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by watmough 16y ago
A Motorola Droid is $440ish, almost $100 cheaper for what looks to me like a better phone. Any thoughts? I'm an iPhone developer, but I'm considering dipping my toe in the Android water, and I'll need a decent phone. I'm thinking of going 2
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by watmough 16y ago
Ironically, Google just enabled multiple sign-ons, but I'm not sure it would have helped. There's too much tied to my GMail account already.
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by watmough 16y ago
Is this the same thing as Buzz? If I want to 'connect' with friends, I have Facebook, and if I want to im work colleagues, I have Yahoo and MSN. For document collaboration I have email for non-realtime, Google Docs for near and actual real-
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by watmough 16y ago
Great quote in this article: "For its part, the TSA says that body scanning is perfectly constitutional: "The program is designed to respect individual sensibilities regarding privacy, modesty and personal autonomy to the maximum extent p
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by watmough 16y ago
The old logo may be cheesy looking, but in this situation , it's a hundred times better than the crappy generic one, and it is strong enough to balance the awful text set to its right. With the generic logo, the ugly text dominates. If the
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by watmough 16y ago
Will people pay for your web-service? Will charging increase the perceived value? The DropBox article that was posted a couple of weeks back was interesting, since they were able to monetize the service at differing tiers depending on how p
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by watmough 16y ago
The headline refers to an 8 minute segment in a 45 minute chat from DHH. I've only watched part of the talk so far, but it is a very persuasive piece of advocacy for Ruby. DHH is a smart guy, but he seems to have had relatively light range
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by watmough 16y ago
Can anyone point me to the related post from a few weeks back, that concerned the change in the workforce from 'safe' corporate jobs to a more 'free-agent' based workforce? Concerning the article, my wife pointed out that when she graduated
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by watmough 16y ago
This reddit post tells me why Haskell isn't that popular. http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/cs54i/how_would_you... Writing a quick directory traversal function should be a no-brainer in any reasonably general-purpose language. The
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by watmough 16y ago
I sure hope they waterproof it. Sorry Steve. I'm laughing my ass off at his answers though. "I relish the competition. I relish holding up those couple of machines today that I wanted to hand you. It's not today. I'll relish doing it tom
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by watmough 16y ago
Put a 12-core ARM chip in a MBP and you may not notice the difference. I started out programming on the Acorn Archimedes (ARM4 - 8Mhz), and it wiped the floor with the PC-class 12MHz 80286 hardware available at the time ('89 ish). Maybe we'
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by watmough 16y ago
This may not address all the issues, but it certainly allows a more concise syntax. rb-appscript allows you to utilize apple scripting / apple events from Ruby. The instructions on this page for building and testing worked fine for me. htt
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by watmough 16y ago
This is a neat idea. Could it be extended to allow setting a per-site preference?
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by watmough 16y ago
This is really interesting, Fabrice Bellard's tcc is able to build and boot a Linux kernel. http://bellard.org/tcc/
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by watmough 16y ago
If there is a shortage of viable fathers in the local community, then having a baby will frequently lead to preferential financial and housing outcomes. More benefits, and a much better chance of getting social housing. There's very little
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by watmough 16y ago
It's also available compiled for MIPS and running under a pure Java MIPs emulator for cross-platform Java software. http://www.zentus.com/sqlitejdbc/ If you need a pure-Java solution for a fast SQL database without needing T-SQL or Oracle
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by watmough 16y ago
For something new, I create a project in Omnifocus on my iPhone, then describe it. For an existing idea, new items get added as tasks on the project. I bought Omnifocus right when the app store opened, along with Super Monkey Ball etc., but
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by watmough 16y ago
I downloaded the iPhone SDK in March 2008, whilst on vacation in DC. After working with it for a few months, I quit my job, but in that case, I'd written a few non-trivial programs and knew writing Objective-C and Cocoa code was what I want
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by watmough 16y ago
You might want to post a short summary here, as it's an interesting story. What type of job did you give up? I'm definitely interested in your story and following your blog.
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by watmough 16y ago
There's some unfinished, but clear documentation on this page: http://developer.windowsphone.com/windows-phone-7/ In particular, this PDF gives a great flavor of designing for Windows Phone 7: http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=9713252 Ove
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by watmough 16y ago
You say it's a low barrier, build something and try and promote it. The worst that can happen is it fails and you 'nuke the site from orbit'. You already have a bunch of forums on which you can promote it. You also have a list of companies
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by watmough 16y ago
I started out programming on an Acorn ATOM 2k+2k, upgraded to something like 12K total, which gave 'hi-res' graphics, and wrote little games I used to play myself. There's really nothing quite like the joy of having a simple game come toget
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by watmough 16y ago
Apple are obviously using their discretion to accept monotouch apps for now , but you shouldn't depend on that happening. I'm in two minds on this. Obviously, the somewhat democratization of app development is a good thing, but it makes Ap
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by watmough 16y ago
That's an incredible scene, and you can clearly see that the FaceTime ads for the iPhone 4 are in the same 'genre'. FaceTime allows people who are separated, perhaps on different continents, or across generations to re-connect, and share im
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by watmough 16y ago
You have written down the generally promulgated wisdom. i.e. what you're being sold by Wall St and the Government. However, if you actually need to withdraw any of these savings ahead of time, you're looking at a 10% penalty. And who's to s
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by watmough 16y ago
Yeah, that definitely shouldn't be underestimated. Even launching a simple web-site demands a fair amount of time in support and promotion and maintenance, which you just can't blow off.
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by watmough 16y ago
Basically, if you're not either a Wall St trader, or in a government retirement plan, or a company owner, then you're screwed. Quote from the article: "In other words, if you have saved just $25,000 -- and remember, that describes about hal
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by watmough 16y ago
It's surely also designed to eliminate news of unrest, such as the famous protests, political and economic dissent, and allow prompt and easy arrest of citizens saying the 'wrong thing' on-line, or expressing opinions that might damage the
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by watmough 16y ago
For me, the main corollary of this essay is that individuals in small groups have much more power and leverage than people might think. You really do just need a good idea.
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by watmough 16y ago
Pinch scaling on the iPad turned all the examples in the article to pink and green garbage, so maybe someone at Apple needs to take a look at that. Might be worth trying to use the CATiledLayer stuff and the CoreImage scaling to generate 'l

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