Magenta

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by Magenta 13y ago
I for one welcome our new Microsoft upvoting cabal
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by Magenta 14y ago
"Our work is driven by a belief that software should be free and accessible to all." We can um and ah about what free and accessible means, but Mark Shuttleworth continues to push the goodwill of the community, testing where its breaking po
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by Magenta 14y ago
"Seriously, if you can't spel or have trouble with ALL CAPS, please ask a friend to proofread your email. Complete, grammatically correct sentences are a minimum requirement."
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by Magenta 14y ago
Phil! Is that Phil Phil or motion-capture salamander Phil?
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by Magenta 14y ago
Master plan for REVOLUTION: make an application that is double-paywalled. * You have to pay for the content (The Magazine). * You have to buy an expensive Apple product to access it.
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by Magenta 14y ago
Poor Dustin - he has such a hard life. Don't let the bastards get you down... ... about your taste in cutlery.
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by Magenta 14y ago
Awesome site. Just awesome. The page transitions and text reflow are brilliant. That big box on the right full of whatever that is (chat/twitter/whatever) is just a void that not only doesn't interest me, but means what I am reading (which
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by Magenta 14y ago
There are a lot of people who say 'hacked' in lieu of normal words for normal day-to-day tasks like 'did,' 'accomplished,' 'wrote a blog post,' 'watched,' 'logged in,' etc. We're apparently a long way past the point where most 'hacks' are a
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by Magenta 14y ago
git is a homonym.
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by Magenta 14y ago
>> moving on without him. John Gruber wasn't moving at all
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by Magenta 14y ago
This seems like a strawman. You can't fairly compare a language to a book. A book isn't used universally to make other completely unrelated books.
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Nexus 4 vs. Galaxy Nexus(versusio.com)
2 points by Magenta 14y ago|0 comments
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by Magenta 14y ago
Usability test failed, because what looks like a main menu is a bar of ads. That is just going anger anybody who feels they have been fooled into clicking an ad. I suggest removing it asap. You're going to lose people from your site before
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by Magenta 14y ago
Sure, but euphemism just doesn't fall under the umbrella of 'plainness,' in any way, shape or form. So you can't be euphemistic and tell the plain truth. It's just a bollocks statement.
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by Magenta 14y ago
They "need" pulseaudio? Yikes. I was hoping people had stopped using it D:
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by Magenta 14y ago
No offence, but as far as I can see, this does nothing that can't be done in vim (or one of its forks) with pathogen/vundle and the extant plugin ecosystem. Also I doubt people will want to pay if there is no native editor/terminal support.
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by Magenta 14y ago
That might just be the first time Steve Reich has been mentioned in relation to Gangnam Style! ps To the author/s (if you end up seeing this): was there a reason you didn't center the content on the page? Might look a little better. Just a
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by Magenta 14y ago
>> But he considers himself the BDFL of Markdown Well he needs to be something other than a pathetic apple fanboy! :D
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by Magenta 14y ago
..but he used Microsoft products, 8 years ago! Doesn't that make him an expert on all things Microsoft?
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by Magenta 14y ago
This continued good-natured back-and-forth is nice to see. Kind of reminds me of something Stephen Potter ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Potter ) would have done, had he been in the tech industry :)
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by Magenta 14y ago
Depends on the criticism. Constructive criticism, sure. Blinkered, petty, negative criticism from someone who made up his mind years ago? Not so much.
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by Magenta 14y ago
Marco Arment enters a Microsoft store beady-eyed, looking for things to nitpick, sneering at everything, seeing the negative side of everything. Whodathunkit. The article by this fully-grown adult is summed up as he bitches about how "he is
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by Magenta 14y ago
I think you might be right: "Offering multiple quantities of a reward is prohibited. Hardware and Product Design projects can only offer rewards in single quantities or a sensible set (some items only make sense as a pair or as a kit of sev
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by Magenta 14y ago
I am hoping they add the forest behind my house so I don't have to take walks any more
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by Magenta 14y ago
Finally, they added it. Well I can tick that off of my list of dream holiday destinations!
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by Magenta 14y ago
Apple customers use public transport?
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by Magenta 14y ago
Well I doubt he'll be winning many new converts with this article. It is dense with straw-clutching and credulity. Some it seems to be simply borne of delusion. This sentence, for example: "The bored-by-the-iPhone tech press/industry expert
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by Magenta 14y ago
I think there is some strange website redirect happening. I clicked on daringfireball.net and ended up at boringfanboy.net
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by Magenta 14y ago
"I've made typos that I went back and corrected myself." Gee, Quora _does_ sound like a really great party!