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Say 'Hello' to the Anti-Smartphone | Fox Business[^]
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Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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$150 dollar for a phone? You forgot the joke-icon?
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
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MWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!
#SupportHeForShe
Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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the Light phone frees up your daily burden of buzzes, rings and alerts while still keeping in touch.
Actual phone calls are more time-consuming/burdensome than text or e-mail  So you're paying $150 to force people to burden you more by having to call. Am I missing something?
Also there's a mute button on phones for a reason.
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Obviously, you're missing the point.
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Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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Do tell then. Is it so you can have a phone that fits in your wallet, sit on it, and spend another $150? 
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Jon McKee wrote: Actual phone calls are more time-consuming/burdensome than text
Not to me. If you want my attention now, then call me, don't text me like a coward. If it is something that can wait, then email me. I wish text would die.
A phone, after all, is a device designed to make phone calls. 
There are two kinds of people in the world: those who can extrapolate from incomplete data.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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Phone - conversations.
Text - short questions of immediate value (i.e. dinner at X at 6pm?)
E-mail - anything else.
I fail to see the cowardice in simply using the most efficient medium for the problem at hand. Anyways, back on topic. My point is if you only care about phone calls then why not disable/mute other notifications? You could also buy a normal, cheap phone. If you want to make any calls you also need to have the phone number memorized. Even $30 flip-phones have contact lists built-in.
I'm just debating the logic behind the product not whether it holds value for some people. I don't understand pet rocks either and look how well that did.
modified 14-Jan-17 16:35pm.
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Jon McKee wrote: I'm just debating the logic behind the product
Agreed. Doesn't seem worth it.
There are two kinds of people in the world: those who can extrapolate from incomplete data.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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So they suggest you have a second phone,
... your usual 'smart phone' one for normal use,
and the second, I guess that makes it 'stupid phone' for work ('anti-smart' is too long).
Clearly they have marketing and help desk people in mind;
and as the plural of phone would be phine,
it's just all-around brilliant.
Sin tack ear lol
Pressing the any key may be continuate
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Another idea that will be a colossal failure.
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I'd buy that for a reasonable price, let's say $5.
For 139€, last year, I bought a bq phone, 4"5, with HD video, a very nice camera even for semi-night pictures, two sims, 3 days battery in normal use, in which I put a 18€ 64Gb sd card, android os.
Why would I buy this hideous thing for the same amount of money ?
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It's not even a phone; it's just a repeater.
And how long would it take you to code a "Dinnertime" app, that turns off the screen wake-up and notifications for anything except the phone app? Three minutes?
You just saved $150.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Ooooh I already have one!
It's a flip phone. Call me sometime!
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Are women better at code documentation than men? | InfoWorld[^]
Murphy's computers laws
Any given program, when running, is obsolete.
Any given program costs more and takes longer each time it is run.
If a program is useful, it will have to be changed.
If a program is useless, it will have to be documented.
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Jeremy Falcon
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They are because they're always write. :ducks:
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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Some women are very good at pointing out useless bits, yes.
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Eddy Vluggen wrote: pointing out useless bits
qv marital communication.
veni bibi saltavi
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Another ridiculous article, that's so badly compiled and written that it's a joke.
E.g. i starts out asking if women are better than men at doing docs, then immediately, without even trying to answer the question, goes goes off on a "and this is why men are worse at it" tack.
No research, no numbers, no nothing; just stupid opinion, written either by a woman, or by a man desperate to get into a woman's knickers.
Here's a fact for you:
Some People are better at writing documentation than other people are.
Personally, all but one of the female tech writers I've known have been utter cr@p at it (whereas all but about ten male ones are).
Oh, and I really am sick to death of the old Oprah Winfrey "women multi-task" cr@p.
The kind of multitasking that women suffer from doesn't mean that they can do two things at once, it means that they're not as in control of their thoughts as men are, because hormone fluctuations are activating areas of the brain that they don't actually need for the one task they're trying to do.
I.e. it's more like a disease that can cause them to lose focus.
Fact time, again:
Some People can handle multiple tasks at once better than others, but that's only because they task-switch better. Nobody multi-tasks (autonomous activities notwithstanding).
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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I suspect he is actually a hypnogriff. 
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The Griff in-door's over there.
You take the out one.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Mark_Wallace wrote: Griff in-door's
 I always thought you were in the Slytherin faction
I'll go get my coat
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