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by shantly 7y ago
Not being on Roku's kinda weird, as it's hugely popular, widely deployed, and sees high usage. It's an odd platform but if your product is a video streaming catalogue + service well, that's exactly what it's built t
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by shantly 7y ago
Please stop hedging every post on the Web with 100 disclaimers about everything when it's obviously an opinion, or obviously you don't think it applies in every case but is a useful generalization, et c. It's a crappy way to
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by shantly 7y ago
I'm still disappointed they didn't find a way to work Billy Zane into S3 at all. Even for a scene or two, haha. Shame about Bowie—to put it mildly, and not just for the show—but they managed alright. S3's a real two-watcher,
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by shantly 7y ago
> Fuck tech. Fuck computers. What a waste of a career. I'm coming around to a the-medium-is-the-message / technological-determinism perspective on the Internet, that it cannot exist as anything like the way it is now and mos
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by shantly 7y ago
Memory size is a problem, too. Even a small amount of Javascript can allocate a ton of memory. I'd love to see a more memory-efficient language replace JS, then a reasonable but lowish memory limit put in place. Say, 8MB, which still s
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by shantly 7y ago
Bingo. We patted ourselves on the back for killing the worst annoyances of the web (pop-ups, terrible Flash menus that were always some different, cute thing for every site, big, slow, Applets—god, those would feel responsive and light
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by shantly 7y ago
There's a link for the Basic HTML version while it's loading. I've never seen it load so fast I couldn't click the link. Including on Google Fiber. Then you can set that to your default view. Ta-da, gmail that's as
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by shantly 7y ago
Google's core business and overriding concern is voyeurism and stalking. They're creepy as hell. It should be framed in those, accurate, terms at every opportunity. It doesn't matter why they're doing it—those are th
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by shantly 7y ago
Learning programming's easier even on an iPad than it was on, say, mid-90s desktops, overall. Granted earlier systems that booted straight to a programming environment forced you to grapple with code to do much with them, but they we
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by shantly 7y ago
Chiefly #2 on both counts. I didn't see it as strategically useful, nor as in fact advancing any kind of humanitarian or idealistic vision (brand, rather, if we're being frank) for the US. I end up agreeing with the anti-war-for
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by shantly 7y ago
I recall multi-floor department stores employing actual elevator music in their elevators 20+ years ago. Haven't been on an elevator in one recently, so can't comment on whether they still do it.
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by shantly 7y ago
It's the kind of thing I definitely want for every non-technical person in my life. Which is most of them. We're not that far removed from a time when every non-nerd's personal computer was a cess-pit of viruses and "a
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by shantly 7y ago
That it was also about war in Italy was more important than that the war in question was WWI. I guess they could have written "WWI in Italy" but that seems to ask more of the reader without much benefit, I'd say.
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by shantly 7y ago
There are cases in which half-assed actions in favor of "good" (allowing that for the sake of argument) are way worse than doing nothing. Syria was one of them. Predictably. Quite possibly a worse strategic blunder than Iraq, to b
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by shantly 7y ago
> so I normally end up getting my actual work done late at night after an early dinner, which my wife is not particularly happy about. Until that stops, they won't knock it off. Start telling them exactly what you're doing in t
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by shantly 7y ago
> I’m concerned, of course, that Americans have built a society with so few buses that everyone has to buy a car on credit. But being “underwater” is not the main problem here. More specifically, we've built cities that are pretty
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by shantly 7y ago
Yeah, kitchen timers & alarms are about the only thing Siri gets right often enough that it's not less work, on average, to just go do what you need to do with tappy-tappies instead.
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by shantly 7y ago
Facebook, sure, but what's Twitter up to? Muddling along until they get cheap enough that Microsoft decides to buy them?
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by shantly 7y ago
No, far, far from most. Most people in certain tech-heavy cities, maybe. Now, if you count voice assistants on phones, tablets, and laptops/desktops, most probably have access to at least one of those and maybe even most have tried i
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by shantly 7y ago
> Because after 5 years, Alexa still doesn't work well enough for most people except to set a kitchen timer, play music, or check the outdoor temperature. Same with the others. Google's seems to be the best, but it's still
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by shantly 7y ago
It does not follow from the assertion that devotion to a political unit of any size is a similar mindset or activity, that devotion to any one such thing means precisely identical devotion to all parts of whatever political hierarchy it m
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by shantly 7y ago
Dismissing things because they're "artificial", as if that proves anything, is super common in these sort of discussions. Especially online, especially among tech folks. > Nationalism isn't normal OK. I'm listeni
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by shantly 7y ago
Oh or we could expect people to accept the laptop in payment for debts that far exceed its intrinsic material value. Oh right, that’s money, it’s also “artificial”, and that’s also a fairly useless observation per se . It’s a gibberish arg
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by shantly 7y ago
You can’t get far working in matters of human society if you go around dismissing things for being “artificial”.
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by shantly 7y ago
> Nationalism isn't normal, countries are a completely artificial construct. So's this laptop. What's your point?
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by shantly 7y ago
> I'm the same way. I find that choosing a project that inspires me takes me much further than just saying "I want to learn X, let me follow a tutorial". To piggyback on that, I need either a real project or genuine cu
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by shantly 7y ago
> Cautiously working my way up to gas lines--don't want to blow up my home. Easier'n most plumbing, I'd say. Run gas to stoves on three houses now, hardest part's piecing it together without needing three runs to the
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by shantly 7y ago
Yeah, coulda used at least a hyphen on like-counts. I had to read the headline twice to parse it.
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by shantly 7y ago
I’m familiar with patterns for divvying up DBs along lines of responsibility and access needs, but the described situation was one per table .
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by shantly 7y ago
I love this notion of others’ viewpoints or selves as aesthetic objects and will definitely, in one form or another and for one purpose or another, be stealing it.

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