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by gstar 18y ago
But - it's very incorrect, I don't agree that it enhances readability - and moreover it makes my blood boil. Google fails me for finding a citation, but apparently the precedent was set by cigarette advertising (for say, 25's).
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by gstar 18y ago
I think I speak for every UK limited company contractor when I say "Shit." Thanks for the heads-up, I imagine this will have a lot of impact on a lot of UK people here.
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by gstar 18y ago
Learn something useful -> Learn Scala or Erlang on the side. P. T. Barnum just turned in his grave! He said USEFUL! If you said "learn to write SQL instead of abstracting stuff through a framework" or even "learn to mix cement and lay
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by gstar 18y ago
This is going to be a PR disaster for apple, from a developers point of view. He may have been asked to pull the blog post until they get time to talk to him about it.
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by gstar 18y ago
Got married. Sold everything, moved from Australia to London. Took up contracting Wife worked on our startup while we bootstrapped instead of earning a salary. In retrospect, it really doesnt feel like a risk at all, but I have significantl
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by gstar 18y ago
Yep, I found that turning it upside down and rolling it around on a clean, coarse piece of paper works well too.
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by gstar 18y ago
I agree, it needs a footer. Would help with my Apple mouse that has a frustrating dodgy down-scroll.
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by gstar 18y ago
Collectively, HN posters and commenters seem to 90% get it. Unbelievable for a website like this. Reddit runs at about 50% Metafilter runs at about 40% Digg at 5%
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by gstar 18y ago
What's amazing about this update is that Apple has included a what's new. FINALLY!
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by gstar 18y ago
Crikey - I thought Google of all places wouldn't stuff up the user-agent bot webpage. Google's user-agent is: Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; + http://www.google.com/bot.html I mean, everyone has heard of Google - but it's very bad
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Http://www.google.com/bot.html = this page no longer available(google.com)
1 points by gstar 18y ago|2 comments
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by gstar 18y ago
I hate Word. I needed to print 300 address labels last night. I tried outputting HTML in a table (evil), then I tried reportlab (more evil). I ended up outputting them as csv and importing them into Excel and doing a mail-merge with Word.
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by gstar 18y ago
MMS is sort-of solving a 10 year old problem - and it's a 10 or so year old telco answer to the problem of "how do we extract money from customers and lock them in?". It's on the way out, too, being supplanted by email. There's a lot of die
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by gstar 18y ago
For me, IE6 being the "corporate standard" is just more evidence of corporate IT departments slowly slipping into irrelevancy. The last two contracts I've done have been what I (tongue-in-cheek) call guerilla contracts, where I've been buil
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by gstar 18y ago
Come and visit the UK, where you can get a free laptop with virtually any 12-month mobile broadband commitment. I think Orange did a promo with free laptops on ADSL a while back, too. [edited to cite...] http://www.carphonewarehouse.com (
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by gstar 18y ago
I've just spent some quality time with Cappuccino - and it's not hyperbole - it's that good. I'm much more enamored of the 100% javascript approach than Sproutcore's impedance mismatching between client, server and intermediate "compiler".
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by gstar 18y ago
I think its a nice combination of carefully stirring interest without overhyping expectations - and exactly the right amount of humor (a tiny bit!) Well written. I was most impressed with the flash question - that's the best way to find a f
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by gstar 18y ago
Possibly - but I think you're overestimating the reach that techcrunch has (even within the technical sphere), and the need for publicity that Intel has. Moreover, even if TC sold one of these to every reader and two of their friends, that'
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by gstar 18y ago
Yeah, I have actually. That was 32 years ago, when you could etch boards at home and mount thru-hole DIP components in your shed. No idea if Woz etched the boards himself, but ferric chloride was always cheaper than LSD. Sorry, but comput
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by gstar 18y ago
Nice work. Of course I can't tell the difference, because all that anyone's seen is a photo of your prototype. I think I made a fair assumption. Thanks for weighing in with a comment though, and as I said before, please do prove me wrong!
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by gstar 18y ago
Browsing the comments on TC, and I found this quite telling/interesting. http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/08/30/update-on-the-techcrunc... In case it goes: "A couple of weeks ago I was asked to make a simple cad model for the prototype hard
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by gstar 18y ago
The screen? It's Arrington's old macbook air screen. http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/08/19/apple-is-flailing-badly... Quote: "That $1,800 piece of hardware has now been dismantled for parts for a project we’re working on here."
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by gstar 18y ago
That's a fair synopsis of my response, yes! The very fact that they have built a prototype already means they're doin' it wrong. The correct approach when you fly in with a set of specs (which seemed to be $200, touch screen, browser) is t
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by gstar 18y ago
And that is exactly my point. It's one thing to build a prototype, and another thing entirely to be able to mass produce a web tablet for $200. And no matter how good the EE, you can't do that stuff at a messy kitchen table - you need ser
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by gstar 18y ago
Classy. Do these guys really think you can brew up a $200 web tablet at an old kitchen table? I've been critical of this project before, but my advice on the matter would be to refer techcrunch to the first facet of this effect: http://en
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by gstar 18y ago
How does the design of your site work? Can you persist the data into the pages that they navigate to?
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by gstar 18y ago
I cant decide if that's classy or cheeky. But regardless, I dont know if a bug in cvsweb counts as openbsd - does it?
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by gstar 18y ago
Thoroughly agree. Gobsmacking web design and presentation, too.
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by gstar 18y ago
Don't know if PG has released browser stats for HN - but my guess is that Safari and Firefox on OS X would be fairly well represented. Everyone likes news about their tools - ever seen a mechanics shop when the snap-on van pulls in?
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by gstar 18y ago
Also have a look at Adeona ( http://adeona.cs.washington.edu/ ) Its a similar free product that goes to great lengths to anonymise the tracking data from the laptop and de-centralise the storage - mostly by leveraging OpenDHT ( http://www.o

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