MikeW

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by MikeW 18y ago
I've been using Luckycal for about a month - it frequently reminds me it can't find any events for me. I remember seeing very complicated sentences to describe simple things within the app. It seems like for it to become useful, all my frie
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by MikeW 18y ago
iPhone apps start "instantly" because the os zooms a pre-drawn picture of the application onto the screen. Often it looks like the frame of the app but without the content. If you have a dynamic picture you could save a snapshot of what's o
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by MikeW 18y ago
The article is also a little bit of flamebait when it says hotmail is in part run on Linux. All parts of Hotmail run in Windows Server. They use Akamai for caching static files such as images - as do many Microsoft services. Akamai reports
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by MikeW 18y ago
The Hotmail team are sniffing based on firefox version but if sniffing must be done, it should be done by gecko version instead which will then take the cross section of browsers. It goes to show the kind of uproar and community excluded wh
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by MikeW 18y ago
Long answer to a short question: (It depends.) Some things I've picked up from being a beta tester, to running betas, and working at a company that did betas from tens of beta testers to many thousands of beta testers: - There are groups of
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Web Startups: How to improve your sites performance (guide and free tool)(msdn.microsoft.com)
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by MikeW 18y ago
I've found that optical media like CD-Rs and DVD-Rs corrode over time. Many of the CD-Rs I burned over the last 7 years are unreadable now. Different media seems to degrade at different speeds. Beware of burning a DVD, storing it away for 1
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by MikeW 18y ago
It has been about 1.5 years since I investigated bug trackers, and the software packages may have grown features/fixes since. In my mind the choice of bug trackers comes down to who is the intended audience for it. Is it used for tracking i
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by MikeW 18y ago
My personal gripe with Code Igniter is that it doesn't have a built-in templating language (this is by design). I absolutely love Smarty (smarty.net) and highly recommend it and have used it in many projects so far. There have been attempts
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by MikeW 19y ago
Perceived performance makes for a great user experience. Tricks where the developers took the time to look at the user interaction. A web example may be here on news.yc when I upvote a comment, I see it's done instantly even though ajax wiz
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by MikeW 19y ago
I switched to dvorak for a few weeks a few summers ago. Initially typing every single word was insanely frustrating, and it didn't get much better for me. I've been using QWERTY for 18 years and I continue to stick with it simply because it
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by MikeW 19y ago
The choice of signon system depends on the type of site you have. I want my users to be able to sign up and use the service as quickly as possible. Picking usernames can be a major source of frustration, my current thinking is the signup bo
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by MikeW 19y ago
Broken Links: There are many older links in the comments in the form of http://news.ycombinator.com/comments?id=<num&#62 ; which returns an error (like the many comments on this page). Those old links really should be transparently re-
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by MikeW 19y ago
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