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The Icon Factory: Apple Music, Beats 1, and How to Make a Superstar You Can Own(grantland.com)
1 points by traek 11y ago|0 comments
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by traek 11y ago
Fair point, but there are some trends in technology that it doesn't take into account. As technology becomes more centralized, the computing power of your phone or laptop becomes much less important than the power of Google's and
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by traek 11y ago
Yes. https://www.google.com/about/careers/locations/paris/
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by traek 11y ago
That means the statements are presented as facts, but are not yet proven and thus are technically only allegations. Generally, one shouldn't present allegations as facts (use phrases such as 'allegedly'), but doing so is stan
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by traek 11y ago
Google has a similar offering for apps running on App Engine, called Cloud Endpoints[1]. [1] https://cloud.google.com/endpoints/
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by traek 11y ago
I get value from Google's personalized search and Facebook's customization of my News Feed. I'm not saying those services don't exist to drive company profit, but I do think that machine learning and personalization can
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by traek 11y ago
That's the ripple animation from Material Design[1]--it looks good on an product page for Android. [1]: http://www.google.com/design/spec/animation/responsive-inter...
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by traek 11y ago
I think we should (and do) have the option to decide not to pay and not consume the content.
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by traek 12y ago
> It's further ironic when it's made by Apple, the company that changes connectors every 2 years. That's definitely not accurate, the 30-pin connector was introduced in 2003 and wasn't replaced until 2012.
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AmEx-Costco Divorce Shakes Up Card Industry(wsj.com)
2 points by traek 12y ago|0 comments
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Under Armour Acquires MyFitnessPal for $475M(wsj.com)
4 points by traek 12y ago|0 comments
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by traek 12y ago
It's pretty clear, actually. From the article: > A lodging industry trade association petitioned the FCC last month for the ruling on blocking personal Wi-Fi signals. > The petition stems from Marriott International’s agreement l
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by traek 12y ago
Yeah, I'm pretty sure it was a joke.
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by traek 12y ago
When you say that "privacy-sensitive information" is "being leaked", you make it sound much worse than it is. The information being sent seems completely normal for an online word processor with a revision history, and i
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by traek 12y ago
I can confirm that on Safari, the file downloaded is f.txt
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by traek 12y ago
That's the prospective client, not the company which created the product.
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by traek 12y ago
No, but Twitter does have a built-in picture sharing service. That's part of the reason that Twitpic is doing so poorly.
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by traek 12y ago
>Headline capitalization is pretty easy: Capitalize the first word, then any proper nouns. That's it. Not really accurate. Some publications use sentence case for headlines, but most publications use (and most style guides suggest)
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by traek 12y ago
The thing is, most of Google's services are available on iOS as well. And IMO Google's apps are as good on iOS or even better than they are on Android. You can get the best of both worlds by using iOS with Google's apps and s
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by traek 12y ago
That's inaccurate, Apple Pay also has an in-app payment component. From their website: "Apple Pay lets you use iPhone 6 to pay in stores and within apps in an easy, secure, and private way."
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by traek 12y ago
> GMail is fast. All the time. No matter how much mail you have. That's because it runs from a local database and all server interaction is abstracted behind sync and local accesses to data. I don't know about Android, but on i
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by traek 12y ago
> First of all, it's not necessary to use a word such as "menagerie" in any article, apparently it's being used incorrectly anyways, it means "a collection of animals". A commonly used secondary definition o
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by traek 12y ago
I found the results very interesting, but I'm not a big fan of the charts. The x-axis is categorical, not continuous, so a line graph isn't appropriate here.
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by traek 12y ago
For issue 14, I believe he meant that the image on the page ( https://developers.google.com/web/fundamentals/documentation... ) shows the optimized rendering taking 1.5 seconds, not that the page itself loads in 1.5
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by traek 12y ago
Just to address "identify a, possibly subtle, dysfunction ... with a few days of work", the Github post implies that the investigation took place over at least four weeks: > Ultimately she conducted over 50 interviews during a
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by traek 12y ago
> I like G+ for the photo back-up from my Android phone. In fact, that seems to be the killer feature. I wonder what will happen to G+ if Facebook adds a similar feature. You'll probably find this interesting, then: https:/&#x
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by traek 13y ago
It wasn't 5 years old when the article was written, though. The Galaxy S was less than 2 years old at that time.
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by traek 13y ago
You can use Cmd+~ to switch between application windows if they're in the same desktop.
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by traek 13y ago
I think it's kinda sad that Google Code is abandoned and so far behind the competition that even Google teams use Github instead.
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by traek 13y ago
They already offer a white-label web store service: http://webstore.amazon.com/

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