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by theoj 14y ago
SEEKING WORK - NYC or remote. I am a mobile developer who focuses on Android Java development. I have worked on multiple Android apps, both large and small, for a variety of clients. My portfolio and Github are listed below: http://www.bri
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by theoj 14y ago
>> I encountered a striking tendency in myself to want to neutralise colors. If I didn't know what color to make something, my default choice would be to desaturate it until it no longer offended my eye. On a fine level it works an
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by theoj 15y ago
>> The data does support the case. Oh, it does? Let's look at the article together and see if we can find that data: >> (The US rate is) 3.5 per 100,000: we would expect, if the Foxconn factories were no more dangerous than
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by theoj 15y ago
Careful with your data sources and assertions. Some of this "data" needs a serious dose of fact checking. The data for: https://twitter.com/#!/nicepaul/status/163797296306331648/ph... as indicated at the bottom, comes from: http://onforb
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by theoj 15y ago
>> [Foxconn provides] a safer workplace than the average US manufacturer Would really love to see some data that backs up that assertion.
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by theoj 15y ago
SEEKING WORK - NYC or remote. I'm a mobile developer who focuses on Android / Java development. I have worked on several large applications and smaller ones as well. My portfolio and Github are listed below: http://www.bricolsoftconsulting
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Adobe’s Photoshop CS6 Beta: Even a Little More Magical(techland.time.com)
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by theoj 15y ago
Depends where you get hired. This article seems to deal with getting hired at a company whose main line of business is not technology (say finance, which Dominic seems to recruit for). In that case, your employer will not care about your be
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by theoj 15y ago
Might want to refer to this: >> Hack ones and zeros and earn our respect. But hack us and earn our contempt. By you asking the question you have already earned the interviewee's contempt - now it is only a matter of how that is expr
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by theoj 15y ago
Thanks for the answer. Sorry I wasn't clear... I was referring to this part of the article, in which you describe how the HTML / JavaScript communicates with Objective C on the iPhone: >> We then make a request to a fake URI (forge:
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by theoj 15y ago
Would be curious to know why Trigger didn't use the URL interception method in Android. Is that significantly slower?
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The Geography of Venture Capital -- Silicon Valley vs New York vs Boston(theatlanticcities.com)
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by theoj 15y ago
You're giving Apple an easy pass... a significant cut goes to the executives.
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by theoj 15y ago
The US copyright lobby tried the same type of maneuvering in Spain. They took it a step further and threatened to put Spain on a list of countries that don't respect intellectual property laws, that is unless Spain passed the desired dracon
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by theoj 15y ago
Agreed. The media is not helping either by framing the issue wrongly. It's not US competitiveness that is the issue here -- it's China's lack of human rights.
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by theoj 15y ago
How many of you would like to work in dormitories at your employer, be called up to start a 12 hour shift within a moment's notice be given nothing but one biscuit and a cup of tea to last you through that shift? Maybe you'll do it for your
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by theoj 15y ago
Hollywood, the recording companies, RIAA / MPAA are all intermediaries between the artists who need the funding to create video and music content and the consumers who crave that content. What we needed is a YCombinator for artists. Invest
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by theoj 15y ago
>> it's not bundling when you don't actually own any of them In legal terms you don't own Windows either - MS gives you a license to use it.
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by theoj 15y ago
This brought back memories of the browser wars. Back then it was "Should Microsoft be allowed to use its control of the desktop to bundle Internet Explorer with Windows?" Now it's "Should Google be allowed to use its control of search to bu
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Designing your Android app - interaction patterns(androidpatterns.com)
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by theoj 15y ago
Here in NYC (the second tech hub in the the US) we have not one but two Protect IP Act co-sponsors: Senator Schumer and Senator Gillibrand. I don't think enough people know about this. Give them a call or email and let them know how you fee
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by theoj 15y ago
SEEKING WORK - NYC or remote. I'm a mobile developer who focuses on Android / Java development. I have worked on several large applications and smaller ones as well. My portfolio and Github are listed below: http://www.bricolsoftconsulting
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Windows Phone passes 50,000 apps(latimesblogs.latimes.com)
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by theoj 15y ago
1. See mdasen's comment in this thread about the LTE rollout. TMo may not be as far behind compared to others. 2. You're assuming that unlike Metro PCS, TMo has no "other benefits". Not sure if that's true. Personally, I prefer TMo because
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by theoj 15y ago
Some big assumptions in this post: 1. Assumption #1: T-mobile "has no plans for the future." You can't possibly know that. If anything, the negotiated spectrum transfer and payout on deal failure is a small indication that they do have some
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by theoj 15y ago
It's a bit after the fact, but 2 things to keep in mind with regards to Android phones: 1. If you can, when you are shopping for an Android phone, opt for a Google Experience Device whose software is vanilla Android and is managed directly
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by theoj 15y ago
SEEKING WORK - NYC or remote. I am a passionate Android developer. I have worked on several large applications and some smaller ones as well. My portfolio and Github are listed below: http://www.bricolsoftconsulting.com/category/portfolio/
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by theoj 15y ago
This got me thinking about the $200,000 "shitty" Android app the government supposedly commissioned. With some slight rephrasing: >> Next time you see a business build a "cheap & shitty app" and making loads of money - try to se
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by theoj 15y ago
>> And there will probably be more bureaucrats added to the system, with jobs that are essentially useless and another needless expense. This is really twisted. The industry is taking something it wants to do -- draconian copyright
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by theoj 15y ago
SEEKING WORK (NYC or remote) I am passionate about Android and Java development. I have worked on several large applications and smaller ones as well. Please take a look at my work here: http://www.bricolsoftconsulting.com/category/portfol

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