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by mryall 16y ago
Yeah, I've been cleaning the fingerprint marks off my iPad for months and never thought to look for patterns. What an interesting study it makes! In terms of other apps, Cut the Rope would probably have some interesting smudge marks, depe
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In terms of the points cited in the article, there's not that much difference between BigCorp and a SME. Both would pay similar salaries and have stable long-term roles for engineers, which I think were the author's points.
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A similar thing happens with TVs in electrical appliance stores. Brighter pictures are more appealing to the average viewer, so the stores bump up the brightness setting on the more expensive TVs. They can pull tricks like this because most
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CEOs aren't "elected", they're appointed by the board of directors. Elop's background and shareholdings would be well understood by Nokia's board.
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This is a great article full of examples about why IP law has hampered innovation. But it fails to answer a very important question: what should be done by the government to remedy it? The first and simplest part of lobbying is identifying
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It's interesting that the author of the reviewed book believes corporations to be a significant differentiator of the Western economies and their success. Recently the limited liability enjoyed by companies, their executives and directors h
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How Islamic law held back the Middle East(economist.com)
2 points by mryall 16y ago|1 comments
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I suspect this is because all the young developers who have the free time and inclination to release their efforts as open source are writing Ruby rather than .NET and Java these days. In a few years, they'll have mortgages and families too
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> trying to force people to pay for an extra feature (debugging through code w/o source) that many people simply don't want Isn't that the way software businesses work? They build features that they hope will convince people to pay for
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At this stage, Ars reports that the subscription service is limited to content subscriptions for apps like magazines and newspapers. However, I'm sure this payment model for apps will be lucrative enough to see expansion into other areas wi
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IOS T&Cs Updated to Allow In-App Subscriptions(arstechnica.com)
2 points by mryall 16y ago|1 comments
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Interesting summary and juxtaposition of various opinions on these technologies. The fact that JSON has won over XML on the web says a lot about the technologies people are using to build websites these days. JavaScript client-side data pro
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If the business is already making money, valuation is often a multiple of annual revenue. Depending on the length of the investment and your business model, this might be anywhere between 3 and 10x revenue. I'm sure there have been a few th
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by mryall 16y ago
The title is hyperbole, but the author makes two good points: 1. A revolution is created by people, not by technology. Calling the uprisings in Egypt and Tunisia the "Twitter" or "Facebook" revolutions doesn't reflect the reality on the gro
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Analysis of the State of the Union Address(shawndubravac.com)
1 points by mryall 16y ago|0 comments
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by mryall 16y ago
Yeah, that's one of the most valuable tips I got from the whole GTD thing: stop your email client notifying you when new email arrives. Productive email is asynchronous . Closing it down is best, but when I accidentally leave it open I sti
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by mryall 16y ago
> There absolutely is no added value in having to wait for a week for delivery of something that could have been done instantly … Agreed. I wonder how long it will be before they release Mac OS X upgrades through the App Store.
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by mryall 16y ago
They're certainly getting full use out of the CSS animation support in Safari. Check out the Mac and iPod sections, and the animations when you move between the different groups of products. They've replaced the old horizontal scrolling dis
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The top cities for buy/rent ratios are not necessarily the largest. And I know quite a few people who own properties in other countries who are neither rich nor European. One was an English IT contractor living in Australia who bought a sma
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I hope people aren't buying at 30x rental. The current US interest rates are at historic lows, so unless you get a fixed-rate mortgage you're going to be struggling when the interest rate goes up again.
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I meant on this site. People coming to it from a different direction might have more context or be less geographically distributed.
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I was hoping to see how affordable it is to buy in different cities around the world. Unfortunately, this data covers 50 cities in just one country. It should really be the "Top 50 Cities in the US". The US-centric nature of websites like t
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by mryall 16y ago
The US Reserve Bank currently has a target cash rate of 0-0.25%, whereas the RBA has it set to 4.25%. Correspondingly, the interest rates on bank bonds and savings accounts are much lower in the US than Australia. This difference is also on
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by mryall 16y ago
You could just use a meta tag or link tag with rel="author". Both are hidden from users and, unlike this proposal, are also de facto standards for including author information in web pages.
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Here's a Business Insider article from October 2009 that covers it: http://www.businessinsider.com/sometimes-larry-and-sergey-do... John Gruber linked back to it this morning.
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100 or so books that shaped a century of science(americanscientist.org)
37 points by mryall 16y ago|4 comments
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I'm not sure how you can say that with such confidence. Hardware support for a particular codec comes from a high level of demand for use of that codec. Demand comes from content producers and consumers. If Microsoft, Apple and the other co
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by mryall 16y ago
Some interesting advice on what to do in the event of a relatively small scale nuclear explosion in your vicinity. Prior to reading this article, I wouldn't have known about the (obviously sensible) approach of staying still to avoid the ri
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The Atlantic: The unexpected return of 'duck and cover'(theatlantic.com)
3 points by mryall 16y ago|1 comments
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This is a great post and clarified quite a few confusing points of the discussion for me. One area that unfortunately it didn't really cover was the impact of widely available hardware and GPU-accelerated decoding for H.264. Surely the mill

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