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by Tomek_ 15y ago
Depends how much Chinese government care about keeping Apple happy and how strong are connections of store owners with a (local) gov.
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by Tomek_ 15y ago
Well, Symfony2 itself only until very recently was using some of the ZendFramework libraries internally (and Fabien often praised ZF), which I would say comes as a proof that it is a solid code, even if it's obviously lacking in some parts
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by Tomek_ 15y ago
ZF is from a totally different league than CakePHP or Wordpress. Yes, a bit ancient today but in many parts it's a solid, well-written, flexible and extensible code well-suited for more "enterprise" needs. Probably more "production-ready" t
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by Tomek_ 15y ago
It's not only Symfony2, PHP has a lot of high-quality projects going on: Zend Framework, Doctrine, Solar/Aura, Twig, Lithium, Jackalope, FLOW3 and probably much, much more.
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by Tomek_ 15y ago
Depends how your travels looks like, you can travel living in luxury hotels, spend most of the time with people from your country either by the hotel swimming pool or guided tours or in the museums - or you can be less savy and go a bit "gu
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by Tomek_ 15y ago
For me (and I'm surprised it's not on a list): filtering incoming content. In this regard G+ is really lacking (you can't hide a person, similar posts (or the same post shared by many of your contacts) are not grouped together, etc.). Circl
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by Tomek_ 15y ago
I have different kind of problem, but related to this one: Spotify is partly owned by major labels, so when I pay those 9.99€ I help those guys survive, whereas I'd prefer them to go bankrupt and have a totally different model of music indu
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by Tomek_ 15y ago
For one thing: user interface. The one of Rdio is pretty confusing, whereas the one of Spotify is, for me at least, the best UI of a music player ever. That's the great thing about Spotify (and I think it's often overlooked): it's not only
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by Tomek_ 15y ago
Already discussed in http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1854783 with the same consensus, it's a terrible guide. Read Crockford, Stoyanov, Bolin instead.
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by Tomek_ 15y ago
If you haven't already you should also read http://www.vanityfair.com/business/features/2010/10/greeks-b... to get more of a perspective on what went wrong in Greece.
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by Tomek_ 15y ago
Have you read the article you comment on? There's a paragraph or two about that there.
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Opera 11.50 released(opera.com)
1 points by Tomek_ 15y ago|0 comments
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10 Myths About Introverts(carlkingcreative.com)
3 points by Tomek_ 15y ago|1 comments
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by Tomek_ 15y ago
So you'd basically want Nokia to make UI harder to use just because of those rare cases when someone borrows his phone to the person he/she doesn't trust?
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by Tomek_ 15y ago
I think that using swipe as the main (almost exclusive) way to navigate around the phone's functions is indeed, well, not revolutionary, but (at least to some extent) innovative and yes, also "new, fresh, remarkable". Sure, UI borrows some
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by Tomek_ 15y ago
Wouldn't be surprised that in case of Color the "insane differentiation" would be the patent portfolio they allegedly have.
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by Tomek_ 15y ago
Please don't put all of post-communism-counties into one basket, as there are vast differences between them how they are dealing with democracy/capitalism. Russia is quite a special case here and unfortunately most of the times is an exampl
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by Tomek_ 15y ago
Dunno, maybe that's the other one but as far as I know CouchSurfing is still alive and kicking (see: http://www.couchsurfing.org - they claim to have almost 3mln users), it's just that it isn't a commercial thing.
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by Tomek_ 15y ago
I know you can do it, but it produces quite an overhead and it's ugly. But that's for another discussion ("sad things in JS" maybe) - here my main point was that, no, public/protected/private is not a dumb idea in dynamic languages.
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by Tomek_ 15y ago
Recently at my company we're writing a lot of JS and its' lack of "public/protected/private" doesn't make it easier to maintain or test. Actually, it's quite frustrating because you know you can't test it properly - everything public? it's
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by Tomek_ 15y ago
If you're in the one of lucky countries (or have credit card from one of them) I'd suggest Spotify, their client is marvelous (the best UI for a music player ever and also very fast), supports playing local files and since last version also
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Wikileaks cables show race to carve up Arctic(news.bbc.co.uk)
2 points by Tomek_ 15y ago|0 comments
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by Tomek_ 15y ago
Well, but isn't that what the whole problem is about? Doesn't matter if it's BBC, iTunes or Spotify - it's that the country-based licensing model doesn't work in the age of Internet.
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by Tomek_ 15y ago
So when those new phones they showed some months ago at Mobile World Congress are coming out?
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by Tomek_ 15y ago
Yeah, times didn't hold up in the yesterday's reports, the attack was around 12-1AM in Pakistan as witnesses' reports state so it must have been around 3-4PM in Washington. Today's news are more accurate on that matter: "At 2:05 p.m., Mr. P
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by Tomek_ 15y ago
NYTimes: "Muslim tradition requires burial within 24 hours, but by doing it at sea, American authorities presumably were trying to avoid creating a shrine for his followers." [ http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/02/world/asia/osama-bin-laden...
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by Tomek_ 15y ago
The actual duolingo part in this video starts at about 12 minutes mark. Before that it's about reCAPTCHA and such.
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by Tomek_ 16y ago
Re: side note, that's why they announced this: http://buzz.blogger.com/2011/03/fresh-new-perspectives-for-y...
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by Tomek_ 16y ago
The Ryanair bit is funny (if you know how Ryanair normally operate): "They probably charge you if you do".
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by Tomek_ 16y ago
Of course 100% code coverage won't make your code better in every possible aspect, nor it guarantee that tests are perfectly written, but at least a) the tough parts of the code won't be skipped during the test b) you will have cleaner, mor

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