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by owenwil 10y ago
I don't think that's been a thing since 2006.
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by owenwil 10y ago
Why not spin it around the other way? What advantages does Mac now have over Windows, in a world where Microsoft is catering to developers from both sides?
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by owenwil 10y ago
Right - that's simply a result of what I say in the post about Apple focusing on iOS first, then letting the byproduct of that filter down into OS X. That's a end-result of the Mac team being merged into the iOS team. Maybe it&#x2
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by owenwil 10y ago
>So, like creating a full blown new programming language (Swift)? Byproduct of Apple's work on mobile. > Or a full new filesystem (AFS)? Byproduct of Apple's work on mobile. > Siri on the desktop? Byproduct of mobile agai
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by owenwil 10y ago
> - people don't work hard here. They come to work slowly, relax, read news, drink coffee, work a little bit, then have lunch, then work a little bit again. When it's 5pm - they just go home. I disagree. I'm kiwi, and have
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by owenwil 10y ago
I use Lightroom, but it's fairly "dumb" in its approach to photo management: no features, no surfacing of old content, just a useless grid. GPhotos on the other hand surfaces old photos in interesting ways, shows you moments
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Why I’m leaving Snapchat and so are all your friends(medium.com)
2 points by owenwil 10y ago|0 comments
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by owenwil 10y ago
That's one of the few gadgets I use every single day, to the point that I forget I even have it. Five years strong so far, and I love that damn thing.
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by owenwil 10y ago
100% agree - for the price, you get so much mileage
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by owenwil 10y ago
Idk... it seems kinda fair of ICANN. Using something on top of your domain like WHOISGUARD rather than... just the one that's included at your registrar is odd, let alone not keeping email addresses alive. Annoying, yes, but this happe
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by owenwil 10y ago
Why? DIgitalocean tends to be easier to use and more reliable. I'm ok with paying a little more given these factors...
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by owenwil 10y ago
Honestly, this is awesome. It looks a lot easier than AMazon's EC2 load balancer to use, and fits right into their whole philosophy.
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by owenwil 10y ago
It's part A - Google's cloud infrastructure isn't even resolvable in China.
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by owenwil 10y ago
Peter Thiel openly wrote that he thought it might have been better for democracy if women didn't vote. I don't think that's a great place to start.
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by owenwil 10y ago
It's good to see HN's "whataboutism" is alive and well https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism
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by owenwil 10y ago
Yes! James Cameron got one of those - but they forced him and his family to live in the country for five years first! Odd.
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by owenwil 10y ago
It isn't legal - he was granted an exception to the rules after being denied because he had a change of heart and donated $700m - for the first time ever - to the disaster fund, then applied again immediately. In NZ you must actually l
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by owenwil 10y ago
As a born NZ citizen as well, are you serious? More rich people that are - generally speaking - racist, sexist, anti-democracy and have tendencies to sue news organizations into the ground while calling it "charity"? He can ultima
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by owenwil 10y ago
Yes, that was the point of the "Signature Windows" series laptops, which looked promising but didn't seem to actually go anywhere...
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by owenwil 10y ago
Smart hire - Barra is a great hardware evangelist, quite technical and was a great personality for Xiaomi that wasn't a typical "technical" person so could appeal to the masses. Oculus/FB really needs that.
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by owenwil 10y ago
This is my advice to everyone I know that gets a new Windows PC. Windows 10's built-in protection is more than adequate, and catches the majority of bad software - anything more is unnecessary, and many of the AV vendors are predatory.
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by owenwil 10y ago
Totally agree! I'd move to Vancouver, BC in a heartbeat, but work out there can be hard to find.
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by owenwil 10y ago
I've worn them and tried them out for a couple of hours. If you move around -- run/vigorous walk/jump -- they just slip out. Gone.
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by owenwil 10y ago
That's not Google's actual stance. I went to a Digital News session held by the company last year wherein they had a "ad blocker" session - they basically said they're "just watching and waiting" for now b
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by owenwil 10y ago
Airprint actually works really great. I have a Samsung printer with Airprint + Google Cloud Printing - set it up once, and it just works all the time. Just have to do your research.
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by owenwil 10y ago
The easiest way to fix my family and friends' tech support time was buying them a Mac. Even better, moving the trickier ones to Chromebooks. Nobody calls anymore.
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by owenwil 10y ago
Anil is a kind, thoughtful person and one of the few people in technology who will go out of his way to make time for you and genuinely get to know you without an agenda or need for a value exchange - I really admire that. We spent an after
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by owenwil 10y ago
I have the latest Unifi system and a similar about of devices/hardware: the problems have been resolved, and a known fix is to disabled forced band steering. It all works great.
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How design is being transformed by the invisible(medium.com)
2 points by owenwil 10y ago|0 comments
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by owenwil 10y ago
From the comments: the iOS and OS X Kernel are shared, so this doesn't mean anything at all.

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