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by gmac 16y ago
Well, to some extent that's inevitably going to be true. But we do ask some control questions, including what people have been doing. So we can see if people feel differently when they answer that they're "Sleeping, resting, relaxing" in th
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by gmac 16y ago
Yes, I'd like to have done that, it's just a question of the time it would take to learn a new development language/framework (and the money it would take to buy an appropriate testing device).
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by gmac 16y ago
Approved and in the App Store today, this is a major part of the data collection for my PhD. I'd be very grateful for feedback on all aspects of the website/app/broader research. And if you'd like to download the app and take part, that wou
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Mapping happiness: my iPhone app/research project(mappiness.org.uk)
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by gmac 16y ago
Sadly Cloudfront still won't gzip intelligently, which for a static site means you're stuck either with excess load times or with hacky JS workarounds. If and when they sort this out I'll switch from Rackspace's Cloudfiles in an instant.
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by gmac 16y ago
Agreed: coupled with CNAMEs (so you can map www.mydomain.com to the Cloudfront servers), this is an excitingly scalable new hosting option. But: Cloudfront still won't gzip transparently, which for a static site means you're stuck either wi
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by gmac 16y ago
Knowing why the American Dream is out of reach is out of reach too. ("Not Found: The requested URL /2010/08/this_is_why_the_american_dream.htm was not found on this server.") Please add an 'l' to the link: http://thelastpsychiatrist.com/20
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by gmac 16y ago
For me, it also matters a lot how difficult it is to write an app that runs well and looks good on every device, irrespective of screen size and resolution, hardware buttons, etc. Having done plenty of web design, and a little Mobile Java
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by gmac 16y ago
I knew this, but I always find it a rather disappointing choice in the language design, as I think its capacity for inspiring bugs rather outweighs its usefulness (which extends as far as making some parentheses unnecessary). In a nutshell:
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by gmac 16y ago
(It also has beach, countryside within a mile or two, and a lot of nice pubs and restaurants. I'm in London now, but I'd be in Brighton in a flash if I was starting something with no ties.)
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by gmac 16y ago
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by gmac 16y ago
Do you have a reference for that? I recalled it being a fuel tank problem, and Wikipedia seems to agree: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_France_Flight_4590 , http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concorde
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by gmac 16y ago
I've also found the netbook route an excellent choice. http://www.museum.zoo.cam.ac.uk/ runs beautifully on a Dell Mini 10v with Ubuntu Server.
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by gmac 16y ago
Thanks. Obviously I've fixed the original problems now, but if I get a chance to try to recreate them I'll be in touch. I should have mentioned that's the other thing to love about CoffeeScript: insanely responsive support!
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by gmac 16y ago
I've recently been using CoffeeScript in conjunction with the Ojay wrapper for YUI ( http://ojay.othermedia.org ), which includes JS.Class ("Ruby-style JavaScript", http://jsclass.jcoglan.com/ ). I've found the combination absolutely brill
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by gmac 16y ago
I live in central London, UK (you can assume signal strength is pretty high here). Obviously I've also used my phone plenty of other places. In daily use I've not noticed any call or data issues with either the 3G or 4. Not that I've been l
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by gmac 16y ago
Conclusion: "Our original assessment still stands: Apple should provide free bumpers to iPhone 4 customers." I've banged on about this on previous threads (sorry), but a free bumper is my least preferred resolution. Since I dislike phone ca
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by gmac 16y ago
A free bumper is my least preferred resolution. It essentially says you can't have the phone you thought you were buying. Instead, you have to choose: faulty or ugly.
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by gmac 16y ago
I disagree. I've had my iPhone 3G for 2 years and always carried it in my pocket. I keep keys and coins (and anything else scratchy) in a different pocket. The phone is completely unscratched (apart from tiny and unimportant scratches on th
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by gmac 16y ago
Since I've yet to encounter the problem, that would make me pretty happy. But for the same reason, I struggle to believe they'd be that generous.
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by gmac 16y ago
I'm otherwise mainly a Rubyist, but I have to say that on the whole I really like the verbosity of Cocoa, because I find it's generally the right sort of verbosity: it's there to clearly and unambiguously describe what's going on. The s
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by gmac 16y ago
I've sometimes thought someone should pitch this as a reality TV show, moreorless on the lines of Scrapheap Challenge ( http://www.channel4.com/programmes/scrapheap-challenge ). Take 2 or 3 teams of (really good) agile programmers, assign e
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by gmac 16y ago
I have an iPhone 4 and don't regret getting it, but neither of these easy and cheap fixes is really satisfactory. Two of my favourite things about the iPhone are that it's slim and looks nice. The suggested fixes (in my view) compromise tho
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by gmac 16y ago
This looks very nice -- but I use 1.9 exclusively these days, and it seems this isn't compatible (?).
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by gmac 17y ago
I really like the idea here, but I've encountered a problem using it. I think all emails from the service must be getting spam-filtered before they reach me. Because (a) I've never had an email with a settings link, like the one discussed o
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by gmac 17y ago
A half-price pre-order deal on the full (not upgrade) version runs in the UK until 9 August. But, somewhat infuriatingly, the Windows 7 EULA isn't yet available ( http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windows-7/eula.aspx ), so I'm left wondering