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by poundy 15y ago
One additional issue is certain countries (eg: India) require a photographic ID, etc before they issue a SIM. This is becoming a larger issue in Europe and elsewhere.
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Use your iPhone/iPad as a controller for an HTML5 browser game.(webdigi.co.uk)
68 points by poundy 15y ago|33 comments
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by poundy 15y ago
Well done, thanks for sharing!
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by poundy 15y ago
This reminds me of something I could not do. How do you load test a nodejs - socket.io installation? Is there a tool like apache bench to load test websockets?
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by poundy 15y ago
What stock should I buy now?
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by poundy 15y ago
I haven't used IIS web server in a while. Does IIS support URL rewriting yet?
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by poundy 15y ago
The demo works well on the iPhone4 http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/edge/resources/
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by poundy 15y ago
> Sad. But I have to say - climbing Everest when your wife is due to give birth - not cool. I believe this is exactly why he is the CEO of a popular company and others like me are not. He takes risks most of us avoid for various reasons
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by poundy 15y ago
Probably nothing related to mathematics but Ramanujan's hand writing is awesome! Not something I would expect in a notebook.
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by poundy 15y ago
Well, obviously you've been using horrible developers (you can find them in your home country too). IIT's are not your average university. Digest this: 34% employees at Microsoft, 28% at IBM, 17% at Intel and 13% at Xerox are of Indian orig
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by poundy 15y ago
What many people probably don't know is that Nokia started as a company manufacturing paper in 1868, it moved into electricity generation, footwear, etc before creating the first phone in 1960s (100 years after it started). It is hard to fi
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by poundy 15y ago
Well, it is increasingly becoming a world where we rely on 3rd party servers like Facebook, app approval process from Apple, etc. I wonder how much more complex things are going to get in future
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by poundy 15y ago
Are there any forks yet? Is it harder or easier to fork a project like MySQL?
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by poundy 16y ago
In the UK, A few companies like Google and BT have come together to solve this problem. http://www.gbbo.co.uk/ They offer a free service (until 2011) for businesses to create their own websites managed by Google Sites, integrating with Go
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by poundy 16y ago
Revenue per employee makes no sense. What makes sense is profit per employee. Vizio outsources stuff and pays loads to other companies, their profits have a lower ration that 10 million per employee Edit: AmTran sometimes swallows shipping
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by poundy 16y ago
I agree with this and what I find more interesting is that he also brought us Pixar. He is definitely not a one trick pony and definitely has something great in him!
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by poundy 16y ago
As of march 2010, Steve jobs owns 5.426 million shares of Apple valued at $1.2bn 138 million shares of Disney valued at 4.45bn I was surprised to learn today that the majority of Steve jobs wealth comes from Disney although he is known the
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by poundy 16y ago
In the past, Apple feared IBM, sided with Microsoft and Microsoft beat it. Recently, Apple feared Microsoft, sided with Google and Google beat it.
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by poundy 16y ago
Good question.. I am also eager to find out..
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by poundy 16y ago
Bing does not change its title for airbnb http://www.bing.com/search?q=airbnb Cool trick!
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by poundy 16y ago
The only interesting thing with the article is that it comes from msnbc, a company owned in part by microsoft!
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by poundy 16y ago
What would happen when they get hacked?
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by poundy 16y ago
That's about $75,000. I am sure a lot of people pay that. Its nice to see that it also buys you better insurance, pretty good. That's the way it should be! In the UK all you get is the same kind of health care irrespective of your contribut
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by poundy 16y ago
It also does not matter if yesterday's score was 0-10 and you are down by 10. Don't get depressed, try scoring one today!
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by poundy 16y ago
On a lighter note, what is the physics behind a bird hitting and breaking through concrete walls and ice barriers?
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by poundy 16y ago
Is this all done in HTML5?
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by poundy 16y ago
I don't understand technology behind app approval, code review, etc. But, would this happen in the iOS app store? Given their more stringent approval process?
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by poundy 16y ago
I don't understand why Microsoft Excel removes leading Zeros if a column in "0058"? In open office the column is correctly displayed as 0058! This is without having CSV data changed to +"0058".
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by poundy 16y ago
contenteditable="" is that all?
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by poundy 16y ago
The southern state of India is where Rajanikanth fans are the craziest. His movie roles are larger than life and often defy gravity and logic. Here is a link to a video that might give you an idea of what you can expect in his movies http:

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