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Comment Re: Material UI was more of the wrong progress. (Score 1) 86

I'd say not nice, but consistent. I personally found Windows 8 design guidelines really ugly (all those squares). Material design is actually nice, but then again, nice is an opinion, consistent is a fact. Today we have 90% of the apps behaving in the same way, which is awful if you don't like that interface, but it's easy for both developers and users (nobody has to think).

Comment Re: Advertising vs Boost Mobile etc. Phone financ (Score 2) 107

I'm in Italy, and I pay 5â (way less than $10) for 10GB, data-only (but I can get some minutes or even unlimited calls for 10 to 15â depending on the carrier). Newer plans are better than that. My carrier is actually one of the cheapest, but is not MVNO (MVNOs do exist and may offer slightly better deals). That means your $35-45 plan is still 3 to 5 times higher than we are used to! About that $710 plan...wow. I mean...wow. Just to note, here carriers are *required* to allow mobile hotspot in any plan they offer, without a price increase!

Comment Not about desktop vs website... (Score 1) 190

More like big vs small. Excel 2016 is still unable to open 2 files with the same name...the difference between major version of big desktop software is usually very small, they just add a version number (and possibly some L&F changes) to look new and convince people to upgrade. Also, new releases split by months/years. Small/New software and websites add features way more often. Telegram was a bad example of a website in TFS, since it adds new features very often hence invalidating the point. Well of course websites have to be a bit more cautious since updates will affect your entire user base immediately, limiting features to a group of people is more difficult (e.g. beta software) and I guess not always doable.

Comment Radicale (Score 1) 278

I use radicale (http://radicale.org/) as a calendar/todo list server. It even supports committing all modifications to a git repository if you want to keep history. It supports caldav, so I then access it from thunderbird on the desktop; on android a combo of Davdroid(https://www.davdroid.com/), to add the caldav account, and OpenTasks (https://github.com/dmfs/opentasks/blob/HEAD/README.md), to actually view tasks.

Comment Re: Biased Summary (Score 1) 264

TFA contradicts itself on that point: it starts saying that it is not true that biodiesel lowers emissions because of the trees cut in Argentina, only to then admit that America does not buy biodiesel from Argentina anymore, and that the trees were cut to satisfy China demands for meat and not biodiesel. Thus, the point that biodiesel cuts emissions stands (given the information present in TFA, which is intentionally misleading, so we can actually conclude nothing out of it, possibly not even on the economics side).

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