sosborn

Money and quality are rarely correlated.

Journalists take glee in letting the fools expose themselves.

It’s a folkism, but consider this: If a rule doesn’t have any exceptions, is it really a rule? If a rule doesn’t exist how could there be any exceptions?

Let's travel back to 2016 ...

> It does feel like Apple innovation is either stagnating or small, incremental gains. Certainly not huge leaps like iPhone or iPad. Apple Watch hasn’t really taken off yet.

My favorite personal project is a Japanese-English dictionary with full-text search (thank you JMDICT: https://www.edrdg.org/jmdict/j_jmdict.html).

It's a Rails app and includes a flashcard system to help me study. It also emails me a daily list of 5 vocabulary words to study.

I use it all the time and it took about a month to get it into a state where I felt comfortable deploying it. I'm about to add a feature that will use the devices camera to scan and extract a vocabulary list from the image using OCR (I'll use this when reading Japanese text).

It's useful for me, but more importantly, it's fun.

Of course everyone will be like "yes" and then the phone will get hacked and the user will blame apple.

* This is not an argument against it. *

Soles do wear out. It's not like the rubber just disappears.

The crime was selling - not editing. Not defending the arrest but it's a pretty big difference.

The first sentence puts it into a little bit of perspective:

"Police in Japan have arrested a 36-year-old man on suspicion of selling illegally modified Pokémon save data to customers online — a practice which is banned under the country’s 2019 Unfair Competition Prevention Act."

Now, it's still a ridiculous story, but it's a little easier to see how this happened.

For the life of me I cannot understand why email won't render grid or flex. Those two properties would make email templating so much easier.

Have you ever looked into the world of retail space leasing? It’s quite common for retailers to be charged a percentage of gross sales per month.

(Not defending anything here)

https://support.apple.com/en-us/102602#:~:text=iCloud%20Priv....

Media placement is the long game and matching ROI to a single event is a fool's errand.

I guarantee you they got much more than $1M worth of media placement for this stunt.

I would argue that any PR helps drive subscriptions.

Their competition was the old outdated business model. As easy as it was to say that streaming was the future, they still had to convince millions of people to learn about and sign up for it.

The only island with active geothermal activity is an island without many people (compared to Oahu).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puna_Geothermal_Venture

Do they guarantee it is static?

My current IP hasn't changed in years but I need to pony up if I want them to guarantee it forever.

At that time flash sucked on desktop macs too. Seriously, it was awful on macs.

"Kick-starting the USB revolution" doesn't mean the same thing as "innovation."

They only included USB on the original iMac, which was a death-knell for the legacy connectors, and quite controversial at the time given the iMac's place in the cultural zeitgeist.

American Heart Association.

I think even more interesting is that they chose to forgo the rather robust and easy to use API offered by Mailchimp in the first place.

I don't think anyone reading this thread thought that poor people were being used as a scapegoat. I think people read it as the middle class being pushed down rather than pulled down.

> professional use

I hate this terminology. How would anyone define "professional use"

"Funny" and "Appropriate" don't always occupy the same space.

If I see a person nazi regalia I might feel uncomfortable and I’ll certainly judge them for their choice of clothing, but never would I advocate for making nazi regalia illegal.

You are essentially at a point where you are saying “if I don’t like your outfit I’m going to legislate it.”

You might be cool with that, but I’m not.

Are you equating wearing a hoodie with wearing nothing at all?