tomflack

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by tomflack 14y ago
> This is a reminder that even First World nations don't always live up to US standards with respect to freedom of speech. That made me cringe. A lot. My first-world western country doesn't live up to your "standards" of freedom of spee
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by tomflack 14y ago
Another outgoing politician.
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by tomflack 14y ago
Where I work we're a Win7 shop for our MOE, but we do still support XP clients (PhD students generally get quite shitty if you recall their laptops for an upgrade midway through their research) and will do so until the very last day of XP s
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by tomflack 14y ago
Did you account for wild variations in the same place? In Shanghai I could get decent coffee for anywhere between 3 kuai to 30 kuai depending on where you were.
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by tomflack 14y ago
iPhones have had locking from the start. You are correct about crapware however. That said this conversation is about unsubsidised, unlocked phones. Not phones bought through carrier channels. Apple are breaking new ground by selling an "un
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by tomflack 14y ago
To cause a fuss and make a point about the TSA.
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by tomflack 14y ago
A4 has an aspect ratio of 2:3, not 9:16. The iPad is 3:4 which is significantly closer to A4 than a weirdly tall portrait widescreen tablet (3:5.33333)
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by tomflack 14y ago
There was an exhaustive debate around this a while ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4195208
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by tomflack 14y ago
I don't think it's a helpful comparison to make. The only similarity between the two is the market share - android being open source changes quite a lot.
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by tomflack 14y ago
This video is about another matter and quite old, not the current murder charges. http://www.reporter.bz/2012/05/investor-john-mcafee-says-gsu... (edit, broken.)
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by tomflack 14y ago
Crapware is predominantly a problem on new PCs, where the vast majority of the population just goes along with it. It needs a strong stand from Microsoft.
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Lower house - http://aec.gov.au/Voting/How_to_Vote/Voting_HOR.htm#papers Senate - http://aec.gov.au/Voting/How_to_Vote/Voting_Senate.htm#paper... This is how we vote in Australia. I have real trouble seeing any system of computerized vo
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by tomflack 14y ago
Having worked a helpdesk at a university, I agree 100%. It saddens me when people come in with $400 pieces of junk loaded up with crapware that take 10 minutes for everything to load on startup. I know how to remove all of that and get a re
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They're talking about links to infringing content (people tweeting file locker links for movies/games) and stuff like people posting photos they don't own.
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by tomflack 14y ago
> I'd say end users would notice and care about the difference between those two scenarios. You haven't met very many end users, have you?
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by tomflack 14y ago
> Because the cause of the problem is Skype's (and iTunes) poor development, not Windows. Which is the key factor here. It's not Windows' fault specifically, but it's a problem that occurs when using (very common software on) Windows.
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by tomflack 14y ago
> That screenshot you link to is of Skype, and I would not use Skype as a standard example for anything. Even if MS owns it now, it is a poorly designed program by today's standards. How does this in any way negate it's worth as an exam
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I wish there was a subheading that read "...and that's OK." Some will see my attitude as cavalier but a little bit of downtime because of an event such as this isn't the worst thing in the world. After all, the financial markets were closed
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by tomflack 14y ago
> Photoshop and Lightroom aren't available on Linux; Linux is generally still considered a viable option as a Desktop replacement by a lot of people. Anything that used to be Win32 only and is now on OSX or Linux was also "written from
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by tomflack 14y ago
Why don't we start with Photoshop? Perhaps Lightroom? Every single App you currently use on Windows is a "legacy app" for Windows RT. They'll all have to be written from scratch.
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by tomflack 14y ago
There is a "sign out" option in iOS skype which does what you're after. http://i.imgur.com/uOn3Q.png
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What does that prove? I doubt you'd get any meaningful number of people on HN willing to roll their own tokens to make it worthwhile lowering the price.
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by tomflack 14y ago
Related: OSX twitter integration seems broken for me? I can't tweet from Safari or other apps.
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Android.
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by tomflack 14y ago
And Android (to a lesser extent). While I was in China, I was blocked from buying any apps as paid apps aren't available there. Even dialing a VPN wasn't enough - the phone knew where it was. With the amount of stuff(TM) that we buy digital
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Won't load.
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"Because ending all patent protections immediately would be impractical, Boldrin and Levine advocate several transitional steps, such as shortening patent terms. "The aim of policy, in general, should be that of slowly but surely decreasing
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by tomflack 14y ago
"Why the f*ck should you care?" If you want to use the word fuck, use the word fuck. Don't take the cowardly angle of making me think the word while dancing around saying you never actually used it.
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by tomflack 14y ago
Says he in a thread about wifi problems? I'm regretting upgrading and not because of the maps. My work wifi has become completely unreliable.
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by tomflack 14y ago
Anyone else having trouble connecting to corporate networks with a self-signed certificate?

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