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by timrichard 14y ago
> HTML and CSS gracefully degrade. I've seen this sentiment tossed around a few times now. I guess it's valid as long as (a) You're not working to strict wireframes, or (b) You are, but you don't have deadlines
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by timrichard 14y ago
I find it odd sometimes that people don't take the same attitude towards Adblock. Sponsored links are a price too.
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by timrichard 15y ago
> If I had a huge company, I would probably try to operate the departments like little startups. I think that was the case with a project like Wave, which IMHO could certainly have done with a little love from Google Marketing/PR as the
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by timrichard 15y ago
All evidence to the contrary? Android releases since Gingerbread have made much more use of black elements (status bar, menu shortcuts, app launcher background). Bright colours on OLEDs are bad news for battery life.
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by timrichard 15y ago
It's a bit unfashionable to point this out, but... the current govt has been around for a year and a half. The previous govt had thirteen years to do something about it.
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by timrichard 15y ago
Oh, it doesn't stand for Mini Gruber? :-)
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by timrichard 15y ago
I think 'kill' is a strong term to use. Although the original Etherpad service was terminated some time after aquisition, the source was released in December, 2009 : https://github.com/ether/pad
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by timrichard 15y ago
A very interesting thread. I haven't worked in this particular area, but isn't IaaS the happy medium? If you chose a platform, for example Node, you could shop around for the best value between Heroku, Joyent, CloudFoundry etc. In theory, t
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by timrichard 15y ago
IIRC, Xerox were paid in exchange for engineer visits on the understanding that Apple would produce some form of GUI. Xerox were sufficiently aggrieved with the result to file a lawsuit against Apple, who were trying to do the same thing to
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by timrichard 15y ago
+1 on the cloud advantage. I tried Google Voice Actions on my Nexus One quite a while ago, but it was optimised for the US market. The accuracy for me was so bad that I didn't bother with it. Then recently, a Google blog on RSS said the lat
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by timrichard 15y ago
In Node Web Development [Packt], the author uses a Fibonacci algorithm as an example that could block the event loop. It outlines one solution where the calculation is split into callbacks dispatched through the event loop, making use of pr
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by timrichard 15y ago
TL;DR : 2 + 2 = 5