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by rahoulb 6y ago
Personally I find FaceID far superior to TouchID - wet hands, gloves and so on used to get in my way, whereas FaceID rarely fails (apart from one pair of sunglasses). It's only now that masks are commonplace that it's become an i
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by rahoulb 6y ago
Because Apple is making privacy a key differentiator across their entire product line. How private they actually are is a different matter, but certainly they talk a lot about how the data that is sent to their servers doesn't include
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by rahoulb 6y ago
I imagine that the hardware design was finalised a long time ago and even 9 months would be too short a time to figure out how to include it without reverting to the old design with smaller screens
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by rahoulb 6y ago
For me the Watch has become my dumb phone with benefits. My watch faces only really have complications for messages and calls (some have weather and workouts too) and as I have the cellular model I often leave my phone at home and am effect
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by rahoulb 6y ago
Apple isn't interested in selling tech licences to other companies - they want to own their core technologies so they can sell products to consumers. And, as an original member of the Arm consortium, they have a perpetual licence to t
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by rahoulb 6y ago
Yes - but the Chart Shows (both the BBC and the commercial stations) were the places where the stations were obliged to play songs, during the daytime, that weren't on their playlists.
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by rahoulb 6y ago
I'm in the UK and in my 40s. For me the Top 40 used to be one of the few places where you could hear stuff that wasn't just pop radio - because in the UK it was a sales chart, not an airplay chart and genuinely represented what p
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by rahoulb 6y ago
Exactly. Two companies that had lost their vision
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by rahoulb 6y ago
Well, one side effect of this is developers will rely on App Store adverts to promote their apps, whereas before Facebook ads were an effective way to promote them. So indirectly, Apple will be gaining revenue from this move.
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by rahoulb 6y ago
Well what Jobs did was eliminate all the extras and focus in on Apple’s core strength. Which resulted in the famous four product matrix. And then once stabilised, innovate around their core vision - appliances (Jobs always wanted the Mac to
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by rahoulb 6y ago
I'm not a gamer, but I play a couple of games of FIFA and that removes all work stuff from my brain. I also make sure I put my phone on charge, in a separate room.
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by rahoulb 6y ago
I remember Nottingham Forest (my team) had the widest pitch, and Arsenal (famous for playing dull boring football) had the narrowest. However, the really interesting thing was I remember hearing an interview with an Arsenal player (possibly
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by rahoulb 6y ago
Interesting that this has come up on the day when Pharo has also made it to the front page. Smalltalk uses an image and holds live objects in memory at all times - there's no distinction between the source code representation and the r
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by rahoulb 6y ago
I would prefer "non-personalised" - simply because "personalised" means that people and companies I know nothing about know lots about me.
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by rahoulb 6y ago
I can't remember where I saw it, but someone described advertising driven social media as like a pub where they make their money from people having a fight by the front door rather than from selling beer.
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by rahoulb 6y ago
I've always worked with the convention that {} is for single line blocks and do ... end for multi-line
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by rahoulb 6y ago
Good point. I tend to use my iPad as my primary computer - and once you get your head around the fact that everything runs off the share menu it's basically the same concept, without the physical dragging.
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by rahoulb 6y ago
One of the things I loved about RiscOS was a small UI feature. There were no open or save dialogs. Instead, when you saved a file, it minimised to its icon and then you dragged it to the relevant folder. To open a file, you located it an
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by rahoulb 6y ago
I've been an Apple fan since 1989 (I remember the exact moment). I have low expectation of other technology companies. But every time Apple falls the slightest bit short it's like a kick in the stomach. There was a story about ho
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by rahoulb 6y ago
As I see it, the advantage Zoom had over Skype and similar tools was only the host needed an account. Everyone else would get sent a link which would download the client if not already installed (it would have been perfect if that had gone
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by rahoulb 7y ago
I started using Ctrl-C instead of Escape in Vim years ago (long before the Touchbar) as it means I don't have to move my hands from the home position.
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by rahoulb 7y ago
Would you expect free upgrades as new OS versions are released? What about ongoing access to support?
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by rahoulb 7y ago
One of my teenage daughter's friends saw a Tor icon on my laptop and asked if I was looking for drugs, child porn or wanted someone murdering. I would say to most people, if they have heard of the "dark web" then they think i
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by rahoulb 7y ago
As well as leo-tada's links, this is a good article on how Federico uses the iPad as his primary computer (including how Workflow/Shortcuts is essential to that) - although this predates iPadOS https://www.macstories.ne
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by rahoulb 7y ago
Checkout Federico Viticci at MacStories - he's been using Shortcuts and Workflow before it to automate his entire iPad based life. Some of the stuff he gets it to do is amazing.
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by rahoulb 7y ago
My uncle died in the waiting room of his cardiologist's office, waiting for his check-up
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by rahoulb 7y ago
If you've not already, I recommend reading "This Naked Mind" by Annie Grace
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The comments on this thread have made me happy(reddit.com)
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by rahoulb 7y ago
Only school ones are allowed (it's a primary school so kids 11 and under). Which means any photos taken don't leave the device
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by rahoulb 7y ago
^Q isn't as fuzzy as I'd like it - I do a lot of rails work and being able to type apvwpeopsho to match app/views/people/show.html.erb is really useful

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