jamesmcq24

11 anni fadiscuss

Can't happen soon enough. It's infinitely frustrating to load up a channel's Apple TV app, only to have to sign-in with my cable provider. I'll watch ads! I'd even pay a small subscription for certain channels. Just let me pick what show to watch and when. I feel like it's just these old media deals that are holding everything back.

jamesmcq24

11 anni fadiscuss

If iTunes ran on linux that would be great. No iTunes on linux, no Apple music for me.

jamesmcq24

11 anni fadiscuss

Ugh! It's such a shame companies like Twitter do this shit. I'll admit, twitter and facebook provide useful services, they really do, but it's all this sneaky invasive stuff that makes me hate it all. I know you have to make money, but this kind of behavior is going to be their downfall.

jamesmcq24

11 anni fadiscuss

sigh.. yes, == can be weird. get over it. any php dev worth anything knows to use ===

jamesmcq24

11 anni fadiscuss

Apple's app store is their walled garden and they get to do what they want. If you choose to develop native you get all that comes with it...

However don't confuse app stores for the rest of the internet. The web is still here, freer than ever. It's like the best app store ever: develop on any OS! no ratings and reviews! instant cross-platform compatibility!

I know, I know, there's money in native mobile apps (maybe... if you get lucky...). I think however it's time devs stopped salivating at the thought of winning the app store lottery and come back to the web - maybe our open field would get more respect in mobile.

jamesmcq24

11 anni fadiscuss

"our goal was to enhance the experience for users". I've never needed help finding or discovering products, and I can compare my own prices thank you very much.

The apology always seems to make it worse.

jamesmcq24

11 anni fadiscuss

unfortunately you're completely correct.

jamesmcq24

11 anni fadiscuss

Was just about to purchase a lenovo... although I would have wiped it and installed linux immediately this has caused me to look elsewhere. when will companies learn this kind of behavior is toxic to their business?

jamesmcq24

11 anni fadiscuss

Another possible reason they failed - What a horribly, horribly slow website.

After reading this article I visited fab.com as I'd never visited before. Saw some interesting products, some I might buy, but loading a single page of items shot my fan speed up and froze the page for a good 7-8 seconds while what I guess is their javascript "enhanced" the page.

Awful, awful user experience. I couldn't last more than 3 pages of items before giving up. It doesn't matter what your product is if you annoy the hell out of your customers with badly designed technology.

jamesmcq24

12 anni fadiscuss

I agree that it's completely rational to care more about your neighbours or family than people far away from you, but I don't think that this completely transfers to sports. You might feel good for a short time if your "home team" wins a game, but it really doesn't matter in any sort of concrete way. It won't have any lasting effect on your life.

Your neighbours or family or country succeeding could very well make a real difference in your life. I think those that dislike sports do so not because they reject preference or a sort of tribalism, but because beyond some short-lived feeling of vicarious success, sports are completely meaningless.

Mind you, so is a huge majority of entertainment...

jamesmcq24

12 anni fadiscuss

I'm not sure that example is the same, I'd say a better example would be "I really need to fix the giant hole in my roof, but maybe I should hold off until I find the perfect position of the pillows on my bed"

EDIT: But sure, the fact that there are other things to do doesn't mean no one should worry about anything else. I just feel like this is one of those things that doesn't really make any meaningful change, add any value, etc. Like I said, just seems like nit-picking. To each their own.

jamesmcq24

12 anni fadiscuss

Just seems a little nit-picky to me. I can't help thinking there are more important things to implement than little gaps around letter descenders and configurable line thickness in text underlines...

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