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ghurlman
16y ago
So.... they're fixing the way I hold my phone through software ? Can they do anything for my racquetball game? Dubious indeed.
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Plagiarism Inc.
(citypages.com)
2 points
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ghurlman
16y ago
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ghurlman
16y ago
In the context I usually hear it (features vs. time) - you typically "punt" on something when you're no so much giving up, but putting it off for a later time or release. I've also seen it used to mean letting someone else deal with it.
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ghurlman
16y ago
Voted up, just because I'm shocked to read about someone switching to .Net in this day & age.
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ghurlman
16y ago
"Mahalo dollars"? What's the conversion rate to USD, or to Shrute Bucks for that matter?
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ghurlman
16y ago
Because once you leave hypotheticals behind, money is an object.
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ghurlman
16y ago
So flag it
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ghurlman
16y ago
Can't speak for the 8 zillion client apps out there, but in the web UI, if you click on the "in reply to @soandso" text below one of those responses, it'll bring you to the original tweet. The better clients will expand to show the whole ba
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ghurlman
16y ago
So the email I sent from an iPad that had an attachment that was faxed to someone... that doesn't count? ;)
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ghurlman
16y ago
Honestly - the whole "sports fans are dumb" stereotype belongs right in the bin with the "geeks can't get the girl" stereotype.
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ghurlman
16y ago
This would have been better positioned as a post regarding the gap between the experience hiring mangers want, and the money they're willing to pay.
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Out of Sync: Puberty at age 9
(goodmenproject.com)
142 points
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ghurlman
16y ago
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ghurlman
16y ago
It's never going to happen, and you already know why: http://office.microsoft.com/access/
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FTC to Probe Apple Business Practices
(cbsnews.com)
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16y ago
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WWDC Keynote WiFi woes may have been due to iPhone 4 drivers
(arstechnica.com)
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16y ago
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Gizmodo denied press credentials for the WWDC keynote
(gizmodo.com)
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16y ago
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16y ago
You must be marking your spam incorrectly, at least not in the way that the gmail devs imagined. I get a ton of "me" spam, having never hidden my email address and not changing it for 10 years, but they always end up in the spam folde
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Google to Give Governments Street View Data
(nytimes.com)
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16y ago
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ghurlman
16y ago
The benefit is that all 1000 videos are available on YouTube - you can check out the quality at any step along the way.
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ghurlman
16y ago
Something tells me that the senior staff at Google was also surprised, and somebody's making this move (or was told to make this move) to save their job.
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ghurlman
16y ago
Value doesn't count if you still can't afford it.
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ghurlman
16y ago
Not until it supports more than one user profile/account/whatever. Not holding my breath though, as iTunes is still the only program that I'm aware of in wide use that only allows one logged-in user at a time to use it (on a PC).
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16y ago
I still can't help but think that it's a device that if I were still single (read: more free time, no kids, no mortgage/property taxes) - I would've bought in a heartbeat. But, as it is, there's no way I can justify the cost with an iPhone
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16y ago
Obligatory appendix to this article: How Far from True North are the Avenues of Manhattan? http://www.charlespetzold.com/etc/AvenuesOfManhattan/index.h...
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17y ago
He did put effort into it - there's a full paragraph there, Steve's emails rarely go beyond a sentence fragment; rightly so, as I doubt he has the time to research and write out a fully-formed response.
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17y ago
It's posts like this that remind me how now, 10 years out of college in my software dev career, just how much math I've completely forgotten. I like to think I'd pick it up again quickly if need be - but that's the thing... I've forgotte
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ghurlman
17y ago
True, though the impact is somewhat tempered when only done to save your own skin.
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ghurlman
17y ago
Too little, too late.
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ghurlman
17y ago
I get the feeling these phones are aimed at phones that shouldn't be able to get into bars - it's a Sidekick 4.0.
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ghurlman
17y ago
You say "stock-based compensation", I hear "golden handcuffs".
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