. Nothing has happened to change anyone's mind. I don't think this is true. Trump's approval rating among independents has dropped 20%+. There
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by lapcat 11mo ago
I have a hard time believing this story. You seriously dropped out because you didn't like one class? That doesn't seem to show much fortitude. Which university, which year was this, what was your major, and what happened with you
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by lapcat 11mo ago
How in the world did it get a Featured badge? For that matter, how in the world did it get approved by Google? Asleep at the wheel.
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by lapcat 11mo ago
> The code may look "bad" in a vacuum Substitute "buggy" for "bad". The links in the first sentence of the article refer to bugs, which affect end users of the products. > If you want to reliably produce
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by lapcat 11mo ago
> They are almost certainly working to a deadline, or to a series of overlapping deadlines for different projects. I think this is crucial. Even old hands working on their area of expertise can be compromised by deadlines.
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by lapcat 11mo ago
> I asked for what the difference would be. Why? > social media is full of foreign influence campaigns. And local influence campaigns. Which social media campaign gave RFK a brain worm in 2010? Trump has basically been Trumpy for 40+
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by lapcat 11mo ago
Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.
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by lapcat 11mo ago
In a vague sense, yes, but in a specific sense, no. The stockholders do not make design decisions but only elect the board of directors. The board of directors do not make design decisions but only elect the CEO. The former CEO Steve Jobs d
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by lapcat 11mo ago
"Please don't post insinuations about astroturfing, shilling, brigading, foreign agents, and the like. It degrades discussion and is usually mistaken. If you're worried about abuse, email hn@ycombinator.com and we'll loo
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by lapcat 11mo ago
Isn't that the point of a hierarchy, though? The important decisions come from the top. When I worked for someone else (now self-employed), some bugs were my fault. But with features and other intentional changes, the bosses had to sig
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by lapcat 11mo ago
Is there a HN convention for links to books? This book appears to be available only for preorder now, not yet published. Nobody here has read it, nobody here can read it, and even if they could, this submission will disappear off the front
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by lapcat 11mo ago
I wouldn't say that "very upset" is a correct or fair characterization for disputes in linguistics. Chomsky's universal grammar work was based on too few languages, too little data, and doesn't hold up when you look
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by lapcat 11mo ago
The solution is to never hire an MBA.
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by lapcat 11mo ago
> It’s virtually impossible for me to estimate how long it will take to fix a bug, until the job is done. This is explained later in the post. The 2 day hard limit is applied not to the estimate but rather to the actual work: "If so
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by lapcat 11mo ago
So you wouldn't mind taking an 8.5% pay cut? Apple stockholders wouldn't mind an 8.5% drop in the stock price? If Apple dropped the Mac, how many of those former Mac users would also drop the iPhone? (I would.) And of course, Mac
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by lapcat 11mo ago
1) The "0 New Features" Mac OS X 10.6.0 came 22 months after 10.5.0, not 12 months 2) 10.6.0 included significant under-the-hood improvements but also brought some truly nasty new bugs and was significantly buggier than 10.5.8, re
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by lapcat 11mo ago
> No real breakdown of the problem, certainly no solution. The article appears to be an excerpt from a 300 page book.
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by lapcat 11mo ago
> Maybe focus on keeping the conversation productive I didn't and don't want to have this conversation. Technically, I didn't even ask alphazard what they meant, and in any case, I didn't ask anyone else what alphazar
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by lapcat 11mo ago
> Please check the work of howard zinn Somehow I don't think you and alphazard are talking about the same things.

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