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by metachor 17y ago
"[I]t's simply a question of delivering a great user experience, no hassles, and low transaction costs." Absolutely. Looking at the video in the above link, it appears they will nail "great user experience" (obviously I won't know for sure
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by metachor 17y ago
It looks like they are ready to take a shot at it: http://paidcontent.co.uk/article/419-first-look-how-penguin-...
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by metachor 17y ago
"I've heard stories of approvals for updates within an hour recently." For whatever this anecdote is worth: Within the past week I encountered this in the wild. I saw that an update for an app was available and immediately installed it. L
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by metachor 17y ago
But if one of the purported values of many NoSQL technologies is their benefit to scalability, and you are using this tech in your application because the app needs to scale, then does it make sense to deploy this ultra-scalable app on shar
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by metachor 17y ago
Lenovo X-series tablet - Starting model price: $1879.00 (currently on sale for $1399.00). Apple iPad - Starting model price: $499.00. I think it does not matter whether the Lenovo tablet is more fully featured. People will buy the iPad wit
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by metachor 17y ago
"why not just create an 18+ category in the App store" Because every app that accesses the web in some way is forced to be rated 18+.
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by metachor 17y ago
Is this really arbitrary nonsense? Do you want ad networks gleaning your physical location(s) throughout the day? Do you want random applications surreptitiously recording your phone conversations? While both of these limitations might see
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by metachor 17y ago
I can think of only one multi-tasking use case that I would like to see, which is this: While commenting on some web forum (HN, Reddit, etc) or chatting on AIM/IRC, I often find while in the middle of typing a comment that I want to look so
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by metachor 17y ago
Yes, but you are developing those Cocoa Touch apps on a full-blown computer running OS X.
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by metachor 17y ago
It could also be the case that he disagreed with it and simply did not feel like talking about it at the time he was trying to enjoy his lunch. This second-hand anecdote is light on details so I think we cannot draw too deep of conclusions
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by metachor 17y ago
Yep. I don't understand why people assume Google is some sort of neutral party with no corporate interest in vending their search engine + ad sales in the marketplace.
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by metachor 17y ago
I have the same experience with Chrome. Mousing over the animation crashes not only the active tab, but all of the tabs in the window.
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by metachor 17y ago
Just mousing over it causes all my Chrome tabs to crash, consistently. Using release(not Dev) build.
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by metachor 17y ago
The point of using UltraDNS is that it they provide fast "real-time" failover of DNS routing. This is used, for example, for fault tolerance where the IP address responding to a domain name might change due to failure scenarios or load bal
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by metachor 17y ago
Regardless of the presence of motive, the execution (i.e. juvenile website defacement) doesn't exactly imply high-level cyber ops. And an easily fixed DNS hijack isn't really going to "take twitter out of commission" or whatever the purpos
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by metachor 17y ago
I also work at an e-discovery company and can confirm the use of TIFF files as the court-admissible format for producing any sort of document (especially if it has redactions). Here is an example of the process to apply redactions to a PDF
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by metachor 17y ago
You forgot LiveJournal.
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by metachor 17y ago
Yes, but in this case the software in question is a tip calculator and Dali clock.
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by metachor 17y ago
"Just imagine the nightmare it would be (because nobody does it) to do any kind of analysis on this mess. It's nearly impossible." This is actually what we write software to do at my day job. We work in the electronic discovery/computer for
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by metachor 17y ago
Not unless they think that TC is a bad joke that does harm to FaceBook in some way (by, for example, posting unverified stories about FaceBook before taking the time to fact-check with FB).
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by metachor 17y ago
Well, they already do (and have to) maintain separate indexes for each and every gmail account (or else how would you search on the metadata fields like To: and From: in your inbox at all?). Supposedly the issue is that they don't perform m
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by metachor 17y ago
We use an application of singular value decomposition in our search products, in particular Latent Semantic Indexing: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latent_semantic_indexing . This is being used to drive a "concept search" feature.
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by metachor 17y ago
In a way, I am glad that Apple is now rejecting apps from huge software companies and their business partners. In the near-term, you are right that this might create uncertainty for the viability of businesses leveraging the platform. But
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by metachor 17y ago
Alternatively, I wonder if Apple could put a hook into the iPhone's browser api such that any use of a browser in third-party apps can be restricted from parental controls.
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by metachor 17y ago
This reminds me of a great book, "Situated Learning: Legitimate Peripheral Participation", by Lave and Wegner (an anthropologist and a computer scientist). This book deals with how newcomers to a community of practice interact with core pr
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by metachor 17y ago
"Web browsing is one of my primary computer activities, so an OS that boots up quickly and uses the fastest browser would be greatly welcomed." This precisely characterizes the intended market for Chrome OS.
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by metachor 17y ago
The big problem here is that Apple is not in the business of rating content like the Entertainment Software Rating Board or the MPAA, which makes it difficult for them to implement a similar age-appropriate-content rating system.
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by metachor 17y ago
"madly following the buzz words/process without understanding how it is supposed to work" This sounds like a form of cargo cult software development management. On a more general level this sounds like a common, if insidious, human trait: m
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by metachor 17y ago
The difference between an unregistered bearer bond and other types of bonds is that the bearer bond is not registered to a particular individual, but instead guarantees payment for the bearer of the bond. Other bonds are registered with th
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by metachor 17y ago
From the U.S. Treasury website ( http://www.ustreas.gov/education/faq/markets/redemption.html ): "Bonds that are lost, stolen, mutilated or destroyed, can be replaced free of charge as long as it can be established by the Bureau of the Publ

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