kirkdouglas

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Google Play removes Google+ integration(arstechnica.com)
5 points by kirkdouglas 10y ago|0 comments
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by kirkdouglas 10y ago
It's great on smartphone, but useless on laptop. PC laptops have had fingerprint scanners since forever.
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by kirkdouglas 10y ago
It seems that they will make Hello an add-on instead.
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by kirkdouglas 10y ago
I've just read the blog post and it seems that they will migrate Mac client to Electron soon. That sucks, since I like native Mac client.
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by kirkdouglas 10y ago
Microsoft's plan for Windows 10 deployment looks very optimistic. Seems that's why they pushing users to upgrade to Windows 10 so hard.
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by kirkdouglas 10y ago
I hope that WhatsApp will resist adding all these stickers and games and find it's way to monetize (bring back paid subscription?).
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by kirkdouglas 10y ago
What's wrong with Skype? UI is mostly OK, but audio and video calls work fine, especially on desktop/laptop.
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by kirkdouglas 10y ago
It looks pretty cool. I think I might switch from OS X to Windows 10 on my laptop someday, maybe after Surfacebook 2 release.
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by kirkdouglas 10y ago
The problem is that sometimes you don't pick messaging apps you use, your friends/relatives/coworkers do. So to communicate with them you have to use what they use. For example, I don't like Skype, but it's used by
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by kirkdouglas 10y ago
Huh, I hope macOS code looks better.
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by kirkdouglas 10y ago
Currently I have 6 messaging apps and no hope that I can reduce their number, because I text with different groups of people. The only way to manage this is through self-discipline - I don't check phone too often. But situation is bad
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by kirkdouglas 10y ago
Will they open hardware for this platform? If no, then it does not look very useful, just PR.
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by kirkdouglas 10y ago
+1 I've never seen that client devs test their apps on lower end devices.
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by kirkdouglas 10y ago
I remember that CouchDB used SpiderMonkey before switching to V8.
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by kirkdouglas 10y ago
I think that Stanford tries to be trendy, since it's located in Silicon Valley and surrounded by startups.
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by kirkdouglas 10y ago
Names can be seen as connection to the real world, since software is not material thing.
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by kirkdouglas 10y ago
I hope Mozilla will add seamless Tor interoperability in future versions of Firefox.
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by kirkdouglas 10y ago
At present most of necessary software (OS, browser, office suites, social apps etc.) are free in one form or another, so users get in the habit not to pay for it and expecting additional features they want for free.
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by kirkdouglas 10y ago
As far as I know, Disqus ( https://disqus.com/ ) and Eventbrite ( https://www.eventbrite.com/ ) are also major users of Django.
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by kirkdouglas 10y ago
From the users perspective they're doing fine (haven't had any problems with Instagram performance).
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by kirkdouglas 10y ago
Also they run ads
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by kirkdouglas 10y ago
What are you working on now?
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by kirkdouglas 10y ago
It would be interesting to know how Google cloud services and other income sources do contribute to company's profits.
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by kirkdouglas 10y ago
It seems that Firefox is becoming relevant again.