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by parfe 15y ago
It indeed takes time to build and release. I should have been more specific that I meant the orders of magnitude more time, 6 months, it can take to get a new minor version from the vendor, vs 6 hours from a kid working on a Saturday night
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by parfe 15y ago
No, I do not advocate just unlocked bootloaders, but freed operating systems. The overhead of these phone manufactures comes from their horrible customizations and differentiation practices. I find the idea of paying $10 for the privilege
483.
by parfe 15y ago
No. The time has come for phone manufacturers to cease locking down phones and preventing one click updates. Imagine a world where you had to buy a new desktop because the vendor provided you with Windows XP service pack 1 but decided the
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by parfe 15y ago
I don't believe I said anything about recordings disappearing, but if I was unclear please correct me. I take issue with the idea that recordings can continue to be a revenue stream in the face of changing technology. If the media industry
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by parfe 15y ago
Just because something is the norm doesn't mean it can't change. It changed before. It will change again. Either we will give up freedom to protect media distribution in an effort to subsidize the media industry, or the media industry wi
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by parfe 15y ago
> True. But that's saying the future is the past? That's not so much transformation, as devolution. I was trying to think how they would transform into the future, not "can they survive by looking back". Do you have a reason for not lo
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by parfe 15y ago
You make these suggestions with the assumption that recordings provide an necessary component of the music industry. Recordings have only existed for barely more than a century. Musical performers survived long before and will survive long
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by parfe 15y ago
> More specifically, the GPL is a contract you agree to when you use the product. While strictly speaking it should be a more explicit contract, strictly speaking there's a lot of those kinds of issues with our society. Wrong. You do
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by parfe 15y ago
> Is it possible that an analogous review exists on a competitor who advertises with Yelp, but on that page the "review" is filtered? I suppose, but the opinion article included no such information and neither has anyone else. It is p
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by parfe 15y ago
>One of the problems with Yelp is that burger king has 5 stars, because 'everyone' loves burger king. Funny you would use that as an example! (Besides it being completely untrue). I avoid certain Burger King locations because I know ho
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by parfe 15y ago
A single helpful Yelp review lays out what happened with this establishment: It ain't what is used to be. They've moved from North Beach to a new location closer to Fisherman Wharf. They probably get alot of tourists. The food is okay..
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by parfe 15y ago
We have a permanent jabber room on our server that all but one dev uses. No one was ever told they needed to be there. Just start using a chatroom and invite people in. Remind a few to add it to the auto-join list. If your coworkers fin
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by parfe 15y ago
You could always offer to pay for a more suitable license on the software. Also, half the comments on this library are whining about the license. Nice content guys.
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by parfe 15y ago
Torchlight is a highly overrated Diablo 1 clone. The game has barely any story. The side quest system literally repeats "Kill the monster on level 5" "Kill the monster on level 10" "Kill the monster on level 15" etc. The game has some oka
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by parfe 15y ago
> I don't think that their statements were offensive unless you think females should be completely immune to all attempt at generalisation. Generalizing women is sexism the same as generalizing black people is racism. Edit: And to add
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by parfe 15y ago
" Such areas may include understanding intuitively others' needs, knowing how to create a productive, energizing or otherwise desirable environment, understanding and responding to the respective energy levels of others and being aware and
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by parfe 15y ago
The signs with walking distances utilize QR codes in a functional way by bringing up google walking routes. In the wild I have only seen QR codes deployed by marketers pointlessly sending you to a company or movie's main website which provi
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How to get America to walk(bbc.co.uk)
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by parfe 15y ago
You still didn't answer. Where do you find it acceptable for me to post?
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by parfe 15y ago
> So you are attacking him on Hacker News where he can't respond This makes no sense. Has Gruber been banned from HN or something? Where would you say is an acceptable place to post an issue with him? If I can't post it here, and he
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by parfe 15y ago
How does this use "AI"? Right now it seems like a less robust version of WebMD's multiple symptom checker. http://symptoms.webmd.com/coresc/landing#/introView For example, I can click Arm -> Armpit -> Lump or Bulge and see the po
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by parfe 15y ago
Nor do I care that you are guessing about what Gruber did or did not ask. He literally says he didn't ask about things being "done differently now" because it was uncomfortable. He literally says he guesses a list of others will receive
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by parfe 15y ago
Your quotes make no distinction between a bike courier leaving a package to the front desk, and the Senior VP of Apple Worldwide Marketing giving a private presentation to an individual.
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by parfe 15y ago
It's not Gruber's job, nor is it interesting to readers, to post his guesses about things which are NOT in the new release; what's more interesting is what IS there. He _literally_ guesses that other journalist will receive the same perso
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by parfe 15y ago
Gruber was clearly not the only person briefed in this way I gave up after reading a handful of those. Which of those people did Apple brief "in this way"? Anyone could have written those articles just from the copywriting on https://ww
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by parfe 15y ago
That's exactly it though! Gruber thinks he's on an select list of writers and journalists. Instead, I believe he's an item on the Apple marketing checklist. Can you find another author who got the same treatment as Gruber? This random art
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by parfe 15y ago
That’s when Schiller tells me they’re doing some things differently now. I wonder immediately about that “now”. I don’t press, because I find the question that immediately sprang to mind uncomfortable. And some things remain unchanged: A
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by parfe 15y ago
>the role of the chair to sit on. At least in the context of rule #6.
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by parfe 15y ago
>Your complaint was very specific, yet you claimed it was a general issue. My complaint was a specific example of the general issue I wrote about in the last paragraph of my post. Did you ignore the last paragraph from my original post
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by parfe 15y ago
It's not a specific need. It's a specific issue. Figured I'd offer up a concrete example rather than gushing or hating on the service.

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