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by fpgeek 14y ago
And the risk of the move is that the "slackers" aren't the only ones who will quit. The productive work-from-home employees might quit, too. After all, they're the ones who are most likely to resent the change in policy. If you were slackin
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by fpgeek 14y ago
I think the logic behind the nursery probably does apply to most Yahoo employees with young children. But that's an argument for on-site day care (does Yahoo offer it?), not working from home.
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by fpgeek 14y ago
Why should "loser pays" be limited to patent trolls? I understand that they're the least sympathetic players is a patent system, but a bogus patent lawsuit is a bogus patent lawsuit. I would even argue that, in many cases, a company trying
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by fpgeek 14y ago
Are you serious? Just off the top of my head, how about... - Simplifying the initial setup? - Making the default configuration simpler to understand? - Dialing up logging to make your initial configuration easier to monitor / debug? - Perfo
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On the "slow, slow, slow" point, I didn't realize how slow iTunes was until just now. I recently got a couple of HD movies for my Nexus 7 from Google. I didn't really think that much about downloading them, just stuck the pin and they were
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I partially agree with you, but I'd like to point out that, from some points of view, launching the iPod was Apple's first step in their current direction.
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Every time people imply that Nokia's choice was binary, I want to scream. It wasn't. Nokia was a big company with a solid cash stockpile. They had the resources to try more than one thing. That they didn't is the real management failure.
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I think Nokia could have built a good-enough content ecosystem. Nokia had a decent music service in many countries. I've even bought from them (for a song that wasn't available in the US stores I normally use). Finding a partner for books w
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Have you run into the travel restrictions others in this thread have mentioned?
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That's a cool trick - almost as clever as the trusting trust attack itself. And (thinking of other contemporaneous debates), an excellent example of the advantages of a having diverse set of implementations of the same building blocks.
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Given the spread of the device APIs that Mozilla was forced to develop for Firefox OS, I think it is clear that Firefox OS has already done more for Mozilla's mission than maintaining the previous embeddings ever could.
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There are similar complexities in the iOS world. It's just the particular details that are different. See, for example, http://developer.apple.com/library/ios/#documentation/Langua...
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> If Mozilla really wants diversity, why haven't they made an effort to make Gecko attractive for embedding, thus providing an alternative to WebKit? I think Mozilla's announcement makes their reasoning fairly clear: https://groups.goo
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Just because Google gave them $1 billion doesn't mean it impacts their priorities (see: Apple and the rumored billions Google gives them for being the iOS search engine placement). It also matters what other offers are on the table. I bet M
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by fpgeek 14y ago
I think you missed an important point. OP is not arguing people should be using Firefox or other Mozilla products to "fight monoculture". OP is arguing that in order to deliver browsers (and other products) with compelling advantages in a w
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Correction: For the NYT's business, their reputation for integrity is what's important, not the actual integrity of their work. For example, it could be better (or just safer) for that reputation to make up a story that agrees with the co
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If you buy a TV via Amazon Marketplace, the seller of the TV certainly gets similar personal information (otherwise they can't ship it).
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And while they give you the burden of being the merchant of record, they also give you capabilities Apple doesn't (e.g. carrier billing, control of refunds, ability to reply to reviews, etc.). It's a different bundle, with different trade-o
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by fpgeek 14y ago
Order status issues for apps? How about: - the download failed, did I actually purchase it? - has my refund been processed (note that the current setup lets developers have refund policies that are more generous than the Play Store's 15 min
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by fpgeek 14y ago
Being unhappy isn't likely to change Opera's decision, of course, but... the reaction to Opera's decision is likely to influence other players. For example, the difference between "bring on the monoculture" and "this is a sad day for web st
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Does Iran-Contra ring a bell?
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> As a dark-skinned man who oftentimes sports a beard, I'm treated like a terrorist every single time I walk through security. To them, I'm a second-class citizen - no question about it. As a dark-skinned, long-haired main who (usually)
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I wonder if, ironically, rendering engine diversity is something where the slow, incoherent Android update mess is actually a good thing. To the extent that "whatever WebKit does" gets defined as "whatever ugly, lowest-common-denominator th
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I wonder if Opera will consider open-sourcing it, or if it (typically) has too many problematic dependencies for that to be worthwhile.
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> But most people do not cancel their contract after one > month; they just wait out the term because carrier quality > rarely changes so quickly that it's worth eating hundreds > of dollars in termination fees
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> Equivalent service from the same provider is typically > charged at the same rate, regardless of whether the > customer has a contract. That's my point -- since there's > no difference in service price, it's sil
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Java was a great choice for the technical goals the Android engineering team was trying to achieve (cross-architecture portability, easier transition for non-mobile developers, etc.). The problem was that those technical goals turned out to
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This oversimplification isn't useful and is getting old. If mom and pop don't use the new products Google comes up with, the advertisers will spend less money and/or eventually leave. The incentives are not so nearly misaligned as you sugge
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Ouya console will be sold at Best Buy, Target and GameStop(theverge.com)
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Yes, compass heading can be queried through the browser: http://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/device/orientation/ As of April 2011, the article claims various degrees of support from mobile Chrome, Safari, Opera and Firefox. There's als

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