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by bergie 14y ago
I experimented with Literate Programming in PHP two years ago: http://bergie.iki.fi/blog/literate_programming_with_php/
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by bergie 14y ago
A question is how much Microsoft wants to be in the business of making Android tablets... http://www.zdnet.com/microsoft-barnes-and-noble-joint-ventur...
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New look: Firefox OS(brandingsource.blogspot.co.uk)
2 points by bergie 14y ago|0 comments
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by bergie 14y ago
Same here. High-resolution tablets are great for reading comics and web pages (and for reading code in Vim!), but for real long-form reading, e-ink is unbeatable. I have a Kindle Paperwhite 3G for this purpose that always travels with me. I
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by bergie 14y ago
Interesting, all the Berlin exit nodes are in a place that is a huge construction area on the Museum Island. Based on this I suppose they were only able to do city-level positioning (GeoIP or something similar).
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Elegant Ubuntu Touch OS impresses for phones and tablets (hands-on)(reviews.cnet.com)
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by bergie 14y ago
...at least until the technology becomes small enough. Though I'm not sure it would be good to keep a GPS/GSM/3G/LTE antenna blaring next to your skull the whole day.
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by bergie 14y ago
The line "If you have a phone in your pocket, why wear this? And it doesn’t seem to replace the need to carry a phone." applies to both Glass and smart watches equally. Both are wearable screens augmenting your phone, though the Glass has
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by bergie 14y ago
Yep, the 3G hardware (especially the battery) is still to big to fit such devices, which is probably why Glass also will just tether to your smartphone. But "spy cameras" with internet connection certainly exist already: http://www.3gspyca
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by bergie 14y ago
You may want to ask the 70,000 people who put money into the Pebble smartwatch Kickstarter... http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/597507018/pebble-e-paper... Here are the arguments Tog makes for an "iWatch": http://asktog.com/atc/apple-i
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by bergie 14y ago
It is unlikely to Google will build factories to make the Glass, either. It might be a Google-branded product (like ChromeBook Pixel), or something they'll license to other manufacturers (like Android), or a hybrid of these (Nexus). Time wi
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by bergie 14y ago
There have been covert cameras available for creeps for a long time. And these are a lot less noticeable than Glass... http://www.thinkgeek.com/product/f03a/
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by bergie 14y ago
Besides, Gruber will rationalise why wearable screens are the next iPhone whenever iGlass comes out :-)
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by bergie 14y ago
Well, eventually the author may have to get one if this succeeds. There is quite a strong social pressure for people to get mobile phones, Facebook, whatever. Just imagine the conversation starting with we do our company staff meetings dai
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by bergie 14y ago
The supply problems seem to be solved now, BTW. I've been able to order several Nexus devices in the last couple of weeks, each arriving within two-three days of the order. Except the one DHL broke on the way, of course...
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SailfishOS SDK(sailfishos.org)
4 points by bergie 14y ago|0 comments
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by bergie 14y ago
I tried this by setting an artificial constraint of build a CMS interface, no forms allowed when originally building http://createjs.org This was useful as it forced us to look for approaches outside the traditional CMS space. And as qu
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Sputnik 2 is here: Dell XPS 13 Developer Edition goes 1080p(bartongeorge.net)
9 points by bergie 14y ago|2 comments
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Why We Need Storytellers at the Heart of Product Development(uxmag.com)
1 points by bergie 14y ago|0 comments
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by bergie 14y ago
I'd agree otherwise, but GNOME is a bad example. In the last couple of years they've rewritten a lot of their stack. All APIs are now on GObject Introspection, the GNOME Shell is a completely new thing, written in JavaScript, new set of def
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by bergie 14y ago
Sure, you need both. Private talent and public money. Private money would often work, too, but there is very little of that to go around in Finland.
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by bergie 14y ago
It may be a cause or effect of this, but the open source culture has fractured in the 2000s to many smaller projects or libraries instead of these huge mega-projects (say Linux, GNOME, KDE, Mozilla, OpenOffice) that mostly come from the 90s
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by bergie 14y ago
Anybody funding ventures will mostly fund ones that end up failing. The question is how much value or employment the few that succeed generate.
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by bergie 14y ago
It was fashionable in the late 90s dot com bubble to give stock to Linus Torvalds and other open source luminaries before your Linux company went public. In 1999 Red Hat and VA Linux, both leading developers of Linux-based software, presen
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by bergie 14y ago
Governments can think a bit further ahead than typical venture capitalists... it is not about making an exit year from now, but instead ensuring that there is enough tax revenue coming in when the current generation of workers retires. In F
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by bergie 14y ago
Yep, I've heard that they made dozens of games before Angry Birds took off. I would like to think that this shows the sort of long-term view the government R&D grants can give you. Which VC would let you continue after, say, ten failed
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by bergie 14y ago
Having a lot of stuff can slow you down. Here is the set we moved to Berlin with (two people, both programmers): http://www.flickr.com/photos/bergie/7662550710/in/set-721576... Of course, since then stuff has accumulated a bit, especially
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by bergie 14y ago
Firefox Mobile has Adblock Plus available.
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by bergie 14y ago
Yeah, and usually a compliance test suite. And nowadays browser vendors even seem to be quite active in implementing these things. See for instance http://blog.chromium.org/2013/02/hello-firefox-this-is-chrom... and https://hacks.mozilla
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by bergie 14y ago
While a lot of the web is still horribly broken on touchscreen devices, it should be noted that the situation is getting better. The popularity of iOS and Android devices means that a lot of even regular websites now have to pay attention t

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