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by kamjam 14y ago
I think he makes very little sense to be honest. I have a Google+ account which I never use or post anything to because the majority of my friends are on Facebook. All the people I have added on Facebook I have met in real life and are real
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by kamjam 14y ago
Getting code onto a 7" monochrome screen so it's comprehensible is a challenge. Yes, totally agree with you. I don't own an Kindle/iPad/Tablet, but tend to read my tech books on my laptop for this very reason.
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by kamjam 14y ago
Fair point. But if they have gone to this extent, they could just as easily inject some code into the HTML no? http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3804608
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by kamjam 14y ago
Is it no better in landscape mode? (I don't own any tablet or reader, so just asking)
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by kamjam 14y ago
I don't think the OP is necessarily talking about reading PDF's on the Kindle, just that Kindle's themselves suck for tech books. I presume he meant just using a bog standard computer/laptop but I could be wrong...
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by kamjam 14y ago
How often does your average user browse via an anonymous proxy? I doubt most would even know what the hell you are talking about. I can understand for your more clued up or power user, but you give the average user too much credit.
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by kamjam 14y ago
This was what I was going to suggest also... but... Whatever happened to using progressive enhancement techniques which meant the site would continue to work, albeit with basic functionality, for users even without JavaScript? I understand
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BBC shuts down Lonely Planet's Thorn Tree travel forum(gapyear.com)
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by kamjam 14y ago
Just realised how bad the spelling was on my comment, sheesh, the joys of typing from my smart phone! I'm currently working in Canada, having come over from the UK where we are much more used to cheap unlimited broadband plans, both at home
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by kamjam 14y ago
Exact same thing I was thinking. We used to ue this technique when I first started web dev 12 years ago and used to have to support dial up modems. as internet connection speeds have gotten faster the newer breed to developers totally ignor
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by kamjam 14y ago
Thanks. It did make me wonder when the article said China were planning on launching 40 satellites there must be a pretty high cost associated with that.
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by kamjam 14y ago
This was my initial impression too, but I got the feeling from the article that the Chinese government probably really don't care if no one else uses it, it's for use by their own military and as a means of "protection" against thew US shut
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by kamjam 14y ago
It's as if someone talked about investing in the US, and someone felt obliged to blog about the differences between Illinois and New York and rural Idaho, Mississippi, Alabama and South Dakota. I think he covered that point pretty well to
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by kamjam 14y ago
I think most Americans would break the European continent into "Europe" (aka continental W. Europe), the UK, East Europe, and Russia. I think you're over generalizing now in thinking that most Americans know any other nations exist outs
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by kamjam 14y ago
So that would fall under the appropriate compensation / benefits category then. I don't think the OP is saying money isn't a factor, just that it is not the only factor all things being equal. I have taken jobs before where I got paid l
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by kamjam 14y ago
Surely that fits under the meaningful work description? What you may find hard, others may find easy. So at this point it's how meaningful is this work to me? Am I learning anything? Am I finding it challenging enough?
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by kamjam 14y ago
but at least I can sleep well at night knowing that the only points of failure are within my control Hahaha, when he said that I immediately thought I'd like to see him control flood, fire, theft or "other acts of god". Like you say, bac
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by kamjam 14y ago
That's largely going to depend on where you live and the laws of that place. Remember, it's a worldwide market these days!
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by kamjam 14y ago
Not sure, there is quite a few comments on the original hn article. I think the crux of it is that the "basically" and effectively summarize the point without trying to sneak something in which the "basically" does not cover. I think it wou
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by kamjam 14y ago
So happens if the user you sent the message to hasn't seen it within that timeframe? (since FB does offline message)
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by kamjam 14y ago
I think the result is that there really needs to be an effort on the part of these online service providers to clarify their terms and make human-readable summaries of users' rights/licenses so that everyone understands where they stand co
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by kamjam 14y ago
It's a very interesting point, and i guess the issue is if you have to start laying fundraisers off, you have no fund raiser to raise funds. Kind of a vicious circle situation!
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by kamjam 14y ago
Yes, I totally get your point. A bit of a double edged sword really!
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by kamjam 14y ago
Just an FYI, you do know that the Virgin Group has been around a lot longer than the airline company right? The brand name "Virgin" arose when Branson and a partner were starting their first business, a record shop. They considered themsel
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by kamjam 14y ago
Yes, I've seen the "Upload in High Res" option in FB and usually use it myself - there is a big difference even viewing on screen and I've had some images grain very badly. I just checked the res is 2048 x 1366 - but I have no idea if that
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by kamjam 14y ago
Why would I want to print low res, highly compressed images from Facebook? Maybe if they were from a friend's feed and they wouldn't email me the originals for some reason or for convenience... but when they are my own pictures and I have t
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by kamjam 14y ago
Wow, have you been living under a rock? Instagram has over 100 million users and got sold for $1 billion to Facebook and you never heard of it? Next you will tell me you never heard of Facebook... I was located in Europe up until 2 months a
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by kamjam 14y ago
From TFA, it looks like it was because they published addresses. http://nyobetabeat.files.wordpress.com/2012/12/a-fwehncyaa9r... I wonder if you will get your account blocked by publishing a Google Maps/Street View link right outside the
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by kamjam 14y ago
His point is that AdBlock to a certain extend does the same thing as this plugin. You don't want to see ads, great we'll remove them. It just doesn't go as far as this plug in does in removing inline adverts and re-organizing content, but t
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by kamjam 14y ago
Read the update at the bottom stating the reason for the account suspension, and from that i would gather they had the account reinstated.

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