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machello13

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    Comment #27861752

    No, but if that's the only benefit, I'll happy give that up in exchange for not having to deal with HTTPS.

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    Comment #27856749

    This is definitely offputting: > If you're unhappy with the price, then please feel free to take 6 years to learn, test out, write-up and maintain everything contained in the 100+ …

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    Comment #27848192

    > those who are often don't think it's fixable Yeah I pretty much agree with you and I fall into this category myself. It's obvious we need a movement like that, but society (as it…

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    Comment #27846512

    > While "man flu" is a popular term for men getting excuses to complain and play on a computer during a minor infection I always find it funny how we're supposed to be in an age of…

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    Comment #27837549

    Is it a web app or just a static site? I still haven't seen a good argument for why static sites (blogs, personal sites, etc. that process no user information) should implement HTT…

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    Comment #27828095

    Which regions have this? I'm in the US and haven't seen it.

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    Comment #27810511

    Everytime some web**** says this it's because of some esoteric unsupported spec where there's no answer to the question "okay, but why would I want my browser to support this?"

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    Comment #27787703

    Right, it sounds like we're on the same page. My point is that those apps are _worse_. They're just also cheaper to build.

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    Comment #27787691

    > For reasons I don't totally understand, the platform vendors are themselves constantly invalidating the information in users' heads, so there's simply less in there for applicati…

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    Comment #27783662

    > Does it need to be? Not anymore. I disagree. The fact that most users don't explicitly care is irrelevant — platform conventions are important. They teach a user how to use a new…

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    Comment #27783344

    > it's easy to mistakenly compare a $1000 laptop with a $500 laptop that doesn't have a video card. Lol, come on dude. "Yeah I can see where you're coming from, if you're an idiot …

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    Comment #27783293

    > The employees now have a proof ("my work output hasn't decreased during covid") and want to renegotiate their contracts. Are you sure? Plenty of companies have experienced lots o…

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    Comment #27775943

    No, not natively in the sense the built-in Camera app can do it, but that's not what the comment was saying.

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    Comment #27772231

    Nope, previous iPhones also supported RAW photos (my iPhone Xs does).

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    Comment #27764931

    you knew what he meant so what difference does it make?

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    Comment #27764231

    How is that any different than a company expecting you to work for them for 40 hours a work? The whole point is that they're paying you $$$ in exchange for your work. If your work …

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    Comment #27760865

    Have you considered that your idea of a general purpose computer might just be different than pretty much everyone else?

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    Comment #27753223

    Good news for those who like working in the office — sounds like a glut of opportunities!

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    Comment #27750210

    > was the right thing to do for end users. Only because the company made the change anyway on a sister site, for an unrelated reason, and hadn't bothered to make the same change he…

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    Comment #27698990

    Uh, what? People have been killing themselves with alcohol for thousands of years.

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    Comment #27646710

    The users aren’t really, their bosses are, most likely because it gets bundled in a contract with Office and Exchange etc.

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    Comment #27642428

    And the result of that knowledge is a worse experience for users. However you frame it, users are losing because MS doesn’t want to shell out the cash for good UX.

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    Comment #27642348

    I think Apple’s argument for why slide to delete is not explained would be that it’s a shortcut — the explicit way to delete is to tap “edit” or “select” in a view, which exposes a…

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    Comment #27635362

    This isn't only present in "newer versions" of iOS — iOS has worked like that since day 1.