machello13

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by machello13 5y ago
No, but if that's the only benefit, I'll happy give that up in exchange for not having to deal with HTTPS.
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by machello13 5y ago
Which regions have this? I'm in the US and haven't seen it.
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by machello13 5y ago
Right, it sounds like we're on the same page. My point is that those apps are _worse_. They're just also cheaper to build.
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by machello13 5y ago
> For reasons I don't totally understand, the platform vendors are themselves constantly invalidating the information in users' heads, so there's simply less in there for application developers to build on anyway. To be ho
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by machello13 5y ago
> Does it need to be? Not anymore. I disagree. The fact that most users don't explicitly care is irrelevant — platform conventions are important. They teach a user how to use a new app without having to poke around. Users can drag a
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by machello13 5y ago
> it's easy to mistakenly compare a $1000 laptop with a $500 laptop that doesn't have a video card. Lol, come on dude. "Yeah I can see where you're coming from, if you're an idiot it's easy to think Apple is
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by machello13 5y ago
> The employees now have a proof ("my work output hasn't decreased during covid") and want to renegotiate their contracts. Are you sure? Plenty of companies have experienced lots of issues with communication and velocity d
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by machello13 5y ago
No, not natively in the sense the built-in Camera app can do it, but that's not what the comment was saying.
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by machello13 5y ago
Nope, previous iPhones also supported RAW photos (my iPhone Xs does).
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by machello13 5y ago
you knew what he meant so what difference does it make?
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by machello13 5y ago
How is that any different than a company expecting you to work for them for 40 hours a work? The whole point is that they're paying you $$$ in exchange for your work. If your work includes being at the office, that's part of the e
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by machello13 5y ago
Have you considered that your idea of a general purpose computer might just be different than pretty much everyone else?
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by machello13 5y ago
Why not?
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by machello13 5y ago
Good news for those who like working in the office — sounds like a glut of opportunities!
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by machello13 5y ago
> was the right thing to do for end users. Only because the company made the change anyway on a sister site, for an unrelated reason, and hadn't bothered to make the same change here.
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by machello13 5y ago
Uh, what? People have been killing themselves with alcohol for thousands of years.
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by machello13 5y ago
The users aren’t really, their bosses are, most likely because it gets bundled in a contract with Office and Exchange etc.
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by machello13 5y ago
And the result of that knowledge is a worse experience for users. However you frame it, users are losing because MS doesn’t want to shell out the cash for good UX.
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by machello13 5y ago
I think Apple’s argument for why slide to delete is not explained would be that it’s a shortcut — the explicit way to delete is to tap “edit” or “select” in a view, which exposes an explicit delete button on each row, or the ability to sele
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by machello13 5y ago
This isn't only present in "newer versions" of iOS — iOS has worked like that since day 1.
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by machello13 5y ago
Android is based on Linux but isn't what anyone means when they talk about Linux. Plenty of stuff runs on Linux but the comment you're replying to mentioned usability specifically. Do you think Linux's general usability (i.e.
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by machello13 5y ago
> I find the current state of the art on stylus text entry so disappointing. I think your idea of the state of the art may be several years out of date.
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by machello13 5y ago
From that wikipedia article: > A common argument in the debate about whether cat ownership is ethical involves the question of toxoplasma gondii transmission to humans.[58] Even though "living in a household with a cat that used a l
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by machello13 5y ago
Right, but everything I mentioned exists in the UI. Just not the very last part.
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by machello13 5y ago
> In a better OS there would be a "reset this service's configuration". There literally is this option on iOS.
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by machello13 5y ago
> macOS only caters to folks who prefer simplicity over power features This is said quite often, almost as a given, but I never thought it reflected reality. macOS has an abundance of useful features for power users — system services, au
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by machello13 5y ago
In my experience, using a VPN will get you the captcha every single time.
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by machello13 5y ago
I wonder how they determine what an "app" is. Would "Camera" not be pre-installed anymore? Or "Settings"? "Files"? These seem like bare necessities.
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by machello13 5y ago
True. But taking an overnight trip from NYC to Chicago is something you can do right now that is just as pleasant as the experience you described. There's definitely fewer options for destinations or schedules but the experience is the
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by machello13 5y ago
> If someone knows how to use something they can explain how it works at least in their mind Can you explain how this squares with your other comment about how I couldn't possibly know how it works if I wasn't on the team who b

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