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by barnabee 9y ago
I have an iPhone, at least from that perspective it's a cheap version of the Gear VR.
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by barnabee 9y ago
I think they're missing the point, Twitter got the display name / username dichotomy right: Display Name: what everyone sees next to your username, no guarantees that you don't change it every 5 minutes though... username:
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by barnabee 9y ago
I've found Liquibase [1] to be really good for this, although the docs don't give much of a hint about how to structure your change sets. If you get it right, it's really easy to manage the DB schema structure and commits to
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by barnabee 9y ago
I have iOS set to replace gg with !g, which makes it a bit more manageable
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by barnabee 9y ago
Agree 100% I'd be OK with a small icon in the address bar to indicate push notifications are available on a site but even one pop up asking for permission is too many.
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by barnabee 9y ago
No problem, I hope it doesn't come across too harshly but it's those little things that can make an app frustrating. It'll be interesting to see when/if hybrid does get "good enough" as there are certainly bene
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by barnabee 9y ago
I downloaded the app (iOS) and even if I'd downloaded it thinking it was something I might use longer term rather than to evaluate the claims in the post, it would likely have been deleted within an hour. It fits broadly with my previo
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by barnabee 10y ago
An extremely arbitrary milestone… it would be a bit more notable if bitcoin's market cap was higher than the total value of all gold in circulation. We're a long way off that [0]. [0] https://twitter.com/ChrisLundk
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by barnabee 10y ago
> UX is optimized for speed, dense display of information, and filtering I often wish more software would make the same UX trade-offs. I suspect this is why a lot of advanced users stick with the command line - a better "pro"
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by barnabee 10y ago
Mission critical does not mean what he thinks it means. Mission critical refers to any component that's vital to operation of a system, business, or project and exists at any software driven organisation. Safety critical is the one whe
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by barnabee 10y ago
I'll take clarity and expressiveness (e.g. how easy it is to deduce intended behaviour) over consistency any day but perhaps I'm missing something? What's the downside of said inconsistency? (Assuming it's trivial to log
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by barnabee 10y ago
Also worth checking out the history of MindAlign [0] corporate group chat software. It's been around since pre-2000 (originally built in house by UBS) and has supported channels, offline chat history, bots and embeddable status widgets
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by barnabee 11y ago
I agree with all of the above but would love to see the "Northern Powerhouse" receive tens of billions (like London) rather than the tens of millions it seems [1] to be getting so far. [1] http://www.theguardian.com&#x2
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by barnabee 11y ago
Making London (or any city) better to live in is a good idea if it's affordable, as is attracting more people to places that have a relative advantage in attracting investment and creating jobs. The terrorist argument doesn't make
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by barnabee 11y ago
Great little project. Some of them clearly wouldn't work but some would be fun to try and make
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by barnabee 11y ago
Same here with a Dell 1760nw (colour laser) - it connects to wifi and prints from Windows, Linux and OS X without issue, cost less than £100 new, no paper jams, and I haven't had to open the spare toner that was included with it yet. I
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by barnabee 11y ago
This idea seems a lot like what GrubClub ( http://grubclub.com ) are doing in London.
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by barnabee 11y ago
I am not sure regarding the block times, but for connecting clients for the purpose of running a simple app, you may be interested in the light client protocol, which according to the link below only requires processing of ~1kb of network d
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by barnabee 11y ago
The argument is "it's an allowable trade off for a hardware product to be locked down and for consumers to decide whether they still want to buy it given the restrictions" not "all hardware must be locked down and all so
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by barnabee 11y ago
We don't remove the possibility of open hardware either, there are options for partially or completely open smartphones (as a quick web search will attest) but the most popular products sold by Samsung, Apple, et al. are not. Equally,
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by barnabee 11y ago
I think it would be hard in practice to allow root access but limit it to people who know what they are doing and understand the risk. People will follow arbitrary instructions to modify settings and enter commands (that they don't und
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by barnabee 11y ago
Most people don't want or need root access to their smartphone but will complain (no matter how much you tell them security is their responsibility when acting as root) when installing random software they found on the internet results
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by barnabee 11y ago
There are many macro risks that can be applied, and people here are right to highlight the bigger issues but LinkedIn's troubles are of their own making. It's a poor business founded on poor assumptions A strange game.. the only w
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by barnabee 11y ago
You may be interested in the NaPTAN (National Public Transport Access Nodes) data which is available for free from https://data.gov.uk/dataset/naptan and will give you lat/long coordinates among other things for e
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by barnabee 11y ago
Not everyone is fully utilised at work, nor does every job's output scale linearly with incremental effort. So while the above is true in some cases (particularly for 'assembly line' type jobs, including programming, where th
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by barnabee 11y ago
1. He is working on things that are hard, rarely attempted and extremely important with potentially huge long term impacts, e.g.: - Making cars electric (Tesla) and electricity renewable (Solar City) which if successful in a big way will he
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Girl Talk in a box and other interactive music tools(static.echonest.com)
2 points by barnabee 12y ago|0 comments
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App uses logo recognition to make charitable giving easier over mobile(gigaom.com)
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by barnabee 12y ago
By 2060: get rid of the trains, track and signals altogether and turn the tunnels into roads. Connected to the road network but exclusively (so they can go as fast and close together as safely possible) for electric self driving cars with s
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by barnabee 12y ago
This makes no sense to me. The algorithms employed by Facebook, OkCupid et al. are not published and presumably changed regularly both to better serve their users and to advance commercial imperatives - apparently this is OK but if you meas

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