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14y ago
The above link is incomplete, its throws a 404 Not Found error. Here is the corrected one http://www.quora.com/Startups/Which-Quora-members-were-able-...
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Imdbapi.com shutdown for trademark violations.
(imdbapi.com)
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I might be wrong but I don't think you can access your Github repo's analytics. The only reason I can think off other than the one you mentioned is that if the link gets reposted to forums/blogs, he knows the source of it as HN.
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14y ago
Wow, din't know there was a market that sells these kinds of mockups. Thought the guy built it using a 3d printer or some. Thank you for the link. It does look awfully similar to the Mockup #01 from that page.
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I can see that it could be fake but why would someone go through the effort of building a fake prototype three weeks before the official release? It would cost him a good amount of time and money and with no ads on his video, he gains would
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14y ago
Well you could have just posted this as a comment in the previous discussion. However, it does bring up the good question of how do you pass the blame around when something doesn't look right? You dont! No matter how many times you tested y
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> You presented no evidence that Google intends to close off Android source. You are right, but the statement was meant to be more of a what-if situation and not a it is. Either-ways we all can agree that based on the past events that i
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14y ago
What is with the downvotes and no comment? I would love to hear your side of the argument too.
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The same way chromium has become obsolete with chrome becoming less and less open-source. The same goes with MySQL. In case of android, most consumers will deal with what the manufacturers decides to put on their phones and less than 1% wil
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14y ago
I agree, Kindle Fire wasn't a pleasing product. It was slow, the browser crashed even on Amazon's site, got a defective one the first time (colored lines running along the screen), the customer service wasn't up to the par (had to wait a we
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14y ago
That is until all the three (Apple, Google and Microsoft) decides to only allow installs from the maketplace, you know for "security" reasons. The problem is if one company gets away with it, others follow suit.
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They also have to ensure there aren't any objects that might bounce back during lift off. :)
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14y ago
> most of the things you list appeared originally on the Mac Since you seem like a fanboy who loves to make up facts without any basis. Let's iterate over the list one by one in more detail: 1. Finder Sidebar: Windows Navigation pane -&
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14y ago
Both require it. Its just a marketing ploy to improve the aesthetics of Vanilla JS.
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14y ago
>What's next? The Mac stole from windows? Actually Mac did borrow a few usability from Windows too. 1. Finder Sidebar: Windows Navigation pane 2. The Mac Path bar: Windows Address bar 3. Back and Forward navigation buttons in folder win
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> Except that the major parts- like a touch oriented UI- don't exist until Apple develops them. Umm... I guess you never used a kiosk before the Iphone then. Calling someone lego assembler is not necessarily a bad thing. You can put tw
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14y ago
Not with a 100% accuracy I must say. If you are a company developing products, you would have many different product and all of those products end up being signed using a single private key. So assuming that it only sends a company's public
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14y ago
Isn't SmartScreen's job to validate the signature of the executable file with Microsoft? So it might just be sending the executable's signed public key to check for validity/revocation. Since OP hasn't posted the unencrypted communication w
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14y ago
I think the best way to display date/time is to have the text in relative date/time and title in actual date/time. For example: This post was made <span title="2012-08-23 2 PM EDT"> 2 hours ago </span> This solves the proble
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>Have you ever watched an American football game, for Pete's sake? Do you have any idea what those guys are doing to themselves? You mean the game where you get to wear one million paddings that makes even skinniest person look buffed u
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I din't feel bad for them, I moreover lost respect for them. Damaging your body more to prove that disability can't stand in your way to success is pathetic and hypocritical. Sadly this just makes me less interested in watching the Paralymp
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Funny how you can never patent/copyright a recipe but you patent the recipe of a seed. BTW din't Monsanto actually come up their secret sauce by stealing indigenous plants from places like India, and then trying to develop genetically mod
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I think ever since the success of flickr, most companies have followed suit when faced with the unavailability of their desired named in the desired tld. Eg: Fiverr.com, Domainr.com ...
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14y ago
You do realize that most major companies have undergone brand/logo refreshments at some point? Infact its much more difficult to pick out a popular company that hasn't redesigned their logo/brand since it birth. If you think that signals th
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14y ago
The problem with that is that an average user would click away or close the tab as soon as the clip is over. I think its best as how they have it in the beginning with the ability to skip longer ads. I rather get it over with and watch peac
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14y ago
I agree, Amazon Instant Video (free with Prime) is wonderful. The best bang for money, two birds one stone, but one thing I have noticed is that they hardly get new contents and yet they still expire the old ones. Its been 4 months and the
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Heck you don't even need to go that far. Just look up the headers to disney.com, they use Apache!!
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I maybe wrong but I don't think there is an easy way to integrate ads into HTML5 videos. Isn't it why Hulu or Youtube still prefer flash?
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14y ago
No worries, happens.
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14y ago
Din't think it was a real product, thought it was something they rigged up for the show. Thanks for the link.
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