tomflack

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by tomflack 14y ago
Your insistence on saying this goes one way or the other without being able to imagine a million shades of grey means this conversation is going nowhere.
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by tomflack 14y ago
To add to this, four finger swipe up for the multitasking bar or four finger swipe to the left/right to flip between apps. It's not discoverable - as far as I know there isn't even a tutorial - but this is how large-screen devices work best
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by tomflack 14y ago
You're missing the point entirely. You don't need to abandon a decade's worth of advances to ask that, for example, the Google IME team all get on the same page (Chinese, English, Korean and Japanese IMEs all work slightly differently and a
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by tomflack 14y ago
Don't get hung up on "years". I didn't mean that I wish all feature advance had stopped years ago, I meant that for several years now I have been thinking about perfecting one thing before moving on to the next. Every company is different,
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by tomflack 14y ago
You're putting words in my mouth. Nowhere did I draw a line in the sand - you're attempting to do that for me. And I'm a little unclear why you feel like playing "gotcha" with me here anyway...
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by tomflack 14y ago
Interesting for me is the regional Yahoo (au.yahoo.com) is destined to receive zero benefit from Marissa's reign. One thing I like about Google is they do have regional variants, but they're all pretty much the same. Yahoo varies WIDELY wit
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by tomflack 14y ago
Contact sync. Application selection.
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by tomflack 14y ago
Currently, a GSM Galaxy Nexus. Previously, an iPhone 4. Various oddball WebOS and the like phones scattered over the past few years.
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by tomflack 14y ago
I've been thinking for some years now, I wish everyone would stop implementing features and perfect the ones that are already there. Optimise. Improve. This is why I was so upset at Sparrow throwing in the towel - they concentrated on one t
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by tomflack 14y ago
Why? As a user of Adblock it seems totally fair to me.
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by tomflack 14y ago
Since Marchish this year I've found Naver's LINE to be really unreliable though. Messages delayed days or hours, etc. I'm surprised it's still growing if this is the case for more than just me.
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by tomflack 14y ago
Got any specific examples? I'm having trouble actually caring about any potential backlash. I'd possibly welcome it.
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by tomflack 14y ago
I would find it incredibly difficult to take anyone seriously who jumped on a bandwagon against authors/editors/sites like that.
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by tomflack 14y ago
Why don't sites more often block (or just show a message to) users of Adblock? Is that traffic more valuable than not? Are they hoping visitors will link articles to non-Adblock using people? It seems to me like there is a value in users wh
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by tomflack 14y ago
I wasn't suggesting it was to replace bicycles, just pointing out the absurdity of the parent's comparison to bicycle fatalities.
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by tomflack 14y ago
Simply incorrect that you can get bike like braking safely, even using the described technique. Edit: I really want to prove this, but the only way I can think of to do it is you buy one of these for $1200, I buy a bike for $1200 and we spe
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by tomflack 14y ago
"A bicycle cannot stop any faster than it's wheels can hold friction." Nothing can stop faster than "it's wheels can hold friction". But on a bicycle when you brake hard then momentum is transferred on to the front wheel, which is typically
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by tomflack 14y ago
What a ridiculous comparison. As anyone who has skateboarded ever in their life knows, a bicycle is a thousand times safer and easier to control. Why don't you address the parent's points - that it is impossible to provide safe and effectiv
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by tomflack 14y ago
I know this is referring to programming, but I went overseas to study for two months this year with only my Galaxy Nexus, so this is my experience: Yep, to a limited extent you CAN live with only a phone (and be quite productive!). Expect t
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by tomflack 14y ago
A couple of things: Your friend's assault case - he's not a multi-billion dollar company with a massive investment in the mainland. Chinese consumers don't simply love him, like they do Apple products. (First-hand experience.) I notice the
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by tomflack 14y ago
Apple is a mass-market cult, Xiaomi is Peter-jackson-before-he-was-famous cult-movie cult. Everyone I have ever asked in China about Xiaomi and Meizu phones brushed them off as "shānzhài iPhone..."
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by tomflack 14y ago
I was expecting a glib reply such as your own and I'm saddened that I'm not disappointed.
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by tomflack 14y ago
Seems like a slam-dunk leaked photos = prior art.
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by tomflack 14y ago
If you're highlighting the quality of, or a specific feature of your smartphone's camera, the advertising brief should have at the very top: "You will use the product (Nokia Lumia 920 Pureview) to shoot example clips. No other cameras are t
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by tomflack 14y ago
They are, but every app adds 3-4 widgets to that draw. There are so many in there, in variations like small, medium and large size, that I never ever look in it.
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by tomflack 14y ago
What about all the stuff you have to work through that society doesn't want to pay you for* before you can create something that they do? Life isn't a binary "Will I get paid or will I indulge myself with this project?". *I am extremely loa
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by tomflack 14y ago
When it's fundamentally broken internationally and people start giving it bad reviews when it doesn't work. That's the only case I can think of and even then it's quite weak.
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by tomflack 14y ago
To make the parent comment more relevant, I've taken "product vision" to include the quality of the retail store experience.
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by tomflack 14y ago
> But it isn't Apple that is making them tied to regions, this is a requirement of the record and movie industries who seem to think that price and release discrimination by region makes sense. It is also a problem for Apps. There are l
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by tomflack 14y ago
Home servers? I've always used incredibly out-of-date machines as home servers. There has never really been a market for powerful home servers. I had a Pentium 166 with 80MB of EDO ram and a 1GB hard disk (bought new in 1996 as a P120 with

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