grbalaffa

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by grbalaffa 13y ago
Good luck with "avoiding" it. It's getting harder and harder to use Google without using Google+ (clearly intentional), and it's nearly equally hard to use the internet without using Google.
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by grbalaffa 13y ago
Yeah there is more than a little bit of selection bias going on here. What percentage of criminals are dumb enough to get noticed and/or caught? Well, we don't know how many don't get noticed, so let's call it zero. Ba
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by grbalaffa 13y ago
I'd describe him as someone who has actually been around the block, as the saying goes. Compare that with this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6486142 Kinda speaks for itself.
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by grbalaffa 13y ago
> revenue totaling over 9.5 million Bitcoins According to this that's close to the current total supply of all bitcoins: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Total_bitcoins_over_time.p... The graph shows the sup
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by grbalaffa 13y ago
Bluetooth LE is in fact a standard, and is in fact much more widely deployed than NFC. Android already has support for it as of 4.3: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bluetooth_low_energy#LE_compati...
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by grbalaffa 13y ago
The segmented control in "Photo Investigator" is completely illegible post-update.
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by grbalaffa 13y ago
Google+ deserves to wither and die because of the BS they have pulled. When I'm forced to create a Google+ account just to use some of the basic features of the corporate Google Apps account which my company already paid for , it beco
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by grbalaffa 13y ago
Yo Mama thinks it's a nice way to do it, too!
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by grbalaffa 13y ago
At least I gave an example. "Many things" are not just easier, but "far" easier? Like what? I've got plenty more examples, but I'd really like to hear about these "many" things which are "far&quo
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by grbalaffa 13y ago
All this talk about process, but not a word about the quality of the SDK itself. Android is quite frankly still very far behind when it comes to really basic things. Here's just one example: iOS has had easy support for custom fonts in
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by grbalaffa 13y ago
Don't worry, they will work it so that there is a very expensive and labyrinthine process for privacy "compliance" for companies operating in the US which will purely by coincidence be so expensive and convoluted that only
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by grbalaffa 13y ago
I've actually found the opposite to be the case. I'm much more apt to concentrate and strive to build something great when I'm trapped in a run-down, somewhat distraction-free environment. If I'm in a really nice space,
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by grbalaffa 13y ago
According to this, the tax lien is not related to the tax break for the Ann Arbor office: http://www.annarbor.com/business-review/googles-31-million-m...
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by grbalaffa 13y ago
Just to pick one example, ancient people actually had very good teeth: http://news.discovery.com/human/evolution/ancestors-had-much...
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by grbalaffa 13y ago
Even though it was two years ago, we're still feeling the after effects. There is a considerable lag time between approving new construction and actually getting some built. One bad year (such as 2011) can cause lasting pain for many
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by grbalaffa 13y ago
HBO and the other "premium" cable channels also do this. Not every single time, but much of the time. Try watching any of the Lord of the Rings movies on HBO or Cinemax for example. They're all 16:9, even though they were 2.3
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by grbalaffa 13y ago
Both Mac and Windows may lagged behind the various unixes at the time in terms of WAN technologies (such as TCP/IP), but the Mac had fantastic LAN capabilities in the form of AppleTalk. Auto-discoverability and auto-setup was a dream
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by grbalaffa 13y ago
Just like when Steve Ballmer claimed[1] that "Vista has never been delayed" because they changed the name.[2] [1] http://www.businessweek.com/stories/2005-09-25/online-extra-... [2] http://win
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by grbalaffa 13y ago
Your amazingly succinct description of all that is wrong with today's mobile app stores is bordering on poetry. Nicely put.
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by grbalaffa 13y ago
> The stores themselves will just roll out their own competing services. Safeway already has their own online ordering & delivery service, however it doesn't allow you to bundle items from other (possibly competing) stores. Inst
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by grbalaffa 13y ago
Yeah, somebody hasn't gotten the memo it seems.
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by grbalaffa 13y ago
It's because our society simply doesn't value the profession, and those engineers who feel guilty have internalized it. There is a strong undercurrent of social programming in western culture which says that working in computers a
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by grbalaffa 13y ago
This weekend I spent some time walking around SF and was astounded at how many new apartments are under construction. Even more interesting were the old run-down buildings which were apparently being shuttered in preparation for even more n
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by grbalaffa 13y ago
In case anyone doubts the reality of this quote: http://gawker.com/5636765/facebook-ceo-admits-to-calling-use...
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by grbalaffa 13y ago
Yeah although a big question is: what will that do to battery life? People who install lots of gimmicky, frequently-updated apps and forget about them after trying them once will suddenly be at a loss as to why their device suddenly doesn&#
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by grbalaffa 13y ago
Skeuomorphic vs. flat is a red herring. Either one can be tastefully or taste less ly done. Today's iOS 7 unveil was unfortunately the latter. The sad truth is: once Steve Jobs passed on, the quality of designs coming out of Apple star
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by grbalaffa 13y ago
> I've heard it argued that the housing bubble was somehow "unforeseeable" and that "no one saw it coming." I've heard this from various corners as well, and it utterly amazes me that there are people who would actually try to claim tha
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by grbalaffa 13y ago
There needs to be a corollary to Betteridge's law of headlines: if a headline reads "Why <foo> is not happening", that means it most definitely is happening (or has already happened).
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by grbalaffa 13y ago
Anybody else watch the video? There were at least as many cops as protestors present. It's eerily reminiscent of those pictures from OWS where the cops were lined up outside banks.
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by grbalaffa 13y ago
> Except that the notion of property ownership predates written records and organized government. Copyright was started in the 17th century... So what? The previous poster's point is that both forms of property are social contracts. Al

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