benlower

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1. 31.▲
   by benlower 11y ago

   Well I guess I should add "Firefox user since 2004" to my resume then :)
2. 32.▲
   by benlower 11y ago

   Why only 50% of the ad spend? I think the article makes the case that all ad spend is moving to digital. Probably not ever reaching 100% but a lot closer to 100 than to 50.
3. 33.▲
   by benlower 11y ago

   Cool project. How long until the norm of video capture is 3D? Funny that they put the nose & mouth on it to "reduce creepiness". I found it had the opposite effect on me.
4. 34.▲
   by benlower 11y ago

   Should we be worried about this? Sounds like there's some growing pains at Github but is this really trending toward some kind of meltdown?
5. 35.▲
   by benlower 11y ago

   thanks for clarifying. i read it as "you have no idea what you are talking about" and missed your hyperbole completely. sorry about that :)
6. 36.▲
   by benlower 11y ago

   This is the most interesting story I've read in the build-up to the Super Bowl. Much more interesting than all the fluff pieces about an obscure, special teams player.
7. 37.▲
   by benlower 11y ago

   i thought MSFT was merging in Sunrise features into Outlook, which I find to be terrific on iOS for mail and calendar
8. 38.▲
   by benlower 11y ago

   one of your sentences is actually true.
9. 39.▲
   by benlower 11y ago

   HL does it great
10. 40.▲
    by benlower 11y ago

    true about black so colors might look different.
11. 41.▲
    by benlower 11y ago

    TechCrunch had a piece on this today ( http://techcrunch.com/2016/02/02/ar-startup-magic-leap-raise... ) I find it interesting that the top image (of the floating robot) has the text saying "no special eff
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    by benlower 11y ago

    Is IPFS proprietary? Have they even gotten far enough along yet to really know? OneDrive having a web client doesn't make it open. If you think about OD as just a way to access and share files then it's probably open since the web
13. 43.▲
    by benlower 11y ago

    yes was nearly impossible to buy one for me here in US
14. 44.▲
    by benlower 11y ago

    Everything you say here is 100% true. Mozilla believes in the open web and, I'm speculating, they didn't like the direction of closed mobile ecosystems so they had a go and tried a different approach. I applaud them for trying.
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    by benlower 11y ago

    Fair points. I think it's more nuanced. Native apps are great and necessary for many scenarios. However, there are a ton of native apps that could be just as functional as a responsive web site. Sure there were issues with discoverabil
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    by benlower 11y ago

    IMO the bigger reason to lament the loss of competition here is the app model: Firefox OS was pushing for "apps" to be web apps. That seemed a lot more open to me than pushing for apps to be proprietary (Android, iOS, Windows, etc
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    by benlower 11y ago

    10 PRINT "Knock, knock." 20 PRINT "Who's there?" 30 PAUSE 10000 40 PRINT "Java" 50 END
18. 48.▲
    by benlower 11y ago

    Microsoft continues to shoot itself in the foot here. Nearly two years ago at BUILD they announced universal apps for Xbox One. A year later the new term, Universal Windows Platform (UWP), was being used and another promise of opening up X
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    by benlower 11y ago

    I'm saddened by this because I am not a fan of the current state in mobile where everything is an app. I liked their idea of having 'apps' be about the open web. Sure, native apps can be great but I don't want to be lock
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    by benlower 11y ago

    Verizon has paid many billions of dollars to license spectrum over the years. It is in their business interest to charge customers $10 per GB of data while offloading the traffic onto free spectrum. Qualcomm wants to sell millions of new
21. 51.▲
    by benlower 11y ago

    Sees the world in buckyballs. Never played with an actual ball.
22. 52.▲
    by benlower 11y ago

    This is great news. Now all we need is a proper terminal in Windows that includes Python out of the box ;)
23. 53.▲
    by benlower 11y ago

    Here's a video presentation from I/O that has more background on the doodle https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ttavBa4giPc&hd=1
24. 54.▲
    by benlower 11y ago

    I met Marcin at SXSW back in 2011 where he talked about this project (and other doodles). Some more info is here http://searchengineland.com/behind-the-scenes-with-googles-d... . Also invited him to come speak at Microsoft
25. 55.▲
    by benlower 11y ago

    this reminds me of iPython. similar?
26. 56.▲
    by benlower 11y ago

    All these comments, while interesting, miss the point: how on earth does one trust Google with their router? Google makes some great products but their entire business model requires them to hoover up more & more data from customers
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    by benlower 11y ago

    Requires VS so you're out of luck on OSX (see the relnotes at https://nodejstools.codeplex.com/releases/view/614706 )
28. 58.▲
    by benlower 11y ago

    (Speaking as someone who knows the folks behind the project) Actually, the reason this exists is because Peli, Nikolai and some other folks wanted to create a way to program your phone using only the phone (i.e. how do you make apps for you
29. 59.▲
    by benlower 11y ago

    I google things using Bing. How can I get this to work?
30. 60.▲
    by benlower 12y ago

    Thx for sharing that. That article says nothing about SCOTUS ruling so I wonder if this will eventually be challenged at the highest court. I can't imagine a business owner going to prison as you suggest.