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by swombat 13y ago
woosh
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by swombat 13y ago
Pray tell what those places are. I don't have any other such places. Also, HN was drowned out for the first week or so. Then it became a steady trickle. Then a bunch of people, presumably such as yourself, decided that even that trickl
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by swombat 13y ago
For the record, I am saddened to see that HN has given up on giving stories about this their proper place. There haven't been many stories on the topic rising to the top recently, and the few who did sank back down quickly, presumably
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by swombat 13y ago
It's 9 million over one weekend, not over a quarter. The Blackberry number is irrelevant in that perspective.
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by swombat 13y ago
In the long run we are all dead. And all companies go bankrupt. Interesting to ponder which happens first...
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by swombat 13y ago
http://qz.com/127294/what-apple-wont-tell-you-the-iphone-5s-... This article is claiming that most of the phones sold are 5S's, actually... which would mean the 5C is making a moderate difference to that number...
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IPhone 5S outselling iPhone 5C nearly four to one(qz.com)
4 points by swombat 13y ago|1 comments
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by swombat 13y ago
That makes the 9 million figure a whole lot less impressive. From 7+ million to 9 million... but it's not that unthinkable that there could have been 2 million iPhone 4S's sold when the iPhone 5 launched, so that it could even be
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by swombat 13y ago
Sure, but prices dropping by $100 also stirs up emotions. I'm not implying that Apple didn't do a great job by moving to the 5S/5C split, just that it'd be fairer and more useful to compare 5S/5C to 5/4S and 4S
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by swombat 13y ago
> Apple’s iPhone 5s And iPhone 5c Sell 9M Units Over Opening Weekend, Topping 5M For iPhone 5 Last Year Not a fair comparison, given that 5S + 5C is two models. It would be fairer to compare it to the sales of the 5 + 4S last year - wh
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by swombat 13y ago
Apple would have replaced that for you free of charge, or possibly replaced the whole phone. Within 1 year is still under Applecare.
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by swombat 13y ago
I've just replaced the battery on my Lumia 820 after 9 months. They don't last forever. Glue is inexcusable. If they had a half decent mechanical design, foam pads would secure it in place when the device was assembled and allow
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by swombat 13y ago
Is it April 1st again???
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by swombat 13y ago
I don't know how this is possible after my very hard childhood but I just don't get sick anymore. Sounds like whatever your doctors did worked miracles. No serious illness for 20 years? If this experiment could be repeated at sc
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The Five Year Itch(jacquesmattheij.com)
98 points by swombat 13y ago|65 comments
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by swombat 13y ago
Katrina, probably.
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by swombat 13y ago
To be fair, that article also stated that: "Japanese does not have a word for excessive preparation." I haven't noticed that tendency in western cultures... so an organisational structure that works in an environment where ev
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by swombat 13y ago
Rule-based bureaucracies are clearly the best organisational model for dealing with stable, predictable situations such as rapidly unfolding natural disasters. Oh wait...
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by swombat 13y ago
There are too many variables to know anything at all. Let's just give up and go back to the caves, then, right?
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by swombat 13y ago
I bought the mac app and got to use it for a grand total of 6 months before Google Reader shut down. Since then there has been very little communication about what would happen with Reeder (other than "we're doing something"
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by swombat 13y ago
1.x on iPad no longer works. I'd have happily stuck with it if it did.
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by swombat 13y ago
I think what's annoying to me is also that they were so opaque with their plans. They could have said "we'll be releasing a new version for money that will have the new feed sources in it." But instead, they kind of half
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by swombat 13y ago
I'll probably buy this because it is the best feed reader app out there, but not very pleased with being charged again - which I assume will also be done to the mac app!!...
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NSA broke rules on call-tracking program for 3 years, court filings show(politico.com)
2 points by swombat 13y ago|0 comments
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by swombat 13y ago
Shit happens everywhere. How you deal with the shit after it happens is what separates the scumbags from the good guys. Would we be so upset with Obama if the response to the NSA revelations was the firing of the NSA leadership, a solid inv
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by swombat 13y ago
> the military-industrial-intelligence-academic complex It's a huge conspiracy! So huge that everyone is in on it... except for you!!!
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by swombat 13y ago
Agree with most of the points, but this certainly not some kind of secret that "no one talks about"...
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NSA has cracked BlackBerry "security"(spiegel.de)
2 points by swombat 13y ago|0 comments
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by swombat 13y ago
I'm very tempted to write a blog post pointing to this comment, so that it might be reposted in 3 years - but I think it'll be neater if someone else does!
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by swombat 13y ago
When you're president of the US, you don't get to pass the buck. Sorry, but Obama deserves all the criticism for this.

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