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by mryall 16y ago
> 2. The only useful result is a Google cache with a pastebin with a stack trace similar to mine. I work on a product with a public bug tracker [1]. It's amusing how often the only useful hit for a problem I'm looking into will be the a
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by mryall 16y ago
Yeah, for me it redirects to Lifehacker's Australian domain. Complete web site fail. Somewhat ironically, the first link that appears on the resulting, incorrect page is "Tip your editors". Unlikely, when I can't even read their content.
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by mryall 16y ago
Because support people deal with spurious and unimportant issues like this all the time. They need to deal with them quickly so they can help people who have real problems. Imagine the number of people who try to test the limits of Google's
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by mryall 16y ago
Hopefully so. It will also depend on how good the OS is at swapping out any running Flash processes in the background. If a website with Flash left open in the background drained your battery quickly without you realising it, it would be qu
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by mryall 16y ago
> Rushing it out is the smartest option ... Maybe if they just want to sell to early adopters and technical folks. All the non-techos I know who bought iPads have done so because they see it works pretty much flawlessly and doesn't have
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by mryall 16y ago
Groovy is good alternative JVM language if you just want some improvements on Java without a completely new language to learn. It addresses many of the small frustrations I have with Java (lack of list and map literals, lack of anonymous fu
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by mryall 16y ago
My uncle was driving a truck a few years ago and hit a woman who walked in front of his vehicle. It was not his fault because the woman stepped out looking the wrong way, and the wet weather and short distance meant it wasn't possible for h
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by mryall 16y ago
Lots of useful general advice about building products. Cutting features is definitely the hardest part of his recommendations. Especially when a product is small and easy to enhance, it's tempting to add just one more feature . You just ne
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by mryall 16y ago
Apple pretty heavily promotes using their concurrency frameworks (GCD, dispatch queues, etc.) that don't require the direct creation of threads by application code [1]. Do you think many applications ignore that and use threads on iOS anywa
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by mryall 16y ago
His reply really only covers half of the relevant changes. The other parts are where they now require in-app purchases for any "premium content" which is accessed by the app and forbid links to a website to purchase content. Subscriptions h
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by mryall 16y ago
What does "forecloses on [an] office" actually mean? The article didn't explain that to me. From what I read, it sounds like the guy just won a court claim in local court against WF, and got the Sheriff's office to concur that the company w
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by mryall 16y ago
> A lot of companies just can't afford to have a group of users who cost the same as everyone else but only bring in 70% as much revenue. True, but it now seems like those who can are going to be the companies who succeed on iOS. It's s
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by mryall 16y ago
On the web, they seem to work pretty well for image galleries. Although I think it's important that you can dismiss the lightbox by simply clicking anywhere outside the image. In general, modal dialogs are suitable for operations where it h
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by mryall 16y ago
The compact size comes mainly because Chrome has discarded the default window format, title bar and menu bar. An interesting question to ponder is, What if every application did that? Wouldn't your desktop experience be much more confusin
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by mryall 16y ago
Sounds like a petition for the appropriate usage of lightboxes. That's something I definitely agree with. It's similar to the old problems with modal dialogs in desktop applications. Basically: don't use a modal dialog unless your situati
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by mryall 16y ago
This is a really interesting way to sell cloud-based storage. My parents use Dropbox for synchronisation of files on multiple computers, but they don't really understand how it acts as a backup system too. Pitching cloud storage as a safety
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by mryall 16y ago
It also looks like early days in the discussion. Software teams and designers demonstrate wacky ideas in mockups and wireframes all the time that don't actually make it into a shipping product.
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by mryall 16y ago
The phones are better, yes, since the iPhone. But I think in more of an incremental way rather than an revolutionary, innovative way.
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by mryall 16y ago
Or, more to the point, bolt cutter users?
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by mryall 16y ago
Yeah, and even less logical. Which court has ever ruled that we should ban bolt cutters to prevent bike theft?
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by mryall 16y ago
Articles like this can very rarely call out specific examples or name specific people without he risk of being sued for defamation. Besides, this is an editorial piece not a work of investigative journalism. For a bit more background, I fou
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by mryall 16y ago
Interestingly, serving e-books over HTML would destroy the DRM models that Amazon and others have developed to "protect" their content. I can't see there being a Kindle web-based reader unless Amazon takes the same road as Apple with regard
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by mryall 16y ago
Yeah, this confused me a lot. The press release [1] says quite clearly: > Apple does require that if a publisher chooses to sell a digital subscription separately outside of the app, that same subscription offer must be made available,
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by mryall 16y ago
Presumably those "books" with child pornography in them aren't allowed to be sold in the States. As someone who doesn't live there, I'm curious: how is that enforced?
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by mryall 16y ago
Yeah, in which case they'd probably be better to sell the shares than attempt to grab the helm of a sinking ship.
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by mryall 16y ago
The size of interest payments on public debt relative to the entire US federal budget is quite astonishing. That's the reality of running a budget deficit for more than ten years. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_public_debt
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by mryall 16y ago
> Google Cone of Haste +3 Parsing it as a verb, I followed your instructions and this comment is already the top hit for "Cone of Haste" on Google.
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by mryall 16y ago
Writing in clear understandable language and suggesting others do the same isn't "pseudo-intellectualism". It's just common sense. If you want your thoughts to be understood and respected, choose appropriate language to express them. What p
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by mryall 16y ago
Looks cool. I might use it for a future project. How many developers do you have working in it? Do you have a dedicated designer or did you design it yourself?
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by mryall 16y ago
All kids are different. Some will eagerly jump into new things, others need some gentle prodding from their parents to get started. Even curious kids sometimes need a suggestion for what to play with on a rainy day.

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