Archive for October 2014

Oh shit

3 October 2014, 11:26 AM CEST +0200

ISIS are camping out practically in my backyard.

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2 October 2014, 8:45 AM CEST +0200

Interesting. Via Jeremy Keith, one very plausible explanation for Microsoft’s curious choice of skipping version 9 and going straight to 10 for Windows. If only short-sighted developers would stop resorting to such measures.

Now, Apple’s reasons for labelling the sixth generation of its phone ‘iPhone 5’ (and subsequently naming the eighth generation ‘iPhone 6’) are unclear; that’s just plain stupid.

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