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aberkowitz
15y ago
I have spent a short period of time dealing with Blackberry, and I can do nothing but echo your sentiments. Would you mind sending me an email (in profile), so I could pick your brain about Blackberry?
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The back button is intentionally bigger as it is one of the most used buttons in a browser. In accordance with Fitt's law, the size allows a user to get to it quicker than a smaller button.
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It appears that the journalists are engaging in unethical, borderline blackmail processes to get people to speak.
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Grid Frameworks are for the frontend developer who wants to spend as little time as possible dealing with alignment of content.
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15y ago
Apple can enter the streaming music market whenever they want to; that's why they bought Lala.
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15y ago
You probably got downvoted because you repeated the article and didn't add anything. I come to comment threads for original discussion.
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15y ago
Thanks to TechCrunch, Facebook no longer needs a marketing department.
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15y ago
The slow review process does not at all indicate that they spend more time testing, or find more bugs. As a user, you will be affected by the slow review process when you have to wait longer for updates than someone using an Android Market
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15y ago
Zen Mode in WordPress 3.2 deals a huge blow to Artsy Editor[0]. [0] http://artsyeditor.com
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The title is inaccurate - Instantbird is a project independent of Mozilla which has been around for a long time.
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15y ago
Netflix uses Silverlight because it supports DRM.
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> Anyone have any stories or examples of ... large co-founder groups? From my personal experience, it is very common to see startups founded with many co-founders. I've seen it a lot in college groups, where one individual is very motiv
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Uber runs a livery cab service. At the disadvantage of not being able to pick up street hails, they do not require a medallion, and operate under different terms than a taxi.
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> it seems (anecdotally) that if people don't exercise that second half... that their body's ability to keep blood sugar up on its own atrophies. My pancreas doesn't work, so your anecdotal evidence trumps what I thought to be true.
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> your body will eventually starting maintaining your blood sugar on its own I was under the impression that a sugar crash is the result of your body maintaining your blood sugar on it's own[0]. [0] On it's own, meaning secreting insuli
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Humble Bundle is becoming the go-to place for platform agnostic independent game sales. Imagine what would happen if Humble Bundle, Inc. became the defacto, cross-platform Steam competitor. On top of that, Jeffrey Rosen's connection into th
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15y ago
How can you call it fragmentation when everything ultimately turns into valid JavaScript?
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15y ago
The best part about it was that I forgot it wasn't Flash.
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15y ago
I don't advocate going nuts about it, but Wikipedia's deletion policies often lead to the permanent removal of interesting topics. There are things that I have learned from Wikipedia that no one else will ever be able to read - because some
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16y ago
The new <blink>?
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16y ago
I was disappointed that re-checking the falling boxes did nothing to change their ability. Nonetheless, this was a really cool misuse of DOM elements.
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16y ago
Would you mind elaborating ever so slightly about your visa situation? When people leave such big cliff hangers it makes me secretly despise them for their ability to get me transfixed until the next blog post.
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16y ago
Building a new reddit is easy - building a community, and scaling to support 1.1 billion views a month is not.
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16y ago
While Android is great, I hope you realize that it's not some magical operating system that makes every device with it better.
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There reaches a point in virtual reality where increased realism becomes undesirable. In my opinion, smell-o-vision is that point.
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16y ago
You missed the favicon. Here is a link: http://www.w3.org/html/logo/favicon.ico
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Once the devices are purchased, there is no market. While purely anecdotal, I have not seen any friends or family actually using a Wii in a long time. If anybody has marketing data to the contrary, I would be interested in seeing it.
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Kinect is part of an imaginary market along with its brethren the Wiimote and PlayStation Move. Hardcore gamers soon realize that jumping up and down is nowhere near as fun as sitting on a couch and pushing buttons. Casual users, while init
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From what I understand, Diapers.com is a highly successful business. Their parent company Quidsi, who also owns Soap.com, was recently acquired by Amazon for $540 million.
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I apologize if the meaning of my prior comment was misconstrued, as you have not reached my intended conclusion. I'm intending to say that building a user base should come before monetizing - not replace it.
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