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by robgough 16y ago
There is a caveat to this. I find it makes checking mail on the move a PITA, namely - having to check more than the inbox for potentially important mail. I got around this by using the filters in the same way you describe, but have gmail ke
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by robgough 16y ago
Any app that makes you go "Whoa" when you first use it, and then only impresses you more and more as you use it has to be on to a good thing. It's a simple app, does exactly what it says on the tin - and is fast as hell. Brilliant. The fact
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by robgough 16y ago
I find a massive difference between mac and windows, I believe that's mostly thanks to exposé. On Windows I have 3 monitors (of varying sizes unfortunately) and think I couldn't have enough of them (one for a full-screened version of each a
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by robgough 16y ago
Did he argue that he has the right to misuse content, or did he simply joke about it? People joke about doing things they would never dream of doing. Heck, people lie about doing things to show off to people all the time - especially when y
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by robgough 16y ago
I think (hope?) this might be exactly what it would take to get me going to the gym regularly. The team element would be a great source of peer pressure "You best be at the gym tonight, we've an important battle". Here in the UK there is
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by robgough 16y ago
Seems like decent enough advice, but I can't help feel that there are going to be plenty of examples of when this fails. Anyone got any?
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by robgough 16y ago
Like so many others I was an avid bloglines user for years. I didn't even like Google Reader during it's early years. The user experience on bloglines just seemed to get worse and worse, and eventually I had to switch.
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by robgough 16y ago
Didn't MySpace already win? Oh wait...
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by robgough 16y ago
If they were working from home, sure :P I can't see it impacting on their work, but it might irritate others. There is an obvious second question though, how would you know before you employed them. The question then becomes, would you fir
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by robgough 16y ago
Is it also worth pointing out that Google isn't exactly known for it's high level of customer service. Is there any reason to think they won't be just as bad as PayPal if they had the same number of customers. I can't believe there isn't a
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by robgough 16y ago
I would imagine it's a tale that was repeated up and down the country.
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by robgough 16y ago
About 9 years ago my secondary school (in the UK) had finally got fed up of having these lying around, and told the students that if anyone wanted them they could take them home w/ them. They still had a few left, and so they went in the bi
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by robgough 16y ago
Re-reading your comment, you did ask why they were so popular. Must have mis-read that at the time - sorry. I was a little twitchy, as I'm tired of seeing "why has this been posted" style comments. As I said in one of my other comments thou
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by robgough 16y ago
I shouldn't have gone sarcastic at the end there, but I was quite serious. I presume the front-page algorithm has some sort of "magic" in it so that the only articles making it to the front page are that which a significant proportion of th
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by robgough 16y ago
I always presumed that's why the originating website appears in brackets next to a headline. So you can avoid reading sites you aren't interested in. I'm surprised this so far has alluded you.
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by robgough 16y ago
It is me, or does that article not talk about any of the actual uses of this valuable data they've collected? It is an interesting idea, might be useful here in Manchester (UK) where in the city centre (and possibly only one weekends) black
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by robgough 16y ago
There's an air of arrogance about this technique that rubs me up the wrong way. I'm sure it will be successful for them, but I won't clamouring to be one of the chosen few.
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by robgough 16y ago
Read it the exact same way. Surely a semi-colon wouldn't have hurt, but I think most people are scared of using one nowadays.
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by robgough 16y ago
Fair point. It would be nice if they would at least commit to bringing Windows support in the future. I can't imagine this would affect actual sales though, just another of example of when Apple's secrecy can be irritating for some of us.
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by robgough 16y ago
No middle click irked me for a while, but the two-finger tap, followed by a quick movement and single finger tap can be so quick and natural I don't notice this anymore.
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by robgough 16y ago
Here Here. I used to hate trackpads, so much so that I only ever used laptops with "nipples" (see ThinkPad). The MacBook with two-finger scroll was revolutionary for me, and I've never seen any manufacturer beat that pad. Well, any other
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by robgough 16y ago
I would replace my mouse at work with this in a heartbeat, but I'm a .net developer by day and need those windows drivers. (I use an MBP at home) I think they're missing a huge opportunity here by not providing those drivers. Obviously an
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by robgough 16y ago
I thought my link was bad enough. wow
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by robgough 16y ago
Maybe not. You'd think they would have struggled to overprice HDMI cables. Here in the UK it already costs £5-10 for a 1.5m cable in our high street stores. Obviously I wouldn't get one from there, but many people do. A typical example; ht
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by robgough 16y ago
Nice. Would like to reiterate Last.FM scrobbling requests. Also, could you log my last 20 played tracks, or tracks listened to in the past 24-48 hours, so that if I leave the site and come back later I don't keep hearing the same track. Lis
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by robgough 16y ago
I was surprised by the way the bloke in the video pronounced it actually, was thinking more dey-ah-spore-ah. I think there is an argument for a simpler name, but at this stage it's hardly the most important factor.
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by robgough 16y ago
Sounds like a fascinating way of working, if not high-stress. It doesn't say how many hours/week their staff were working. "but either individual heroes or small, high-trust teams more often than not found ways to deliver projects on-time."
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Useful. I'd heard the term closure bandied around, but never bothered to learn what it was. Cheers.
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by robgough 16y ago
I loved the demo for that game, but could never actually find it for sale anywhere!
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by robgough 16y ago
That's fair enough. I should really have said they're both, combined. And it is the combination that is the key to their success.

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