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by redial 8y ago
I've never heard anyone claim that as the reason for its superiority. Metric is superior because it makes sense as a system .
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by redial 8y ago
Rules 1 and 2.
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by redial 8y ago
Cons: Windows update. I'll pass.
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by redial 8y ago
> Do they provide any value? Yes. In fact, they provide "invaluable" emotional value. > Do they generate profit at least? Some do, after all they are like any other low margin business.
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by redial 8y ago
How would you know what "this" should be without using a browser?
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by redial 8y ago
The usage of "you" is very ambiguous. The usage of "cold", or "warm", or "right" or "north" is very much as ambiguous as can be. Ambiguity –or specificity– has nothing to do with why we talk
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by redial 8y ago
> You might succeed in convincing me to change the English grammar rules in my mind, but don't you dare demand it. " Oh, the irony. The person writing a ruleset on grammar for others to follow feels uneasy when others ask the s
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by redial 8y ago
The cube animation was introduced in 2002-2003 if I remember correctly, and it is still present in macOS when changing users using fast-user-switching.
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by redial 8y ago
Yes. Two years in and it is only available in one out of six models; even Apple has no faith in it.
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by redial 8y ago
I would say it is not what it adds, but what it expresses without attempting anything else than having those words read. It echoes the disconnect a lot of us feel between the power of a world-changing-device with what is being used for, emb
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by redial 8y ago
You are correct, no company has ever filed a "misrepresenting" earnings report ever, certainly not ones that share the same high moral standards as Facebook.
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by redial 8y ago
> Facebook lured advertisers by inflating video ad-watch times: lawsuit > Revenue and users are both increasing year over year. They wouldn't lie, of course.
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Mac shipments fall 11% in Q3, IDC says(9to5mac.com)
1 points by redial 8y ago|0 comments
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by redial 8y ago
And subsidized fossil fuels?
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by redial 8y ago
Glad you are feeling better...but after reading your comment I too am craving bbq ribs. I was indifferent to them before.
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by redial 8y ago
On iOS users have selectable permissions control; I could allow an app to access my location but not the camera or microphone, and the apps are expected to even work with no permissions granted. That all depends on context, if an app asks
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by redial 8y ago
The ones with the guns.
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by redial 8y ago
> I don’t see any argument refuting my point that governments could not replace big pharma. I'm not trying to. I'm refuting the argument that they "develop drugs based on merit alone" and thus somehow because of tha
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by redial 8y ago
> I think the answer is that drug development is the kind of process which public institutions are particularly ill suited to manage. > A drug company is free to pursue and fund development of drugs based on merit alone. What? The arg
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by redial 8y ago
Because they want to waste time. It's a free country after all isn't it?
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by redial 8y ago
> Google messenger and google+ gets the relationships the user has. Nobody uses google+. > Search is what is relevant to the custom at the moment of time. Yes, but in 5 years? Amazon is playing the long game.
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Arm Announces Client CPU Roadmap For Laptops(arm.com)
389 points by redial 8y ago|278 comments
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Arm Unveils Client CPU Performance Roadmap Through 2020 – Taking Intel Head On(anandtech.com)
5 points by redial 8y ago|0 comments
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by redial 8y ago
> The reason we have these big evil hierarchies, where the poor are dispossessed and a small group of tycoons at the top make the decisions, is because they have a track record of good decisions. Good decisions FOR THEM .
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by redial 8y ago
The only requirement Javascript meets is being included by default in web browsers.
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by redial 8y ago
Only for iOS, tvOS and watchOS, because ironically, you don't really need a Mac to develop for macOS.
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by redial 8y ago
The MacBook Pro gets all the hate because is the only model even worth talking about...at this point if you buy a MacBook Air with its 4yo internals and 8yo screen you end up feeling they took you for a chump, so you buy a $2000 machine whe
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by redial 8y ago
I think having no updated machine under $1000 for the last 3 or 4 years is the culprit and not the refreshed MacBook Pro, which starts at $1800 and has never been their best seller.
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by redial 8y ago
Isn't it obvious? the sad state of iTunes is so irrelevant to making truckloads of money that any effort to fix it will only eat at their profits. So...No iTunes for you!
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Discontinuation of Mac Support for Autodesk Alias and VRED(knowledge.autodesk.com)
90 points by redial 8y ago|104 comments

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