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by Lewisham 15y ago
As Nokia is essentially a Microsoft puppet at this point, I wouldn't be surprised to see Nokia enter the tablet market.
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by Lewisham 15y ago
One could reasonably argue that Lion is a half-finished state itself. It's neither here nor there; an incoherent mess of UI ideas and functions. I'm not especially happy I upgraded. I find myself working against Lion's new features more oft
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by Lewisham 15y ago
Phones will continue to have a separate OS, but as both are branded Metro, I would hazard most users wouldn't be aware of there being any difference. One is just on a smaller screen and doesn't come with the desktop fallback. Metro will als
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by Lewisham 15y ago
All the rumors say that Arrington and Ariana Huffington (head of AOL's editorial) were are loggerheads as soon as Huffington joined the company. Two people that liked each other and wanted to work together professionally could probably have
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by Lewisham 15y ago
Only Yelp can say, but I think that Google's acquisition strategy seems to pretty clear: "If we can't buy you, we are going to buy one of your competitors." The questions you'll need to ask yourself when Google comes knocking are: 1. How mu
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by Lewisham 15y ago
Does it really matter? There are people on the Internet. People disagree with each other. Someone disagreed with you. Maybe they were just downvoting everything for fun. Who knows? Who cares? Because you got a downvote, you make a statement
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by Lewisham 15y ago
I would have really liked it if the author had mentioned exactly how the co-worker in the beginning had got into the "3-way merge" state, and some how got onto a non-existent branch. I don't know what it means, and I've never got there, so
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by Lewisham 15y ago
One (interesting?) thing to note is the Chrome comic was drawn by Scott McCloud, professional comic book artist extroidinare. The Correlate comic was drawn by Manu Cornet, who's a Googler: https://plus.google.com/106154493978299996445/post
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by Lewisham 15y ago
If Amazon are going to maintain an Android fork, I wonder how well Android apps will be able to play with it. It would be a huge disappointment if 2.2+ apps were unavailable (or installing Google Market for that matter). I can see why Amazo
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by Lewisham 15y ago
I guess we'll see how Project Kotlin [1] does to move Java forward with some of these issues in mind (especially IDE support). [1] http://confluence.jetbrains.net/display/Kotlin/Welcome
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by Lewisham 15y ago
Gmail is probably Google's biggest product after search. It's also been around for a long time, so you do have to keep that in mind. I would presume the Gmail team are still working on offline, but Google prefers launch + iterate, rather th
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by Lewisham 15y ago
I wasn't necessarily heading in that direction, I just meant modifying how data is presented to users (and, in fact, the platform APIs too). I guess once you reach that abstraction, it doesn't really matter whether it's a filesystem or WinF
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by Lewisham 15y ago
I was just thinking this myself. Windows 8 is moving towards a tablet-like structure, they need to go all the way on this and get rid of the filesystem for 90% of users. Open almost any Windows laptop, and you'll see users who basically thi
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by Lewisham 15y ago
Yeah, it's not a big one, certainly. In practice, you'll almost never do it from scratch, but use an archetype [1] that you tweak. Tools like Ivy, Gradle and Buildr will play nicely with Maven repositories to get dependencies, and I would h
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by Lewisham 15y ago
Wonderful news. Heroku keeps going from strength to strength. I know a lot of people who'll be interested in this... I'm very pleased that Scala is deployable. Awesome.
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by Lewisham 15y ago
FWIW, Gamefly is going to offer PC rentals: http://arstechnica.com/gaming/news/2011/08/gamefly-goes-digi...
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by Lewisham 15y ago
Yeah, this is true. Those ones were pretty bad.
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by Lewisham 15y ago
Tells you something about Apple's testing methodology. QA team at Apple must be playing real fast and loose. Yep, I agree. I've been very disappointed with Lion, even taking into account the common "Don't buy an x.0 Apple product", there
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by Lewisham 15y ago
I wonder how well Vegas is doing for Zappos. Portland, from all accounts, is beginning to look like a city-sized SOMA startup scene, and the city's personality certainly jives with the common stereotype of the hipster startup developer. Veg
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by Lewisham 15y ago
The more I read from Norvig, the more I am convinced that history will judge him as being one of the most influential computer scientists of the post-Turing era. His ability to find elegant solutions in the hardest looking problems, and com
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by Lewisham 15y ago
I know who are serious Etsy users complain that the site changes too frequently... and is confusing Well, I used the example in the context of velocity, not necessarily in whether the users are happy ;) The glitches are more of a concern,
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by Lewisham 15y ago
I think the majority of the points here (which are good!) can be summed up with the "You are not a special snowflake" heading. This particular form of arrogance (let's call it what it is) permeates throughout most sub-communities of CS prog
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by Lewisham 15y ago
I don't think anyone who actually managed to snag one was under any illusion about what the device was or wasn't. You had to be on the top of your game to locate a device; it's not like you stumbled into Costco and went "Oh, that looks nice
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by Lewisham 15y ago
I don't think the firesale was even zero margin; I think it was just cheaper than dealing with the shipping/storage/recycling costs. I expect the hardware cost more to make than they were sold at.
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by Lewisham 15y ago
I never had much of a problem with 'color', but grey/gray got me every single time. Always went with the British spelling. However, at this point, I actually can't remember which spelling is which. I have to look it up. 'a' is the America
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by Lewisham 15y ago
I think that having an in-house system was partly driven by the need to fully utilize Google's proprietary/confidential computational infrastructure. My understanding is that every big company is different, and leveraging your CPUs to their
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by Lewisham 15y ago
At this point, I find it unfathomable that Congress doesn't seem to have even noticed that the tech industry is imploding on itself with the ridiculousness of it all. Yes, they have lots of fish to fry right now, but if they can spend time
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by Lewisham 15y ago
I'm really pleased you mentioned stretching your wrists . I used to work for a university in New Zealand, which had a number of people off work because of RSI injuries. As New Zealand is a welfare state, the university was paying near-full
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by Lewisham 15y ago
Yes, gamification has been poisoned by "the new SEO" crowd. What was once a useful tool (Nike+) has been abused and bent into all sorts of shapes by people who are, generally, completely oblivious to the decades of game design the technique
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by Lewisham 15y ago
This is a follow-on piece from an article Bogost wrote in Gamasutra [1]. It doesn't make a lot of sense unless you are aware of Bogost's previous commentary. His main point is that gamification is an empty relationship: nothing of value is

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