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by lowtolerance 8y ago
I get your point and I know it’s a great way to reap those free internet points, but you’re being a little disingenuous with the Apple hate here. Apple never licensed out iOS to the EU or anywhere else. The kernel of iOS is open source. I
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by lowtolerance 8y ago
Neither were guaranteed hits when they were introduced. Apple’s biggest claim to fame at that point was the iPod. Even after the iPhone was released, it was years before critics looked at it as a product that could withstand the test of tim
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by lowtolerance 8y ago
geohot has always been equal parts brains and bombast.
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by lowtolerance 8y ago
$30 + $5 shipping is “super cheap”? And I have to make my own case for it to be usable? I can buy like 20 ESP8266s for that price. Neat device, and I’ll probably still end up buying one at some point, but that’s pretty damned expensive fo
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by lowtolerance 8y ago
I’ve never heard this complaint about AirPods. Mine certainly don’t seem to have experienced any reduction in volume after about 15 months of use. Have you gotten them wet?
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by lowtolerance 8y ago
Aren’t they supporting iPhones all the way back to the 5s with iOS 12? That’s way better than any competitor can claim.
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by lowtolerance 8y ago
I’m sorry that you don’t see the difference between the two. Philip Glass isn’t an activist campaigning to alter the public’s understanding of physics. He’s just a guy relaying his beliefs in an interview where he is being pressed to expla
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by lowtolerance 8y ago
If you're frustrated by a layman having a layman's understanding of theoretical physics, then you need to re-evaluate your life. Glass is a composer. No one in the world looks to him for guidance on understanding relativity.
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by lowtolerance 8y ago
Why does anyone do anything creative, if it’s not necessary to do so? Who are you to say that their feeling regarding the nature of a particular phenomenon is invalid ?
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by lowtolerance 8y ago
Sounds like a problem with the user, not a problem with the UX. There should be no expectation that a website be functional when JavaScript has been intentionally disabled. You never see people who have disable CSS complaining that a websit
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by lowtolerance 8y ago
Apple never said anything about open-sourcing FaceTime. Jobs said they were going to make it an open standard . That’s very different, but it doesn’t matter because they didn’t do that, either. My understanding is that patents got in the w
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by lowtolerance 8y ago
Yeah, better to wait until everyone wastes their effort discovering for themselves what someone with extensive first-hand experience could have told them upfront.
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by lowtolerance 8y ago
The vast majority of CRT monitors have a curved glass screen. Flat monitors were still pretty common, but they came at a premium.
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by lowtolerance 8y ago
I don’t have any data to support this, but I would think that, if anything, laptops would be much more susceptible to sudden, unexpected power loss than desktops, especially once the battery has some age and can’t keep up with peak power de
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by lowtolerance 8y ago
I’d like to know as well. Preventing users from closing a tab is the kind of user-hostile UX I’d expect from some of the scummier ad networks.
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by lowtolerance 8y ago
Kazcynski went to Harvard at the age of 16, and has an IQ of 167.
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by lowtolerance 8y ago
Above reproach? For what? Enforcing their quality standards? You are placing the “shining beacon of the open source community” above approach reproach, without a hint of awareness of the irony. Having a calm demeanor when explaining that th
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by lowtolerance 8y ago
If that were the case and the developers knew it, then they should have pulled it from the store long before now. Think about it - they didn’t pull the app because of the bugs. They pulled the app because they don’t agree with Amazon (of al
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by lowtolerance 8y ago
I thinks it’s a matter of how we educate our arm-chair security experts, actually. What is the difference between blindly trusting a script piped directly from the source and blindly trusting a script packaged in a tarball? Can you honestly
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by lowtolerance 8y ago
A bug that results in data loss is not “slight” or “small”. I’d honestly rather have an unstable beta app than a production release that doesn’t offer a proper data migration. I’m disappointed that the VLC team would rather remove their app
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by lowtolerance 8y ago
> Or Download Literally immediately below the install script. I wish people would leave these low-effort comments on reddit where they belong.
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by lowtolerance 8y ago
It’s a more effective deterrent than doing nothing at all.
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by lowtolerance 8y ago
This is simply not true. There are plenty of beginner-level JavaScript tutorials and resources out there, but the same could be said of any language. JavaScript libraries du jour like React and Angular are certainly not aimed at beginners
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by lowtolerance 8y ago
You could AirPlay it to the HomePod. It also supports FLAC.
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by lowtolerance 8y ago
I’ve been through a few “intro to react” courses like this now, and I have not come across a single one that talks about testing at any length, which seems insane to me. When I was learning Rails many years ago, test-driven development was
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by lowtolerance 9y ago
Facebook isn’t getting anything out of me using their open-source JavaScript library that they couldn’t get anyway.
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by lowtolerance 9y ago
Yeah, but when they’re facilitating fraud...
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by lowtolerance 9y ago
Wouldn’t a rigid, curved glass surface be less prone to breakage than a flat piece of glass, since the full force of an impact is more likely to be deflected?
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by lowtolerance 9y ago
They’re the only option available because tiny mobile keyboards were pretty damned annoying, too, while also carrying the cost of dozens of potential points of failure, taking up a considerable amount of real estate regardless of how long t
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by lowtolerance 9y ago
I disagree. Microsoft just took typographic design principles that have been extant for decades and which were already commonplace in print and web design and applied them wholesale to UI design. There are situations where this makes perfec

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