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by ary 15y ago
The point that seems to be missed here is that Google is eating their own dog food. Doing such they are hesitant to fix what "ain't broke." Were this merely code that was being thrown over the fence from time to time I'm sure you'd see a hi
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by ary 15y ago
Not exactly true. It supports dictation just like the iPhone 4s.
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by ary 15y ago
I've been looking at Mailgun for an upcoming project, and I must say "bravo" on the new website design.
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by ary 15y ago
People forget why Universal Studios was originally founded. The monopoly envisioned by Edison and company (slowly) gave way to a cartel that arose out of opposition to the incumbent surrounded by a desire to capitalize on untapped opportuni
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by ary 15y ago
Since your evidence is anecdotal I'll point out that there have been a number of "unhappy ending" stories regarding Facebook advertising on the front page of HN over the last year and a half. Perhaps your niche works well with their offerin
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by ary 15y ago
> Why did they choose '[' over '{'? Oddly enough, NSDictionary uses '{'. Who knows, but it seems to mirror Python in that respect. Being a fan of Python I can only approve.
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by ary 15y ago
That’s when Schiller tells me they’re doing some things differently now. Seems to me that not everyone at Apple was thrilled with the one-man spectacle that Jobs made the company into. I'd wager that most of the executives (especially For
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by ary 15y ago
A few years ago developers were bemoaning all the arduous controls as hurdles. Today people cry out for them. I, for one, am thankful that people are at least expecting a higher standard.
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by ary 15y ago
Usability (as I've employed it) is when someone non-technical can derive benefit from something beyond their understanding. Rest assured I've read every line of the GPG man page and then some.
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by ary 15y ago
That's what I'm getting at. Have you tried using GPG? Most "security" products (or projects) have terrible usability. Disclaimer: I work on a "security" product.
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by ary 15y ago
When people have to choose between usability, accessibility, and reliability VS security and privacy they almost always choose the former. My response to this would be "Why do self-respecting open source and security advocates refuse to d
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by ary 15y ago
No where in there did I say that the best employees have to quit and leave for better offers. I'm part of a startup that underpays me (based on job offers I've had since joining) yet I wouldn't dream of leaving. Incentives (and priorities
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by ary 15y ago
This is counter-intuitive from a business standpoint. Managers behave this way because they've learned through experience that: 1) Most of the worst employees hang on for dear life to their jobs and don't dare risk losing them for any reaso
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by ary 15y ago
Since you can sync your contacts with your computer via iTunes, and then sync your new iPhone with your computer, I am genuinely curious as to why you "had" to manually type in this information. Having owned every iPhone except the 3G this
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by ary 15y ago
Don't take the bait.
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by ary 15y ago
Given my personal experience I have to warn people away from HTTP Client. It is bug-ridden and broken. Many of the UI elements break in weird ways during normal use. I had to quit and re-run the application many times just to bring it bac
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by ary 15y ago
On 99% of the projects I've been involved with: Boss: So you can do <anything> in two weeks then? Me: No, what I just talked about is a multi-month endeavor. The reasoning behind this is probably formed from a multitude of influence
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by ary 15y ago
This sprung out of DavisWiki ( http://daviswiki.org/ ). Poking around that site you find that the citizens have a sense of humor. Does your town have a Zombie Attack Response Guide? http://daviswiki.org/Zombie_Attack_Response_Guide
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by ary 15y ago
Ultimately the point was that shell scripting shouldn't be used for "serious" programming. Yet it has been used for decades to accomplish and automate some of the most important tasks on UNIX/Linux systems. I happen to know and work in se
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by ary 15y ago
You (and everyone else who feels this way) need to take a look at the startup scripts for your favorite Linux distro.
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Senseg creates textures on perfectly flat touchscreen displays(theverge.com)
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by ary 15y ago
Google is what happened. Not to date myself, but when I was first learning (BSDi) UNIX Google didn't exist. The first thing the sys-admin who helped me said was, "type 'man'." These days most people just know that if they have an unanswered
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by ary 15y ago
Understood, but what I'm trying to say is that four years isn't a long time. That we got GoldenEye only four years after DOOM is a testament to how fast the industry moves. Edit: Sorry to pull the comment, but my recollection of the release
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by ary 15y ago
The first Modern Warfare came out in 2007... four years ago . It's a little soon to be decrying the entire genre because the publishing companies are wringing all the money out of a waning trend. Remember when there was an endless flood of
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by ary 15y ago
My occasional check of the 'new' page shows that most stories fall off the end of the page and are never seen again. Seems overcomplicated to rig a page no one pays much attention to (I could be wrong, but my anecdotal experience over time
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by ary 15y ago
Apple has been showing "how it's made" videos for a very long time. http://vimeo.com/11899632 (see 35:05 to 39:00).
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by ary 15y ago
I thought this about the first Cars (I've yet to see Cars 2). What you have to keep in mind is that kids loved the first one, and probably the second one too. Even Pixar is going to bow to commercial viability now and again so they can ma
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by ary 15y ago
To be fair I agree with the notion of publisher driven publicity. Perhaps he's obligated. I suppose my real problem is that the contents of the book are being pieced out to the media before it is available. From my past reading about Jobs
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by ary 15y ago
Surely I can't be the only person that wants to just read the book without having Isaacson spill all the beans before my copy comes in the mail. With each one of these excerpts he teases I lose more and more respect for the man. He's riding
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by ary 15y ago
> He has a team of artists who help realise the (visual) potential of the awesome new tech he has developed. The gameplay itself comes second. Heresy, I know, but this has been the pattern for a number of releases and if the id team are

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