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poolpool··on Offliberty – Evidence of offline life
Or just use youtube-dl
poolpool··on How to Disincentivize Large Bitcoin Mining Pools
Or their blind hatred of banks have caused them to ignore any of the perks and benefits provided by them.
poolpool··on The End of Cuisine
Clothing should be for everyone but high fashion has its place.
poolpool··on Kingston and PNY using cheaper components after good reviews
Dell has also been caught doing this with monitors.
poolpool··on Only Apple
No they just ignore the lower end of the market that makes 0 money and leaves everyone else fighting over the scraps.

There is a reason Dell bought Quest for billions of dollars. It is not because they see a bright future for the consumer pc market.

poolpool··on Anti-Tesla sentiment and the death of optimism
How does the US foster innovation? It certainly puts the rich (Some of which who were innovators) on pedestals, but the education system certainly does not preach innovation for the first 18 years of a child's life. You could argue that it actually penalizes innovation.
poolpool··on Ask HN: OS X Snippets Manager with Gist support and keyboard shortcuts?
TextExpander
poolpool··on Dash – Beautiful instant offline docs for almost everything
One of the first things you see is a link to download on the App Store...
poolpool··on Ask HN: Where did all the Product Managers go?
Just because you don't have a formal role an unspoken org chart will arise and someone will be acting more as a PM than others.

when you aren't trying to build a lasting product, and are hoping to get acquired after a few rounds of funding its pretty easy to not have product managers.

poolpool··on How Apple Cheats
Funny how Microsoft owned 90%+ of installs globally. Just because everyone copies apple doesn't mean everyone uses apple and needs to bend to their will. It's the opposite actually.
poolpool··on How Apple Cheats
Too many people here are way too furious at anything apple/closed source to discuss anything.

1) you still own your phone. Don't be silly. Jailbreak and builds apps to your hearts content. Vendors can choose who and what they allow in their store. Physical or otherwise.

2) apple makes virtually all the profits on consumer hardware, but has Tiny market share. Really. It's no an abuse of a monopoly if 20 percent of people can't use a private API on their telephone.

3)equating access to private APIs in a private store with morality is a truly warped view of the world and a disservice to actual issues with morality society faces.

poolpool··on How Apple Cheats
Maybe nerds, sorry, educated tech users, will eventually accept that Jobs vision of computers as appliances is what many (most?) people want.
poolpool··on Neutralizing the iOS camera click sound through active sound cancellation
They would get in arguments about the latest up-sampling frameworks and never ship anything.
poolpool··on Why Van Halen's tour contract had a "no brown M&M's" clause
The RMS rider is full of lecturing and childish demands. I'm amazed people are applauding him for it.
poolpool··on Leaked NYT innovation report is one of the key documents of this media age
Gee that sound a like a billion dollars a year and a fundamental misconception of how news reporting works when deadlines, personal biases, and large groups of people get involved.

The times needs the government officials just as much as the officials need the times. Its a delicate dance and you can't just burn bridges.

Noble goals but come on.

> Editorial: how about some informed opinion pieces? How about starting to peel apart complex topics in multiple parts and report TRUTH?

Literally what Fox news believers say about the times.

poolpool··on Jailbreak tweak brings multitasking to the iPad
Steve absolutely detested the idea of apps and it was only forstall who actually got an app store implemented...
poolpool··on Oracle continue to circumvent EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL()
It doesn't encourage. It forces. Which could be another nightmare.
poolpool··on How to throttle the FCC to dial up modem speeds
Insider trading isn't illegal for politicians.

They can trade stock knowing certain laws will be passed or bills introduced that will have an effect.

poolpool··on Tech firms write to U.S. FCC to oppose 'net neutrality' plan
So they will lose god knows how much revenue, piss off their customers, and get a tiny fraction of people to 1) actually click the banner 2) read all those scary words 3) actually understand and get angry about the implications.
poolpool··on Atom Is Now Open Source
God forbid people want to get paid for their hard work and effort bringing something new into the world.
poolpool··on I would prefer to pay for Twitter
As already stated this was tried with app.net. A spectacular failure of marketing aside, no one sprung for it.

This is also partially why ala carte tv programming and iTunes tv is so expensive: People are not willing to pay anywhere close to how much advertisers/marketing/PR firms are.

poolpool··on It's Different for Girls
Or maybe this is far, far more common than many people would like to think.
poolpool··on Boring Systems Build Badass Businesses
I wouldn't call sublime text a plain editor.
poolpool··on OpenSSL Project received $841.70 in donations last week
Do we need to shove religion into this debate about technical matters?
poolpool··on Heartbleed should bleed X.509 to death
Its not that they are stupid, many people have better things to do than spend a single second they don't have to staring at a monitor.

Different interests. Different focuses. No one will want to listen to you explain that its for the best, or the current issues with CAs (Also what a CA is). They just want to check their damn gmail.

poolpool··on BladeRunnerJS: Divide and conquer complex web apps
Haha. It helps to actually understand what you're looking at before rushing off to make a sick biting internet comment.

Is this "emacs" thing similar to django?

poolpool··on iOS 7.1 Real-time Design Reactions
Which proves that history repeats itself. Apple goes overboard with its initial design and pulls back in places with subsequent point releases. Everyone in 5 years forgets that their phone was allegedly unusable!!! for a matter of months.
poolpool··on Apple security rules leave inherited iPad useless
Apple literally cannot win in the media and the current security narrative. If they could/would remotely unlock or reset passwords people would freak out about lax security you could get around by purely faking a written and signed letter.

This sucks but is all this heartbreak and fighting with a company worth a 500 dollar toy? This whole thing is ridiculous.

poolpool··on Beets – Command-line music manager and auto-tagger
Allegedly it starts a web server to browse + play music. I notice that theres a version disconnect between github (1.3.4) and pip (1.3.3) so I wonder if it snuck into that release.
poolpool··on Beets – Command-line music manager and auto-tagger
Am I missing something or is the "web" command non existent?
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