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Reddit Sync has been removed from Google Play(reddit.com)
3 points by codeka 14y ago|0 comments
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by codeka 14y ago
This may be slightly off-topic, I'm not sure, but I was just reading Apple's patent on pinch-to-zoom[1], and in claim 8 (which is the one the jury were instructed to rule on) it says: "determining whether the event object invokes a scroll
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by codeka 14y ago
My understanding is that there were two jurers who were unconvinced about the prior art thing. It seems to me like what actually happened is that, rather than trying to convince those two jurers (i.e. coming to a unanimous decision), they j
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by codeka 14y ago
I don't think I've misunderstood anything. I'm not saying patents do not work like this, I'm saying they should not - its my opinion that the way the system currently works is broken and it should not have been possible to get a patent
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by codeka 14y ago
> Apple revolutionised the industry - before the iPhone we were using tiny screens with Nokia SMS interfaces or Motorla RAZR Even if that were true, the problem for me is Apple didn't patent the iPhone. They patented tiny little impleme
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by codeka 14y ago
Why discount Microsoft's contribution just because "if they didn't do it, someone else would have"? If that's how you think, then nobody's contribution to the world is significant, since "somebody else would have done it."
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Motorola's ITC Complaint Against Apple, With All the Trimmings(groklaw.net)
4 points by codeka 14y ago|0 comments
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by codeka 14y ago
I thought the sorting of comments was based on the votes for that comment in that thread, not based on the average karma of the poster. Is that not the case?
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by codeka 14y ago
He left out the most obvious one: press the power button on the front of your computer.
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by codeka 14y ago
The thing I hate is when people make excuses for it. Especially when those people purport to represent the company that made the mistake: > Besides, 16 character long password can have 2.8 nonillion possible combinations. You are more l
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by codeka 14y ago
Do you mean that the victim-blaming is what these people actually believe and therefore it's a form of "truth"? That we can say victim-blaming is wrong but the truth is, there's a lot of people out there who blame the victim for rape and
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Apple asked Samsung to pay as much as $30 per Android phone(theverge.com)
1 points by codeka 14y ago|0 comments
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by codeka 14y ago
> Well, in order to help me (and no doubt others) to learn further, would you be able to produce what you consider as good html that produces a page that looks effectively the same? I've actually considered writing a sort of "proxy" web
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by codeka 14y ago
It "works", but not without copious zooming and scrolling. Clicking the vote buttons in particular is a kind of challenge I don't like subjecting myself to and I actually find I vote on comments much less frequently on my phone than on my d
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by codeka 14y ago
The main problem for me is it makes the site pretty painful to use on a mobile browser. With proper markup and good CSS, the site could easily be much more usable on a smaller screen.
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by codeka 14y ago
The really horrible part of this story is all the effort he went to, trying to make his app compliant but all in vain. Is there no way to just ask "if I do this or that, will it be acceptable?" rather than just blindly trying things and res
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by codeka 14y ago
On the overview page(1) they explicitly call it "a JavaScript cloud scripting language". As far as I know, there's no practical difference between Apps Script and JavaScript (except one runs on the server and one runs in the browser). (1):
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by codeka 14y ago
"Effective immediately" is common for VP and CxO level positions. Remember Marissa Mayer quit Google and started at Yahoo! the next day . You're right though that "everybody is still friends" is boiler plate and doesn't actually mean anyth
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Lon Seidman gets YouTube takedown notice for public domain video from NASA(plus.google.com)
87 points by codeka 14y ago|56 comments
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by codeka 14y ago
I really do think these things should be separate, with separate enabled/disabled settings. Especially on the iPhone/iPad where a lost device (i.e. behind the couch or something) is far more common than a stolen one.
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by codeka 14y ago
Not only that, but McDonalds is the official restaurant of the Olympics. Surely I'm not the only one who sees the irony in that?
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by codeka 14y ago
Well, either way it's deep-fried potato. It does seem really stupid though. Are you going to go to a fish-and-chips shop, ask for "chips but no fish", get told that they're not allowed to sell that, and then say "OK, we'll go to McDonald's
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by codeka 14y ago
I also don't really understand the benefit here. Who actually tries to remember people's email addresses? For that matter, who even tries to remember twitter handles?
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by codeka 14y ago
I would buy your argument if we were talking about a gradient. But this isn't a gradient, it's an anti-aliased line. The CSS describes a step transition from #eee to transparent, but because it's on a diagonal, the browser is anti-aliasing
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by codeka 14y ago
It's 30 cents: http://support.google.com/accounts/bin/answer.py?hl=en&a...
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by codeka 14y ago
> We don't scan your email content or attachments and sell this information to advertisers or any other company They're saying they don't scan your email to sell information to advertisers, that doesn't mean they don't scan it for viola
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by codeka 14y ago
> This question has been asked in an Oracle interview. I don't usually sit on the side of fence that complains about "write a function that does X" style questions in interviews, but I can't see how this is useful at all . This just se
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by codeka 14y ago
Nobody is saying it is. However, this is the reality in a surprisingly large number of corporate environments. I have to support a lot of enterprise customers in my day job, and working around corporate firewalls is a large part of the issu
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by codeka 14y ago
> In fact the only real possibility that leaves any credibility whatsoever is that the stored password is being decrypted then compared to the password provided at logon using a non-case sensitive comparer. You can do case-insensitive p
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by codeka 14y ago
So they actually say the passwords are not encrypted in that email, which is quite different to what they say on twitter. I wonder if they're using a reversible encryption now, or (perhaps more likely) they just don't know what they use.

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