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811.
by Splines 15y ago
I use a silicone case so I don't drop it in the first place. It's pretty easy for a naked iPhone to slide off a table or slip out of your hand.
812.
by Splines 15y ago
One of the reasons I like my Canon home printer. It comes with see-through cartridges so you can tell that it really is empty. On an older model I had it was easy to refill them myself using a DIY kit from Costco. These days I can buy 3
813.
by Splines 15y ago
Like others, I'm surprised that G+ is spending time solving this problem. Why don't they flip the switch on their safesearch technology on G+ and call it a day?
814.
by Splines 15y ago
What personally bothers me about "Android is open" is that while the OS may be open, the hardware is a moving target. Android phones aren't like desktop PCs, which allow you to mix & match operating systems and hardware components as y
815.
by Splines 15y ago
You stagnate at work for fear of everything you do being judged like every news article or viral video that you view. I feel like this about blog posts (even sometimes facebook/twitter updates). Is what I have to say so interesting that
816.
by Splines 15y ago
If you have ever read a review of a new gadget before it launches: think about how ridiculous this activity is Maybe I'm "too far in the rabbit hole", but exactly what's wrong with this? Is it a bad thing to be informed before spending m
817.
by Splines 15y ago
Very interesting! I'm not a very math-minded person but that was fairly easy to follow along with. The nice pictures helped :)
818.
by Splines 15y ago
I think his point was that it makes literal sense, but it doesn't help the process of communication I think it does help - it implies that there is doubt (and possibly some lying involved with what's going on). Simply stating "so and so s
819.
by Splines 15y ago
Hence the saying, "Never shop hungry". It's a hard learned lesson, but treating future-you as someone who is lazy and weak-willed pays off.
820.
by Splines 15y ago
If I was a teacher that had to have working whiteboard pens all the time, I'd treasure some sort of holster that could hold a good whiteboard pen or two. It's funny how whiteboard pens are these ugly things that we use all the time. I've n
821.
by Splines 15y ago
Is employing one talented full-time iOS developer really too much to ask from a company as big as Facebook? You might as well add the Python SDK to that. The "we don't have the resources" claim rings a little hollow, in that the company
822.
by Splines 15y ago
As mentioned in the post, David Weber's Honor Harrington series operates very much like this. I've read a few of them and enjoyed it. Nuances in space combat in his stories tend to be important. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Weber
823.
by Splines 15y ago
Hah - that'd be a good story. "I'll be a complete internet jerkwad, and get you in front of thousands of people. Disassociate yourself from me when the shit hits the fan." As long as you're careful about not letting the internet detectives
824.
by Splines 15y ago
I work at MS and we use Lync Communicator a lot. Group chat seems to work well (as far as I can tell). Then again, who knows what server they have us connected to - it's probably v.latest. I've read that there is an XMPP federation servic
825.
by Splines 15y ago
Here's the actual graph, the image in the linked article is terrible to look at. http://gs.statcounter.com/#browser_version-ww-weekly-201132-...
826.
by Splines 15y ago
Social networks have very high value. They only have value that is voluntarily put into them. There are certainly young-ish people that for them, Facebook is their social world. On the flip side, there are certainly people who rarely vi
827.
by Splines 15y ago
I'm in Office and we currently use Source Depot, which is a modified version of Perforce. We have so many tools that interoperate with it (and everyone knows how it works) that I don't see us moving away from SD anytime soon. We use Team F
828.
by Splines 15y ago
The alt-text is sobering. How many ground-breaking ideas are put into everyday appliances?
829.
by Splines 15y ago
A blend is probably a better choice. It's obvious that single queues for each cashier isn't very efficient, but the tradeoff is that lines are visibly shorter, and progress to the goal is clear. Having a single line for all cashiers (ala Fr
830.
by Splines 15y ago
Aka a graveyard spiral: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graveyard_spiral This is what killed JFK Jr.
831.
by Splines 15y ago
I really hope they share what went wrong. When they deal with explosives they usually (always?) have an expert on hand to ensure things are done right, so it'll be interesting to see a post-mortem.
832.
by Splines 15y ago
Here's a real life example I ran into a week ago: http://dev.aol.com/aim We've made some changes to the Open AIM program to better align with AOL’s new direction and clear focus on our core strategy areas. Going forward, we're shifting o
833.
by Splines 15y ago
Opt-in/Opt-out, as it were. Considering the consequences, I agree with the reasoning.
834.
by Splines 15y ago
If there's one thing Amazon could use improvement on, is it's search results. Specifically, sorting them. Seriously, I just tried it now. My complaints: - Why do I have to pick a department to sort? (I can kind of understand this, but it'
835.
by Splines 15y ago
That's more like buying a different phone. You don't have access to the internals of the shipped device, so you decide to use a different one.
836.
by Splines 15y ago
What am I doing to help any of those millions of starving children? Very little. Though that's why I invest on Kiva, ... Do you feel like you're not making enough of a difference? You're already helping more people than most people out
837.
by Splines 15y ago
OT, but does anyone know of a way to find all the "things" that you've done on Facebook? It'd be nice to know if a rogue fb app has posted on me in some obscure location that I don't see on my screen. I've tried messing around with the gr
838.
by Splines 15y ago
Huh, that's interesting. I never considered the similarities between parallel processing and people management until today.
839.
by Splines 15y ago
Just to add, I don't mind someone evangelizing their setup, since they may have solved a problem that I didn't know there was a solution for. Anything that reduces the "don't know what I don't know" bucket is a good thing.
840.
by Splines 15y ago
Definitely do this, unless you have an extremely critical must-have application that requires iOS 4. The perf "gains" from going back to 3.1.3 make the phone non-irritating again.

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