theinternetman

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by theinternetman 11y ago
Probably because there isn't any money in it so every company that can afford has to use it as a device to push their other products. e.g how Hangouts was designed to push G+ and Chrome usage.
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by theinternetman 11y ago
Not to mention Google Talk was a chat system first and foremost. Hangouts is a funnel to get you to use their browser (still don't understand why it ships as a plugin) and social network first, chat application second.
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by theinternetman 11y ago
Call it iTerm3
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by theinternetman 11y ago
Woah, they really should shout about this feature more.
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by theinternetman 11y ago
Agreed, absolutely no interest in turning even more of my design tools into a subscription cost.
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by theinternetman 11y ago
Hopefully they don't have a patent on it so we can get it in an actual work tool not a mockup tool
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by theinternetman 11y ago
They actually went back on that decision because Windows users complained so much that the text was antialiased properly.
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by theinternetman 11y ago
> I use the git-hide package to remove the ".git", "node_modules" and "vendor" directories from the tree view which does seem to have a nice effect on speed. I feel it'll never be a sensible choice unti
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by theinternetman 11y ago
For $1600 a month I'd expect solo-living not co-living.
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by theinternetman 11y ago
What's so special about t.co? No other sites are having a problem. Sounds like Twitters problem.
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by theinternetman 11y ago
Was so disappointed to find out he did the audio book version. Unlistenable
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by theinternetman 11y ago
The fact the creator of this CoC started out by personally going to projects and calling them out for not having a CoC then trying to sell them on their own CoC should be reason enough to roll your own instead of forking Contributor Covenan
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by theinternetman 11y ago
> Their future growth is not in getting more users to sign up for the twitter microblogging service, it's in other products like Vine and Periscope Are they not past the "growth" stage and very much into the "time to
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by theinternetman 11y ago
As a brit born a few years too late for this to be a sensible possibility at all I'm sick and tired of the social pressure from every angle telling me I'm not a real adult until I have a mortgage.
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by theinternetman 11y ago
> How can code so complicated lead to such bland looking pages? That also perform utterly atrociously, compare modern Google Maps to classic Google Maps. The performance difference is night and day in the favour of the old school tiles v
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by theinternetman 11y ago
"Too many devs spoiling the broth" in a nutshell. Over-engineered absurdity
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by theinternetman 11y ago
Sounds like being treated like a school kid to me
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by theinternetman 11y ago
It's not Xbox One compatible either.
49.
by theinternetman 11y ago
Not true, they sold it on Mr Porter
50.
by theinternetman 11y ago
As someone old enough to remember that time, no one said that.
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by theinternetman 11y ago
wish brits could care this much about the problems our country ACTUALLY faces
52.
by theinternetman 11y ago
Funny how this is now considered a bad thing when the only country ever to murder innocents and children with one is America.
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by theinternetman 11y ago
> iPad Pro and Apple Pencil is Apple's warning to Wacom: we are coming for you. They'd need the pro software to be a threat at all.
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by theinternetman 11y ago
Keep forgetting the Apple Watch is actually a thing
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by theinternetman 11y ago
real question is how did X11 performance get so bad that the Pi feels so weak
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by theinternetman 11y ago
Way to downplay their contributions in tech just because they work in a department you don't deem as important.
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by theinternetman 11y ago
Don't you mean "BRB going to edit text in my web browser"
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by theinternetman 11y ago
It's creepy when it's someone undesirable.
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by theinternetman 11y ago
Probably way more than something like Mailbox bought by Dropbox, but no one here would say that's a bad idea because most HN users understand mail clients but not a fashion social network
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by theinternetman 11y ago
Are other startup founders and startup folk genuinely worthwhile users?

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