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by codeka 13y ago
I find it kind of interesting that the first comment on the article says they wouldn't be able to answer the questions by they use an ORM. I'm not really a fan of ORMs, personally, because I don't think it's useful to try and "map" a relati
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by codeka 13y ago
You'd be surprised how many people claim knowledge of relational databases but who could not answer those questions.
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by codeka 13y ago
If you're not going to trust that Google will keep a service around for 2+ years, why would you try some random startup to be around in 2 years time?
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by codeka 13y ago
> That sounds unbelievable It's unbelievable because it's not true. They're dropping XMPP federation , which outlook.com never used anyway. What outlook.com has done is they've added an XMPP client that lets you connect to Google's s
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by codeka 13y ago
The buttons appear in the subject line in your inbox, so you can click them without opening the mail first. I think the use cases are fairly limited, but I can think of a few interesting ones (for example, bugzilla notifications could link
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by codeka 13y ago
So 6 million Windows Phones in a whole quarter, compared to 6 million Android phones in about 10 days... yeah, they're going great .
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by codeka 13y ago
Of course, that's certainly not Larry Page's fault...
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by codeka 13y ago
Sure, but it wouldn't take a lot of tuning to update a bot to read the animated frames and then you're back to square one. In fact, with 20-odd frames and only three (entirely upper-case!) letters to select it looks very easy to develop a b
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by codeka 13y ago
The form is actually in an <iframe>, and the iframe content is completely unstyled, so presumably if your browser's default font is sans-serif then you won't see it. Quite sloppy, IMO.
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by codeka 13y ago
According to their website[1], it's supposed to be H.264 video, but it's clearly an animated GIF. [1]: http://nucaptcha.com/features/security-features
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by codeka 13y ago
It's ES File Explorer, they just recently had a UI refresh. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.estrongs.a...
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by codeka 13y ago
He's referring to a classifier that can tell the "quality" of a site, not the size of the brand.
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by codeka 13y ago
Do you have anything to back that claim up? You're on hn every time there's a Google story talking about how they're killing smaller sites, acting monopolistic, violating anti-trust regulations or whatever, what is your motivation?
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by codeka 13y ago
Off topic, perhaps, but to add something other than "me too" to the discussion, can we talk about this: http://imgur.com/KfBxO9U.png ? Can we all just agree this is a bad idea and stop doing it?
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by codeka 13y ago
Actually, Google Docs suggests spellings the same way Google Search does. It's actually quite cool: http://lifehacker.com/5895252/googles-new-spell-check-is-cra...
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by codeka 13y ago
PHP is the #1 feature request on their tracking page (and has been since almost day 1). I assume/hope that it's not so much that people want to use PHP on AppEngine as it is they want to use popular PHP applications (WordPress and so on).
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by codeka 13y ago
> Imagine if app developers could send more data (images, videos) through push notifications, or even receive simple responses (“Yes” / “No”) from users without requiring users to launch the application itself. You can do this today on
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by codeka 14y ago
Wait, I thought Conservapedia was a joke?
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by codeka 14y ago
I'm not sure why Apple would play police for Twitter, though.
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by codeka 14y ago
> OAuth just doesn't work with locally installed applications That's not really true, Twitter just has a broken model where they want to authenticate the application as well as the user... The rest of your comment is quite spot on, th
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by codeka 14y ago
Or that episode of the Simpons where Marge saw "SUGAR FREE DONUTS" until Apu added a comma between "sugar" and "free", and explained that it was actually sugar with free donuts.
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by codeka 14y ago
This seems like a classic example of Betteridge's law of headlines...
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by codeka 14y ago
"You just have to pay for support and you get support? I don't believe it, there must be more to it than that!" Whether you believe it or not, a Premier account is what you need if you want support. You could argue that $500/mo is too expen
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Banning Injunctions for FRAND Patents Can Make Smartphone Wars Worse(groklaw.net)
1 points by codeka 14y ago|0 comments
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by codeka 14y ago
I think the author's use case is actually quite rare these days. I personally don't dual boot any more, much preferring to run other OSes in a virtual machine. Then I don't care what filesystems they use internally, all shared data is share
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by codeka 14y ago
Chrome on Android handles it just fine, though I'm not sure what specifically you're referring to (Chrome on iOS is just a wrapper around UIWebView so it doesn't really count). Also, on iOS there is a ~300ms delay between taps and the "clic
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by codeka 14y ago
This wouldn't be the primary development device. This is what you take to meetings and on the train. Googlers all have pretty beefy development workstations for the "real" work.
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by codeka 14y ago
It depends what you're working on. If you're doing heavy client-side work (e.g. WebGL) then a beefy client is preferable to a beefy server. I agree though that I probably wouldn't buy this for development work. But I do think that browser's
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by codeka 14y ago
I'm not sure why this is only coming up now, it's been this way since day one. I do think this is the best way (making the developer the merchant) but perhaps it should be better communicated.
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by codeka 14y ago
They are apps he has installed. You don't call the Internet Explorer icon on Windows an "advertisement" do you?

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