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Re: The Essential Options on the MINI JCW

sujal — Thu, 15 Jun 2017 15:37:11 -0000

You basically described my car. I didn't need Sirius and I did get the chrome line exterior even at its stupid price. I hesitated on the Rebel Green, and now regret it seeing how black it looks. I really wanted that kind of effect. I ended up with Thunder Grey and black on the accent colors.

Re: Our New Long Term Test Car Has Arrived – the 2017 JCW Clubman

sujal — Tue, 02 May 2017 09:28:23 -0000

Good choice. The Rebel Green does look amazing with the black wheels. I kept the manual, skipped the leather, added the HUD, but otherwise my car is really close to yours (Thunder Gray instead of Rebel Green).

Couple of photos (not the best photos, but what I have handy):

https://uploads.disquscdn.c...

Summer mode & winter mode (and needing a car wash...):

https://uploads.disquscdn.c...

Re: A reporter in a rural district of India uses WhatsApp to broadcast local news — and makes money doing it

sujal — Wed, 12 Apr 2017 12:56:32 -0000

Does anyone know how subscriptions are managed and billed? Is it a voluntary subscription? Is that part of the on boarding process to get added to the broadcast list? I assume this is all manual, but curious how that works in this case.

Re: MotoringFile’s Long Term Test Car for 2017 is…

sujal — Wed, 01 Feb 2017 09:43:04 -0000

The wheels are likely 18" - at least on the Mini USA configurator, choosing the dynamic damper control forces 18" wheels.

Re: MotoringFile’s Long Term Test Car for 2017 is…

sujal — Wed, 01 Feb 2017 09:42:05 -0000

I'm picking mine up next week. I'm so excited, and I'm looking forward to your take on the car. I love how you described the options - I agree with almost everything you wrote, including about the seats. I kept the standard JCW seats because they looked so unique compared to the other (arguably nicer/more luxurious) options. I did stay with the manual, though. After all, I did get to spec my own car. :)

Re: The Master & Dynamic MW60 Wireless Headphones impress

sujal — Sun, 31 Jan 2016 11:59:03 -0000

This is both true and misleading. The MW60 support Apple's preferred option, which is sending AAC over bluetooth. See here for more details: http://theheadphonelist.com...

I emailed M&D to confirm that they did support that, and they said it did. The sound is pretty good to my ears (I just bought a pair a month ago).

Re: Apple Hates Me. I Hate Them Back.

sujal — Mon, 31 Aug 2015 01:16:16 -0000

never mind - found this: http://blogs.law.harvard.ed...

This is their existing iAd stuff which the user can already opt out of, which is a damn sight better than anything else out there. And, as that article points out, they seem (now) more focused on brand advertising, which doesn't require the extensive tracking that programmatic advertising relies on. There has been some turnover in the leadership for that business recently, too - changes are afoot, I think.

Either way, it's not a new change they made while announcing their privacy focus. It's stuff they've already had, that they were already better than most of the industry with from a privacy standpoint that isn't yet removed. Either way, call me a "lemming" or whatever ad hominem you like... your post isn't characterizing the situation accurately.

Re: Apple Hates Me. I Hate Them Back.

sujal — Mon, 31 Aug 2015 01:07:41 -0000

Do you have a link about this new functionality? I didn't see a thing about it, and I work in this industry. Almost all of their tracking can be turned off at the OS level, anyway, but if this circumvents that, I'd love to know about it.

Re: Apple Hates Me. I Hate Them Back.

sujal — Sun, 30 Aug 2015 23:34:04 -0000

This is the thing, right? He's comparing a desktop OS to a mobile OS. Google sure as hell doesn't allow ad blocking of any kind in the Play Store. You can root the device, so there's that out, but it's certainly not easy or endorsed. I run an ad blocker on OS X.

The other thing is that this article is entirely all speculation about Apple's motivation here. The money they make "selling ads" is pennies. It's not even successful as ad businesses go. The WSJ article is trying to tie together things that aren't as clear cut as they might seem.

I'm trying to figure out how an ad blocker would work in an app, which often have layouts that won't reflow the way HTML does. Or, where the OS offers other limits on tracking and identification, which is one of the main reasons to use an ad blocker, IMHO. The apps go through review, and ad networks have to follow standards set by Apple that are generally very privacy friendly.

That's not the case in the web, and that's why an ad blocker is more important there.

Apple has their greedy aspects, and they can be inscrutable about why they do things, but that doesn't mean every move is about a few more dollars on the bottom line...

Re: How is the Apple Watch doing?

sujal — Fri, 14 Aug 2015 00:37:17 -0000

Come live overseas. I am currently working in India and I've literally seen one other person with a smartwatch - a Moto 360. I'm in Bangalore, which isn't exactly a tech backwater (even if it's not SF). In south Asia more broadly, I've run into one other person with an Apple Watch, a German tourist in Sri Lanka (and funny enough, he had an identical watch combination as mine).

Part of this is that they're actually hard to notice (how often do you check out the wrists of people) because the screen is off, so it just looks like a watch unless you're really looking. Long sleeves also hide it (I have a fleece on most days, for example).

Cost, and indian import taxes, is, of course, the other reason.

