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by poutine 15y ago
Bullshit. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/htc/8749797/HTC-uses-G... Commence the downvotes.
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by poutine 15y ago
I don't give Google the benefit of the doubt like so many here. Why is that so hard to understand? Apparently it is, and this is pointless. I get it, hate Apple, love Google, we're warming back up to Microsoft and uncomfortable with Fac
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by poutine 15y ago
And you're foolish for not holding that against Google. Google bought Motorola for their patents. They're playing the game which we as consumers are the losers in. If they were as moralistic as the segment of naïve geeks here seem to thi
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by poutine 15y ago
Both Apple and Google are massive multinationals driven by shareholders for profit and couldn't give a shit about your interests where they don't align with their own. It's time that a good portion of the community here grows up and stops
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by poutine 15y ago
Not being in Europe and not wanting to buy something; anyone with experience with the service want to explain how it works in detail? Their website is somewhat vague on the process. How do they enforce payment? What's the penalty for not
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by poutine 15y ago
If he'll probably never hire another pure sysadmin then he'll probably never build anything of scale that people will pay for. Sysadmins do a lot of stuff, and this is only somewhat reduced by cloud services. Or is he expecting to get the
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by poutine 15y ago
Much of the shopping experience could be replicated online if people used large enough photos. The postage stamp sized photos that many sites use are really stupid. So if you're building an online shopping site give me big juicy full scre
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by poutine 15y ago
Perhaps we should be thinking twice about buying Cisco products and rewarding such an apparently unethical company.
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by poutine 15y ago
Too many old people and the Chinese are not wealthy enough to sustain them as they age. Demographic collapse is all but inevitable in the 2020's.
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by poutine 15y ago
If he didn't care about money then why wouldn't he distribute it to his employees in some sort of profit sharing? Noted he's a philanthropist, but he's also the 3rd richest so he's keeping a hell of a lot of the money. There's nothing nob
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by poutine 15y ago
If this is the best you can do with an HTML5 'app' then native apps have a long future. It's buggy, laggy, animations are wrong, graphics are low resolution in places, and user interface widgets are odd and non standard.
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by poutine 15y ago
Heh, yeah have no fear. The likes of the carriers and companies such as Motorola will look after your long term interests, they're not evil at all like that dastardly Steve jobs and his minions at Apple.
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by poutine 15y ago
All of Canada is in a bubble, not just Vancouver. Thus it's not the Chinese. Things will burst here too, for Canada is not different and is not immune to the simple mathematics of economics.
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by poutine 15y ago
As does E-xact: http://www.e-xact.com/hosted-checkout/
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by poutine 15y ago
Who are all these developers that can't spend $5 on a interim release of developer tools? Perhaps they should reconsider being developers, just stick with XCode 3 or wait for Lion. So many people just seem to want to bitch about Apple beca
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by poutine 16y ago
Vancouver - Ruby on Rails developer http://www.e-xact.com a credit card processing company with a rails based infrastructure needs a developer with lots of experience in Ruby. May consider remote work for Canadians and Americans though h
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by poutine 16y ago
I refuse to upgrade to Skype 5 after trying it once and accidentally upgrading a second time when the app tried to auto upgrade itself. The horrid UI combined with Skype's stated desire to bring ads to the client makes me search for an alt
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by poutine 16y ago
This is not zero-sum. Spend those 1-2hrs a day not commuting with your family, friends, playing sports, etc.
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by poutine 16y ago
"The future will now be produced by cheap and abundant labour, not by mysterious oriental tech-wizardry (NB I am trying to describe an imaginary, not a reality!). " This is an artefact of today, not the future. As has happened in the dev
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by poutine 16y ago
Port obscurity is pointless when there's much better ways to secure your host. You should be running SSH with keys only, never with password authentication. Passwords are for encrypting your keys on your local machine and for sudo which is
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by poutine 16y ago
The best measure of success (if you're a shareholder at least) is this: http://www.macrumors.com/2011/01/31/apple-rakes-in-over-half... 50% of the mobile industry profits. Much better metric than units shipped. Doesn't seem to include t
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by poutine 16y ago
Unintended consequences seem like trouble here. Like many people I keep my phone in my pants pocket, if it were face inwards when I did that and I sit down then it'd turn off the alerts. Apple would get roasted if they did such a thing
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by poutine 16y ago
Please. It's not a bubble, nor a religion. REST offers some significant objective advantages over SOAP in most use cases. We wouldn't have the proliferation of APIs that we do today if everyone had to use SOAP.
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by poutine 16y ago
One key perhaps is not to link to articles that say "Sorry, couldn't find what you were looking for!", but maybe that's just me. :)
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by poutine 16y ago
Agreed. It's unbelievable that they raised such an amount of money for something that doesn't really seem very exceptional. Frothy times are here again.
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by poutine 16y ago
Well run? You've obviously never been to China.
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by poutine 16y ago
Indeed perhaps time to give duckduckgo a try. They seem to actively filter out all ad sites. I've been going nuts in the past couple months with google searching for technical solutions to problems, command clicking on links to open in t
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by poutine 16y ago
Visa and Mastercard are no longer owned by the banks, they both went public in the past couple of years and are increasingly acting as independent organizations.
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by poutine 16y ago
Chip and PIN have one major drawback for you though: they shift the liability from the merchant to the consumer. With conventional cards you can contest a purchase and the merchant is out of pocket. With Chip and PIN it's like a debit c
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by poutine 16y ago
It often strikes me that for people that have no reasonable science education the world must seems like an extremely random, unpredictable and mysterious place without cause and consequence. "My God, what must it be like in your funny littl

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