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Comment · 5 years ago
This is a valid concern, it's kind of icky to open Firefox and see them pushing some company Pocket's services.

Inspired to research further, I looked and found that Mozilla acquired Pocket in 2017, and it supposedly works on your local-only data for recommendations. Pocket has a subscription plan, and Mozilla as a free software co doesn't have many revenue streams. Them needing to present their product to users doesn't seem that bad viewed in the context of needing a way to support the product. I do think it could be better presented ie explained clearly what pocket is and why they show it to us.

Comment · 5 years ago
Fuck.. should have worked retail at Apple, self-studied CS and bought my own house instead of a $50k CS degree!
Comment · 5 years ago
Unfortunately, pault is already in a happy and committed relationship.
Comment · 5 years ago
It's misleading because you're stating something false. You adamantly say the article says one thing when it ain't there.

You: 'Its described in the article itself that microplastic attracts/collects toxins (heavy metals etc.)' Article: 'Further studies need to be performed to assess if the presence of microplastics may trigger immune responses or may lead to the release of toxic contaminants'

Maybe and does is one difference. The absence of the mention of heavy metals which you state is from the article itself is another difference. I like the other stuff you said though.

Comment · 5 years ago
Haha when you put it like that, it helps Apple's case. They're only making less than 10x more than Costco for all the serious technical innovation vs large-scale reselling.
Comment · 5 years ago
WTF MAN do you always spout lies so confidently xD
Comment · 5 years ago
To many people who value $$$ to get other important things in their life, shares are a meaningful factor in their expected value from devoting their life to a job.

So when you say you don't work at a startup for monetary reasons, and that you don't care about shares, which has an expected value of real money despite the uncertain outcome, it's natural to wonder if you don't care about compensation aka money.

Comment · 5 years ago
This is correct, but this is incorrect.
Comment · 5 years ago
ok what
Comment · 5 years ago
Yes it must be very hard for one dude, but if anyone's in a position to make even just a decent version, it should be a billion dollar company who's core product is already pretty stable..
Comment · 5 years ago
The emphasis could be on their behavior of 'complaining without providing much in the way of solutions'. Certainly, though obvious now, they could have empirically presented at least one legitimate case as to why Obj-C was a better choice (app size).
Comment · 5 years ago
Yeah, but ppl were using Mapquest for years before Gmaps came out. People were using Google before Bing came out.
Comment · 6 years ago
As a non-vi user, I feel very excluded :( ^H means backspace guys. And probably the same type of CEO that wants to make money by not paying out affiliates
Comment · 6 years ago
Just because you don't understand exactly how something works, don't mean it's not useful. Someone who doesn't understand exactly how everything works, like how do bikes stay upright and how does gravity work, can still use the bike to acquire food or advance science.
Comment · 6 years ago
this jpeg link downloaded a webp file to my computer and wen i try to open it it asks if im sure i want to open it. webp seems to be an image file but is it safe to open

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