lnanek

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by lnanek 15y ago
Just because he prefers to buy online doesn't mean other people do. Google tried to sell phones online and it just didn't work, for example...
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by lnanek 15y ago
I've actually had ad companies complain about banners too close too buttons in apps before. They can tell, statistically, when users are clicking something by accident rather than interest. Raganwald's screenshot seems similar to me. The we
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by lnanek 15y ago
I admit, this would get me to bite the bullet if integrated with one of the existing laptop dock solutions for Android phones such as the Motorola Atrix 4G Lapdock or the ASUS Transformer Prime. Ubuntu is enough for me to do everything I ne
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by lnanek 15y ago
I've been temp banned from Google Groups just by opening a bunch of posts in tabs before going through and reading them all. So it isn't just what you do, it's the amount. I've seen ad networks complain when ads just strangely get too many
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by lnanek 15y ago
Hahaha, yeah. I've had managers call meetings before at a past place I worked, with the result already decided beforehand of course, just because they couldn't take ten minutes to read a code review thread or lookup the difference between t
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by lnanek 15y ago
Could also just say raise your hands high if you are enthusiastic and into it, like a rap concert. :)
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by lnanek 15y ago
I ran a site once with lots of community content. Moderators worked for free and were just picked from the forums. Site was able to use as much bandwidth as I could get. We even started letting people donate hosting accounts and had a mirro
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by lnanek 15y ago
I feel a lot of the pain he mentions. I remember designing a SOA system many years ago where transaction sharing across web services would save a ton of effort writing the rollback logic that would be needed otherwise. Went to the Oracle we
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by lnanek 15y ago
Wow, unroll.me got a huge traffic influx from being linked in Wired, but when I follow the link it won't let me sign up due to not being on their beta list. It did offer a beta sign up link after that, but that page was broken. Even if it w
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by lnanek 15y ago
The article says no one wastes time and just kicks back and watches videos all day and how unrealistic that is. I think there was a character that did that, though. Lt. Barclay (sp?) or something like that got addicted to the holodeck to th
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by lnanek 15y ago
PayPal charges more than working with credit card companies directly. I was talking to a guy who runs an app that sells music the other day, and he got a much better rate by cutting out the middle man (less than Etsy is charging, by the way
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by lnanek 15y ago
JS for what is normally an image seems pretty far out there, wouldn't surprise me if not many browsers supported yet. And JS itself often needs to be tested and tweaked on many browsers before it works on all. Personally, I would have just
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by lnanek 15y ago
Beautiful. Lots of interesting techniques detailed too that could be useful. I'm a big complainer, but even I'm having trouble complaining about it not being practical. Nice.
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by lnanek 15y ago
I heard someone say their policy is "Move fast and break things". :)
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by lnanek 15y ago
I've always been able to multi-task pretty well. If one feature/bug requires a long test run, or review by someone else, or an email back and forth I can often switch over to another copy of the code and work on another. This has actually b
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by lnanek 15y ago
He's writing for business people. Business people often request new features late in the game without knowing how hard or easy they are to implement. So a new feature may require a new or modified API on the server, for example, which means
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by lnanek 15y ago
Would be neat to see numbers about how many people actually have trouble with alarms. I don't. I actually tend to wake up right before the alarm goes off even. Just saying, we may think it's a large problem because people who have the probl
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by lnanek 15y ago
They forgot to price in the cost of a politician's power into the life of an astronaut, which is worth everything the politician can put to bear to keep it...
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by lnanek 15y ago
From the article: >To write a computer program you have to come to terms with this, to accept that whatever you might want the program to mean, the machine will blindly follow its meaningless rules and come to some meaningless conclusio
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by lnanek 15y ago
Amusing that Apple has been avoiding the whole LTE rush themselves. Pundits claim this is due to it still needing a lot of room in the device and using a lot of power currently so makes for a worse user experience overall. I'm not trying to
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by lnanek 15y ago
Seemed to start with King himself, according to the article. It seems like both him and his family donate the proceeds, however, which makes me feel better about the whole deal: " King himself donated proceeds from licensing the speech to f
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by lnanek 15y ago
I was pretty floored the first time I was diagnosing a server problem and it turned out an Ubuntu update had pulled the Sun Java out from underneath the Tomcat server that was running and replaced it with OpenJDK, which didn't work for the
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by lnanek 15y ago
Take a job at a large company that won't fail for a while until you build up again? Most startups fail; it's like playing the lottery. You can always still do Startup Weekend and the like, teams there usually don't work for pay, so it's a c
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by lnanek 15y ago
Brands are often a nice shortcut to find a quality item. I was researching a coat for a woman the other day and was looking at a fancy brand one vs. a knockoff. After reading all the reviews it turned out the brand one was much more fitted
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by lnanek 15y ago
This is a pretty common way to use arrays, at least in game programming on earlier versions of Android where you couldn't garbage collect during a frame due to the delays. You'd often have big pre-allocated arrays with a marker for how much
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by lnanek 15y ago
It's kind of funny how specific people's technology experience is becoming. He considers separate processes unworkable, but it wouldn't bother me in the slightest. Most code I've ever written was web server code with the only serious runtim
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by lnanek 15y ago
Don't many users already have PayPal accounts, though? I'd happily spend twice the development time if it meant users were less likely to leave the checkout page because they already had an account and wouldn't have to type as much. A littl
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by lnanek 15y ago
I do contemporary US fitness oriented yoga quite often. It isn't my first choice for a sport, personally, but it works great as a compromise when I'm with my parents, their friends, or with girls. I'd rather do something other than my first
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by lnanek 15y ago
There is a FAQ question for this titled, "Why is my security still on (S-On) after I have unlocked my bootloader?": http://htcdev.com/bootloader/faq Basically, enough partitions are unlocked to allow custom ROMs, but not to modify the rad
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by lnanek 15y ago
It's cheap and pretty much does the job from what I hear. Obviously the author's and his family's experience was a bit worse than most people report. But honestely, returning something is a huge pain in the ass. It requires work and backing

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