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by raldi 5y ago
Indeed. Particularly the bit about how pre-iPhone products met "any other definition of a smartphone". To me, multitouch is the sine qua non of a smartphone.
782.
by raldi 5y ago
Nobody claimed they did.
783.
by raldi 5y ago
If there were "quite a few", could you name one? If you're alluding to the LG Prada, it didn't have multitouch — no pinch zooming, no flick scrolling, etc.
784.
by raldi 5y ago
How many of them had a keyless multitouch interface before 2007?
785.
by raldi 5y ago
"High-quality" is the focus of that sentence.
786.
by raldi 5y ago
If you think it's hard keeping track of DST changes, imagine what it's going to be like when business hours, daycare hours, train schedules, recurring meeting times, TV shows, and everything else you're used to having at part
787.
by raldi 5y ago
Best part of the story is how he spent a bunch of money on a lawsuit whose sole final result is that now UCB can grow without fear of future lawsuits. He would've been better off setting the money on fire.
788.
by raldi 5y ago
I'm not arguing that you can plop a stadium down anywhere and be assured of an entire industry swooping in to cluster around it; I'm arguing that in some situations (particularly the transit-rich urban shells of former industrial&
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by raldi 5y ago
I never said tech companies want to be near baseball stadiums. Rather (like in Baltimore and San Diego), the new stadium revitalized a neighborhood whose original reason for being had mostly dried up, bringing enough business to support the
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by raldi 5y ago
On the other hand, having the stadium built in SF was arguably the primary catalyst in the transformation of SOMA from an underused-warehouse district to the new tech epicenter of the world, stealing Silicon Valley's fire in a way pr
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by raldi 5y ago
Yeah, this metaphor is bizarre. Optimus Prime’s forms are a biped robot or a semi; neither is particularly “folded up”, so I have no idea what car that’s supposed to look like.
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by raldi 5y ago
void *p = NULL; int i = *p / 0;
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by raldi 5y ago
Wikipedia's pretty good at this, e.g.: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_in_West_Africa#January_an...
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by raldi 5y ago
> scores of war games point to two likely paths. Can someone TLDR how it ends?
795.
by raldi 5y ago
How do three nontechnical writers collaborate on an HTML document?
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by raldi 5y ago
Your opening sentence came off to me as sarcastic opining that this is an inferior reinvention of a 30-year-old wheel.
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by raldi 5y ago
I don’t understand your opening sentence. Why would they keep it unplugged?
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by raldi 5y ago
I agree, except I think all three are video games.
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by raldi 5y ago
Right? Can someone just list the myths and their refutations so I can move on with my life?
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by raldi 5y ago
What exactly is wrong with Lego making a line of products for children who prefer to play with the characters than build complex models? Particularly when it was based on extensive research rather than just prejudice.
801.
by raldi 5y ago
The door the tablet’s in doesn’t open until after the prewash.
802.
by raldi 5y ago
What do you mean by “no link”?
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by raldi 5y ago
If this is the true answer, why doesn’t it happen in other countries?
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by raldi 5y ago
So what’s the actual reason that public transit projects are wildly more expensive and slower to build in the United States than in other countries?
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by raldi 5y ago
What's the language being used here to define the interface? I don't understand what's intended by terms like "Nat" or "Fin" or "**" or "->" and don't see any link to documentat
806.
by raldi 5y ago
I’m having trouble figuring out what the output mechanism is.
807.
by raldi 5y ago
See also: the opening of The Simpsons
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by raldi 5y ago
I don’t see any way to type a number in the first place. I don’t get any keyboard at all.
809.
by raldi 5y ago
I get nothing (Chrome or Safari on iPhone)
810.
by raldi 5y ago
Is mobile unsupported?

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