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by rahoulb 10y ago
Ultimately all RMS's issues come down to "who do you trust?" If you enable all your Google account privacy options - can you be sure that they do what they say they are doing? How do you know that? Can you be sure your info
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by rahoulb 10y ago
NeXT didn't have a Finder; the current Finder is a NeXT style file browser and nothing like the Finder on classic MacOS.
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by rahoulb 10y ago
The web happened. On an NeXT
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by rahoulb 10y ago
Weirdly enough that's how I spend a lot of my time on my iPad Pro - use Mosh to connect to a Linux box and then use tmux and vim to set up tiles and do my work.
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by rahoulb 10y ago
I'm genuinely saddened by this. My Time Round is the only smart watch I've found that looks like a real watch (THIN) - they seemed to be the only ones that understood all the functionality in the world means nothing if you've
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by rahoulb 10y ago
I generally agree. However I have a Pebble Time Round (awful name) and people are consistently surprised when I mention that it's a smart watch as it does look as good as any other similarly priced watch (noticeably everyone knows what
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by rahoulb 10y ago
Given that the browser is fast approaching a full OS layer, does that mean you're effectively running an OS within an OS within an OS (or more so if you're running on virtualisation)?
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by rahoulb 10y ago
I'm not a huge free-software advocate but I do broadly agree with rms. But I went to hear him speak a while back and came away feeling more anti-free-software than before hearing him.
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by rahoulb 10y ago
Cleaning aside, this is actually a thing. Stores like Primark and H&M basically deal in "disposable fashion" - clothes that are up to the minute style-wise but made (and sold) incredibly cheaply, so you don't mind the fac
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by rahoulb 10y ago
"Trains on time" was a reference to your original comment (yes, I know it's not really true)
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by rahoulb 10y ago
Do you think the two might be related? One is modular and configurable and ends up in rabbit holes of tangles and the other is monolithic and controlling but keeps the trains running on time?
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by rahoulb 10y ago
Just read the Ars review - it looks like the bar is divided into three, with only the middle area fully under app control (the left hand area showing dialogue box controls or escape). It does say that the bar slows down under heavy load th
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by rahoulb 10y ago
I've used my iPad as a remote display into OS X (now macOS) and it's painful. The OS would need an interaction overhaul to make it work with touch - the hit targets are all the wrong size and a lot of behaviour relies on hovering
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by rahoulb 10y ago
From what I read, the touch bar is a separate system, with its own processor and running watchOS - effectively a remote display - so an app crash shouldn't affect it.
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by rahoulb 10y ago
iPad Pro using MOSH into a Linux box running tmux and vim. A great development environment for me - 11 hour battery life, built in LTE connection, huge screen that I can layout how I want, easy to carry around with me and I can use it fo
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by rahoulb 10y ago
I'm not an iOS developer myself but I don't think you can switch on screen-size support and high-red graphics as an in-app purchase (unless you have every screen defined twice)
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by rahoulb 10y ago
They can't really offer an upgrade path though; as I understand it the closest they can do is switch to subscription pricing.
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by rahoulb 10y ago
Personally I love it and feel it's absolutely worth the price
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by rahoulb 10y ago
I'm not in America, but I am English and have watched similar events happen with Brexit and the impression I get is this is about rejecting the status quo, not about what comes in its place. Sanders said "Take power from the 1%&qu
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by rahoulb 10y ago
I've used an iOS app called Stamp (paid for) to transfer my stuff to Apple Music. There is a desktop version as well. Apple Music's discovery is awful (although I guess it doesn't know me as well as Spotify does)
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by rahoulb 10y ago
I am a participant in one 45+ page thread that has spanned two years (client failures when using the iOS app with CarPlay). Several participants have posted exact steps to reproduce, including model and firmware numbers and yet there was o
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by rahoulb 10y ago
I prefer Carl-C for VIM anyway - I move my fingers less to hit it
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by rahoulb 10y ago
For some meaning of "limited subsection of the general population". I had 12000 followers for a twitter account about a specific football club - a specific subsection but not a technical or media one. I used to randomly look at my
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by rahoulb 10y ago
I use Lastpass and a lot of apps offer a weird icon next to the password box that opens a share sheet with LastPass as an option.
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by rahoulb 10y ago
Who'd have thought it? People getting emotional about stuff. When all software is designed to be consumed by other computers then we can ignore those emotional reactions, for as long as software is consumed by animals it is going to b
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by rahoulb 10y ago
Also British shows don't have teams of writers, it tends to be one or two people working alone, so workload and inspiration also affect show times.
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by rahoulb 10y ago
It's not Squeak/Pharo specific and it is about ten years old but I find "the art and science of smalltalk" one of the best (although it also covers a lot of OO basics)
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by rahoulb 10y ago
Although Release Radar apparently does analyse sounds as it doesn't have the playlist history to access.
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by rahoulb 10y ago
Hangouts on air is being replaced by Youtube Live
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by rahoulb 10y ago
On iOS it asks the first time the app wants a particular permission but doesn't ask again. If you want to change your initial choice, you can head to Settings and view/change the grants/revokes by permission or by app.

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