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by rjd 15y ago
I'm sure I read a variation of this article every month or so. I'm sure Ive even read it on ZD before as well. But these analysts are too short sighted to remember than when Apple rolled out the iPhone it was web apps only. That was there i
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by rjd 15y ago
A reusable rocket concept with some magically fuel supply that seems to defy physics ;)
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by rjd 15y ago
I'm not sure for all countries but I registered my company recently and the default title the registering process allocates is "Managing Director". Which seems exactly the correct term. I doubt I'd bother changing my title unless I needed t
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by rjd 15y ago
Its not the resolution thats the issue, its the actual physical size thats the problem. The iPhone 4 is 960x640, not too far behind either device pixel wise. But the 3" screen or what ever it is where the problem is. The tethering is a thin
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by rjd 15y ago
The screen size is important. If you've tried to use the web on a nook its lucky to be an average experience, generally its actually pretty horrible as its so small. The iPad as a slightly better experience due to size alone, but even still
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by rjd 15y ago
Wait, wait,wait ... I read these online years ago... whats so special this time? just because Google is involved?
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by rjd 15y ago
I built a fun little tool to do this a few years ago... probably at least 3 if not 4. I did the entire first act of Hamlet... as in I generated a string (300,000 odd characters from memory) and compared it to the proof. 9 chars at a time is
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by rjd 15y ago
Indeed was just coming to post that. From the article: 15 - Betterworks 2011 14 - Instagram 2010 13 - Warby Parker 2010 12 - Beachmint 2010 11 - Flipboard 2010 10 - Shoedazzle 2009 9 - Vostu 2007 8 - One Kings Lane 2009 7 - ZocDoc 2007 6 -
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by rjd 15y ago
ENTP here, arch type for inventor. 2% seems like a low value, although about the normal for entire population sets from memory. Theres been a few articles here recently on the subject, but being naturally prone to creative and innovative id
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by rjd 15y ago
I worked for a major news agency recently and speed/page weight where two things we worked damned hard to tackle. The publishing frameworks are to blame on the most part. We spent 6 months working on caching fixes to deal with that. The sit
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by rjd 15y ago
I used to work for a government as an employee and got fed up trying to deliver projects. I'm not the sort of person who can sit still and let the hours tick by. The whole culture of "not my problem" and staff to incompetent to do there job
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by rjd 15y ago
On paper... a lot of the other people on the list have actual assets. Till an IPO its all speculation.
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by rjd 15y ago
Yeah the whole paragraph is worded poorly. IMO it reads either one of these scenarios: 1) A library that dynamically generated JS for him instead of writing it himself. So probably some scaffolding tool. 2) Server side was returning HTML an
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by rjd 15y ago
90% made up my mind to use Tornado for several upcoming projects, would love to hear some comments (good or bad) from anyone thats used it or using it.
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by rjd 15y ago
Nope not really, I read a lot of books. I can remember one day buying Red Dwarf:Better Than Life, and finishing it overnight and maybe getting an hour or twos sleep. I grew up in a rural community and wasn't really interested in TV or techn
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by rjd 15y ago
So it has the same feature set as Windows Live now ? (minus the APIs) I've suspected for a while it would slowly turn into Live, remembering Live has a huge amount of users. It has what is technically a great feature set. But whats it worth
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by rjd 15y ago
First thing is nope I had the problems like his before I had a computer. Had it when I was a kid and right though out high school, right now I'm staying with my parents while I focus on some products, and am waking around 10am again, thats
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by rjd 15y ago
Well you made me realise its not solving the wallet problem, as you will still need a card as many outlets won't support the transaction type. There are plenty of other reasons to carrying a wallet, security cards for example, loyalty cards
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by rjd 15y ago
Its dead if they don't continue to iterate, and keep people interested. I mean they have 500 engineers working on it, and what do I see? ghost town... They need API's out immediately, intact that needed it on launch, without them its dead.
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by rjd 15y ago
No they sell the information but its anonymised I believe. They'd keep it what ever the legal requirement is per country, after they have sold it I doubt there much reason to hold it.
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by rjd 15y ago
Hooker at 10 pm, roll of carpet and shovel at 2am... who knows maybe you went out for some fun and saw a discount at 24 hour importer store... maybe something else... Silliness aside its the mistakes which are more scary than big brother ac
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by rjd 15y ago
Yeah I wouldn't be impressed with that. My cards don't have any amount to pay when I get compromised. Which is good as I booked a trip around Thailand and used my personal credit card for it, and used pre pay cards when I got there. I got b
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by rjd 15y ago
Yep, I picked up a trick while backpackign across Asia for this. My signture is upside down on my card. So if I refute any claim that appears I can point out the fact and show at what point the transactions started. I travell alot and I've
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by rjd 15y ago
Is that in the US? seems very relaxed to other countries I have been in. I've been declined in London, Ireland, Austrlia, Thailand, and New Zealand over my signature. From emeory I have never been checked in Spain which is notorious for cre
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by rjd 15y ago
Yep thanks thats more of what I was expecting to be under pinning it.
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by rjd 15y ago
No the vulnerability doesn't exist with your current wallet because it has analogue trappings to prevent theft. For example my current contents require PIN as well as signature as well photo IDs on cards. This type of fraud is so high in Br
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by rjd 15y ago
Yeah it is alot worse because my wallet needs signatures, has things like photo id on my credit card. One thing about that interface is how large the display is, it would be damned simple to catch someones PIN from a distance. I mean even c
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by rjd 15y ago
Anyone got any comments/info/insights on the tap and pay thing? I haven't read anything on the security model but from a high level it seems like its going to be a cluster f/k of fraud to me, loose your phone and you're loosing direct acces
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by rjd 15y ago
Yeah I think Facebook has a vision which is plain to see if you look for it, they are working very hard on unified messaging/communication system. Which in its current state isn't interesting, and if successful probably won't be interesting
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by rjd 15y ago
TBH I thought Facebook was innovating like hell, rebuilding itself into a communication platform instead of a social network. From what I've seen working on a major news site they are destroying Google in referral traffic. Seems to me they

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