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-webkit-meter-even-less-good-value(developer.mozilla.org)
1 points by owenwil 7y ago|0 comments
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by owenwil 7y ago
Sort of, but not really: both of their apps were unable to track in the background due to privacy restrictions. This partnership enables that at the OS level, and will remove the need to download an additional app
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by owenwil 7y ago
For what it's worth, I found Autonomous.ai to be fast shipping and high quality for the price of their standing desks (and chairs!). If you're in the US/Canada they're still shipping quickly. This (referral) link provide
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by owenwil 7y ago
This isn't really accurate – independent retailers have quite the advantage right now because they aren't constrained by centralized fulfillment. The reason Amazon has shipping delays is because: 1) Amazon has observed a massive i
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by owenwil 7y ago
It feels like the URL shouldn't be an aggregator but the actual source in this case for sure...
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by owenwil 7y ago
GitHub employees have access to Microsoft internal tools and a Microsoft email address, so I don't think there's too much internal firewalling.
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Google delayed SameSite cookie changes to Feb 17(chromium.org)
2 points by owenwil 7y ago|1 comments
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by owenwil 7y ago
Yeah, exactly this. The original comment misses a key point: speakers have been the same for decades, but Sonos did add magic sauce that builds on top of that legacy... multi-room audio. I'd argue that's worth the investment, and
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by owenwil 7y ago
The problem is a little more complex, given that Sonos continued to sell the old Play:5 alongside the new one at a steep discount for a number of years. I purchased one in 2016, sold as new by the company, which gave me a good 3 years, bu
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by owenwil 7y ago
Google actually had a program that addressed this head-on a few years back, where it retailed 'Google Play Edition' versions of flagship phones like the Galaxy 7, updated directly from Google, with their own factory image and no b
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by owenwil 7y ago
Google actually had a program that addressed this head-on, where it retailed 'Google Play Edition' versions of flagship phones like the Galaxy S7, updated directly from Google, with their own factory image and no bloatware: https
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Live Black Friday Order Map(datastories.shopify.com)
8 points by owenwil 7y ago|0 comments
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by owenwil 7y ago
We have very different experiences of the global banking system, it seems. To me, US banks are archaic, slow, and backward—and the UK has to be in for close second so it isn't a fair comparison at all. I have lived/banked in New Z
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by owenwil 7y ago
I've been using Windows 10 as my daily driver for web (PHP/Node/JS) development for over two years without the need to recover/format/reinstall at all. This is the exception, rather than the rule, at this point: ht
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by owenwil 7y ago
The 'phones home' argument doesn't really add up—there's plenty of control over this at this point, and every OS is calling home, macOS included, to some degree. The advertisements thing happens out of the box, and is
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by owenwil 7y ago
The UX is incrementally improving in every release. Through just the last few major releases, you've gotten Airdrop-style sharing (the new Share menu), full system-wide indexing and instant search, a unified control panel and a ton of
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by owenwil 7y ago
You can automate things with Bash now, too, if you like ;)
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by owenwil 7y ago
Sure, it's Windows 10 without any of the cruft—but also, none of the good bits. Believe it or not, but the Windows Store is great; managed updates of everything from Slack to Spotify, without individual updater components. Photos app,
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by owenwil 7y ago
Oh man, I'll tell you—Windows 8 was a beast of its own. I think that is how people remember Windows, and assume that Windows 10 is the same. But god, don't remind me of that awful full-screen server start menu..............I rem
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by owenwil 7y ago
I was historically a Windows user and started my career as a Windows sysadmin for a few years—I switched to macOS for a few years and came back as it became increasingly buggy and Microsoft's development story changed. The complaints s
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by owenwil 7y ago
I see a lot of angry posts like this, but fail to understand how it's reflected in reality in 2019—I agree that Windows 10 was a little messy at launch, but it's come a long way from where many of these complaints seem to stem fro
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by owenwil 7y ago
I think they've gotten "engineering" confused with "engineer"—plenty of people are in the engineering org that aren't engineers.
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by owenwil 7y ago
Not only did he not mention PiHole (or the similar, but better, Adguard Home), he didn't seem to be aware that network adblocking is a thing—but who can blame him? It's not exactly trivial unless you're comfortable with a ter
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by owenwil 7y ago
I would expect contextual search, rather than "everywhere" search if I was filtering...
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FTC fines Facebook $5B, imposes stricter privacy controls(theverge.com)
17 points by owenwil 7y ago|1 comments
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by owenwil 7y ago
Huh, I thought it was getting better across the board, and significantly faster. 1P is actually investing in proper cross-platform support, rather than only macOS, so perhaps it's just less attention to detail? The Windows client has
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by owenwil 7y ago
Wait until you see what Magento plugins are like
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by owenwil 7y ago
And this is the difference between building a brand and trying your fate blindly to a platform's whims. One of these is impossibly hard, but if you win, you control your destiny. The other means your business dies when someone over the
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by owenwil 7y ago
As someone who was running tech at an e-commerce/hardware startup with $xxM+ in annual online sales, and ran on top of Magento 2, it is an unmitigated disaster that will sink any business that doesn't have endless money to throw a
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by owenwil 7y ago
I dunno...the story is that Apple killed two machines today: - The non-touchbar MacBook Pro (RIP, function row) - The 12" "MacBook" (which I adored, largely because it was so tiny) What's strange is that it appears that

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