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by baconner 15y ago
"There’s not really any reason why you shouldn’t submit your App to Amazon’s alternative App Store." There are a ton of reasons to think twice about whether you want to be in the Amazon app store in the developer contract.
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by baconner 15y ago
I agree. My all time rates are 18.2% returns, 2.5% payment declines. But that 18.2% as I understand it are customer initiated order cancellations.
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by baconner 15y ago
I don't see how you can hang payment declines on Google. Customers failing to enter valid credit card information is just an ecommerce fact of life.
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by baconner 15y ago
Another android dev with (much) lower volume here. Curious how you know about errors driving that 20% number. Is there a report somewhere with this detail or is it just inferred from customer emails? The only failures I ever see come throug
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by baconner 15y ago
I don't see the problem. Its an all volunteer org and not even a formal non profit at this point as I understand it. They're planning to use donated developer/statistician/visualization designer time to help other non profits make better se
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by baconner 15y ago
Beyond the Java point I suspect the ease of releasing frequent small updates on android fits the way they do development better.
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by baconner 15y ago
Curious: have you noticed any bump in downloads on the market since the new version started rolling out? Sounds like no.
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by baconner 15y ago
I've long suspected there's some kind of madlibs for PR that all these companies use.
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by baconner 15y ago
I know this is a bit of a nitpick but am I the only one who cringes every time a new developer site like this requires logging in to look at a code sample or download an sdk? If you want developers to spend time and money enhancing the valu
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by baconner 15y ago
This is hilariously impractical. Who is going to service these things? When summer hits can you stand a huge hit in processing power when everyone turns their servers off?
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by baconner 15y ago
I was on JSTORs side of this argument until I read your comment. If its funded in part by taxpayers then the data they produce ought to be at least in part taxpayer property.
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by baconner 15y ago
I suspect the reason is at startup the person making the final decision on hardware actually has to use it and is intimately familiar with what's being done on it. At a big org with say 1000 developer's that's not the case and at 1kish savi
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by baconner 15y ago
Yep. That's exactly the kind of diasterous shadow system I'm talking about and a good example of how the issue is cultural as much as technical. It'd be tremendously difficult to keep all those spreadsheets telling the truth all the time. Y
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by baconner 15y ago
To be fair its been years since I've touched access so maybe its much better now than it was. Also perhaps I'm blaming the paintbrush when I should also be blaming the painter which is going on regarding PowerPoint in this thread. That said
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by baconner 15y ago
I was about to say this... access is by far the worst thing in office.
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by baconner 15y ago
Its nice to see some good design advice for android getting out there. The reputation for poor usability on the platform is I think driven more by designers treating it as a secondary platform than it is android being difficult to create go
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by baconner 15y ago
I disagree with the headline. It is not "spying" to record the police in public any more than it is spying for them to record you with a dashboard camera. Both recordings should serve the same purpose - to create a record of events that can
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by baconner 15y ago
Confession: I still miss the original TF.
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by baconner 15y ago
In fact breathalyzer based ignition locks already exist. http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/Science-Fiction-News.asp?NewsN...
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by baconner 15y ago
Here's to the possibility that the era of automobiles being a significant cause of death is coming to a close.
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by baconner 15y ago
Me too! I've still yet to meet a real live .net dev who is actually panicking.
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by baconner 15y ago
Overblown .net developer panic in 3...2...1...
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by baconner 15y ago
The "shadow markets" in this article reminded me of the "shadow systems" we often run into in the business intelligence space. Except instead of rouge, hidden, and prone to error spreadsheets it's rouge markets. Because the logic is effeciv
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by baconner 15y ago
Vivek wasn't the CIO of data.gov as the headline implies. He was the CIO of the united states. IMO Its a real shame to see him go. Data.gov and other important projects like the federal it dashboard and his efforts to reduce wasteful spendi
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by baconner 15y ago
I wonder what value this provides to his constituents that his website, email, or the existing open Congress app doesn't already do better.
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by baconner 15y ago
Is that periodic table of data visualizations brilliant trolling? I truly hope so.
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by baconner 15y ago
Remember the big stink about being able to bring your us cellphone number with you to a new provider? The new era of consumer cloud data looks like its going to take customer lock in to new heights. IMO it's time to start rallying for a uni
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by baconner 15y ago
The lesson isn't "never mess with your landlord" so much as it's "choose your landlord carefully because they have a lot of power to mess with you."
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by baconner 15y ago
Putting aside the technology and schema decisions they've made IMO its great to see these three throwing their weight behind some common metadata even if it does step on some toes. Now if they'd only add some schema targeted towards downloa
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by baconner 15y ago
Amazing sense of entitlement in this comment. Google built the apis, they host the apis, they incur costs from this yet provide them for free. Presumably this is because they intend to get some benefit. So its Google's decision if they want

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