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by ricardo 12y ago
As much as I love Mailbox's flow for handling my email, I can't get over the performance issues and random crashes with the app. After a few weeks of usage the app slows down on launch and becomes a chore to use. In contrast, Outl
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by ricardo 13y ago
Good point. I haven't done much browsing on it in a while, it's mostly used for my son's apps. I'll need to play around with that a bit. It's running the OS 5.1.1.
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by ricardo 13y ago
The iPad 1 still runs a surprising number of modern apps. My son plays newish games like Angry Birds Star Wars 2 or Asphalt Heat 7 without crashes or minimal lag. Not bad for a 4 year old device with only 256 Megs of RAM. I'm not sure
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by ricardo 13y ago
A lot of the engineers making games don't want to do anything else. They're willing to accept a lower rate of pay to stay in the industry. When they look for other opportunities, they're usually just moving from one games com
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by ricardo 14y ago
I'd love an iOS home screen icon. Since iOS allowed saving web pages as icons on the home screen, I've had a link to Hacker News on the first page of apps on my iPhone. iOS looks for an image in a specific location and will use that as the
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by ricardo 16y ago
If you've never interviewed someone before you should speak to someone in HR group to review the types of things you CAN'T ask. Asking questions about religion, family, health could result in a lawsuit. Some quick examples: http://www.alll
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by ricardo 16y ago
Here's a SFW link to the uTRON: http://gearcrave.com/2008-12-02/the-wicked-utron-keyboard/
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by ricardo 16y ago
Thankfully no, but given the speed those companies move I wouldn't be surprised if IE6 is still there, 3 years later.
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by ricardo 16y ago
End users at large enterprise companies have zero say in the support browsers of that organization. These policies are put in place by their IT organization which in some cases manages all applications and patches that are pushed down to a
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by ricardo 16y ago
I've worked with a lot of Salesforce.com partners and customers and the acronym SFDC is universally used.
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by ricardo 16y ago
I agree, but I believe it helps for Apple's employees to know they won't get away with a user experience like that under Jobs. They've got smart people, the ability to get things done, and they know what specific areas cannot be compromise
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by ricardo 16y ago
There's a decent amount of overlap among the feeds I read. I would love to see Google Reader combine any articles that point to the same link into a single thread.
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by ricardo 16y ago
Outlook's market share isn't directly correlated to its capabilities. Many large organizations force their employees to use Outlook as their corporate standard.
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by ricardo 16y ago
"The phone is brilliant, but the market went elsewhere with it's carrier locked subsidised junk models. That's just a market reality, like it or not. Google tried to "do the right thing" and the market went somewhere else." Carrier locked,
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by ricardo 16y ago
I wouldn't call it a "real" competitor until the device launches. Until then it's in the same realm has the HP Slate and the other forthcoming Android tablets.
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by ricardo 16y ago
The biggest issue with this whole WakeMate fiasco was the original ship date announced. Given all of the recent communication and delays, it is clear that the original January ship date was a fantasy from the start. If they had pre-announc
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by ricardo 16y ago
Those generic manufacturers have to follow the same rules and regulations as the name brand companies to sell in the US. The only difference is your putting your faith in a different company, one you may have never heard of. I'd rather pu
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by ricardo 17y ago
I've been a TiVo subscriber for almost 7 years now and hope they're around for a lot longer. As a Cablecard user, I've given up on-demand and PPV in exchange for having my own set top box. The change to SDV will only make things worse. I'd
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by ricardo 17y ago
NBC doesn't care about formats. They probably made a great deal with Microsoft to make Silverlight the exclusive choice for their Olympics coverage. NBC makes some money and Microsoft gets their plug in installed on a lot of machines that
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by ricardo 17y ago
I saw the same message when attempting to view a video on NBC's Olympics site. After grudgingly installing Silverlight I was still unable to watch anything. The videos require Silverlight 2 or 3, neither of which is supported on a PowerPC
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by ricardo 17y ago
Adobe ignored OS X for years and is now finding themselves in a position where they're losing a hold on Flash as the 'standard' for online video. Rather than fixing the technical issues they're focused on marketing. The last 3 years of iP
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by ricardo 17y ago
It's a reference to this blog post: http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2008/10/programmers-view-of-...
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by ricardo 17y ago
Colbert loves attention. He may or may not be genuinely excited for the iPad, but I bet he's more excited for the press it generates.
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by ricardo 17y ago
This is the typical model for enterprise software that is sold through a sales team. The price of the product is determined by how much the customer is willing to pay and can vary widely from one sale to the next. Sales made this way usual
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by ricardo 17y ago
"Of course, we’re not in the Promised Land yet. I’m actually surprised that Salesforce isn’t a lot bigger than it is; a variety of things are holding back the migration to the utility model" Many organizations still attempt to 'build' their
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On Growth and Form: Actionscript Generated Flowers(todayandtomorrow.net)
3 points by ricardo 17y ago|0 comments
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by ricardo 17y ago
Apple is setting a price that millions of people are willing to pay. I wouldn't call that greed.
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by ricardo 17y ago
One invite please! http://mailhide.recaptcha.net/d?k=01scJxUkYbEiucSpzR2yB5_g==...
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by ricardo 17y ago
Awesome idea and clean execution. I organized my last job search in excel and retained a lot of the same information. One suggestion: It would be useful to cache the job listing the user links to. During my last job search I remember find
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by ricardo 17y ago
"I don't see myself taking the YC plunge because I am married and have a kid, so taking a risk is kinda hard at this point." ... "I'm leaning towards saving up and then taking 3-4 months off my job to work on my own product." Couldn't you

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