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by smokinn 16y ago
That's because it's a "Google experience" phone. Any phone that has the Google logo on it can't be messed with in any way. Vodafone couldn't mess with it if they wanted to since Google wouldn't let them sell it if they did.
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by smokinn 16y ago
I really don't think there's that much integration going on at Google. Maybe eventually but for now, from the outside, it really feels like they're trying to go into many somewhat unrelated directions and hoping some interesting paths revea
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by smokinn 16y ago
I wouldn't say it's common but it certainly isn't uncommon. I have basically the same view. I like to code and I'm not big on risk but I hate bureaucracy and bullshit even more. So startups are a great fit. They're generally places where pe
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by smokinn 16y ago
True. A background API only being offered just now is a good example.
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by smokinn 16y ago
I find it's rather that they take care of every detail. I refuse to buy an iPhone but I'm still not satisfied with the state of Android phones. There's the phones with the great cameras (but are underpowered). There's the phones with the
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by smokinn 16y ago
You confront him. It may make you uncomfortable but it needs to be done. You need to be up front with him and say that lately his performance has been unacceptable and that he needs to correct the situation. Being honest about it will often
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by smokinn 16y ago
No, I'd never seen that. It looks like exactly what I've wanted to recommend to people. I didn't say I was happy with recommending handbrake, it was simply the least complicated option I had seen and my brother seemed to be able to muddle t
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by smokinn 16y ago
I know that's how it works internally, but I'm not inside. Honestly, I believe in the scientific method in a way very close to how the religious believe in their chosen faith. I have no problem admitting that to myself. Science is basically
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by smokinn 16y ago
I am indeed a programmer and command line doesn't faze me. I use both ffmpeg and mencoder pretty often and I think ffmpeg2theora might've been the one that actually produced something that wasn't crashing players like mad. But even for me i
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by smokinn 16y ago
Sometimes, I wonder what a religion would be like with rapid-fire talks anyone could speak at, poster sessions, and critique for every presenter. Science? EDIT: Figured I should explain myself lest I get voted down for being snarky. In sc
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by smokinn 16y ago
I tried very hard to use ogg for encoding a video about 1.5 years ago as well (it was a requirement) and it was so painful. The tools are awful and it took me 5 tries just to get something that wouldn't crash most players if you tried seeki
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by smokinn 16y ago
More likely their marketing push is starting to have effect.
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by smokinn 16y ago
^ Lies: http://www.adobe.ca/devnet/flash/articles/multitouch_gesture...
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by smokinn 17y ago
Sounds like a calculated risk. While a lot of "twitter services" are simple and could probably be built by twitter themselves should they feel like it, measuring influence and authority is a hard problem requiring considerable resources tha
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by smokinn 17y ago
I don't see how this is surprising. iPhone is a single device. There are many Android phones with many more to come. I would be surprised if any one device (say, Motorola's Droid for example) surpassed the iPhone but the Android OS as a who
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by smokinn 17y ago
Are you sure? I'm checking myself and nothing is available other than my profile photo. /[my id]/events data (empty) Maybe his privacy settings aren't as stringent as mine?
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by smokinn 17y ago
PCI compliance isn't something a startup should be looking to saddle themselves with, in my mind. Once you're established and can analyze whether you want to internalize an outsourced function, it's on the table with everything else I supp
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by smokinn 17y ago
I wasn't implying that you were, I was just trying to be clear. Why is simple. It's the economics. If you're a startup that does lots of micro-transactions you're paying a good chunk of overhead in gateway processing fees. If you feel it's
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by smokinn 17y ago
Because when you rebill a client you have to give the number again. You can use a 3rd party gateway that acts as an intermediary between you and the bank that issued your merchant account and the 3rd party gateway will offer services such a
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by smokinn 17y ago
It's only for the most exhibitionist type of people. Think of sci-fi books with people being "life actors" or some such where people can tune in to them 24/7 and see what they're doing. It's basically just a stepping stone to that. I don't
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by smokinn 17y ago
That was really interesting but the EFF really should put a date somewhere on that page. A "last updated" or something because right now I have no clue when they wrote that and whether they're still investigating it.
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by smokinn 17y ago
The difference is the last mile. Google's ads target someone looking for something (which is much more likely to result in a sale) whereas facebook's ads target someone looking to check out his friend's pics from last night's party or the p
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by smokinn 17y ago
Average maybe but definitely not normal.
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by smokinn 17y ago
I've always been irked by that as well. In Quebec most blue collar workers are unionized. And shop at walmart. While on strike. It's so hypocritical.
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by smokinn 17y ago
The article said they had several million more users so it's not really a sleeper; it just isn't bouncing around the Silicon Valley echo chamber.
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by smokinn 17y ago
It's hard at first but it's definitely worth the effort of going cold turkey. After a month or so the next time you try a soft drink your stomach will feel all gassy and terrible and the drink itself will taste pretty bad. Or at least that'
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by smokinn 17y ago
If you try to install you get this: WordPress database error: [CREATE command denied to user 'mtv_wp_user'@'172.17.129.134' for table 'wp_style_terms'] CREATE TABLE wp_style_terms ( term_id bigint(20) NOT NULL auto_increment, name varchar(5
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by smokinn 17y ago
From what I gathered about your posts on japanese salarymen though in Japanese BigCo that's the rule whereas in this article Tim points out that his recent experience was the exception. Postscript: This is a little unfair. Normal people wi
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by smokinn 17y ago
I'm pretty sure it's standard operating procedure for large companies to have company housing. I know that if you get hired at Apple or Microsoft they'll put you up in company housing for up to a month while you look around for a place on y
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by smokinn 17y ago
A friend of mine got 2 bottles at Christmas. Which is special since you have to register for each bottle you buy and BewDog was only selling one per client. We just happened to have 2 friends in England before Christmas and they each bought

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