But the thing (n810) had WiMAX? I don’t think the problem was text/voice.
The problem was that it had a resistive touch screen. Samsung already had touchscreen MP3 players that you can install apps on, but it was the capacitive touch at that price point that gave Apple a good 3+ year head start on software. At the time, being able to dial phone numbers with IPhone was mind blowing versus a resistive touch
That’s what was revolutionary about IPhone. They didn’t invent capacitive but they brought it to the $1k range.
Nokia was developing their own OS and App Store, too, but it was the iPhone’s cohesive experience that made everything else fit together
Has anyone done the cost + risk assessment of building a for-profit product on top of this? Would love to know, as I am working on a web IDE with collaboration. There’s also the matter of obscuring client data from 3rd and even 1st party.
If what you're building on top of leaks into other parts of your codebase, can't be isolated and can't easily be swapped out, I'd say avoid building a product on top of it.
there are a few projects that do this, but it doesn't really matter... not enough people use any single one and most new videos will never really show accurate info
I was just logging into the IRS website to check the status of my tax balance.
You used to be able to login with IRS credentials, but now it's a hard requirement to use ID.me credentials. So I created an account and had to verify my identity. The automated verification failed, so I waited 20 minutes on the phone to talk to one of the representatives. There was a checkbox to consent to having the meeting recorded. I opted out but the submit was disabled. Even before this, they took a 3d scan of my face. None of this seems like choice and options.
Lmao what a pathetic attempt at astroturfing. Absolutely shameless, god damn. Literally every single comment on that thread is a single-use account. "u/VeteranCrowd" points out that the founder is a veteran... ( ⌐■_■)
Yeah, the current situation is pretty terrible. Deprecating the old credential-based auth flow, before adopting login.gov was a massive misstep. Five months ago I noticed the alert about deprecating the classic username/password auth, and posted about it [0].
As far as I know login.gov is a viable solution, already in use at the SSA, that is government-run aka doesn't require users to kowtow to an EULA, capricious arbitration, etc. The problem is there was apparently interagency squabbling that messed up the original deployment schedule.
So it's not available. I do hope that changes because the current situation, of mandatory id.me seems pretty terrible.
This forum is an American forum. The startup accelerator behind it is American. Facebook, Google, Amazon, Apple, Microsoft, the world's largest software companies are American. The next largest country for software would be China, which is probably more then the entire continent of Europe, but we're not communicating in Chinese right now are we? The majority of top computer science programs are based in the U.S., with 1 or 2 outliers from China, the UK, and maybe Singapore. Tech talent tend to aggregate around those tech hubs, and it should be obvious from context that it's not Houston, Scotland with a population of 6,000. Seattle is derived from a native American word, there should be no ambiguity that it's American. Do you expect people to specify that Los Angeles, San Francisco, and New York are in the United States every time?
That article's misleading, probably out of ignorance of the author since it looks like an indie page. Up until 2018 China was importing about 45% of the world's trash plastic for recycling. [1] The world's waste is not well tracked, with a lot of opaque shifting about going on, but the paper makes some effort to estimate exports/imports.
The top trash plastics exporters (excluding Hong Kong, which imports and then exports a massive amount back to mainland China) over the time period studied (1988-2016) are: USA 26.7 million tons, Japan 22.2, Germany 17.6, Mexico 10.5, UK 9.26, Netherlands 7.71, France 7.55, Belgium 6.41, Canada 3.89. China imported a total of 106 million tons. It's estimated that the Chinese ban will see some 111 million tons of displaced plastics by 2030.
It's definitely just another example of developed countries exporting their problems to developing countries, and then looking the other way.
> Supporting networked systems and servers - Go has good built-in support for networking and servers, making it well-suited for building networked systems, web servers, and other server tools.
The problem was that it had a resistive touch screen. Samsung already had touchscreen MP3 players that you can install apps on, but it was the capacitive touch at that price point that gave Apple a good 3+ year head start on software. At the time, being able to dial phone numbers with IPhone was mind blowing versus a resistive touch
That’s what was revolutionary about IPhone. They didn’t invent capacitive but they brought it to the $1k range.
Nokia was developing their own OS and App Store, too, but it was the iPhone’s cohesive experience that made everything else fit together