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by j_col 15y ago
I get that now after reading this thread. The problem is my first instinct was "why the hell does this website want my location?" when there was nothing on the page to explain why it was requesting this.
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by j_col 15y ago
Yeah, clever viral marketing (which is clearly working as we're talking about it here). I was a bit suspicious that they wanted to captured my geo location on that page too.
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by j_col 15y ago
In certain parts of Ireland, calling someone a "cute whore/hoor" is actually something of a sideways complement, and is usually applied to men: http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/cute_hoor
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by j_col 15y ago
Yeah it's an April Fool's thing. It not only changes on php.net, but on all PHP installations when rendering the phpinfo() page.
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Cordova webOS(github.com)
1 points by j_col 15y ago|0 comments
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The shocking toll of hardware and software fragmentation on Android development(thenextweb.com)
84 points by j_col 15y ago|83 comments
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Android: Is it even a real platform?(zdnet.com)
1 points by j_col 15y ago|0 comments
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by j_col 15y ago
I know it's dual boot, but I also know a lot of people who just bought a cheep Touchpad to install Android, and never booted into webOS. Many never even gave it a chance, and hence are missing out on arguable a better tablet experience t
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by j_col 15y ago
Does anyone else feel that the fact that Google made this offer and Oracle rejected it, seems to indicate that they believe that they are going to lose this fight with Oracle?
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by j_col 15y ago
Given that webOS has some fantastic tablet apps, why on Earth remove it from the Touchpad and install ICS which has a lot less tablet apps? I see people doing this all of the time, and frankly it confuses me because they just by-pass the b
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by j_col 15y ago
EnyoJS, because it's cross-platform.
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by j_col 15y ago
Love this quote from Sergey Brin from 1999 (how things have changed!): "Google's slightly different in that we never ban anybody, and we don't really believe in spam in the sense that there's no mechanism for removing people from our index.
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Is Google's Over Optimization Penalty Its Jump The Shark Moment In Web Search?(marketingland.com)
1 points by j_col 15y ago|1 comments
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by j_col 15y ago
Or Open webOS?
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by j_col 15y ago
I agree, I think they have spread themselves too thin.
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by j_col 15y ago
This looks exactly like Orchestra.io, which was bought by Engine Yard last year: http://www.engineyard.com/products/orchestra
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by j_col 15y ago
If I understand correctly, you can develop locally-installable applications for iOS/Android/webOS/RIM using Enyo JS and these widgets, that will work on all of those platforms (local app, but not native) as well as working via a standard
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by j_col 15y ago
More information about this in the Enyo Blog: http://blog.enyojs.com/
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by j_col 15y ago
Looking good so far, will be interesting to see if they add more widgets over time.
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by j_col 15y ago
Well if that's the case, can I have photos of my desk on the front page of HN also? I've got two monitors and phone and everything.
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by j_col 15y ago
I completely agree, for me they are the ultimate embodiment of the hipster/brogrammer/ninja/guru culture that has become something of a running joke in the industry (at least in my little corner of it).
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by j_col 15y ago
Very interesting to see them bucking the trends, I love his closing line: "But we’re relatively satisfied with sharded MySQL storage for Evernote user account metadata, even though that’s not going to win any style points from the cool kids
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by j_col 15y ago
I'll willing to guess that a lot more know that than Objective-C.
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by j_col 15y ago
I'd pay. I've tried going the Google Adwords route with one of my sites, and the return on investment was poor (definitely greater than $1 per sign-up), while waiting for organic traffic to come from Google despite all the back-links and S
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by j_col 15y ago
HN has a character limit on the size of the title, I think it's around 80 characters so the OP probably had to edit the original title to fit in here.
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by j_col 15y ago
Worth pointing out for non-webOS people that the mail application on Touchpad/Pre is for all email providers, not just GMail.
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by j_col 15y ago
You, sir, have pretty much summed up everything I love about webOS :-)
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by j_col 15y ago
I would find a follow-up post discussing the numbers re: Amazon Affiliate click-through and purchase rates from a story hitting the front page of HN more interesting than yet another "here is a list of books that you should read" post, or i
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The hollow emptiness in social media numbers - most accounts are fake or empty(zdnet.com)
1 points by j_col 15y ago|0 comments
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by j_col 15y ago
Those are Amazon affiliate links in the article. Getting this on the front of HN will get you a few clicks.

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