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by zapzupnz 6y ago
> Apple killed Flash by not allowing it to run on iPhones and iPads. This old chestnut? This many years on and people still say this? Adobe killed Flash through their own engineering incompetence, not Apple through policy. Apple's p
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by zapzupnz 6y ago
This seems like a misconception. It's clear that Apple was brewing the SDK for developer adoption and that their crowing about web apps was a stop-gap measure. Are we really imagining Apple brought out a public SDK, set up the app appr
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by zapzupnz 6y ago
The thread linked at the bottom of the post was rather hostile to skepticism. Not sure what to make of it but it doesn't paint a particularly well-focused picture of the Swift forums right now.
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by zapzupnz 6y ago
That very much depended on how they installed Flash. If they downloaded the plugin via the Adobe website, it depended on whether you got the ActiveX control version or the Netscape version. For computers in more recent memory, you didn’t ne
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by zapzupnz 6y ago
That's great. I'm never a fan of the skeuomorphic controls. Making a dial right and down by dragging my cursor up makes no sense to me, much prefer a slider.
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by zapzupnz 6y ago
On iOS, three finger double tap, three finger swipe left, and shaking the phone — all undo. With a connected keyboard, Cmd-Z also works.
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by zapzupnz 6y ago
I loved our eMac. Big screen, clearer picture than any iMac, and that gorgeous white plastic aesthetic that reminded one of an iBook — except chunky. Only trouble was the fans were ridiculously loud.
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by zapzupnz 6y ago
It's not that computers prior didn't have speakers, it's that they didn't seem like a core part of the computer — always some clunky add-on that sat there occupying desk space or unattractively needing to be hooked on to
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by zapzupnz 6y ago
> except OSM isn't dependent on any company or person in particular. It's a community effort That doesn't stop Apple needing control, or at least feeling that way. > Apple could as well contribute whatever improvements
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by zapzupnz 6y ago
> why does Apple reinvent it anyway? Because Apple learnt a long time ago that something essential needs to be in their hands; third parties let Apple down. Google let Apple down by refusing to allow Apple to craft vector-based maps, onl
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by zapzupnz 6y ago
Not the person to whom you were responding, but does it really cost that much time? If I need to be sure of where something is, like for a job interview or a time-critical meeting, I'll check as many sources as I can. Disclaimer: I&#
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by zapzupnz 6y ago
Yep, that. Free Parking is meant to be just that, free parking, not a reward for constantly going to jail just to roll double fives. It prolongs the game and moves money around unnecessarily.
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by zapzupnz 6y ago
I'm happy for you to care about this as much as you want. It doesn't make the basically ignoring all the OP wrote in their article for the sake of soapboxing any more tolerable.
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by zapzupnz 6y ago
^ This exactly. It's demonstrative of the knee-jerk reactions from people who see the mere mention of the words 'Apple' or "App Store" and immediately come to piss all over everybody's cereal without actually k
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by zapzupnz 6y ago
Just as well nobody's forced to use it, then.
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by zapzupnz 6y ago
Most times I hear this criticism of Monopoly, they're not playing with the official rules. Here's why you should avoid some of the common "House Rules". - Going around the board once before purchasing: needlessly prolong
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by zapzupnz 6y ago
Seems like Microsoft thought if people could stomach the transition from XP to Vista/7, then the transition to 8 would be taken with the same amount of initial resistance followed by acceptance. There's only so many times you ca
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by zapzupnz 6y ago
It would be kinda cool if the basic slideable/toggleable options of a plugin could be defined somehow so that the program/OS of your choice can render them as a nice boring inspector palette or something. Then you can choose betwe
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by zapzupnz 6y ago
I find reading faster and more useful (I can skim for key words, I can look for headings, I can inspect images for as long as I want) and less mentally taxing than listening to a normally-pitched reading by Alvin and the Chipmunks. :D
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by zapzupnz 6y ago
At last! Can't wait to see this get in. :-)
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by zapzupnz 6y ago
It's OP's side project; its their decision as to how they choose to spend their time and energy, what trade-offs are involved with each option, and what's most important to them. OP owes the world, outside of their paying cus
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by zapzupnz 6y ago
OP hasn't been forced into anything; as they describe in their post, this is a choice that they've made. I don't know who you think you're convincing by speaking so sanctimoniously about someone else's choices , as
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by zapzupnz 6y ago
It's very much live. It's the name of the symbol. It's sometimes used as a symbol to mean 'approximately', as in "~100 BC". It's used in IT as a symbol for a home folder on Unix-based systems and for
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by zapzupnz 6y ago
> It's unused in English and therefore doesn't really have a name No, it definitely has a name. Tilde. Heck, it's even the name used for the ~ symbol in Unicode, which famously names all characters with upper-cased English
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by zapzupnz 6y ago
Does the maker of the video also write blog posts or anything? I'm very into this topic and I skimmed through the video, but I'm not sure I want to be essentially yelled at for an hour and a half.
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by zapzupnz 6y ago
Oh crap, you're right. It includes Rosetta but isn't universal, and I mixed those up in my head. Edit incoming!
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by zapzupnz 6y ago
Rosetta was first publicly available with Mac OS X "Tiger" 10.4.4, released in on January 10, 2006; the initial release of "Tiger", 10.4, was released nearly a year prior on April 29, 2005. Mac OS X "Leopard" 1
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by zapzupnz 6y ago
Not really a reply to the whole tech debt bit, but the ~ symbol is called a tilde in English. I suspect spelling it with an a at the end comes from another language?
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by zapzupnz 6y ago
The product review is for the product, not the seller. Seller reviews are for the seller, not the product. Not rocket science. The post title seems needlessly inflammatory and definitive. The content of the blog really is a whinge about an
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by zapzupnz 6y ago
Even when the means of production are in the hands of the workers, that presumably doesn't necessarily equate to accepting the workers tinkering all day, getting nothing done.

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