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by hopeless 15y ago
Sorry, but even free stuff needs to make a sales pitch to get me to look at it for more that 10secs.
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by hopeless 15y ago
ah, thanks. That's good to know. I didn't make it to Page 4 (in fact, I didn't even notice the page navigation beneath the author bio -- bad design)
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by hopeless 15y ago
Are they profitable yet?
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by hopeless 15y ago
"Her dream job is to be a research professor"? It sounds like she's already better than most research professors! Well done that girl!
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by hopeless 15y ago
I agree about the encoding problems, particularly when using buffers. No combination seemed to allow me to download a binary file and then upload. But this was my first few hours with Node so I'm open to correction. In the end I was able to
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by hopeless 15y ago
I can't help thinking that advances in bomb detonators to reduce "duds" could have helped the war (for either side)
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by hopeless 15y ago
There is a certain point here and there's certainly a huge crossover between engineers and photographers (and also knitters, but that's another story). You need to develop both technical skills and an artistic vision. Engineers by their nat
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by hopeless 15y ago
It sounds great but failed to load on FF3.6 and Chrome (on WinXP). In fact, it seems to fail in more browsers than it actually works in :-/ http://www.myrobotnation.com/helpme?reason=safari
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by hopeless 15y ago
yeah, that's no Peregrine falcon! Some sort of condor sounds about right
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by hopeless 15y ago
No more Java dependencies in your Ruby webapp? Sounds promising!
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by hopeless 15y ago
I think he's limited himself by the idea of a physical screen but I nonetheless agree with the sentiment that we should use our computers to give us more time in the physical world, not replace it.
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by hopeless 15y ago
I knew I'd heard of a similar challenge. If I was a cynic, I'd say instagram would take the winning solution and enter it in the DARPA challenge. Crowd-sourced competition entries!
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by hopeless 15y ago
Do you mean "how much a 'regional' crisis affects an internet business based in the US "? I'm pretty sure that if this leads to a break up or two-tier Eurozone, then it is going to touch every business, every where, because economies are l
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by hopeless 15y ago
Oh, it looks like Xtend is to Java as Coffeescript is to Javascript. Although I'm sceptical about it compiling to Java source. Java seems to be going through a period of experimentation, and alternative Java-like and JVM languages. Interest
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by hopeless 15y ago
Phew! That's a good bit of satire because I was just about to complain how it sounded like purposeless VC fodder. BTW, that URL wouldn't work on my iPhone but this did: http://m.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2011/11/jotly-th...
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by hopeless 15y ago
When I saw the title I thought it was about social networks: there are 7bn people in this world and you only care about 70 of them. I imagine that could be equally true.
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by hopeless 15y ago
And on the iPhone. Impressive.
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by hopeless 15y ago
I think Google (along with many other companies) are systematically betting on the decline of native apps. And frankly, I'd prefer a webview app than no app at all
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by hopeless 15y ago
If a designer had a great idea for a simple app, then yes a Rails for Dummies book would suffice I'd say. So why not the other way round? Also, it's not always the case that a developer has spare money to pay a designer with (the ideal situ
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by hopeless 15y ago
You're obviously right. But I don't want to be a great designer. As I said, I've got by with modifying ThemeForest templates but that's always someone else's design. I'd like to work on my own design fron scratch but, at a minimum, I'd like
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by hopeless 15y ago
Sorry if I came across too negative. I've just got very militant about investing my time/energy/money in things which don't make financial sense. I was also building an app based on weather data do I have some idea of the expenses involved
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by hopeless 15y ago
I'm really looking forward to this book. It seems like the perfect thing for a developer like me. Usually I just buy a template from ThemeForest and extensively modify it but I'd really like to start from a blank page one day.
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by hopeless 15y ago
There's no suggestion that the app will have a subscription cost and yet their data and processing costs are going to continue monthly. It's like a high-tech ponzi scheme. I just don't think it's sustainable so for that reason I couldn't ba
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by hopeless 15y ago
Wow, that seems like an amazing price. I wonder how bad the network really is? Surely you can't go wrong for a small startup / hobby site at €49/mo
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by hopeless 15y ago
Greece has it's government bonds written down by 50% but next week the Irish government is due to pay €700m to un-guaranteed senior bondholders in Anglo Irish Bank (one of our zombie banks). It beggars belief.
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by hopeless 15y ago
It's cute and it's cool but I'm not convinced. My daughter's drawings things are her interpretation of real things but I'm not convinced she'd want a real interpretation of her artistic interpretation of a real thing. After all, her drawing
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by hopeless 15y ago
Cool, thanks. I really couldn't believe that it was 32minutes of ad breaks!
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by hopeless 15y ago
I'm not familiar with the "60 Minutes" programme, but is there really only 28mins of content? (15min + 13min videos)
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by hopeless 15y ago
It could still be useful for other developers to realise that CalDav might be a good integration point with Siri
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by hopeless 15y ago
A similar approach (setting up your own CalDav server) might work for lots of other todo/reminder sites. Furthermore, I wonder if there are any other types of services which could be integrated with Siri in this manner

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