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by kizza 6y ago
It's talking about the net productivity to society - now that you have more free time you might start that side project that changes the world :)
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by kizza 10y ago
GoCatch has moved into ride sharing now - they're relatively big in Sydney and the drivers get a bigger cut so I'm happy using them.
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by kizza 10y ago
One is a harmless private activity - the other is a large company gaining an unfair advantage by choosing to ignore the law. Even though they are are both about freedom I think it's impossible to compare these.
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by kizza 10y ago
At least with Uber I think Australian governments are getting it right because even after (imo) Uber acted in bad faith by ignoring the law, ride sharing is still being legalised. I think US governments are still a bit behind, especially as
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by kizza 10y ago
I think in many countries companies like Uber and AirBnB are seen to be a challenge to the democratic will of the people. It should be no surprise that we don't care very much for this! I wonder if Uber could have achieved success in m
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by kizza 11y ago
Hmmm, except I can't play YouTube videos outside of YouTube and Play Music doesn't give me access to the raw MP3 files, therefore the second point wouldn't apply. I think the difference is that Google isn't proactively e
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by kizza 11y ago
Yeah, it should really be open source. For face detection, it's really a closed source replacement for what's been in Android from the start: http://developer.android.com/reference/android/media/Face
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by kizza 13y ago
I'm using Chromium from the Ubuntu repository, which is good enough for me until they get it sorted out.
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by kizza 14y ago
WHen the article complains all the time about how it's oh so hard to deal with all those screen sizes I was expecting a terrible app and I was not surprised! * Has <b> tags instead of actually bolding text * Shows the price in my lo
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by kizza 14y ago
I've wanted a 9-patch resizer for ages now - this is great!
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by kizza 14y ago
For Linux, Trimage does the same thing as ImageOptim, plus it works on the command line: http://trimage.org/
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by kizza 14y ago
I can't understand his whining about the removal of the What's New section. Google obviously removed it because it disproportionately helped the spammers. If you released a good app it only got a few minutes on the list anyway before the sp
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by kizza 14y ago
On the Mac I use ImageAlpha to reduce the colours to 256 (it has a preview window so you can see if it's OK), then when saving the file I choose the option to send it to ImageOptim. On Linux you can get the same by using pngquant, then usin
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by kizza 14y ago
"Time zones are an integer number of hours away from UTC" As someone living in +0930, programmers get this wrong way too often - Crittercism gets this wrong, so I don't know when bugs happened in my apps.
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by kizza 14y ago
He provides one example - Vienna. Where I live the transport companies are privatised but realise that by providing the data to Google they get more people using their services. When Apple releases ios 6 they will have to create a new app j
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by kizza 14y ago
Maybe they didn't want to take the risk of it being rejected as 'duplicating existing functionality'. I know that some apps have got through nowadays, but has the policy changed to allow this, or is Apple allowing these on a case-by-case ba
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by kizza 14y ago
Apple could use the same data standard as Google does already: https://developers.google.com/transit/gtfs/reference I'm sure the transit providers would be happy to provide the same feed to Apple and Google, but it looks like Apple want t
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by kizza 14y ago
> It makes some sense as it's not likely you'll accidentally delete one of your photos that way. Well the file would go in the Trash, so if you pressed delete accidentally it's not a disaster. I use Presbutan so pressing delete on its o
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by kizza 14y ago
My experience: Phonegap: Responsiveness is bearable on iOS but on Android it is very slow - scrolling is choppy and there is a noticeable delay between pressing a button and seeing it activate. We abandoned it at this point. Titanium: The l
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by kizza 14y ago
I assume that if you're releasing this for Android, that Clutch for Android is not far away?
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by kizza 15y ago
Google Maps can display different borders depending on your locale: http://code.google.com/apis/maps/documentation/staticmaps/ region (optional) defines the appropriate borders to display, based on geo-political sensitivities. Accepts a r
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by kizza 15y ago
There's not enough contrast between the street names and the rest of the map, making readability a problem. It's the kind of design mistake that young people with nice monitors make!
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by kizza 15y ago
The biggest mistake here is that it's now impossible to use text to explain what each button means. I'm afraid that with a lot of apps there will be features that do not map to an obvious icon, leaving users with the dreaded old "Mystery Me
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by kizza 15y ago
For sure, but like I said, I don't have days to spend making half-baked action bar code work.
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by kizza 15y ago
Interesting how they make sure to say that you shouldn't use bottom tabs like in iOS. For my project I decided to do exactly that instead of using an Android standard action bar, because: 1:The bottom bar fits 5 items. An action bar needs t