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by phuff 15y ago
The iPad had whatever came with the iPad2 by default, which I assumed was the latest, maybe it wasn't. Anyway, I haven't upgraded to 5 yet since it has seemed wrinkly for a lot of people. Wrt notifications... I just don't understand _why_
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by phuff 15y ago
Dunno why you got downmodded... Anyway, yeah the Nexus One is definitely not bug free. But it's been the case with things on the iPad too, but in general it's pretty stable. I don't use it as much throughout the day as the N1 though, so,
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by phuff 15y ago
I started with an N1 and later got an iPad 2. I found I had to turn off all push notifications and was surprised that apple would put out something that had such inferior usability when the notification dropdown thing that Android has is s
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by phuff 15y ago
It looks like it's $249 per unit.
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by phuff 15y ago
Amit Gupta started Jelly ( http://workatjelly.com/ ), the coworking space, and founded Photojojo ( http://photojojo.com/ ). I don't know him personally, (friend of a friend), but he is a really nice guy.
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by phuff 15y ago
The kind of open that they do is definitely less good than I would have hoped (I would love to be able to submit patches for the bugs I regularly encounter on my N1, say). But trust me, of all the people I know who have android phones here
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by phuff 15y ago
Fwiw, many is a very relative term there. Android phones are definitely mainstream. I'd say of all the people I know that have an android phone, less than 10% even know what "open source" means.
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by phuff 15y ago
We're doing this with our second child now. It removes a lot of frustration from the parents and the kids when the child can actually communicate about what they want, see, hear, think, etc. It seems to cut down on fits, and definitely he
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by phuff 15y ago
Out of curiosity, did you measure that quantitatively or is it just a qualitative observation? If quantitatively, what did you use to measure it? (Totally just randomly curious...)
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by phuff 15y ago
"Understanding our reasoning capacities as the outcome of a natural physical process leads to my agreement with Dawkins's claim that any philosophical result prior to 1859 can be disregarded" On a side note: Of _course_ _Dawkins_ would say
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by phuff 15y ago
Not sure you understood that his point was that an atheist using the Santa Claus argument sounds like a philosophical n00b...
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by phuff 15y ago
This reminds me of this great article by Clayton Christensen to Harvard Business students about life balance: http://hbr.org/2010/07/how-will-you-measure-your-life/ar/1 Looking back over a short 7 year or so career I can't remember many p
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by phuff 15y ago
It's so interesting to me how you can get these large companies that stay around even though they don't innovate. I mean, I don't explicitly use yahoo services for nearly anything. I occasionally look at flickr photos these days (other pe
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by phuff 15y ago
Aardvark has never been totally awesome to the point where I would use it to ask questions myself, but it has done a really good job sending me IM's asking me questions that are really relevant to things I'm reasonably well read on. I think
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by phuff 15y ago
Yeah the article talks about the things he said after he left Oracle but before he joined Google, but is pretty light on the specifics (the "ongoing legal battle" mentioned is the Android patent snafu).
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by phuff 15y ago
Interesting, since he just joined google 5 months ago... http://news.cnet.com/8301-30685_3-20047787-264.html I wonder if this is in any way related with the ongoing android litigation snafu.
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by phuff 15y ago
Ha! That's awesome.
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by phuff 15y ago
Also, way to totally blow past what took me like 6 months to get in HN karma points in like 7 hours... :) You sure know how to make a guy feel popular ;)
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by phuff 15y ago
Welcome to the party, Hemos :)
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by phuff 15y ago
Yeah, though I think $.99 is kind of steep for this feature, it is probably worth some money to me to get the cross device sync feature that having it be on the kindle platform provides. I can read from my phone, my kindle, my browser and
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by phuff 15y ago
I sure hope they give you some time off at your child's birth... :)
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by phuff 15y ago
Ahhh thanks!
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by phuff 15y ago
What does the free-float turnover mean/represent?
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by phuff 15y ago
I see what you're saying here. The notion that this would be more analagous to a corporate office break-in makes more sense, but it still seems like a poor argument for why what LulzSec is doing, though seemingly negative, is actually bene
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by phuff 15y ago
I don't think that physical locks are much more secure than a reasonably secured apache instance, which is definitely still exploitable, just like the locks on my door are, which I guess is part of why I think saying the analogy to papers o
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by phuff 15y ago
Does anybody else think that the kitchen table analogy totally stands? I have things in my house that contain a significant number of other people's personal information in them. I don't lock them in an extra protected safe in my house be
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by phuff 15y ago
I am not fully versed in the notion of innovative disruption, but it seems pretty obvious that a Clay Christensen-esque Innovator's Dilemma disruption is what's going on here: somebody had a decent product, is first to market, but doesn't h
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by phuff 15y ago
Which can be paraphrased as: "Performance under modern software development interviewing practices has a very low correlation with on the job performance."
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by phuff 15y ago
I've noticed that borders has made some moves at diversification (they have Legos on the shelf now, etc.) but I think it was pretty clearly too little too late. The history of the company is just one poor move after another once the origin
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by phuff 15y ago
Sourceforge was definitely created in an era when open source was much more project oriented (think, Samba, gnome, python, etc.) and back then it didn't make as much sense to have open source + closed source code side by side. But things h

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