Yes, this is laugh-worthy. It's Apple's sneaky manner of building planned obsolescence into otherwise very competent devices. Just like my 4S, the brand spanking 6S+ will in a few years be choked by iOS updates's…
That's definitely the best problem ever solved by GP, though given the unfathomably enormous computational resources poured into it, it's still hard to say it was any better than a brute force approach! ;)
I have to agree-MD isn't "off" by a whole lot but just enough to hinder the user experience. In particular, headers and topbars are oversized beyond what's reasonable, margins are excessive in content elements, and…
Totally agree with you here. Brunch is fantastic for its minimal config requirements and super-fast performance. Oddly enough, in the JS world I've found it best to ignore all the hype around the latest and newest…
That article doesn't actually counter what the OP says. In fact it ends by stating that SS is being more strained and giving diminishing returns as time passes by, which sounds disturbingly like a ponzi scheme. It's…
Cyrus was the name of the traitor in The Matrix. Coincidence... ... Surely.
As a point of comparison, you can get a Lumia 520 for less. It's a really decent smartphone too from a good brand. It will be interesting to see if Mozilla can yield the combination of quality/value to succeed.
It's what I've observed as well. Plenty of low-income people get cheap chinese tablets, usually generic-brand entry-level models. No idea about the price but I don't think they're a hair above $100, possibly less than…
I agree. The hybrid touch paradigm is fantastic. What Windows 8 did wrong was messing with the familiar old-school interface a bit too much, which made many non-tech-savvy users confused and miserable. My dad had a…
Yes, the app crashed. That was no doubt an app bug. The iPads also crashed. That's eyebrow-raising, and definitely an iPad glitch. The airline will fix the bug and it won't happen again. But relying on a closed,…
It's the later. Every other possible use of the technology is just speculation at this point.
It's very childish, which is sadly a recurring occurrence with Stallman at times. All of the tech giants (Apple/Google/MS/Facebook/etc.) are as shady as the Amazon described here on a regular basis even when it's…
Yes. The math in the article bothered me greatly. It seems that to the author, two fees will be "nearly the same" if they are within an order of magnitude of each other, which is ridiculous. Not to mention the…
I think it's pretty clear the OP is being downvoted for resorting to character assassination (accusing Snowden of selling/giving intelligence secrets to Russia) without any proof of his claims.
This. Facebook did really throw startup valuation out of whack starting with the Instagram acquisition and following up to Whatsapp. They appear to have no idea what they're doing with their money, they're in a rather…
How can you take a OSX as an example of how it's done and lambast Gnome after the new Safari redesign throws OSX conventions through the window (much like iTunes and other OSX programs have done already, independently…
Agreed. And then deal with it the same way you do with tobacco and alcohol, with social campaigns to raise awareness of the issues of addiction. We have a working model here for legal drugs that are just as bad or worse.
Indeed. Compromising cybersecurity as a means of defense is fighting with a gripless sword. It makes no sense that planting backdoors in all of your systems is somehow supposed to help security. For one, there has been…
What competition? Microsoft may be shunned by startups/hackers (that could change quickly if they keep turning the ship the way they've been), but in your average boring old cube farm they are absolutely ahead of other…
One might argue that the SOLID principles applied in Symphony and inherited by Laravel are in fact anti-patterns which only serve to add massive cognitive overhead. They've wrecked countless Java projects over the years…
You know, even though I think there are pretty decent Linux DEs today (I'll gladly take Gnome 3 over the OSX or Windows GUIs), you are completely right about the community having an awful attitude towards their…
The settlement offer is off by an order of magnitude or more from where it should be, that's what the OP means. The tech companies screwed their employees out of a lot more money than this, and this being a class-action…
Most of these WTF examples basically boil down to JS doing type coercion willy-nilly. This 'feature' makes writing conditionals slightly shorter, in exchange for introducing the possibility of massive bugs everywhere in…
Yes, that was an absolute fiasco, but it's more of a problem with Head-Fi banning anyone who criticizes their sponsors because they make their money off of nurturing massive audiophile cargo cults. Schiit products are…
Wow. I just read that article yesterday while browsing for some critiques of The Hobbit Part 3: Alfrid's Quest[sic], and I was nodding furiously all the way through. Brilliant, brilliant framing of the state of…
Yes, this is laugh-worthy. It's Apple's sneaky manner of building planned obsolescence into otherwise very competent devices. Just like my 4S, the brand spanking 6S+ will in a few years be choked by iOS updates's…
That's definitely the best problem ever solved by GP, though given the unfathomably enormous computational resources poured into it, it's still hard to say it was any better than a brute force approach! ;)
I have to agree-MD isn't "off" by a whole lot but just enough to hinder the user experience. In particular, headers and topbars are oversized beyond what's reasonable, margins are excessive in content elements, and…
Totally agree with you here. Brunch is fantastic for its minimal config requirements and super-fast performance. Oddly enough, in the JS world I've found it best to ignore all the hype around the latest and newest…
That article doesn't actually counter what the OP says. In fact it ends by stating that SS is being more strained and giving diminishing returns as time passes by, which sounds disturbingly like a ponzi scheme. It's…
Cyrus was the name of the traitor in The Matrix. Coincidence... ... Surely.
