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by rjd 15y ago
Idealised, romanticaised version of what start-ups are. Perhaps someone should burst a bubble and point out how many startups out there are very well defined, funded, with solid business cases, research and deliverables. Worthless article.
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by rjd 15y ago
The current one is over favoring there own products in search results over third parties. Some of the evidence is pretty damning, I was quite surprised at the what they had put together. In general its over enhancements such as searching fo
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by rjd 15y ago
How is that even a possibility while Google is currently under anti-trust investigation on the premise of being a virtual monopoly? A cynical person may think this is ploy to raise stock interest so you could ditch any stock you are stuck w
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by rjd 15y ago
Really? Reddit has lost all integrity with me, since digg imploded all the problems that digg had migrated there way over and the voting system has drawn out the very worst in the digg crowd. I used Reddit from 2006 till later this year whe
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by rjd 15y ago
... has anyone done a cleverbot version? packaged it up as a semi serious app? I think I could have some fun with that
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by rjd 15y ago
In 2007 I was part of a committee looking at the OOXML proposal for ISO acceptance. I had to listen to Google and IBM release twisted media releases about what was going on. I learnt during those few months that those two companies are in e
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by rjd 15y ago
The cards are a NFC system designed by Visa. There is no if, its in public field trials ATM, at least one event had 200,000 people at it. Visa has deployed terminals at all the sporting events and to pubs around the stadiums. What is going
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by rjd 15y ago
They have rolled out a swipe to pay trial system in New Zealand for the Rugby World Cup. Its essentially the same thing, except it uses a chip off your credit card and not one in the cell phone. Thats going to be Googles biggest competitor
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by rjd 15y ago
You are aware Android is an operating system right (the same domain where Microsoft holds most of its patents) and not hardware (where Microsft holds the rest of there patents)?
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You can completely turn windows off as well. God bless hyper visors.
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by rjd 15y ago
Well I guess we have to see if Android is still a viable platform in 2-3 years time. Don't under estimate the power of patents. Also don't under estimate the power of the enterprise and company issued phones.
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by rjd 15y ago
Heres a tip : "things don't actually move that fast" It may seem like the industry is screaming along but its mainly media hype. The important things will take a few years to get where they need to be, I dare you to pick any ground breaking
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by rjd 15y ago
I worked on a major financial application that had a consumer front end written in share point... it was horrific... easily the worst thing I had seen in 15 years of developing. The guys that put it together created a situation where there
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by rjd 15y ago
I see a lot of ideas come through through here and very few of them either put a smile on my face or have me thinking I'm going to use that, or it at least needs book marking. Congrats I smiled, bookmarked, and did a search. I think you're
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by rjd 15y ago
I'm not going to say you're wrong, I just haven't had a install work as advertised yet. I was initially put off when I tried to install it on my Windows workstation, check out this tutorial for how much of an annoyance it is : http://www.t
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by rjd 15y ago
Setting up a SVN server takes seconds (infact it comes pre installed on all macs). Setting up a git server is a nightmare. If you have a small team like me (2-3 people max) then SVN easily meets all your needs. Naturally Git will catch up a
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by rjd 15y ago
Well for users with fringe case scenarios such as yourself most modern browsers have client side style sheets. As for the iPad... it scales websites to fit its format, so I'm not sure what the issue if there.
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by rjd 15y ago
Actually I must admit I thought it was an MS publication, I'm sure I was getting it with my MSDN subscription... I'm even thinking I may even have the wrong magazine now I'm not sure... The MS evangelists I dealt with where A+ characters so
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by rjd 15y ago
You might want to do yourself a favor and move your browser width out a bit more. 940 is a commonly used width content for many grid based frameworks. That 940 doesn't include an internal margin, instead it is handle by an external 10px ma
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by rjd 15y ago
I had my name changing rights taken away on Facebook. I got a message saying I had breached the rules to many times and my punishment was keeping the last name I entered LOL I used that fake name for 2-3 years and only decided to try changi
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by rjd 15y ago
I can't help but be suspicious this is a propaganda push to try and move people off devices competing with MS. I never read .net magazine even when I had a subscription, theres something about the tone of the magazine that rubs me up the wr
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by rjd 15y ago
Indeed it is, its a very common thread in my life and I'd say for a lot of readers here. It something you get used to and you learn to deal with, its called maturing, hence why I said it was an immature thing to do. I don't go around bad mo
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by rjd 15y ago
I have no sympathy for that guy. Seems like he had a disconnect between the importance of his work and the greater strategy of the company, having a whinge over people putting his work on the back burner is very immature.
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by rjd 15y ago
Same thing happened to me, I did however just read on another blog post that its apparently cached and propagating through Apples servers. So I guess try again in a few hours. EDIT: I downloaded via iTunes and it worked, downloading via my
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by rjd 15y ago
Yeppp... its like getting a birthday present. You get a moment of excitement and intrigue. You unwrap it, and .. socks. You know I'll probably use those socks someday, but its not what I was really hoping for.
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by rjd 15y ago
It maybe just normal depression. It reads a little to me like you have lost the feeling of control and feel like everything slipping away... and that maybe manifesting as a coping mechanism as a form of depression. To quote the intro from w
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by rjd 15y ago
What the hell does twitter integration have to do with an exposé on a language framework... sorry but nope looks like some sort of scraping scam to me.... remove the twitter oauth and I'll revisit it.
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by rjd 15y ago
No most of the infrastructure already existed because iTunes was already in place.
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by rjd 15y ago
iTunes was already in place, so the infrastructure and payment methods already existed. TBH this is only something Apple can answer. I think you're right that Apple don't change tack due to pressure. However the iPhone was a volatile produc
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by rjd 15y ago
The public SDK could have been delivered easily in 9 months as the Apple devs themselves had to be using something, so many of the decisions would have been already hardened. Plus iOS wasn't a completely new system it shares core components

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