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by mithaler 16y ago
I really resent the unexplained blanket assertion that "college is broken". If it's hard-hitting enough for you to post as a rebuttal, it's hard-hitting enough for you to explain your reasoning for. I had a useful, fulfilling, transformativ
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Wherein I play with Chrome OS(perpetualstudent.net)
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by mithaler 16y ago
That's a great point, and it really gets at the heart of the difference in design goals between iOS and Android. 'Course, I would argue that all of the listed apps fit all four of those criteria (even if some of their features exist in othe
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by mithaler 16y ago
That definition assumes that there is such a thing as an "app worth buying a phone for" that holds for a majority of people . That will always vary by person. I've listed killer apps for Android for me; as I said, I can make no claims abou
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by mithaler 16y ago
The only point I really care to make with my list is that Android's app offerings do not lack superb content, no matter how much other catalogs may have. Does Android appear to suffer in comparison to iTunes? Maybe, but that doesn't stop me
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by mithaler 16y ago
> Most of these don't seem interesting enough to break into "Featured", "Top Free", or "Top 25" (for utilities) on the app store. Why not? These are high-quality, well-designed apps based on excellent ideas.
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Since you asked, Gruber, here are my Android "killer apps"(perpetualstudent.net)
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by mithaler 16y ago
The response in the comments here is perplexing to me. The article is presenting well-cited scientific studies, with summaries and disclaimers where statistical issues have been correctly raised. Together, the article's point is that the "c
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by mithaler 16y ago
They're not offering email; they're trying to replace email with their own platform.
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by mithaler 16y ago
Adding to that, we know that different models for security may very well work better than what we've got. See this article about Israel's Ben Gurion International Airport: http://forward.com/articles/122781/ Mind you, one definitely shoul
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by mithaler 16y ago
Rather astonishingly, he presents no data whatsoever on whether users (y'know, the ones who matter) actually like instant search and the new image search. Without that, his argument that Google is in some sort of "decline" because of their
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by mithaler 16y ago
Link please? If I'd known such a thing existed I'd have been using it years ago. The only way I know of to pull contact info from Facebook is to use my Droid's excellent contact syncing, and even that's one-way and can't add any data to my
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by mithaler 16y ago
"Write once, run anywhere" is a phrase that historically has referred to multiple platforms by multiple vendors--that is, platforms other than ones maintained by a single company. That is, not just Macs and iOS. Even if they do unify their
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by mithaler 16y ago
We build code. They build drama. Both are means to an end.
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by mithaler 16y ago
It's a cool idea, but I worry about malware. Malware is known to be able to infect USB drives put into the machine it's on, and it only needs to be plugged into another machine to infect it. They'll have to be systematically reformatted pre
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by mithaler 16y ago
That's fair, but all the same, one really does have to wonder. I know basically nothing about who actually looks at the apps that get submitted. Nor do I know anything about what apps typically get rejected . I've never worked with the App
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by mithaler 16y ago
Um, that's quite the oversight. Seriously, look at it. http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/peekabootranny/id383095603?mt... It was last updated Oct 7; no idea how long before that it existed. They've had plenty of time to notice this. With tha
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by mithaler 16y ago
I agree that it's better when women send first messages. This dating site startup is trying to take advantage of that by not allowing men to send initial messages: http://www.herway.com
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by mithaler 16y ago
I don't know about 1934, but this is what the ballot looked like in 1938. http://danariely.com/2010/10/05/hitler-nudge/ In any case, he doesn't answer the central question that arguing for anarchy inevitably provokes: once we take away th
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by mithaler 16y ago
That doesn't bode well. Isn't a large part of the appeal of a Mac that everything "just works"? How do you suppose sysadmins will now feel if banking infrastructure apps no longer "just work" and will now require an additional JVM to be ins
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by mithaler 16y ago
I have sympathy for the guy, but there's really not much he or Facebook can do here. The only real thing Facebook can do is put some kind of auto-flag on accounts with that name (both "variants" of it, I guess) and check each case to make s
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by mithaler 16y ago
I don't make a distinction between a real identity and an internet one, and I assume that anything I put on the internet, no matter how ostensibly "private" the space, is part of my public persona.
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by mithaler 16y ago
We have a script that tars up projects or specific files and uploads them and puts them in place, but lately we've been moving towards plain svn. If it were up to me, it'd be git, with separate branches for production and beta for easy merg
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by mithaler 16y ago
I use a Dell XPS 15-inch with Ubuntu, and I've had a few cosmetic issues but nothing that impaired functionality. Overall I'm quite happy with it and would recommend it to the OP.
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by mithaler 16y ago
That came across like a straw man to me in the OP, especially in statements like this: > The subtext to a lot of homophobic thinking is the idea that gays will try to get straight people into bed at the first opportunity, or that gays a
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by mithaler 16y ago
As a developer of custom business webapps, I have been in this situation many times and I desperately wish I could take this advice. Really, I do. But when a client makes a request like this, often unaware of what may actually be easy o
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by mithaler 16y ago
Um, the machine I'm using now cost about $400 and doesn't have an SSD, runs Ubuntu with programming IDEs, OpenOffice and WinXP virtual instances for IE testing and Flash and Gmail open constantly and it almost never hangs or feels unrespo
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by mithaler 16y ago
After the Reddit Q&A sessions, is this their attempt to make up for their perceived inability to drop the patronizing PR-speak? Personally, I think the issue is deeper than the way they're selling it; it's that their values are fundamen
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by mithaler 16y ago
I don't disagree. But that very lack of restriction on developers is what allows Amazon to set up their own separate app store and bypass the perceived deficiencies of the Market. That's why I think this is a positive sign. And if you don't
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by mithaler 16y ago
From the article in question: > You don’t really have to understand what these questions mean, but throw them into the conversation and then act interested when he answers. (Actually, this works for pretty much any topic.) Do you really

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