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by somebear 16y ago
To be fair, the introduction of glossy displays was done after most other laptop manufacturers had switched. I'm sure they did it because it looks better at the store, i.e. you have to know that a matte display is more usable in daylight to
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by somebear 16y ago
Believing in the death of Symbian is very premature. It has been years where the series 30 platform has been on its deathbed, but it is still being developed actively, and there are still products being produced on it. Now that Symbian is b
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by somebear 16y ago
Researchers from the Bartholin Institute at the Danish national hospital have found a correlation between intake of refined sugar and type-1 diabetes. There is still quite a bit of controversy over whether an increased intake of refined sug
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by somebear 16y ago
I have also experienced several times that developers have been quite hostile towards bug reports. Even bug reports that I, as a developer, would be quite happy to receive myself. That kind of attitude means you are less inclined to try and
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by somebear 16y ago
The US vs. Microsoft case started in 1998 [1], but the investigation started all the way back in 1991. Given that the DOJ has just initiated an investigation into Apple over possible antitrust violations in online music sales [2], we can ex
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by somebear 16y ago
I think my colleagues would start to look even more funnily at me than the already do if I started doing this. Especially since we work in an open office environment. If I had an office I would definitely consider. For now I think I will tr
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by somebear 16y ago
The preferred development avenues for Nokia smartphones (Symbian & Maemo/Meego) is either the Qt SDK [ http://www.forum.nokia.com/Tools_Docs_and_Code/Tools/IDEs/No... ] or WRT (Web RunTime) [ http://www.forum.nokia.com/Technology_Topics
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by somebear 16y ago
My biggest issue with Facebook is that it is so incredibly buggy. It seems like they don't run any testing before doing changes to the UI or releasing new features. Basic functionality seems to only be working off-and-on, and sometimes you
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by somebear 16y ago
This is one of my biggest problems. When compilation, image creation, or device flashing takes longer than ~1 minute, then I will switch to the browser and get lost. 15-30 minutes later I will discover that my build, flash file, whatever wa
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by somebear 16y ago
Do you know if that is specific to the iPhone HW? My 1st-gen iPod touch performs very well with iPhone OS 3, only stutters a bit when changing tracks while playing games.
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by somebear 16y ago
All of those problems require one very important thing: an assessment of the prospective employee, car, or woman. I'm sure Dr. Norvig has plenty to say about evaluating prospective employees, but it is still the hardest part about hiring be
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by somebear 16y ago
Odd, the jobs page [ http://banksimple.net/jobs/ ] works, and from there you can get to the rest of the website...
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by somebear 16y ago
You could start with the simple question "who will be hurt if I do not publish this information?" I have a hard time finding anyone who would be hurt if the finder of iphone had handed it over to the bartender, apart from Apple's competitor
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by somebear 16y ago
It means that the DA thought Gizmodo, and the editors in particular, had broken the law in paying for the iphone prototype. Simple as that.
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by somebear 16y ago
You can also consider for a moment that Engadget posted pictures of the same device [ http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/17/iphone-4g-is-this-it/ ], but did not pay any money for it, nor mocked Apple or the engineer in question. I have yet to
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by somebear 16y ago
Deep honesty from Jason there, acknowledging that Mahalo is a dying company. Didn't know they had burned through 4,367 employees already though.
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by somebear 16y ago
I totally agree with your criticism. His designs look nice, but it seems like that has been the focus rather than conveying the important information. Something like the missing terminal is an excellent example of this. Also, why have a map
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by somebear 16y ago
Except I have Click to Flash installed in Safari, and it still insists on that full screen flash monstrosity.
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by somebear 17y ago
I gave up TV because it just became too tiresome. Haven't missed it at all. I just noticed the other day, when I turned on the TV to play some Wii, that the cable company still hasn't turned off the signal, I don't know if they are hoping t
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by somebear 17y ago
I was just going to say that. I had similar performance problems with Safari, especially when opening the Top Sites view. After the latest Safari update, however, I see none of those problems.
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by somebear 17y ago
I have read neither K&R nor the C++ book cover-to-cover, but the C++ book is standing practically unused on my bookshelf, while my K&R is noticeably worn.
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by somebear 17y ago
I don't know, but Symbian does have the largest value share of the platforms at Nokia (S30/S40, Symbian, Maemo).
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by somebear 17y ago
The thing that has always struck me about K&R is that it contains no fluff. You get so much information for each paragraph, that you often have to re-read them to get all the information contained therein. Probably the programming book
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by somebear 17y ago
I'm not sure you've heard about Symbian, it's only 47% of the smartphone market [1]. You can develop apps for Symbian and install them on your device very easily. Unless you are doing anything hardcore they can even be self-signed (since Sy
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by somebear 17y ago
A bit more, but not much [1]. [1]: http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2010/03/joojoo-preorders/
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by somebear 17y ago
Must have been before they were bought by Lenovo. Seems like the T61's we have at work are nothing but trouble. Regarding the new Macbooks, the casing machined from a solid block of aluminum is very robust. Quite a bit more robust than any
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by somebear 17y ago
I like the updated version, after all, the "Sun is a miasma of incandescent plasma", rather than "a mass of incandescent gas": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sLkGSV9WDMA
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by somebear 17y ago
I must admit, I like this version of Code Monkey better: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qYodWEKCuGg
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by somebear 17y ago
Except you could build pre-loading of map data into the app. On Symbian phones with Ovi Maps the app will download map data on-the-fly, or you can choose to pre-load it (for example the full maps for Europe or whatnot). I see no reason Goog
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by somebear 17y ago
There are porn sites that have started supporting H.264, possibly in order to cater to the iPhone users, although I have no data to back up that assumption.

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