Re: Apple’s biggest developer news at WWDC that nobody’s talking about: Bitcode

sujal — Thu, 18 Jun 2015 00:15:20 -0000

I think the question is what happens to embedded binaries, which Cocoapods technically become when you build them. Since they're subprojects included in the workspace, they have their own build settings. Again, I haven't poked at Bitcode enough, but if it does require the binary to have certain build settings set, I could easily see third party libraries not getting that setting and thus not being enabled for bitcode. Maybe LLVM can interpret compiled binaries? These are questions for a guy like Mike Ash...

Re: Apple’s biggest developer news at WWDC that nobody’s talking about: Bitcode

sujal — Wed, 17 Jun 2015 22:33:33 -0000

It's not interpreted at runtime but compiled at deploy time. I haven't read enough to be sure, but this compilation seems to be happening on Apple's servers.

Also, unlike Flash or the JVM, this path of using LLVM doesn't have the overhead of JIT compilation, doesn't have garbage collection, and doesn't need to do any compile/build work on the user device (sort of. there are a few shared library linkage things that happen on the Mac and iOS today at install time as an optimization step, I think).

Re: The Story Behind this Incredible Mountaintop Northern Lights Photograph

sujal — Wed, 05 Nov 2014 15:43:23 -0000

I want to know how his friend got up there? That peak looks... narrow.

Re: Mylio: A Compelling New Way to Organize and Access All Your Photos from Anywhere

sujal — Mon, 03 Nov 2014 08:58:18 -0000

So, instead of Gigabyte charges, we have photo collection limits? Has anyone done a price comparison between this thing's monthly charges vs the alternatives? There are some nice sync features mentioned above, but for the basic management stuff, it looks like Lightroom or the other solutions will be very comparable, if not better... so price seems important.

Re: Brand Fails

sujal — Mon, 16 Jun 2014 20:58:50 -0000

I was about to write the same thing. Jeebus...

Re: What it Took to Make the Octopart PCB Reference Card - Blog - Octopart

sujal — Fri, 11 Apr 2014 13:15:06 -0000

It came out great! nice work :)

Re: Wait a Second. I Thought Bitcoins were Unstealable?

sujal — Fri, 28 Feb 2014 13:41:47 -0000

There are two problems, basically that you need to trust that the exchanges didn't do something shady and are validating the coins both honestly (human problems) and then properly (technical problems) . I can't speak to the theories about the first, but you can apparently fool Gox into taking fake transactions by exploiting a flaw in the way transactions are signed/verified: https://freedom-to-tinker.c...

Re: Giveaway: Win a Fuji X-T1 Kit AND Battery Grip!

sujal — Fri, 28 Feb 2014 13:13:42 -0000

Imagine the photographs of my kid I'll be able to take with this thing!

Re: Need Mavericks troubleshooting ideas…

sujal — Fri, 31 Jan 2014 12:42:11 -0000

Hi Tim,

Yeah, I've solved my issue for now by deleting all of the large emails from the server and my mac. If you try the steps above, you may be able to log what is causing the issue... That's really the only way I could figure out how to work around the problem.

Sujal

Re: Google’s three Ps

sujal — Fri, 17 Jan 2014 10:14:43 -0000

Is their purpose "Don't be evil" or "Organize the world's information" - the latter seems to be more likely to produce alignment, though it's still nebulous enough to allow the current situation you describe to exist... (see their mission statement: http://www.google.com/about... )

Re: Mobile Template: Story

sujal — Fri, 06 Sep 2013 16:39:09 -0000

She doesn't point out consequences. She just expresses judgement after judgement against this hypothetical girl's character based on assumptions of motivation and intent.

I don't think people critical of this post are saying there's no down-side. They're saying that this woman's post isn't actually expressing any of them.

Plus, it seems to give a pass to the consumers of this media - her boys. They, apparently, are helpless in the face of a towel or breasts.

I fear for the morality of all the straight male doctors out there.

Re: Justice Scalia Hates Judicial Review, Except When He Doesn't

sujal — Thu, 27 Jun 2013 09:17:51 -0000

I understand what you're saying, but I think the word "this" is important. "*this* democratically adopted legislation" and "this case."

If he meant something more broadly sweeping, I imagine he would've written it differently: "to invalidate democratically adopted legislation" full stop.

Again, I'm no lawyer, so if you want to believe what you want to believe, I certainly have no claim to authority here, but the presence of "this" in both clauses seems to be very deliberate.

Re: Justice Scalia Hates Judicial Review, Except When He Doesn't

sujal — Wed, 26 Jun 2013 15:43:58 -0000

He's saying they have no power to overturn "this" case. Like Hobbanoba, I don't agree with Scalia's opinions, but it's pretty clear that he's talking about the specific circumstances here - this appeal is weird, and if not for the politics involved, probably wouldn't have gotten where it did. The DOJ wanted to drop the case, the plaintiff got what she was asking for, etc. I don't understand all the legal nuances here (IANAL) but on its face, his opinion doesn't seem that inconsistent to me.

Re: Giving Away Three Stylish Camera Bags by Cheeky Lime and Locho

sujal — Mon, 08 Apr 2013 11:24:12 -0000

sujal

Re: Giving Away Three Stylish Camera Bags by Cheeky Lime and Locho

sujal — Mon, 08 Apr 2013 11:23:53 -0000

simple