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by __sr__ 7y ago
While the article is written as a rant, which hurts the author's credibility, the points, IMO, are valid.
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by __sr__ 7y ago
Did you actually try doing the math? $11 billion divided over 650k employees is roughly $17k which amounts to $75 per day assuming the employee works around 225 days a year which in turn amounts to less than $10 an hour assuming the employe
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by __sr__ 8y ago
> On an unrelated note, I am pretty upset that my Samsung ~$1200 TV has ads built into it. On a lighter note, don’t TVs have ads anyway?
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by __sr__ 8y ago
I was burnt by a third party application using mmap over NFS recently. Definitely not fun by any definition of it. And it gets a SIGSEGV and segfaults.
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by __sr__ 8y ago
> Those services being tied RIGHT INTO the OS is a huge advantage. That is a disadvantage to me. I prefer not to keep all my eggs in one basket.
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by __sr__ 8y ago
Sorry, reading on a phone. Really didn’t see the responses before responding. It was not my intention to pile on.
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by __sr__ 8y ago
Maybe that will kill the trend? I certainly hope so! :-)
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by __sr__ 8y ago
You might want to check the reason for the limitation before making such comments. A display can be stretched to the three edges of the phone —- it is the fourth edge that is the problem — as Xiaomi demonstrated with Mi Mix 2. At least some
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by __sr__ 8y ago
Xiaomi got rid of the forehead entirely by moving everything to the (relatively small) chin on Mi Mix 2. While that is not great for the front facing camera usage since many (most?) apps don’t support 180 degree rotation, I don’t see why th
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by __sr__ 8y ago
Hedging their bets? Since iPhone XS devices are are a rather large risk and they need something to fall back on in case they don’t do well. If they do, we may not see a successor. iPhone SE was probably a similar bet since a lot of people w
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by __sr__ 8y ago
No, you can’t. It doesn’t have Widevine L1. https://m.gsmarena.com/the_pocophone_f1_cant_stream_hd_video...
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by __sr__ 8y ago
> The phones work fine out of the box. Do they? Is there a one touch full device backup solution for Android that doesn’t involve rooting the phone or flashing custom ROM? Is there a way to easily sync my sessages to other devices[1]? Th
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by __sr__ 8y ago
It does — the Pixel 2 XL screen that is. The Samsung manufactured Pixel 2 screen, on the other hand, is pretty good.
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by __sr__ 8y ago
You are not the only one.
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by __sr__ 8y ago
Can the $320 Pocofone F1 let me watch Netflix in HD? I consider that to be an everyday task.
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by __sr__ 8y ago
That is perfectly fine. It always boils down to what you prefer and what fits your workflow. I have no problem with Android in general. It is the grandstanding claims like Androids are better than iPhones at everything that I object to. It
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by __sr__ 8y ago
Maybe, but the iPhone camera has never lagged terribly behind the top of the line Androids. But the same time, the so called “top of the line” Androids had other compromises that iPhone usually did not. An iPhone is usually a well balanced
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by __sr__ 8y ago
> Android phones have better cameras and match apple in most other hardware metrics I am sure there is an Android phone out there which has got a better camera, another one that has got better speakers, yet another one with better displa
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by __sr__ 8y ago
> if you know what you're doing That is the key difference. What if I don’t want to be the sysadmin for my phone? What if I don’t want to root my phone? What if I prefer things to just work out of box? https://youtu.be&#x
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by __sr__ 8y ago
Because financial sector is run be people who consider engineers a liability[1]. Instead of evolving with time in 80s and 90s as the world moved to modern systems, they clung to their increasingly legacy systems. After all, why would an MBA
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by __sr__ 8y ago
And in some cases, the source code is lost.
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by __sr__ 8y ago
All Android phones (with notches) have notches in addition to an ugly chin. The lack of other bezels is what made the notch on iPhone X acceptable (to me, at least). The thought of a notch with a chin (or worse, a forehead, or both) is
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by __sr__ 8y ago
What version of Android is it running? You probably mean the apps from the Play Store keep getting upgrades. I know for a fact that Samsung tablets from 2013 are not getting new Android updates — haven’t got them in a long time. I know this
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by __sr__ 8y ago
Well, there are alternatives like TripCase, Kayak and many others. TripIt just happens to be the one I’ve used for actual trips.
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by __sr__ 8y ago
It works well enough for regular IMAP or Exchange accounts, but there is something messed up with Google’s implementation of IMAP which causes the experience to be sub-par. Also, Mail.app doessn’t have anywhere near feature parity with Inbo
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by __sr__ 8y ago
I like the way Inbox handles certain kind emails differently —- e.g. it extracts relevant data from newsletters, tickets, receipts, order confirmations, package tracking emails etc. so they are available at a quick glance. A quick glance te
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by __sr__ 8y ago
WorldMate was nice. Another nice alternative — at least as far as apps go — is TripCase.
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by __sr__ 8y ago
See my comment about Tripit — and there are other alternatives I haven’t tried.
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by __sr__ 8y ago
Yet, sadly, accidental sarcasm occurs alarmingly often... :-) In all honesty, feel free to use something like Tripit — see my response to the parent.
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by __sr__ 8y ago
Alternatively, you can try Tripit[1] which has more features, but there is definitely more friction involved as you either need to grant access to your email account or manually forward emails. [1] https://www.tripit.com

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