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by radley 8y ago
> But for every big app there's something like 9 that fail completely Actually the ratio is more like 1 to 500k. There are millions of apps in both stores, but I'd bet less than 1000 make significant income exclusively from the
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Apple Discontinuing Back to My Mac in MacOS Mojave(macrumors.com)
4 points by radley 8y ago|0 comments
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by radley 8y ago
Same here - I've been running a 2012 Mini as my media center since it came out. I actually purchased a 2014 Mini the day it came out, found out it couldn't be upgraded, and returned it the next day.
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by radley 8y ago
Four really: Apple with Jobs (76-85), Apple without (85-97), Apple with (97-11), and Apple after. Each period was very unique.
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by radley 8y ago
Considering the lackluster updates of OSX / MacOS, and the fact that the platform matured years ago, I'm not really concerned that I won't be able to use Mojave. I think the only issue will be if I need to use XCode, which te
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by radley 8y ago
I'm running a mid 2012 i7 MBP (bought at release) w/ 16GB & a 2TB SSD (recently upgraded from a 1TB SSD). I also have a keyboard overlay as a precaution, since I've had to replace keyboards on previous Macs due to spill
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How they did it: GRU hackers vs. US elections(arstechnica.com)
2 points by radley 8y ago|1 comments
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by radley 8y ago
1) soak shirt in white vinegar / water (1 part to 4) for 1-4 hours (or overnight) 2) apply liberally a paste of baking soda & hydrogen peroxide to yellowed areas 3) let rest for 1-2 hours 4) wash normally Bonus: use Bluette every f
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by radley 8y ago
> The America Invents Act signed on September 16, 2011, switched U.S. right to the patent from the previous "first-to-invent" system to a "first-inventor-to-file" system for patent applications filed on or after March
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by radley 8y ago
1) Does Tesla enforce an arbitration clause with their customers? Most (shady?) companies do this these days. 2) If so, can the customer actually get a court order in arbitration?
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by radley 8y ago
Or, honestly, just get an Apple Watch. Turn phone sounds off, wrist gets buzzed. It just works.
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by radley 8y ago
Aside from setting up payment, all of those issue are still present with Apple / Google payments. The difference is 3% (MC, Stripe, Visa) vs 30% (Apple, Google). That 27% can easily cover those issues and far, far more. In fact, it&#x2
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by radley 8y ago
In-app payment policies are a major restriction. Apple and Google have unlimited access in offering digital goods and payment methods. Third-party apps are limited in scope and taxed 30%. If two songs are sold on an iPhone for $1 each, one
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by radley 8y ago
Still ain't Flash (^_^;)
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by radley 8y ago
Sounds like it's really $100 w/ $10 shipping and then they A/B tested the difference to find the sweet spot for sign-ups.
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by radley 8y ago
A hasty "Out of service" works instantly because we (as Americans?) are conditioned to expect to see that when something is broken, just like a stop sign. The longer note looked like a notice, which people tend to ignore — particu
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by radley 8y ago
It's not. The author is confused.
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by radley 8y ago
Unfortunately, the author doesn't really address how dark patterns apply to design. It seems to be more about his discovering that dark patterns is a thing, and that other designers should be aware of it. When I worked at Zynga, I was
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by radley 8y ago
The biggest flaw in Agile stand-ups is that it was developed before Slack became a standard. For our small team, we created a Team Scrum channel solely for the purpose of allowing devs to check in at the start and end of day with work progr
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by radley 8y ago
You're overlooking Chrome OS (with open source equivalent Chromium OS). While it might not be ready for pro-level production, it certainly is a revolutionary lightweight OS that's gaining more and more traction. https:/&#x2F
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Where to Watch ‘Day for Night’ as It’s Unveiled at Salesforce Tower(sfgate.com)
1 points by radley 8y ago|0 comments
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by radley 8y ago
Apple also faked their "entire internet" iPhone demo in their 2008 keynote. At the time, if you visited the National Geographic website without Flash installed, you'd be shown a hero banner stating "this presentation req
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by radley 8y ago
I can't speak for Windows, but almost every app on Mac has undo. Undo and redo had widespread adoption by the 1990s. iPhone implemented shake to undo back with iPhone 3.0 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Undo http:&
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by radley 8y ago
If you're on Firefox, you can disable HTML5 autoplay: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/disable-autop...
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by radley 9y ago
> If we want to have Brutalism as a valid design approach for the web, we first need to decide on what exactly the word means. It's already been defined in the design community. Further, the post is well over a year behind common di
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by radley 9y ago
Very common to have cross-culture interests these days. In my neighborhood, Koreans run a sushi restaurant, Irish a Sicilian restaurant, and Indians a burger joint.
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by radley 9y ago
He posted a tweet later, it wasn't a cyclist: https://twitter.com/daiwaka/status/975771533745336320
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by radley 9y ago
> When they disappeared, my feed had less punch-the-button outrage. Fewer mean screenshots of somebody saying precisely the wrong thing. Less repetition of big, big news. Fewer memes I’d already seen a hundred times. I follow ~500 people
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by radley 9y ago
"In most cases, canceling your Plus or Professional subscription before it expires means you'll finish your current subscription without receiving money back. Once the subscription expires, your Dropbox will revert to a Basic acco
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by radley 9y ago
It's not harder, just more expensive and inconvenient.

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