rahoulb

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Enshittification(pluralistic.net)
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by rahoulb 4y ago
Agreed. My friend was stabbed by a schizophrenic who lived in the flat opposite and believed that my friend was stalking him. Ten years later and my friend still has virtually no feeling in his hand as the nerves did not grow back correctl
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by rahoulb 4y ago
This is why Christmas is becoming more and more important in my life. Apart from milestone birthdays, it's the only time when it's possible to get everyone together.
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by rahoulb 4y ago
I agree that toggles make much more sense on touch-screens (which is why Apple used them). Apple ones also light up green (or dark background) when "on" and grey (or light background) when "off" - which seems pretty clea
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by rahoulb 4y ago
I think the problem with microservices is the same as the problem with OO programming (and I say this as a pure OO Rubyist) ... what you are doing is shifting the complexity out of your code, where at least it's under source control an
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by rahoulb 4y ago
If you're seen as someone helpful first, company representative second, then it works. That also includes recommending and advising on competitor products, if it's the right thing for the person asking the question. The real issu
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by rahoulb 4y ago
Apple too, with OpenDoc (that His Steveness killed on his return)
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by rahoulb 4y ago
Microsoft didn’t buy LinkedIn (or GitHub) to grow their business. Linkedin was because everyone needed to have a “social” strategy back then and apart from maybe Dynamics, there’s no real synergy (I don’t like that word) between LinkedIn an
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by rahoulb 4y ago
If you can find it, look for the BBC Radio version of Hitchhikers, from the late 70s, early 80s. Each version has a slightly different variation on the story and the radio one is my favourite of the lot. My friend had a copy of the scripts
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by rahoulb 4y ago
I have to say that a number of audiobooks I've bought recently have been totally spoilt by the narration - and the AI voices on offer here all sound better than the humans involved in those books. I also remember reading, a couple of y
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by rahoulb 4y ago
> Intent is preserved I think this can work both ways. I keep notes as I'm working (just plans for the day, typing up stuff that I'm doing for a vague timesheet, snippets of code so I can easily copy/paste them and thought
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by rahoulb 4y ago
I wouldn't be surprised if they keep internal Intel support anyway - as well as other architectures. The difference would be supporting Intel publicly - with third-party developers. As the target for Mac Pros won't just be runnin
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by rahoulb 4y ago
The thing I love about smalltalk is that the language grammar has about 7 rules in it and everything else is defined as passing messages to objects. Want to add a method? You send the class a message and pass it a block with the method cont
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by rahoulb 4y ago
A problem with confirmation dialogues is users become accustomed to confirming everything (“of course I want to do that”) and then miss the important irreversible change and just hit the button.
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by rahoulb 4y ago
Off the top of my head; UK startups that have grown and been successful (although many have now been bought out - which I guess is the exit plan for many founders anyway) Just Eat, Deliveroo and The Hut Group; Monzo, Starling and Revolut, f
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by rahoulb 4y ago
They lose a steady salary until they are profitable or get funding
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by rahoulb 4y ago
Risk. The company takes the risk rather than you personally. If it fails but you maintain good relations with the rest of the company you lose nothing and just transfer elsewhere (I guess, I’ve never worked at a big company preferring to go
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by rahoulb 4y ago
Yes and no. If you talk about privacy they don’t care but they absolutely do when it comes to “I was talking to my friend about X and suddenly I’m seeing ads for it everywhere - my phone must be listening to me”. Their phone may not actuall
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by rahoulb 4y ago
Safari has an option for this (both mobile and desktop). And you can switch it on/off per site.
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by rahoulb 4y ago
My friend was driving across America and his car broke down. He asked a passerby where the nearest garage was and got blank looks. He quickly realised the issue was pronunciation - “garidge” vs “gararge”
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by rahoulb 4y ago
As I remember it (and I had no inside knowledge, I was just an application developer who read the docs), NT was supposed to have 3 distinct APIs for interfacing with the kernel: the POSIX subsystem, Win32 for compatibility with Windows and
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by rahoulb 4y ago
Technically it's fine, but it sits badly with me. Ultimately their business model - we don't need to log/track/whatever your behaviour to show you advertising because we make our money off hardware - was a big differenti
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by rahoulb 4y ago
Doesn't that mean cost of materials/COGS though? Which doesn't include the overheads (engineering and staff, development and maintenance of back-end services, legal and compliance and all the rest) that you would normally pla
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by rahoulb 4y ago
I read somewhere (sorry can't remember where but it was quite recent) that Apple has defined "tracking" as "allowing third parties to monitor you over multiple sites and apps". My that definition, Apple, as a first
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by rahoulb 4y ago
For me, lots of things I used to struggle with suddenly made sense and now I have strategies for coping with them that actually work. Whereas previously I would try various strategies and end up hating myself when they didn't work. I
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by rahoulb 4y ago
I’ve just finished “After Steve” by Tripp Mickle and it strikes me as a good interpretation of the last 10 years at Apple strategically. - Apple was pretty much dead when Steve Jobs came back but he rescued it through a string of great prod
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by rahoulb 4y ago
And this comes down to history. When these schools were founded, the alternative was to have private tuition - as opposed to be taught "publicly" and live with children from other families. (The school I went to was founded in 151
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by rahoulb 4y ago
Apple TV 4K, Apple TV HD - hardware Apple TV - app on various platforms (that offers the subscription service, and sometimes acts as a container for other services plus replaces the old iTunes Movie Store which also sold TV shows) Apple TV+
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by rahoulb 4y ago
However, a sort code is always presented as 12-34-56 and the account number normally shown as 1234-5678 - so it's easily chunked and very easy to remember.
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by rahoulb 4y ago
Then AA is wrong. For many drinkers, suddenly stopping can be life threatening, causing seizures and convulsions. I also stopped drinking, effectively cold turkey - but I wasn't a very heavy drinker, just a habitual one. However, I re

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