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by jkincaid 17y ago
Is it just me or does Google not promote these apps at all from within the Android Market itself? I'm looking for some menu option or banner that says "Check out these great apps", and am not seeing one.
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by jkincaid 17y ago
Mike left a comment when someone asked that same question in the post: "of course there is more to the story. but the point is we’d gotten past all the ugly sausage making that goes into any startup and had moved to within days of launching
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by jkincaid 17y ago
The key words in your comment are "chance" and "possibility". If it really was just a simple matter of when you're putting in the time, plenty more people would do the 9 years of intense work for 36 years of freedom later on. Thing is, fo
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by jkincaid 17y ago
Is there a reason why so many languages are nearly impossible to search for? (C, C++, Go, etc.) I mean, surely someone must have figured out that this is not the best naming trend quite a while ago.
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by jkincaid 17y ago
Imagine... http://www.fakesteve.net/2009/11/why-mainstream-media-is-dyi...
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by jkincaid 17y ago
The issue is that the phone is apparently not auto-focusing properly. When you take a shot you'll often see red markers in the corners, which supposedly indicate that the camera couldn't focus (you're supposed to see green, at least accord
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by jkincaid 17y ago
This would be very funny (and cool) if it happens.
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by jkincaid 17y ago
Jobs didn't return to be CEO. He was an advisor for a while, then was appointed interim CEO (which he apparently was only expected to be for a few months). http://www.apple.com/ca/press/1997/09/InterimCEO.html
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by jkincaid 17y ago
Oh, I have no doubt it isn't as good as the BlackBerry keyboard. But it might be a good enough compromise for people who want something that's sort of iPhone-like but need a physical keyboard.
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by jkincaid 17y ago
Is it just me or does this not mention the keyboard, which is going to be a huge selling point for many Blackberry addicts?
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by jkincaid 17y ago
According to CNET they do cache it: "They cache the route selection after you input a destination, so it's stored locally and you won't lose the directions if you lose the connection. If you want to deviate from the route without a connecti
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by jkincaid 17y ago
They just released their quarterly results, which say that average selling price is going way down. So it's not just the Google announcement: http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601085&sid=alkD...
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by jkincaid 17y ago
They cache your route, so if you lose your connection you're fine. However, if you make a detour it won't be able to recalculate a new route until it gets connectivity again.
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by jkincaid 17y ago
I wasn't there for the briefing but some of the articles about this seem to indicate that Google is already working with Apple to integrate this with the iPhone's native Maps app. Google and Apple have a weird relationship as far as mobile
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by jkincaid 17y ago
I've heard a couple times that Pandora doesn't really rely on the Music Genome any more because it has so much other listener data it can use to determine relevant matches. Haven't actually asked Pandora about it, so take that with a grain
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by jkincaid 17y ago
It isn't clear yet. Google Voice isn't VoIP (at least, not in the same way that Skype is) because you use your carrier's minutes whenever you place a call. That said, AT&T may choose to bundle the two announcements together because the
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by jkincaid 17y ago
Old media places a high value on being 'first' as well.
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by jkincaid 17y ago
Not sure what the quote has to do with your comment. In the post announcing the policy, Mike said that we would break all embargoes, save for some exceptions. It was purposely nebulous.
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by jkincaid 17y ago
We don't, it's a joke. I am having a hard time believing so many people on this site didn't catch that.
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by jkincaid 17y ago
It's a joke. Up to you whether you think it's funny or not, but as grounds to question his credibility? Lighten up.
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by jkincaid 17y ago
I believe it's the number of users who have logged in in the last month.
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by jkincaid 17y ago
Right, because websites regularly roll out fake features that need verification as to whether they actually exist or not? I wasn't contacting them to verify if it was real — clearly they were rolling it out to people (though obviously on a
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by jkincaid 17y ago
Actually Facebook tends to be quite responsive. They have a general press Email address that goes to something like ten PR people, so it isn't unusual to get a response within ten minutes (or at least a note saying that someone is looking i
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by jkincaid 17y ago
I know this sounds ridiculous, but waiting 24 minutes is a pretty long time in the blogging world for something like this. Had it been something controversial or potentially damaging I would have waited longer and tried calling more people
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by jkincaid 17y ago
Probably easier just to do it for everyone in the Facebook TechCrunch network, though it's possible that they used IPs.
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by jkincaid 17y ago
I wish you could use this to Auto-Tune your outgoing phone calls. Sure, it would get annoying as hell after around 30 seconds. But those first 30 seconds would be glorious.
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by jkincaid 17y ago
"Friday afternoons feature a happy hour with real wine and beer." I hear MySpace only has the fake stuff.
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by jkincaid 17y ago
They aren't always glowing. But in my case I'd rather write about a startup I like than one I don't, so if there is a trend toward positive reviews that probably explains it.
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by jkincaid 17y ago
For those who aren't familiar with embargoes, it basically just means there was an agreement not to publish the article until some point in the future (e.g. tonight at 6 PM), so that's probably just a reminder to whoever runs the online por
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by jkincaid 17y ago
Here's a question I've had for a while now. It may sound naive, but I'll ask it anyway: Given the way Twitter is set up to track current trends, shouldn't it be really easy for them to identify when one identical tweet gets repeated hundred

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