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by hopeless 15y ago
"Free with no limits" That right there is why I won't go anywhere near your site. Sorry, but why would I invest my time and energy, and photos, and inviting friends etc if you've got no visible means of supporting yourself? There's a reason
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by hopeless 15y ago
I'd say 1-2hours of productive work a day is quite common (it fits with my current experience). The difference is when you're working at home you don't have to pretend to be working. So when you've got no work to do you don't have to preten
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Do testers have to write code? (survey results)(testobsessed.com)
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by hopeless 15y ago
Sorry but a year after I chose Tropo over Twilio, Tropo still wins: Twilio : "Twilio does not offer phone numbers from outside the US and Canada, and you can’t port international numbers to Twilio." http://www.twilio.com/faq/international
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by hopeless 15y ago
You missed that point: with Tropo you don't need "an app", you can do it all as a Ruby/js/java/etc script hosted by Tropo. It's obviously limited in scope but very useful for small apps
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by hopeless 15y ago
Take a look at Tropo — in my opinion it's better than Twilio, not least because scripts can be written in Ruby and hosted on Tropo, and has (or had) much better international support.
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by hopeless 15y ago
I'm not going to read the article so I can continue to believe this is little Bobby Tables: http://xkcd.com/327/
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by hopeless 15y ago
We're currently going through our internationalisation test phase for a major release and it's been a huge headache. My one piece of generalised advice: DO NOT leave internationalisation testing to the end of the release. Make sure you're
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by hopeless 15y ago
This happened overnight, millions of user were affected and it's been on HN for an hour... with only 1 comment prior to this one. I think that shows how much business Microsoft get from this community! Edit: though interesting to note it wa
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by hopeless 15y ago
That's exactly what I thought. I'm not a techcrunch reader (actually, I find it mind-numbingly boring) but I'm not going to listen to competing publications saying how great its dimise would be for the world.
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by hopeless 15y ago
I got the email, read through that, visited the page, read through that... Only to find it applies to U.S. customers only. That's 5mins of my life you've wasted for no upside to either of us :(
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by hopeless 15y ago
I agree. A professionally designed site would be ideal but it shouldn't be the first thing you concentrate on. First prove the business, then sort out the design. I guess the rule of thumb would be: pay the designer out of profits - no pr
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by hopeless 15y ago
Throw to share ;-)
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by hopeless 15y ago
Does anyone know if this will work with my 27" iMac? ;-) Joking aside, the shake-to-undo gesture in iOS is one of the worst things about the platform. It's either not sensitive enough or too sensitive, and either way makes you look a bit od
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by hopeless 15y ago
There's also the danger of being ahead of the market (at least your local market): in '98, I wanted to take this great language (Java) I'd spent a year working with but none of the companies in Ireland had adopted it yet. Now I'm itching to
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by hopeless 15y ago
Sauce is a useful service but it doesn't address the test maintenance problem... And it is a big concern. My advice: Do NOT use the Selenium IDE. write your own framework, using Selenium, which isolates changes when they occur. If someone c
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by hopeless 15y ago
Asking a computer to check aesthetics is start of your descent into madness. Use Selenium to check that links do what you expect, elements are loaded etc. Don't use it to check if a button graphic has the right icon loaded. Computers are gr
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by hopeless 15y ago
You're lucky. Our corporate email is Lotus Notes. The only reliable way to search it is using Google Desktop, which is what my coworker uses. I, on the other hand, copy the occasional email I need to reference into a text file
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by hopeless 15y ago
I have 30-40 eBooks (mostly PDF) which aren't very suitable for a Kindle because they're mostly photographic books and/or programming with nicely highlighted text. I'm hoping Amazon have realised that eBooks are not restricted to B&W te
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by hopeless 15y ago
Ah, good to know. I haven't got around to creating a Cedar-based app yet
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by hopeless 15y ago
I just realised that Heroku have a problem: when I looked at the page, and looked at the subdomain URL, I couldn't tell if this was a real offering or a fake app put up by someone else.
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by hopeless 15y ago
I was obviously just as ignorant about these newer digital pens!
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by hopeless 15y ago
Most of those digital pens used specially printed paper which had machine-readable dot patterns. This looks like it takes a different approach compatible with any paper/notebook. Sounds like a great toy for those people who like to sketch n
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by hopeless 15y ago
Yeah, because big Fortune 500 companies never kill off their expensively acquired products lines. Motorola, anyone?
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by hopeless 15y ago
Huh? You can run as many apps there for free (the app automatically shuts down when inactive. It's not stealing, it's part of their business model.
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by hopeless 15y ago
Here are a few things that have killed Flickr for myself and 80% of my photographer friends: - Poor quality of work (or, rather, the good photography is buried under mounds of dross). 500px has the advantage of being new, and limits monthly
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by hopeless 15y ago
That's one of the things I've loved about Smugmug over the past 5-6yrs: they're profitable, they're independent and they don't have any intention of selling out. They're a brand I trust and believe in, which is why I give them my money.
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by hopeless 15y ago
RAW files are not for public consumption and should never be shown without processing. They lack contrast and sharpness at a minimum. Sure, upload the RAW files as a backup (Smugmug provide a "Vault" service for this reason) but if you're n
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by hopeless 15y ago
I see no evidence that those 1000 signups can be attributed to your pretty design. In fact, I dare say you held the belief that design was important long before the product release, which is why you invested your time in it. Perhaps it wa
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Topify will be shut down on August 5th, 2011(blog.topify.com)
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