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Any idea what the relation is between this (Aluminum OS?) and Android Desktop Mode?

Elaborate please

Greg Christie My memory is hazy, but I thought drawers had a preferred side but would open on the other side if there was no room.

+1. I got excited but https://lasuite.numerique.gouv.fr/ doesn't seem to be in English or any other European language. If you guys are hoping for Europe-wide adoption, start there.…

I remember.

Another factor: I'm pretty sure it's more common that people have debit cards than credit cards in Europe, which equals less credit card fraud.

Yes!

Scrappy co-creator here. As an old-school Mac user (from the days of desktop publishing) I do know the difference between hyphen and en-dash and em-dash :) We used AI sparsely for …

Scrappy co-creator here. I fully agree that software longevity is important. We designed Scrappy with a local-first architecture, so we have no traditional backend. Our only cloud …

Scrappy co-creator here. It was a surprise to us that this blew up on HN. We've hurriedly added an FAQ to the write-up. In regards to this question about the "Scrappy backend": Scr…

Idea: everyone, anytime you hit a bug or error, post a screenshot to the social media of your choice and tag it say #applesoftware. Over time this might start attracting PR attenti…

I worked at Apple on Mac OS X until 2008. For QA, Bertrand believed in a lightweight touch, with dedicated QA staffing only at the top of the stack (plus a few key places like the …

I worked at Skype from eBay to Microsoft. The clients were rewritten, sometimes from scratch, sometimes redesigned to chase after the latest UI trend. But rewriting clients didn't …

Tweet from Sam, decoded by @hellokillian: “i love you all” I L Y A “one takeaway: go tell your friends how great you think they are.” https://twitter.com/hellokillian/status/172579…

I would gladly pay money for a commercial version of this. I don’t have a cat, but I have a mother who has dementia. I started looked at tracking devices (in case she starts to wan…

Meh. “open source” vs “Open Source”.

I worked at Apple during most of the golden Steve Jobs era. Back in the day, Apple was a fraction of its size, but Apple almost singlehandedly set the agenda for the computer indus…

A comedic take at the same topic: "A Disrupter's POV on the Silicon Valley Bank Collapse" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A13erYPcDVI > by Michael Kosta (The Daily Show).

I worked at Apple during the second, golden Steve Jobs era. It's easy to assume that the culture of secrecy and need-to-know disclosure was for marketing/PR benefit and/or old-scho…

Remember, even the original iPhone still had physical buttons/switches for Home, Sleep/Wake, Ring/Silent, and Volume Up and Down.

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