brownleej

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by brownleej 15y ago
"Off site" just means in physically different locations, so that some kind of local calamity wouldn't take out both, right? It seems like having it backed up on the PC satisfies that requirement to some extent, since the iPad and the PC are
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by brownleej 15y ago
While reading this, I kept thinking that search results are ads too, at least as the author defines them. Google still managed to create a valuable proposition for advertisers, so why couldn't Twitter?
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by brownleej 15y ago
I'd say that efficient data servers are one of google's core competencies. Google does not benefit from having that commoditized.
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by brownleej 16y ago
Maybe the problem is that Nitro requires that an app have special permission to mark pages as executable. Apple may be comfortable giving this permission to Safari (or any if their apps, for that matter) but not comfortable giving it to thi
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Did Google Pre-Emptively Block a 4G iPhone on Verizon?(wired.com)
43 points by brownleej 16y ago|31 comments
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by brownleej 16y ago
Along the same lines, how would this affect an email client that connects to a paid email service? Would be accessing content purchased outside the device?
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by brownleej 16y ago
My favorite quote like this is from Ed Colligan, who was at the time the CEO of Palm. When asked in late 2006 about the prospect of Apple entering the mobile phone market: "We’ve learned and struggled for a few years here figuring out how t
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by brownleej 16y ago
As the site made clear, these are useful for developers that want a quick way to test that their site works in multiple older versions of IE.
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by brownleej 16y ago
He said "I'm not as stoked about it for myself", so I would wager that he does not like to be told what he can do and what he can like.
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by brownleej 16y ago
The same argument could be made about the iMac. It's possible that Apple would say roughly the same thing they would about the iMac: That their goal is to create one device that does everything, without having discrete components that peopl
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by brownleej 16y ago
His comment didn't say they have Macs, he said they have Apple products. The dominance of the iPod makes it more probable that everyone he knows has at least one Apple product. Also, you assume that market share is evenly distributed in all
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by brownleej 16y ago
You seem to be confusing "fair" with "equal". Treating everybody the same is not necessarily fair. It seems fair to me to have the most common characters be shortest. I don't have any evidence, but I would guess that Latin characters[1] are
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by brownleej 16y ago
I think the article was at least trying to _imply_ that the ads indicate that we are in the midst of a bubble. Otherwise, why would they repeatedly bring up the Super Bowl ads from the last bubble?
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by brownleej 16y ago
I've been using this script all day, and it's been great. Thank you so much.
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by brownleej 16y ago
The entire point of trying to copy Groupon is that they want to diversify their revenue stream, rather than relying on a single cash cow. Defending the cash cow at the expense of future growth would be a short-sighted strategy. I agree that
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by brownleej 16y ago
That sounds like Objective-C. One of the reasons I first liked working with Objective-C (before the iPhone made it trendy) was that it seemed like a much better-executed version of what C++ was aiming to be. It has optional garbage collecti
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by brownleej 16y ago
What I really want is something that can cause the icon to change when I get new chat messages. I frequently find myself unable to hear the soft incoming message sound, because I'm listening to something louder, and it would be nice to have
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by brownleej 16y ago
Do most laptops come with middle click buttons? I can't remember ever seeing one that does, and I've used plenty of non-Apple laptops.
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by brownleej 16y ago
I notice that, once you get through the video, it shows a bunch of bars that you can hover over to see previews. I wonder how their tablet is going to handle that, since the concept of hovering doesn't exist without a mouse. That bit of sna
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by brownleej 16y ago
I thought that was the point of Orkut and Buzz.
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by brownleej 16y ago
I don't think that will be possible. From the video, it looks to me like the three-finger gesture is only for switching between apps, and having an app intercept it would be jarring. For instance, if you were swiping through your recent app
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by brownleej 16y ago
There's one aspect of the iOS situation that doesn't apply on the Mac: Apple can't get away with it on the Mac, and they know it. It's much easier to open platforms that are closed than to close platforms that are open. If they locked down
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by brownleej 16y ago
I think some compilers give a warning on while(foo = read()) but not on while((foo = read())).
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by brownleej 16y ago
I think Apple considers the inability to close apps a feature, rather than a bug. The idea is that you should only be concerned with what app you want to be using at any particular moment, and let the system take care of which ones are stil
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by brownleej 16y ago
You can only claim that Facebook hurts our ability to connect freely if that ability is less in the presence of Facebook than in its absence. I don't see how this is the case. Facebook provides new, less free ways to communicate, but these
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by brownleej 16y ago
I'm honestly curious what they mean when they say "Google's customers". Are they referring to Google's _users_, or the much smaller group of people who pay for Google services? This isn't just snark. I think that a corporation's responsibil
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by brownleej 16y ago
The article is advocating more government intervention in the economy, which is generally associated with left-wing political thought. I think that accusing this article of being left-wing is intellectually sound, though the GP's comment, a
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by brownleej 16y ago
I can think of at least one thing. When you are developing a web app, you don't have to worry about people using out-of-date versions of your app. On the flip side, when you use a web app, upgrades tend to be mandatory.
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by brownleej 16y ago
No, it is most certainly not. In most, if not all, democracies, you have the right to restrict the freedoms of others through contract. For instance, if you want to buy a piece of furniture from me, I can impose conditions on how you use
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by brownleej 16y ago
You put the word "stolen" in quotes. Whom are you quoting? The post to which you replied did not say that Google had stolen the ideas, it said that Google had copied the ideas.

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