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by derekerdmann 15y ago
NASA's putting quite a bit of effort into educating the public, or at least, more than they were a few years ago. I'm hoping things like this and the Lego sets they built will get us interested in space again.
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Clever use of location and user-agent data(florianbersier.com)
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by derekerdmann 15y ago
Fake. The hardware shot came from a recent article by Paul Thurrott on the Windows start button: http://www.winsupersite.com/article/windows8/windows-8-secre...
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by derekerdmann 15y ago
If there's anything we've learned from the Engineering Blogs, they don't make major changes like this unless they have some kind of data that supports it. I suspect we haven't even seen half of the things that will make this paradigm work,
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by derekerdmann 15y ago
Nope, this rumor was put to bed by Nokia multiple times already, including this response to this same source: http://www.slashgear.com/microsofts-nokia-smartphone-divisio...
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by derekerdmann 15y ago
If you use the new WinRT runtime to build a Metro style app, you get both architectures without any extra work.
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by derekerdmann 15y ago
"And even if you have an existing traditional Windows app, if you have to rewrite it, are you really going to choose the Windows platform? Probably not. You'd just go with Apple or Android." Um, why? If you're rewriting it, why would you ch
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by derekerdmann 15y ago
Very cool, but I'd hesitate to use it on a production site - it's really jerky if the scroll isn't fluid, like on most PC's.
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by derekerdmann 15y ago
Because people pay for it. Welcome to the free market.
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by derekerdmann 15y ago
This isn't mentioned in the article, but the Venue was only approved because Dell added additional security features to Android. I don't recall what the exact changes were, but I believe that if those features were added to the Android cor
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by derekerdmann 15y ago
Perhaps we're moving to a point where rather than use one search engine for everything, we learn how to use the best ones for few distinct categories of searches. It puts a greater burden on users to know what to look for, but it eliminates
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by derekerdmann 15y ago
Tip 1 is misleading. if you're using Java package conventions (like com.example.myapp), you won't have any conflicts because you own the domain name.