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Computing's new shape (2002)(economist.com)
3 points by bergie 13y ago|1 comments
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by bergie 13y ago
I'd go even further and claim that there are no "smartphones" anymore either, just pocket-sized tablets: http://bergie.iki.fi/blog/no-smartphones/
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by bergie 13y ago
You don't often hear the same discussion about train or bus drivers Plenty of cities are getting rid of their subway drivers at least. And if many airport shuttle trains around the world are automated as well.
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The end of the projector(asymco.com)
1 points by bergie 13y ago|0 comments
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by bergie 13y ago
I think this case of denied airspace is more about showing leaders of smaller countries the price of saying no to US demands, than about threatening future whistleblowers. If you're the leader of a sovereign country and try to make d
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by bergie 13y ago
This project sounds sort of promising: https://github.com/bevry/readme-utils
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by bergie 13y ago
The difference is that Nokia is still very good at hardware and industrial design, while many of these companies are not (though they're learning quickly). And Nokia also has still some value in their brand from the feature phone era,
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by bergie 13y ago
Which is not that surprising given that none of the other manufacturers is forced to take WP8 seriously. Sure, they'll happily release some devices alongside their Android offering, probably reusing a lot of the hardware and industrial
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by bergie 13y ago
The Microsoft investment and their promise to port/maintain Office for Mac OS were what bought Apple enough time to come up with new product categories like the iPod.
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by bergie 13y ago
You may want to try this one: http://hallojs.org/demo/markdown/ You can edit in both the rich text editor and in the textarea, and changes will get synced across. That was just a quick demo. There are things that
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by bergie 13y ago
This seems a problem Amazon has as well. Because I bought an extra power adapter for my tablet, the My Amazon list is now full of various power adapters...
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by bergie 13y ago
Not too bad, but in my neighbourhood there are several that accept BitCoin: http://bitcoinhood.wordpress.com/ Here is the sticker to look for: http://www.flickr.com/photos/bergie/9065253249/
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Atomic Web Design(bradfrostweb.com)
3 points by bergie 13y ago|0 comments
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by bergie 13y ago
Exactly the reason why the (much slower) train often makes more sense. Sure, the train from Amsterdam to Berlin is six hours. But you only have to be at the station to catch it before it leaves, and it both leaves and arrives right in the c
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by bergie 13y ago
On the hotel WiFis, the rule of thumb seems to be that the more expensive the hotel, the costlier and crappier the WiFi will be . Most cheap family-run hotels and all hostels have free and good WiFi.
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by bergie 13y ago
In my experience, public WiFi access has been getting more scarce. This is probably caused by the combination of cheaper and more widespread 3G, and the FUD from record labels that people will use your access point for child porn, and you&
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Dont's of Android design(androiduipatterns.com)
2 points by bergie 13y ago|0 comments
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by bergie 13y ago
GitHub shows the projects you contribute to, not only the repositories you own. I would also like to take exception to polluting the open source world . Having more code out there is a good thing. In any case there are already multiple lib
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by bergie 13y ago
In my experience (living in Berlin but not looking for a job), you mainly need to have a strong GitHub profile, and need to show up in some relevant meetups and talk with people. There will be offers.
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Priced out of Paris(ft.com)
150 points by bergie 13y ago|178 comments
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by bergie 13y ago
When I still had an iPad, I spent many long flights playing games or watching films with it offline. But poor comparison in that iPad is a mobile device you're supposed to carry around with you, while the consoles are stationary.
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by bergie 13y ago
They're apparently making about 8$ per Android device on the (secret) patent deals: http://www.zdnet.com/microsofts-most-profitable-mobile-opera... According to Google's 1 billion activated Android devices, that w
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by bergie 13y ago
I don't know if that has improved, but at least a year ago their Linux servers were awfully unreliable. Shame, I really loved the idea of having Microsoft host my Linux systems ;-)
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by bergie 13y ago
Theoretically this could be a content licensing issue. Some music companies for example could prohibit delivery to mobile as they want to squeeze separate money for that.
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by bergie 13y ago
For content sites this is indeed a problem, but for somebody actually selling or providing a service over the web this isn't too bad. After all it doesn't matter if the purchases come from your website or from Yandex Islands, as
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Next Generation Web Layout: National Geographic Forest Giant(html5rocks.com)
2 points by bergie 13y ago|0 comments
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The mobile-first Web(bergie.iki.fi)
2 points by bergie 13y ago|0 comments
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by bergie 13y ago
Cool! Added a link to the Create.js README: https://github.com/bergie/create/commit/24fb0c02d68f9deecf32...
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by bergie 13y ago
There is pretty good countrywide 3G coverage in all Nordic countries. I remember uploading images to Flickr from tens of kilometres from human habitations about six years ago. Also, these countries are very safe. Hard to imagine somebody co
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by bergie 13y ago
One reason for how much software developers are valued is how big part of modern business it is. From the Steve Jobs Lost Tapes in mid 90s: So software is infiltrating everything we do these days. In businesses, software is one of the most

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