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by Encosia 14y ago
It looks like they're some average of the colors in the app's icon. That's what Windows 7/8 (and Vista?) do for the mouseover highlight color of taskbar items too, though more subtly, so it would make sense.
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by Encosia 14y ago
I've been using a Surface RT for about three weeks. I've never experienced anything like what he's describing. Further, there are apps already in the store for some of the things he mentioned no official apps being available for. Dropbox
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by Encosia 14y ago
If you're holding it horizontally in your hands (that case where you can't easily reach the hardware button), you can swipe in from the left and the Windows button/tile/whatever-it-is appears in the bottom-left. I'm sure it depends on your
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by Encosia 14y ago
I've been using Windows 8 as my primary OS for nearly a year and a Surface RT (which has successfully replaced my iPad and MacBook Air, so far) for a little over three weeks now. I've only had trouble with the Store app once, and that wasn'
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by Encosia 14y ago
> Its not on the fence when MSFT issued Surface tabs to every staff member. Quite the opposite, most Microsoft employees could only get a Surface RT in this first round if they went through the same retail channel that everyone else had
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by Encosia 14y ago
Long-term clients, word of mouth, and (a surprising number of) people contacting me through my technical blog. Feel free to send me an email (link in my profile) if you have any specific questions.
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by Encosia 14y ago
Everyone from small businesses to Fortune 500s in the past couple years. A surprising number of them are deploying internal tools and applications that target cutting edge browser features, even if their public-facing sites still require IE
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by Encosia 14y ago
That's definitely true. I manage my finances with the expectation that the bottom will eventually fall out of the investment driven tech sector, whether because money can't be as cheap as it currently is forever or because too many high pro
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by Encosia 14y ago
This must be unique to the UK or finance jobs or some other variable other than simply "IT" or "consulting". As an independnet consultant, I've never seen demand higher in my niche, and that's with me constantly raising my rates over the pa
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by Encosia 14y ago
That seems foolish, if true.
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by Encosia 14y ago
I haven't typed in Word on the Surface for a solid hour yet, but it hasn't bothered me in the x86 version on my desktop over the month or two I've been using 2013 there. Like joenathan said, it completely blends into the background pretty q
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by Encosia 14y ago
I had the same typing performance issue when using the preview version of Office 2013 that shipped with my Surface RT, updated to the RTM version today, and the typing performance is fine now. The characters even appear with a quick reveal-
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by Encosia 14y ago
Same here. Windows 8 is a clear improvement over Windows 7 once you acclimate to the new interface (which you only need to spend a tiny fraction of your time using anyway). I've noticed that a lot of the criticism comes from people who trie
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by Encosia 14y ago
Twitter can't enforce a "consistent experience" on third party clients, meaning they can't be sure that promoted tweets, accounts, and other forms of generally unwanted advertising will show up in timelines that aren't rendered with Twitter
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Technical debt is like ketchup(encosia.com)
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by Encosia 14y ago
Taking that to the next level, you can improve that data structure to allow sharing between later similarities in words after they've diverged from their common prefixes. That's particularly helpful to cut down on redundant storage of suffi
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by Encosia 14y ago
Unless things have changed recently, sending as an address other than the Gmail account you're sending from results in a tacky "On Behalf Of" clause that displays both addresses to the recipient.
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by Encosia 14y ago
It's a common misconception that Web API is built on or tied to MVC. It's not though. You can use it in a WebForms site just as easily as in an MVC site. You can even self-host Web API outside of IIS entirely. Also, Web API isn't intended t
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by Encosia 14y ago
The automatic support for routing to .mobile views is really nice, for one thing. The small improvements to Razor (e.g. automatic ~/ parsing and conditional shortcuts) are also nice time/trouble savers.
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by Encosia 14y ago
You can bin deploy MVC 4 sites to Azure (or regular servers running .NET 4). I have a couple MVC 4 sites running on Azure right now.
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by Encosia 14y ago
Install Windows 8 and stay in desktop mode. It's faster and has nice improvements to things like task manager, file copies, etc. There's no need to spend significant time in the "metro" part of Windows 8 if you don't want to.
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by Encosia 14y ago
For what it's worth, that's a real publication, not Demand Media. The article should have netted him a couple orders of magnitude more than $25.
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by Encosia 14y ago
Most nights (and when I nap in the afternoon) for the past couple years, I use an iPad to read websites and Instapaper saves for 15-30 minutes in bed before I go to sleep. After that ~15 minutes, I'm out like a light. I've never previously
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Microsoft rejects Windows 8 SmartScreen privacy concerns(theverge.com)
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The crucial .0 in Google CDN references to jQuery 1.x.0(encosia.com)
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by Encosia 14y ago
I was going to have to build something just like this next week, to add arbitrary date ranges to an existing dropdown with pre-defined ranges. Thanks for releasing this. It looks great.
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by Encosia 14y ago
I do think those are contrasting points. No matter what subtleties you wrap the difference in, relative importance is what you're communicating to everyone else at the table whether you intend to or not. If that's your priority then so be
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by Encosia 14y ago
I dislike eating with people who use their phone at the table, but face-down phones on the table don't bother me at all. If you're with someone that you're particularly worried about offending, flip the phone to airplane mode (or off) bef
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by Encosia 14y ago
> It doesn't make me more important than them, though maybe it means that I have different values. > It's probably a welcome gesture by the other party, given that they've clearly indicated that you are less important to them regard
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by Encosia 14y ago
There's nothing inherently angry or controlling about what nagrom posted. I feel the same way nagrom does, and I don't waste any of my time trying to change others and it doesn't make me mad if they need Facebook open to make it through din

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