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When your opponents do not play by the rules, you win. Glad to see Google is making some strides.

So the moment everyone hops on Flex-Box, CSS Grid becomes the next hot take now huh?

Couldn't agree more, I mean hell I put my G5 (cheese grater) behind my monitor (on my desk) back in the day _just_ so I could more easily dust my machine. Pretty? No way. Ergonomic? Yes.

That's exactly why I cancelled my account.

There were rumors they were going to launch an email service, then a basecamp competitor, then it was a race against iCloud and Google drive...

Honestly after cancelling my account I've never looked back. I get more storage per dollar with google and iCloud and the Dropbox macOS integration is a joke.

With all the acquisitions Dropbox has made in the past decade, they couldn't have created a more useful macOS app? Read a blog post by any former dropbox employee and you'll hear the same thing over and over:

Dropbox is littered with management problems and their leadership has no idea what the future of the company and will look like because cloud storage is a race to zero.

If anyone thinks Spotify has leverage over record labels, I would challenge you to compare Spotify's operating losses year over year VS. Apple Music's operating losses year over year.

Apple should shut down the Mac App Store and open a Product Hunt style website for all Mac Apps instead.

The acquisition was two-fold.

Increase merchant count, and integrate pickup into the rev stream. Later down the road I imagine Orderahead's app will be absorbed into Caviar (or vice versa) in some capacity.

So Facebook is on all out war to destroy $SNAP huh?

It's the first of many iterative design changes coming to Github. It'll all make sense soon enough.

The iOS app is a complete mess. I can't delete notes, I can't access Archives, I can't rename folders nor delete them. I can't move notes between folders.

This leads me to believe the app was rushed but apparently there's a version history I the App Store. I left as much feedback as I could through the app but man, yikes.

What phrase would be more effective in describing Bannon?

But to be barred re-entry for less than 6 months is new.

> There already is high speed-ish rail travel in the Northeast and it's very popular. But, for example, even if you could magically offer 6-8 hour train service between New York and Chicago, relatively few people would take it given that flying would be significantly faster.

Texan living in NYC here. I disagree. I would happily pay to take a 6 hour train to Chicago over a flight anyday. LGA/JFK are nightmares to book last minute flights and high-speed rail is a favorable experience to flying sometimes.

In contrast, there's no "useful" rail network in Texas — at all. If there was a rail network, like the single-high speed line proposed between Dallas and Houston, it would totally dominate and disrupt. People fly to/from cities in Texas all the time.

There are many many cities that would benefit from a rail network because the cost would be considerably lower than flying. If you build it, they will come.

Are you kidding me? Have you ever worked in/or visited a vehicle dealership? It's over -run with 1st-movers, and most of the time the owners and salesmen always have the newest and latest.

Agreed. I started using Roots in 2015 and never looked back.

Not a bad idea.

I wish someone would add Chromecast support to Dolphin so bad.

I can't say we didn't see this coming but hopefully Medium will deliver something like YouTube Red/Goole Contributor. I really like supporting content creators and boy do I hate ads.

Give the users a choice to choose how to support.

The letter itself can be viewed here. [1]

[1] http://www.mitvalues.org

I'm floating in the same social circle right now. 99% of my friends and family have an apple device to communicate. I just kicked the text-messaging subscription bucket.

Who wants to help me create an .arse TLD? Who's with me!

Well that's not true entirely according to Yishan Wong. [1]

Reddit and Twitter operate in the same hemisphere of community-driven applications — so it is within the realm of possibility that Twitter would have to bring some sort of "Gold" subscription model to their platform (who knows maybe it will be more widely adopted at Twitter). But all-in-all, they're both fighting the same battles: censorship, ad revenue slumps, and user growth. [2] And those are not easy problems to fix.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/howredditworks/comments/1oyhjw/redd...

[2] http://www.dailydot.com/via/twitter-moments-reddit-upvoted-m...

I completely agree. Humans will be humans and we will always have tribes. And that's okay. What needs to change is modern voting systems to accomadte the growing fractions of views. Such as, The Alternative Vote (Instant Run-off) [1] Also, The Cracked podcast is so fantastic!

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Y3jE3B8HsE

I have such respect for these people. Partly because without them, NYC would be devoid of life. NYC is unlike any city in the world. I challenge anyone to live there for a time in their life. You won't regret it.

For the uninitiated.

https://canarywatch.org

Whoa whoa whoa that's awful packaging design

This was not before the Macintosh as the author points out.

Hartmut Esslinger prototyped the "MacPhone" in a study in 1984 after the success of the Macintosh. [1] Other prototypes in this series were part of the Snow White project. [2]

Information sourced from "Keep It Simple: The Early Design Years of Apple" by Hartmut Esslinger. [3]

[1] http://imgur.com/MMYDogd [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snow_White_design_language [3] https://www.amazon.com/Keep-Simple-Early-Design-Years/dp/389...

Image from the Esslinger book regarding the "MacPhone concept"

http://imgur.com/MMYDogd

No. Hartmut Esslinger of Frog Design was hired to prototype a number of different ideas and concepts at Apple.

Project Snow White, as it was called, sought out to create a unified design language for a range of products (and to hopefully catalyze the engineers into creating new product categories).

Susan Kare designed the Chicago typeface in 1984. According to the Esslinger book the "MacPhone Study" was done in 1984 after the release of the Macintosh. [1]

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Keep-Simple-Early-Design-Years/dp/389...

Oh yeah, royally screwed.