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by rahoulb 8y ago
But it was Spotify that asked the random guy to take the app down. If anything I would have thought it would be in Spotify's interests to keep it up - "look it's possible, but Apple isn't allowing us"
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by rahoulb 8y ago
That was "Spotty". There was another in November called Apollo that Spotify squashed.
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I have an install of Apollo for Spotify on my Apple Watch. It streams Spotify directly without your phone and has a very flaky offline mode. The developer tweeted that Spotify (not Apple) asked him to remove it four days after it reached th
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by rahoulb 8y ago
Martial arts use the same mechanism. Just because you use social media for business doesn't mean it can't affect you. Again, read a book on dog training. It's all laid out very simply.
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Addiction is a lack of discipline? Really? I suppose you believe advertising doesn't work and the billions spent on it are unjustified? Look at how brains work. Stimulus response. Reward pathways. Millions of years of biology and chem
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by rahoulb 8y ago
I remember reading about Hitachi being prepared to preinstall Be as a dual-boot system - but then Microsoft threatened to pull their Windows licences. The anti-trust stuff wasn't just about browsers. Interested to hear if Gassee talks
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by rahoulb 8y ago
I have had a LOT of conversations with non technical people about this recently. “My phone is listening to my conversations” is how it goes - people know this tracking is happening, they hate it and find it intensely creepy, they just don’t
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by rahoulb 8y ago
Although others have mentioned state machines I wonder if it’s a deliberate feature with an unforeseen side effect. The Apple Watch walkie talkie feature allows you to talk with anyone who has approved you and has walkie talkie switched on
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by rahoulb 8y ago
Breaking it down into achievable chunks is important too. The paradox is you can’t plan too far ahead as life will get in the way. But if you don’t have a direction of travel you forget where you’re going. Hence the five/three/one
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Imagine yourself sat in a big chair aged 110 years old. And you’re thinking to yourself “I’m so glad I did X”. What is X? (It’s tough, I’m 44 and I only figured it out last year, but I didn’t do it this way) Now, how can you do X? Is it a s
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by rahoulb 8y ago
There are functional differences on iOS. For example if you “delete” Apple Music, Siri loses the ability to tell you what song is playing on Spotify (although I haven’t tried it since the original option to delete was added)
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by rahoulb 8y ago
Someone made the point that Apples margins are quite consistent and have been for years. But a larger proportion of their revenue comes from services which are normally very high margin. Which implies that they are actually cutting their ma
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by rahoulb 8y ago
Not really. I use Bluetooth headphones - they are branded but not a major brand (in fact a company known for something else). Bluetooth is pretty ubiquitous and has been for a decade. The charging case means I have to recharge them every te
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by rahoulb 8y ago
I’m in the UK and it’s been an ongoing debate amongst my friends for many years. (Yes it is)
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True Agile says “people over processes” meaning it’s different for everyone.
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by rahoulb 8y ago
Just to add to that, when you're creating a Zapier plugin, you need to add human readable descriptions of your triggers and actions - so the actual content about linking X to Y or X to Z actually becomes readable and usable as a help p
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by rahoulb 8y ago
I would put it the other way round. There's stuff I do with Zapier that I can't see how to do with IFTTT. In particular the path functionality and Python/Javascript embedding mean I can string lots of zaps together into ver
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by rahoulb 8y ago
> I don't think privacy is a mass market appeal. Here's an experiment you could do. Stop a few random persons on the road or on the train and ask their opinion about equivax, Cambridge Analytica, and Chrome's recent privac
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by rahoulb 8y ago
Agreed
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by rahoulb 8y ago
Another vote for the keyboard and the huge trackpad. The arrow keys are a bit annoying, and I don't really see the point in the Touchbar (but then I use Ctrl-C instead of Esc in vim so it doesn't really affect me much).
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by rahoulb 8y ago
Take a look at the Renault Twizy. Legally is a quad bike and it charges off a domestic supply.
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by rahoulb 8y ago
If people had perfect information and were rational.
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The reason the old Mac Finder worked was its ruthless consistency. The new macOS finder occasionally opens windows with a toolbar or with the wrong view or in the wrong location or the wrong size. As soon as that happens the illusion is bro
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by rahoulb 8y ago
Plus if you look at old Smalltalk systems they are nothing like the GUI used in the Lisa or Macintosh. The concepts (mouse, bitmapped display, menus, object-orientation, networking) were Xerox's but the implementation (pull down menus
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by rahoulb 8y ago
"borrowed" - Apple paid Xerox in stock to have access to their technologies. Jobs said later that he took away the GUI and the mouse, when he really should have taken away the networking and Smalltalk. That's why NeXT used B
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by rahoulb 8y ago
As it says in the article, you go to the cob shop and get a cheese cob, bacon cob, sausage cob, chip cob, pork pie cob (with peas). I grew up in the East Midlands.
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Really? Why not? Why would you use a mouse if you're on a laptop? Especially a macbook, where the trackpad is fantastic to use and offers gestures which give you features you don't get with a mouse.
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by rahoulb 8y ago
I switched to Bear after having significant sync problems with apple notes (it was fine in iOS 10 but never ever worked properly in iOS 11). It was always OK on my Mac. From various Apple support forum requests it seems that a lot of people
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They are not the best comparisons as there were other factors involved. Zimbabwe has destroyed its farming output, Weimar had its industrial region occupied by France. The US and EU have been running quantitative easing programmes for nearl
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by rahoulb 8y ago
My Macbook Pro has 4 USB-Cs and I have a dongle for ethernet (which is rare). If I'm using my external monitor I bought a DisplayPort to Thunderbolt/USB-C cable. If I'm out and about and need HDMI, I have another dongle (bu

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