RossM

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by RossM 16y ago
I think that Android needs it to go a bit further by differentiating between required permissions and optional ones. Having them all optional could cause the app to plain not work (no, Handcent can't send messages) or users would just block
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by RossM 16y ago
The QR code generator's always been available from the Chart API[1] [1] http://code.google.com/apis/chart/docs/gallery/qr_codes.html
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by RossM 16y ago
It was more a jab at the state of the comments than anything else, I have nothing against charging for products. It's interesting to note that increasing your price has increased the sensibility of your customers though, I had always put it
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by RossM 16y ago
I'm going to agree with this because I've seen the comments on Notch's (Minecraft dev) blog. Commenting has been turned off now but they ranged from praise to demands for features and fixes to outright rage that they're not being listened t
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by RossM 16y ago
>No offense, but this is like programming 101. It might be if you grew up in a C/C++ environment, many people these days start with scripting languages and don't venture out (myself included, but learning C is my new year's resolution).
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What do you mean "see the software", the screenshots or the listings? This just seems like a web-based version of the software center, which isn't a bad thing but I don't really see myself using it.
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by RossM 16y ago
I don't see why you're being downvoted, your comment is obviously sarcastic.
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Hah, excellent. I never even applied for membership as I didn't have any examples of what I have done online but always assumed this would be a somewhat stricter than "I made this in Photoshop". Not as excited about applying now.
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by RossM 16y ago
reddit's user's reaction to this is why I am progressively trying to move away from the community. It's turning into a hive-mind that can sometimes be benevolent but as soon as you piss them off they appear to emulate Anonymous.
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by RossM 16y ago
This occurs far too often in my view and it's always coined on "exchange rates". I'm not sure what sort of optimisations they could make other than being preloaded with T-Mobiles network settings since it is supposed to be the pure experien
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by RossM 16y ago
I don't think it is, I think it's JavaScript interacting with the Flash object.
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by RossM 16y ago
I find it a bit odd that all of them bar a couple like Papyrus come out as Times New Roman on Windows. Even Trebuchet MS which is supposed to be an MS font.
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by RossM 16y ago
Discovering there's an alpha-version of rgb() has actually made my day. I remember trying to emulate it (without knowing it) using opacity :/
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by RossM 16y ago
Mm, when it comes to "minimal UI" I just want as much screen space for the page as possible. At the moment Firefox's tabs don't overlap with the title bar and I was surprised how much this annoys me - Chrome has spoiled me. After using it f
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by RossM 16y ago
The new Opera beta does nicely here, just some layout problems (scrollbars) if cursors go too far to the side on large monitors - awesome example though.
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by RossM 16y ago
I've been wanting to move away from Chrome for a while (too many issues in too short a space of time). Opera looks to be the near-bleeding-edge browser I actually want. Minimal UI, draft standards support, efficient and still finds time to
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by RossM 16y ago
Also support for those outside the USA (I'm aware of why it's taking a while, I'd still like to use it though).
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by RossM 16y ago
In my opinion, if you're creating software that's living inside someone else's software it's easier for users (and to some extent it's polite) if you follow the parent software's approaches and style.
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by RossM 16y ago
A few of PHP's most (publicly) hated components are being removed in 5.4 (which may become 6, from what I can tell this article is lying when it says 5.4 is "around the corner") - register_globals, magic_quotes is being discussed. Even the
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by RossM 16y ago
I'll get started on JustUseThisOne.com...
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by RossM 16y ago
I'd say the hardest part about attending a lab session would be getting a computer account (assuming the computers are networked). I'm sure I've seen students that don't attend lectures (presumably looking at them at home) but are there in
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by RossM 16y ago
It loads eventually if you leave it. Does TC actually let people know before they feature them?
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by RossM 16y ago
The demo doesn't appear to work for international numbers (I'm assuming this is in the US, I'm in the UK (+44)). Not to say this isn't impressive.
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by RossM 16y ago
I'm in my second year of a CS degree. We have a required module titled "Mobile Application Development" which from what I've heard is purely Android development. There is also an optional iPhone development module which is less popular due
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by RossM 16y ago
I feel that since there are comments, answering a question should automatically upvote it. It depends on what the criteria for upvoting a question is - whether it's "not spam/trash or poorly worded" then this would work, I feel most people
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This could be done using their data dumps (however I don't have access to SQL Server so I couldn't tell you this).
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by RossM 16y ago
I have a Dell Studio 15 (laptop) and while it's a fairly nice build I'd have to say stay away from Dell if you want to run Linux - when I started using Ubuntu (around 8.04) I had so many driver issues it was silly. 10.04 hasn't been bad tho
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by RossM 16y ago
Agreed, if anything I think submitting a pre-existing story should actually be worth more score than upvoting it. The problem lies if people give out submit links pre-loaded with the submission URL/title (if that's possible?).
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Well that's fair enough, it might be the way I browse pages but I didn't notice the CV link which is probably why I think it's just a placeholder :)
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To add: in order to continue playing Minecraft after the free-to-play period you have to buy a subscription, however I agree with the idea there have been recent spikes as people do buy it. I read somewhere that Notch had accrued at least t

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