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931.
by misnome 6y ago
What's preventing a console being used as a productivity platform? Isn't it just the artificial restriction on where you can get software for it from?
932.
by misnome 6y ago
Come on, I don't think anyone is pretending that this wasn't a deliberate provocation by Epic
933.
by misnome 6y ago
Why not? If it wasn’t so locked down you’d be able to install apps to do all those things.
934.
by misnome 6y ago
I haven’t read Gruber in years and the literal first thing I thought when the “they don’t let other people use their platform” argument was made is “Why would this not apply to any other platform, <think of another highly locked down pla
935.
by misnome 6y ago
It completely gives them the right to do it on their own. They are free to take their business elsewhere, or start their own mobile platform.
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by misnome 6y ago
So anyone who doesn’t think it’s as much a slam-dunk as everyone high-fiving each other thinks is automatically an apologist? I’d love to have the option to sideload apps on my iPhone. I understood that I couldn’t do this when I bought it h
937.
by misnome 6y ago
Or, it’s an extremely obvious immediate parallel
938.
by misnome 6y ago
This doesn’t remotely support your accusation
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by misnome 6y ago
Or perhaps the best way of answering questions from five year olds isn’t causing these people who know about spectra and wavelength-response to go into pedantic and excessive detail? If you answer “white” then the next question is “why does
940.
by misnome 6y ago
Or worse - you pass --help and the script runs and starts doing stuff
941.
by misnome 6y ago
I recently ran into a case I hadn’t seen before with python’s argparse. Multiple arguments in a single option, e.g. “—foo bar daz” with —foo set to ‘*’ swallows both bar and daz, where I would have expected to have to explicitly specify “—f
942.
by misnome 6y ago
As I understand it, they said “there are probably copies out there unused, we are using those”, but had no agreement and only “partnered” later, after the announcement, as a post-hoc justification.
943.
by misnome 6y ago
I don’t think I’ve ever looked forwards to a postmortem so much, so many possibilities.
944.
by misnome 6y ago
My main dislikes are slow, lazy loading, and that you can’t read the last commit messages without extra clicks of the “...” button. Even in pull requests I’ve seen new commits show up without the message (and clicking the expand button, it
945.
by misnome 6y ago
I can see some people being rubbed the wrong way by the language in this post but it sounds like a reasonable criticism by someone who has gotten tired and annoyed, and seems to mostly represent accurately the discussion in that ticket. Doe
946.
by misnome 6y ago
How do you mean? More than the usual start stop step-in step-over? With physical keys you can “home” your finger and press without drifting or looking down at the bar, and I find that much easier. About the only thing I’ve found useful is w
947.
by misnome 6y ago
I also avoided sites with (helpful imo) comments that the site did things like breaking the back button, or blocking full screen popups.
948.
by misnome 6y ago
archive.org suggests this was added on 27th June. Perhaps there should be Some rule against immediately chastising people for rules that have just been added.
949.
by misnome 6y ago
The sun is _really_ _really_ heavy. From that article the best case scenario is a billionth the acceleration you are looking for. And you can’t take a billion stars because then you have more mass... Edit: the interesting part of discussing
950.
by misnome 6y ago
Where does the energy to accelerate the sun at 1g come from?...
951.
by misnome 6y ago
Via radio signals. It’d still require a ship flying there though, but that wouldn’t have to be built to support life.
952.
by misnome 6y ago
By my interpretation of the article, it seems to agree that this is the solution. The caveats seem to come mostly from paying for it.
953.
by misnome 6y ago
Would it be an overreaction to not want to touch this licence with a barge pole? Even ignoring the “We may change this licence at any time and it applies to you” parts, there seem to be serious restriction on usage and basically have to ask
954.
by misnome 6y ago
My cynical guess is that they used “page load time” as a metric to prove their new system was “faster”. And maybe only tested internally on a faster system, or with hot-cache repository loads? It doesn’t seem to do it on reloads, though goi
955.
by misnome 6y ago
Also, I'm noticing a lot more "preload" pages ... e.g. the page loads with blank placeholder fields for the commit and text information that's then replaced live after loading the page. Maybe it did this before and is ju
956.
by misnome 6y ago
> That being said was there any warning/reasoning behind the change? I cannot find any announcements I had a "Preview: Try the new layout and give us feedback" notification for about an hour, then it switched on permanentl
957.
by misnome 6y ago
Ugh, they've gotten rid of the commit message, because they merged "commits" "branches" "tags" into the header bar. If you want to see what the latest commit was you need an additional click. Turns out tha
958.
by misnome 6y ago
My only conclusion can be that this is deliberate, and that they get enough extra money to be worth it. There have been similar stories going back decades - their predecessor company, NTL was notorious for things like this (e.g. at a studen
959.
by misnome 6y ago
It looks like this is exactly what they are doing, and what Apple is complaining about?
960.
by misnome 6y ago
And the portmanteau of Fortran/Docker is the same as the surname of the character in the film

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