joebananas

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by joebananas 15y ago
I don't see what's so tragic about the death of a consumer device that don't really sell.
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by joebananas 15y ago
They really said that? That's just utterly delusional in a Wired on push as the future stylee. Anyways, to get at that real world data they crave, they're gonna need tons of users, and if they ever get even one tenth of a percent of what Go
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by joebananas 15y ago
That'll do wonders for UI consistency. It's moves like this that comes back and bites companies in the ass. Now they're gonna be stuck playing keep up with Android for the foreseeable future. And when you're playing catchup, you're probably
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by joebananas 15y ago
Maybe it is, but you really can't go around claiming openness when you don't provide it.
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by joebananas 15y ago
If we're gonna have a petition about all the dumb stuff The Huffington Post promotes we're gonna run out of IPv6 addresses.
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by joebananas 16y ago
Only by accident. It stole a longstanding adblock extension keybinding, and I haven't yet retrained my fingers.
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by joebananas 16y ago
Just how often do you start your browser?
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by joebananas 16y ago
I though hardcore FPS players mostly uses high-end PCs rather than consoles.
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by joebananas 16y ago
Perhaps you guys should have taken this as a sign that Vimeo relys way too much on cookies. You can't even search the site if you don't accept cookies, no other site I've used fails that way.
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by joebananas 16y ago
Oh No!
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by joebananas 16y ago
Digg died long ago when the spammers won.
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by joebananas 16y ago
Which is why you have test servers and never ever make live edits to deployed code. I find it exceedingly easy to say that this was kind of incompetent.
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by joebananas 16y ago
$5 for garageband. I already had all other apps I wanted.
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by joebananas 16y ago
So, can Firefox extensions fiddle with referrer info? I think I just got an idea for a new one.
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by joebananas 16y ago
Man, you guys are just busting out with the exotism in this here thread. "People there carry honor in their blood"...
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by joebananas 16y ago
Maybe I'm missing something obvious, but why would rules about subscriptions affect the Kindle store?
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by joebananas 16y ago
Well, the media player market right now is currently split between Apple and the $30 bottom end.
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by joebananas 16y ago
This is a dumb submission, the real headline shoule be some thing like "Flattr Do Not Control What Their Users Say".
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by joebananas 16y ago
There is a world of difference between Apple changing their minds on a switch and Jobs saying that they've done extensive user testing on touchscreens on regular computers and that it turned out to be worthless.
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by joebananas 16y ago
> I'm waiting for a Macbook Air with a full touch screen You're in for a long wait then. Jobs said laptops with touch screens is total bullshit when talking at the new air launch.
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by joebananas 16y ago
Kinda sad. It's the twelfth oldest .com. Registered on the 19th of mars 1986.
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by joebananas 16y ago
Why it won't: requires two fully functional hands to operate.
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by joebananas 16y ago
Free software have always been as much about drama as about making stuff. Emacs, XFree86 and NetBSD are just a few earlier examples.
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by joebananas 16y ago
nytimes.com used to do something like this. It was super annoying.
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by joebananas 16y ago
I dunno, my "Editor's Picks" subfolder seem to have been replaced by a huge button that starts a web browser. If I wanted to browse the web I would have started Safari, wouldn't I?
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by joebananas 16y ago
Of course. Veteran journos probably won't churn out "10 reasons to do X" type crap for a pittance.
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by joebananas 16y ago
Wong in the first paragraph. The Personal Wi-Fi hotspot is an iPhone 4 only dealie.
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by joebananas 16y ago
I lolled when they said the CLIM standard should provide a way to control Java applets running in browsers.
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by joebananas 16y ago
> Rest assured others will follow. Like MLB and NBA, what?
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by joebananas 16y ago
Or as JWZ put it 8 years ago, the CADT model of software development. http://www.jwz.org/doc/cadt.html

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