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by ugh 15y ago
It’s complicated but I think many countries have pretty strong protections for consumers against unusual or unexpected clauses in contracts. I would be very surprised if this part of the terms would be enforceable, for example, in Germany.
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by ugh 15y ago
I think search is very different from browsing. Browsing is appropriate at different times than search. Some people (independently of whether they are power users or not) like browsing more than search or search more than browsing. There ar
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by ugh 15y ago
Safari (which leverages Readability for its Reader functionality) also does that. It seems to try and detect links at the end of an article that look like pagination links which sometimes leads to interesting failures. Being able to do that
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by ugh 15y ago
Meh. Dawkins is harmless and says very docile stuff all the time. I honestly don’t understand people who are offended by him. Really?!
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by ugh 15y ago
“But it is easy, especially for trained theologians, to get to whatever conclusion they want from some dogmatic starting point.” Wow, never was the uselessness of theologians more succinctly described.
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by ugh 15y ago
Because it’s different people doing it. I have long had the theory that the people at the top who could have done something against that (notably Steve Jobs) simply don’t care about that discrepancy, that’s why it can continue.
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by ugh 15y ago
Compared to desktop operating systems Android does very limited multitasking or, to put it in another way, it is cleverer about multitasking (iOS, too). Remaining backwards compatible while picking up such a new model of multitasking is har
758.
by ugh 15y ago
Whut? Soyuz has a better safety record.
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by ugh 15y ago
Does that apply to everything including Office and all that stuff?
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by ugh 15y ago
Writing is important – but not everything.
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by ugh 15y ago
It was a pre-release. Also: leaves not decaying was the intended behavior at the time, it wasn’t a bug. But that’s not really the point. There is no way to test Minecraft thoroughly if you are pretty much on your own. It has too many featur
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by ugh 15y ago
Meh, that’s only convention. It’s certainly not worth the downsides.
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by ugh 15y ago
The fundamentals are solid (the line height is perfectly alright, about one hundred characters per line are within the range of empirical results on optimal readability). I suspect the font is so small because the design is so old. As far a
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by ugh 15y ago
Or for people who like to not have their browser be fullscreen all the time.
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by ugh 15y ago
LG didn’t sue and they are also not selling the phone anymore. It’s irrelevant. I’m disgusted by what Apple is doing but this is not an argument.
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by ugh 15y ago
I don’t understand. Are you a physicist? Why does being pessimistic about fusion give you more free time?
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by ugh 15y ago
iCloud currently doesn’t offer anything that Dropbox offers. Dropbox currently doesn’t offer anything that iCloud offers. iCloud and Dropbox are different products with very little overlap. There certainly is a Dropbox shaped hole in iCloud
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by ugh 15y ago
What are the practical implications of your pessimism?
769.
by ugh 15y ago
You don’t read like Daring Fireball, old or new.
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by ugh 15y ago
A human who had to write several dozen support answers? Naming collisions have to be a common occurrence for Facebook. It’s sufficient to write exactly one mail for such cases. There is no need to re-write or change things around, it’s alwa
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by ugh 15y ago
I guess that’s an alternative but what if I don’t want to switch jobs all that often? I personally need regular breaks. Irregular and really long breaks do less for me than regular breaks.
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by ugh 15y ago
Three weeks seems pretty unacceptable to me. I would be alright with four weeks and happy about five.
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by ugh 15y ago
Can I ask you for a reason?
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by ugh 15y ago
I don't know about that. For me personally electronic maps have enough advantages to completely replace the printed variey. That's with existing hardware. It's often true: Perfect feature parity is not necessary to replace something. (Cars
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by ugh 15y ago
“Hey, I have no arguments but this fella obviously makes no sense so let’s just all agree and censor him, pretty please?” Maybe that is a good idea. Contentless comments that only attack and are always too lazy to actually argue make submis
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by ugh 15y ago
So, you really wanna claim that Apple has an equally confusing product lineup compared to other manufactures? That’s a quite daring claim (and also some impressive misleading quoting you are doing there). Apple doesn’t ask you to decide bas
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by ugh 15y ago
You are reading way too much into it. This article is not trying to make the argument that Steve Jobs was irrelevant or less important for Apple than Tim Cook.
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by ugh 15y ago
Sure, but why exactly is that level of functionality necessary? It would be wrong to assume that HTML5 needs feature parity.
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by ugh 15y ago
Why is that necessary? Angry Birds works just fine as an iOS app. For Flash to become obsolete feature parity of HTML5 is not necessary. If most use cases are covered and if the number of devices without Flash provide enough incentive for c
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by ugh 15y ago
? This lawsuit is not about functionality at all. It’s purely about looks, it’s about a design patent.

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