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by gcb 14y ago
hum, that's why you avoid clicking wired.com links they all are like that. It's basically TED in print. With expensive watch ads.
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by gcb 14y ago
if you think book knockoffs are amazon's biggest problem, try to buy anything else! it's like browsing dealextreme.com 101% of the non-book products are either: a) not the real brand b) appears on the listing as $3.00 with $17.99 sh
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by gcb 14y ago
You're not supposed to touch your minified js after you generated it
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by gcb 14y ago
if ; (x3B?) and \n (x0A) are the same size, why use ; in minified JS if \n has more "features"
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by gcb 14y ago
hum, i stand corrected on the technicality. but still, he is having problem with his account used for gmail, which he pays. why does he have to pay yet another product to have support for the one he is having problem with? do you have to bu
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by gcb 14y ago
Uh, have you even read the linked article? a PAYING customer of gmail lost his account.
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by gcb 14y ago
wow, people really buy 3-5 apps a month? i set up my phone with a few apps (2 or 3 paids) and never think about it again. Let alone 3-5 times a month.
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by gcb 14y ago
Stopped at 2 since it showed no mention as to why i should set those values. Also because on Android there was no way to continue past that page
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by gcb 14y ago
Donation is very different from purchase. but i was thinking mostly for the guy receiving the money. There's then a distinction for selling and servicing. The pizza analogy is not that fitting, because there's no wording saying the pizza ma
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by gcb 14y ago
as a dyslexic i'd love to have red wiggly lines under my misspellings while writing checks and such.
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by gcb 14y ago
http://www.touchdevelop.com/ nice, incentive to write code on mobiles finally. I guess the mobile revolution will came from microsoft after all. oh the irony.
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by gcb 14y ago
everytime i browse kickstarter-like sites I keep wondering how that affect tax. i'm buying a book from this guy, but it's not a product still, as he will work on it. but it's not service either, because i have no say on what he will write.
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by gcb 14y ago
doesn't help that google play now does not even show permissions changes as it did in the past when auto/batch updating.
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by gcb 15y ago
Who cares? last time i checked shooting and/or stabbing someone was illegal. Even in Canada (gasp) but I don't see anyone stopping the production of guns or kitchen knives.
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by gcb 15y ago
Star/upvote/like/+1 this: http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=15872
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by gcb 15y ago
it holds true the law the person doing the recording is in. unless he used a mechanism provided by a company doing the connection that resides in the US or some other place where it's illegal.
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by gcb 15y ago
where's the code relevant to the fix? awful bug tracking :(
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by gcb 15y ago
And now google will notice that it needs decent photo integration on plus and do more innovation there than instagram ever dreamed. or it will stagnate everything in the market like youtube did to video (and is slowly trying to repair recen
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by gcb 15y ago
Probably $5 or 10 a month. Otherwise, A LOT of cents. (someone who does not pay that silliness and have sms blocked)
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by gcb 15y ago
I had a LOT of headache trying to make a posix compliant script with that. Output to stdout, err to stderr, nothing too esoteric. The docs even have one section devoted only to that, yet was the most unpythonic time I've spent with the lang
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New CISPA Cybersecurity Bill Even Worse than SOPA(yro.slashdot.org)
8 points by gcb 15y ago|1 comments
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by gcb 15y ago
nobody pays attention to the law, but everyone must live under it. Like reading Kafka. This guy will be crying about the dmca when they use it to remove things such as listings from his site. Also, the company is in Canada, i was ignorant o
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by gcb 15y ago
You aren't more same just because you read email in webpages Not that it makes it any betterfor him either.
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by gcb 15y ago
All that happens with socially inept man, but they can't dismiss it on gender.
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by gcb 15y ago
They did that for xbox, and it worked wonders.
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by gcb 15y ago
ah, from allthingsd. thanks.
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by gcb 15y ago
Two layoffs ago they cut 'brick house' which was a hands-on innovation cell, purveyors of live.yahoo.com (a 2007 version of chatroullete with many more features and 5-way video chat) and fire eagle, the GEO standard, and other nice stuff. m
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by gcb 15y ago
jobs would cut the email export tools imap/pop access and start charging for every account. now, back on topic, there's no silver bullet for anything. a company should be in the #1 and #2 of any market and while at there, try to invent new
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by gcb 15y ago
define "apparently". i'm honestly curious
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by gcb 15y ago
the article also misses the human factor. And intent. for amazon, is it better to show the best product first or to help sell a few of the lacking-rating ones to generate more ratings and work out the uncertainty with real world data instea

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