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by harryf 14y ago
Would be interesting to know how many users are using MSN - seeing numbers over 300 million reported in 2010. Wonder if Skype can handle the traffic?
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by harryf 14y ago
> A big amplifying factor in these examples seems to be a society and an upbringing that cannot to deal with sexuality in a pragmatic manner Interesting to see if society can adapt
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by harryf 14y ago
All fine except for one thing. Your typical restaurant owner would rather run their business rather than create high quality online content. They typical lack marketing resources. Menus today are simple / easy / quick to produce. If you wan
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by harryf 14y ago
CodeHS looks pretty good; logo-esque from first glance. I see a problem though... As a parent having tried everything I can find (logo, scratch, hackety hack, invent with python, straight PHP programming etc. etc.) to teach my kids (current
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by harryf 14y ago
The reason why the "machines are winning" is most of the humans are held back by idiotic corporate structures and processes. Take HR for example; I've yet to see an HR department deliver real value that boosted performance.
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by harryf 14y ago
Awesome! Looking forward. Please do charge something for it
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by harryf 14y ago
IMO with the Guardian you'd be wrong - them and the NYTimes are the two leading the way in transforming newspapers online. They've yet to find the Holy Grail for their future business but things like their data blog have been groundbreaking
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by harryf 14y ago
Also like how it doesn't reward obsessive / addictive behavior. Burning additional hours and mileage won't get you that much further then a few well-timed hours a week. And staying up all night playing Ingress will cost you the way sitting
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by harryf 14y ago
To me the most worrying part of this article is this part; > In a Nov. 20 speech in Washington, Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta said the Pentagon would expand its use of the unmanned attack planes “outside declared combat zones” as it
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by harryf 14y ago
Not working on mobile. Google still seems works on the basis of "mobile second" when it comes to search.
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by harryf 14y ago
As they say: no one welcomes the doom monger predicting disaster and every loves the hero that cleans up the mess when disaster happens. Human condition
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by harryf 14y ago
I've tried various means of getting my kids (both under 10) programming and the fundamental hurdle is they don't want to sit at a keyboard long enough to make any progress. 15 minutes is about the limit for attention - if there's no reward,
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by harryf 14y ago
Salesforce isn't exactly known for good taste in UI themselves. And feeds? Seriously? More ADD isn't going to make anyone more profits
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by harryf 14y ago
This one makes me wonder if Google is about to buy ebay
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by harryf 14y ago
Feel an overwhelming need to link to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=odBDAcOEKuI
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by harryf 14y ago
I didn't read that in his post. He seemed mostly to be troubled by how easily the process can be derailed by going off topic on getting lost in details.
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by harryf 14y ago
Another place four digits is used is paper receipts of credit card payments for example - http://salesreceiptstore.com/fake_store_receipts/fake_credit...
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by harryf 14y ago
That's correct - should have been clearer - was keeping it short. By "taxes" I mean all compulsory payments I was required to make, including health, unemployment etc.
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by harryf 14y ago
Would also be interested in hearing more. Looking at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Education_in_Germany#Tuition_fe... for example - depending on where you live it seems you might have to pay tuition fees but how much exactly?
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by harryf 14y ago
As a half English, half German who's had a fair bit of professional contact with the US, I'd argue the main difference between the US and Germany is short term vs. long term thinking The US is brilliant at the short term, as characterized b
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by harryf 14y ago
You have to begin where users needs are being ignored. With Firefox is was performance. IMO on mobile privacy is the topic that's most critical for users and most ignored by vendors. If Firefox OS can fill that space it might have a chance
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by harryf 14y ago
You remind me of Needium http://needium.com/ Someone posts "aargh damn I'm locked out" on Facebook - Needium converts that into a lead for local businesses. Think that's interesting because it seems to me to be the essence of the discuss
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by harryf 14y ago
As far as I know, it's not possible - passing a device ID tithe browser would be a privacy disaster. You could use something like PhoneGap if you want to develop your app in HTML5 while having access to native APIs
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by harryf 14y ago
We have looked at BrowserID and may use it to bring the same to the web. We'd already started before BrowserID was announced...
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by harryf 14y ago
I have kids. I'm happy they _always_ ask for a password... Free apps can be malicious e.g giving away location to parties unknown. But still you're right - this could be an option users can decide.
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by harryf 14y ago
No - done over SSL
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by harryf 14y ago
For the iPad it's no problem - we have a universal app but you're right - it's not a pretty approach and we have quite a few customers asking. Mostly it's the "desktop bound" ones that want it e.g. the receptionist at the dentist.
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by harryf 14y ago
Agreed. But for many cases you don't need something that secure like when you're posting pictures of cats. And many web based logins are not providing a great deal of security either - this approach may actually be an improvement as it make
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by harryf 14y ago
Changing your order as it makes it easier to answer... > - you want to collect an email address or other information about users before allowing them to use the service That's correct. Actually our process begins with a signup form wher
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by harryf 14y ago
We began with using the device ID but of course we've had to change given that's deprecated - http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6993325/uidevice-uniqueid... - iOS6 seems to have perfect answers here - we're not interested in IDs you can

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