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by kevinpet 15y ago
Unable to sign up. I get an error "unable to communicate with facebook". I'm signed in to facebook in that browser, not using incognito mode or anything.
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by kevinpet 15y ago
I don't see the significance of this article. CEO reads email on a tablet? Sends a note immediately to confirm it?
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by kevinpet 15y ago
Nearly every problem with Ubuntu (or any other Linux distribution) can easily be solved by some sufficiently convoluted workaround. The combination of fifty separate fixes to make it behave how I expect it to isn't a solution. In some cases
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by kevinpet 15y ago
This differs slightly from volunteering to call up all your friends. This is more akin to authorizing Al Gore's robo callers to use your phone number so your friends pick up the phone when they see caller ID.
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by kevinpet 15y ago
I'm not sure if you would consider these "startups" per se, but I've been at two private companies that had an acquisition or equivalent. Large comparison shopping site, I joined about 9 months before a majority stake was sold to a private
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by kevinpet 15y ago
They've done that successfully enough that I just dumped my ubuntu netbook in favor of a Mac. Ubuntu has been steadily removing all the advantages Linux has for power users without counterbalancing improvements.
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by kevinpet 15y ago
I'll comment on each in turn, since I think the author is so far out in the boondocks of corporate hell that he hasn't even been exposed to some of the things Joel is assuming as standard. 1. Source control. Sounds like they're possibly wor
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by kevinpet 15y ago
That security model is called TOFU/POP for Trust On First Use / Persistence Of Pseudonymity.
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by kevinpet 15y ago
You can argue that it's morally wrong, but it isn't stealing.
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by kevinpet 15y ago
I feel like this a very forceful response to something, but I don't know what. I'm missing some context to be able to make sense of the article.
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by kevinpet 15y ago
I'd like to see the ability to delegate the storage to other accounts. That is, I want XYZ app to use my parse account, not XYZs. It sounds a good place to hook in what I'd like to see around owning my own data and having universal access t
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by kevinpet 15y ago
Your comment contradicts current linguistics. There is no "correct" separate from usefulness in communication. If someone wants to write a REST RFC, and people can talk about "RFC-6789 Compliant REST API" then correctness would reenter the
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by kevinpet 15y ago
That's a valid criticism of APIs that think "it's not SOAP, so it must be REST", but this is close enough to REST that it seems pedantry to claim it isn't. So all apologies to Roy Fielding, but through success, he has lost control of his te
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by kevinpet 15y ago
There's a "five and ten" store in Palo Alto, but it's $5 and $10.
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by kevinpet 15y ago
This isn't a customer service story. This is a PR story. If it isn't something they do for all customers in a similar situation, then it's not customer service, it's a stunt.
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by kevinpet 15y ago
That's the attitude I'm targeting. Drop in five lines of code and use a different stylesheet for mobile. Easy and no danger of making it worse (since they can switch back). I'm not really going after anything built by a team though. I'm mos
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by kevinpet 15y ago
By sidebar I meant margins.
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by kevinpet 15y ago
Author here. That may be the point of media queries, but they don't (in my limited understanding) achieve that very well at this point in time. The article I linked is explicitly saying "here's a rule which will allow you to load your mobil
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There's no excuse for sidebars on my phone(kdpeterson.net)
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by kevinpet 15y ago
Am I the only person here who thought the whole "experiment" was "how much publicity can I buy for $100 initial investment?"
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by kevinpet 15y ago
That's a nice one. A bit like "how many were going to St. Ives" or "what color are the bus driver's eyes." EDIT: whoops, I interpreted it as 's/\S//g', which I assumed would discard everything.
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by kevinpet 15y ago
As long as we confuse how we'd like things to be with how they are, we're doomed to waste a lot of money that could be put to better use. Doctors are human, humans are most reliably motivated by self interest, the key to good care at good p
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by kevinpet 15y ago
The exchanges operate for the benefit of the listed companies. NASDAQ and NYSE can compete on features and trading rules. Leaving aside the problem of company officers trying to screw the stockholders (I'm not a fan of stock classes that gi
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by kevinpet 15y ago
If by "crushed in sell-off" you mean "declined roughly as much as the market as a whole", then that's true.
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by kevinpet 15y ago
Great! I love amateur-designed security protocols!
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by kevinpet 15y ago
What questions does it raise about my motives? Please ask the questions explicitly and I will address them, because although it reads like I should be offended in some way, I can't figure out what exactly you seem to be implying. Maybe I'm
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by kevinpet 15y ago
My beef with Wikipedia is the squeaky wheel gets the grease problem: a vocal minority easily drowns out the more rational but less rabid. For example: why does the article on pregnancy need a naked woman on it? The talk page dismisses all a
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by kevinpet 15y ago
When the FAQ appears to address something (selling at less than list price) and doesn't call out an exception for free, it's not an assumption. Companies do all sorts of things. I don't understand all the economics of amazon's business mode
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by kevinpet 15y ago
On the contrary, we love the article. I'm not an iOS developer, but to me the obvious steps are to start from "figure out the development environment". Apparently to an outsider, finding a consultant to do it is about the only option, and h
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by kevinpet 15y ago
From the FAQ: Amazon pays developers 70% of the sale price of the app or 20% of the list price, whichever is greater. I would interpret the sale price of the app to be zero, so they get 20% of list.

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