bradwestness

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by bradwestness 14y ago
If only there were a framework for keeping track of all these frameworks!
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by bradwestness 14y ago
Basically it just lets you drag little Christmassy type icons over top of your uploaded image. Kind of underwhelming, especially since the small dimension limits on uploaded files means you're basically going to obscure your entire logo wit
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by bradwestness 14y ago
I actually have a Kin One and I really like it. The web browser kinda sucks because it's based on IE 6 but the messaging and actual phone parts are great and I love the UI.
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by bradwestness 14y ago
If you have a PayPal account, having a bookmark for PayPal is not any more secure than typing paypal.com into your browser's address bar.
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by bradwestness 14y ago
Yeah, the hover trick is only recommended for looking at URLs in e-mails before clicking them (no sane client would execute JavaScript contained in an e-mail), but really you should just never click a link in an e-mail anyway and open up a
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by bradwestness 14y ago
I'm not really shocked by the slant to the advertisement. However it's interesting because Amazon is the world's largest online retailer, and they're using their advantage in that area to push their products, now that they make products. Se
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by bradwestness 14y ago
It's also a weird marketing tack to take since "thinness" doesn't really matter on a desktop system. It's another example of Apple's impressive ability to shift the conversation (as polshaw mentioned above) when their products don't come ou
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by bradwestness 14y ago
I'm holding out hope that Google is going to release an actual Metro-tailored UI for Chrome around the time of Windows 8 GA instead of the current thing which is basically just desktop Chrome locked on maximize.
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by bradwestness 14y ago
It's going to take a while, but they are definitely going to keep moving in that direction. I think it's safe to expect future versions of Windows to continually de-emphasize and virtualize the desktop (much like what they did with DOS). Re
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by bradwestness 14y ago
Judging by current trends, the number of versions of Windows available for purchase is tripling every week! By Christmas we'll have 59,049 versions of Windows to choose from!
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by bradwestness 14y ago
Yeah, there's no way they don't make an exception for legitimate mature rated games. The restrictions are just there so they have something they can point to when they reject malware apps or apps that are blatantly promoting violence or dru
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by bradwestness 14y ago
I expected it to be a plugin that replaces all the article titles to either "Vaporware Press Release" or "Trend Article Ending With Question Mark." :P
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by bradwestness 14y ago
I agree, I don't see how implementing the same thing as Twitter but with missing features (like posting via SMS) is supposed to draw away Joe Everyuser. The reason Twitter is popular is because there's a large active community of users and
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by bradwestness 14y ago
Tags: yahoo, Marissa Mayer, home page, joke
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by bradwestness 14y ago
This. People don't even have Windows 8 tablets yet, and the OS itself is still only available to MSDN subscribers. Once the OS and devices hit store shelves development will ramp up exponentially. Most iOS apps weren't developed before the
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by bradwestness 14y ago
The internal name of the design style doesn't really have anything to do with whether people move to the new runtime API.
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by bradwestness 14y ago
No platform can survive without 300 different "Fart button" apps!
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by bradwestness 14y ago
Once someone has access to your e-mail, they can reset your password and log into anything that you used that e-mail to sign up for. With Dropbox, all they'd have access to is whatever files you happen to have in your Dropbox at the time.
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by bradwestness 14y ago
Although each status update is a discrete element, so it's not as if the dual column layout really matters. I mean, you're not reading a book-- it's more likely you'll read a status update and then expand and read the comments directly belo
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by bradwestness 14y ago
Yeah, I'm mostly curious how this codec stacks up against WebM/VP8 or whatever other free codecs are out there. It'd be nice to see something take off that's less encumbered by licensing issues.
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by bradwestness 14y ago
I'm curious what kind of hardware will be required for playback-- my homebrew'd Wii already has trouble playing back highly compressed h.264 videos. I wonder how much more power will be required to decode high-motion scenes in real time wit
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by bradwestness 14y ago
Yeah, I understand why movie theaters are interested in 5k, but I don't think most people will be able to see the difference on home televisions. Not that that will stop them from making them, but it'll be interesting to see what happens af
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by bradwestness 14y ago
They also likely have a much lower volume of files to manage, being non-technical and all. I could probably get by with the single folder level at home, where I mostly just browse the internet and watch video on my PC, but having to manage
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by bradwestness 14y ago
I like the effect of the monochrome images inlaid in the "slate", though they could just do that with the new Windows 8 logo anyway. I don't think the slate shape does anything to fix his criticism that the new Windows logo looks "visually
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by bradwestness 14y ago
Introducing an entirely new API with Windows 8 is incredibly risky.
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by bradwestness 14y ago
So basically he's just putting the controller methods in their own namespace. Which is all well and good, but I don't think anybody argues that all of your business logic has to be in the controller class for it to be considered MVC.
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by bradwestness 14y ago
Yeah, I've always used MVC with a repository pattern for handling Model operations. The controller is still calling the operations here, and handling events triggered by the user. The O and E in MOVE sounds effectively the same as the C in
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by bradwestness 14y ago
I'm pretty sure it was solely because Zuck happened to have a LAMP host at his disposal at the time.
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by bradwestness 14y ago
The API is what it is, but the real biggest problem with PHP is also it's biggest feature: it's got the lowest barrier to entry of any server-side language. The result is that a lot of PHP is awful, cargo-cult stuff glued together by people
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by bradwestness 14y ago
You just need to find an organization with a culture that fits you well, just like in any other profession. If nothing fits with you, then yeah you probably aren't meant to be in that profession.

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