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by storborg 17y ago
Here is an example attempt to solve this: http://www.redballoonrace.com/
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by storborg 17y ago
From a consumer's point of view, yes, that's true. It's easy to switch to a different email provider or a different search engine. From an advertiser's point of view, that is just not the case. Advertisers are forced to use Google, because
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by storborg 17y ago
I think it would be possible to do this yourself (adjust the scroll acceleration/velocity) by using a constant size-viewport and implementing the scrolling in javascript. I haven't tried it myself, but the touch(start|move|end) events are p
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by storborg 17y ago
Agreed. I think most universities would rather err on the side of CS, lest they be construed as something like a trade school. Unfortunately, that doesn't mesh well with the reality that the majority of students will go into software engine
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by storborg 17y ago
I've never really felt it was that different, but for the sake of discussion, how would you simulate the non-social variety of stress in a hiring situation?
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by storborg 17y ago
I often hear people assert that engineering isn't done under pressure, so an interviewee's performance under pressure doesn't matter. I don't think that's necessarily true: lots of systems have to be designed for life-and-death situations,
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by storborg 17y ago
What is your internet connection, and how much does it cost you? Inquiring fellow Palo Altans would love to know.
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by storborg 17y ago
That doesn't tell users that the `where` field is optional. It would be better to fill in a default value from the geo-IP lookup.
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by storborg 17y ago
Much more relevant are the two Forbes articles the Register is summarizing: http://www.forbes.com/forbes/2009/1214/breakthroughs-mit-her... http://www.forbes.com/2009/11/25/hugh-herr-activerun-technol...
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by storborg 17y ago
I think he means that Perl 6 doesn't have a living, widely used implementation. The point is that since Perl 6 is relatively less mature, it would be more valid to compare Python 2.* to Perl 5, and Python 3k to Perl 6.
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by storborg 17y ago
I think you mean 0.7% of people, which is not necessarily a small market. Developing a sophisticated consumer electronics product like the iphone may be expensive, but developing a few software apps for it isn't necessarily, especially if y
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by storborg 17y ago
You aren't "stuck dealing with the forward button / back button structure". You can get rid of those with just: <meta name="apple-mobile-web-app-capable" content="yes">
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by storborg 17y ago
Wow, this article paints jailbreaking in a horrible light. The vulnerable devices are phones where the owner has enabled remote ssh access and left the root password as the default. There's a reason it's called the "Duh" virus.
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by storborg 17y ago
Even if this was proven as fair use, it would be quite difficult to make a usable search engine that didn't present at least some of the content back for public consumption. Imagine if Google search results just had a bunch of links that sa
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by storborg 17y ago
This article could be written much less offensively as, "The appcache in iPhone OS > 2.1 means web apps don't have to be second-class citizens." As it is, it makes some strong assertions but fails to actually educate developers. That sa
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by storborg 17y ago
Not that I support the change, but this headline seems very presumptuous. Is there actually any evidence that they're imposing "tracking cookies"?
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by storborg 17y ago
Forgive me if I'm missing something obvious, but how does it prevent unauthorized downloading? It looks like the font gets base64 encoded and put right into a CSS file?