kgrin

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by kgrin 17y ago
Well, there IS some of "this hardware can't support X feature". But another reason some phones haven't been upgraded is that they're running custom Android builds, courtesy of the manufacturer or carrier - so those take longer to get updat
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by kgrin 17y ago
Fair point (for the most part), but the illustration graphic shows a Nexus One... which was indeed released with 2.1 (the latest and greatest). Not terribly material, just silly. Now, on the substance: the reason why many of the phones lag
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by kgrin 17y ago
Because no one ever shares knowledge for free? I'm glad pg and every other successful person in the world didn't take that point of view. And when was the last time anyone in the US paid 50% of income in taxes? The highest marginal income
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by kgrin 17y ago
They do... what you see there in the "4,000 page" bill is legislative language - pretty clear code for a lawyer or legislative aide. On the other hand, the Congressional Research Service puts out some pretty good nonpartisan "plain-languag
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by kgrin 17y ago
Depends what you're doing... if you're making a fairly low-level utility, then I'd carefully check out the available APIs for whatever you'll need to mess with (i.e. SMS). Otherwise, as far as supporting device differences like, say, multi
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by kgrin 17y ago
Among the more absurd patent claims being litigated: "Unlocking A Device By Performing Gestures On An Unlock Image" Seriously? I'm not sure if it's a step above or a step below one-click, but it sure as hell ain't far from it.
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by kgrin 17y ago
There is a branding issue here - technically, there's a distinction between "Android" and "Android with Google"... but what users can tell the difference? On the other hand, most of my friends and acquaintances don't actually think of "An
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by kgrin 17y ago
Ready to be bought by Google, integrated into Google Goggles?
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by kgrin 17y ago
Independent of the merits of Palm's products or marketing strategy, it's nice to see a CEO communicate more-or-less plainly with employees - especially when things aren't going so great.
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by kgrin 17y ago
I'm fairly certain that for most IE6 users, the reason isn't complacency (or even ignorance). It's lack of control - corporate environments with "business-critical" ActiveX controls (yes, really), kiosks and so forth.
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by kgrin 17y ago
Does any online dating site that charges?
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by kgrin 17y ago
True. Which is why I'd think twice switching email providers. Obviously you make a decision every time you give another entity any information, and storing data with Google/Facebook/et. al. carries risks as well. But, as others have pointe
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by kgrin 17y ago
Like its various predecessors, you have to ask whether you truly trust this site with a (presumably) fairly sensitive piece of information.
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by kgrin 17y ago
When I first read the title, I expected something about Joel Spolsky and was gearing myself up for a giant sigh . The actual piece was quite interesting (not that a piece about a box of Joel wouldn't be, I suppose), and contrasting that w
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by kgrin 17y ago
The presence of Motorola's CEO at the Nexus One launch event suggests that Motorola will have a role in future iterations.
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by kgrin 17y ago
On the other hand, I'm not sure how much they care if they don't get to monetize the audience of people technical enough to forge a referrer (or even use an extension that does it for you). I suspect pretty much no one on HN even remembers
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by kgrin 17y ago
"It's a shame that your page is lost, but at least it's in good company; stick around to browse through NPR stories about lost people, places and things that still haven't turned up." Followed by: Amelia Earhart, Jimmy Hoffa, Waldo, etc.
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by kgrin 17y ago
And even the two GSM carriers (T-Mobile/AT&T) have different frequencies for 3G, so even though you can move an unlocked Nexus One across their voice networks, if you want 3G your choice of device determines your carrier.
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by kgrin 17y ago
Django isn't Rails-inspired - they were developed at around the same time, with no real awareness of each other (at first). As to the merits of "form" classes and post handlers, I think the complexity is only there if you need it, if you're
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by kgrin 17y ago
To be fair, some ("I still am really bad at writing parsers.") seem to be more signs of humility than confessions of incompetence.
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by kgrin 17y ago
That's also true in the US
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by kgrin 17y ago
El Al is often cited as an example in these discussions, and it's a pretty flawed one. The reason why profiling works (or at least works better) for El Al is that the demographics of the average traveler to Israel are pretty consistent a
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by kgrin 17y ago
SpriteMe?
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by kgrin 17y ago
"On Google Code" != "Google open-source project"
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Court: Microsoft violated patent; can't sell Word(news.yahoo.com)
143 points by kgrin 17y ago|119 comments
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by kgrin 17y ago
Since I live in Massachusetts, that's almost exactly what happened! (It wasn't/isn't free, but it was no more expensive than when I worked for BigCo).
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by kgrin 17y ago
My experience may be atypical, but most of the serious negotiations I've been involved in have taken place on paper/email and over days/weeks, not a single face-off. Human psychology still factors into it, certainly, but not in the raw w
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by kgrin 17y ago
I've heard somewhere (possibly from Joel himself, to be fair) that it typically costs a company around half a year's salary to hire an employee (between recruiting costs, etc.) $500/week is a drop in a very large bucket for most employers
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by kgrin 17y ago
There's server configuration, but not "coding" as traditionally defined.
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by kgrin 17y ago
How will it work on a carrier's 3G network? My understanding was that even most tri-band GSM phones have a custom chip from the carrier in order to work on their particular 3G network. Is that incorrect? If not, how will a phone not ti

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