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by biafra 17y ago
"Kündigungsschutz" (employment protection) is actually something different. It basically means you can't be fired except for one of three reasons: 1. Reasons in your behavior. For instance, if you steal from the company. 2. Reasons in your
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by biafra 17y ago
3 month to end of the quarter was more common in past in germany. And it goes both ways. Its actually to protect you as an employee. Its a contract thing. If you had wanted you could have changed that before signing. But its not unusual for
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by biafra 17y ago
I think Google will do nothing about this. If the Yahoo users are not satisfied jwith the non-google experience they will install apps from then android market that do use Google or whatever they wish to use. It would be interesting to see
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by biafra 17y ago
How do I use HNSearch without Firefox? When I click on the link I only see a page where I can install a Firefox extension.
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by biafra 17y ago
The real reason why Flash is not on the iPhone or the iPad is: Apple gets 30% for every purchase in the AppStore. With Flash on the iPhone many could go around that. This is also the reason why there are no interpreters or a JVM on the iPho
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by biafra 17y ago
That would work on the ipad too, wouldn't it? But I too, think that the missing multitasking is a problem for this device. I think this is something Apple will change soon. They will not change their app store policy. This is the main reaso
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by biafra 17y ago
Firehose gives you all the tweets in almost realtime. Its the big brother of the gardenhose. Its not publicly available. I would like to know what the conditions are to get it. Is just asking nicely enough?
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by biafra 17y ago
Cripple the phone? Only T-Mobile? You can use it on almost any GSM/3G network in the world (instead on only AT&T). How is that crippling the phone?
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by biafra 17y ago
Writing a Hacker News Android Client? I think I will start without an API anyway. Most of the things I need to do should be possible with the RSS "API".
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by biafra 17y ago
I can think of some more pros. 1. My development machine, being a notebook, is always too slow. Being in the "cloud" this could be fast enough for building and deploying. 2. My internet connection at home is too slow for fast turnaround (1
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by biafra 17y ago
Here in Europe we have subsidized mobile phones that are not SIM-locked. You have to sign a 2-year (or more) contract though. Why is that not possible in the US?
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by biafra 17y ago
Subsidized phones do not need to be locked to one carrier. In most of Europe most of the phones (with contracts) are not. The subsidy is protected by the contract period. This seems to be different in the USA.
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by biafra 17y ago
zsh can even tab-complete remote paths when typing your ssh command line. (You should have an ssh-agent running or else you might be prompted for the password when hitting tab) zsh might not be the last shell you ever need. Have a look at t
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by biafra 17y ago
With Symbian code signing can be done with an easily obtained developer certificate. At least it was easy and free when I tried last. BUT: For a lot of the interesting APIs you need more than that. To send ICMP Packets you need a manufactur
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by biafra 17y ago
It's really annoying to find out what you cannot do with non-signed midlets. For example: 1. Your app cannot browse directories without the user being asked for permission on every change of directory. Try deveweloping a file browser with t
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by biafra 17y ago
Yes, the Android Market is not open. But the Android OS nonetheless is. If you buy the Android Dev Phone 1, you can modify and compile the source as you wish and flash it onto that phone. No "hacking" necessary. If you buy a locked-in versi
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by biafra 18y ago
Trackers do not "know" if the content they are tracking is "illegal". They only have a hash over the content. Not even one ore more filenames. So IMHO Trackers are not "at fault".