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by mirkules 14y ago
It is very likely that if their service uses a data connection, their MVNO requires a fixed-year subscription fee upfront - $2376/$99per month = 24 months. Yes, it's steep, but that's probably why. (Note: I don't work for GoPago)
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by mirkules 14y ago
You are right, there is no indication it will have ads. But just because it's a paid product does not mean that the cost of the hardware cannot be subsidized by ads/data, or will not be in the future. Either way, as I stated above, data and
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by mirkules 14y ago
I agree with your sentiment. Privacy and ads are a huge issue for me (and the reason I will not own one). As far as usage cases, I can see this being extremely useful while driving, if it's not too distracting. If it silently records and up
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by mirkules 14y ago
"Broder told a complicated story and put a poetically negative spin on it." I will never forget when my friend and I released an iPhone app, and two years later Apple comes out with a product of the same name. My friend got contacted by a r
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by mirkules 14y ago
I wonder how many orders of magnitude more money it would take to build something like that and how long would it take...
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by mirkules 14y ago
Even in "serious" professions, it still matters who you know. Here's an anecdote: a good friend of mine studied and finished medicine in a foreign country (in English). He passed all the American exams, yet no school would take him. The pat
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by mirkules 14y ago
The only thing more dangerous than bored hackers is drunk bored hackers. Bur seriously, with only 11 minutes of action in a 3-hour event, 2% may be realistic.
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by mirkules 14y ago
This is one of my main complaints about the iPhone 5 screen: the iPhone 4S has a perfect screen size for my hands, where I can smoothly tap the "back" navigation button with my thumb if I hold it in my right hand. On the iPhone 5, it's nea
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by mirkules 14y ago
What really struck me as visually jarring was the top bar and how it permanently overlaps the title, "A LIST APART". At first, I thought it was NoScript doing something funny, but it's the same in Safari. It just feels like a temporary menu
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by mirkules 14y ago
That's brilliant -- I always wanted to remove this behavior, but didn't know where to start. Thank you.
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by mirkules 14y ago
I love your advice: start out learning how to manage memory and it only gets easier. While ARC is great compared to manual memory management, it doesn't work on non-Objective-C object, such as CFRefs (when dealing with sound, for example).
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by mirkules 14y ago
Sure, it's a stretch, I don't dispute that at all. Maybe a spider witnessed another spider being eaten, and since it was spared, decided to make another spider-looking thing so it doesn't get eaten again. It's not really a matter of self-re
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by mirkules 14y ago
From what I understand, your point is that advertisers don't respect the DNT anymore because Microsoft turned it on by default. But would there have been any incentive for advertisers to respect the DNT even before Microsoft got involved? I
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by mirkules 14y ago
The process of producing decoy shapes isn't really a problem. Why these spiders made the shapes is more interesting. I think that the spiders that didn't create these decoy structures were selected against in the evolutionary process. The
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by mirkules 14y ago
Just because a company offers a service for free does not give it the (moral) right to try to sneak in changes to what you signed up for as a customer. Unfortunately, legally they can pretty much do whatever they want as long as they includ
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by mirkules 14y ago
So what you're essentially saying is, it's ok to lie to your users as long as you assume they know you are lying.
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by mirkules 14y ago
They aren't running a charity, you're right about that. But I think they misrepresented their business by giving it away for free, knowing full-well that it won't be sustainable in the long run under that model. Their response? "Oh ok, no
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by mirkules 14y ago
We (consumers) deserve to have an honest description of how our data is and will be used. We also deserve to receive the service we signed up for and not have the ToS switched on us midway through the lifecycle of the product. The fact tha
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by mirkules 14y ago
I personally thought the LSD-inspired Zune commercials were decent. Otherwise, I agree.
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by mirkules 14y ago
Great point. Once you buy the magazine, the money is spent, whether you like it or not. Although, it should encourage you to not buy anymore. On the flip side, printed magazines would be so prohibitively expensive without adverts that nobod
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by mirkules 14y ago
Interesting. I never thought of it as an advertisement arms-race, but that's what it is.
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by mirkules 14y ago
The example that comes to mind is content that IS advertisement. For that you can look into just about any US magazine (not sure about UK, but I suspect they are very similar there), for example this article in GQ http://www.gq.com/food-tr
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by mirkules 14y ago
Honestly, I don't know what terrifies me more about such businesses: storing my personal information on pieces of paper with no way to track their movement, or storing my personal information on (what is most likely) unsecured computers. Th
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by mirkules 14y ago
Voting is really hard too. I just don't bother voting anymore on iDevices until there is at least a 40x40 button I can use with my stubby fingers.
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by mirkules 14y ago
While I find bidet toilets incredibly useful, I don't understand why this is such a sudden revelation. The French invented these toilets in the 18th century: they were/are in wide use in Europe, middle east, and I've even encountered a few
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by mirkules 14y ago
It's not about playing a sound on release. It's about feeling where the button is in the first place. When you place your finger on the screen, you can't tell where on the screen your finder landed without looking. It's much easier to feel
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by mirkules 14y ago
Absolutely not. These "restrictive" vehicle systems are horrible, for the simple fact that they don't distinguish between driver and passenger. Being in some more modern vehicles which do exactly as you say is infuriating when you have to a
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by mirkules 14y ago
The problem with touchscreens and, specifically, touchscreens in vehicles, is that there is no feedback to let your fingers know when you're actually touching a button and when you are not. No feedback means that I have to take my eyes off
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by mirkules 14y ago
They already have permission -- I believe Wikipedia content is licensed under the CC Attribution license. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Moot_smiling_at_ROFLCon_II... On a related note, I didn't see any attributions.
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by mirkules 14y ago
It's interesting that without javascript the menu is less spaced-apart, and the iPad Mini image is smaller. You can see the elements shift up and down the page as you turn on/off javascript. I do suspect that this is nefarious because the U

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