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1. 571.▲
   by estel 15y ago

   I've just spent a while reading the most recent of the discussion threads linked from there, and they're just further examples of the hostile and insular communities that form around far too many open source projects. Frustrating to read, p
2. 572.▲
   by estel 15y ago

   That just goes back to the far more fundamental point of writing emails (or anything else) for your audience. One should always write for their audience, not some given set of rules.
3. 573.▲
   by estel 15y ago

   I don't see anything in that statement equivalent to "hired". Is there another source that indicates this?
4. 574.▲
   by estel 15y ago

   Thanks. That was superseded in my mind by "you can now see contextual information".
5. 575.▲
   by estel 15y ago

   I guess this is a staged rollout, as I can't see it on any of my accounts? (Including a corporate one) Also, how does this affect the positioning of adverts that currently fill this space?
6. 576.▲
   by estel 15y ago

   In terms of usability, the one-tap pay systems that are rolling out (certainly in the UK) for low value transactions (no PIN or signature required) with bank-issued debit/credit cards is a huge leap forward with respect of speed of transact
7. 577.▲
   by estel 15y ago

   Given that stalled adoption thusfar seems to have mainly been a Catch-22, these might well be the same thing.
8. 578.▲
   by estel 15y ago

   I'm not sure why grandparent comment was deleted, I don't think it's unreasonable to say that the iPhone introducing NFC could well be a catalyst to the vast majority of handsets following the trend.
9. 579.▲
   by estel 15y ago

   All Nexus S phones, I believe, came with the PN65 secure chip: I'm not sure what could be missing from them that's needed by Wallet.
10. 580.▲
    Google Offers - Portland, NY, SF(google.com)

    3 points by estel 15y ago|0 comments
11. 581.▲
    by estel 15y ago

    Also http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2568192
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    Twitter and users sued over UK injunction breaches(guardian.co.uk)

    8 points by estel 15y ago|3 comments
13. 583.▲
    by estel 15y ago

    I am yet to encounter a UK opinion that Fosters is anything even vaguely approaching a "good brew".
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    by estel 15y ago

    There was an interesting talk at I/O that focused largely on the Eclipse WYSIWYG tools that I was watching earlier. Having mostly done my best to ignore them before now, the tools are looking in a much better shape than they once were. htt
15. 585.▲
    by estel 15y ago

    Though I do keep getting "The Spotify Updater is trying to install the update, but didn't succeed The error message is: The system cannot find the file specified. (2)" From the actual application? In what way does the app interact to cause
16. 586.▲
    by estel 15y ago

    I'm getting "Internal error message: Socket io error: Error #2031", which I'm guessing is a result of high traffic? Edit: nevermind, stopped now. Might have been because I had the real client open?
17. 587.▲
    by estel 15y ago

    That's pretty hard to do though: providing valid demo Spotify Premium details would be just the sort of breach of TOS that would cause spotify to come down on the site like a tonne of bricks; and non-real Spotify Premium details would be al
18. 588.▲
    by estel 15y ago

    You wouldn't expect to "receive hardware to install" for a software launch, other than a small number of posters, banners and other promotional paraphernalia.
19. 589.▲
    by estel 15y ago

    The announce could be Thursday, and product launch on Sunday.
20. 590.▲
    by estel 15y ago

    I think the first comment ( http://eu.techcrunch.com/2011/05/16/which-startup-is-cleared... ) gets it right: Europe have produced plenty of huge startups, as you'd expect, but they've almost all sold to larger US companies rather than rema
21. 591.▲
    by estel 15y ago

    Please don't link to linkbait blogs. Their source, complete with sentences that actually make sense: http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2011-05-12/fa...
22. 592.▲
    by estel 15y ago

    Isn't this just a bit of an overreaction? An MS provided feed of one of their press conferences is provided in Silverlight? Of all the indicators for future Linux Skype support, this has to be a pretty poor one...
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    by estel 15y ago

    The title is pretty inaccurate, the article is quite specifically about Graphics programming, not games programming.
24. 594.▲
    by estel 15y ago

    I'm a fan of the British Rail Space Vehicle: http://worldwide.espacenet.com/publicationDetails/biblio?CC=...
25. 595.▲
    by estel 15y ago

    At I/O, didn't they say that those music cube things were running Android? It certainly looks as if they're planning on moving in that direction pretty soon.
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    Android Movies (US only)(market.android.com)

    25 points by estel 15y ago|9 comments
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    Is 'open' killing Android?(bbc.co.uk)

    7 points by estel 15y ago|1 comments
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    by estel 15y ago

    It's remarkable in this context how one of Sony's primary strengths for the Playstation franchise has always (certainly PS1/PS2) been having the broadest third-party support of any console out there.
29. 599.▲
    by estel 15y ago

    Neither of the main political parties (Labour, Conservatives) want to support STV because it will greatly diminish their power in Parliament, therefore there will be no possibility of it being on the agenda either in this Parliament or at a
30. 600.▲
    by estel 15y ago

    Nine hours!? I'm stacking up the caffeine for Election Night Special... (Which only has devolved results, but still).