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Practice and belief(blog.ometer.com)
1 points by mhw 15y ago|0 comments
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by mhw 15y ago
"If someone like me who is an astute observer of the industry has to do such intense research on which Android device to buy based on the potential for ongoing support and then ends up getting burned in the process, what is the average con
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by mhw 15y ago
Allegations of similar behaviour in the UK as well: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-17494723
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Posting into the Aether (russellbeattie.com)
2 points by mhw 15y ago|0 comments
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by mhw 15y ago
I've often thought that Plan 9's everything-is-a-file system with a consistent API for access is the missing link between Unix's everything-is-a-file and REST's consistent interface constraint. I think it's certainly arguable that Plan 9 sh
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by mhw 15y ago
So, a configuration snafu by the sound of it. But it's also drawn attention to the fact that they share customers' phone numbers with 'selected trusted partners' which will probably come as a surprise to many. If their audit mechanisms and
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by mhw 15y ago
> Of course, doing so means all of my web traffic goes via Oslo. Which probably means that your phone number is going to Oslo instead. At least it's not being proxied onwards from there.
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by mhw 15y ago
I don't know where people get this idea that large banks still run everything on technology hardware that they own - it's just not true in general. As an example, there are organisations like TSYS and First Data out there to which a number
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by mhw 15y ago
And I spent quite a bit of my early years as a team lead dragging novice programmers back off the slippery slope of the configuration system. You can tell someone's edging out onto the slippery slope when they extract things out of the sour
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What really caused the eurozone crisis?(bbc.co.uk)
162 points by mhw 15y ago|111 comments
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by mhw 15y ago
That's most likely because ambient light reflections are more noticeable when reflected by a dark screen than a light one. I do much of my coding on the train to and from work where the lighting is quite harsh and the angles unpredictable,
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by mhw 15y ago
I don't know about fragmentation - a quick look through the examples pulled out in the linked article just makes me think "sloppy". But I do want to pick up on this idea that touch-based interfaces should all have the same look and feel. Th
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by mhw 15y ago
I think a lot of people here are making an assumption that the majority of the effort here will be in building the application. But note Marco's words: > then supporting and maintaining it in parallel with my iOS app indefinitely and &#
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by mhw 15y ago
Ah, right you are. The rabbit hole goes deeper than my memory does these days.
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by mhw 15y ago
It's a specific format of response called Fisking: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fisking Amongst other things it's been used many times previously to take apart the justifications that are often written to explain why a company's stupid mo
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Harvard Square Verizon Store(blogs.law.harvard.edu)
1 points by mhw 15y ago|0 comments
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by mhw 15y ago
I'm finding it a bit painful on Unity now too, but I'm wondering whether the problem is actually with the terminal programs rather than with the alt-tab behaviour. Most of the time I actually do want to treat all the windows of a single a
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by mhw 15y ago
> The agency had to modify its 15m dish in Perth to get through to Phobos-Grunt. This required widening the antenna's beam to catch the probe in its uncertain orbit. > Perth also reduced the power of the transmission to make it more
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by mhw 15y ago
It's even worse if you arrive at the landing page with an old browser: Then the most important thing the team wants to tell you with their single shot at your eyeballs is that they are uber-geeks who love web sockets. Like I, as a potential
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by mhw 15y ago
Actually, they probably do have a significant hand in it. I suspect there have been more than a few patents submitted more because the legal team thought they could manage it than because the engineers thought there was something significan
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by mhw 15y ago
From the linked article: > What's interesting to me, as a clear layman observer, is why Microsoft didn't know that it would be so easy to find so much evidence of prior art against these five asserted patents. Obvious answer, based on e
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Workspace(trentwalton.com)
1 points by mhw 15y ago|0 comments
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by mhw 15y ago
> LiveDrive should have initiated a plan to get the data from the users of Backifys back to them even if Backify was being discontinued. The problem is that all those users' backups are (probably) stored away as insurance against a poss
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by mhw 15y ago
Hmm; they've also stopped supporting IE 7, which isn't good for those of us who sometimes inhabit corporate-lockdown-land.
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Apple's cycles(quirksmode.org)
3 points by mhw 15y ago|0 comments
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by mhw 15y ago
The previous article in the series might also be of interest - Entrepreneur characteristics: http://monevator.com/2011/10/07/entrepreneur-characteristics...
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Types of entrepreneurs(monevator.com)
2 points by mhw 15y ago|1 comments
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by mhw 15y ago
As far as I can see, the article doesn't use the phrase 'imperialist-backed forces' anywhere. Seems like unnecessary editorialisation by the submitter to me.
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by mhw 15y ago
Yeah, sorry - that's not totally obvious from the bit I snipped. Apple (and presumably the other phone manufacturers) do sell into Russia, and a 25% import duty would probably have a significant impact on their sales.
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by mhw 15y ago
From which: To improve development of the user segment, on August 11, 2010, Sergei Ivanov announced a plan to introduce a 25% import duty on all GPS-capable devices, including mobile phones, unless they are compatible with GLO

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