laurentdc

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   by laurentdc 10y ago

   The last good iTunes I've used was on OS X 10.4 on a Mac Mini G4. There were little iGimmicks around so it would play music, sync with the iPod, that's it. From there it went downhill.
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   by laurentdc 10y ago

   Illegal copies of software (e.g. Photoshop)? I wonder how do they know that - do pirated versions leave fingerprints in your graphic assets? I know for example that typography companies or stock photo agencies crawl the web seeking for unli
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   Half of U.S. smartphone users download zero apps per month(recode.net)

   8 points by laurentdc 10y ago|4 comments
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   by laurentdc 10y ago

   I have nothing to add. I just wanted to that say when I read "Most Beautiful Typeface" I thought it was going to be another boring post about Helvetica, and it was not, and I'm really glad for that.
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   by laurentdc 10y ago

   Just get a ThinkPad. This X230 is the best machine I've owned in terms of build quality. I stopped giving money to Apple when they started gluing batteries and soldering memories. That's just disrespectful both to the environment
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   by laurentdc 10y ago

   The performance impact of HTTPS is negligible. Article from 2010: https://www.imperialviolet.org/2010/06/25/overclocking-ssl.h...
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   by laurentdc 10y ago

   Is it just me or there's an actual increase in scams among startups lately? e.g. yesterday's post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12384071
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   by laurentdc 10y ago

   aaand this is why certain stuff better stay off the cloud.
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   by laurentdc 10y ago

   I think it's like saying "extinct": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perisphinctes
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    by laurentdc 10y ago

    I'm starting to think websites like Forbes exist for the sole purpose of displaying advertisements. Like a billboard, but surrounded by useless chunks of text.
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    by laurentdc 10y ago

    I've read the article twice and I'm still not sure what point it is trying to convey.
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    by laurentdc 10y ago

    Just adding that you should make backups anyway, possibly on some sort of media that is offline and in a different location. No cloud service is really safe. I'm not saying Dropbox or OneDrive could disappear tomorrow, but yeah, they t
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    by laurentdc 10y ago

    livin' the rat race one latte at a time
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    by laurentdc 10y ago

    It's just that most people don't care. You won't believe how many students (non IT related field) I see who still run 10.8/10.9, or whatever OS their MacBook came out with. Also: if you hold down alt-R for performing Int
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    by laurentdc 10y ago

    I hope no one is trusting a "Mac" LCD monitor for any sort of serious color work. Especially the laptop ones are truly awful and hard to calibrate due to the glossy nature. Heck, a decent HP DreamColor / EIZO / NEC displ
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    by laurentdc 10y ago

    Same. Especially since El Capitan I've had nothing but trouble with SIP (System Integrity Protection), both in working with OpenVPN (due to unsigned interface .kexts) and even in simple stuff such as trying to pip install something tha
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    by laurentdc 10y ago

    Yeah I didn't really get "what makes a Mac a Mac" either. I scrolled looking for a part 2 or something.
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    by laurentdc 10y ago

    In fact the best people I know (hackers, makers and the alike) are all using home-made static blogs or even the much bashed Wordpress. Medium seems really full of clickbait articles, or stuff with very little real content (the typical &quot
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    by laurentdc 10y ago

    It's missing "web artisan". So much self-entitlement.