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by halo 16y ago
The slides in text form: 1. Relying on willpower for long-term change - Imagine willpower doesn't exist. 2. Attempting big leaps instead of baby steps - Seek tiny successes, one after another 3. Ignoring how environment shapes behaviors -
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by halo 16y ago
If you view their trademark list ( http://www.microsoft.com/about/legal/en/us/IntellectualPrope... ), they haven't listed Word, Publisher or Office. The page you linked likely refers to the use of "Microsoft Word", "Microsoft Publisher" and
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by halo 16y ago
The UK has the same amount of carriers/networks as the US: four. They do all use GSM, though.
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by halo 16y ago
Spotify uses Vorbis and has ten million users.
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by halo 16y ago
Assuming you're in the US (by your usage of 'cell phone' and 'data plan'), I have no idea. I'm in the UK, and got a Samsung Galaxy S for free on an £20 18mo contract without data.
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by halo 16y ago
Since Android 2.2 you can disable packet data and only use Wi-Fi for Internet access.
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by halo 16y ago
SMS is dirt cheap in Europe.
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Acer reveals Iconia dual-screen laptop/tablet(engadget.com)
2 points by halo 16y ago|1 comments
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by halo 16y ago
The truth is the reason they pointed to SQLite is because the proposed API was so obscenely complicated that it was easier to point to a reference implementation than to accurately specify a standard, which points to a rather fundamental pr
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by halo 16y ago
Probably a good thing. The most complex part of Web SQL amounted to "Whatever SQLite implements", neither Mozilla nor Microsoft supported it making the standard effectively irrelevent, and I remain thoroughly unconvinced that providing an e
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by halo 16y ago
You don't need to pay import duty on books imported into the UK because they're exempt (and zero-rated for VAT). It's solely a matter of shipping costs.
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by halo 16y ago
I am surprised that jwz wasn't aware of this. For the record, I think it was a reasonable decision. If you can't make something work well then at least make it simple. JavaScript's treatment of numbers is extremely simple: every number is a
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by halo 16y ago
http://riastats.com/
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by halo 16y ago
I find it amusing that your idea of a company being desperate must lie somewhere between Apple announcing the iPhone six months before release and RIM announcing the Playbook nine months before release.
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Engadget: Blockbuster files for Chapter 11(engadget.com)
2 points by halo 16y ago|0 comments
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by halo 16y ago
Microsoft ships IE as a critical Windows update. It's as "opt-in" as any critical Windows update.
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by halo 16y ago
PDF link: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/277867/37113340-Why-Django-Sucks-and...
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by halo 16y ago
Reminded me of 1k ZX Chess ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1K_ZX_Chess ), an implementation of chess with AI for the ZX-81, a home computer which had a whopping 1k of RAM.
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by halo 16y ago
I've always thought that it's a shame that between Groklaw's interesting and insightful paralegal analysis, there's a lot of unnecessary ideologically-driven "free software" evangelism that helps to undermine the credibility of their argume
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by halo 16y ago
I was disappointed after clicking the link, because from the title, it sounded like it would be an insightful list of unusual useful features, but instead it's mostly a boring list of language design bugs or quirks.
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by halo 16y ago
Microsoft shipped both IE7 and IE8 as critical updates.
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by halo 16y ago
The seal has been uploaded to Wikipedia as an SVG. SVG is a vector image format, which allows for arbitrary resizing without any loss in quality, while the PNG (raster) version is automatically generated on Wikipedia's servers at whatever s
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Microsoft reports $4.5b in profit, a record $16.04b in revenue(engadget.com)
7 points by halo 16y ago|0 comments
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by halo 16y ago
I think some people have focused too much on his mockup rather than his point - Stack Overflow's design is poor, with some very bizarre decisions. He only touches on some of the problems with the site. Let's take the bright orange banner at
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by halo 16y ago
Makes you wonder how ActiveState got characterised as "an antispam software development company" when antispam is only one part of Sophos's product line, and nothing at all to do with ActiveState.
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by halo 16y ago
You've set up a straw man argument. Where are these JavaScript fans who are pointing to several well-known problems with the language (e.g. semicolon autoinsertion, the for-in loop, the poorly-thought-out type system) and saying they're Jav
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by halo 16y ago
>I'm sure there's plenty of people out there who are not career druggies or sluts That reminds me a lot of Good AIDS vs Bad AIDS from the British documentary satire Brass Eye ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFNs2mOkKzc )
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by halo 16y ago
I'd dispute the entire premise of the article - I have not heard anyone say that PDF is a legacy format. It's quite clearly the preferred format for putting physical documents into a digital format.
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by halo 16y ago
The iPad took 4 weeks to sell 1 million units. The iPhone 3GS sold 1 million units in 3 days. ( http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/05/03/ipad_sales_top_one_m... )
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by halo 16y ago
Windows Vista sells nearly 40 million licenses in the first 100 days ( http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/16/microsoft-vista-sells-nea... ). This is an operating system which received a strong negative reaction from many in the (non-Microsoft-

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