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by skygazer 11y ago
In recent years, Apple doubled iPhone storage levels while keeping prices the same: the middle tier 32gb became 64, and the high end 64gb tier became 128 -- however, the 16gb remained untouched. There is no longer a 32gb offering. I think
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by skygazer 11y ago
I use 1Password as well, but instead of using its secure notes section for "security question answers," I put these inside optional fields in the 1Password logins records for the particular site. You can create whatever additiona
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by skygazer 11y ago
I actually use Apple's accessibility features quite a bit. I'm not visually or aurally imparied, but sometimes I like the features provided to those users. Apple seems to care quite a bit in this regard. I haven't looked in
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by skygazer 11y ago
I agree with your general point on the increasing lack of discoverability, but this feature, in fairness to Apple, is "hidden" behind basically the only graphical icon in the Messages app, on the main screen, of a pen on paper, pr
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by skygazer 11y ago
It doesn't strike me as absurd at all. For various reasons, I prefer not to "jay walk," but when the cross walks are miles away, and I judge I can safely cross without them, I'll follow the what seems the most pragmati
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by skygazer 11y ago
I prefer mlocate to locate, as it rebuilds the index in a flash by diffing and by paying attention to modification dates when traversing, so you can run its updatedb more frequently without a noticable penalty. That said, mdfind is terrific
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Whether this is an effective technique or not, I think they look for people that at seem to really understand the pitched idea, and specifically don't say it's impossible. Probably a similar search technique any of us would use w
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by skygazer 11y ago
As an iOS guy, I've had an exactly reciprocal experience struggling to navigate Android to change seemingly basic settings. I think our mutual difficulties make more sense if we assume "intuitive" is secretly a synonym for &
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by skygazer 12y ago
Your comment fascinates me, as if you feel you can uniquely tease out the objective from what most consider largely subjective. I'm not contesting, just curious for elaboration. Is it designer hubris, like audiophile, or wine tasting
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A packet of energy absorbed and exciting a molecule in my eye, causing a cascade through a complex system still feels entirely classical. I'm not sure merely invoking "photon" is enough to imply quantum effects. It's wh
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by skygazer 12y ago
I worked at Earthlink in the mid nineties, and happened to sit next to the girl that approved all the ad placements on the site's (yahoo-like) start page. She would casually lean over and ask me if this or that medical claim seemed pl
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by skygazer 12y ago
I have to agree with your sentiment -- certain types of simplicity, though attractive, can be a misleading double edged sword. I once let a team split in two for a week to separately build the same product using two competing UI frameworks,
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It seems the entire blog post is based on a misunderstanding of React Native's goals. I don't think the point of React Native has anything to do with building a common UI across different platforms. In fact, they admit you'l
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by skygazer 12y ago
You just reminded me -- I once wrote a script that decoded and then eval'd a hidden command encoded within the whitespace of the script file itself. My goal was to create an entirely benign looking script that would hold up to visual
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by skygazer 12y ago
Hmm. That's intriguing. Spam could be modern day Numbers Stations, broadcast to our inboxes.
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In the car, I generally alternate between Google Maps, Apple Maps, TomTom and Navigon. After years of doing this, I've rarely noticed a difference in route accuracy -- in my experience they're equally likely to give a slightly fa
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by skygazer 12y ago
TomTom gives the, admittedly less informative, but similarly reassuring message, "You're still on the fastest route." My level of trust has grown toward not needing this reassurance. I will further admit that this learning
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by skygazer 12y ago
I kept mine in my back pocket while at a wedding reception, last weekend, and when I finally pulled it out to use it, it had warped, and would no longer lay flat. While it still seemed completely usable, I'm definitely going to return
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by skygazer 12y ago
I suffered something similar, just once, about twenty years ago, in high school, and never since. Although, instead of an impression of nothingness, it felt more like a Photoshop content aware fill, similar to the optic nerve blind spot, b
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by skygazer 12y ago
How would NO-IP detect C&C servers aliased to their subdomains, even if they connected to every single one of their subdomains daily -- they wouldn't know what ports to scan. By my, possibly naive thinking, they'd have to imp
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by skygazer 12y ago
I think (or hope) he meant epigenetics. There's increasing evidence that epigenetic changes in parents can be passed to, or at least cause other epigenetic changes in, children, in an almost Lamarkian way. However, I think the article
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by skygazer 13y ago
Why is a husband and wife talking to each other in a grocery store so vexing? Is it only if one is remote, or have you also looked into the ramifications of muzzling fellow shoppers? Is it that you prefer to hear both sides of stranger&#x
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by skygazer 13y ago
I'm late to the party on this thread, but I want to point out that, to my lay eyes, the words "uncommon" and "unreasonable" have distinctly different meanings -- that is to say, something can be utterly familiar and
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by skygazer 13y ago
TLDR version of this critique might be: "Violence can be emotional, too, and Pinker is myopic for focusing, with reductionist logic, on physical harm and death in his definition and analysis." I, personally, find Pinker's ana
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by skygazer 13y ago
Oddly, for me, the killer feature on the "Coin" card is the proximity alarm if you leave your card behind. I've repeatedly left my card at restaurants after paying, or left the house in the morning without my wallet. Err.
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by skygazer 13y ago
From the ruling, it appears Apple is in trouble for knowingly and actively providing a venue for conspiring publishers to conspire, which is illegal. Interestingly, the judge points out there's no evidence that Apple wanted to raise pr
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by skygazer 13y ago
Welp, I just spent an embarrassingly long while reading the 160 pages of the findings. I'm now of the opinion that Apple is probably guilty of antitrust violation. Judge Cote admits (on page 157) there's nothing inherently wrong w
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by skygazer 13y ago
Wow. Did Apple dictate that publishers change their Amazon contracts? If so, then I completely agree, Apple is clearly in the wrong. However, this is the first I've heard this. Can you lead me to supporting evidence?
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by skygazer 13y ago
If Amazon was selling $12 wholesale ebooks at a loss of $2 a piece for a retail price of $9.99, it seems Apple would also have to sell them at a loss, to prevent book prices from increasing. Even if Apple had sold them at cost, with 0% mar
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by skygazer 13y ago
Maybe I'm daft, but it doesn't add up to me. Perhaps you can point out the flaw in my thinking? Apple already had a marketplace, the App Store, that let sellers set their own prices — Apple just wanted their hefty 30%, regardles

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