mik3y

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   by mik3y 13y ago

   I'm a fanatical user of Instacart, and I've been waiting for this day to come for a while. The great upside of not having business relationships with their stores is that they can start undercutting them on easily-acquired generic
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   A new business for Instacart: Instacart Plus(finance.yahoo.com)

   1 points by mik3y 13y ago|1 comments
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   by mik3y 13y ago

   > Google's teams don't hire; Google hires (teams aren't even able to influence the process, by design) Not quite. While the generic SWE / new grad process is close to what you describe, individual teams and managers regularly exert a no
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   by mik3y 13y ago

   It's understated on the kickstarter, but it looks like this is a vehicle for a new cloud development environment: You can program your new software in our web development environment or in your favorite text editor, and with a single click
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   by mik3y 13y ago

   I don't believe it, but maybe I'm in denial. I'm now seeing this page: https://devimages.apple.com.edgekey.net/maintenance/
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   by mik3y 13y ago

   ... though I immediately received a 500 ("We are unable to process your request") after attempting to purchase, then saw "Sorry, WWDC Tickets are Sold Out" at 10:02am Pacific. Maybe they're still bouncing servers..
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   WWDC Tickets on sale(developer.apple.com)

   10 points by mik3y 13y ago|13 comments
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   by mik3y 14y ago

   I don't think the conclusion is correct. You'll get a login page for any claimed domain -- something someone at Yahoo may have done defensively.
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   by mik3y 14y ago

   Nice job, thanks for opening the repo. Simple though the gameplay is, and knowing very little little about {Node,Three}.js, I have to admit the game changed my mind a little about what is possible in "only" javascript.
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    by mik3y 14y ago

    They do, sort of: https://developers.google.com/glass/playground It's a jsfiddle-like sandbox that behaves like a Glass (device) frontend.
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    by mik3y 14y ago

    Incidentally USB Host is also crippled on Nexus 4 [1]. Surprising to discover another big feature broken on a flagship Android device. [1] https://android.googlesource.com/device/lge/mako/+show/f608d...
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    by mik3y 14y ago

    Learn something new every day; thanks!
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    by mik3y 14y ago

    > Depends on what sort of permissions FB asks for on install. That's the nice thing about being pre-installed on Android: there's no asking for permission. (And you get access to SIGNATURE_OR_SYSTEM permissions, too.)
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    by mik3y 14y ago

    Those surprised that Facebook didn't "fork" Android are missing the point: A fork of Android from FB will not probably look like a new OS, but rather a new distribution channel (Play store). Play is the biggest leverage Google has against O
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    by mik3y 14y ago

    Setting aside the Launcher replacement, the most technically surprising aspect of this demo was the messaging app: it showed avatars and a messaging window hovering above the currently-focused app. As far as I know, this isn't possible on s
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    You Can’t Have Google’s Pluto Switch, But You Can Have This(wired.com)

    1 points by mik3y 14y ago|0 comments
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    by mik3y 14y ago

    FYI, it appears that if the page times out but successfully posts a "pending" Wallet transaction, you are not registered. On this suspicion I tried again, and eventually paid again. This transaction succeeded, and the page took me to a r