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by ajg1977 16y ago
Absolutely. In another year or two Apple may provide the notification system of my dreams, but after three years I'm ready for anything that doesn't involve a button press, screen swipe, and passcode, just to checkif I have unread email.
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by ajg1977 16y ago
Since the Twitter website only accounts for something like ~15% of "tweet traffic" it will be interesting to see whether Twitter start to push these sponsored trends to client apps.
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by ajg1977 16y ago
I think it's smart. If your product is a compliment to another then sharing a point of sale is your earliest and best opportunity to make a sale. The type of people buying software at these stores, as opposed to Amazon/newegg etc, are gener
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by ajg1977 16y ago
These are good tips, but my number one tip for sleeping long haul is to wear something super comfortable on the flight. I have a pair of baggy tracksuit bottoms and long-sleeve t-shirt, that roll down into nothing, which I change into in th
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by ajg1977 16y ago
According to CTIA, text message usage in the US grew 50% between 2008 and 2009, and so far in 2010 the increase is even greater. Can you guess what's happened to prices?
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by ajg1977 16y ago
This is only true if your device does not have parental restrictions set. If it does and 17+ apps are restricted, you won't even get that far.
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by ajg1977 16y ago
"They will likely compete with each other to drive down prices per unit of usage" I would say this is very unlikely. Look at call minutes, look at SMS messages. Both of these have plenty of scope for carriers to cut costs and compete while
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Could 'oil eating' microbes help in the Gulf?(youtube.com)
2 points by ajg1977 16y ago|0 comments
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by ajg1977 16y ago
Now it's only $15 for data, plus the existing $10 for an extra line, I can imagine there's going to be a lot of kids on family plans who will now be allowed to get iPhones.
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by ajg1977 16y ago
Further thoughts: 1) This is mostly AT&T putting a stake in the ground now to be able to charge more in the future. Yes, 98% of subscribers currently use less than 2GB of data but that won't be true in 2-3 years. Instead of increasing t
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by ajg1977 16y ago
If this is a prelude to AT&T losing their exclusivity then it's an odd move - the standard "unlimited data" cap on Verizon is 5GB. I'm not sure why AT&T would charge more for less compared to a competitor who was about to offer an a
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Migrating sites to Stack Exchange 2.0(blog.stackoverflow.com)
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by ajg1977 16y ago
It would be better if the "assumptions" were clearly displayed. Until I found them (mostly due to a comment here) my bullshit meter was loudly buzzing. That aside, it's a little disingenuous that the page refuses to let me enter certain val
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by ajg1977 16y ago
I think it would be beneficial to mention that context more clearly in the article. As it is written the advice seems to be very generic which is why many people here are disagreeing with it.
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by ajg1977 16y ago
Ditto. Unless you're looking for bar work, or something where job seeking involves actively canvassing locations, then even if you did move to city XYZ your job seeking would largely still be performed online. It would also be foolish to mo
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by ajg1977 16y ago
Because you CAN churn out HTML5 in different text editors (or Dreamweaver) doesn't mean they're a GOOD way to generate rich content. While I think Flash (the authoring tool) is a bloated mess, it's light years ahead of anything that exists
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by ajg1977 16y ago
I refer you to my last sentence: What would be the benefit in this when tools for building rich HTML5 apps are non-existent?
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by ajg1977 16y ago
A better article would be "Why Wired Didn't use HTML5 for their iPad App". Since that probably wouldn't have the same link-bait worthy title, I'll write one here. Why didn't Wired use HTML5? 1) a) it was built by Adobe who build it on Flash
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by ajg1977 16y ago
It's pretty much standard operating procedure for many sites that cover Apple news. Some of them even repost with a "we think this is bullshit, but we'll run it anyway" angle to try and cover themselves. When then thin shred of possibility
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by ajg1977 16y ago
"There is no reason why 'It’s free' should work better than 'Sign up for free'" Actually I disagree. The phrase "sign up for free" contains some hint of a potential "but", similar to "free to join" or "download trial for free", or other car
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by ajg1977 16y ago
"We do not share your personal information with people or services you don't want." Apart from all the personal information that Facebook doesn't allow you to hide from non-friends, non-Facebook members, and search engines.
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by ajg1977 16y ago
Sorry, but RWW's subtext that this is nothing more than regular referral URLs is disingenuous. Providing advertisers with personally identifiable information, particularly information that can be used to both gather additional data and targ
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Who woulda thunk it, fact checking is popular(voices.washingtonpost.com)
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by ajg1977 16y ago
This certainly doesn't seem like AppEngine for small businesses - $8 per user (capped at $1k) per month seems like a heck of a lot if your service doesn't require much in the way of processor/storage.
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by ajg1977 16y ago
So I wonder how much this is going to cost. The fact that you have to either call AT&T or visit their website is a big indicator it's not going to be free.
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by ajg1977 16y ago
I think you're probably just being snarky, but it is a pretty great marketing concept. After all, it's not always the case that product->quality == marketing->quality.
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by ajg1977 16y ago
Shocking! Next we'll probably find out that the guy from Video Professor doesn't actually have a doctorate..
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by ajg1977 16y ago
And when it launched, Quake 2 supported software rendering at fairly respectable framerates. My point is that for applications that requires any degree of processor power javascript will struggle to match native hardware that's many generat
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by ajg1977 16y ago
Clearly they will, assuming you are willing to wait a few generations of hardware for them to become powerful enough. I think there's now a Javascript port of Quake 2 that's just about playable on a modern PC. That game's 13 years old.
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by ajg1977 16y ago
the reasons, at least from Microsofts POV, are pretty well detailed and mostly involved backward compatibility and fidelity concerns. For example, and I forget the exact numbers, at the time the OOXML spec had in the region of 300 pages of

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