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by rahoulb 14y ago
Yes, they are also CPA. We've also got something similar to them, in that we can rewrite links on the fly, converting them into revenue-earning links, if they match one of our merchants.
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by rahoulb 14y ago
It's not really something I know much about, but I recently went to a talk where the guy said the ultimate difference between Puppet and Chef is Chef is ruby scripts, but Puppet is a config file - which means that Puppet can guarantee that
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by rahoulb 14y ago
Like this? http://wthr.co/ (although I have to say, it looks beautiful but is an awful app)
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by rahoulb 14y ago
Re: Retina display ... I would guess it's battery. My iPad 3 is heavy yet the battery life is significantly lower than my iPad 1 (and it takes ages to charge).
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by rahoulb 14y ago
You are wrong. windows RT includes the desktop environment but you can't install any new apps to it - all you have is Office and Explorer. http://www.anandtech.com/show/6392/the-windows-rt-review/8 http://www.theverge.com/2012/10/23/3537
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by rahoulb 14y ago
I pay £7.50/month (+VAT which doesn't count as I'm VAT registered) for 5Gb on a data-only SIM with 3. Not LTE, but seeing those prices and I'm not going to be changing any time soon.
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by rahoulb 14y ago
I'd heard that "Windows NT" was one step on from VMS (as most of the original NT team had worked on VMS)
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by rahoulb 14y ago
The iPod had one form factor for the first three years of its existence. The iPad already has two distinct models and is likely to have a third this month.
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by rahoulb 14y ago
That's not the point. The point is, in an area of unsubsidised devices, Apple held their own against cheaper alternatives for as long as the product category was relevant.
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by rahoulb 14y ago
No, I can't think of a single product range where apple held on to a 70%+ market share despite lower priced and more feature rich competitors cough ipod cough
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by rahoulb 14y ago
I've hired about ten people through oDesk; it took about a year before I got good at it (and I wasted a lot of money in doing so) but there are good people there. As ever, good communication is key (I insist on them being in a campfire room
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by rahoulb 14y ago
I would say the opposite. Creating audio, sketching and drawing (although I've not tried video) are all easy on a tablet. It's the text that's an issue, which I solve by using a keyboard when I'm working (and that I leave behind when I'm n
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by rahoulb 14y ago
I was inspired by the same guy and use an iPad with the Logitech ultra-thin keyboard (with a Linux desktop at home). The advantages, for me, are: * battery life * in-built 3G * the fact that iOS is almost single-tasking means I get distract
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by rahoulb 14y ago
I used to think that but I switched to WP7, found the two apps I needed the most (Campfire client and a decent bus timetable app) weren't available (or rather there were a couple of each, but they were awful) - and so switched back to iPhon
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by rahoulb 14y ago
OT but I have a theory that the 3d button (which "depressed" when you clicked it) is the entire reason behind Windows 3's success. I can't remember if System 7 predates it but certainly the 3d effect on its buttons were less pronounced, and
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by rahoulb 14y ago
I'll second this. It's the Resque backtraces that have caused us a few problems. And on a VPS RAM is your most expensive resource, possibly making Resque/Redis not such a good fit.
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by rahoulb 14y ago
I'm not so sure they were forced to. I thought that too, initially, but another commenter somewhere else pointed out how hasty and nervy Google's "maps" announcement was, just before WWDC. In that context, it doesn't sound like something
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by rahoulb 14y ago
I use an iPad in the same way, after switching from an MBA. the big advantages of the iPad are inbuilt 3G (I get 5gb/month for peanuts on a special offer from a couple of years ago), battery life (I never got more than 3 hours from the MBA)
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by rahoulb 14y ago
I did the same, but use Prompt/tmux/vim. The screen refresh is slower that issh, but it handles the keyboard and redraws much more reliably.
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by rahoulb 14y ago
> they're probably upgrading from a feature phone. And even the worst Android phone is much nicer than that. I would disagree - I've heard quite a few non-technical people say they are never getting another android because they are so
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by rahoulb 14y ago
(slightly OT but Apple paid Xerox for the GUI and then did significant development on it - compare a Smalltalk/80 system to the Lisa and you can see how much Apple did to improve it)
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by rahoulb 14y ago
http://torrentfreak.com/which-vpn-providers-really-take-anon... Of course, the providers there could be lying about not keeping logs, but it's interesting none the less.
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by rahoulb 14y ago
It matters a lot when buying cases (as someone who knows Apple products and still bought the wrong one for my wife's Nano)
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Racial profiling in GMai?l (the mainstream media realises free isn't free)(blogs.telegraph.co.uk)
1 points by rahoulb 14y ago|0 comments
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by rahoulb 14y ago
I've actually switched to doing my work on Ubuntu (using xmonad - I can't stand unity) and iOS (iPad as SSH client) as OSX only cares about the 80% use case now. Which is fine, it's Apple's decision to take, but it's no longer for me. (As f
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by rahoulb 14y ago
The real difference is that on OSX is if something doesn't work it doesn't work. Under Linux it may work, or work badly, or you can probably hack it to make it work well. I used to think I liked the latter but there's something appealing ab
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by rahoulb 14y ago
Isn't that the point of the TVShack extradition? A UK citizen running a site hosted in Sweden (I think) is extradited for breaking US copyright laws?
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Copying pays(pandodaily.com)
9 points by rahoulb 14y ago|0 comments
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by rahoulb 14y ago
And so much of twitter's functionality was "contributed" by those same passionate early users - hashtags, @replies etc. And don't forget if it wasn't for third party developers building their own clients, we wouldn't have the official Twitt
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by rahoulb 14y ago
I have a few twitter accounts - most of which are tech based and rapidly becoming uninteresting to me. But my football (soccer) account - in which I live-tweet updates during the game has thousands of followers and is a really interesting m

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