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by barranger 14y ago
It never ceases to amaze me how fast microsoft has been iterating with Azure, With Scott Gu running the team things have gotten even better. As for the latest release just the change from that hideous Sliverlight management console is reaso
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by barranger 14y ago
I'm pretty sure it's a case of Codeplex is going through a massive overhaul[1]. The addition of git support seems to be the first step. [1] here's a preview of the new look they are moving to: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/codeplex/archive/2012
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by barranger 15y ago
That's good to know. Is the front end code that is coming from Firefox for Android just for the windowing gui or is the rendering engine the same as well?
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by barranger 15y ago
My comment was more on the actual nav bar and the icons contained within. Especially for a browser, I really don't think that the nav bar is where you want to be standing out. Look and feel the way the user expects and get out of the way.
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by barranger 15y ago
Glad to hear that Firefox is looking at providing a Metro Themed browser (even if it's just to get away from IE), but looking at the icon set from the pictures, I think they are missing the boat on the Metro style.
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by barranger 15y ago
>Not discussing user interface design, it's about visual style. Button should look like a button, but not so much like other site that user confuses your site with someone else's. If you are relying on the style of your buttons to disti
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by barranger 15y ago
was the media stored in blob storage? From the article it looks like storage accounts weren't effected, just the management api and ~4% of service accounts.
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by barranger 15y ago
I wonder if this has more to do with Google's push for WebM/VP8 as the defacto standard for HTML5's new video tag? Surely they don't think that Microsoft will pay these fees and will be forced to remove support for H.264
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by barranger 15y ago
Oh I fully agree that I don't completely understand value branding, it's just that with Apple it goes to a new level. There was an odd Web video floating around (link escapes me) of an animated customer talking to a sales clerk looking for
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by barranger 15y ago
It's articles like this that basically sum up perfectly why I refuse to discuss anything Apple with people. Don't get me wrong, I like many of the products that Apple make (I'm currently typing this up with a MBP), however the personal conn
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by barranger 15y ago
As a very happy xbox 360 owner, I'm glad Microsoft doesn't subscribe to this mindset.
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by barranger 15y ago
or move to the private sector to work on these projects
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by barranger 15y ago
I've built quite a few WP7 apps now, some for clients, some for fun. It's really a shame that the phone hasn't had even decent sales numbers as IMHO it has the best developer experience (yeah I know, end users don't care about the dev exper
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by barranger 15y ago
Note that this isn't directed at you personally, but rather towards the instant gratification culture at large: I'm sorry, but "They took forever to update to iOS5"???? A quick google search shows that iOS5 was released on October 11th 2011
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by barranger 15y ago
They can, however it really isn't as smooth an experience for the user and Microsoft knows this well. One only has to look at how it works for Xbox Live Arcade games for an idea on how seamless this is. Give the user enough so that just as
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by barranger 15y ago
You do realize that this is in regards to the store for Windows 8 that runs on the desktop (as well as tablets)?
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by barranger 15y ago
excuse my ignorance with these questions, but this is something I've been wondering every time I see an article like this (specifically the batteries needed for solar). 1) shouldn't we be concentrating our efforts on reducing the requiremen
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by barranger 15y ago
I've never quite understood this "I don't know what it is, but I hate it" attitude. Have we really gotten ourselves into the situation where we have to blindly follow the PR from our favorite phone manufacturer and piss any competing announ
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by barranger 15y ago
Haven't had a chance to test it out, but how is it different than Poker Smash: http://marketplace.xbox.com/en-US/Product/Poker-Smash/66acd0...
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by barranger 15y ago
When reports like this talk about total number of apps (which is almost always less than what the platform holder announces) I often wonder if the report is only looking at a single region.
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by barranger 15y ago
Looks good. Makes me want to start playing around with the Kinect sensor more though, I'd imagine it'd be relatively easy to remove the need for the hat
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by barranger 15y ago
Interesting to see one of these Architecture blog posts for a site running on the .Net framework. Does 9.5-10 Million hits a day make them the largest .Net backed site?
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by barranger 15y ago
The lack of MonoTouch/MonoDroid is the first thing that I noticed. While c# may not be everyone's cup of tea, it can be used to develop across iOS/Android/WP
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by barranger 16y ago
Nor does Windows Phone, there are already 2 different "other" browsers. The headlines about them restricting it were due a testing error for one app (check the last comment here: http://mobilitydigest.com/microsoft-blocks-alternative-web-
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by barranger 16y ago
While not specifically a phone, the iphone does have ancestry that didn't exactly "sweep the market" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newton_(platform)
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by barranger 16y ago
No they won't. This isn't something Amazon (or another big player) can do, they simply don't have a large enough profit margin to support giving apple 30% of the full purchase price. This will end up being nothing more than another straw on
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by barranger 16y ago
No, but to say that their isn't something to be learned by being poor would be incorrect. I'm sure people will strongly disagree, but nothing replaces the perspective that being down to your last dollar gives you.
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by barranger 16y ago
What performance can I expect from a single instance? I know that your doing shared hosting on AWS Instances, but not sure which EC2 type, nor how many instances are being deployed to each. Without knowing that, it's hard to comment on wh
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by barranger 16y ago
I'm not so sure. They probably make a good amount through both ad revenue and referrals from Fandango, not enough to justify 10 million, but they've said a few times now that Movies are just the first of many verticals that they are looking
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by barranger 16y ago
#1 assumes that "we" all read TechCrunch regularly personally if it's not linked from a story I've read here, I don't tend to read TechCrunch. Nothing against the site, but I find that if it's something that would interest me, it'll find i

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