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Airpods and Wearables(aboveavalon.com)
2 points by rahoulb 10y ago|0 comments
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by rahoulb 10y ago
As ever it depends. To use the ever-present car analogy, shoddy engineering didn't harm British Leyland - until it did. And now there's no native British car industry to speak of. But people don't care about engineering - th
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by rahoulb 10y ago
Maybe it's like that where you work. But if I was the BA and was having to be personally responsible for something I would want to make sure that what I was specifying was actually correct by discussing it with the people who will be
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by rahoulb 10y ago
Or it's the developer's job to ask "why do you say that?" - the BA thinks they're being helpful and shortcutting a decision for you; the least you could do is try to be helpful back.
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by rahoulb 10y ago
11 hour battery life, built in SIM card, drawing UI sketches for clients (not an Air though, I have a pro)
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by rahoulb 10y ago
Personally I feel Mac OS's Platinum was the pinnacle of "desktop" user-interface design and OS X/macOS is generally on a path of returning to that look (although not that feel)
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by rahoulb 10y ago
I use my iPad Pro with keyboard to SSH into a Mac and use vim or Coda to develop. Better battery life than most laptops and built-in SIM card means I can work almost anywhere. Plus I also get to draw sketches whenever I want (both UI desig
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by rahoulb 10y ago
A big part of this vote is a huge swathe of voters who felt that they were not being properly represented by their representatives. All three major parties had similar lines on economic liberalisation, immigration and freedom of movement a
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by rahoulb 10y ago
The Remain campaign never made any positive points about staying in the EU (apart from a few in the Labour party talking about workers rights, but they got about 4% airtime and very little newspaper coverage). The vast majority of the Rema
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by rahoulb 10y ago
How? Nothing I tried worked with streamed music, only stuff I had locally (especially on iOS)
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by rahoulb 10y ago
One thing that always worked for me on iOS but never on Android was triggering Siri from a standard bluetooth head unit. I could hit the "call" button and it would launch Siri and I could say "message my wife" or a plain
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by rahoulb 10y ago
It was called Mac OS for years (1) I also remember when it was just called "System" (1) Yeah yeah I know all about NeXT, but OS X isn't NeXT as anyone who used Rhapsody will remember
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by rahoulb 10y ago
It's kind of stupid, but when I tried out Apple Music, the lack of Last.fm integration really bugged me and I soon switched back to Spotify. Now I understand why :-D
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by rahoulb 10y ago
My bank (NatWest) kept sending me my bank statements in Braille, even though I had opted out of paper statements completely. Six months of calling them up on the phone or going into branch; each time I was told it was sorted, only for the
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by rahoulb 10y ago
I'd say the watch is similar to the iPod; there was competition out there but the general public didn't really care. Then the iPod was released and commentators complained it was less capable and more expensive than its rivals (in
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by rahoulb 11y ago
Yes, but "long term" is more than one election away
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by rahoulb 11y ago
For a second machine (maybe a cheap laptop) then yes, I would consider it. As a side note, Windows NT had a POSIX layer as one of its three main APIs (Along with Win32 and OS/2), so in theory, at least, it should have been easy to port
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by rahoulb 11y ago
My wife once flew off in a rage because I had "Smalltalk with Sam" written on my hand. She calmed down when I explained I was lending my colleague a book on OO programming.
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by rahoulb 11y ago
But the likes of Bill Gates will get quoted on the news headlines - most people don't care but will hear "Bill Gates says..." and think "well, if the experts think that"
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by rahoulb 11y ago
> Rather than asking for legislative action through Congress, the FBI is proposing an unprecedented use of the All Writs Act of 1789 to justify an expansion of its authority. It's all about precedent.
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by rahoulb 11y ago
And I'm 8 hours in to that process. Not 5 minutes. I've learnt a load of stuff I never knew about Android in the process, but the facts are it still doesn't work and I've wasted several hours. And yes that's my fa
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by rahoulb 11y ago
(I can't believe we're still having this conversation but...) My take on it is this: With Linux, Windows and Android, when something goes wrong, you may be able to fix it. For example, my wife's HTC One M8 received an OTA upd
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by rahoulb 11y ago
> Emotions and addictions start small, and get stronger as we feed them by reacting to them. If you want to stop a destructive emotion or an addiction, learn to notice it early and stay completely equanimous to it. I've just been do
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Apple Keychain cracked(theregister.co.uk)
2 points by rahoulb 11y ago|0 comments
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by rahoulb 11y ago
I live in Leeds now, but grew up in Nottingham (70 miles south, also coal-mining country) and we said "owt" and "nowt" - but pronounced like "oat", not "out". Also your stereotypical Yorkshire would s
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by rahoulb 11y ago
The greatest. Got more into one note than most could into an entire lifetime.
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by rahoulb 12y ago
He has a transatlantic backside
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by rahoulb 13y ago
I'm not keen on pairing, but instead of planning things in my head, that's why I do TDD. The tests explore various ideas (as in effect the tests are clients of whatever I'm building, just like the finished app will be) so I g
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by rahoulb 13y ago
Just the regular one. The seats were surprisingly comfortable - but I have been told that I could "sleep on a stick"
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by rahoulb 13y ago
I went to a one day conference in London and, to save costs, decided to take the coach overnight (depart Leeds at 1am and then leaving London at 9pm in the evening - sleeping on the coach both ways). The train worked out at £40ish each way

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