As a point of comparison, you can get a Lumia 520 for less. It's a really decent smartphone too from a good brand. It will be interesting to see if Mozilla can yield the combination of quality/value to succeed.
It's what I've observed as well. Plenty of low-income people get cheap chinese tablets, usually generic-brand entry-level models. No idea about the price but I don't think they're a hair above $100, possibly less than…
I agree. The hybrid touch paradigm is fantastic. What Windows 8 did wrong was messing with the familiar old-school interface a bit too much, which made many non-tech-savvy users confused and miserable. My dad had a…
Yes, the app crashed. That was no doubt an app bug. The iPads also crashed. That's eyebrow-raising, and definitely an iPad glitch. The airline will fix the bug and it won't happen again. But relying on a closed,…
It's the later. Every other possible use of the technology is just speculation at this point.
It's very childish, which is sadly a recurring occurrence with Stallman at times. All of the tech giants (Apple/Google/MS/Facebook/etc.) are as shady as the Amazon described here on a regular basis even when it's…
Yes. The math in the article bothered me greatly. It seems that to the author, two fees will be "nearly the same" if they are within an order of magnitude of each other, which is ridiculous. Not to mention the…
I think it's pretty clear the OP is being downvoted for resorting to character assassination (accusing Snowden of selling/giving intelligence secrets to Russia) without any proof of his claims.
This. Facebook did really throw startup valuation out of whack starting with the Instagram acquisition and following up to Whatsapp. They appear to have no idea what they're doing with their money, they're in a rather…
How can you take a OSX as an example of how it's done and lambast Gnome after the new Safari redesign throws OSX conventions through the window (much like iTunes and other OSX programs have done already, independently…
Agreed. And then deal with it the same way you do with tobacco and alcohol, with social campaigns to raise awareness of the issues of addiction. We have a working model here for legal drugs that are just as bad or worse.
Indeed. Compromising cybersecurity as a means of defense is fighting with a gripless sword. It makes no sense that planting backdoors in all of your systems is somehow supposed to help security. For one, there has been…
What competition? Microsoft may be shunned by startups/hackers (that could change quickly if they keep turning the ship the way they've been), but in your average boring old cube farm they are absolutely ahead of other…
One might argue that the SOLID principles applied in Symphony and inherited by Laravel are in fact anti-patterns which only serve to add massive cognitive overhead. They've wrecked countless Java projects over the years…
You know, even though I think there are pretty decent Linux DEs today (I'll gladly take Gnome 3 over the OSX or Windows GUIs), you are completely right about the community having an awful attitude towards their…
The settlement offer is off by an order of magnitude or more from where it should be, that's what the OP means. The tech companies screwed their employees out of a lot more money than this, and this being a class-action…
Most of these WTF examples basically boil down to JS doing type coercion willy-nilly. This 'feature' makes writing conditionals slightly shorter, in exchange for introducing the possibility of massive bugs everywhere in…
Yes, that was an absolute fiasco, but it's more of a problem with Head-Fi banning anyone who criticizes their sponsors because they make their money off of nurturing massive audiophile cargo cults. Schiit products are…
Wow. I just read that article yesterday while browsing for some critiques of The Hobbit Part 3: Alfrid's Quest[sic], and I was nodding furiously all the way through. Brilliant, brilliant framing of the state of…