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by rahoulb 16y ago
Just in response to the parent poster stating that Facebook could become a closed internet, requiring an FB login to access content.
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by rahoulb 16y ago
If the AppleTV gets iPlayer and 4OD (I guess the equivalent would be Hulu for the US) then I would cancel my cable box immediately. I've got Freeview for live digital TV, the AppleTV could then take care of all non-live watching.
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by rahoulb 16y ago
Agreed - if it's a site aimed at a non-technical audience I put it on www. and 301 domain.tld to www. And the other way round for sites aimed at a more technical audience.
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by rahoulb 16y ago
Well for facebook.com/productname that means a commercial decision - is it worth excluding a (probably) significant portion of the internet from viewing our product's site.
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by rahoulb 16y ago
It may be a one-off cost but writing a billing system is still a few weeks work. Pro-rataing on upgrades/downgrades, support for one-off overage fees, refunds, credits. Plus dealing with the fallout when you get a decimal place wrong in a
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by rahoulb 16y ago
Thanks, that sounds a lots less complicated than the advice I was given.
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by rahoulb 16y ago
As I understood it you have to have written procedures and policies, with fully secure change control and logging for section C ?!?
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by rahoulb 16y ago
Do the credit card numbers ever travel via your server? Even temporarily in memory? If so you are liable for PCI-DSS section C, which is a LOT of hoops to jump through. Spreedly saves you from that.
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by rahoulb 16y ago
I think the difference between the best SEO agencies and the majority is that the best continually run experiments to try and understand what Google is doing. This takes no little skill and a lot of time and effort. The rest just read and
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by rahoulb 16y ago
agreed. we don't have a language to define the problem in the first place. i am great at estimating - unfortunately i often go over because what i heard was being asked for is subtly different to what the client thought they were asking fo
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by rahoulb 16y ago
And just getting the paperwork together to prove our identities was a pain - as all my banking and utilities are handled online.
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by rahoulb 16y ago
He's saying if you use a free service to expect downtime. If you use a paid service, expect downtime. Maybe less downtime than a free service, but it will still be there. He is using IMAP because it makes it easy for him to migrate to anot
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by rahoulb 16y ago
I suspect seeing customer service as a problem is the root of it. there's no algorithm for it, just people.
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by rahoulb 16y ago
I wouldn't call it an MVP - more what 37Signals call "half a product, not a half-assed product"
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by rahoulb 16y ago
I now insist that developers spend at least a couple of hours per working day in my campfire room, so any issues or miscommunications are dealt with early. i also have process guidelines documents that they have to read - its fine to deviat
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by rahoulb 16y ago
Leeds as well
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by rahoulb 16y ago
I have done the same on an iPhone (staying in the country on a GPRS connection with a hangover) - but it's much much better on an iPad.
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by rahoulb 16y ago
I think a major factor is that most people despise their "real" computers, even though they like what they can do with them. Which is why they don't care about the locked down nature of the App Store - in fact it's an advantage.
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by rahoulb 16y ago
Maybe not offensive. But definitely distracting and defeats the purpose of Twitter - which, for me at least, is to show me stuff I'm interested in . Plus, it takes up a load of pixels on a device that is already short on screen space (a p
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by rahoulb 16y ago
last year there were a number of stories in the UK press (not that that is necessarily an indicator of accuracy) about renters having a month's notice to move out as the landlord had defaulted on the mortgage (and not informed the tenants).
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10 years of the iPod(guardian.co.uk)
1 points by rahoulb 16y ago|0 comments
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by rahoulb 16y ago
I still dont understand. They've made JS in Safari faster than JS in native apps. If anything that would encourage people to dump the native app completely and write a pure web app.
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by rahoulb 16y ago
But aren't they within the same process? (I'm asking an honest question - I know nothing of iOS internals). Doesn't that imply that the JIT has privileged access to pages that other code within the same process does not? As saurik (who kn
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by rahoulb 16y ago
That makes no sense ... apps that run in Mobile Safari get Nitro, native apps that use a browser component use the old JS engine. How is that boosting the App Store?
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Blaze admits Android to iOS Webkit speed comparison was flawed(loopinsight.com)
2 points by rahoulb 16y ago|0 comments
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by rahoulb 16y ago
Not a pleasant story, but true... I used to work at a place where one of the guys wrote a horribly complicated piece of code that about half of the system depended on. He was also quite an unpleasant man who routinely mocked everyone else
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by rahoulb 16y ago
In another thread discussing this there was the suggestion that Nitro's JIT compiler may need special privileges to mark writable memory as executable as iOS doesn't allow that under normal circumstances. Maybe that flag's been set for Mobi
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by rahoulb 16y ago
Nowadays, I suspect Microsoft's strategy is "throw shit at the wall and see what sticks"
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by rahoulb 16y ago
I like that about Klose :-) I disagree about Barton - which language consistently repeats past mistakes and is liable to stab you in the eye?
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by rahoulb 16y ago
I bought an original iPhone because a colleague said "there's an awful lot it doesn't do but what it does do is so good you won't miss the rest". I may be miremembering but I don't recall any real issues with it, and it still is the best ph

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