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PayPal Credit(creditapply.paypal.com)
4 points by motti 12y ago|0 comments
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by motti 13y ago
Google originally pioneered Gears as a way to get webapps to work offline (at a time when HTML5 was still being hashed out by WHATWG) and tried to get it adopted as an open standard ( http://gearsblog.blogspot.co.uk/2008&#x2F
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by motti 13y ago
Dan Shapiro has written a good post on this: http://www.danshapiro.com/blog/2010/09/how-to-read-a-patent-... To summarize, he says: 1. Skip the title 2. Skip the drawings 3. Skip the abstract 4. Skip the spe
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by motti 14y ago
Try Gerrit. It's tightly coupled to git, it's quite easy to host, similar to Rietveld/Mondrian in style, and has good documentation.
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by motti 14y ago
Not to mention Qt
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by motti 14y ago
git add -i
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by motti 14y ago
Having the (say) GMail in an iframe sounds worrying. It's not clear immediately that the embedded page came from GMail, as we cannot see the https scheme in the URL for the iframe - much less any indication that the certificate is trusted e
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by motti 14y ago
HTC has a variation on this in HTC Sense 4 where lists stretches rather than bounces - i.e. the gaps between the list elements get progressively wider to mimic pulling an elastic band that is fixed on one end. I'm guessing they do that too
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by motti 15y ago
London, UK FULLTIME or INTERN REMOTE or onsite in our London offices, or some hybrid arrangement. We are building CopyCopy ( http://www.copycopy.cc/ ) - a cross-platform tool that makes it simple to transfer anything between phones and desk
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by motti 15y ago
This is a useful for playing around with code on a commute or making a tweak to existing code. I don't believe they think people are going to be writing entire large apps with this. I used to use a program called OnboardC on the Palm Vx som
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by motti 15y ago
London, UK FULLTIME or INTERN REMOTE or onsite in our London offices, or some hybrid arrangement. We are building CopyCopy ( http://www.copycopy.cc/ ) - a cross-platform productivity tool that makes it simple to transfer anything between ph
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by motti 15y ago
London, UK FULLTIME or INTERN REMOTE or onsite in our London offices, or some hybrid arrangement. We are building CopyCopy ( http://www.copycopy.cc/ ) - a cross-platform productivity tool that makes it simple to transfer anything between ph
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by motti 15y ago
London, UK FULLTIME or INTERN REMOTE or onsite in our London offices, or some hybrid arrangement. We are building CopyCopy ( http://www.copycopy.cc/ ) - a cross-platform productivity tool that makes it simple to transfer anything between ph
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by motti 15y ago
Please lead with the location of the position and include the keywords INTERN, REMOTE, or H1B if the corresponding sort of candidate is welcome. Feel free to post any job that may interest HN readers from executive assistant to machine lear
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by motti 15y ago
It does only mean a "an arduous journey" or, when used literally, "to pull/drag" but it isn't used to to mean a arduous task in general. I guess, In an effort to find a Google-able/SEO-friendly unique phrase, pg has overgeneralised the term
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by motti 15y ago
Gmail was originally mostly C++ (server-side), see http://www.quora.com/What-programming-languages-is-Gmail-imp... www.google.com remains C++ to the best of my knowledge, see http://web.archive.org/web/20110708015633/http://panela.blog..
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by motti 15y ago
London, UK FULLTIME or INTERN REMOTE or onsite in our London offices, or some hybrid arrangement. We are CopyCopy ( http://www.copycopy.cc/ ) - a startup company creating a cross-platform productivity tool that will make it simple to transf
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by motti 15y ago
Windows tries to prevent you naming a file "con". I once renamed a text file con in Win95; using a raw disk editor to change the file entry and it did this too - every time I saved text in the file it would write it console/DOS style to th
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by motti 15y ago
London, UK FULLTIME or INTERN REMOTE or onsite in our NW London offices, or some hybrid arrangement. We are CopyCopy ( http://www.copycopy.cc/ ) - a startup company creating a cross-platform productivity tool that will make it simple to tra
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by motti 15y ago
The Reader team must be thanking their lucky stars that their product lives on and that Reader hadn't been given the chop like other non-mainstream services, e.g. Google Notebook, Code Search. Ultimately it's a techie tool and most internet
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by motti 16y ago
Indeed, it's achieved by adding webkit-specific -webkit-transform: rotate(1deg) CSS transform applied to the body element so it works on the desktop if you use Chrome or another webkit browser. Not quite sure why they didn't use -moz-
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by motti 16y ago
Nokia owns Navteq, whose data Bing uses, especially for road maps.
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by motti 16y ago
Although strictly speaking you're right, it breaks the intent of robots.txt as the users' clickstream is fed into the server-side indexing engine alongside robot crawled data. Arguing that according to the strict letter of the spec, robot
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by motti 16y ago
Fair enough, but the ethical thing is for Google to exclude bing.com from the clickstream analysis, and I hope they have. The big search engines are large enough to show up clearly in any of their competitors statistics (and there are alway
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by motti 16y ago
Actual original source: http://mobilized.allthingsd.com/20101206/googles-andy-rubin-... This change is mainly to benefit mobiles, and is introduced in the context of the Motorola Android tablet. I imagine (and Andy Rubin says this too) th
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Google Maps now uses vectors (not tiles), allows rotation, 3-D, faster loading(youtube.com)
4 points by motti 16y ago|2 comments
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by motti 16y ago
> The browser was always a second class citizen, a third party component Before the iPhone, the browser in Nokia phones was almost cuttting-edge, based off a version of Webkit shortly after it was open-sourced. Unfortunately, it stagnat
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by motti 17y ago
> Does anyone know if Google has a Java style guide? It's essentially very similar to the official Java Style Guide with some minor extra bits but, to get a flavour, you can just browse the source of any Google open-source Java project