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by j_col 15y ago
But where does it stop? Is it ok for example for them to downgrade a site based on political content? Or religious content? It's not much of a jump from "we don't want to to visit this site because it has too many ads" to "we don't want
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by j_col 15y ago
Since when did Google become the Internet police? Seriously, I don't think it's their role to penalize anything you find annoying online.
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by j_col 15y ago
Here is Jeff Atwood's response to that post dated Feb 2008, which gives you some idea about the date of the DHH post: http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2008/02/douchebaggery.html
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by j_col 15y ago
I thought they hire them based on their choice of personal computers (sorry, couldn't resist)? http://david.heinemeierhansson.com/arc/000433.html
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by j_col 15y ago
I'm sorry, but for a large amount of people who only use Google for search, Google is the Internet. That's why I switched to DuckDuckGo a long time ago, but people like me are a tiny minority. Now speaking as a web publishing, if people
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by j_col 15y ago
From the article: "The quickest way to do that was to type 'jon mitchell jury duty' into the Google search bar. To my astonishment, the post I wanted was not the first result. It was the third. Ranking above the result I wanted were two Goo
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by j_col 15y ago
Bizarrely, the 16/32/64 GB variants all have the same price!
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RIM drops all variants of Playbook to $299(store.shopblackberry.com)
2 points by j_col 15y ago|1 comments
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WSJ - 10 Tech Wishes for 2012(online.wsj.com)
1 points by j_col 15y ago|0 comments
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by j_col 15y ago
As a long-term webOS user, I could not disagree with the conclusion of this article more. WebOS did not fail because of a decision to use WebKit, it "failed" (in marketing and commercial terms, not in technological terms) because of a lack
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by j_col 15y ago
> More to the point if you’re starting a new company you have to plan for success. PHP scales for Facebook-like success. It will handled whatever this guy wants to do with his MVP and beyond. > Success means hiring more programmers
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by j_col 15y ago
Just from reading you comment, reasons for using LAMP: 1. Your friends have 5 years experience using it, and want to stick with it. 2. You admit yourself that you are not a coder these days, but more of a product guy. So why are you second
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Why Android updates are a mess: it's the business model(zdnet.com)
30 points by j_col 15y ago|44 comments
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How Samsung Just Screwed Over About 10 Million Of Its Android Phone Customers(businessinsider.com)
5 points by j_col 15y ago|2 comments
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by j_col 15y ago
If HipHop supports 99% of PHP 5.3, then it took them months to change 1% of their code. Changing any more than that would have obviously taken longer, especially to a whole other language.
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by j_col 15y ago
Great to read about other large-scale users of HipHop, thanks for posting. The last graph on CPU usage says it all really.
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by j_col 15y ago
> ...it encourages bad coding... I would love to explain to my boss when I introduced some bad code into our repo: "But the PHP made me do it!". Really, if you can't use a tool without blaming it for when you use it badly, well...
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by j_col 15y ago
I don't think that PHP referring to hash maps as an array is a bad thing, in fact I've always loved the flexibility of the overloaded array implementation in PHP. > ...due to whatever backwards incompatible changes have been made. PHP i
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by j_col 15y ago
That's probably because so many phones have copied the iPhone "slab" shape, they're starting to look generic.
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by j_col 15y ago
Their sub-title caught my eye: "Last patch before open sourcerers set to work?"
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HP posts Pre 3 WebOS update(reghardware.com)
2 points by j_col 15y ago|1 comments
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by j_col 15y ago
Making a sprite of a balloon move across the screen of my Commodore 64 in BASIC (the code came in the manual with the machine).
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Is this a Touchpad 2.0 Concept?(webosroundup.com)
1 points by j_col 15y ago|0 comments
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by j_col 15y ago
You don't think webOS is innovative because it isn't dominating? Therefore you believe there is a relationship between domination and innovation? I'm sorry, but I disagree. Brand loyalty, marketing, and just plain inertia factor into all
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by j_col 15y ago
HP Pre3 (unlocked) with webOS.
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by j_col 15y ago
> I would rather put my trust in Google than Microsoft, I believe that Google have the interest of a faster more up to date web than Microsoft do and I go with their values. As someone who is deeply concerned with Google's dominance of
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by j_col 15y ago
> if you've done Java commercially you've used sub-par tools. I spent 3 years doing Java on large-scale telco projects using IntellJ, I'm not an amateur Java dev. I now code PHP full-time on a social network. > 1. any decent IDE wi
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by j_col 15y ago
> And PHP is not significantly faster or easier to develop in than java... Yes it is easier and faster to develop in (speaking as someone who has done both commercially). Examples of productivity gains: 1. No need to compile your code.
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by j_col 15y ago
It's also in my experience a massive memory hog, makes deploying your web application a pain (restarts anyone?), and is much more complex to develop for. If your Facebook and you're trying to get more bang-for-your-buck from your existing
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by j_col 15y ago
Is there an example of two or more app stores that are not?

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