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by personZ 12y ago
but I'd argue it's with notions like "Apple has never announced a major product months before availability" and "nobody has ever made a large square watch." You've soundly beaten down notions that I cert
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by personZ 12y ago
Dynamic layout a'la Android is "one size fits all", which is no way similar to what's Apple doing. Aside from CSS-type "responsive" design, Android layouts have always had resource tags, which means that you
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by personZ 12y ago
it's hard for me not to recall Commander Taco's (in)famous dismissal of the original iPod when I browse these comments You should also remember that he was hardly in the majority with those comments. Further he was technically
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Without context and metadata, I cannot fathom how finger-drawn pictures could convey data clearly, much less those done on a 1" screen. If someone got a picture of a fish, as demonstrated, for instance -- presuming they actually recogn
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by personZ 12y ago
Perhaps, but it is a five minute app. For Apple to spend minutes on the concept of communicating via finger drawings on a tiny screen borders on bizarre. I will say that if Samsung or LG demoed something like this, they would be widely a
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by personZ 12y ago
As much ink was spilled about competitors' failures, it's interesting that this won't be available some until vague window next year, and needs to be tethered to an iPhone. The interface looks interesting. The ridiculous draw
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by personZ 12y ago
If going SHA-2 only requires a request flag, why so long for a transition? Is there some downside (e.g. old clients that don't support it) that holds Google off?
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by personZ 12y ago
Exactly the case, and it really undermines the whole article. The general floating point performance (non GPU) is entirely irrelevant for the general uses of this device. Other subsystems might be faulty, or it could be a faulty device, but
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by personZ 12y ago
I know Google does the same, but it's not an example to follow. When Google decides that clicks were invalid, they remove the commission and also remove the charges from the advertiser. The fact that they do this, and aggressively fi
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Their observation isn't remotely an ad hominem: They are specifically criticizing the message, not the speaker. And their point is valid: There is a wide "startup" belief that you needn't know the market or domain, the
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The item they are fixing is not the password, which already has complexity requirements, and through most systems is rate limited. They are fixing the security questions system. And I think they're understating the changes they're
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by personZ 12y ago
This sort of comment appears a lot and it makes for an easy trip to victim blaming. Apple created these questions for you to enter real answers. They fully intend for you to put in real answers. That is what the system's purpose is. Th
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by personZ 12y ago
Yes, I do think it's appropriate. Further, this discussion is among the participants of HN -- it isn't for the edification or entertainment of any subjects. There's a name and namespace collision that is causing enormous ill
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by personZ 12y ago
Why not just do something completely original and get away from this mess? And by original, I include the concept of using traditional ASCII markups. For instance, doing this (asterisks) for emphasis long preceded Markdown. As did _this_.
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by personZ 12y ago
The current state of the CGO interface is that you can't safely pass Go pointers to C code. That's all this document is repeating. Where is this stated? Where is it said that it's technically incorrect? Just to be clear, I&
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by personZ 12y ago
This is the type of issues that nicely lead to security bugs It's also the type of functionality that enables the efficient use of high performance C libraries and existing code (I use it to great effect with the Intel compiler for e
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by personZ 12y ago
The dogma about preventing the sharing of pointers with C is a bit concerning. I've made use of that mechanism, to fantastic effect, albeit understanding the risks and consequences. The notion that it must be prevented because bad thin
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the claims about my platform and the competence of my team would be my focus and I'd address them head on Why? A former employee criticizes the company they were fired from -- that carries essentially zero weight to pretty much anyon
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It seems significantly more likely that the "hack" was in the account recovery system which allows -- via a couple of often easily discovered personal details -- a complete, immediate account takeover.
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This is why I never take these sorts of stories at face value. I'm not casting aspersions on the author, but at the same time I'm not willing to blindly accept the same against others. In these sorts of situation, invariable both
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by personZ 12y ago
it's the direct equivalent of UAC on Windows or sudo access on Linux Indeed, it is. Do most corporate users run with admin accounts? Home users? In both cases, while the answer is unfortunately sometimes yet, it should always be no -
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by personZ 12y ago
The type of person who roots their phone is almost always going to be technologically experienced Unfortunately, it seems, the opposite is true: Rooting is often one of the "checklist" kind of things that you see on many misled
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by personZ 12y ago
Not only do you hold up things that Apple hasn't released, gloating about their grand innovation of vapour, you apparently don't realize that credit cards have NFC. There is nothing "impossible" about fitting NFC in ju
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>Apple will be the first company to convince the rest of my technophobic family to actually use the technology. You seem pretty certain of that. Apple has a long list of initiative failures. Are you overloading the technology side of thi
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The reason they get credit is that people actually use the solutions they provide. The entire payment industry is moving to chip / NFC, and the parent offers up that maybe Whole Foods is prepping for Apple. No, they aren't. They
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It is a coincidence, and it is odd that Apple seems to get attribution for emerging technology trends. All of the payment vendors are or have already embraced NFC. Here in Canada, NFC is ubiquitous, and I'd be surprised if it wasn&#x27
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by personZ 12y ago
Aside from the Detroit car industry doing quite well, I have to comment on - "Also, according to protonfish, Detroit has terrible infrastructure and sounds like a shitty place to live." Just to contrast here, protonfish questions
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>Nearly 70,000 residential accounts are going to have their water cut off through the end of September. No they won't. Detroit faced an endemic issue where people simply felt that they didn't have to pay their water bills becau
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Manufacturing has since left, and it's very unlikely that an equally lucrative industry is going to be able to fill the gap. By this measure, just about every American city is doomed. Except, I suppose, San Francisco, if we accept th
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by personZ 12y ago
Most of the stories you read about Detroit are deeply negative. We've seen "ruin porn" on here, the whole water issue (where having a service turned off for lack of payment somehow got cast into something greater). It gives a

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