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   by jakobe 14y ago

   >... yet clearly marked as advertising... That's bullshit. If something uses the same font and page layout as editorial content, it will always be mistaken for editorial content. That's the whole point of it. And using weasel words like
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   by jakobe 14y ago

   Yes it is. Every network ethernet adaptor or wifi chip has a unique MAC address.
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   by jakobe 14y ago

   I was on the free plan. I didn't see any reason to pay for the service, because the free plan had everything I wanted. It seemed too good to be true. Until I saw that captcha page. I was surprised, as I had read all the docs, and it was now
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   by jakobe 14y ago

   I stopped using Cloudflare because of their "protection service". They would block certain visitors, seemingly by random, and present them with a captcha. The page presenting the captcha had big ads on them. There's no way that it's accepta
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   by jakobe 14y ago

   I browsed the web for some time without ad blocker. I kept clicking on ads, because they featured a big green right arrow, that looked just like a "next page" button. These ads were clearly designed to mislead me, rather than inform me. Thi
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   by jakobe 14y ago

   During the last 10+ years I've tried to stay on top of all the latest trends in web design, but I realized the most important things never change: 1) Test browser compatibility. 10 years ago that meant IE and Netscape. Today there are a a l
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   by jakobe 14y ago

   I also think the discussion of medical problems was lacking context. Miscarriages and mentally handicapped children are also common in countries with better environmental regulations, so I'd be a bit more careful about attributing every dis
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   by jakobe 14y ago

   I assume that most recruiters keep a list of applicants for a given ad. Is it really asking too much to copy that list into an email client and send them a polite response? We are not talking about 5 minutes per applicant, we are talking ab
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   by jakobe 14y ago

   I doubt that traffic makes up for the majority of their cost, but I assume that traffic is easier to measure than CPU time or RAM usage.
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    by jakobe 14y ago

    The title should be "There are plenty of reasons not to use encryption, but here's something that kinda works."
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    Ask HN: Does anybody have experience with paid apps on Ubuntu software center?

    9 points by jakobe 14y ago|0 comments
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    by jakobe 14y ago

    The article forgot to mention that the Galaxy S III also outsold the iPhone 4 and the iPhone 3GS!
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    by jakobe 14y ago

    It's great to be reminded that productivity doesn't really depend as much on the tools you use as some might have you believe. I keep thinking about buying a faster laptop, or I'm complaining that getting fiber is way to expensive where I l
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    by jakobe 14y ago

    If you visit Apple's UK website at www.apple.co.uk, there's a link in the footer.
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    by jakobe 14y ago

    I think there are two seperate issues we shouldn't mix up: On the one hand Apple is moving at such a quick pace, that there is less time for quality control, and many bugs stay even between major releases. On the other hand Apple has never
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    by jakobe 14y ago

    As soon as someone uses an affiliate link, I become wary of their motives. Are they really linking to this service because they use it themselves, or are they linking because they offer higher kickbacks than their competitors? The web is fu
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    by jakobe 14y ago

    I have made quite a different experience with my own app. Since the day it was approved, I have seen a very constant number of sales. I didn't make a big deal about the launch and I didn't post on HN. People just found my app by searching o
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    by jakobe 14y ago

    Only very few of the people who buy smartphones know as much about the technical differences between iOS and Android as we do. Many people just want an iPhone, walk into a store, and end up buying some Android phone because they are told it
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    by jakobe 14y ago

    There are many ways in which you can implement a grid of icons without exactly copying Apple's style. So why are there exactly 4x4 icons you can move left and right, above a bar with 4 fixed icons? Same for Google Maps: why is the search fi
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    by jakobe 14y ago

    When I read the article, I expected that assuming all this responsibility allowed him to go home earlier than 5, or take some afternoons off. But it seems he is only working slightly less overtime. I don't get this work culture.
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    by jakobe 14y ago

    I assume articles covered by a popover are not worth my time and just click back.
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    by jakobe 14y ago

    Trigger warning: This blog has a popup that appears after several seconds, hiding the content.
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    by jakobe 14y ago

    There's no way that threatening someone to leave them stranded in a foreign country is the result of "miscommunication". This behaviour on Samsung's part is simply despicable. Even if the bloggers had agreed to work for Samsung, and then
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    by jakobe 14y ago

    There was a problem when installing Snow Leopard, where your computer would crash on boot if you had a specific third party extension installed (I think it was Application Enhancer). I assume to prevent similar problems, Apple started disab
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    by jakobe 14y ago

    Yes it does. See above.
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    by jakobe 14y ago

    Did you test this? On my iPhone (iOS 5.1.1), the above css snippet disabled automatic text size adjustment. If you have an iPhone, look at my test pages to see for yourself: http://jabakobob.net/2012/08/hntest/test.html (without snippet)
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    by jakobe 14y ago

    Please don't use this file. Use it for inspiration and take the parts that make sense for your website, but don't just copy the entire file without examining it closely. For example, this file disables the webkit text size adjustment on the
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    by jakobe 14y ago

    Maybe your screen isn't calibrated properly? I got 97% for Coca Cola on the first try.
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    by jakobe 14y ago

    I assume most people find my app directly on the Mac App Store. There is the "Search App Store..." button that Mac OS displays when you double click an unknown file type. I think that's important for my app, but I have no numbers to back th
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    by jakobe 14y ago

    I was at a couple of Cocoaheads meetings ( http://cocoaheads.at ), nice people there, but I am too busy lately...