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by bdfh42 14y ago
JavaScript is going to be the thing at the client end whatever. Otherwise the choice would best be decided by which language you are currently most familiar with - if you can't use that then use the one closest to that. Course if you want t
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by bdfh42 14y ago
My wife always wants the last word as well.
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by bdfh42 14y ago
From my own tests the native browser on my Nexus S (Android 4.1.1) renders in a manner more consistent with desktop standards than Chrome and FireFox on the same device.
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by bdfh42 14y ago
A rather trivial "how to" for an HN audience - plus it will not work as anticipated in at least 1 mobile browser.
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by bdfh42 14y ago
A very nice solution - and I am happy to say I have a little app on the stocks I can try it on straight away.
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by bdfh42 14y ago
HN does not support post down-voting. You can however down-vote comments - as long as they are not replies to a comment of your own. Even then, the number of down votes is limited. With a certain Karma threshold (the value changes over time
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by bdfh42 14y ago
yup broken link - so the up-vote was interesting...
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by bdfh42 14y ago
Using the .NET Micro Framework C# can already run pretty close to the metal - so why not? See https://tindie.com/shops/nwazet/netduino-go/ for an accessible example set up.
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by bdfh42 14y ago
Not much sign of such deals on http://www.amazon.co.uk - pity I could have topped up the kindle. Most are more than the paperback price.
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by bdfh42 14y ago
And then there is the question of what an "event" signifies. I noticed the other day in testing a web app that the Windows Phone 7 browser fires the "keyup" event before the character of the key is added to the relevant text box value - whi
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by bdfh42 14y ago
Solving the problem of how people pay for on line goods and services in a cash society would be a huge winner. Why do you see your business as confined to Algeria? There are a great number of people from Algerian families living in France a
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by bdfh42 14y ago
I think you did the right thing. The (potential) customer wanted to unload a set of obligations onto you - for small compensation. We have a small (Local Authority) customer who keeps trying to get us to indemnify their risks when upgrading
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by bdfh42 14y ago
Post worth it for the final line "It’s still a rich and profitable company and can go a decade or more with a cargo cult corporate culture based on hope that desktops will return"
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by bdfh42 14y ago
The well known technical QA site Stackoverflow can be found here http://stackoverflow.com/ HN is not an appropriate site for this question
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by bdfh42 14y ago
Please don't edit the title of the post - "Is Kickstarer dead for tech?" was not the focus of the Techcrunch item - your title is just "bait".
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by bdfh42 14y ago
Which underlines the lack of any meaningful truth in the key statement.
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by bdfh42 14y ago
Mobiscroll looks great in the Android browser (and on lots of others) http://demo.mobiscroll.com/ - working hand in hand with jQuery Mobile.
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by bdfh42 14y ago
Unless you live in the UK or France (to my certain knowledge) and probably a huge chunk of the world beyond that.
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by bdfh42 14y ago
Very good - I am working with several wifi enabled arduino packages - hoping to link back to a Raspberry Pi using this Kickstarter project http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ciseco/eve-alpha-raspber... which looks likely to get funded.
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by bdfh42 14y ago
I doubt that there is any such thing as a perfect cofounder (I am almost certainly not such a beast myself). The challenge must therefore be to make the best of what you get. Value your team members for what they are good at and try and mak
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Michael Koster Internet of Things Silicon Valley meetup(plus.google.com)
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by bdfh42 14y ago
It does not matter which is fastest as long as both continue to make performance improvements where possible. We now have great performance from JavaScript (a key technology) in all modern browsers - which is the good news.
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by bdfh42 14y ago
There seems to be a growing drive by businesses to promote their own particular view of the "Internet of Things" and to then act as the gatekeepers - making sure all traffic (and thus presumably control) runs through their servers. I have s
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by bdfh42 14y ago
Yes - there are a good number of sensor sets out there and (like this example) quite a few systemic approaches that parley your data through a third party app - but neither approach does it for me at this stage - although something like tha
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by bdfh42 14y ago
There is also a more immediate and practical issue. Each connected "thing" (let us assume sensor for the moment) is supplying a state signal about one thing - this needs coordinating in some way to tell you useful things (like some action n
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by bdfh42 14y ago
Its between £5 and £50 here in the UK - depending on a few factors. You can do it online with a credit card in a few minutes...
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by bdfh42 14y ago
I know what you mean - for a programming learning device then a near instant boot into a programming language style run time (and wow Basic was great for that - I cut my teeth on a DEC PDP 11-70 running RSTSE and the terminal started with t
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by bdfh42 14y ago
This is all very interesting from a nostalgia viewpoint (the Open VMS cluster hit that spot for me ;)) but have we seen much in the way of cutting edge OS work on this device? The Pi gives us a great experimental platform to explore new pos
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by bdfh42 14y ago
I am supporting this Kickstarter because I see it as a good start point for a personal project to explore some OS ideas I have around a "swarm" of interconnected smart sensors with their own processing capabilities. I see this as a useful b
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by bdfh42 14y ago
I think that the overall quality of HN posts has held up very well given the growth in the community size. OK - some of the stuff that I find interesting and which might have got a bigger feature a couple of years back can tend to drop out

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