fharper1961

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by fharper1961 7y ago
I saw the writing on the wall in 2008-2009. A developer created a podcast app that downloaded directly to the phone without syncing through a PC running iTunes. I was running Linux, and I really wanted to buy that app. But Apple rejected it
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by fharper1961 7y ago
Location data can also be used to help prove your innocence. It sucks that this innocent person ended up suffering. Hopefully law enforcement will become better at figuring out false positives before arresting someone. I do like that the go
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by fharper1961 8y ago
True, but hiring freelancers isn't usually the same as being part of the same team working towards shared goals. Ideally I'd find people I enjoy working with and who have complementary skills.
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by fharper1961 8y ago
I'm sympathetic to his goal because I have similar aspirations to have more freedom. What I might miss in his situation is working as part of a team with others: business people, SW devs, design
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How the new VR screen could end the smartphone(techcrunch.com)
3 points by fharper1961 8y ago|0 comments
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by fharper1961 8y ago
The claim that he is receiving 5400 Euros/month welfare is false. It was investigated by journalists. Other claims made on that webpage are also false. https://www.liberation.fr/checknews/2018/12/20/
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by fharper1961 8y ago
Kinda scary to have a chrome extension that can read all of your email. Is the cure more dangerous than the disease?
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by fharper1961 8y ago
For a some explanations of what happened: https://www.metabunk.org/explained-6-5-trillion-unsupported-...
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by fharper1961 9y ago
ZipRecruiter was 100% bootstrapped, was profitable, and had 100s of employees before taking VC. Job Platform ZipRecruiter Takes Its First Outside Funding, $63M Led By IVP https://techcrunch.com/2014/08/26/job-
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by fharper1961 9y ago
I had the same concern re: battery life, so I looked at CPU use while running an app, scrolling through lists, and then idle. The CPU use seemed to be very similar to well behaving native apps.
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by fharper1961 9y ago
Counter example: On the April cover of Vogue, Selena Gomez is referred to as Selena.
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by fharper1961 10y ago
Seems to me like the main value for Google is the data from all the apps that have Fabric SDK integration (e.g. Crashlytics). Quote from the Fabric blog post https://fabric.io/blog/fabric-joins-google "Fabric has
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by fharper1961 10y ago
Money quote at the end: "“A huge part of an assistant is search,” he said. “Google is a search company. Amazon is not.”
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by fharper1961 10y ago
Thanks for correcting my mistake.
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by fharper1961 10y ago
From what I've heard React Native doesn't yet handle lists containing many views without rendering the entire list. I'm looking into Flutter/Dart from Google for building iOS/Android apps from the same codebase. The
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by fharper1961 10y ago
Why would they do that? Maybe they just want to get out of the house and do something useful? Otherwise if it was for $$$s, and they aren't poor without a safety net, seems like they'd be better off learning higher value skills an
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by fharper1961 10y ago
My dad has a 2. Erdős stayed at my dad's house so that they could work together. The first morning at breakfast, Erdős asked my dad to butter his toast for him. My dad refused. That's why he doesn't have 1!
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by fharper1961 10y ago
Good to hear when politicians improve something , and even better when it was a bipartisan effort!
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by fharper1961 10y ago
hangouts.google.com is enabled on my business account. I didn't enable it, so I can't tell you how it was done. Only that it's possible.
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by fharper1961 10y ago
Please don't apologize for your posting. So far it is the best/most interesting part of the whole thread.
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by fharper1961 10y ago
Another salvo in the continual barrage of "why we always need to bail-out banks"from the financial media.
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by fharper1961 10y ago
The problem the OP brings up is when you're a USA citizen living outside of the USA. It seems like you live in the USA, so you don't have to put up with all of the unreasonable and invasive bureaucracy she writes about. Guilty unt
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by fharper1961 11y ago
Deciding not to AB test because of this article would be a huge mistake. Learning from mistakes made by others, and avoiding them is what I would suggest as the take away. I work for a successful ($50M+ revenue) bootstrapped startup. And on
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by fharper1961 11y ago
I'm guessing you're using an iPhone. On iOS all the apps are displayed somewhere on your homescreens. When I tried iOS that bothered me, because coming from Android I was used to being able to choose which app icons are displayed
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by fharper1961 11y ago
Google has added an "Enable location" prompt in Android 6 (aka Marshmallow).
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by fharper1961 11y ago
Even if there isn't any proof yet,it does seem like immunity from prosecution would be in FB's short term interest.
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by fharper1961 11y ago
My Google searches aren't showing anything after january 2015. And the WSJ article from that date doesn't add any new information. http://www.wsj.com/articles/judge-rejects-settlement-in-sili...
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by fharper1961 12y ago
Congrats on finishing and publishing a side project. I know how hard that is! Some quick feedback. First the Play Store listing. I installed Tiny Words on a Nexus 7, and it shows the first 3 screenshots for a 7 inch tablet. Then it shows th
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Google's 'perfect human' project isn't evil, it's business(theverge.com)
1 points by fharper1961 12y ago|0 comments
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by fharper1961 12y ago
Am I the only one who thinks that the IRS should not be able to make someone who is mentally fragile homeless, just because he hasn't filed his taxes? It seems very inhumane to me.

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