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by ollysb 14y ago
"One of the things that’s interesting is we actually have more people on a daily basis using mobile Web Facebook..." this is testament to just how bad the app was.
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by ollysb 14y ago
Who exactly does closing questions benefit? I can't remember the last time I went to stackoverflow to search for an answer. I always find the pages through a google search. Google does a great job of finding me relevant material on stackove
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by ollysb 14y ago
Yeah, easymotion does make counting words/lines seem rather redundant. I'm just hoping that they'll extend easymotion so I don't even need to think about what I'm jumping to i.e. I hit leader leader and every non-white character is indexed
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by ollysb 14y ago
Joining the dots a little bit for you, here's another quote leading up to this point. >> Russians need a particular reason to smile. You've heard good news and you smile to show that you consider this news as good.
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by ollysb 14y ago
I've always found it interesting that people's perception of history is coloured(couldn't resist) by having only seen it in black and white. You almost have to remember that the world wasn't actually in black and white 100 years ago. It's f
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by ollysb 14y ago
The amount of smiling varies a lot between cultures, you can't correlate smiling with levels of happiness. Russians are known for not being big on smiling http://blog.properrussian.com/2011/05/why-russians-are-not-s... . From that article:
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by ollysb 14y ago
While I appreciate the elegance of your solution from an engineering perspective the user who accidentally enters an invalid address is definitely getting a worse user experience here. If you're using javascript to validate the email a user
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by ollysb 14y ago
OK, the day/week distinction could have been clearer, $1.45 per day = $10.15 per week = half of my weekly food budget, which was about $20. What did I eat, well, lots of jacket potatos and pasta :)
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by ollysb 14y ago
I've only travelled to America once, Florida. One of my lasting impressions was the size of portions when eating out. You ask for an individual salad and you're given a bowl that's twice as big as a salad you might share between a table whe
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by ollysb 14y ago
I'm a little bit dumbfounded at this, that's $1.45 per day, per person in a family. Do you really consider this an insignificant sum? I'm pretty comfortable these days but there have been times in my life where that represented half my food
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by ollysb 14y ago
I sometimes make basic freeby sites for friends. Fully grown adults get really excited about having their own web page up on the net. I've got to admit I had fun with LOGO back in the day, but if I'd been able to manipulate the internet, no
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by ollysb 14y ago
I'm sure that children are going to be more interested in what they can create using programming rather than honing their computer science skills. The web and mobile provide great opportunities for children to play with programming and make
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by ollysb 14y ago
To be fair email would do the job...
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by ollysb 14y ago
"In capitalism, the winners do not eat the losers but teach them how to win through the spread of information." This certainly casts patents in an anti-capitalist light...
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by ollysb 14y ago
Ha! Remember this comparison with java back in the day? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQbuyKUaKFo
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by ollysb 14y ago
The funny thing is that TDD is actually a great way to break paralysis analysis. State what you want your new feature to do, get it working, improve it, or don't... you've got your ass covered so you can always make it more "perfect" later
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by ollysb 14y ago
For a moment there I thought they were going to try and bring editors back to the publishing process. The blog gave us open publishing, anyone who wants to can push up their words. What's missing though is the polish and refinement that the
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by ollysb 14y ago
+1 for Gandi, I've only heard good things about them. I've been with fasthosts.co.uk for 10 years now(with zerigo for as long as I can remember as well), I've currently got 20 domains registered with them and I can't remember having had any
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by ollysb 14y ago
First of all, let me say I'm not a maven hater. If I was working on a java project I'd use it. 1) The problem is that until you lock down the dependencies you can never be sure exactly which versions will be used. When you use bundler it ge
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by ollysb 14y ago
For a number of reasons Bundler/rubgems does a far better job of reproducible builds. 1) Maven doesn't generate an equivalent of Bundler's lock file. It resolves the versions to be used on each build. If you have dependencies on snapshot ve
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by ollysb 14y ago
>> I think at some point in the future people will see $50/yr for those two things (privacy and data control) as a relative bargain. I can't remember ever hearing anyone mention privacy/data control issues outside of HN. Facebook ha
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by ollysb 14y ago
Using email as a task lisk sounds like a nightmare. The equivalent pen and paper version would be people doodling all over your list whenever you weren't looking. Do yourself a favour and use something like trello.
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by ollysb 14y ago
I had tickets for the olympics and was unable to attend. I tried over several days to try and get the tickets reallocated, I wasn't even interested in getting any money for them, just wanted them to be used by someone else. Supposedly this
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by ollysb 14y ago
10 people seems like a very large team for a single project, do you have multiple teams in the same standup? If that's the case then you're certainly wasting time as cross project communication is only rarely going to be useful.
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by ollysb 14y ago
I do agree they might be setting expectations a tad high here...
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by ollysb 14y ago
I'm guessing to the target audience there is no such thing as a computer that they can use without any help at all. Apple already has a reputation for making products that are easier to use. Now they're pushing the message that you'll alway
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by ollysb 14y ago
Ha, thought I'd have a look out of curiosity, the aol.com is actually far cleaner.
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by ollysb 14y ago
The bbc has great coverage at http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/olympics/2012/live-video . UK only, but I sure that won't stop you.
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by ollysb 14y ago
Been using crossrider for the last couple of months. They've been doing a pretty good job as well(yup, not having to write the IE plugin is an absolute godsend!). Good to have an alternative though, I'll definitely be taking a look at trigg
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by ollysb 14y ago
Here's what would be great for users, being able to sign in with _any_ of their email addresses and passwords. If you could register all of your email addresses and passwords then login would become as easy as entering the first set of deta

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