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by ghurlman 15y ago
I'm sure they insisted on it, but they could have done more than flattening the style on their buttons. Having Office as the lone desktop app is going to piss off more Windows developers than it's worth. Choose your own baby/bathwater, fore
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by ghurlman 15y ago
Sinofsky also said that the Windows-on-ARM machines will come with several Office apps — Word, PowerPoint, Excel and OneNote — that have been tuned to run in a very battery-efficient manner. But Sinofsky said that, although those applicati
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by ghurlman 15y ago
By not hiring them. It's not as if Google had been around for so long that anyone could've "aged out" of a "proper fit", but still wasn't valuable enough to keep around anyway.
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by ghurlman 15y ago
"The policy will take effect March 1 and will also impact Android mobile phone users, who are required to log in to Google accounts when they activate their phones." As much of a PITA it can be to delete Google accounts and reroute everyt
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by ghurlman 15y ago
I wonder what the going rate is to buy the President's time.
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by ghurlman 15y ago
The fact that not only will Apple not delete the account, but also not do so much as flag it as potentially fraudulent blows me away. What positive purpose could that possibly serve?
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by ghurlman 15y ago
That's an awful lot of assumptions to make just to force your personal views into the conversation. It's a press release. Getting annoyed at marketing in a press release is like being angry at water for being wet. Save your anger for the "j
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by ghurlman 15y ago
I believe it is open... just not Free.
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by ghurlman 15y ago
There are a lot of humanities/liberal arts developers in the world - more than you might think.
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by ghurlman 15y ago
Every time I have guests at the house that want to use the computer for some reason. That's what it's for -- why not use it?
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by ghurlman 15y ago
Given how well integrated Windows Phone and Xbox Live are already, I've got plenty of faith in good integration going forward.
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Why Startups Could Use .NET, But Don’t(piehead.com)
63 points by ghurlman 15y ago|99 comments
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by ghurlman 15y ago
I wouldn't put anything on your resume for which you can't answer questions.
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What is Wrong With Today's CMS(readwriteweb.com)
2 points by ghurlman 15y ago|0 comments
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by ghurlman 15y ago
Ping whois over and over if you need proof... seems like an odd thing to assume they'd lie about.
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by ghurlman 15y ago
The lowercase phi (φ) is the accepted standard denotation for the golden ratio.
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by ghurlman 15y ago
Compared to the kids you're trying to take money from, the gifted kids will do just fine , thank you.
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by ghurlman 15y ago
I block Flash, and a majority of 3rd party Javascript -- this tends to catch ads, but it's not an adblocker, per se.
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by ghurlman 15y ago
Points * 1.25 / 100 = Dollars. Assuming retail price for points purchased.
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by ghurlman 15y ago
Is that not a normal thing? I've had that for quite a while...
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Companies Trying to Eliminate Overtime Pay for Computer Workers(opposingviews.com)
3 points by ghurlman 15y ago|0 comments
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by ghurlman 15y ago
She gets other people to play that are easily monitized.
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by ghurlman 15y ago
This article reads more like "XAuth sucks". I've done more Windows Phone dev than iOS dev - and apparently I've taken the "native code listening for a Javascript event" functionality for granted. OAuth via a web view is dead simple.
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by ghurlman 15y ago
Your New York hate is just adorable - and belongs back on Reddit, not here.
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by ghurlman 15y ago
$december_reason_to_see_the_parents then. :P
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by ghurlman 15y ago
Thanksgiving was the cutesy (but needed) Upgrade Your Parents' Browser Day. $winter_holiday_of_choice should include a Explain SOPA To Your Parents Lunch or something - we need to get as many level-headed against SOPA as possible.
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by ghurlman 15y ago
So a recruiter/trainer. I don't mean that to sound derisive - lord knows we need lots more of both competent developers and recruiters. Good luck to you!
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by ghurlman 15y ago
Just for starters, the 2 year old and 4 week old wouldn't handle it so well, nor would my wife's medical condition. Life gets exponentially more complicated as you get older -- something very hard to see before it happens to you.
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by ghurlman 15y ago
So, you're a rails guy that decided to become a recruiter?
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by ghurlman 15y ago
This doesn't help me at all at this point in my life, but I think I'll print it to PDF and save it for my son when he gets older (he's 8 now).

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