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by cooldeal 14y ago
Interesting Google week so far. 1) Discontinuing Google reader 2) Retiring CalDAV support 3) Removing ad blocking apps from the Play Store 4) Replacing Android chief Andy Rubin with Sundar Pichai. 5) Dropping support for sending chat invit
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by cooldeal 14y ago
Well, at least they had some women on stage, unlike the PS4 launch event. http://www.theverge.com/2013/2/21/4013500/no-women-onstage-a...
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Samsung GS4 launch: Tone-deaf and shockingly sexist(news.cnet.com)
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Web advertisers attack Mozilla for protecting consumers' privacy(consumeraffairs.com)
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by cooldeal 14y ago
From Gruber's article: >By profit share, on the other hand, according to Canaccord Genuity analyst T. Michael Walkley, last year Apple took 69 percent of the handset industry’s profits; Samsung took 34. For just the last quarter, the nu
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by cooldeal 14y ago
>Telcos aren't huge fans of Skype, as a rule--it doesn't quite jive with their values. Values? You make it sound as if it's ethical values. It more like they're trying to stifle innovation instead of becoming dumb pipes like ISPs. >
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by cooldeal 14y ago
Not really, but in this case, they have failed to give any justification for not following a standard that industry giants like Apple follow and which Microsoft is close to implementing on Windows Phone. Perhaps there is a technical reason,
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by cooldeal 14y ago
Is there any stated reason for deprecating CalDAV support? I hope the new Calendar API is open enough for platforms like Blackberry, Ubuntu Mobile, Jolla and Firefox OS etc to tap into. It's increasingly looking like Google is making it ha
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We're Building A Reader(blog.digg.com)
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by cooldeal 14y ago
>Windows Phone 8 doesn't even run the same kernel as the previous version (breaks compatibility) Windows Phone 7 apps run fine on WP8. Anyway breaking compatibility is a tad different from fragmentation. If your app runs on a WP7 phone,
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by cooldeal 14y ago
>fragmentation exists, how do we make the best of it? >The idea that every person on the planet is going to use the same phone with the same capabilities and the same size screen is a fantasy world iOS developers live in. There are
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by cooldeal 14y ago
So you mean Google picked popularity over consistency and sold out to the OEMs and carriers for the sake of marketshare? Android is the pretty much the only OS where this is such a big problem, unlike Windows, OS X, Windows Mobile, Blackber
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Update from the CEO(googleblog.blogspot.com)
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Google Seen Passing Apple in Tablets as iPad Loses Ground(bloomberg.com)
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by cooldeal 14y ago
I think both Flash and Java updates(99% of PCs have them) install Chrome by default.
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by cooldeal 14y ago
>I've had articles I've sent hours writing and issued DMCA takedown notices Just because something took you hours by itself doesn't mean that it's protected under copyright law. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweat_of_the_brow Of co
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by cooldeal 14y ago
This post is completely independent from the LayerVault/Flat UI fiasco. This is a post by one of Designer News' posters about a post on HN. Designer News happens to be hosted by LayerVault and they have as much to do with this post as YComb
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Google tipped off EU authorities over Microsoft’s $732M browser boo-boo(gigaom.com)
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by cooldeal 14y ago
The web App Store descriptions and reviews appear to be low contrast to me. For example: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/wordament/id580935508?mt=8
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by cooldeal 14y ago
I think Amazon pays a lot for 3g downloads. Perhaps they should charge the publisher less if the user downloaded the ebook via Wifi.
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by cooldeal 14y ago
Here's the comparisons. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5332635 It's certainly not a verbatim copy or even close.
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by cooldeal 14y ago
My best guess is that most designers are young ones(contrast perception decreases with age) using (retina) Macs (which make fonts look thicker than in Windows). They then assume it looks good everywhere(or plain just don't care about Window
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by cooldeal 14y ago
Of course such things are educated guesses and have sampling bias, but they aren't even trying to measure the same thing. This is from an earlier comment: One big difference is that NetMarketShare tries to measure unique clients, while St
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by cooldeal 14y ago
>Once a virus got on your machine, that was pretty much it. And Microsoft wasn't doing much to stop the infestation. For a long time they didn't even see it as their problem. In retrospect, it was the computer equivalent of Three Mile I
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Top Gear row: Tesla loses appeal over Jeremy Clarkson review(guardian.co.uk)
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by cooldeal 14y ago
Please get some contrast and also test your site on computers that don't have retina displays or are not Macs. http://contrastrebellion.com/
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Apple loses title of most valuable company to Exxon(mercurynews.com)
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Xbox Live premieres its first movie(betanews.com)
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by cooldeal 14y ago
I believe this explains it: One big difference is that NetMarketShare tries to measure unique clients, while StatCounter measures web page hits. Since the power users browse (probably a magnitude of order) more web pages than the normal use
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by cooldeal 14y ago
The graph seems to be assuming that an immigrant becoming a citizen suddenly makes them America's "best and brightest" and are no longer included in the temporary workers' column. I don't seem them getting filtered out to make the compariso

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