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by pfranz 6y ago
Charging iPhone users more was actually one of the suggestions Phil Schiller made. I'm pretty sure Spotify charges more for people who subscribe from within the iPhone app. They made a lot of noise a year or two ago about this and ende
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by pfranz 6y ago
I think Apple solved this issue years ago because they got flack about "Free" apps that would have in-app purchases. Apps are not marked "Free" in the App Store. Instead it simply says "Get" to download the app
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> 2) most importantly, Basecamp loses the ability to manage the financial aspects of the customer relationship. They’re unable to give discounts, credit, refunds, add time to the subscription etc. It’s a hassle for all the back office ma
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by pfranz 6y ago
Latency was still a huge issue with the HP Halo. I remember a specific meeting where they talked about upgrading the audio codec which didn't seem to address things much. It was kind of a running joke that any applause or laughter woul
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by pfranz 6y ago
Looking at their respective About pages they seem unrelated: https://9to5mac.com/about/ https://9to5linux.com/about-us
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by pfranz 6y ago
> Apple killed Shake, which was an industry standard at one point. Sure, and this might be skewed by hindsight because they did make new releases for a handful of years, but it was an acquahire to develop Aperture and other color tools f
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by pfranz 6y ago
I really wish there was more granular nomenclature around budgeting. "Budgeting" varies so much and the splash page rarely helps. So I will often have to download or sign up for the app, attach actual data (which I'm less tha
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by pfranz 6y ago
Also, the bummer about the Backblaze stats is that they can't tell you about new batches of drives.
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by pfranz 6y ago
A lot of visual professional apps tend to be color neutral so you don't bias your work. Whether for trendiness or for functional reasons they also all tend to use darker colors for their UI. This seems to extend to audio apps, too. For
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by pfranz 6y ago
I follow your logic, but I really think it's about money since they also put up barriers for testing out of classes. Usually, a strong state-run community college program lets an Associates degree earned at a community college transfer
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by pfranz 6y ago
It goes even deeper than that. If you look at the history of photography, film, and television you'll see a bias towards white skin tones that standards have been built up around. Just looking at "leader ladies" or common ref
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If flyovers come out of training budgets it's not a cut. The whole premise was reducing unnecessary programs. That has a clear knock-on effect of reducing the need for headcount and recruiting. I'm not a fan of constant military d
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by pfranz 6y ago
It was pretty widely circulated that tanks were still being manufactured that were not wanted by the military: https://www.foxnews.com/politics/army-says-no-to-more-tanks-...
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by pfranz 6y ago
Funny you should bring up Utah. I recently heard they don't fund education by county-based property tax. Because of that education state wide is fairly equitable.
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The argument that always comes up is that those flights are necessary because they're flight time required for training and public events are recruiting tools since we have a volunteer force. However, reducing the number of pilots&#x2F
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by pfranz 6y ago
I know someone (born in 1951) who said they remember a school announcement that the last Civil War soldier died. That matches what you had heard.
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by pfranz 6y ago
What would students do with a gap year right now? Travel? Work full time (presumably in a face-to-face service job)? I would think the only real options would be to self study or play World of Warcraft. Generally, in an economic downturn pe
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by pfranz 6y ago
I agree it's not widely used and not known about. What surprised me is that I know older family members, who are otherwise fairly technically illiterate, who actively share ebooks using their Kindles. Another older family member, where
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by pfranz 6y ago
Mine situation is arguably worse, it varies depending on the book. Some are Kindle compatible, others require Adobe's software, and I believe yet others only support Libby. What's nice is that I'm able to get access to librar
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by pfranz 6y ago
It depends on if it's "allowed" for that specific book, but Amazon has had a system for lending ebooks to friends and family for years. https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeI
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by pfranz 6y ago
As an individual I tend to get the smallest car I need. I don't want to pay the extra costs of gas for a larger car. Thankfully, smaller cars don't have the embarrassing acceleration they did 5-10 years ago. I'm probably one
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by pfranz 6y ago
When I was comparing Mac laptops to PC alternatives they usually ended up within a few hundred dollars. Sure, saving a few hundred dollars is nice, but I'm fairly confident I can sell the Mac in a handful of years for a decent price, c
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by pfranz 6y ago
I know this kind of turns things up to 11, but about 5 years ago there was a book published called, "Engineers of Jihad." A bunch of news articles were written when it was published. I have zero idea how reputable it is, or if its
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by pfranz 6y ago
I actually liked the changes I saw when Ron Johnson was hired on. It was the first time I consistently stopped at a department store since my mom dragged me as a kid. It was the only department store that got rid of the "regular price
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by pfranz 6y ago
Thanks for the correction! I knew of the distinction, but in my haste I was looking at a different repo (and I blanked that the source hasn't been released and licensed). Swift looks to be Apache licensed. I'm fairly confident Swi
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by pfranz 6y ago
I'm sure licensing is a big one. It looks like SwiftUI is MIT license and Qt is dual licensed.
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Slashdot.org used to have a random Futurama quote and Reddit.com used to contain '; DROP TABLE servertypes; --
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(I'd love for someone else to chime in with other comparisons if mine seem off) It looks like they have one location in the US. I grabbed a random item to compare: Chest of Drawers £299.99 marked down from £379.99 which directly conver
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I feel like there's the Ikea (or Target/WalMart) furniture that's basically disposable, you can take it home in your small car, cheap, but will probably break if you move it or disassemble it. It's great in college or af
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by pfranz 6y ago
Does Foxit work for those and other edge cases? I've used Preview.app for years and only the past few months have encountered incompatible PDFs. I reluctantly downloaded Acrobat Reader. The PDF required a signature and locked the docum

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