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by m000 7y ago
Hell, photographers know that any iPhone can't compete a midrange camera. But Apple clearly wants the average person to believe that it can. Why else stick a "pro" description to your phone's camera? Of course they can&#
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by m000 7y ago
Ok, it's not an ad. It's an advertorial. Happy now? And he's just beating the strawman with his review. - Did we need a "review" to learn that the new iPhone can shoot better pictures than previous iPhones? - Where
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by m000 7y ago
Essentially repeating the same BS analogies with the "would you steal a car" campaign 20 years ago. The commercial success of movies is measured at the cinema screenings. This is implicitly accepted even by studios. When a film is
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by m000 7y ago
> ...failed to fully address key complaints from the United States Trade Representative (USTR) made on behalf of rightsholders. I'm glad that a country reminded their local USTR that they're not a colony and he's not the v
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by m000 7y ago
TBH this is the first time I've heard about Elm, the language. I was wondering why nobody else had made the joke, so I took a stab at it.
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by m000 7y ago
I sense a generation gap here. csail-related is a closed mailing list. If you disagree with a point, you are expected to come back with some arguments. Not to leak emails out with zero effort in making a discussion. That's the establis
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by m000 7y ago
> Anyway, he probably should have know better than to weigh in. That's the problem with the internet today. It's too toxic to hold any meaningful public discussion. I'd bet that RMS was open to discussing the point he expr
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by m000 7y ago
This is the only Elm I know: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elm_(email_client)
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by m000 7y ago
> stopping private carriers from being at a disadvantage compared to national posts who receive terminal dues, etc So, basically private carriers lobbying US govt. to handle them the baseline postal service market.
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by m000 7y ago
> Yes, but it puts American consumers at an advantage! Are there more consumers or businesses? Interesting perspective. I can see a parallel with healthcare insurance: - one big non-profit subsidized provider -> cheap baseline service
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by m000 7y ago
"budget cuts"
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by m000 7y ago
You mean like awk?
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by m000 7y ago
So the big winners are the lawyers I guess...
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by m000 7y ago
I don't think there's actually anything concrete to discuss. After reading the post, my feeling is that the author is probably fishing for HN geeks that would be intrigued to test his headless detection mechanism. Which would be b
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by m000 7y ago
Thanks for sharing this information. This is pretty much consistent with my experience from visiting Apple Stores for repairing my MBP. I'm especially enraged by 2: You visit the store with a broken machine costing upwards 3K (includin
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by m000 7y ago
Not sure if where you were serviced, but Apple Store Amsterdam is terrible. It has devolved to another Leidseplein tourist trap: if you don't plan to spend money, you're wasting their time. For any serious issues, I take the bus t
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by m000 7y ago
Can someone explain what's the purpose of this remapping? Is this for MacBook Pro models with a Touch Bar, or is it something else altogether? In the former case, a better title would be "Map Escape to Caps Lock".
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by m000 7y ago
I'm not sure about other fields, but most theses in computer science these days are usually a stitch-up of your papers + some glue text/backstory. I.e. 80% of your thesis is already in LaTeX format. Org Mode only adds complexity t
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by m000 7y ago
Being fairly unobtrusive, I find modelines convenient for making explicit the proper indenting mode for source files. This is useful in distributed development, where the project doesn't specify a preferred code style. Even if other de
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by m000 8y ago
If you are willing to put some time in configuring your desktop, Slate [1] should do the trick for you. If delving into yet another application-specific configuration language does't thrill you, then Magnet [2] gives you the baseline i
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by m000 8y ago
What are you talking about? MacTeX is already available [1]. MacTex is cask-only on Homebrew, so there's really not much to test in the formula. You should be able to bump up the version in the old cask formula and it should work. Havi
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by m000 8y ago
I'm following pretty much the same definition with you. Compassion In World Farming [1] also campaigns (more or less) along these lines. So you're definitely not alone. CIWF also operates in the US, but the campaigning in Europe s
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by m000 8y ago
I just told you: a friggin installer . All cross-platorm features are inconsequential if you can't easily distribute the application on multiple platforms in the first place.
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by m000 8y ago
The Electron bloat of Polar buys you much better cross-platform features than the KDE bloat of Okular. Okular is ok as long as you run only linux. In theory you could run it also on macOS or Windows, but you have to jump through the hoops.
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by m000 8y ago
Wow! Thanks for the self-promotion :-) Polar looks perfect for an academic environment. From a quick look the only thing missing is some kind of bibliography/doi integration.
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by m000 8y ago
Big fan of iTunes, aren't you?
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by m000 8y ago
> Only if you put the option to subscribe into your app in the app store. Yes, they get 30% only if you subscribe through the app store. That's already too much for a service that doesn't use Apple's infrastructure, but Sp
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by m000 8y ago
So what kind of payment scheme would count as fair-play from your point of view?
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by m000 8y ago
A number of reasons. First, you may end-up paying some middle-man twice. Second, you may have to declare any donations as income and be taxed for them (more paperwork for you). Third, in order to reclaim the tax you paid for the donations,
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by m000 8y ago
I don't think that it's the control of the ecosystem that affords Apple to dump x86. It's mostly that they can afford it. Their make money from iPhones. Their computer market share is still <7%, much of which is just hipst

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