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I would rate the curved OLED displays on phones as #1 useless innovation.
Just because they could bend a display, it doesn't mean they have to dump it on a product.
How bad this is. It's so annoying and uncomfortable. 
In fact, it is said - the curved design makes it weaker structurally.
Anybody has a phone with curved display (on the two sides ) and finding great use-cases for the same?
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Have heard somewhere that 95 percent of patents filed are useless innovations.
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And some of them slipping into actual production is even worse. 
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My father frequently told me I was a useless innovation 
«Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?» T. S. Elliot
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BillWoodruff wrote: innovation
could be an accident? 
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You can use it as a hot pan mat.
"If we don't change direction, we'll end up where we're going"
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Nand32 wrote: In fact, it is said - the curved design makes it weaker structurally.
Doesn't matter; before that, no one could have curved glass. It is novelty and as such, people will pay more for the technical inferiour version.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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Eddy Vluggen wrote: people will pay more for the technical inferiour version.
 
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Nand32 wrote: Just because they could bend a display, it doesn't mean they have to dump it on a product.
These curved phone displays you've just described, the foldable phones Samsung had to recall, curved TVs - they all share one common thing: It's a solution looking for a problem to solve.
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dandy72 wrote: It's a solution looking for a problem to solve.
100%
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I'm thinking about making my app be able to update itself directly from a github repo/branch
good idea, bad idea? what do you think?
When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.
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Not a good idea for a dev tool, IMHO. My freeware (consumer-oriented) apps give the end-user the ability to update their app in-place, with a single button click (if they so choose).
/ravi
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that's what I'm talking about though. in place self-updates using github releases. i'm not making a dev tool out of it. More like a sample app with a drop in source file that handles it.
When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.
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Well-written code doesn't require updates.
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"software rusts"
When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.
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Only if it's of poor quality and workmanship. Just yesterday I used the first program I ever bought, and that was 41 years ago. As good as ever and it's still useful.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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That's not necessarily true.
Features may be added later that weren't feasible to release in prior versions due to budget and time and quality. Operating systems change, and apps are updated to take advantage of newer OS features (like shell JumpLists in win7+)
There are plenty of reasons to update an app that don't have to do with quality.
Frankly, you making such a statement just leaves me puzzled. I want to think you're joking.
When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.
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honey the codewitch wrote: Frankly, you making such a statement just leaves me puzzled. I want to think you're joking.
Not at all. I never updated anything just for the sake of updating. I prefer stability, especially when I have no choice.
honey the codewitch wrote: Features may be added later that weren't feasible to release in prior versions due to budget and time and quality.
Ok, but please the honest way and not like Mickeysoft who desperately had to move stuff around every two years so that they could sell you the next 'improved' windows.
honey the codewitch wrote: Operating systems change,
Sure they do, but I don't play along. Often enough I don't even have a choice as the OS version targeted is required. Too bad when countless thingies want me to move to a higher version. Guess who gets the short straw in that case.
honey the codewitch wrote: updated to take advantage of newer OS features
Yes, don't you have a ribbon yet? Much of that is shoehorned in because developers want to use that new cool stuff, not because it really helps so much. Even if it does, it's a feature that was usually not asked for or expected. There are actually those who liked the old version for a reason and don't like like to see when some things they relied on are 'improved' to death.
And these are my personal 'favorites'. I throw everything of that sore out faster than a cat gets out of a full bathtub:
1) Nagging updaters that constantly 'remind' you that you should update.
2) Updaters that don't want to leave you any choice and want to do their updating before ever starting anything. Always happens when you don't have any time or nerve for this sh*t, like when you are getting your notebook ready for a presentation for the bosses. Bonus points if the updater messes things up so well that your presentation falls flat on its nose in front of some already impatient bosses.
3) Updaters that download huge installation packages in the background, hogging up your bandwidth and download volume without asking. I often have to rely on mobile internet and Mickeysoft lost a customer in me when they tried to update my Win7 installation to Win10 without asking and eating up my download volume for the month. Sorry, Mickeysoft, but I let you pull such a trick off only twice. The first and the last time.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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I get it you don't like updaters.
But you didn't actually undercut my point that updates aren't necessarily about quality.
You don't like new features. That's fine. Other people do.
It has nothing to do with a quality assessment and everything to do with your annoyance at the very idea of software ever changing.
When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.
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Or documentation.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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You must be a manager 
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Hope you are talking about Browser / Desktop Apps & not Phone Apps as it's impossible.
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desktop apps. i don't care about phones =)
When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.
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Message Closed
modified 19-Aug-19 2:56am.
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umm, it's already finding updates on github, bootstrapping an updater, downloading, unzipping, and rerunning the original (now updated) app.
so what now, Bill?
If you want to wager money on me producing this EOD (pacific standard time), i could use the extra cash
When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.
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