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by rahoulb 16y ago
Is it true that Windows NT was so-named as it was supposed to be VMS+1 ?
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by rahoulb 16y ago
I bought an 11" Air because I wanted a laptop that was as close to an iPad as possible. I also have a 1st gen iPad - typing is an issue; coding's impossible but emails are OK (stick it in landscape and use the 1st gen Apple case and it's r
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by rahoulb 16y ago
It used to be the marketing page for iTools (which became mac.com which became MobileMe). I used to think it was a nice (slightly tongue in cheek) way of promoting the service.
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by rahoulb 16y ago
on't forget that apart from the four people who used a Microsoft tablet, this is a new product category and most people are nervous around new technology. Less is more on that front, as they make users comfortable with the concepts in use.
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by rahoulb 16y ago
If there are they shouldn't. As mickeyben says above, choosing indexes is a compromise - you sacrifice performance in one area for performance in another. Only you can make the right decision there, because only you can begin to know how t
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Facebook's "Real Name" policy challenged(guardian.co.uk)
2 points by rahoulb 16y ago|0 comments
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by rahoulb 16y ago
That's the issue - what's the definition of "track"? I've not seen a decent discussion of this anywhere - the BBC site says "shopping baskets are exempt" but what about session cookies? What about font-size preferences or logins? I've aske
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by rahoulb 16y ago
The linked document looks to me like a recommendation to alter the tabled amendment - and as things currently stand then language preferences and the like will not be exempt. Hence clause 51 stating "to prevent this we propose the following
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by rahoulb 16y ago
You can read on a laptop ... It's not about exclusivity. The thing with the Kindle (I've only used one briefly) and the iPad (I love my 1st gen) is that they do some things better than a laptop. Reading is better on a Kindle or an iPad -
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by rahoulb 16y ago
Actually I'm more worried about things like scrolling. Dropping offline storage is such a big deal there would be a major outcry (plus it would destroy their marketing claims that Safari is the best browser - regardless of whether that is t
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by rahoulb 16y ago
And Ruby is about developer happiness, screw everything else :-)
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by rahoulb 16y ago
marketing is understanding and communicating with your market - customers and potential customers. advertising is one method of communication used in marketing. there are many others. well that's what I have been told by my friends who wor
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by rahoulb 16y ago
Just on an appearance level, the inspector in Safari is significantly better looking than the one in Chrome (although functionally they seem pretty much equivalent)
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by rahoulb 16y ago
yes :-)
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by rahoulb 16y ago
Ask the guy who made a million dollars off Pixelmator in the first week because his was the featured app on the Mac App Store
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by rahoulb 16y ago
As I understand it (and I may be wrong) that particular scenario (Dropbox) is not well defined in the Apple rules - so it's wait-and-see how they enforce things. Personally I doubt they would piss off popular development shops like Dropbox
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by rahoulb 16y ago
The real shift that started with the iPhone was that the software became as important as the hardware - how they work together [1]. Motorola, Samsung, Nokia et al don't have the extensive software culture. Palm/HP is the only one that does.
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by rahoulb 16y ago
It's not worse than Microsoft. Apple does not have a monopoly in mobile devices. Apple is acting as a distributor and asking for a cut for being that distributor. There are other equally viable distributors - web apps, Android, maybe even
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by rahoulb 16y ago
I'm not so sure that would be good for Nokia. This decision is an admission from Nokia that they aren't good at software. If they went with Android they will need to write software to differentiate themselves from the myriad of other Androi
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by rahoulb 16y ago
It's too early to say if it will work but this is my third attempt at offshoring some of my dev work - and I'm insisting that we have at least three or four hours a day when we are all present in a chat room. Communication is key to success
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by rahoulb 16y ago
I would put it down to there finally being a distinction between web-sites and web-apps. Within an app, my current context (which control has the focus etc) is important and a full page reload loses all of that. Within a web site, as it is
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by rahoulb 16y ago
I'm glad someone remembers Windows for Pen Computing. It's also the first instance I can think of of Microsoft using vapourware to obliterate a potential competitor (Go in this case).
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by rahoulb 16y ago
Disagree. Apple paid Xerox for the GUI (in shares) but then added a number of elements we consider an integral part of the GUI. Xerox had overlapping windows, a mouse, networking and Smalltalk. Apple lost the network and Smalltalk (later t
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by rahoulb 16y ago
I wish that scaffolding would go. I've not used it in four years, apart from when inheriting code from Rails-newcomers.
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by rahoulb 16y ago
Well I can't speak for the organisers, I'm just someone who attends. But they have proved that they are a conference for the same dates for the previous three years. And the implication is that Paypal are asking for more documentation than
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by rahoulb 16y ago
I think, as patio11 states above, it's because it's very hard to do without losing money to fraud hand over fist. It's also why Apple/iTunes is so important and why the mobile carriers should be rubbing their hands with glee (if they had an
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by rahoulb 16y ago
I do agree. But I feel this complaint is different to the "I started making money and Paypal suspended my account" complaints that are normally posted. It's the repeat nature - asking for the same documentation over and over again - that's
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Paypal's fraud prevention routine does it again(scottishrubyconference.com)
189 points by rahoulb 16y ago|88 comments
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by rahoulb 16y ago
Add in an "auth-request" header onto the email, have a plugin for your mail client that looks for the header - and if found hides the mail and does the auth in the background for you - and you then have seamless integration (thanks to http
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by rahoulb 16y ago
Kids have used passwords in games for years. everyone's seen spy movies. the story of alladin is part of popular culture. but "here is a thing in two parts, one of which you give to everyone but one of which you need to keep absolutely to y

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