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by ninedays 3y ago
It is actually incredibly clever and never thought about it until now. I can relate to so many services I have spent some time curating, managing, triaging, etc ... It helped me create an emotional connection with the product I am using and
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by ninedays 3y ago
Couldn't disagree more with the first 2 paragraphs. It feels like saying Apple publishes a slightly different version of its iPhone every year. I think you will find plenty of differences - even major ones between the first iPhone and
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by ninedays 4y ago
There clearly was a discoverability issue with 3D Touch. When you knew which app supported the feature, it was awesome but there was no way of knowing in advance if there was support for it before using it. Long pressing an icon or anythin
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by ninedays 5y ago
If I had to guess, I would say that the HN crowd is not fond of unverified claims that are not backed by any source other than the person personal opinion. > "Obj-C is a much better framework language than C++. How and why is that t
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by ninedays 6y ago
The very first paragraph : > “ Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. is working with Google and other U.S. tech giants to develop a new way of making semiconductors more powerful.” The title is unfortunately misleading as it makes it l
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by ninedays 6y ago
QA here. The article is decent for someone who has little to no experience in the field and wishes to know more about QA practices or processes.
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by ninedays 7y ago
> then content creators realized that GR is stealing thunder and started dropping RSS, and then GR died and we ended up with no Reader and no RSS. Funny how anyone can define History.
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by ninedays 7y ago
Am I the only one seeing the irony of having The Verge talk about Firefox and privacy when the website is bloated with tracking scripts?
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by ninedays 7y ago
> Seriously, who cares about a warranty on a $6 thing? Just because you do not care doesn't mean it should apply to everyone. My parents would definitely use a warranty on a $6 thing if it had one because they do not spend blindly a
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by ninedays 7y ago
The problem with this reasoning is that it doesn't apply to countries outside the US. Take Europe for example where the healthcare system is miles ahead compared to the US yet Europe is clearly not the most innovative space because of
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by ninedays 7y ago
The fact that iPad never had 3D Touch adds another argument as to why developers never truly adopted the feature.
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by ninedays 7y ago
and it reassigned thousands of engineers across the company to fix a security vulnerability earlier this year, delaying other Marcus products by months, The Journal reported. I wonder if it was related to the development of Apple Card.
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by ninedays 7y ago
Ultimately people will vote with their wallet if they truly want this or not and no matter how long I look at this, I don’t see it being the future we are heading.
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by ninedays 7y ago
Maybe the goal was to find a way to get a lot of medical records and it didn't make much sense to continue Deepmind Health once that goal has been achieved - hence the move to Google Health.
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by ninedays 7y ago
Yet another feature being removed that noone ever remembers using.
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by ninedays 7y ago
> WebKit that was forked by Google because they couldn't collaborate with Apple? You say "they couldn't collaborate" I say "Google really wanted to compete". Remember that it was Google who decided to perfor
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by ninedays 7y ago
> There is no open source in iOS and the entire platform has an anti open source culture. People really have short memory and unfortunately have too much biais to even make a simple Google Search to get some informations. Trying to defin
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by ninedays 7y ago
And yet, IMHO, none of what you listed is a reason enough for creating this unseemly situation.
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by ninedays 7y ago
"Not sure what the HK protesters endgame is here." People are fed up about how the system works and about their life and the life of people they know. They want things to be "better" without having to clearly define and
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by ninedays 7y ago
You should tell that to Jeff Bezos.
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by ninedays 7y ago
Same thing happens in France where police are filmed gazing and beating some people out (even old people)[1] Someone already lost an eye few months ago.[2] President guard is disguised as a policeman and beat some people on the streets. [3]
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by ninedays 7y ago
"I'm honestly shocked that business travelers want to stay in AirBnBs." "it almost always makes more sense" "most of the time" "if the hotels are outrageously expensive for whatever reason." I do
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by ninedays 7y ago
I spoke with several of my friends who are doctors and for them, there is no general rule that applies to everyone ("you should drink at least X"). However, the most common rule is "if the color of your pee is not "clear
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by ninedays 7y ago
Amazon cares about counterfeit products as much as YouTube cared about copyright videos in its infancy. It's just here to enable growth until they start to fight it.
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by ninedays 7y ago
Because there are multiple evidences for years that Google purposefully degrades the user experience for people not using Google Chrome in order to entice them to switch. Happens mostly for Firefox but it also happens for Chromium (basicall
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by ninedays 7y ago
1. Because in most Apple videos, the product is the most important person in the room. Ive is a great storyteller when it comes to design (probably the best at Apple) so it makes sense that he is the one telling that story. Steve Jobs was b
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by ninedays 7y ago
AirPower and the macbook butterfly keyboards are probably good examples of what is not working in terms of design. The balance between thinness and function is not right the last few years at Apple and change is most definitely welcome. Sti
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by ninedays 7y ago
It failed because the point was to unify the privacy policy of all Google services (which means data collection would be less spreaded out across the different Google services). The Google+ front (the product users used) was more an excuse
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by ninedays 7y ago
In my experience, private schools are responsible because they say "you will make X per year when you'll graduate" and they can charge insane tuition fees because of it. Once the student is in debt and has now graduated, he r

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