iamcalledrob

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   Google to cut China porn results(news.bbc.co.uk)

   13 points by iamcalledrob 17y ago|5 comments
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   Dragon's top tips for start-ups.(news.bbc.co.uk)

   1 points by iamcalledrob 17y ago|0 comments
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   by iamcalledrob 17y ago

   Well, true, IE doesn't support <canvas> out of the box, but you can make it support it with something like excanvas. http://excanvas.sourceforge.net/
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   by iamcalledrob 17y ago

   Your user experience really needs some fixing up. I won't talk too much about your UI, because you said you're working on that, and it has HUGE flaws right now (you sign up and the first page you reach is like a void). Your user should be g
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   by iamcalledrob 17y ago

   I hope this guy never gets into politics... /reads his bio on the right..
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   by iamcalledrob 17y ago

   This player is nothing special. You can find the original Flash<->JS interface, by Scott Schiller, here: http://www.schillmania.com/projects/soundmanager2/ It's an awesome piece of work, and has been around for years.
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   by iamcalledrob 17y ago

   I'm sure you can find a startup somewhere in London who will be more than happy to have an extra pair of hands around the place. Find startups and start calling. This is assuming you're not looking for a paid placement. Paid placements are
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   by iamcalledrob 17y ago

   Well, if the technology makes sense, why not? There's no point in being awkward.
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   by iamcalledrob 17y ago

   They are not going to compare well, because they are NOT designed to be the same thing, or find the same data. Stop comparing them Apples to Apples, people.
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    by iamcalledrob 17y ago

    Make that a rate of 100% with a sample size of 2...
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    by iamcalledrob 17y ago

    I think it's very possible – if you have another source of income to pay for rent, computers, food etc.. My development has going strong with no extra investment on my part, other than time.
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    by iamcalledrob 17y ago

    I guess Apple weren't wrong when they said people want a full size screen and keyboard. 6 months later, I'm very happy with my MacBook Air, and I'm glad I chose it over a netbook. In fact, it's become my primary computer.
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    by iamcalledrob 17y ago

    Windows-only UI nightmare?
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    by iamcalledrob 17y ago

    The problem with the flu virus situation is not the fact that the pigs are fed drugs (that's a different ballgame..) but instead that they are kept housed so closely together that diseases can spread really fast. In the same way that you ar
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    by iamcalledrob 17y ago

    I think everyone is missing the point. If you install and enable the Ghostery extension, it is because you want the extension to do its thing. There is no valid reason why another extension should deliberately and specifically disable this
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    by iamcalledrob 17y ago

    Gates might have done a lot of unsound things in the past, but it's so nice to see he's using his money to help others, not to bathe in. This is very exciting, and although some of these ideas sound crazy, something great might just come ou
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    by iamcalledrob 17y ago

    I don't think a faceoff is appropriate, from what I can gather about Wolfram Alpha. Google and Alpha do two entirely different things. Google is like a Yellow Pages for the internet, and Alpha is more like an Encyclopaedia. Google finds res
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    by iamcalledrob 17y ago

    I think in issues like this, Mozilla's policy is largely irrelevant. Policy is just words, and people will still do stupid things.
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    by iamcalledrob 17y ago

    I'm afraid: More power plants != lower carbon footprint
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    by iamcalledrob 17y ago

    Good point, I didn't think about that. If you can't write well because you are just sloppy and don't care, then I think it's your own fault... but, of course, that might not be the case if you have a learning problem (no, that doesn't make
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    by iamcalledrob 17y ago

    I have respect for this developer. I would have been really pissed off too, in his situation. Especially as that AdBlock Plus list deliberately broke the functionality of his site (not just ads). He did something understandable, realised it
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    by iamcalledrob 17y ago

    I fail to see how this will stop cheating. Any traditional method of cheating will still work (like writing notes on your arm...), but it opens a whole new avenue of cheating for those students who are a little more technically apt than the
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    by iamcalledrob 17y ago

    This makes some sense, although wouldn't producing custom designed chips (just for Apple) push the price up somewhat? Even with Apple's scale?
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    by iamcalledrob 17y ago

    This is essentially a very brief summary of the 37 Signals (e)book, "Getting Real" http://gettingreal.37signals.com/ I suggest you all read it. They have some really, really good points and analogies.
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    by iamcalledrob 17y ago

    To be fair to the Americans, this isn't isolated to the USA.
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    by iamcalledrob 17y ago

    I feel lucky to have never worked long-term in an environment like this. Quite often middle management doesn't feel the need to know what the process is (or rather, they can't grasp what goes on, so they become defensive), and so they lose