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by paulgpetty 6y ago
It’s great to see the original author update the article & admit that he was incorrect. He even goes as far as to say that despite the embarrassment he’ll leave the article up. My favorite assetrtion from the article is "Apparent
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by paulgpetty 6y ago
I think Google should embrace the naysayers & should have named this “Catch Up” … tagline: “Don’t be slack, catch up with your co-workers as we catch up with the competition."
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by paulgpetty 6y ago
I think there is a lot to weigh on many different levels about whether a bailout juxtaposed against buybacks is a good or bad thing. But I’m surprised by how little talk there is of individual investor opportunity. This seems like the bot
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by paulgpetty 6y ago
Two questions this raises, for me at least: How do I know I’ve completely uninstalled all the things Zoom installed? And, if Zoom provided a separate uninstaller (like many apps do) and it was verified to purge all of the stuff they install
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by paulgpetty 7y ago
The age of the article says a lot; but I think there are overuses of rem, even today, where it’s used for dimensions (width, height, padding, margins) which is not a good idea. Especially when mixed with containing elements that use a mix
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by paulgpetty 7y ago
I get the attitude regarding it’s February & he probably eeked out one last bonus; but there’s some funny stuff there: * https://skyenet.dev/robots.txt * coincidence that it was posted at 4:20 * https://deve
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by paulgpetty 7y ago
There still is — for legacy users — Campfire at 37 Signals (home of Basecamp): https://basecamp.com/retired/campfire
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by paulgpetty 7y ago
From 2014: https://www.tesla.com/blog/all-our-patent-are-belong-you … the “blog post” ABS CBN references might be a tweet Elon Musk wrote in January 2019 referring to the 2014 post. Hard to tell if there was anything n
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by paulgpetty 8y ago
Nah. I get the argument that maybe American laptop makers are complacent or that we shouldn't create borders within which to judge technology. To be fair, if Matebook is a rip off of the Macbook design, devices are getting to be a lo
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by paulgpetty 8y ago
It might not seem like this is a big deal. For now that’s probably right; but Netflix has aspirations to do nightly news and if that’s intended to be live or near real-time we should be comparing their uptime with broadcast TV. When was t
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by paulgpetty 8y ago
So was the “Don’t be evil” principle or mantra that we’re all disappointed about documented in a blog post? For some reason I thought it was on a page like this: https://www.google.com/about/our-commitments/ Eith
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by paulgpetty 9y ago
I think anyone can write an article like this favoring their choice platform. Doing real complete comparison is hard. There are literally hundreds of features to compare. Include apps like this author and you’re writing forever. The har
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by paulgpetty 9y ago
iOS supports seamless call blocking via inexpensive 3rd party apps like Hiya. Hiya works great, calls that are suspect get labeled and calls that are verified fraud or marketing are never seen but available in call history. This been arou