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by mark_integerdsv 14y ago
Just like to add that there are innovations in terms of manufacturing that affect the marketplace at large that are solely due to Apple requirements. I'm talking about Gorilla Glass (factory funded by Apple so the inventor of the substance
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by mark_integerdsv 14y ago
I don't understand why I need to sign in to try this out. Glad you're getting rave reviews in this thread but I'm passing on the basis that I believ this sign in is unnecessary and creates yet more data exhaust.
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Ask HN: How do you deal with team members ego/emotions and still make progress?
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by mark_integerdsv 14y ago
As always during this particular debate, there comes a time when perhaps a distinction between Apple Legal and Apple R&D would enrich the discussion. Every rose has its thorns.
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by mark_integerdsv 14y ago
>>actually touching the thing I want to touch on the screen... You're not though... Actually touching the thing. I don't see the massive loss you infer between touching the screen and manipulating objects 'beyond' the screen. If any
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by mark_integerdsv 14y ago
Speaking as a fellow (?) South African, albeit younger (too young to have been involved in that conflict) I feel it's worth pointing out that their drifting apart may very well be by choice, or rather: simply not making an effort to stay in
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by mark_integerdsv 14y ago
After googling 'omnibar', I found the menu you speak of and I swear blind the option to email the page is not there...
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by mark_integerdsv 14y ago
Cydia has a tweak to change your default browser. Sorted. iOS Chrome has greater issues. Tab management is all whizz bang but very unintuitive. I have used it for about a day and can it fathom how to email a link to the current page to some
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by mark_integerdsv 14y ago
Dammit! Can you people please stop adding to my reading list! ...sorry, two very good reads in the lat two posts. I am currently teaching a Saturday morning LOGO class at my daughters school. Who'd a thunk kids (and parents) would forsake S
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by mark_integerdsv 14y ago
Although I agree with all of your emotions because I share many of them, certain of your comments have me wondering how much time you have spent around big corporates. Microsoft is to this day, beyond pervasive. I have over a decades wort
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by mark_integerdsv 14y ago
Fair. I'm not sure I agree with you though that emerging markets are niche... I'm not an expert in economics but I suspect there may be a sense in which first worded is niche... Even more so in your several decade time horizon.
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by mark_integerdsv 14y ago
>Ubiquitous good bandwidth... Hello from Cape Town, South Africa where one of the planets most innovative mobile service providers runs once of the biggest and most important organisations in the country and does it all on physical serv
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by mark_integerdsv 14y ago
You are describing (1) a cellphone network and (2) a cellphone number. The rest is overthink.
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by mark_integerdsv 14y ago
Got it, makes sense.
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by mark_integerdsv 14y ago
"...waiting an hour..." Uhm... Ke? I work in Business Intelligence and anything over 5 seconds to return a typical (eg: year to date/daily sales) report is unacceptable by my standards. Could you perhaps go I to more detail as to the defini
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by mark_integerdsv 14y ago
15 hours a week? Jesus... I spend half of that in meetings. I really need to reconfigure my schedule! I'll warn you though that the type of arrangement you suggest does exist, it's called: 'a consulting house' as opposed to: 'a software b
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by mark_integerdsv 14y ago
Props for LOGO. I learned that my ten year old was only learning consumption patterns for computers at school. Web searching and a tiny bit of Office basically. Something had to change and I've found that several kids are keen enough on LOG
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by mark_integerdsv 14y ago
Disagree. The secret to a happy marriage is a dishwasher, two if you have room and means.
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by mark_integerdsv 14y ago
Sorry but that sounds hellish. Your claim of "little annoyances" sounds like several layers of deal breaker ...to me at least.
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by mark_integerdsv 14y ago
Agree and also: this plays into the irony of the hero/protagonists name
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by mark_integerdsv 14y ago
Thought I saw this in the video on apple.com... Saddened to learn that I was right. My PC loving mates are going to tear the ass outta me on this...
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by mark_integerdsv 14y ago
Quite true. Incidentally: I found myself in exactly the same position with iPad 2. It seemed as if it was all hinging on release date of the next iteration of the OS and I did wonder at tine if Apple had perfected their game of cat and mous
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by mark_integerdsv 14y ago
Sorry, I guess it is a little bit lost in the re-telling (maybe just my re-telling?)... My point is that 'Android (ICS) already offers more...' is hunky dory... Thing is: then you need to use Android. I was taking a little jab at Android be
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by mark_integerdsv 14y ago
There is an advert for Steers (a hamburger take away franchise here in South Africa, their burgers are delicious!) that came out around about the same time that McDonalds came to the country. It depicts one guy unpacking a stack of tiny bur
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by mark_integerdsv 14y ago
It does not follow that since no workable backup strategy was in place that Sharepoint is rubbish. Look: I'm not singing the praises of these softwares, it's big clunky enterprise stuff and it is boooring... None the less: it's running some
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by mark_integerdsv 14y ago
How many clicks did it require to jailbreak that device once Absinthe came out? I see your point but that is what I was referring to.
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by mark_integerdsv 14y ago
Uuhm... Not to be overly flippant but me, my wife and my two daughters as well as my bootstrapped startup are supported by my work for a multinational financial organization. The technologies you mention essentially run this organization fr
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by mark_integerdsv 14y ago
I think you might be missing the point... Even customization is becoming easier. Consider the ease of jail breaking iOS vs rooting an Android device along wth the push button tweakability that is Cydia and you quickly realize that even the
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by mark_integerdsv 14y ago
...that would still be a definite no.
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by mark_integerdsv 14y ago
You misinterpret the word 'stylish'. Hoodies and band shirts are not stylish and never will be. ...unless you mean to say something like: in the style of a young urbanite. The word 'stylish' in terms of fashion refers to more than just clot

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