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by stormbeta 9y ago
That's not actually an argument against saying the notch was a bad design decision. Just because people can tolerate it in order to get access to an iPhone with an OLED screen (or other X features) doesn't make it a feature that u
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by stormbeta 9y ago
Agreed. Many of the issues with Apple's software quality lately are fundamentals, not issues of scale. Stuff like this, the root password bug, the many issues with reliability in High Sierra, etc. These things speak to organizational i
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by stormbeta 9y ago
I think you have it backwards - this thread is full of people making excuses for Damore. And yes, I've read it. Just because he wrote some sentences that claimed he's in favor of diversity doesn't magically change the content
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by stormbeta 9y ago
The Terra Ignota series (Too Like the Lightning / Seven Surrenders, and Will to Battle which came out last year). Not only is it very different in tone/style from most traditional SF I've read, it also doesn't restrict i
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by stormbeta 9y ago
I don't even understand what they're using all that money for. The recent site and app redesigns have been a huge downgrade in overall UX (to the point I uninstalled the app as nearly unusable), and the site is just as slow and bu
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by stormbeta 9y ago
>Seems like a bad business move to me. The hard problem here was making micro-donations cost-effective, not creating a website where creators could host links to content. Exactly - this undermines the entire point of Patreon's exist
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by stormbeta 9y ago
I think it only matters for very large trees. I didn't notice much difference personally.
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by stormbeta 9y ago
Yep - there's no obvious way to tell what accessories will work together anymore. My Switch is another great example. It won't even charge with some of my adapters, and I had to get a C -> HDMI splitter that was designed specif
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by stormbeta 9y ago
I refuse to work with people which such fragile egos, but I agree on the architecture. Having a lot of individual pieces that connect using simple, straightforward interfaces is much more flexible and maintainable in the long run - it'
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by stormbeta 9y ago
Anyone who's even remotely surprised by this hasn't been paying attention. Thiel's politics are disgusting.
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by stormbeta 9y ago
The closest thing I've seen that seem likes a real replacement is Bazel, but I haven't tried using it for anything but a couple toy projects yet. The concepts seem solid though, as expected from Google. My main complaint about mak
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by stormbeta 9y ago
Which I've always found hilarious since most forms of income make use of tax-paid services.
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by stormbeta 9y ago
Agreed. Modern phones are so fragile as to make cases mandatory for anyone that doesn't just sit around all day, and bezel-less designs make it even worse while adding zero practical value.
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by stormbeta 9y ago
You'd probably enjoy Greg Egan's work then.
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by stormbeta 10y ago
I wish Google would make up their minds. They kept pushing Hangouts, and right when it was actually somewhat usable and represented a unified interface to messaging, they started abandoning it and trying to fragment the functionality off in
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by stormbeta 10y ago
Ditto. The idea of doing any kind of professional work in a shell via an iOS device doesn't make sense to me at all, and making the shell fancier wouldn't help.
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by stormbeta 10y ago
Sure. But nobody who paid attention to how Trump has done business in the past actually believed a word of it. And now we're being proven right.
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by stormbeta 10y ago
Not really. I stay with Dropbox because, as others have said, it just works, and it does so across pretty much every major platform, both desktop and mobile. Cloud storage is their core product, and it shows. And the pricing really isn&#x27
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by stormbeta 10y ago
Agreed. I tried iOS for six months this summer, and I found the overall UX very disappointing compared to modern Android at this point. Some things are still better - unified music controls, backups, and night shift especially. And the hard
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by stormbeta 10y ago
Because it works, it works reliably , and it does so on all of my devices. That isn't the case with most of the competition that I've seen or tried. I find the interface (both local and web) to be much nicer with DropBox as well,
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by stormbeta 10y ago
Agreed - this kind of integration is part of what I like about Dropbox. I understand the original poster is upset the option didn't work, but he's also opted into the beta releases - is not finding issues like that kind of the poi
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by stormbeta 10y ago
Even as someone who uses bluetooth headphones 100% of the time, I'm still pretty unhappy with this as they don't even support the industry standard for high quality bluetooth audio: apt-x (or if they did, I must've missed it
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by stormbeta 10y ago
I spent several months with an iPhone 6 earlier this year, and I came down with the opposite view. I found Apple's flat UI design to be very awkward, especially things like the decision to use text labels with hidden bounding boxes as
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by stormbeta 10y ago
I've switched entirely to Bluetooth headphones, but I'm with you - there are plenty of downsides to wireless headsets even with lossless audio protocols like aptx. And water resistance is still possible - my Z5C can be used in pou
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by stormbeta 10y ago
Between the volatile battery life and Android OEMs almost entirely abandoning the non-phablet market, I'm about ready to move to iOS as well. I still think Android's UX blows iOS out of the water these days, but the best UX in the
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by stormbeta 10y ago
True, but there's a real problem with people and places using lights with far too high a temperature, and even when shopping for home LED lights it's surprisingly difficult to find low temperature lights that aren't low on
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by stormbeta 10y ago
While I definitely still have issues with Bluetooth keyboards and mice, I have three pairs of bluetooth headphones (two of which are BT4, one is BT3) and they work great. The only real problem is switching between devices is still much more
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by stormbeta 10y ago
Colorado.
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by stormbeta 10y ago
I'm still lost. Maybe I just have radically different friends than everyone else here, but if I really have some pressing need to know what they're doing on a given day, I just ask them. Nobody cares about the day-to-day minutia,
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by stormbeta 10y ago
Why would you think about whether it was relevant in 5 years? I've literally never cared or thought about that when sending those kinds of messages. It's just a basic picture, not sexting or something else potentially sensitive. I

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