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931.
by icefox 16y ago
It will be yet another feature that no one uses. As long as there is a big button with the word copy on it the machine will often be unpacked, plugged in and never touched again.
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by icefox 16y ago
Even that big players can't track there own stock. Recently I wanted a toy at toys-r-us, but found out the only way to get it was to call every local store once a day until someone had it in stock. I paid the scalper fee and bought it on
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by icefox 16y ago
Most recently I found out that the Russian Salyut 3 space station (whos missions were to take 3" resolution pictures of the US) had a cannon mounted on the bottom of it. Not only was there a machine gun in space, but it was fired too.
934.
by icefox 16y ago
The first level presented really should be one you can just press gas and watch as you fly around, not one that requires you figure out how to lean.
935.
by icefox 16y ago
Yah, the original game is all in pure javascript written to the canvas. I have been poking around with making canvas apps and a few weeks ago I grabbed the source and spent a few hours reading through all of it. Good stuff. If the author
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by icefox 16y ago
Amarok has some interesting UI features that are really interesting.
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by icefox 16y ago
:( So sad
938.
by icefox 16y ago
what was your result?
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by icefox 16y ago
And being forced to justify every small thing and have to use outlook.
940.
by icefox 16y ago
"The Purpose Of Education" - He left out "babysitter" as one of the purposes. Another purpose of education is to babysit children, teach them that they are a number and to blindly follow authority without question. If they happen to pick
941.
by icefox 16y ago
Git-achievements was a lot of fun to make. Lots of laughs coming up with the various "achievements" you get to unlock with various people on #startups. For the curious I wrote up a blog post on it when I first put it up: http://benjamin-
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by icefox 16y ago
As a result of that bottles of Coke with real sugar in it get a price premium and even if they might taste the same (depending on who you ask). People are willing to pay more for it because they "know" it is the "good stuff". Even if they
943.
by icefox 16y ago
Well for the many people out there that don't care about football not paying $4 a month straight to a station they never watch feels nice.
944.
by icefox 16y ago
Yah, but every platform will give it a try anyway
945.
by icefox 16y ago
Well if you were doing the hiring I am guessing you can also set the seating.
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by icefox 16y ago
A few years after that article came out Jasmine (from Trolltech) and several other devs put together a fantastic free pdf/book that I highly recommended. "The Little Manual of API Design": http://chaos.troll.no/~shausman/api-design/api-
947.
by icefox 16y ago
I was genuinely surprised that this wasn't once mentioned in the article especially given the title.
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by icefox 16y ago
Try Qt 4.2 which was released October 4, 2006 and thats not even to mention the fact that you could use it for months before that. http://doc.trolltech.com/4.2/qt4-2-intro.html#widget-style-s...
949.
by icefox 16y ago
It never hit the front page when it was announced, but this is the first BlackBerry with WebKit.
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RIM announces the Torch 9800 with multi-touch, slide-out keyboard, and WebKit(boygeniusreport.com)
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951.
by icefox 16y ago
Being more disrupting, What about doing wedding invitations entirely online?
952.
by icefox 16y ago
More often than not I spend more time at the airport than on the plane. Treat me like a human. Have a zillion power ports. Have free wifi. Have desks to sit at. Spare computers ala libraries. Have restaurants with food that isn't so h
953.
by icefox 16y ago
I also think every Apple employee was given phones, but I am not sure, where I have worked for Nokia and currently work for RIM so I know that they give phones to their employees. I would rather frame it as a question than say it as a
954.
by icefox 16y ago
Guess the question is "why?" Is Microsoft trying to re-invent themselves as a phone company? Shouldn't they make sure the phone isn't a flop before doing something like this? Does apple give out iphones? I know Nokia and RIM do (they ar
955.
by icefox 16y ago
Where is my 6-12 months of free rent?
956.
by icefox 16y ago
Wonder how many sites search for 6 in the user agent to filter I.E. 6 or to set a custom css file
957.
by icefox 16y ago
After getting fed up with Gitorious I made GitHaven ( http://www.githaven.com/ ) which allows you to have public and private repositories and comes with a much simpler installer to boot.
958.
by icefox 16y ago
If it only has a touch screen and I am blind how do I use it? What if I am color blind or partially blind or have some other disability? If the new atm is outside and it is winter how do I press the screen when I am wearing gloves? There
959.
by icefox 16y ago
Like flash this was another stumbling block for anyone that wanted to make a browser and I am glad to see if fall. I got more then one request to add ActiveX to Arora. "South Korean regulators realised the rules were preventing businesses
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by icefox 16y ago
I really hate when people tell me that flying between point A and B take X hours and then try to compare it to a train/car/bus/etc. I leave and arrive in the city on a train/bus/car. Can you buy the JetBlue ticket for $69 hours (or minu

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