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Amazing
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I prefer it over Windows Explorer. I prefer the Classic Mac Finder to both. This article from 2003 lists the problems with the OSX Finder. Since it was written, it's only got worse. https://arstechnica.com/gadgets&#x2
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That's a very un-Classic-Mac-like way of using windows. In the olden days, Mac users would tend to have lots of overlapping windows. Dragging anywhere on the window edges would move the window, so it was easy to arrange them as you wa
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OSX Finder is horrible. Classic MacOS Finder was far better - but still had open/save dialogs. RiscOS had it right - the Open dialog didn't exist - you would open the folder and double-click the file. And the Save dialog didn&#x
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I see no reason for Apple not to allow music access for Siri - they have opened it up to other categories of app but have left music out and the only reason I can think of it to prevent competition. I've heard conflicting reports about
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by rahoulb 9y ago
Don't get me wrong - as I've stated elsewhere on here, I don't like Apple Music and it annoys me greatly. But Apple Music is only usable with an optional subscription payment and can easily be uninstalled (pseudo-uninstalled)
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I prefer AM's iPhone UI and it has Siri and Apple Watch integration. Plus Spotify's CarPlay app is essentially useless and dangerous to use when driving. The main one is if you have lots of music already in iTunes, AM let's y
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There's no free tier, apart from a one-off trial, so the preinstall doesn't count for much. The CarPlay and Apple Watch apps and Siri integration are the main advantages AM has over Spotify (Spotify's CarPlay app is so buggy
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They have a weekly "favourites mix", "new music mix", and "chill mix". In my experience the choices that Apple Music make are extremely poor, even after months of training. Spotify seems to know what I like, Ap
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I tried Apple Music for 6 months, and spent that time diligently training it to my tastes. My latest "favourites mix" had 12 songs that I had to mark as "dislike" after all that training. Likewise the "for you"
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> There are real issues with non-annoying ads, like tracking, but I don't think most people know or care very much about that. I speak to a lot of people who find "retargeting" deeply creepy. The awareness of the problem
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They used to be decentralised. Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp and Gtalk were all based on XMPP and they all deliberately switched off the federation feature, then changed protocol.
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Watch Minority Report, then replace "psychics" with "data-mining"
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I suspect the answer is more that Apple refuses to grow its teams beyond a certain size. It's not a lack of money or talent; rather they value a certain way of working (look at all the stuff about collaboration in the new building). Bu
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I would suggest Apple has absolutely no interest in those markets. Even when Steve Jobs had been fired, Apple was focussed on products for the end-user, not components for others to assemble from.
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I don’t think influencers have much say in a positive direction. I think they do in a negative way but it can take years for things to change. The negative outcry against Microsoft started in the mid-90s but didn’t hit them in terms of mind
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I love my Apple Watch but I don't get the same sense of wonder and amazement that I did from my 3rd generation iPod (wedding present). And neither does anyone that I show it to (people were blown away when I scrolled through the songs
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Arguably we did - both WhatsApp and Facebook messenger were originally based on XMPP and built around their shortcomings (setup and discovery)
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> Most of these web services made quite a lot of interesting innovations and such but I can't help but wonder what the web would've been like if we'd stayed true to its roots and improved the protocols and infrastructure i
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It’s about more than just remote working though. 4 days a week to allow personal time in summer, treating employees as adults (for example credit cards with no approval process for purchases), using asynchronous communications wherever poss
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Lots of good answers here. All I will add is that Mac OSX was dog slow for years, from Rhapsody through till 10.2 (which I still thought was slow but was at least usable). BeOS running on awful hardware felt lightning fast and responsive in
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by rahoulb 9y ago
Slight aside but I tend to use POST to create a new "search results document" and the GET that document to see the actual results.
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He's the former director of the Consumer's Association - a charity dedicated to protecting consumer rights across the UK and that runs Which? magazine. There's a few things I disagree with about Which? but if there's an
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3 was pretty much a total rewrite of Rails, so you could argue that if you skipped 3 you are starting over from scratch. Pretty much everything changed apart from the higher-level concepts (even the opinionated stuff was diluted to a point
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I don’t know yet - I’m asking them a few questions. I’m always upfront about the tools I use with my clients as the value isn’t in the tool, it’s in their requirements. But being able to move away quickly is important to me because I have c
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Well - two areas. One, if you're using it commercially, it's going to pay for itself pretty quickly. I rarely do client projects for less than several thousand pounds; I reckon I could probably churn a lot of them out using this
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This looks amazing (speaking as an old Delphi programmer). My three questions: - I have a client whose app sits idle but then gets hit by maybe 300 concurrent users, all reading and writing within a few seconds of each other - do you have a
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What is your hourly rate? Is it less than $50/hour?
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In smalltalk the parameter names aren't mandatory in the sense of many other languages. They are actually part of the method name. So robot put: thing in: container. And robot put: thing on: shelf. Are two separate messages that are bo
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The Hyundai Ioniq electric has a stupid grey panel (regardless of body colour) where the grill would go which makes it stand out. On the hybrid versions this is the grill but on the pure electric they could have made it body-coloured or a f

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