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by jan_g 14y ago
I think that HBO is the best part of my TV subscription. They offer unlimited viewing of their content for flat rate (10EUR/month). Included is also web streaming (HBO GO), so that I can (and do) watch the movies on various computers in the
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by jan_g 14y ago
>Testing in IE is too much works… because they’re on a Mac. To be honest, lots of companies use similar excuses. We won't make/support our product X on platform Z, because the user base is too small, we don't have the hardware, develope
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by jan_g 14y ago
>If you are so pissed off at Facebook's privacy stance, don't use them (Yes it really is as simple as that). While I agree with you in general I think that the matter is not so simple. Of course, it is in fact true that when you don't l
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by jan_g 14y ago
I am very ambivalent to this issue of Oracle vs Google. On one hand I'd like Oracle to lose, because what's the point of touting Java as free and releasing open jdk, if you then go around and sue other companies. Legal issues aside (I am no
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by jan_g 14y ago
I'm obviously in minority here, but I don't stress too much about the design as long as unread messages are in bold text. But this might be due to me working mostly in terminals and text/code editors, where design never was a top priority.
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by jan_g 15y ago
Yes, you're entirely correct. There are countless situations that people might find themselves short of money and an event like this ruins their finances. For the grandparent, consider my scenario. My wife lost her job a few years ago and
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by jan_g 15y ago
There are millions of users out there (including myself), who don't care about smoothness or (in my case) don't even notice any difference between an ios or android scrolling. Also, you have to take into consideration the fact that majority
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by jan_g 15y ago
I don't think it's accurate at all. Browser vendors aren't 'extending the standard with their own baked goodies', but are merely prefixing those CSS properties that aren't yet finalized, but are part of the standardization process. There'
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by jan_g 15y ago
Our app was recently rejected specifically for this reason, though we had a "skip" button, contacts weren't just automatically 'farmed'. So we had to add a popup with explicit allow/deny buttons and then the app passed subsequent reviews.
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by jan_g 15y ago
Sadly, the same is true for majority of governments in European countries.
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by jan_g 15y ago
On one hand I mean classic stuff from provider's perspective, like malevolent user setting up a premium number in some remote country (Afganistan, Nigeria, etc.) with insane rates (5$/minute and more), which he is calling for long periods.
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by jan_g 15y ago
I'd be very careful to jump on the 'unlimited calls' bandwagon. Voip is especially sensitive to fraud, it happens all the time to practically every voip provider that I know of. That's also why 'unlimited' in marketing is often counterbalan
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by jan_g 15y ago
I'm not exactly sure what grandparent is implying. Health care in Slovenia is actually pretty nice (you most certainly don't need to bring your own food or anything else in the hospital) and covers most of the situations you might encounter
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by jan_g 15y ago
That 41% that I've mentioned is just income tax on my brutto salary. Pension fund is ~15%, health insurance 8.5%. In addition to my taxes on brutto salary, the employer is levied additional taxes for my health care and my pension (so called
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by jan_g 15y ago
The thing (in many European countries) is that government doesn't 'steal' your money, but that out of every salary you have to pay for many different things. Income tax is only one aspect. For those interested, this is the reality in my cou
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by jan_g 15y ago
I'm not arguing against open data model or users' contributions. On the contrary, I think it's great. I merely wanted to point out that at least for now it's not good enough. I'm also missing route planning/directions, however I may have mi
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by jan_g 15y ago
Yep, 80% of my town is unmapped. The same goes for some other towns in neighboring areas that I've checked. Compared to Google maps it's just no good. I have no idea how or on what basis the blog author concluded that OSM is just as good or
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by jan_g 15y ago
Ah, but you are conflating UI performance with something else. My point is, that UI performance is not an issue (at least hasn't been for a while). Other things, like high quality apps, ubiquitous docking stations in cars/hotels/..., on the
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by jan_g 15y ago
>Might also be why the "mainstream" is primarily using Apple iPads/iPods/iPhones I don't believe the reason for that is UI responsiveness (also, I don't agree with your 'primarily' assessment, but let's not chew on that). In my opinion,
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by jan_g 15y ago
>It appears to me that this article is trying a little bit too hard to paper over the poor UI performance of Android compared to iOS or WP7, and making up excuses for less than optimal drawing performance. I'm surprised that many people
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by jan_g 15y ago
Yup, I wonder what the author will say, if the next iPhone has larger screen.
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by jan_g 15y ago
Most smaller countries with their own currency can not do (ii), because they can only get dollar or euro denominated debt from international markets/institutions.
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by jan_g 15y ago
This service looks similar to various 'MMS postcard' offerings that many telcos have for their subscribers.
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by jan_g 15y ago
>Also, I could swear that Bing Maps is actually faster than Google in terms of loading tiles, scrolling around, and all of that I have to say that bing maps is pretty unusable for me. Maybe it's different for USA, but here in parts of E
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by jan_g 15y ago
Yes, I am. I thought it was obvious enough without a disclaimer ;). I don't know who simonb is, though, and I wasn't planning to even answer your question since you want video calls and we only have video for vox.io to vox.io calls. There's
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by jan_g 15y ago
Did you try calling the test bot? It's just an echo service that we've provided with which user can test if the connectivity is ok between his machine and vox.io server (and if mic settings are ok). Also, you can try to call yourself (I mea
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by jan_g 15y ago
Service is not open for the public yet, but will be soon. However, there are many invites available on twitter and elsewhere. Here's one: http://www.vox.io/r/KZZwni You'll get 0.5€ of free credit which should be enough to test the service
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by jan_g 15y ago
I wonder why people want 'warm white light' so much. It's not natural. Sunlight is in fact much whiter and not so yellowish as what incandescent bulb emits.
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by jan_g 15y ago
I have the same sentiment. My guess is that MS offered to team up before all the bidding took place. Google refused, because they wanted to have it all. After the bidding started, Microsoft teamed up with Apple and others. From Microsoft po
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by jan_g 15y ago
I mostly agree with the blog post. It is perhaps too hard to make proper app in Android, but all those abstractions are powerful, imho. Consider quick search/suggestions. If done properly, then you can plug your implementation also to syste

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