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by rahoulb 15y ago
Slight correction - pre Mac OSX you could only resize from the bottom right, but you could move a window by dragging from the border on any edge (the idea being that windows were equivalent to pieces of paper, so people would rather move th
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by rahoulb 15y ago
I'm slightly obsessed with scrobbling and checking what I've been listening to over the last [N] months. And last.fm recommendations beat every other service I've come across. But in terms of actual listening; I barely use it.
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by rahoulb 15y ago
Thank you - I appreciate it, that's really kind of you.
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Patent threat means developers are pulling their apps from the US app stores(guardian.co.uk)
28 points by rahoulb 15y ago|2 comments
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by rahoulb 15y ago
I'd love to know a bit more about what your contract looks like. I've had real problems with getting clients to agree to pay 50% upfront in case I vanish (I'm quite happy to admit mine is a tiny, 3 person, company) and I'm guessing you mus
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by rahoulb 15y ago
I don't know much about Grooveshark (or Rdio) but one of the early selling points of Spotify is that it uses P2P - the first minute or so of a song is streamed from their servers but the rest is P2Ped from other users. Which means you very
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by rahoulb 15y ago
Years ago my employer released a new version of their desktop app. Occasionally, under certain versions of Windows, it would complain and show a dialogue box during the installation process. We needed to hit a release date (yes, it was our
728.
by rahoulb 15y ago
He has said before that he regards Brooks as his daughter. But this is all about the Sky TV deal.
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by rahoulb 15y ago
Voicemails were deleted from the missing girl's phone. One - they could have been evidence (apparently killers often leave sympathetic messages to try and deflect attention), and two - it made the parents and the police think she was still
730.
by rahoulb 15y ago
_If getting a site down-ranked was as easy as linking TO them from a bad neighborhood, black-hat SEO would be all over it_ it has happened and it can work (but not always)
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by rahoulb 15y ago
you play the game differently when you're the no-mark upstart compared to when you're running the show
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by rahoulb 15y ago
In the UK they've been running an ad about BBM - getting your friends together, meeting people in a nightclub etc. When I first saw it I thought "about time, that's what they need to do - capitalise on the fact that BBM is selling phones to
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by rahoulb 15y ago
The thing is, in many ways, the iPhone is a toy compared to Blackberries. Which is exactly why people want iPhones - same facts, entirely opposite conclusion. Stuff like this makes me think of the dolphins in the Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the
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by rahoulb 15y ago
They scan my private emails to target advertising at me - why would they not follow links (as the link obviously denotes something I'm interested in)? And, as the others state, if it's not robots.txt denied then why not add it to the public
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by rahoulb 15y ago
Well one thing i definitely do remember about Microsoft at that time was their "white papers" that were little more than made-up visions of a utopian future (which when implemented fell a long way short). My favourite (from a bit earlier -
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by rahoulb 15y ago
As I remember it (and it is a long time ago), one of the key promises of Longhorn was it was to make .Net a peer of Win32. At the time (Win2K, WinXP time) there were a few ways to write apps that ran on Windows - Win32 was the preferred way
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by rahoulb 15y ago
To: mycolleague@gmail.com The database dump is here: http://www.secretserver.com/database.sql.gz Don't tell anyone.
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by rahoulb 15y ago
So annoyed that they spent the second half of the twentieth century inviting them back to work in the UK.
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by rahoulb 15y ago
And Apple is manufacturing at full capacity - the prices suggest that there is still lots of pent up demand for iOS devices, but they cannot produce enough to meet that demand
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by rahoulb 15y ago
I suspect a major problem with ORMs is that a number of people are using them without a full knowledge of SQL beforehand. Relational databases are complex and you need to understand what's going on if you want to make best use of them. I'v
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by rahoulb 15y ago
That's exactly where I am now - an Ubuntu box for development and a Macbook Air and iPad for everything else. If I had the time to configure the Ubuntu box I could probably even leave the Air at home (although I would miss Acorn) - but at
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by rahoulb 15y ago
Although the browser bundling is what people remember there was much more to it than that - just ask Be and Hitachi. At the time the consensus was that Microsoft got off lightly after being found guilty of abuse (although the EU was much s
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by rahoulb 15y ago
10.6.7 is supposed to be a "prepare for Lion" release
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by rahoulb 15y ago
yeah I meant the public acknowledgement (although 1994 is earlier than I remember it).
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by rahoulb 15y ago
Given that MI6 didn't even officially exist till quite recently, I imagine that the fact that this is made public means it is just the tip of the iceberg.
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by rahoulb 15y ago
It's a shame, because iTunes 3 and 4, when it was just Mac-only music management (with a couple of devices supported), were amongst my favourite bits of software ever.
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by rahoulb 15y ago
NeXT used to have a Windows compatability layer - it was rumoured to be included in Mac OSX (yellowbox). I'd bet Apple maintained it alongside Cocoa (just like they kept the x86 port alive). itunes being carbon is probably just down to the
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by rahoulb 15y ago
The real problem with that statement is that version control doesn't exist in isolation. If you're the only person using Fossil it's useless to you (I hate git but I have to work with others)
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by rahoulb 16y ago
Apple has never done anything approaching what Microsoft did to Be and Hitachi
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by rahoulb 16y ago
Whereas I'd love to get rid of my UK VirginMedia cable box (it crashes often, is slow and I just resent it a lot of the time) but won't - the on-demand movies are cheaper than iTunes and have a comparable selection (not great but reasonably

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