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by _broody 11y ago
Yes, this is laugh-worthy. It's Apple's sneaky manner of building planned obsolescence into otherwise very competent devices. Just like my 4S, the brand spanking 6S+ will in a few years be choked by iOS updates's climbing RAM
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by _broody 11y ago
That's definitely the best problem ever solved by GP, though given the unfathomably enormous computational resources poured into it, it's still hard to say it was any better than a brute force approach! ;)
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by _broody 11y ago
I have to agree-MD isn't "off" by a whole lot but just enough to hinder the user experience. In particular, headers and topbars are oversized beyond what's reasonable, margins are excessive in content elements, and ironi
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by _broody 11y ago
Totally agree with you here. Brunch is fantastic for its minimal config requirements and super-fast performance. Oddly enough, in the JS world I've found it best to ignore all the hype around the latest and newest framework, and just g
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by _broody 11y ago
Upgrading is compulsory for many apps, such as Whatsapp.
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by _broody 11y ago
> battery life that would probably outlast 3-4 iPhones. And functional life as well. iOS 8 crippled A5 devices which had previously chugging along quite decently. Planned obsolescence sucks (in iDevices' case, it also affects presen
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by _broody 11y ago
That article doesn't actually counter what the OP says. In fact it ends by stating that SS is being more strained and giving diminishing returns as time passes by, which sounds disturbingly like a ponzi scheme. It's unsustainable
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by _broody 11y ago
Cyrus was the name of the traitor in The Matrix. Coincidence... ... Surely.
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by _broody 11y ago
As a point of comparison, you can get a Lumia 520 for less. It's a really decent smartphone too from a good brand. It will be interesting to see if Mozilla can yield the combination of quality/value to succeed.
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by _broody 11y ago
It's what I've observed as well. Plenty of low-income people get cheap chinese tablets, usually generic-brand entry-level models. No idea about the price but I don't think they're a hair above $100, possibly less than ha
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by _broody 11y ago
I agree. The hybrid touch paradigm is fantastic. What Windows 8 did wrong was messing with the familiar old-school interface a bit too much, which made many non-tech-savvy users confused and miserable. My dad had a terrible time with Window
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by _broody 11y ago
Yes, the app crashed. That was no doubt an app bug. The iPads also crashed. That's eyebrow-raising, and definitely an iPad glitch. The airline will fix the bug and it won't happen again. But relying on a closed, unauditable platfo
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by _broody 11y ago
It's the later. Every other possible use of the technology is just speculation at this point.
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by _broody 11y ago
It's very childish, which is sadly a recurring occurrence with Stallman at times. All of the tech giants (Apple/Google/MS/Facebook/etc.) are as shady as the Amazon described here on a regular basis even when it&#x27
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by _broody 11y ago
Yes. The math in the article bothered me greatly. It seems that to the author, two fees will be "nearly the same" if they are within an order of magnitude of each other, which is ridiculous. Not to mention the condescension drippi
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by _broody 11y ago
For sure, defeating banks in the matter of customer interaction seems like low-hanging fruit. As the article says, they are too slow, too cumbersome, and I'll add that they are too unfun, and their sales departments are pushy and intru
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by _broody 11y ago
I think it's pretty clear the OP is being downvoted for resorting to character assassination (accusing Snowden of selling/giving intelligence secrets to Russia) without any proof of his claims.
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by _broody 11y ago
It goes further than that. The KP partner that was accused of letting Pao out of company events was described by co-workers as having similar personality traits with her (being pushy and territorial, elbowing others out). He was promoted, s
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by _broody 11y ago
This. Facebook did really throw startup valuation out of whack starting with the Instagram acquisition and following up to Whatsapp. They appear to have no idea what they're doing with their money, they're in a rather vulnerable s
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by _broody 12y ago
How can you take a OSX as an example of how it's done and lambast Gnome after the new Safari redesign throws OSX conventions through the window (much like iTunes and other OSX programs have done already, independently "reimagining
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by _broody 12y ago
Agreed. And then deal with it the same way you do with tobacco and alcohol, with social campaigns to raise awareness of the issues of addiction. We have a working model here for legal drugs that are just as bad or worse.
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by _broody 12y ago
> Snapchat had the right product with the right marketing that lead them to gaining a large user base with high engagement. You can say this of any fad. The ice bucket challenge certainly engaged millions of people, but that doesn't
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by _broody 12y ago
The problem is you're feeding the other candidates (and the audience) the illusion that they have a fighting chance against the insider. This deceit won't be taken kindly after they realize how they were beat out. This is the equi
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by _broody 12y ago
Indeed. Compromising cybersecurity as a means of defense is fighting with a gripless sword. It makes no sense that planting backdoors in all of your systems is somehow supposed to help security. For one, there has been little appreciable ga
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by _broody 12y ago
There's a number of professions where the crunch time is insane. There's a lot of differences between that and service work, though. - Those people such as doctors, lawyers, programmers, etc. are paid an order of magnitude more fo
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by _broody 12y ago
What competition? Microsoft may be shunned by startups/hackers (that could change quickly if they keep turning the ship the way they've been), but in your average boring old cube farm they are absolutely ahead of other sellers in
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by _broody 12y ago
That's a moot point if there's another viable way to generate the same amount of power without trading lives in the process. Slave labor also improved your life quite a bit, provided you were a slave owner. Thankfully we found an
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by _broody 12y ago
One might argue that the SOLID principles applied in Symphony and inherited by Laravel are in fact anti-patterns which only serve to add massive cognitive overhead. They've wrecked countless Java projects over the years and are now goi
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by _broody 12y ago
You know, even though I think there are pretty decent Linux DEs today (I'll gladly take Gnome 3 over the OSX or Windows GUIs), you are completely right about the community having an awful attitude towards their designers. See all the h
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by _broody 12y ago
The settlement offer is off by an order of magnitude or more from where it should be, that's what the OP means. The tech companies screwed their employees out of a lot more money than this, and this being a class-action lawsuit $100m m

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