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i treat rdio like a collection of full length previews that allow me to discover a lot of new music. stuff i like gets my money for tickets, merch and vinyl. i do not understand why anyone would pay $10 a month to listen to the same shit they have on their ipod.

You're right, that is the only possibility ¬_¬

I think this also speaks to the effort these companies have put into their mobile web apps. For a while I used the web FB app because their iPhone one was fubar.

I find it amusing that an article that's supposed to criticize a controlled media system is itself a thinly veiled advertisement. I guess mass media has issues everywhere you look :)

Presumably only those blind people who need help would use the app, no?

Also, how much was the rule actually observed back in your formative years? I feel like mysoginy and inequality are issues that are only slowly and recently becoming tthought about and reconsidered by the North American societies.

I wonder why they used such an old version of Firefox?

You seem to know what you're talking about. I've read up a few sources in Russian, and all of them say there were breaches of law related to commerce and the company was warned, but none of the articles actually mentions the actual cause. One article (http://euroradio.fm/ru/sayt-onlinerby-isklyuchayut-iz-beloru...) mentions showing prices on the site. Was the site conducting ecommerce illegally, and are you not allowed to open up an ecommerce site without prior registration with the government? I certainly don't see anything about a 'new law' as the HN title suggests.

Aw, an advertisement blog post disguised as special insight.

You don't need this app if you're using Rdio though. If you add an album by a band to your collection, Rdio will notify you next time a new album is added to that artist's catalogue.

…until Spotify dies or is replaced with something better. I haven't found a single way to manage a music library because I don't have a single music library. It's kind of crappy having it spread across MP3s, FLACs, and various music services :/

It's not an answer to you directly but more of an observation: The effect for this page is very laggy on a 1-year old MBP, and makes the text barely readable until a certain scrolling point is reached. I do not understand the purpose of using the effect here or in 9/10 cases I see it on sites. It introduces pointless visual candy with usually zero or negative practical benefit. Makes me think of the DHTML days.

Agreed. Sweeping generalizations about Mozilla and subjective discussions of Firefox's UX have nothing to do with a public dialogue about evaluating Persona's current state.

it is toilet paper for certain. source: russian speaker.

Doesnt Skype have screen sharing these days? most moms are sure to have skype too.

as long as you use that one IDE for it yes?

Which Vim plugin uses `Btag` ?

> Is this all just because of all the web devs seeing the increasing usage of smartphones and proclaiming that html is the better way, because they are too lazy even to investigate what native really offers?

Another possibility is: browsers are advanced enough to allow web apps to be possible, and as such, options other than native apps become available. Products requirements vary, and so do the devices you deploy to. There are a myriad other reasons one may weight the options and decide to develop a web app other than being lazy.

> I don't see similar push for desktop apps

I dunno. I use a number of web apps on a regular basis, Rdio being the closest thing to a native app I've used (I run it via Fluid to remove some cognitive gaps). Also, what about Chromebooks? Google's been aggressively pushing that. I think it just may be that more apps get developed for mobile, period, and as such the degree of interest in mobile web apps seems higher (which is ironic given how much easier it is to develop smooth web-based UX for desktop).

How's the TM backup treating you? I've set up netatalk too, and had the backup's sparsebundle get corrupted 3 times over the course of half a year leading me to abandon it. Now I just rsync to the NFS fileshare, which is less automatic.

it is also an important piece of advice that could save someone's life for instance. there's nothing dubious about demanding privacy. now I just wish my nexus 4 had a removable battery..

>With a Soviet aircraft that could counterpose Concorde nowhere near in sight for at least years to come, the Tu-144 programme was becoming more of a political embarrassment rather than a source of pride to the Soviet Union, a symbol of a technological race lost to the West, and was quietly ended.[citation needed]

yuck, such over-the-top emotionally loaded writing.

> No more frantically swinging towels at the smoke alarm to quiet it down. If there’s a nuisance alarm, just stand under Nest Protect and wave your arm to hush the alert. As you wave, your hand should be 2-8 feet away from the alarm.

What happens if one of my cats is sitting under it and scratching the floor or playing with a toy..

and you also have to install a Mac app to gain access to the more advanced features. Yay for people on non-OSX machines (and OSs they dual-boot into).

they must've optimized it some more since I've last tried. it runs very snappily on the Nexus 4, as fast as a native app for the most part, and that hasn't been the case last time I tried it. well done.

Perhaps you should stop making the same point over and over in different comments..

Unless you have a data plan with less than 2GB of data, that is. And are OK with waiting a bit for things to buffer. With Google Music I end up offlining a lot of songs because data plans in Canada are terrible and because 3G isn't everywhere you want to listen to music. Add podcasts and you hit the storage limit in no time.

Alas, the question remains.

That last example is meaningless in isolation. What percentage of Princeton students take out student loans (and how much)? I'd guess it's much smaller than in public schools.

I have a feeling the linked blog post was written in response to those articles. Not terribly original then..

is 5 days really "a while"..