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by jsankey 14y ago
The limits only apply to the free plan. For $25/year all limits (and ads) are removed: http://www.flickr.com/help/limits/#28 . And you're less likely to see dubious changes to the ToS when you are the paying customer.
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by jsankey 14y ago
The problem for me, when I tried Siri, is it just didn't understand me often enough. You can have all the integration you want, but it doesn't help if the recognition isn't up to scratch. I think your broad point is true: Google's reco is
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by jsankey 14y ago
Maybe because he wants to go exactly one page down as easily as possible, and this is something that has generally worked for decades. It's pretty simple, really.
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by jsankey 14y ago
That's not quite fair: on Twitter you choose who to follow, so there's still a filter. In fact in some ways a superior filter -- I can't select which votes I want to count on HN, but I effectively can on Twitter (or could, if I used it act
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by jsankey 14y ago
Indeed, and a very real scenario that is already starting to play out is the evolution of bacteria outpacing development of new antibiotics. We've quickly forgotten the impact these diseases had just a century ago, and without further brea
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by jsankey 14y ago
It's definitely not black and white, and I called out Android for specifically that reason. I wasn't actually aware that maps was not a web product at all when acquired so you're quite right that it fits into the same category. To take the
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by jsankey 14y ago
While I think the grandparent is understating Google's success, it's worth noting that in your list AdWords comes under search (to me, at least), and the only other item that wasn't born out of acquisition is Chrome. Of course this is a pe
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by jsankey 14y ago
Hover over some low contrast text and you'll see what they're trying to do, although it is not obvious and probably not mobile-friendly.
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by jsankey 14y ago
To be fair any code base with the age and size of Office is a massive thing to manage. Completely rethinking the UI is hard enough, but then implementing it? It would be miraculous if they managed that the first time out of the gate.
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by jsankey 14y ago
Yes, I love this little detail. The posted Siri example could use the same thing - since I don't always know the date, it would be nice to see it as a relative time (i.e. Did you mean: 8.5 hours from now, or 1 day 8.5 hours?).
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by jsankey 14y ago
In Australia we have "mandatory" voting. But actually it is only mandatory that you turn up -- you can deliberately vote "informal" if you don't actually want to cast a vote, and many people do just that (5.5% in the last federal election,
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by jsankey 14y ago
You're being unnecessarily hostile. Obviously our experiences have been different having used the same tools on different projects. I find plenty of problems with both IDEs, but for me Xcode has been the more painful because of bugs.
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by jsankey 14y ago
tools.android.com/recent/usingthendkplugin It's a relatively new addition, and as warned above it still might not work in all setups in my experience. But it's worth a go.
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by jsankey 14y ago
There is support for debugging native code with gdb, and in the latest Android tools releases this is integrated into Eclipse via the CDT. However, it can still be difficult to set up - if it doesn't work the easy way it's very difficult t
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by jsankey 14y ago
Macros in C are a far cry from hygienic macros: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hygienic_macro .
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by jsankey 14y ago
Eclipse is bloated, granted, but if you think its strong point is "dragging and dropping getters and setters" then you haven't seriously tried it. I used to think IDEs didn't matter much for basic code editing, but had to change my opinion
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by jsankey 14y ago
I look at it as another step towards s/street/everything in street view. It needs work, sure, but it's good to see they're expanding.
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by jsankey 14y ago
I think you're grossly underestimating the skill required to "handle the interpersonal items" if you think you can get it done for $15 per hour.
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by jsankey 14y ago
A great $200 tablet is coming soon, and when it does it will be huge. Tablets start looking a lot less like a luxury at that price point. This is still pure rumor, though.
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by jsankey 14y ago
I assume that was his point. However it is not a given that running is "very detrimental to your health"; in fact that's a pretty bold claim to make without any evidence or indeed consideration of the health benefits. It's true that knee
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by jsankey 14y ago
1) Running has an appealing simplicity: very little equipment is required (just a decent pair of shoes), you can do it anywhere (city/country, on/off road), etc. 2) Biking is not some magical risk-free activity, you have to take care whiche
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by jsankey 14y ago
Absolutely. And if you work for yourself from home, and thus miss out on the social interaction of an office, team sports are a great way to unwind and mingle.
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by jsankey 14y ago
The biggest problem with this theory is that iTunes is hardly an enjoyable experience on OSX either!
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Employers ask job seekers for Facebook passwords(smh.com.au)
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by jsankey 15y ago
The Google bashing at the end makes no sense. On the one hand he mentions that Google have copied things from Apple. On the other he claims Google seem to think they don't need to change anything. Which is it? It's pretty clear to me tha
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by jsankey 15y ago
I think it's too easy to look at people in these positions and say they just don't get it. This is their industry, they're immersed in it every day. They may not have seen this coming, but it's been in their face for a while now, and even
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by jsankey 15y ago
It seems obvious that the best long term strategy for media companies is to start addressing the demand. Indeed, over the long term, any other strategy will likely result in those companies being left behind. But if you're in charge of a m
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by jsankey 15y ago
> How would you implement this without closures? You don't have to look too far to find out: blocks haven't always been supported, and the older animation APIs still exist on UIView. You need to set a completion callback selector inste
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by jsankey 15y ago
I think if you consistently did this you would end up overpaying, for a few reasons. It's pretty common for offers to be made on the high side as an incentive to sign on, for example. People could get higher offers from places that have l
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by jsankey 15y ago
You honestly don't believe their data solely because it doesn't match your personal experience? You are just one user after all! Personally I see crashes on iOS a couple of times a week, and I hardly use third-party apps. Most of my crash

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