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by codeka 14y ago
I don't know if the camper website is differentiated by region, or if I'm looking at a totally different website ( http://www.camper.com ?) but I'm not seeing what she's seeing at all. I see a pretty standard e-commerce website with no "lo
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by codeka 14y ago
It would be interesting to note what the standard deviation is on those figures. My guess is it's quite high, which does give Facebook a bit of breathing room.
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by codeka 14y ago
The thing I don't understand is, for all that DDG does, there's really nothing that Google and/or Bing couldn't just copy wholesale if it were really that great. The ONLY thing DuckDuckGo can do that Google won't is "privacy" (maybe "less a
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by codeka 14y ago
Yes, that's one option. But the question is then "who do I ask?" If you don't understand the field yourself (at least to some degree) it's just as easy to get suckered into asking the wrong person for an opinion. It's hard to say, though, w
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by codeka 14y ago
I never saw this one the first time around, but the judge's ruling sounds crazy to me. It basically boils down to "I don't understand this, so it must be patentable." I'm really staring to rethink my opinion on those "learn to program"/"don
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Make Google pay more tax (in Australia)(afr.com)
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by codeka 14y ago
Like eljaco, I was using Chrome on Android. When I switch to the built-in Android browser, then I get everything on a single page. That seems like a really fragile way to build a mobile site, and I don't really understand how splitting the
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by codeka 14y ago
Am I the only one reading this on a mobile? How do they get away with splitting the article over no less than 12 pages, two or three paragraphs per "page"? I read the first page and gave up because I'm not going to sit there while its loadi
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by codeka 14y ago
I'm happy to give Apple the benefit of the doubt here, maybe it was one individual working on their own and not part of some "company policy", but I don't really see how you can "mistakenly" add a word to a dictionary.
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by codeka 14y ago
I once worked on a redesign for a site, and one of the sections I worked on was the "photo gallery" section. I had a beautiful JavaScript-based photo gallery which had nice transitions between photos, it was pretty slick and nice and fast.
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by codeka 14y ago
The thing I don't get is, rangeCheck doesn't actually _do_ anything. If it was taken out, the code would still function exactly the same, you just wouldn't get a nice exception when you pass in the wrong parameters (it'd still be an excepti
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by codeka 14y ago
On a slightly different note (from that same Groklaw article), I like Oracle's defense against Google's claim that they didn't have access to the patents in question: "Access? Google organizes the world's information! Of course they had acc
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by codeka 14y ago
I don't see how that's even possible. As soon as you start adding friends and "liking" things, there's no way to do that and be "private".
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by codeka 14y ago
The only problem with the <picture> element is how to address backwards compatibility? The srcset attribute is backwards compatible because old browsers will just ignore srcset and use the src, but old browsers will ignore the <
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by codeka 14y ago
Ah I see, that would explain it. Personally, I'm waiting for them to fix contact sync on Android ICS. That's the only reason I have the app installed...
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by codeka 14y ago
The 21k reviews is for "this version" -- there's actually nearly 2 million reviews for "all versions" with an average of 4 stars. The Android app has 3.2 million reviews (averaging 3.6 stars - 600,000 or so are 1 star). So it doesn't seem a
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by codeka 14y ago
So I just had a look at the update, and I count 30 Android devices and 26 iOS devices. Obviously there's plenty of doubled-up devices in the iOS cupboard, but it looks like a couple of the Android devices are doubled-up as well. My own app
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by codeka 14y ago
Firstly, it's not the headline I'm talking about. The whole tone of the article is "this is what developing for Android is like." Having to test on 400 devices is NOT what developing for Android is like, AT ALL. So you talk to many of the t
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by codeka 14y ago
Then why not frame the article as "this is a hilarious photo that shows the length that one Android developer is going to in order to ensure maximum compatibility", rather than "this is what it's like if you want to make an Android app"?
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by codeka 14y ago
The article has been updated since that comment was posted.
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by codeka 14y ago
Because supporting IE is not like running a shop?
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by codeka 14y ago
> We never changed the actual feed schedule, but just changing the time for daylight savings was so incredibly awkward and contorted we had to summarize the steps from the manual on a separate piece of paper as a "cheat sheet" Not reall
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by codeka 14y ago
You shouldn't need to do anything. From what I can gather, it uses a similar system to google's "Did you mean?" algorithm, which means it basically works for all languages (and also even for words like "derp" and "pwnage" which you would ne
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by codeka 14y ago
That was added in the same update, I believe. Now in the "File -> Page settings" dialog there's a "Set as default" button.
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by codeka 14y ago
Oh, you're right! I only wondered because of what I've been reading about the case, since it was mentioned a few times. Though I guess the same question could be asked of GNU Classpath, which as far as I can see is still actively maintained
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by codeka 14y ago
You can run other JVM languages on Android today. The Android compiler take Java byte code and translates it to Dalvik byte code. See here for Clojure: http://dev.clojure.org/display/design/Android+Support "Works out of the box with 1.2.0
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by codeka 14y ago
One question is what will happen with Apache Harmony? From what I've read of the case, Apache have basically done the exact same thing that Google did, but Sun/Oracle never bothered to go after them. How will that project survive with the p
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by codeka 14y ago
I think there's a big difference between 30-40 domains not being used for an honest reason, and 15,000 domains purchased for the specific purpose of reselling them at a higher price. And that's only 15,000 bought over a two-day period. How
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by codeka 14y ago
I think the problem is he comes here every couple of weeks and writes almost the exact same rant [1][2][3]. People are tired of point-by-point responses because they know he'll just be back a couple of weeks later and write the exact same t
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by codeka 14y ago
Exactly. And when you're pumping out half a dozen titles, each with wildly different performance charactistics and no idea which will bomb and which will be a huge hit, it's not really worthwhile to be overly thorough with any single title

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