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by gutnor 14y ago
Or change their network ? At the end, Network X does not support Phone Y for whatever reason, you need to vote with your wallet. End of (non) story.
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by gutnor 14y ago
I'm just back from holiday in Japan. All the toilets I used had heated (tepid) water. To me that's what made the difference between pleasant and what could have been awful.
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by gutnor 14y ago
It does not seem to cause any problem to Amazon, Apple, or the vast majority of other shops out there. The biggest shop debit your card when they ship and let you cancel at any time. Google is crafting buzz like Apple is doing with the queu
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by gutnor 14y ago
If your code is less clear after refactoring than before, you have gone a step too far in refactoring. Your goals when refactoring is removing useless bit of code, make the code understandable without comment and remove duplication. That is
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by gutnor 14y ago
The article assume smartphone makers will continue to battle on hardware for tiny margin and let Google handles the software. That is possible, as we see with Amazon, that they focus on their software ecosystem and keep Google largely out o
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by gutnor 14y ago
Other vendors have already failed, except on the low cost. Samsung rules the phone market, it is everyday closer to become synonym with Android and could be tempted to secede like Amazon. That is not a good situation for either Android or G
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by gutnor 14y ago
Contracting in the UK. You are either paid per day or per hour. You bill per month typically.
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by gutnor 14y ago
Renault experimented the no-interface approach around 2000 with their car. They had a wireless key that would lock/unlock the key depending how far you were from the car. Later they added a button to lock/unlock the car because people were
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by gutnor 14y ago
They do that on a regular basis, they did that last year after their pre-order page committed seppuku. They do that based on the scale of the public outrage, not really on the internal/technical merit. People conveniently forget how Google
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by gutnor 14y ago
Today with close to 0 money and 0 time spent you can be setup with a professional grade development environment for a one man/few men shop with continuous integration, test/prod servers, bug tracking, ... Parallel to that there is a similar
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by gutnor 14y ago
Agile is a toolbox of best practices and tricks. You need to use the ones that make sense. That is formalised in methodologies like SCRUM by doing a retrospective after each sprint. For inexperimented teams, it is a good idea to start with
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by gutnor 14y ago
The author has a point. Scrum is costly. Obviously it is more productive to silo specific knowledge to specific people, generally the expert (or more motivated) in that field. At least it is in the beginning. People leave, experts become ex
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by gutnor 14y ago
As many people have said - with HTML5, you basically give your IP away and hope for the law to keep people honest. Making money is those conditions is the old open source conundrum. I would suggest the OP to sell support contract (sponsore
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by gutnor 14y ago
There is also a lot of (vocal) people that like to justify their consumer choice with moral argumentation. I guess when it comes to tech choice, tech minded people can't live with the fact that their reasons are mundane (like the screen bet
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by gutnor 14y ago
You forgot * It is near impossible to measure the savings of doing a conversion. * Anyway, a huge chunk of the subtle behaviors of the current system is unknown, or when known, the business reason is lost in history. That makes it near impo
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by gutnor 14y ago
Imagine the next generation of hacker t-shirt : "I can replace you with a small bathtub of rat brain cells"
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by gutnor 14y ago
I meant that Apple is well known (in good or in bad) to the general public, despite the secrecy about the company itself. IMO that is what lead to the success of tea leaf readers disguised as Apple analyst - i.e. the gp complain. Instead of
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by gutnor 14y ago
Because Apple is both secretive and very successful - they do not comment on rumor, they do not comment on their intent, they do not comment on criticism (positive or negative), they only talk about their existing product, never about the p
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by gutnor 14y ago
Doing an email client in a dying (but far from dead) market is quite alright. They even made loads of money ! The problem is how they would continue to make money - next year, the year after and 10 after that - what plan did they have in st
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by gutnor 14y ago
You have never worked in a call center for cheap product ... my gf worked in a call center for telephony card. Granted, they are shady with very weird pricing model, but still, people would just call to get refunded for their "lost" credit
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by gutnor 14y ago
When you have that mindset, you find yourself with likely minded "friends". The problem is not on the way up, the problem is your "friends" will also brutally let you down if you are ever in a bad spot, or not performing to their expectatio
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by gutnor 14y ago
You spend as much time reading code as writing it. An IDE that can show you context relevant info at all time and facilitate browsing is interesting in any language. (like where is this set, where else it is used, what the doc for it, ...
803.
by gutnor 14y ago
No framework approach only work for a one person team or very small team and by design cannot scale. As soon as you try to bring somebody that will mainly "use" those tools/libraries instead of actively developing them, the tools/libraries
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by gutnor 14y ago
In 2007 the iPhone was considered an abomination in size. I would not have been surprised if Apple said at the time that 3.5in screen is the maximum size a user would like to put in his pocket and they would have been right. In 2012, it is
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by gutnor 14y ago
For younger people, I suspect fear is a stronger motive. Making enough money right now is good, but is not comforting at all when you are at the beginning of a 40 years career.
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by gutnor 14y ago
That reminds me of the offer you can still see in Camden (London). There are street booth selling calling cards: 1 card for 2.99, 3 cards for 8.99 :-) In the UK they also show the price per unit for all the packaging. There is just one cave
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by gutnor 14y ago
I'm sure that people suck at math and that indeed the conclusion of the article are mostly correct. However, there are genuine cases where getting more is more cost efficient than a discount. It all depends on the quantity you need - someti
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by gutnor 14y ago
Android fanboys pick on me because I bought an iPhone and I should really have chosen Android because bla bla bla. I have an iPhone 1st gen (bought in 2007) ... What I noticed though is that since there are great Android phones on the marke
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by gutnor 14y ago
It is not really cutting the benefits and wages that affect loyalty. Seeing my parent generation, they all understood that there were good and bad time in a company and that sometimes you needed to work for the greater good (of the company)
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by gutnor 14y ago
Actually this is the typical view from a reluctant switchers : they adjust their expectation based on what the new platform is advertising, not what the old one was providing. Android is selling openness to ios users, so that's what the swi

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