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I thought that some of these points were digs at how the Broken Age kickstarter went and how that game was compromised on so many levels by modernisation until I've read the date.

Listen to this Charles Cohen record if you want subtlety and sensitivity: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-c5_A2y0JM

Also worth mentioning Terre Thaemlitz, who wrote a nearly 30 hour piece with two chords.

"The resulting MP3 file is an edit of a 31+ hour piano solo recorded in sittings averaging 4 to 6 hours in length. The theme is "Meditation on Wage Labor and the Death of the Album.""

You can listen to an excerpt here: http://www.comatonse.com/writings/2012_soulnessless.html#c5

And here's the sheet music: http://i.imgur.com/DoD1Ew4.jpg

Thank you! I’ve been wondering what this AMP fiasco was all about when I have never seen such a site. It turns out I have developed banner-blindness on the Google search results. I have always scrolled to the “real” first result without ever considering the ads and carousels.

In practice? No, of course not. Representational democracies are all flawed more or less depending on the country. I'm just not convinced direct democracy is the solution.

Take the TPP for example. Is it a good idea? Is it bad? I haven't read it, and even if I did, I probably wouldn't know either way. Even if I could vote on it directly, I'd have to trust someone to explain it to me. And how would I know which explanation to trust? It seems that we're back to square one.

But I don't know anything about economics, law, healthcare, biology, international relations, geopolitics, mathematics, history, agriculture, environmental protection, or much of anything for that matter so why should I decide?

I have. It is like an animated movie. Very pretty, but while the mechanics could be deep, I felt that the levels themselves were not. Unlike for example Braid or recently The Swapper, there were no epiphanies, just “rotate all the things and try to tap on the correct tile”.

Maybe I shouldn’t have expected a puzzle game, but this sort of space bending would really lend itself to more interesting problems to solve.

Deep and unique?

It’s like a mashup of Naya’s Quest [1] and Fez [2] (or Crush or Super Paper Mario).

[1] http://terrycavanaghgames.com/nayasquest/ [2]: http://fezgame.com

Actually I think it’s more related to the corruption charges: http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/10/20/us-usa-hungary-idU...

ClickToFlash: http://hoyois.github.io/safariextensions/clicktoplugin/

Same here. Here's a gif to illustrate: http://i.imgur.com/3AmIB8Z.gif

Apple doesn't really benefit from people using web on their iOS devices.

Not directly. But if you buy a tablet and it sits in the drawer, you probably won't buy the next one.

Safari in Mavericks is process-per-tab so that will be fixed.

There is a notification and you can opt-out.

It was also a shockingly terrible interview by Walt and Kara. I don't get why they were so desperate to get secrets out of Cook. I'm guessing they know that he would never answer questions regarding future products, so why waste everyone's time? Jobs seemed to dodge these questions by sharing his views on the future of technology. Cook always replies with the "area of great interest" line, which (paired with the "we're focused on making the best products" one) made up almost the entire hour.

Steve Jobs was highly opinionated, but he also had a reputation for being able to change his opinion radically. “He would flip on something so fast that you would forget that he was the one taking the 180 degree polar [opposite] position the day before. I saw it daily. This is a gift, because things do change, and it takes courage to change. It takes courage to say, ‘I was wrong.’ I think he had that.” — http://allthingsd.com/20120529/steve-jobs-was-an-awesome-fli...

It seems odd to copy one without the other.

They could start relying more on OpenStreetMaps which seems to be somewhat better or they could at least fix the things people report. I have reported dozens of issues (starting from the first developer beta of iOS 6) and not one of them have been fixed. Meanwhile on Google Maps: places that change location or name are updated within a week.

Yes, but I think he's saying that they shouldn't be separate. At least not in the sense that someone wires it up and _then_ makes it pretty. "…prior to Jobs’s return to Apple, design was what happened at the end of the engineering process. Post-Jobs, engineering became a component of the design process. This shift made all the difference in the world." — http://daringfireball.net/2012/02/walter_isaacson_steve_jobs

“Most people make the mistake of thinking design is what it looks like. People think it’s this veneer – that the designers are handed this box and told, ‘Make it look good!’ That’s not what we think design is. It’s not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.” – Steve Jobs, http://www.nytimes.com/2003/11/30/magazine/30IPOD.html?pagew...