Encosia

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by Encosia 14y ago
I'm genuinely curious what you mean by "almost every way". I use the Gmail web interface daily because its keyboard shortcuts for labeling, archiving, and deleting are unbeatable for triaging my inbox, but it pales in comparison to Outlook
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by Encosia 14y ago
I think a lot of people who have only been exposed to web based email don't realize what they're missing in a good native client. I have several friends in that mid/late-20s age range that went to work in corporate jobs, used Outlook 2010 f
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by Encosia 14y ago
I think his point is that $7/month is reasonable. What's hard to understand is why you could privately host a project the size of jQuery or Rails for $7/month, but his 50 projects that are orders of magnitude smaller and less active would
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by Encosia 14y ago
Trillian (at least on Windows) is a great Skype IM client -- much better than Skype itself, IMO (not that that's saying a lot).
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by Encosia 14y ago
Since it registers itself as a storage provider, it doesn't really need to sync locally. File open/save dialogs in Metro apps have a Dropbox location once the app is installed, same as SkyDrive (or Documents, Photos, etc). That's preferable
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by Encosia 14y ago
It's right here for me: https://dl.dropbox.com/u/360937/Screenshot_010413_052125_PM.... He also has RSS and Twitter, which would be good ways to be notified when he posts again.
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by Encosia 14y ago
Click the "+Follow" button that floats at the bottom-right of the page. You can subscribe to his posts by email there.
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by Encosia 14y ago
I agree with your overall point, but public defenders get paid low to mid five figures. In fact, many lawyers do not make six figures. The median attorney salary in most areas is much lower than you'd think.
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by Encosia 14y ago
I generally agree with his overall YAGNI message. Architecture astronomy and smart complexifiers on projects that could be simple are a couple of my biggest development pet peeves. I'm not sure I follow how that equates to technical debt th
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by Encosia 14y ago
So, if "computing operating systems" is what we're measuring now, no one should complain about Microsoft's monopoly advantage anymore, right? The most frustrating thing about reading pop-journalism about Microsoft these days is watching peo
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by Encosia 14y ago
I don't understand where you're getting that I said people are only forced into Android? Frankly, I don't understand why you seem so hostile in general, throwing out things like: > Also, did you honestly think that Android just randomly
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by Encosia 14y ago
You realize that Asymco post is just speculation and the chart is based on that speculation, right? Those individual bars aren't based on any directly related facts or financials. He's very clear about that. By the same token: http://www.t
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by Encosia 14y ago
I'm not sure how it's elitism to point out that the specific demographic you mentioned is not one that lends itself to Google's central business. Like I very specifically said, I personally think it's great as a developer who benefits from
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by Encosia 14y ago
Google is a public company, with fiduciary duty to its shareholders. It is at least somewhat about the money. If Google can't make Android a profit center, there's nothing stopping Android from being relegated to FeedBurner status or going
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There's no need to be like that. I own multiple Android devices myself. Just the fact that so many Android devices have been sold isn't very convincing. Lots of MySpace accounts were opened and lots of RIM devices were sold in years past to
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by Encosia 14y ago
That's not great news for Android's sustainability, no?
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by Encosia 14y ago
It's important to keep in mind that Android is completely subsidized by advertising revenue. Making money on mobile advertising is still troublesome enough in any market, but selling advertising targeted toward "a lot of poor people not abl
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by Encosia 14y ago
Yes.
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by Encosia 14y ago
How do those prices compare to the UK pricing for the same SKUs of Windows 7? Do you get the discounted Win8 upgrade deal there too?
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What are the prices there?
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A month with my Surface RT(encosia.com)
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by Encosia 14y ago
That's not true. The Windows 8 Pro "System Builder" license is the same price as 7 Pro, not "more expensive than ever." The upgrade is only $40 for the next two months, going up to $70 in February, which is the cheapest its ever been. So, t
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by Encosia 14y ago
And, this is what he initially had to say about the iPad: http://www.useit.com/alertbox/ipad-1st-study.html
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by Encosia 14y ago
I've been using Windows 8 on my primary machine for about a year. I couldn't imagine going back to Windows 7. 8 is a clear upgrade once you learn to use it (which takes very little time if you actively attempt to learn the new interface).
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by Encosia 14y ago
So, are you saying it would make you happy if an ad-less Minesweeper were available in the Store for a couple dollars? I prefer buying paid apps when they're available too. I don't play a ton of games, but I own the paid version of the ones
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by Encosia 14y ago
Out of curiosity, do you avoid all ad-supported freeware? This seems no less innocuous than other popular free apps with ads like Words with Friends, Skype, Evernote, Trillian, etc. That's a fair point about the pre-loading when you likely
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by Encosia 14y ago
That's a menu with choices of which game mode you want to play (keep in mind it's nearly 5,000px wide and you only see part of the left edge at first), not a pointless interstitial ad type experience. Similar to opening most modern games I
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by Encosia 14y ago
It's an incredible stretch to extrapolate from WinRT and suggest that x86 Windows will disable running arbitrary executables anytime in the foreseeable future. Surely no one actually believes that Microsoft is planning to turn away the huge
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by Encosia 14y ago
That doesn't match my experience at all. Just to check my sanity, I flipped open Minesweeper and played a game on easy. Between the loading time and my 23 second win, I spent about the 30 seconds you mentioned from start to finish entirely.
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by Encosia 14y ago
On the other hand, Angry Birds Space and Star Wars are more expensive in the Windows Store than on the iOS App Store (though I only checked on my iPhone, not on my iPad), and a ton of the top iOS apps these days are free but make their mone

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