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by Andrenid 14y ago
This is actually the final step for me. I've been an avid Google fan since the early days. I use all the Google services, I use Chrome religiously, I convince family/friends to switch to Chrome from IE, and I've always been convinced Google
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by Andrenid 14y ago
Yeah I used to travel from 10yrs-14yrs alone, back/forth EU<->AU 4 times a year return. I had the same treatment. Random bumps up to higher class seats, driven from gate to gate on those electric carts when I needed to do a transfer
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by Andrenid 14y ago
I honestly thought this was another one of those "Let's post a 10 year old article to reminisce" posts... To be honest, i'm semi-impressed this is still a thing. I assumed it had died in the late 90s. It's also scary of course, that these p
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by Andrenid 14y ago
All of those features require constant data streams except one. In a country like Australia where we have data caps, pretty much the ONLY feature above that will actually benefit us, is the feature that involves us turning the console off.
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by Andrenid 14y ago
I read somewhere (but can't find it now) that they're teaming up with sunglass and glasses companies to integrate it into their products, and that this is just the "base" model direct from Google, aimed more at geeks/early adopters.
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by Andrenid 14y ago
How is it supposed to trick you, when you can feel exactly how much you ate when you put it into your mouth? Not to mention you KNOW that everything you're looking at is bigger, because you put the AR headset on in the first place to do exa
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by Andrenid 14y ago
I'd never seen this. That's just... wow.
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by Andrenid 14y ago
Yeah I ended up talking to management and arranged to work from home a few days a week, mostly coming in on meeting days or team stuff. I asked them for a trial initially, and when they saw how productive I was when I wasn't in, they were i
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by Andrenid 14y ago
As a (mid 30s) guy with a lot of tattoos (sleeves, etc), it hasn't caused any issues for me. I have worked for the last 4 years in a relatively high end corporate IT environment, meeting with stakeholders, executives, etc and never had an i
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by Andrenid 14y ago
PhoneGap looks interesting, will look into that, thanks.
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by Andrenid 14y ago
I want native apps more so I can sell the apps easier. Until there is an easy way to package/sell web apps or monetise them better, I think native apps are still the way to go. Plus everyone I know whinges/complains about the apps that "wra
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by Andrenid 14y ago
Yeah, I think i'll start off with Android as I do use that the most, but I have an iPhone as well so I can tackle that later.
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by Andrenid 14y ago
Thanks for that, will definitely add them to my list of resources to work through.
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I want to (finally) learn mobile app development... suggestions?
4 points by Andrenid 14y ago|9 comments
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by Andrenid 14y ago
This annoyed me a bit as well. I really wish they'd chosen a unique name so people wouldn't get confused. Just like Ducati with the "Streetfighter", using an existing name from the same industry just leads to confused customers and even mor
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by Andrenid 14y ago
I'm not sure where I saw it, but I once saw a blog post that just had the main line of each paragraph bolded, and at the top said "For the TL;DR read the bold bits"... as much as random bolded sentences through an article can be kind of ann
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by Andrenid 14y ago
I've backed a fair few (over a dozen) KickStarter projects, and every single time I've seen it as a risky investment with the HOPE of getting an awesome product out of it. Some of my backings have been in the few-hundred-dollar range, and a
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by Andrenid 14y ago
I use Street View probably about as much as I use the Maps themselves. Any time I'm going somewhere, I'll map it, then Street View it, so I know what I'm looking for. Street View is one of my favourite things Google has done in years, and I
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by Andrenid 14y ago
Agreed, this doesn't surprise me at all these days. Even my dad has Google Alerts set up for his name, so I'd expect it to be pretty much a guaranteed given that most companies would have it set up for their trademarks.
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UK police 'raid' embassy to take Assange(smh.com.au)
2 points by Andrenid 14y ago|1 comments
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by Andrenid 14y ago
That's the bit that surprised me most about this article. Controllers for phones are NOT new. iCade Mobile, iControlPad, and the umpteen bluetooth ones that don't clip on, but connect wirelessly and give you a PROPER gamepad for your iPhone
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by Andrenid 14y ago
Why do you need tutorials? You just go to https://www.facebook.com/help/delete_account
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by Andrenid 14y ago
My massive decline in use is directly correlated to how annoying they've made it to use. Eg: You can't have your feed always sort by "Most Recent", it keeps defaulting to "Top Stories", keeping old/stagnant stories at the top of my feed jus
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by Andrenid 14y ago
I'm another linux fan that just did NOT see the appeal to an "oversized phone", and also got burned by how crappy earlier versions of Android were. I've ignored all the tablets that came out, iPads, Android tablets, all of them... then when
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by Andrenid 14y ago
Myself and my wife had absolutely no problem sliding it out of it's sleeve and then slicing the 2 tabs with a knife and lifting the top off. Only thing i can think of, is maybe there was a defective batch of boxes that were slightly too tig
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by Andrenid 14y ago
Am I missing something, or is this just another Instagram clone? You upload photos, share with friends, and they comment on them?
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by Andrenid 14y ago
I used to do the same stuff, we didn't even see it as malicious back then, just a "prank" really. Most the people we "infected" were via IRC and ICQ, embedding the exe client into a JPG (or just changing the exe icon to a JPG one) and DCC'i
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by Andrenid 14y ago
I've been preaching for years that we need to get rid of TLDs. If we truly want the web to be a global/borderless place, get rid of the extensions and let us do http://companyname/ (I know it currently can't work like that, but I'm sure a
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by Andrenid 14y ago
News.com.au is essentially an Australian tabloid. Then they quote their source as being (what I believe is) essentially a British tabloid. This isn't exactly what I expect to see at the top of HN?
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by Andrenid 15y ago
Just seeing the footer, with the browser buttons and counter, gave me one of the craziest "chills up spine" nostalgia-flashbacks I've had in years. That alone was worth the click.

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