JonWood

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by JonWood 15y ago
I have no idea why Apple insist on the default RSS client under Mac OS being Safari. Mail has support built in, and is a far more appropriate place to keep it since people already think of it as the place to go for asynchronous updates.
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by JonWood 15y ago
You can in fact mix and match - you can use Google Apps on top of a corporate system such as Exchange for only specific users. It's unlikely to save you any money since you'll then need someone to run it, but it's possible. As things stand
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by JonWood 15y ago
I'm curious what sort of situation you have where you trust a user enough to have a copy of a particular directory tree, with the ability to copy it elsewhere and edit it, but you're concerned about them being able to make changes to it.
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by JonWood 15y ago
$50/acct/year comes to $4.16/acct/month. If your staff's use of email isn't in someway contributing to making more then $4.16/month you should probably just fire them, or not give them an email address in the first place.
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by JonWood 15y ago
I think is largely aimed at the people who are using Google Apps for their own domain. I certainly wouldn't want a corporate account tied to my Google+ identity, but my own domain and email address which I've been using for over a decade de
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by JonWood 15y ago
I don't think anyone has suggested that you can't be as terse as you like with it. Somehow I doubt Siri is going to get offended and respond with "Whats the magic word?"
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by JonWood 15y ago
The apps are attached to your Google account, not the phone, so no you don't have to buy them again.
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by JonWood 15y ago
I would love it if that were true, but on the whole people in the UK hate to complain, at least to anyone who can do something about their complaint. And our politicians should all be shot. I'd like them to do something more then slag each
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by JonWood 15y ago
When it comes to the web app pricing I'm not sure about this: "For example, the mere fact of supporting user accounts will mean having to design sign up, sign in, and “I forgot my password” screens as well as all the different error states
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by JonWood 15y ago
I renew my subscription every now and again. It's a really interesting concept, but whenever I play it I find that I like the idea of the game far more then I like the game itself. Getting to the point of being able to play at this sort of
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by JonWood 15y ago
I don't know about independent researchers but CCP, who run Eve, employ a full time economist who publishes quarterly reports on the state of the in-game economy.
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by JonWood 15y ago
Fire them for lying when they provided an address in their employment contract. Do you really want to employ someone who does that at all?
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by JonWood 15y ago
Where abouts in London are you? You might like to take a look at Hubbub (www.hubbub.co.uk). Depending on where you are the most you're going to pay for delivery at the moment is £3.50, which includes same day deliveries, and we deliver from
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by JonWood 15y ago
Where do you live? If you're in East London you might want to give hubbub.co.uk a try (disclaimer: I'm there lead developer). We do really good food, 1-hour delivery windows, and same day deliveries for no extra if you order before noon.
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by JonWood 15y ago
What this really seems to highlight for me is quite how useless bug trackers on large projects used by the general public can be. 249 comments, with so much noise it would be impossible to find any actual discussion amongst them if you trie
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by JonWood 15y ago
In that sense, the wall scanning is a bit of a gimmick; the critical thing is to remember you want/need to buy something. This is the big thing. I work for an online grocery shopping startup, and when speaking to lapsed customers the bigg
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by JonWood 15y ago
They're all over the place for core functions - whenever you click a "Share" button it will ask which applications can handle the content you want to share and add them to the menu. I've also been prompted to choose whether I want to make p
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by JonWood 15y ago
In my current job I work four days a week, with one in the office and the rest from home. When initially advertised it was a five day, 9-5 in the office job. Both before and during the interview I made it clear that I was looking for a job
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by JonWood 15y ago
So very true - I'm going away for a week with extended family in the middle of August, and because I work remotely anyway work had no problem with me working from a different place. That means I get a week of seeing family and relaxing with
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by JonWood 15y ago
I agree to an extent - there is a lot of stuff that I know just enough about to be able to say "I know of it", but there are only so many hours in the day. When it comes to starting a project all the stuff that I know of comes in useful, be
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by JonWood 15y ago
I appreciate why people build things like this, but I think that with mobile applications you either need to go truly native (using UIKit), or do something that is distinctly different from the rest of the OS. Tools like this which kind of,
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by JonWood 15y ago
That line just handles people who managed to hit the server from a domain they're not expecting at all - for example if I were to map example.org to their server in /etc/hosts. The pertinent lines for your example are 341 and 342: Rewri
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by JonWood 15y ago
The trend to use caffeine like a drug is particularly concerning amongst young people. I volunteer with a local youth group, and recently some of them have started downing a couple of Red Bulls (or more likely a cheap clone) before arriving
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by JonWood 15y ago
This is my biggest problem with the iPad Twitter application, which stays at the last point you used it. If that point was two days ago it can take a while to scroll through the backlog to get to now. It does seem easily solvable though, ei
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by JonWood 15y ago
There's not a huge amount you need to do. It might be worth having a look at the sites of some of the companies listed so that you know vaguely who you want to talk to, but other then that, just turn up and make sure you have some way of ta
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by JonWood 15y ago
Yes, there is certainly something wrong with it, but for some reason the entire country is effectively owned by the banking industry at the moment (despite the fact the country in fact owns a good chunk of the banking industry). Personally
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by JonWood 15y ago
I think it depends how you go about complaining. There are two ways in which you can do so. The first is to go to somebody who is able to start solving the problem, and bring it up with them. The alternative is to sit around with your colle
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by JonWood 15y ago
Given that Heroku charges based on the time your application is up I wouldn't be surprised if everyone just gets a bill which doesn't include the time their sites were offline.
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by JonWood 15y ago
I've been working from home for the last 9 months, and my experience has been that you have to be disciplined about working hours. Initially my sleep cycle (and therefore working hours) shifted by a couple of hours, so I'd get out of bed ab
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by JonWood 16y ago
I briefly considered building it over an afternoon, but I'm not sure it would really work on the Internet. My gut feeling is that within a few days it would be full of spam and inane comments, because there's absolutely no sense of having a

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