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The Third User or Why Apple Keeps Doing Foolish Things (2013)(asktog.com)
32 points by lykahb 5y ago|28 comments
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by lykahb 5y ago
This looks awfully like an idea from a dystopian cyberpunk fiction book. The title brings together the total surveillance, powerful corporations, and the social problems.
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by lykahb 5y ago
> For example, Netflix supports hundreds of different video formats in various resolutions for each device, from mobile devices to smart TVs. Without device detection, how would that be possible? Device detection is different from conten
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by lykahb 5y ago
I think that it is important to create a precedent of mass data collection that reveals to the users what is collected and gives tools to manage it. The legislators can use it as a blueprint to require a similar level of disclosure from oth
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by lykahb 5y ago
Until the regulators intervene, the trend of turning product ownership into subscription would continue. Makers of the locked down smart products are also opposing the right to repair. I wish it were a common knowledge that proprietary IoT
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by lykahb 5y ago
The picture of Russia and NATO pushing against each other on the Eastern Europe is too simple. It denies the sense agency for the countries in the region. The smaller countries have a long history and aspirations for independence. Why do so
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by lykahb 5y ago
Also on the home page the frequently visited websites panel got smaller. The pocket panel has expanded.
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by lykahb 5y ago
The fuzzy completion tool fzf and a handful of zsh plugins cover all my needs.
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by lykahb 5y ago
When paging the old magazines, I noticed that until about the mid-eighties the focus of an ad was on a product. An ad would even boast of the technical specs of a car or an audio system. A prominent display of people in the process of consu
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by lykahb 5y ago
It is likely that people who eat more mushrooms also eat more vegetables. This correlates to an overall healthier lifestyle.
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by lykahb 6y ago
There is an idea of "God-shaped hole" that is an urge to have a belief in something transcendent or greater than oneself. As the organized religion is in decline, politics or activism seem to become a substitute that provides beli
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by lykahb 6y ago
I wonder how the DDLog compares to Souffle. I think that the biggest difference is that Souffle is batch-oriented. It is less clear how different are the expressiveness, type systems or the recommended patterns. The syntax of DDLog looks se
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by lykahb 6y ago
With more trust, there is less profit the corporations can make, and less tax income. There are many reasons for the decline of trust in the community. I think that one of them is marketing that exploits fears of strangers or peddles weird
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by lykahb 6y ago
Brave got a lot of flak for both blocking webpage ads and showing their own. Some of it was based on the wrong assumption that it substitutes website ads with their own. Instead, both Brave and Opera show ads in the context outside of the w
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by lykahb 6y ago
My writing is much more formal than speaking. If one writes much enough in a certain style, they get used to it. Same thing about speaking - politicians, actors, and other public figures have a certain effect on their everyday demeanor. Onc
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by lykahb 6y ago
Thank you. I had a lot of early influence from the old English textbooks from the 80s that have more formal style and reading technical documentation. Until I started watching movies without dub, all English I studied was quite far from th
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by lykahb 6y ago
The English language is my second language that I learned quite late. I appreciate its beauty with all quirks and complexity. Good writing is not an intrinsic property of the text - it is defined within a context of message and reader. Who
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Ask HN: Category of devices that work offline and rarely need to charge?
3 points by lykahb 6y ago|1 comments
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by lykahb 6y ago
In Russian katala means a card sharp, a crook. The name has a great fit for the language purpose.
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by lykahb 6y ago
I am impressed how they redesigned both internal architecture and a public API while keeping the users happy. Many well written projects fall into the trap of being a great fit for the contemporary practices but become less relevant over ti
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by lykahb 6y ago
The version was useful when the browsers had incomplete support for CSS. It served as a milestone for browser makers to achieve. They could give a claim of their technological advantage, say 90% of the CSS3 features. Now the CSS progress is
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by lykahb 6y ago
It's interesting to see that most of the discussion here revolves around effectiveness and economic impact of tracking. Ten years ago the talking point would be about invasion to privacy. The personal privacy is vanishing not only in p
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by lykahb 6y ago
In a few weeks most of the developers on the Servo team will get another job. The project could be picked up by other people later but only with a significant loss of knowledge and momentum. Now is the critical time for a another company to
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Brand Integration, Built on AI(ben.productplacement.com)
2 points by lykahb 6y ago|0 comments
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by lykahb 6y ago
Vibrant downtowns of many American cities were built before the zoning laws. Their desirability is the most obvious proof that mixed zoning has benefits.
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by lykahb 6y ago
Once this technique gets enough attention, a detector for it will be built. Even if the face cannot be recognized, a profile with such picture may be flagged for more scrutiny. This reminds me of using TOR that hides what you visit, and yet
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by lykahb 6y ago
The neutral companies, such as utilities, online hosting or financial providers serve nearly everyone with little objections - they defer to the law rather than any internal policies. The more selective companies such as newspapers and TV c
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by lykahb 6y ago
The main source of revenue for FB is advertising. They are able to offer Facebook Shops at a loss to get the market share. Many small businesses are mainly present online as a shop on a platform and a FB page. This is bad news for Etsy.
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by lykahb 6y ago
The only text the front page displays is "The #1 app for runners and cyclists", on top of a screenshot and registration dividing the screen in two. Might be A/B testing going on.
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by lykahb 6y ago
Their front page tells nearly nothing about the app. Instead, one half of it solicits registration. This tells me all I need to know about their respect to the users.

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