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by mcav 17y ago
A subscription pay wall would give the most noticeable drop in duplicate accounts. As long as your service is free and account creation is simple (which it should be), you'll get duplicates if there's incentive to do so. Things you can chec
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by mcav 17y ago
As an aside, I'm impressed with how well we handle spurious downvotes here. I saw your comment at -3, and yet it has since been "neutralized". Good to see.
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Serious doubts about the App Store(marco.org)
131 points by mcav 17y ago|41 comments
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by mcav 17y ago
Now we must hope that Microsoft's market share won't force these new features to remain niche. As long as IE retains a lot of market share while not including these new features, the web can only go forward so far.
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by mcav 17y ago
Which, in a way, makes it seem less impressive to me. They could've dumped the video feed, and it would function the same. So it's less augmented reality than clever use of the accelerometer and compass.
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by mcav 17y ago
To each his own; I jog a 9-ish mile pace (4-ish miles) often. I find it enjoyable, and it provides good exercise, yet it's not daunting enough to make me drop the good habit.
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Nearest Tube Augmented Reality iPhone 3GS App(acrossair.com)
2 points by mcav 17y ago|0 comments
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Google Calendar Sidebar Gadgets API(googlecode.blogspot.com)
1 points by mcav 17y ago|0 comments
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Introducing Google Calendar Labs(googleappsposts.blogspot.com)
21 points by mcav 17y ago|2 comments
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by mcav 17y ago
It'd probably be monopolistic if they blocked IE8, and maybe IE7. But I think IE6 is legitimately old enough, with enough known problems, that it would be justifiable if it ever came up in court.
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by mcav 17y ago
Some videos show that SSDs could improve experience in terms of booting, launch, etc: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJMGAdpCLVg It's that kind of speedup I'd like to see -- disk-heavy tasks that don't peg the CPU.
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by mcav 17y ago
It'll be nice when SSDs come down in price/GB. Should help make day-to-day work seem just a tad quicker.
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by mcav 17y ago
I've got a related question, by the way: Would it be possible to create an IE plugin to render a page using WebKit? Has anyone attempted this?
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Webkit 3D CSS Transforms: Snow Stack(satine.org)
44 points by mcav 17y ago|23 comments
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Web standards secret sauce(zeldman.com)
12 points by mcav 17y ago|1 comments
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by mcav 17y ago
If you aren't able to paint a wall, you can grab a 8' x 4' sheet of Melamine from Home Depot (or similar), which works quite well as a whiteboard. It isn't as robust as the expensive whiteboards, but can be replaced as-needed since it's so
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by mcav 17y ago
Key Data Point: > The software architecture is simple — Google Chrome running within a new windowing system on top of a Linux kernel.
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by mcav 17y ago
If it's fixed in the latest OpenSSH, it's not a 0-day exploit, is it?
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Gmail is out of beta(googleblog.blogspot.com)
140 points by mcav 17y ago|45 comments
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by mcav 17y ago
Interesting, but then if one person loses it, you're out of luck.
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by mcav 17y ago
Here's hoping that unladen-swallow succeeds as well.
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by mcav 17y ago
For clarification: Pandora still operates in the United States. The shutdown was only for non-US listeners.
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Adobe Shuts Down for a Week(mercurynews.com)
26 points by mcav 17y ago|24 comments
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by mcav 17y ago
I really like being able to use Javascript's prompt() and alert() dialogs (when the case really calls for a popup, of course) for the reasons you describe. But it seems like some browser vendors are pushing to make them as cumbersome as pos
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by mcav 17y ago
Serious question: Does anyone have a good link to a more technical comparison of the iPhone OS, Android, and WebOS? Not necessarily the phones themselves, but of the current and future potential of those platforms? I've done a little sear
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by mcav 17y ago
I didn't mean to imply that projects would want to migrate right now ; it will take quite a while before many projects choose to make that transition.
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by mcav 17y ago
Right, but that's a different question. It's possible to do one of three things: 1. Stay on 2.x 2. Move to 3.x 3. Simultaneously support 2.x yet also move to 3.x Hopefully, even projects like Django could move to 3.x for ne
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by mcav 17y ago
It's a big waiting game; any projects that have dependencies on other python projects usually need to wait until their dependencies are ready first. Hopefully the number of projects that are ready will reach critical mass, and it'll kicksta
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by mcav 17y ago
> If you do close your tags, Internet Explorer will render your pages even faster. Whereby "even faster" still means much slower than standards-adherent browsers. I can't imagine that closing the tags improves the speed enough for i
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by mcav 17y ago
Heck, if and when I find bugs that affect .1% of users .1% of the time, I'd put it at a lower priority than the release, even with a tiny project. Cost to benefit.

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