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by rodh257 15y ago
Everyone always goes overboard with their reaction to any app removal from the marketplace. I don't see what the big deal is, I'm glad to see Google keeping the market from being too dodgey. All of these "oh well this is pretty much Apple"
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by rodh257 15y ago
came to post exactly this, have it off by default and users can turn it on. That way most people won't have it on so the fights don't occur, but it's still there as a convenience.
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by rodh257 15y ago
I remember Paul Obrien tweeting that the GSII was really open, seemed to actively encourage modding. Twitter search is horibble so I can't find the tweet now though.
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by rodh257 15y ago
It's good to see something that is advertised as 'only CSS' or 'pure CSS' that is actually pure CSS and doesn't have any javascript.
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by rodh257 15y ago
I'd imagine that if it was Apple, Google or even Facebook buying Skype this sort of article would have been all over the tech press from day one, but because it was Microsoft it was labelled a stupid deal, Ballmer obviously wanted to waste
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by rodh257 15y ago
I'm glad that someone has finally wrote this article. This is what I first thought when MS bought Skype - they are buying into the future of telephony. It's silly to think we'd still be using voice networks and SMS in 5-10 years time when V
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by rodh257 15y ago
Pinta is another great open source mono app
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by rodh257 15y ago
"Google likes this. Excel screws up? Perfect, just use Google Docs. Mission accomplished. People are surprisingly flexible if you throw up a barrier. An hour or so of pissing off a customer is a exchange Google is willing to make if it give
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Hands-on Node.js book(nodetuts.com)
75 points by rodh257 15y ago|17 comments
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by rodh257 15y ago
why not just do that now to help them get that market share, and some profits from the app store sales to boot?
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Neal Ford - Learning to think like a functional programmer(ibm.com)
4 points by rodh257 15y ago|0 comments
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by rodh257 15y ago
StayFocusd for Chrome Users - https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/laankejkbhbdhmipfm... latest version has a neat feature which tracks links from blocked pages. Ie if I give myself 15 mins of HN a day, but end up wasting 2 hours bec
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by rodh257 15y ago
I hope that this is just a marketing campaign and doesn't reflect their internal R&D, or they may find themselves left behind once again.
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by rodh257 15y ago
Still more of a pain than it should be - and also voids warranty. I wonder if they'll lock it down so you can't turn off the advertising on the cheaper model (the screen savers are advertising aren't they?)
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by rodh257 15y ago
I'm interested to hear why solutions such as this: http://monotouch.net/ aren't an option? Price barrier, or are they not up to scratch?
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by rodh257 15y ago
is this available worldwide? Google Voice isn't so that could be a reason
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by rodh257 15y ago
I recently bought a 2011 MBP 13" and did this. SSD with Win7 in the cd bay, 7200rpm drive with OSX in main bay. Boy is the 'no boot from USB' thing on the new Macbooks a giant pain in the ass! Installing it is one thing, but last night for
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by rodh257 15y ago
While the ideas for projects is a good one, do you ever get sick of hearing peoples complaints in social situations? Nothing is more annoying than when you are having a few Friday beers and all people want to do is tell you how crap their c
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by rodh257 15y ago
It's funny, people lather praise for Vic when he is presenting Android and what not, but he was really out of his depth with Conan.
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by rodh257 15y ago
Very relevant to mobile applications/websites with 3g connectivity. I recall seeing an interesting talk from Google about how the Google Maps team optimised the latest Maps API to send larger tiles less frequently to perform better among ot
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by rodh257 15y ago
replacing the HDD with an SSD doesn't void the warranty, however replacing the DVD drive with one (like I did) does.
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by rodh257 15y ago
Applications start faster, loading any files from disk start faster. It depends on your usage scenario, but for .NET development in Windows I can vouch for it's value. $200 for an SSD is a far better use of money for the average programmer
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by rodh257 15y ago
A vertex 2 is around $200 from what I can see: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820227... If you buy a sony or apple laptop, replace the drive yourself. I just bought a 13" MBP and bought a $25 caddy to put my Vertex
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by rodh257 15y ago
Sounds like Samsung are going to have a tough job defending this. I imported a Galaxy S to Australia before they were release here and I had many people asking me if it was an iPhone, or just assuming I had an iPhone when they saw it. That'
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by rodh257 15y ago
whenever I'd seen this book mentioned in 'best programming books' lists, on Stack Overflow and the like I'd figured it was a cutely named book to do with Perl and skipped over it.
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by rodh257 15y ago
http://teuxdeux.com/ is quite handy for simple short term tasks
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by rodh257 15y ago
I Liked comment karma as when I'm just taking a quick HN break I can skim down and read the best comments based on how many votes they got. Now I often just don't bother.
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RWW Hacker Poll: Is OSX Still Developer Friendly?(readwriteweb.com)
8 points by rodh257 15y ago|16 comments
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by rodh257 15y ago
On my Galaxy S, Samsung has baked in Home+Back Button as a way of taking screenshots... though needless to say this combination is prone to error. It also doesn't seem to work on certain views.
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by rodh257 15y ago
From the article "Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss (a.k.a. "the Winklevii")"

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