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by rahoulb 9y ago
Though the point made in the article is by then, when the app has lots of attention, it’s too late (using the office of fair trading and Instagram as an example)
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by rahoulb 9y ago
Arguably the icons in Control Centre do reflect that. The WiFi icon has three states - blue (on), grey (not connected) and with a strike-through (totally off). However you use airplane mode to activate the latter, not the toggle.
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by rahoulb 9y ago
Use Ctrl-C instead of Esc - you don't even have to move your hands off the home position
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by rahoulb 9y ago
I remember having to force myself to set a PIN because it got in the way. I'm sure the idea of a phone that doesn't need any intervention to unlock it has always been the plan.
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by rahoulb 9y ago
He tried again then said let's switch to a backup - so a different phone?
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by rahoulb 9y ago
I know a lot of people who only check their email when they have signed up for a service. Beyond that "email is for spam". Admittedly these people aren't on Facebook either (they have an account because "you have to&quot
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by rahoulb 9y ago
Of course, Charlie Higson has form there as well
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by rahoulb 9y ago
I disagree. Firstly, maybe in the 60s, the idea of a black person being "British" would be scoffed at; today, with 3 or 4 generations of genetics here( ) and black people representing Britain at many levels, I don't think it
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by rahoulb 9y ago
I use Blink (which means setting up Mosh, but Mosh is awesome)
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by rahoulb 9y ago
I find files called :waq on my file system at least once per week
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by rahoulb 9y ago
Uber's location settings on iPhone are "Never" (and the app stops working) or "Always". They removed the "when app is in use" option a few months ago because ... not really sure.
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by rahoulb 9y ago
People complain about having no opposition now but Tony Blair and New Labour's agenda was very similar to the Tory one and equally authoritarian. Now we actually have some ideological differences between the parties
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by rahoulb 9y ago
My work involves advanced document preparation that includes a lot of sketching. That must mean most laptops aren't work machines either.
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by rahoulb 9y ago
For me, SIM card, battery life, automatic backups (with easy restore on new devices), general simplicity - and surprisingly important - separation of keyboard and display.
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by rahoulb 9y ago
Jobs didn't want 3rd party software on either the Mac or the iPhone and had to be persuaded to allow it by the rest of the team. Whilst I often wish I could install the local development environment of my choice onto my Pro, having see
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by rahoulb 9y ago
I really enjoy using Textastic with Working Copy - you can mount your git repo from Working Copy as a folder, edit in Textastic, then commit and push via Working Copy. This (exposing your internal file-system as a mount point) is available
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by rahoulb 9y ago
As a Ruby developer who has been running my own development business for 10 years and still has to look up how to use Ruby's CSV class every time I use it - I doubt that online answers are going to be what puts me out of business.
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by rahoulb 9y ago
Everyone's going on about parental leave. To me the big thing is 37 Signals spent years railing against companies with their handbooks and written down procedures. Calling them rituals doesn't change the fact that they have proces
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by rahoulb 9y ago
As I inderstand it, Apple isn't organised that way. They have OS teams, app teams, design teams, which work on whichever product at a given time. They don't have product-specific teams. As for Apple being tiny without the iPhone;
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by rahoulb 10y ago
I expect licensed taxis to be expensive. The problem is now I have no choice but to get an Uber because the private hire firms don't have enough drivers and don't show up. And from speaking to the drivers it's because Uber i
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by rahoulb 10y ago
A while back I asked a few and they said Uber paid them extra for their first year - basically all the time they were working whether they had a fare or not.
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by rahoulb 10y ago
Whereas the city I live in in the U.K. had excellent taxi services - both licenced and private hire. Now the private hire is shit as they barely have any drivers and the licences is still expensive.
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by rahoulb 10y ago
Just to be charitable - I can imagine Workflow enter discussions to be acquired and get told that they need to make sure that they have permission to link to those other apps by Apple Legal before anything can happen. Being a small dev team
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by rahoulb 10y ago
I rarely use it on my phone but it makes my iPad incredibly useful. I have a whole series of workflows for sending standard emails and automatically scheduling follow-ups, preparing for meetings, publishing blog posts and so on.
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by rahoulb 10y ago
Years ago I started (and didn't get very far) on a pointless project to make Smalltalk look a bit more conventional without breaking how it works. Including an if message that looks like if in C or similar language and and unless const
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by rahoulb 10y ago
So Uber is doing something unique then?
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by rahoulb 10y ago
What if their contracts with their customers state everything that deployed is from an audited source in order to leave no loopholes in the event of a data breach? And if there is a serious data breach you better be able to prove that you n
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by rahoulb 10y ago
I'll also add that having tried lots of alternatives, the iPad Pro with pencil is the only thing that comes close to real pen and paper (but still falls a bit short)
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by rahoulb 10y ago
A very slick and easy to use UI that is loved by technical and non-technical users alike. An in-built mechanism for promoting your stuff to other users.
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by rahoulb 10y ago
Which is why you need to audit every pathway the data travels along. And why RMS only uses computers with free software firmware.

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