workbench | 12 years ago | on: RIP Microsoft Tag
Best Tumblr ever
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workbench | 12 years ago | on: Ink (YC S12) Releases New iOS Layer That Allows Apps to Interact, Share Data
Isn't this Apples job?
workbench | 12 years ago | on: Ad-Free Social Platform App.net Raises Another $2.5M From Andreessen Horowitz
This service has become such a joke.
People paid for a Twitter clone and just got a confused mess of hand wavy nonsense about being a general purpose pipe for applications.
workbench | 12 years ago | on: Google Blindness
How long till it has adverts seen as every listen will cost google something.
I'd rather pay
workbench | 12 years ago | on: Google Blindness
He does in his podcast and on Twitter
workbench | 12 years ago | on: Google Blindness
He's also gone into great detail on his blog about how unsuccessful that has been and if he worked on the port himself (outside company volunteered to work on it) he wouldn't have been able to go fulltime like iOS allowed.
workbench | 12 years ago | on: Google Blindness
You don't really get a choice about lock in, however you do get to choose if you want your actions, searches, communications and location harvested to build an advertising profile or not.
workbench | 12 years ago | on: Google Blindness
> not very good developers
Probably this judging by how many years the UI ignored the GPU on that platform.
workbench | 12 years ago | on: Firefox now only has one HTML parser
Typical Mozilla nonsense
workbench | 12 years ago | on: ElementaryOs Luna released
should have been deleted on april 2nd then…
workbench | 12 years ago | on: ElementaryOs Luna released
Honestly don't understand why we can't call them out on this.
> Did we actively intend for it to be reminiscent of OS X? Absolutely not
This statement is a total lie.
workbench | 12 years ago | on: ElementaryOs Luna released
Bit different, the first two directly mimic how a regular file browser window looks. The OS X and ElemOS preferences don't imitate their file windows.
God MS screwed 95 up so badly.
workbench | 12 years ago | on: ElementaryOs Luna released
> Did we actively intend for it to be reminiscent of OS X? Absolutely not
Sorry but this is pure BS
workbench | 12 years ago | on: ElementaryOs Luna released
1998-2003 Linux invests a ton of time imitating Windows Explorer and Outlook
2013-???? Linux invests a ton of time replicating OS X and iTunes
Why can they never just innovate themselves?
workbench | 12 years ago | on: Some killjoys have removed the blink tag from Firefox
love how you're hosting this on neocities, seems apt
workbench | 12 years ago | on: Some killjoys have removed the blink tag from Firefox
One less reason to use Firefox
workbench | 12 years ago | on: Lego Architecture Studio Now Available
Google isn't helping me right now, but IIRC didn't Lego use to manufacture bricks for actual architects to prototype with. They were smaller than regular bricks.
workbench | 12 years ago | on: Stealth Startups Are Stupid
Don't know why you expected anything else from an "ideas guy"
workbench | 12 years ago | on: Xerox responds to the recent character substitution issue
You'd expect anyone who knows how JBIG2 works would also know it should never have been used for this
workbench | 12 years ago | on: Xerox responds to the recent character substitution issue
"the device web user interface"
Why on earth does a scanner have a web interface
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