jgroome

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by jgroome 14y ago
I see my email (Google Apps) as the main point of contact for ME on the Internet. Not my Facebook, not my Twitter, not whatever else. If someone has to send me a file, it goes to my email. If I just met somebody new and we're not at "Facebo
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by jgroome 14y ago
Problem? They're cheap and easy. I imagine you're disappointed because they're not too highly regarded in the tech industry, but honestly you shouldn't expect your personal political beliefs to be held by everybody else.
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A simpler, faster more social SoundCloud(next.soundcloud.com)
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by jgroome 14y ago
G+ is a joke. Nobody outside of the tech and geek industries either wants it or uses it. And yet they carry on doing everything they can just to herd people into creating G+ accounts. Hey, it might work. Got to get those numbers up, right?
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by jgroome 14y ago
My feeling is that they probably don't even recognise that they're being offensive; if what's being said here is true, that they basically work out of a slightly more grown-up frat house, it makes sense that they'd believe that kind of talk
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by jgroome 14y ago
>In the 90s, tho', everyone looked to the future. And yet, here in the UK, Oasis and the Britpop movement were bringing back 1960s style and music.
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by jgroome 15y ago
Do I use Facebook? Yes. A lot. Do I use Facebook to look for programming stuff? Hell no. Facebook's only going to be as good as the people you've added on it - in my case, friends, family, and other people I know personally. With a couple o
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by jgroome 15y ago
>It wasn't offensive for girls featured in the video (or why did they?), yet it's immediately offensive for some random stranger on the net who then proceeds to command its removal. If something is gross here, this is. Got to say, I agr
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by jgroome 15y ago
If you get a chance, check out "Talking Funny", a very nerdy but informative DVD of conversations between Jerry Seinfeld, Louis CK, Chris Rock, and Ricky Gervais. In it they discuss this very subject. Seinfeld says his method is to repeat m
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by jgroome 15y ago
Forgive me if I sound ignorant, but... How in the name of everlasting gods can Mashable of all things be worth $200,000,000?
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by jgroome 15y ago
Did Netta Marshall end up getting hired after her webpage application? http://iwannaworkatinstagram.com/
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by jgroome 15y ago
Perhaps not for "hackers" per se, but Shop Talk ( http://shoptalkshow.com/ ) is worth a listen if you're a front-end developer type.
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by jgroome 15y ago
Yep. I'm commenting on and liking all sorts of things I'd never have seen before the mini-feed in the top-right corner was introduced.
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by jgroome 15y ago
I'd argue that if most casual users see something isn't immediately available then they assume it's not there at all.
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by jgroome 15y ago
Damn twitter, you're confusing! Just FYI, and this is probably inappropriate for here, but a woman you're engaged to is your fiancée - a man you're engaged to is your fiancé.
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by jgroome 15y ago
Maybe this is another one of those "new twitter" things.
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by jgroome 15y ago
Not sure what Discover is. Do you mean what you see at http://discover.twitter.com/ ? The following people are recommended as interesting to me: Snoop Dogg (haven't listened to his records in years), Martha Stewart (have no real idea why I
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by jgroome 15y ago
NOW they are...
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by jgroome 15y ago
Firstly, hats off to O2 for going into crisis mode, responding to customer complaints directly, and then resolving the issue and putting out a complete statement on the same day the matter was brought up. Secondly, however, this statement s
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by jgroome 15y ago
I hate to gripe, but it's kind of disappointing that I can't get my hands on an ereader/Kindle edition.
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by jgroome 15y ago
I'd love to give the article the attention it surely deserves, but I'm just so in awe of Arikia Millikan's Photoshop talents. I'm glad she got a credit for that header image.
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by jgroome 15y ago
Well, we use Git at my work, and I have a vague idea of what a repository is... But not really. I also have to say this: > I believe that somebody googling git usage is going to be a little bit conversant in the topic of version control
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by jgroome 15y ago
But surely the success and therefore usefulness of Wikipedia is down to the fact that it's available to everyone with a web browser? Apps are only ever going to have a tiny proportion of the target market, compared to the number of general
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by jgroome 15y ago
I don't think anyone outside of the app-development ecosphere seriously thinks that the Web is dead. It's a pretty absurd thing to say.
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by jgroome 15y ago
>Chrome should try and remove features, not add things nobody is asking for. Can you be a little more specific as to what kind of thing should be removed? I've noticed a definite difference in speed, but I wouldn't say the browser is bl
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by jgroome 15y ago
And that branding is supposed to come from... MySpace? A lot of performers don't want anything to do with that site. It's like there's a stigma attached to having an active MySpace page. Distributing across a number of services means they g
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by jgroome 15y ago
>I've long thought that MySpace might yet have a life as some sort of band-centric site. Since it died a horrible death nothing has really come up to replace it. I don't know about that. I only really follow the UK electronic/urban musi
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by jgroome 15y ago
I hope nobody minds but I'd like to share what happened to me recently: My father called me a few months ago to ask if I could go on our bank's online banking site and tell him if I noticed anything unusual. At the time, HSBC's online banki
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by jgroome 15y ago
How many web developers looking up CSS reference material are using screen readers though? It's OK to develop for your target audience, right?
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by jgroome 15y ago
> What is wrong with you? There's got a be a more polite way to phrase that. Also, while I understand the reasons for disabling JavaScript generally, is this really something to get that upset about?

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