theinternetman

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by theinternetman 9y ago
>I think one of the biggest challenges for Twitter is on-boarding new users. This is worse than ever, they invest most of their effort in getting you to follow their cherry picked celeb users for your country. Then they spend the rest of
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by theinternetman 9y ago
>These are all awesome uses of Twitter that anyone can benefit from without needing to have any followers. fyi accounts with low or no follower counts are now auto-blocked using the new safety features by most important people so this is
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by theinternetman 9y ago
> and they've managed to ethically out compete them with flying colors Yeah and it only took 5 attempts. (Poke, Bolt, Slingshot, Flash, Instagram Stories)
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by theinternetman 10y ago
It's not just machine learning, 3D rendering is moving over to GPU as well and there is next to no support for anything other than CUDA in that space today. Not everything starts and ends with gaming in the high end computer space.
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by theinternetman 10y ago
Still means you need a PC, mainstream is all tablets, laptops and consoles. If vr ever goes mainstream beyond a mobile phone gimmick addon it will be via Playstation or Xbox
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by theinternetman 10y ago
> relative experience in hardware, which exacerbates their already high labor cost But everyone in the thread is saying Google didn't really manufacture it and it's just a rebranded HTC device
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by theinternetman 10y ago
To be fair the iPhone build quality and hardware design look like a premium product. This looks like a chinese knockoff
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by theinternetman 10y ago
Hardware design on this feels entirely uninspired, Chinese knockoff of last years iPhone and Samsung devices. If they truly started from scratch and ended up here then this hardware initiative is going to fall flat. But I'm gonna guess
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by theinternetman 10y ago
Surprised they went with a form factor so similar to Samsung and the iPhone 6, just looks pretty dated really. Think now would have been a good opportunity to go for something less rounded. An iPhone 4 style sharp design would probably end
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by theinternetman 10y ago
I haven't noticed anything because the only thing it ever managed to do reliably is set timers so that's all I ever used it for. and one in 20 times you'll get a "here is the timer" where it just shows you yesterday
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by theinternetman 10y ago
Finding these heavily curated advertorials Apple has been pushing out (This and the recent wired advertorials come to mind) a bit of a sign that not everything is sunny at One Infinite Loop.
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by theinternetman 10y ago
> the Lab VR demos Wii minigames in VR are still just Wii minigames, whole thing feels like something I'd expect from a hackday from a company as supposedly prolific as valve. Got a strong feeling the talent is long gone.
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by theinternetman 10y ago
> Rockstar North's facility in Edinburgh has roughly the same employee count (slightly more by Wikipedia's count), and all they do is put out one new game every 5 years or so. Yeah they actually manage to ship games (that manag
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by theinternetman 10y ago
>I don't care how the message is sent, as long as it is sent. Friend of mine has an iPad and an iPhone, often her iPhone data plan runs out so I send a message, it's blue and acts like it's delivered.... then I get a reply
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by theinternetman 10y ago
>modern With the fad of bundling up web browsers and web code into an app this phrase is starting to have negative connotations for me.
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by theinternetman 10y ago
> Why do you even need an app if you're paying your own kid? It answers the first world tech-bro problem of having to keep cash handy and engage with your kid face to face not face to screen to screen to face.
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by theinternetman 10y ago
> Note that I am not a parent Does that really matter? Starting to get a bit fed up with this concept that parents are somehow blessed with esoteric wisdom that people without children can't possibly grasp. It's a fairly simple
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by theinternetman 10y ago
Just seems a bit absurd to me the amount of effort put into an idea that can be replicated in your own home by putting money in a jar for the kid and then when it's full enough to buy skyrim or whatever put the money in your pocket and
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by theinternetman 10y ago
> Ahhh, the old "ideas during casual talking" trope. In all my years I've never seen anything of significance come out of people talking over lunch Depends on your job really, roles where creativity is required this sort o
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by theinternetman 10y ago
To be fair Sketch is just a copy of Fireworks
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by theinternetman 10y ago
Maybe because apps cheapen the experience… I like taking my friends to hidden gem restaurants I find myself because if its good they'll be surprised. If an app was an charge any restaurant it points me to will be rammed and a sucky exp
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by theinternetman 10y ago
> once they realized it. Why did it reach shipping before they realised it is the real question. This is a terrible idea before it even leaves the whiteboard.
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by theinternetman 10y ago
>Long holds on mobile are excruciating interactions for people, and 3D touch fixes that But it doesn't provide an easier way to access long hold functionality, instead of provides different functionality that could be activated acci
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by theinternetman 11y ago
Calling this dystopian is giving it too much credit, it's just plain grim.
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by theinternetman 11y ago
This would be true if they knew how it was compromised, they've been silent on that issue so far. The current version could be being compromised this minute for all we know.
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by theinternetman 11y ago
Not sure why anyone with a compromised machine would rather have the risk of a lingering backdoor just to save 1-2 hours clean formatting and reinstalling
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by theinternetman 11y ago
How is that any more secure than just providing a download?
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by theinternetman 11y ago
I updated in app and don't seem to be, an official confirmation of how this happened and why in-app updates were seemingly not affected would go a long way.
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by theinternetman 11y ago
> How do you know when a man in the office becomes a father? How do you know when a woman in the office is actually pregnant? Going to go feel the bump up yourself?
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by theinternetman 11y ago
Skype feels like it runs just as well on my brand new laptop as it used to do on my 9 year old machine. As in not well at all and whenever any progress has been made with computing speed the Skype team have refactored their app to perform j

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