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by fpgeek 14y ago
If you don't know where to start, you might try the Hacker News Google+ community.
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by fpgeek 14y ago
On Android, my personal pet peeve are apps that don't bother to handle their own links. Fine. You've made a special mobile app for your site and "convinced" (i.e. nagged) me to download it. If your app is so gosh-darn wonderful, why the fsc
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by fpgeek 14y ago
An important corollary (learned painfully) is: Never take a counter-offer. There are reasons you went out into the world, found an alternative and decided to take it. Even if money was part of the motivation, it's not the sole reason. Money
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by fpgeek 14y ago
The WSJ seems to be more targeted with their paywall than other papers. Some articles are still behind the wall even with the "Google trick": http://searchengineland.com/wsj-pulls-back-on-what-google-se...
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by fpgeek 14y ago
I found this quote from the project's letter about the situation impressive: "Providing full refunds means we will have to absorb a hit for both credit card (3%) and Kickstarter fees (5%) totaling over $11,000. Today we asked Kickstarter fo
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EU will charge Samsung 'very soon' in Apple antitrust case(mobile.theverge.com)
1 points by fpgeek 14y ago|0 comments
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by fpgeek 14y ago
You also might ask: How did the US get to the top in the first place? It was not exactly known for respecting English and German patents in the 19th century...
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by fpgeek 14y ago
Why It Doesn't Matter If You Pay for Software, Sparrow Edition http://mattgemmell.com/2012/07/21/entitlement-and-acquisitio...
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by fpgeek 14y ago
You're right. Suggesting that Gmail is merely an enterprise-quality mail system is crazy. It wipes the floor with every other enterprise mail system I have ever used.
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by fpgeek 14y ago
Oh, by the way, I wouldn't trivialize what Google's doing with autocomplete. The way Google works on reliably guessing user intent from limited, often noisy input makes a huge difference on mobile. To take one example, search interfaces tha
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by fpgeek 14y ago
True, but releasing a beta of your potential replacement (for example), is another way of acting.
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by fpgeek 14y ago
I didn't say Google did everything themselves. That would be ludicrous and, AFAIK, no one does that. I said that gathering more data yourself can be easier than integrating disparate data sources. In other words, direct data gathering is
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by fpgeek 14y ago
As mapping professionals have observed, it isn't as simple as just having more and better data sources. Putting together a solid mapping solution from many disparate data sources can be harder than gathering more data yourself (i.e. there's
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by fpgeek 14y ago
From what I understand the policy is roughly: If you are selling something that can be used "outside" your Android app, then you are not required to use Google's payment processor and you can avoid the 30% cut. Amazon (and other ebook vendo
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by fpgeek 14y ago
Not the poster's fault, but the original title is ignorant at best and deliberately deceptive at worst. First, Samsung did exactly what Google suggested to Cornerstone / CyanogenMod - make it an optional extension that apps can opt into.
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by fpgeek 14y ago
The claim isn't that LTE has better battery life vs 3G. Instead it is: LTE battery life with today's SoCs vs 3G on today's SoCs > LTE battery life with last year's SoCs vs 3G on last year's SoCs with the suggestion is that the improveme
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by fpgeek 14y ago
> So often in reading those transcripts I wanted to grab one of the lawyers and scream in his face, "you idiot!! What the hell is wrong with you?!? Are you stupid????" I can think of a couple of reasons that don't involve lawyers being
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by fpgeek 14y ago
Data points like this always make me wonder what the non-game part of Apple's app store (and Google's, Amazon's, GetJar's, ...) looks like. Is there any good data on that?
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by fpgeek 14y ago
It's not an AT&T-specific problem. Lots of carriers in other countries do this too. That's why unlockit.co.nz exists in the first place.
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by fpgeek 14y ago
http://www.androiduipatterns.com/ Granted, the community is smaller and the starting point is substantially lower (e.g. getting developers of iOS ports to read the Android design guidelines in the first place), but it is the same kind of
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by fpgeek 14y ago
The jury isn't really in on Maps yet: First, nearly all iPad Minis sold to-date are the WiFi model that doesn't have GPS. Given that, I find it very hard to believe that the quality or even, quite frankly, the existence of an iPad Mini Maps
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by fpgeek 14y ago
Whether your code will run well on a phone depends on which browser(s) you test in. The entire apps stack is also being implemented in Firefox for Android (it was Firefox Aurora as of September): https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Ap
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House Republicans retract copyright paper in less than 24 hours(boingboing.net)
0 points by fpgeek 14y ago|0 comments
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by fpgeek 14y ago
Hacker News is a global forum. A universal health care system that includes contraceptive coverage is nowhere near radical by worldwide standards. Plenty of countries have exactly that.
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Google modifies Android SDK [terms] to battle fragmentation(news.cnet.com)
50 points by fpgeek 14y ago|21 comments
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by fpgeek 14y ago
Amazon sells a lot of Kindle books that are read with the iOS application. Amazon hasn't sold any books on the iOS application for over a year (and, arguably, never has because even before the IAP controversy the Kindle app buy button sent
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by fpgeek 14y ago
I don't think it's obvious whether or not having Google apps on iOS helps or hurts Android market share overall. On the one hand, you have people who might otherwise switch to Android to get particular features of the Google ecosystem they
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by fpgeek 14y ago
It depends. Samsung has promised a pretty big Jelly Bean rollout: SGS3, SGS2, Note, tablets and even some phones going directly from Gingerbread to Jelly Bean without stopping at ICS (e.g. Galaxy Beam). If they keep those promises (and that
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by fpgeek 14y ago
I'm a bit surprised that CM10 isn't more stable on the international SGS3. The official update has started and the associated kernel source is out. Those are usually the two big roadblocks.
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by fpgeek 14y ago
I'm not saying there isn't a problem. I'm just saying the problem can be perceived differently even by people who don't understand what's going on under-the-covers. If people generally spend most of their time in IE/Chrome/Firefox,Word,Exce

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