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by fierarul 16y ago
Or you could buy a licence for /dev/null which supports unlimited write-only storage. No internet required.
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by fierarul 16y ago
My wife created her Facebook account to play some Zynga game a colleague was playing. Later on I had to make a Facebook account in order to be a neighbor to this Zynga game. At least 3 other people in our circle use Facebook only for and du
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by fierarul 16y ago
Why not link to the official Google chart directly ? http://developer.android.com/resources/dashboard/platform-ve... They also seem to have a "Screen sizes and Densities" page which is new to me: http://developer.android.com/resources/da
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by fierarul 16y ago
Not sure how complex it is, but combining HTML5 Offline Application support with an extension of the cache manifest to include signatures is what I have in mind. At this point Apple will have an exact version to review with their process an
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by fierarul 16y ago
>Imagine for a second if Apple rolled out the ability to pay for anything on the web (that made it past a review process-- ha!) with your iTunes Store account? I also believe this will happen quite soon. Developers will just digitally s
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by fierarul 16y ago
http://richard.stallman.usesthis.com/ It's quite humbling to see the hardware he is using (9" display) just because it's all that runs entirely on free software. In almost every other article people seem to love gadgets and have a lot of
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by fierarul 16y ago
So where does one signup for free .edu accounts ? ;-)
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by fierarul 16y ago
Not until you can run it inside another browser (Google Chrome Frame excluded).
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by fierarul 16y ago
It's not like the whole industry is fighting Apple, they are all fighting for marketshare. I this the Motorola co-CEO Sanjay Jha is correct: > I've always felt that owning your OS is important, provided you have an ecosystem, you have a
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by fierarul 16y ago
I dunno, I pay for extra storage on GMail (and the rest of Google's services) and I don't think it removes the ads. It's just extra storage.
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by fierarul 16y ago
Any reason why you tried so hard to no have the jar run directly upon clicking on it ? You seem to use Main-Class in the MANIFEST, why the magic first argument ?
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by fierarul 16y ago
Strangely enough there is no Amazon URL for this thing. You could use their Ajax-y page on http://status.aws.amazon.com/ and then manually click on the error icon to see the explanation for EC2 on May 4th / 8th, or you could use their RSS
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by fierarul 16y ago
It might be just me but this august 2009(?!) article is stating the obvious. Let's put this another way: "design for the state of the art systems".
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by fierarul 16y ago
I think you kinda explained the problem Greece is having because there are in the Euro zone as well as the hint towards the possibility of an exchange rate between virtual currencies. This should make forex much more interesting...
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by fierarul 16y ago
That's why sometimes spending too much time just talking to the customer, outlining and drafting some spec just isn't worth it. Get on the hourly as soon as possible and then take as long as the customer feels it's necessary to have the per
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by fierarul 16y ago
Weird to see a "tl;dr" text in the original article. But, why put it at the end ? And, actually, why not replace this with a proper abstract after the title. It's old-school, but would be much better.
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by fierarul 16y ago
You should see some of my generics code... Of course in Objective-C I would use casting so, indeed, it might be more verbose overall.
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by fierarul 16y ago
> To achieve a magical sense of childlike wonder that you have a hard time differentiating from megalomania: Objective C I felt no childlike wonder while doing Objective C and this compared to Java. It's less verbose, but it's nothing
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by fierarul 16y ago
I read a few days back that the European Central Bank also owns a lot of Greek bonds. So it might have a big impact on the financial institutions in the EU. Here's a google result from FT: http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/c60cba60-2246-11df-9a72-
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by fierarul 16y ago
Indeed, I read the article after reading your comment and there is no insight or anything really, just a hint of a rant. Here's a nice quote from the article: > You can buy one of Apple's various really overpriced notebooks, but the o
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by fierarul 16y ago
>This is a lot like how I became a vegetarian. Me too, except that after about 3-4 months I restarted eating meat and I've been dreaming of going back to vegetarianism ever since. So you can't actually willfully induce these 'sudden' de
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by fierarul 17y ago
Interface guidelines and look and feel matter a lot less when you are making a game doing OpenGL. This is a big market where Flash apps could have competed quite nicely with the Objective-C apps and Apple is blocking that for no actual reas
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by fierarul 17y ago
How do you know something is substandard just because it's made with some other library / language ? Especially with an "yet to be created" library / language ? If you think "the market will figure this out" (which I think in itself is wron
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by fierarul 17y ago
People are ignoring the media aspect to all of this. You do not want such a public case to go unpunished or ignored by the state. If some random phone gets lost obviously you aren't going to spend too much resources on this because there ar
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by fierarul 17y ago
>Of course, there are legitimate and severe problems with "the Muslim world" with respect to human rights, and nothing should stand in the way of criticizing this, just as we aren't afraid to criticize the governments of China or the US
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by fierarul 17y ago
Indeed, Firefox uses too much RAM, I'm into my first week of almost entirely Chrome usage.
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by fierarul 17y ago
Using an SSD is clearly noticeable compared to the normal laptop hard drive. Login is faster, normal applications launch instantly (the icons in the dock almost don't bounce). After enough RAM is the best upgrade you could get. Well, techni
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by fierarul 17y ago
Then they aren't doing a great job given they did choose to create the foundation in the US. When in Rome...
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by fierarul 17y ago
Didn't Google actually introduce mapreduce into the mainstream and thus Hadoop is just an open-source clone of Google's system ? Given that patents are a way of live in the US, why wouldn't Google patent this ? Would you prefer someone else
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by fierarul 17y ago
Oracle also uses Mercurial a lot (through Sun).

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